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  1. Re:One Radio, one person. on Listening To The Radio At Work? Prepare To Be Sued · · Score: 1

    There is no way to measure the number of radios are tuned in a station. So, 2 is false.

  2. Re:Actually...IBM treats employees like crap. on IBM Ditches Outsourcing Patent · · Score: 1

    I won't buy it. Here in Brazil, you can't get any decent job just for speaking english. Here you must have at least your said degree, or in the process of getting one, and your 2 years of experience to get anything half-decent. Unless these jobs are crapy een for brazillian standards. It's cheaper to get someone here with the same years of study than you could get there. If they put stupid people in the job, it isn't because that was their only choice, there is good people here. They may be cutting more costs than just outsourcing would do, or perhaps they just are not very good in searching.

  3. Re:Makes sense on The Canadian Taxman Goes Browsing on eBay · · Score: 1

    Come here to the 3rd world, were we pay most of the few bucks we can make, and in the health care you die waiting in a queue, if you're rich enough to have a car the roads are full of roles, or crowded, education is laughable, etc, etc. Then you will start to think about where all that tax money goes.

  4. Re:The Chinese will learn, too, eventually... on Chinese Worm Creator Gets High-Paying Job Offer In Prison · · Score: 1

    Isn't that Mitnick guy making money with security now? Phoning someone and asking for the passwords or writing worms doesn't take a genius. These guys are just famous. And people giving them money are just lame.

  5. Re:Unrealistic expectations on What's the Right Amount of Copy Protection? · · Score: 1

    Your software must be very good, unique and important to get away with something like a usb thingy.

  6. perhaps it's good for websites too on Are Relational Databases Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    A site like slashdot have a lot more reads than writes. Perhaps these column thingies could help here too.

  7. Re:It's a good question ... on Programmer's Language-Aware Spell Checker? · · Score: 1

    I write comments, variables and functions in my own language. I think writing english, without any coherent reason, to be pretty lame. Like some people trying to show off they can write english, and usually a pretty ugly english.

  8. Re:"wire money to his bank account"? on Thieves Hacking Security Cameras? · · Score: 1

    Such countries should be excluded from the banking system.

  9. Re:One thing I have learned over the years on Comcast Cuts Off Users Who Exceed Secret Limit · · Score: 1

    Now I researched it a bit and found that, to my embarassment, here, a passenger that lost their flight due to overbooking, they just did put this guy in the next flight, 8 hours later, and paid something like US$ 200 for him. He sued and the judge made them pay him some extra US$ 550. In my country, its normal to receive peanuts when you sue and win, its not like the millions people get in the states. The companies just dont worry with the justice and do whatever they want to screw us.

  10. Re:Other industries do same thing and is not fraud on Comcast Cuts Off Users Who Exceed Secret Limit · · Score: 1

    In my country, both are fraud. And the airlines pay you a comensation so you wont sue them. I believe it to be fraud anywhere. Just because its common practice, and people usually gets happy with the compensation and doesnt sue doesnt mean it isnt fraud.

  11. Re:Won't accept GPL3 on Top 25 Hottest Open-Source Projects at Microsoft Codeplex · · Score: 1

    It's the opposite. If you release your software with the GPL license you can depend on anything you want, the license wont block you. An gpl incompatible program cant depend on a gpl component, the component gpl license doesnt allow you to redistribute it this way. Dynamic linking may be allowed depending on who you ask.

  12. Re:Finally on Microsoft Hires Director of Linux Interoperability · · Score: 1

    Never try to explain an unfunny joke, it just made it worse.

  13. Microsoft is still good on Scoble Bites The Hand That Fed Him · · Score: 0

    There is no better programming IDE than Visual Studio. Anjuta's code completion is far from doing what visual studio does, last time I checked, it didn't work with templates. If I don't have a clear reason, I will not spend the effort of learning to program in something that doesn't list the methods of a given object when I press ".". I didn't need anything to learn, and like, basic c#, but would probably need to read a lot to learn the basics of gnome and gtk classes and functions.

