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  1. Re:I am offended on Muslim Groups Attempt to Censor Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    So does that include everything that you stand for and believe in? Or just the stuff you oppose? Because if it's every sacred cow, that includes making fun of racism, politicians, democracy, yourself, etc...

    If you're willing to have everything be made fun of, then go hogwild. But don't be surprised if your idea never takes.

  2. Re:VTech just kicked in, yo! on Student Expelled For Facebook Photo Description · · Score: 1

    True. I live in Ottawa, and it depends on the school. I personally attended one school from k4 to grade 6, then another from grade 7 to 12, but they used different scheduling systems in grade 7/8 vs 9-12. In my area alone though, there is a k-8 elementary school, a k-6 elementary school, and a 6-8 junior high. I just mean to show the standard division of primary and secondary schools.

  3. Re:They're free to share... on Interview With Pirate Party Leader Rick Falkvinge · · Score: 1

    So why were you creating those works in the first place?

  4. Re:VTech just kicked in, yo! on Student Expelled For Facebook Photo Description · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just to add something else, in Canada, it's similar to the US, but not quite. And it also depends on where in the country you are. But I can tell you what it's like in Ontario.

    First off, there's kindergarten, which can be taken at the age of 4, and usually has to be taken when you're 5. Then elementary school starts at grade 1 when a kid is 6 (so long as he's six by the end of the year, not the school year). This goes up to grade 6. Then there's a kind of junior high in grades 7 and 8. Then high school from grades 9 to 12. However, at the elementary and high school levels, there are two school systems: the public board and the Catholic board, both of which are publicly funded. In either case, the head of the school is called the Principal.

    Then there's post-secondary education. Aside from vocational schools, we have both colleges and universities. Colleges are generally considered more applied, and you enroll in programs with a very small selection as to what courses you get to take. You need certain college level prerequisites in high school to enroll in college. We also have universities, which are considered more academic, and depending on your program, you can take a very large selection of courses. You need certain university level prerequisites in high school to enroll in university. This line is sometimes blurred, with universities having colleges, but for the most part, this is true.

    And that doesn't even explain Quebec.

  5. Re:Default value goes back pretty far on Office 2003 Service Pack Disables Older File Formats · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah, that's fine. Just uninstall and reinstall a common program that has, for over 10 years, been able to work with old formats. And then ignore the constant pokes and prods to update. Oh wait. What if you bough the SP with this patch automatically applied in the install procedure. Oops. Then you have to go hit up google and try to find a way to fix it. If you're lucky, you punch in the right keywords and find the article for the registry hack and do it properly. But say you make a mistake. Then you have to go find a geek to fix it for you. Or say you don't find this article. Then you have to go install some program to convert it. If you're lucky there, you get a good program and manage to convert no problem.

    Look. It's a pain in the ass problem that has no reason for existing, aside from lazy coding on the part of MS programmers.

  6. Re:That explains it on Dreams Actually Virtual Reality Threat Simulation? · · Score: 1

    Maybe your brain is training you for something large, strong, and fast? Something you'd be terrified of if you saw in real life. The brain isn't worried about individual details. It's like martial arts training. Your body will be better prepared to fight the 6 foot 10 hulk of a man trying to kick your ass even if you only trained against people in the 5 foot 2 to 5 foot 10 range. The point is the training, not the details.

  7. Re:Default value goes back pretty far on Office 2003 Service Pack Disables Older File Formats · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Playing devil's advocate here, but there are a lot of career students. Some might even need to take a look at their first year notes on eigenvectors because they need to deal with it in the last year of their Ph.D, and they remember really liking the prof that year.

    Just because you don't see a reason for it, doesn't mean there isn't one.

  8. Re:Contradicting Statements. on Australian Government To Mandate Internet Filters · · Score: 1

    Oh, it ought to be, but politics isn't about what ought to be, it's about convincing people into voting for you. If that means implying, without outright saying, that the opposition is a bunch of criminals, paedophiles, or otherwise nasty people that shouldn't be elected.

  9. Re:Contradicting Statements. on Australian Government To Mandate Internet Filters · · Score: 1

    I'm calling bullshit until I see some proof.

  10. Re:Contradicting Statements. on Australian Government To Mandate Internet Filters · · Score: 1

    Yes, but no politician dares be opposite the side that claims its trying to prevent people from accessing child porn. After all, we all know that if there are two main parties, then they must have opposing positions on one subject. I mean, whoever heard of a grey middle ground in politics? So any politician who doesn't want his career handed to him on a silver platter will either support it or, at the very least, not vote against it.

    Regarding the actual technical aspect, if you a politician that there's an easy way to get around this law (say, by using a proxy or a tunnel), they'll simply make the blacklist of websites not only difficult to get to for Joe Aussie, but a list of websites illegal to get access. Bah. Maybe I'm just becoming too cynical in my age. Of course, I've yet to hit 20, so I think that says something about the political climate these days.

