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  1. Tactile response on Meet the Laptop You Will (Won't?) Use In 2015 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So what's the tactile typing response on those advance touchscreen keyboards of the future?

    I bet there will be a lot of disgruntled programmers/novelists/actual-users-of-computers in the future.

  2. Re:The problem on Avi Rubin Has Some Optimistic Words About E-Voting · · Score: 0

    And yet they all happily comply to fucking The People in the arse on every possible occasion.

  3. Re:The problem on Avi Rubin Has Some Optimistic Words About E-Voting · · Score: 1

    Because it's so hard to simply rig the final result of counting and if somebody wants to check the paper trail you can "rig" them ... I don't know about you, but personally I've never once bothered to see the actual paper trail of an election and like many others simply opted to trust whatever the news told me the result was.

  4. Re:Hmm on The Privacy Paradox · · Score: 1
    RTFA man, the identification of the students in the survey was at the same level as there is on a public forum.

    The scientists conducted several surveys of college students, asking them to provide an e-mail address and then indicate whether they had ever engaged in a list of wayward, or in some cases illegal, activities.

    Emphasis mine.

  5. Re:Trust me on The Privacy Paradox · · Score: 3, Funny

    *(no, I'm not interested in little grammar hitlers starting a war over "begs the question". Put it in an ask slashdot - or better yet, get a life.)

    What about the big grammar hitlers, can they help you out?

  6. Re:Hmm on The Privacy Paradox · · Score: 1

    Why wouldn't a student admit to having copied homework? These days it's so obviously known that people copy each other's work it's becoming a bit ridiculous. Hell, I'm a student and we have a public board set up for the whole college where most of what goes on is "helping" each other with homework ... the professors know about this, some even partake in the discussions, but we don't know who they are and neither do they so it might just be that people copy homework from their professors.

  7. Re:Even by petty French standards, this is sad on Ebay Fined $61M By French Court For Sales of Fake Goods · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So basically like what we have in the music and software worlds pretty much? You don't quite own that CD, you're just allowed to use it because the product they leased to you is on it ... something like that?

  8. Re:Pr0n taught me everything on Children Concerned By Parents' Web Habits · · Score: 1

    Some of us get to do it a lot. Sometimes not quite on the face, but near it you know ... or in the mouth etc.

    Coincidentally RL teaches that women do in fact enjoy getting it in the arse if it's done right.

  9. Pr0n taught me everything on Children Concerned By Parents' Web Habits · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe in your sad life porn teaches the wrong things. In my world it's a wealth of ideas and suggestions on what to try next ... so far it's all turned out to be very bloody fun!

  10. Re:Most jobs are boring on New Grads Shun IT Jobs As "Boring" · · Score: 1

    Some of us actually love what we do even though it's seen as boring to just about everyone else. Hell, I've been into computers and programming for over ten years now and I'm only twenty.

    To be perfectly honest, by know I'm probably so hardwired for software I can't do anything else even half as well ... thank I like it huh?

  11. Re:Schools award mediocrity on Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers · · Score: 1

    If I were one of the top 10 workers I might just. But I'm all for giving people a salary bonus coeficient that is based on how productive (a proper system for evaluating productivity would have to be invented of course) they are. And that's really all rewards are, they're a bonus for the very good. Just because you aren't the absolutely-fucking-best doesn't mean you aren't good or even awesome.

  12. Re:Schools award mediocrity on Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem with your line of thinking is assuming inferiority is absolute. It can only be judged in comparison with another individual. For example at maths I am inferior to my maths professor and so on.

  13. Re:Schools award mediocrity on Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Never understood the issue with making people not feel inferior when it's so very fucking obvious that some people are simply superior to other people. It's just the way it is and always have been. Why are we trying to make everyone feel so bloody equal these days anyway?

    I mean, if you're stupid or fat doesn't matter, you're still a good chap and there's nothing wrong with you. But if you're rich, smart or successful then you're a fucking pig for making everyone else feel inferior ... what the hell!?

  14. Re:No Child Left Behind on Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not so much about finance as it is about making a mass of drones who will never realise you're fucking them over and should revolt. The goal of any government is to have as little people who can actually think as possible, but not to have people so stupid they can't work.

    The solution is repressing everyone who is smart so that they either become frustrated and stop trying or revolt in an anti-social manner at an age too young and are deemed a criminal for life, and to help everyone too stupid to be useful become useful.

    All blatantly obvious of course ...

  15. 'double' on IP Traffic To 'Double' Every Two Years · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How do they even define what a double of IP traffic is? Double the amount of packets? Double the amount of connections? Double the amount of IP's used in traversal from one point to another?

  16. Re:Free iPhones! on The Impact of Low Salaries At Apple · · Score: 1

    Was actually offered a job that gave free iPhones ... but it was the old iPhones so I bailed very soon into the process. I have better things to do than be getting that crap.

    Just so you know the idea itself doesn't seem all that crazy to employers ...

  17. So he finally cracked the secret ... on Special Effects Wizard Stan Winston Dead At 62 · · Score: 0, Troll

    ... of making such a good dinosaur he can actually eat you.

  18. Re:Extension cable on Long-Range Wireless Keyboard/Mouse? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    When I'm writing I like nothing better than to sit on a couch or just about anywhere but my desk. The desk is just way too indoctrinated to really let my imagination flow.

    Hell, even when I'm coding I do most of the thinking away from the desk and even the computer itself.

  19. Re:What happens in places where it must be unlocke on Apple Cracks Down On iPhone Unlockers · · Score: 1

    If a local company doesn't seel it with their hefty contract attached to it then Apple didn't intend for it to be sold there.

  20. Chuch Norris on Object Defies Categorization As Planet or Star · · Score: 3, Funny

    Only Chuck Norris could ever be denser than platinum, so this is either him or soon getting destroyed because only Chuck Norris can defy the laws of physics.

  21. Re:education policymakers need to look good on Have Mathematics Exams Become Easier? · · Score: 1

    Wow, I must have been getting really poor education ... or just wasn't paying enough attention, whichever the case, I'm wondering how different high school education will be under the new system and whether it will be more difficult or not.

  22. Re:education policymakers need to look good on Have Mathematics Exams Become Easier? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In Slovenia I'm noticing quite a different trend and it also seems to be making the policymakers look good ... or something. My sister is 8 years younger than me and is now in primary school - she's learning stuff I only learned in high school. She was being taught things like fractions in third grade, I didn't even know what the hell fractions were back then.

    But maybe we're just being weird here.

  23. Re:Stupid developers on Open Source Cities Followup — Munich Yea, Vienna Nay · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Wouldn't it be better to offer Vienna to pay, say, a mere eighth of the money needed to transfer to Vista (a million euro) to the developers so they make their software work with what Vienna already has?

    Any decent manager would go for that.

  24. Stupid developers on Open Source Cities Followup — Munich Yea, Vienna Nay · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Who in their right mind makes something work on a browser that doesn't work well, but neglects to do it for a browser that is easier to develop for?

  25. Re:I hate "news" like this. on Does Antimatter Fall Up Or Down? · · Score: 1

    Shocker! Even science is about publicity these days.