  14. Re:I made billions- but you'll be replaced on Bill Gates Speaks Out Against Immigration Policies · · Score: 1

    Your immigration laws aren't loose. Your observation is flawed because you only get to know the people that passed into it.

  15. Re:A point easily proven on Schneier Mulls Psychology of Security · · Score: 1

    Lets say that the average person in this statistics travel twice a day with their cars, and twice a year they take a plane. And this ratio is just 237/5051.

    If your numbers are correct, cars are much safer than planes. This statistic manipulation to tell planes are safe is just an old lie.

  16. Re:Linux in poor countries on OSDL's Review of Desktop Linux In 2006 · · Score: 1

    If he has 16MB of RAM, it can be a 386 or 486. He didnt say how old it is.

  17. All money should be eletronic on US Pennies To Be Worth Five Cents? · · Score: 1

    If we only used eletronic traceable money, that could end with several types of money-driven crimes, since it would be impossible to transfer money to some anonymous robber, kidnapper, drug dealer, etc.

  18. Re:slavery on Street Fighting Robot Challenge · · Score: 1

    With good working robots, nobody would need slaves.

  19. Re:The Gorn? You're joking... on Star Trek XI - What We Know · · Score: 1

    Those star wars blasters are not lasers, and dont move at the speed of light. The phasers are probably not lasers too, it could be something that only affects organic matter or something.

  20. Re:The real story here. on E-Voting Raises New Questions In Brazil · · Score: 1

    I hope you are being sarcastic. Someone that would not care to go vote without being enforced by law, certainly did not care to think nor gather any information and will just cast a bad vote.

  21. Re:It's worse! on E-Voting Raises New Questions In Brazil · · Score: 1

    I missed it, but that was pretty quick then! I is still strange, but I will not care too much about that, it there were something wrong, Rigotto should be at least pointing that out.

  22. Re:It's worse! on E-Voting Raises New Questions In Brazil · · Score: 1

    In the last poll in my state (RS) I know of, Rigotto PMDB would win at the first round with 54%. When the results came, he was in 3rd place with 27%. Yeda PSDB that was in third place ended in the first place with 33%. Rigotto wont even go to the second round. How was that? Someone claimed that people voted for Yeda in the last minute to avoid letting Olivio PT to go to the second round, but I dont bite it. Thats very strange. But I dont think there would be fraud only here if these ballots were so hackeable, I hope its just a real last minute change of mind...

  23. Re:Fraud is the lesser of Brazil's problems... on E-Voting Raises New Questions In Brazil · · Score: 1

    Lula also talked about lowering interest, and it was just a lie. Everyone likes to talk about reducing taxes to gain votes. But I'm not going to bite it. I will vote blank again. At least, it will not be with my vote and aproval that they will rob me. I'm not going to take part in this.

  24. Re:Speedy Justice on Judge Refuses To Convict Hacker · · Score: 1

    It is speedy. In my country that would probably be longer than his lifetime. 10, 30 years are pretty normal times for a judgement in Brazil. Unless the judgement is heavily pressed by big media, then it can be solved in something like 2, 3 years.

    It was this week, there was a news on the tv talking about some guys that won the lottery, but the bank said his ticket was irregular somehow and refused to pay. 30 years after that they finally won the cause. You know, they would probably enjoy this money when they were younger, not now in the end of their lives. Crappy legal system we have.

  25. Re:We understand more than you think on BT Futurologist On Smart Yogurt and the $7 PC · · Score: 1

    If music cannot please people, what good it is? It doenst matter if the experts like it. I still believe it has its value as it pleases these minorities. But its not doing anything good for the majority.

    A computer program is different. It can be useful for lay people in a way that they dont understand it. This doenst happen with music and pure entertainment arts.

    My concept of a museum is related to history, and not arts. The historic value of a 386 is pretty bigger than the powerpc, but it is interesting to learn the history of both them. The audience of a museum is also more specific, and they have to choose things that help or please their audience, or its worthless the same way.