  11. Re:Temperature definition on Is There Such a Thing As Absolute Hot? · · Score: 1

    Interesting theory, but you neglect the issue of acceleration. Using your theory, I think it would be the limit as velocity of vibrations approaches c, and the time between maxima and minima of vibrations (think left and right edges in a two-dimensional simplification) is non-zero, but approaching zero. I'm not sure how well this would work, as it would require a minimum unit of delta t for an "absolute hot" to exist.

  12. Re:Not Quite as Bad as it Sounds on Circuit City Rewards Execs As Stock Tanks · · Score: 1

    No, no, no. That's how to fall upwards. Failing upwards is a completely different matter. It involves silver spoons and the ability to hit something approximately 42.67 mm in diameter and massing in at approximately 45.93 g.

  13. Re:That's nice on Australia Plans to Censor the Internet · · Score: 1

    Only as much as everyone else. After all, it's your civic duty to help take care of the little children.

  14. Re:Good, maybe REAL artists will now have a chance on Radio May Have To Pay To Play · · Score: 1

    Well, the idea is, talk radio would still be allowed to play a song or two for a promo, or an opening, but they wouldn't have to pay for it, because, strictly speaking, it's not their business to play music.

  15. Re:Good, maybe REAL artists will now have a chance on Radio May Have To Pay To Play · · Score: 1

    If you read TFA, you would notice that it clearly states that "Small commercial stations would only pay $5,000 a year, and nonprofit stations like NPR would pay only $1,000 a year. Talk radio and religious broadcasts would pay nothing." So you definitely have to pay, even if you're nonprofit.

  16. Re:Good, maybe REAL artists will now have a chance on Radio May Have To Pay To Play · · Score: 1

    Well, I don't know about most, but I do know that Ottawa has a decent talk radio station. It's got a fairly heavy Conservative slant, and Lowell Green can be vicious to some of his callers, but it's great for news, and generally worth listening to for municipal, provincial, and federal politics news.

  17. Re:Just in time for the holidays! on The Advantages of Upgrading From Vista To XP · · Score: 1

    I'll give you the first two points, but the third one, I have issues with. As a SysAdmin, I'm sure that it's a wonderful feature for "User" types, but for someone logged on as admin, which most people do on their home computers, the repetitive nature of the UAC trains people not to read the warning box and make an informed decision, but instead to click allow for anything and everything. Especially when multiple boxes occur for the same task.

  18. Re:Jesus, give it up with the DRM already! on The Advantages of Upgrading From Vista To XP · · Score: 4, Funny

    True. Most of us don't deal with religion, politics, or sex on a daily basis.

  19. Re:TIN FOIL HATTER'S UNITE!! on Beamed Sonic Advertising Is Coming · · Score: 1

    You kid, but the tinfoil hat producers in New York will see a sudden boom of increased traffic. That or else places that sell noise-cancelling headphones. Which of course will lead to accidents, which will then lead to lawsuits. Hope this company has a good legal department, they'll need it.

  20. Re:Genious. on Study Finds Film Enjoyment Is Contagious · · Score: 1

    My brother was killed by groupthink, you insensitive clod!

  21. Bah! on Canadian DMCA Won't Include Consumer Rights · · Score: 1

    My life is a crotch!

    All joking aside, this is absolute garbage. Trying to stop people from making money through copyright infringement, I.E. attacking actual criminals, including the organized kind is fine. Trying to make a criminal out of me and my friends because we pirate music and movies? No way. If they get this thing through, I'll vote just about anyone in who'll actually get rid of it. Even if that means putting up with the liberals for 11 years.

  22. Re:what happend to state sovereignty on Congress Creates Copyright Cops · · Score: 1

    We could've ignored it. But then we would've been as bad as the US of A and their blatant refusal to comply with the NAFTA panel on the lumber issue.

  23. Re:I nominate this for the... on Brain Changes When Viewing Violent Media · · Score: 1

    More importantly, compare that percent to the percentage of non-gamers that mow down their classmates.

  24. Re:I tagged this story ClockworkOrange on Brain Changes When Viewing Violent Media · · Score: 1

    You forgot the part where he was pumped full of pain inducing medication, which caused him to associate pain with violent thoughts.

  25. Re:Vista is #10? on Vista Makes CNET UK's List of "Worst Consumer Tech" · · Score: 1

    Umm, I'm currently managing, but only kind of. For some reason, my XP computer can access the shared folders of my dad's Vista computer, but not the other way around. Which is fine for me, as I only ever use the network to transfer stuff from his computer to my computer (usually something I scanned in). Just run the wizards, and pray.