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  1. Re:FUBAR on Europol Predicts First Online Murder By End of This Year · · Score: 1

    And the worst part is that their competitors, when they have any, suck almost as much.

  2. Political Vent on Why America Won't Match Sweden's Cheap, Fast, Competitive Internet Services · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Let's face it, some semi-socialist nations are kicking our economic and infrastructure butt. The neanderthal* conservatives are holding the USA back, letting poorly regulated near-monopolies buy out the competition and then kick back, slack off, and buy elections.

    * My apologies to neanderthals. It's just a saying.

  3. B1H on Glut of Postdoc Researchers Stirs Quiet Crisis In Science · · Score: 1

    Can the surplus outsource themselves to India?

  4. Re:Corporate Malfeasance on Former Infosys Recruiter Says He Was Told Not To Hire US Workers · · Score: 1

    If corporations are people, then Infosys is an illegal alien, which means they......uh, get to stay.

  5. FUBAR on Europol Predicts First Online Murder By End of This Year · · Score: 1

    Would smashing oneself over the head with a #@%& Comcast modem count?

  6. Re:Yesterday Oceans were warming more than predict on NASA Study: Ocean Abyss Has Not Warmed · · Score: 1

    Looking at the WikiPedia chart, there have been down and flat periods in the past, such as the early 1990's. The bumpiness is on about 10 year cycles or spans. The latest "pause" does not appear outside of that pattern, at least not yet.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...

  7. Re:Americans don't know shit? on Former Infosys Recruiter Says He Was Told Not To Hire US Workers · · Score: 1

    TMI :-) Let's just call it "office politics".

  8. Re:Americans don't know shit? on Former Infosys Recruiter Says He Was Told Not To Hire US Workers · · Score: 1

    You assume they are talking about technical knowledge. Perhaps they really meant that in general, Americans don't understand the internal "way" of Indian companies, which is probably true. This includes body language, who and how to kiss up to, etc.

  9. Re:Typical on Former Infosys Recruiter Says He Was Told Not To Hire US Workers · · Score: 1

    Management doesn't know sh**.

    No, actually they are often masters of BS, at least BS good enough for the short-term.

  10. Re:HoPeless on HP Is Planning To Split Into Two Separate Businesses, Sources Say · · Score: 1

    Yes, but so many others F'd it up

  11. Re:...the same company that predicted that OS/2... on One In Three Jobs Will Be Taken By Software Or Robots By 2025, Says Gartner · · Score: 1

    Bots can now make crappy predictions also. Gartner is toast.

  12. Re:You mean our nightmare could become a reality on A Production-Ready Flying Car Is Coming This Month · · Score: 1

    Just never ask it to open the pod bay doors.

  13. Re:So... on Maps Suggest Marco Polo May Have "Discovered" America · · Score: 2

    he saw (old) Chinese maps...It does not mean he actually was there.

    The back even says "Made in China".

  14. Re:And then... on Maps Suggest Marco Polo May Have "Discovered" America · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...he built the first American Swimming pool

    My brothers and I would call out instead: "Marcus...Welby...Marcus...Welby..." to avoid being too conventional.

  15. It's fake on Maps Suggest Marco Polo May Have "Discovered" America · · Score: 5, Funny

    Poloshopped

  16. Re:HoPeless on HP Is Planning To Split Into Two Separate Businesses, Sources Say · · Score: 1

    To be fair, 3rd-world manufacturing has been eating into consumer and high-volume manufacturing for a lot of companies. Figuring out the future is not easy, especially for a hardware company.

  17. Re:Recognize deformable body parts on How Computer Vision Algorithms Cope With Detecting Human Figures In Art · · Score: 1

    Pun intended?

  18. Re:Recognize deformable body parts on How Computer Vision Algorithms Cope With Detecting Human Figures In Art · · Score: 1

    It's called the Jeffrey Dahmer Algorithm.

  19. Re:waiving my consultancy fee today on DARPA Delving Into the Black Art of Super Secure Software Obfuscation · · Score: 1

    First translate the algorithm into Perl, and then run it on a Perl interpreter written in BrainFuck, of which the BrainFuck interpreter is written in APL, which runs on a machine language written for a drum-based OS from the early 1960's.

  20. this is all an excuse by shut-in professors to watch kinky porn at work.

  21. Charles W. Bachman and databases on Obama Names National Medal of Science, Technology & Innovation Winners · · Score: 2

    Charles W. Bachman was the guy who "fought with" Dr. Codd over database models. Bachman championed "navigational" databases, which depended on the management of "visible" pointers connecting data nodes. Dr. Codd's vision was closer to Set Theory, and generally "won" in that relational is the dominant database flavor today. Bachman's work still influenced various implementation issues common to both kinds being that working navigational databases came first.

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

  22. Anyone know of a list that includes their technical accomplishments?

  23. Re: And? on Samsung Paid Microsoft $1 Billion Last Year In Android Royalties · · Score: 1

    If they try for monopoly or nothing, they may end up with nothing if x86 dies.

  24. Re:And? on Samsung Paid Microsoft $1 Billion Last Year In Android Royalties · · Score: 1

    [Intel's] idea is to have x86 eventually replace ARM as the de-facto architecture of Android

    That's a stupid bet. Why not create their own ARM chips from scratch? The ARM instruction set itself is not owned by ARM.

  25. Not True! on The Era of Saturday Morning Cartoons Is Dead · · Score: 0, Troll

    Fox "News" is still on