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  1. Re:Chickens += Roost on Nearly 50,000 IT Jobs Lost In Past Year · · Score: 1

    But the same a-wipes that control their government control ours. Otherwise the president of Mexico would be named Obrador.

  2. Re:So true. on Nearly 50,000 IT Jobs Lost In Past Year · · Score: 1

    So the AC thinks US elections aren't rigged?

  3. Re:Untill your own computer is seized. on US Warns Olympic Visitors of Chinese Cyber-Spying · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Guess what, you can distrust anything in China but at least you know your own computer to be safe.

    Mod parent Funny, please.

    It is, but he gets good karma with "Insightful"

  4. Re:Sounds pretty cool on Students Learn To Write Viruses · · Score: 1

    Sorry, that's correct, except with Windows, less is more.

  5. Re:Details... on Vista's Security Rendered Completely Useless · · Score: 5, Funny

    You want to punish people for their choice of OS? That's freaking hysterical. I think you need a little perspective realignment...

    Especially considering the fact that if you run microsloth the punishment is the crime.

  6. Re:Sounds pretty cool on Students Learn To Write Viruses · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, they said it was a windowless class, so I guess it's higher than entry level.

  7. Re:Horribly Inelegant on First Definitive Higgs Result In 7 Years · · Score: 1

    Stochastic electrodynamics (SED) is very satisfying to the intuition, being based upon classical physics. Of course, intuition is quite frequently dead wrong. The section titled "The work of Haisch and Rueda" talks about their use of Rindler frames to get inertia (mass) as a self-interaction of the various fields associated with matter. There's a fatal flaw in their approach, however (If you reverse time the Poynting vector has to change to its negative, meaning that the Poynting vector in non-reversed time must be zero.

    This contrasts with successes in explaining the Casimir force and the Unruh effect, so maybe there is some different adaptation that would explain inertia. If that is the case, you don't need the Higgs.

  8. I hope on Obscura Digital Demos "Minority Report"-Like Display · · Score: 0

    I hope nobody gives one as a gift to Stephen Hawking. That would be so tacky.

  9. In other news... on First Definitive Higgs Result In 7 Years · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Cryptozoologists have narrowed down the possible habitat range of the Abominable Snowman. Spokesman for the research team, Dr. Justin Wanker, said "We've got him pinned down now!"

  10. Re:Directed to the Systems Administrator of VIP, i on "Clear" Air-Travel Pass Data Stolen From SFO · · Score: 1

    Thanks, but it truly is a word. Check the dictionary.

  11. Re:Directed to the Systems Administrator of VIP, i on "Clear" Air-Travel Pass Data Stolen From SFO · · Score: 1

    Yes it is, o non compos mentis.

  12. Re:Security theatre on "Clear" Air-Travel Pass Data Stolen From SFO · · Score: 1

    Reckless endangerment? Ideally it would be something that could fetch a hanging penalty. String a few of the fuckers up and the rest will quickly get their act together.

  13. Re:2008 just called... on White House Briefed On "Potential For Life" On Mars · · Score: 1

    Stupid modder doesn't know what a troll is.

  14. Re:Shades of Gray? on Microsoft's Open Source Guru Faces Tough Fight · · Score: 2, Funny

    A guy dies in a traffic accident. St. Peter meets him at the gates of heaven and tells him there's been a terrible mistake: He still needs to live out his life but his body's gone.

    "We have a couple of options", Peter says, "You could live out your years as Saddam Hussein - you'd have your own country, hundreds of palaces, statues, etc. The downside is that the US military will invade your country, hunt you down like a dog and turn you over to a bloodthirsty mob that will brutally lynch you."

    "Or you could be Sam Ramji, enjoying a high position in Microsoft who is charged with reaching out to the open-source community."

    The guy thinks for a second, then says, "How many palaces do I get again?"

  15. What am I missing? on Review of Sun's Free Open Source Virtual Machine · · Score: 1

    So they're emulating an Intel cpu with software that runs on an Intel cpu? Why can't they build a virtual machine for my g4? That would be something to be impressed by.

  16. Re:Make it optional on How Do You Fix Education? · · Score: 1

    I am bitter.

    My mother taught me to read when I was 4. During the next year my father taught me basic arithmetic. When I entered the 1st grade they made us sit in a circle taking turns reading from "Dick, Jane and Sally". I got bored and wrote a note to a pretty girl sitting opposite me and passed it down. She couldn't read it and took it to the teacher. As punishment I got to sit in the corner the rest of the day.

    High school was really bad. The bullies kicked me in the balls at least once every day. In my senior year I was the only student to sign up for the advanced science course so they dropped it.

    All in all, some of what should have been the best years of my life were utterly wasted.

  17. George Carlin on How Do You Fix Education? · · Score: 1
  18. Re:War on science on How Do You Fix Education? · · Score: 1

    We've ALWAYS been at war with Critical Thinking. Anyone who says otherwise is a Thought Criminal.

  19. cars? on Ohio Researchers Advance Heat Reclamation Technologies · · Score: 1

    Where's my thermoelectric flying car, goddam it!

  20. Re:Phobos Grunt = Doom guy on Russia To Study Martian Moons Once Again · · Score: 1

    It's too much of a coincidence - I agree, although they may have played thistoo.

  21. Re:This only punishes the foolish on Gmail Reveals the Names of All Users · · Score: 1

    So ... Rolexx's are female?

  22. Re:Remember in November. on Senate Passes Telecom Immunity Bill · · Score: 1

    .... Are the rich somehow given more police protection? ...

    Do you mean more protection from the police?

    Yes!

  23. Re:Heinlein juveniles on Sci-Fi Books For Pre-Teens? · · Score: 1

    Red Planet was the first novel I read.

  24. Re:Not exactly on Huge Lenses To Observe Dark Energy · · Score: 1

    Here's another. Look at the pdfs entitled "The Cosmological Consequences of the Product Rule" and "Einstein's Vision" for a compelling model without dark matter.

  25. Re:I don't understand why you object to surveillan on The Privacy Paradox · · Score: 1

    No government, king, or dictator should be allowed to spy on American citizens in the US.

    If you want to be spied on then go back to England, otherwise enjoy your stay in the LAND OF THE FREE!

    You want fries with that?