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  1. Vocational on The Death Of CS In Education? · · Score: 1

    Absolutely, CS needs to include practical courses like Burger Flipping 101 and Cash Registers 101...

  2. Re:Busy Market? on The Death Of CS In Education? · · Score: 1

    Yup, there is still an oversupply in CS and IT. Of course the professors want more students - perhaps the professors need to do some burger flipping too, to learn the reality of the situation.

  3. Re:Big FLASH on Linux Kernel 2.6.20 Released · · Score: 1

    Mandriva has a Flash version.

  4. Re:It's past time for a better approach on MS Office Zero-Day Under Attack · · Score: 3, Insightful

    MS wrote loads of stuff with C++ and the C stings library especially, is total crap. Also, with C++, it is fundamentally impossible to know when it is safe to destroy an object and free its memory. MS is therefore suffering from a bad choice of compiler and coding methods years ago. Their problems won't go away anytime soon.

  5. Re:As a UK Student on The Death Of CS In Education? · · Score: 1

    It'll pay off till Java goes out of fashion. So you should be OK for 5 to 10 years...

  6. It is the Jobs stupid... on The Death Of CS In Education? · · Score: 1

    Once people sense that there actually are jobs available at a living wage, they will start studying Comp Sci again. It is the Free Market at work...

  7. Typo on TiVo Selling Data on Users' Watching Habits · · Score: 1, Troll

    Typo: 'In Soviet America...' There, fixed for you.

  8. Re:STOP HELPING THEM! on A Dream Job - CTO of the OLPC Project · · Score: 1

    Yup, that is why wells are usually fitted with manual pumps in rural areas. The mechanism is simple enough that common folk can understand it and the water isn't wasted, since it requires elbow greese to pump it.

    Communication infrastructure is immensely important to uplift Africa. The cell phone plays a big role. It is relatively cheap to deploy and the users only have to buy sim cards as a minimum - then they can borrow someone else's phone. Usually the taxi drivers have phones for use by their passengers.

  9. Re:Heavy-handed management on Why Software is Hard · · Score: 1

    Yup, it doesn't matter what language I write in, it always ends up looking like C...

  10. KtkPod on Vista - iPod Killer? · · Score: 1

    Well, if your Pod goes belly up, you can use Gtkpod to fix it. Thank Dog for Linux...

  11. Re:No Need To Sue on Nvidia Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over Vista Drivers · · Score: 1

    You don't get it. These are Americans. Whenever they have a problem, they send for money, cavalry and lawyers. They cannot do anything themselves and they always blame others. That is why Open Source Software will never take off in America, since then they can't blame or sue anyone. ;)

  12. Re:ch-ch-ch-chaaaanges... on Nvidia Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over Vista Drivers · · Score: 2, Funny

    That is '...anyways, eh.' for you, eh.

  13. Re:A better name for the craft... on Ocean Planets on the Brink of Detection · · Score: 1

    Sounds like crotch-rot satellite - doesn't inspire much confidence...

  14. Yahoo and Hotmail does it too on Lycos Deletes Emails and Says 'Too Bad!' · · Score: 1

    I have had accounts with those, simply for access to the chat servers and they eventually deleted the email - it probably took more than 2 months, but still - same thing.

  15. NSA, CIA, FBI, KGB, Scottland Yard, Surete... on Lycos Deletes Emails and Says 'Too Bad!' · · Score: 1

    I'm sure there are numerous backups of her email, but the owners of those backups will most probably be equally unhelpful...

  16. Re:Skip the blog post masquerading as an article. on 10 Years of Pushing For Linux — and Giving Up · · Score: 1

    Yup, this bloke is just showing his own incompetence really.

    My comment to his article is a resounding 'Well, duh!'.

  17. Re:Waaaaa. on 10 Years of Pushing For Linux — and Giving Up · · Score: 1

    Outlook IMAP extensions is also a published standard. MS bought it from The Open Group. It is UNIX standard fercrissake...

  18. 10 years of incompetence on 10 Years of Pushing For Linux — and Giving Up · · Score: 1

    I sure would not advertise my incompetence that strongly...

  19. Therapeutic mud spa... on Scientists Attempt To Calm Volcano · · Score: 1

    If they turn the place into a health spa, they can have lots of tourism and make more money from selling mud, than from selling the rice that used to grow there.

  20. Great balls of fire! on Scientists Attempt To Calm Volcano · · Score: 1

    Is a volcano without fire still a volcano?

  21. Re:Have you actually talked to Microsoft? on Repair Computer, Repurchase OS? · · Score: 1

    Yup, sounds to me like a troll. I have phone MS to activate machines and have never had any trouble.

  22. Buy one, get one free on California Proposes to Ban Incandescent Lightbulbs · · Score: 1

    A simple solution would be to demand that incandecents be sold together with fluorescents.
    So to buy an incandescent, you have to buy a fluorescent too.

  23. Kill a flock of birds on Why "Yahoo" Is The #1 Search Term On Google · · Score: 2

    Well, here is the whole shitload: http://www.dogpile.com/

  24. It is probably Firefox that causes it on Why "Yahoo" Is The #1 Search Term On Google · · Score: 1

    When you type in a partial URL, FF automatically does a search using your default search engine.

  25. Re:10,000 customers? on MySQL Prepares To Go Public · · Score: 1

    Sounds about right. In my own experience with free software, about 1 in 1000 downloads pay up. The large companies almost always pay. Small one man businesses sometimes pay. Europeans usually pay. Russians and Indians never pay...