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  1. Re:Damn straight! on Forget Math to Become a Great Computer Scientist? · · Score: 1

    Not exactly, unless you mean a 'Software Engineer'. In real engineering, engineers have pretty much supplanted the scientists. In all universities, the science departments have withered away and the engineering departments have grown enormously, while the 'out of work' science professors now teach at the engineering faculties.

  2. UK Cameras on Armed Police Bots with Stun Guns · · Score: 1

    Hmm, the UK police should add shotguns to their talking, panning, tilting, eavesdropping cameras. That will bring the public crime rate way down, really quickly.

  3. Industrial Accidents... on Armed Police Bots with Stun Guns · · Score: 1

    As shown in 'I Robot', when a robot kills a person, it is an 'Industrial Accident', not murder, so why bother using a taser? Use a shotgun...

  4. Re:False positives trick users. MS is adversarial. on Antivirus Vendors Headed for Court · · Score: 1

    Hmm, OpenBSD is playing it down though. I have nothing against my fellow Calgarian, but Theo's system is certainly not a good as he claims. It is on par with Linux - no better - no worse.

  5. Re:What kind of idiot...... on Antivirus Vendors Headed for Court · · Score: 1

    All the home user 'experts' I know simply install yeat another anti-virus fix off the internet when the first thing doesn't work. It is a lot of fun fixing a machine that is messed up like that.

  6. Re:References? on Politically Incorrect Observations About Human Nature · · Score: 1

    Well, if I was a woman living in one of those countries I would run away too, since all the men are stark raving nut cases...

  7. Because furlong per fortnight on How Much Caffeine is Really in That Soda? · · Score: 2, Funny

    is a measure of speed and would not work in this case and a hogshead is more than most people can drink, they had to use gram per fluid ounce...

  8. Re:Fine. But my Dad needs help with Medicare on NH Signs Bill That Rejects Federal Real ID · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The fact of the matter is that the Feds will have to accept the state ID - whatever it is - the way it always has. A Federal ID simply drives up costs, duplicates computer facilities, creates even more unnecessary Federal jobs and erodes the constitutional powers of the states further. A standardized ID doesn't improve anything, since the present system is already working.

  9. Re:This is good and all.. on NH Signs Bill That Rejects Federal Real ID · · Score: 1

    Considering that the Federal funds originate in the states, that is not much of an issue. A state can declare that it will collect all taxes itself and will pass it on to the Federal government, then take its sweet time to do so - passing it on I mean. Many states that appear to be net receivers of Federal subsidies aren't really, they only appear to be so, since goods that flow through are not accounted for. The few states that really are net receivers of dole are of course in a weak position, but could still align themselves with a bigger brother in exchange for direct aid from that brother, cutting the Feds out. In Canada, that is Alberta's favourite threat. The other one is to threaten to start its own police force and kick the Mounties out. That will put thousands of Federal employees and police officers out of work. So when the AB government declares that 'Alberta will not enforce it, since we don't want to harass middle aged farmers with this...', it spells instant doom to a law. It appears that some US state governments have clued in, but the Feds still haven't woken up to it...

  10. Civil war fears are subsiding? on NH Signs Bill That Rejects Federal Real ID · · Score: 1

    It seems that the state fear of the federal government is finally subsiding. I am surprised that it took more than 150 years for the states to start taking back the constitutional powers that were theirs all along. One small step for an Amercan, one big leap for Statekind...

  11. "A Record Company" != RIAA on RIAA Forces YouTube to Remove Free Guitar Lessons · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Nevermind not reading TFA. People don't even read the posting.

  12. US always lags the rest of the world in technology on 2008 - Year of Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1

    Of course most Americans don't notice since they live there, but anyone who travels a lot can attest that the USA typically lags 10 years behind Europe in the uptake of new stuff.

  13. But when will Windows be ready for the desktop? on 2008 - Year of Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1

    As far as I can figure, Windows reached a peak with win2000 and has been regressing for the past 7 years.

  14. Re:$87? Big deal! on iPhone Battery Replacement An Unwelcome Surprise · · Score: 1

    well, it is not like soldering is difficult and it is much cheaper than two connectors.

  15. Already needing new batteries? on iPhone Battery Replacement An Unwelcome Surprise · · Score: 1

    Good grief, those batteries must be really bad if people already want to replace them...

  16. AES on FCC Rules Open Source Code Is Less Secure · · Score: 1

    Dang, it is a good thing AES is proprietary and secret, otherwise all our banks will be at risk...

  17. Re:Congressional testimony on Hot Fuels on Motorists Sue Over 'Hot' Fuel · · Score: 1

    Count me in. The gravity of Juno as measured from Earth is pretty freaking low, so I would like a pound of gold please...

  18. Correct - It most probably doesn't on Microsoft States GPL3 Doesn't Apply to Them · · Score: 1

    The reason being that the MS Eula is subject to your state's Sale of Goods Act (or something similar). In most cases that act declares that if it looks like a sale, flies like a sale and quacks like a sale, then it is a sale. That is why MS CDs are for sale in the second hand market on E-bay, a US company.

  19. Forfeit copyright for non-compliance? on UK Copyright Extension in Exchange for Censorship? · · Score: 1

    So, if an artist transgresses any of those rules, all his works forfeits copyright? Sounds good to me...

  20. VMware or Qemu on Microsoft to Release 6 Security Updates Next Week · · Score: 2, Interesting

    is the solution. That way, you can concurrently run Windows in a window on Ubuntu and you can recover the wasted Windows disk partition too, using ntfs-3g. Actually, when using an emulator, Win98se works even better than Expee and since you won't be using any of the internet 'features' of Windows anymore, the vulnerabilities won't affect you, while making backups of Windows becomes a breeze using tar. With Windoze on Qemu, you don't need to bother updating it anymore either - it just keeps on working.

  21. US$ is still overpriced on MS Moves R&D To Canada Due To Immigration Problem · · Score: 1

    What this shows is that the US$ needs to devalue by another 20% or so to be realistically priced.

  22. Re:Mod parent up Plz on MS Moves R&D To Canada Due To Immigration Problem · · Score: -1, Troll

    Not since Truman? Ronald Reagan was the last prez that openly and aggressively funded terrorism world wide. It was Bush Senior that stopped that. Since I was in the army at the receiving end of Reagan's terrs, he was the worst to me.

  23. Re:We still depend on a mainframe app on The Mainframe Still Lives! · · Score: 1

    If you don't change anything, it will keep working the same...

  24. Re:Coriolis machines on Perpetual Energy Machine Getting Lots of Attention · · Score: 1

    No, it is not so bad since it has a built-in spirit level and adjustble feet. These clocks really work since they require an extremely small amount of power. My grandparents had one, but eventually a cleaner knocked it off the mantel piece.

  25. Vista==Home Entertainment System on Dell Warns of Vista Upgrade Challenges · · Score: 1

    Vista!=Business System

    That, I think, is the root of the problem, but Windows has never been a proper business system anyway...