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  1. Re:bad yes bad on IT Certification Less Important Now? · · Score: 1

    Certifications may be useless.
    On the other side primary school teaches you spelling and basic writing skills.

  2. Java in 10 weeks on Simple Open Source 3D Game Engines? · · Score: 1
    What was amazing was that after 10 weeks, no body knew Java in a class that was dedicated solely to teaching it

    Either they didn't care about learning or they are a bunch of morons.
  3. Ipod key technical innovation is from Armonk... on U.S. Government Developed the iPod · · Score: 1

    Toshiba bought this technology from IBM years ago (BTW working there I've seen the first model of microdrive).

  4. In ancient Rome... on Mafia Boss Using Crook Crypto Captured · · Score: 1
    This sort of cipher was used by Caesar not because it was secure, but because most people couldn't read.

    Actually in ancient Rome most people could read. Most Romans at least... :)
  5. So? on Oblivion's Missing Physics Acceleration · · Score: 1

    Neither, for example, Carmageddon or Bubble Bobble have realistic physics. So? That doesn't make them less funny. Nowadays realistic physics are taken for granted as realistic graphic is... what makes me sorry is that nobody cares about gameplay.

  6. I do that too, since... on Most Search Engine Users Stop at Page 3 · · Score: 1

    ... I get 100 results per page.

  7. ... PROFIT! on Star Trek's Synthehol Now Possible? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    1: Get hold of portable dialysis machines 2: Offer dialysis out of pubs in Glasgow on friday and saturday nights 3: PROFIT!!!

  8. fighting hangovers on Star Trek's Synthehol Now Possible? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hangovers in my experience are caused by 2 things: 1: bad alchool, since methanol really frags up your body and makes you sick, being broken up in formic acid and formaldehyde, which also makes you blind destroying your optic nerve. 2: dehydratation, since alchool, well, makes you go to the loo way too much. It's a killer when combined with dancing because you also sweat a lot. My solution? Drink good quality vodka (low methanol) mixed with soda and lemon juice (good for fighting dehydratation). Unless I mix with some strange stuff I get offered from mates the next day I'm perfectly fine for a saturday morning of coding.

  9. O'RLY? on Microsoft's Security Disclosures Come Under Fire · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I can't really see Microsoft refraining to spread FUD...

  10. Re:has the article writer even played the game? on The Oblivion of Western RPGs · · Score: 1
    You can stand there outside their response range, which is not outside your sight range and rain holy fire down around them. Unless you hit them, they don't care. You can do the same thing in a town.

    No, you can't.
    I tried, oh, if I tried...
  11. You didn't bother to read TFDirective. on It's "1984" in Europe, What About Your Country? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Obviously you didn't. And being Americans and not Europeans you don't know anything about EU laws. 1: This is a directive, not a law. It has to be ratified by a member single state before being in effect in that state. 2: They don't record the content. They just record who called who, when and whit which username/telephone number/IMEI/cell. BUT the point is that... 3: They are already doing it. This is about retention, which means that they have to keep the data for a certain amount of time. What happens is that now you can delete the logs whenever, but after this will be ratified, you'll have to save the logs. BTW in most of the state this is already law (or good practise) and it's not like our freedom is compromised, luckily our privacy laws fork fine. To have access to these logs (in my country) a judge approval is needed.