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  1. Re:L.A. County Bans Use Of "Master/Slave" Term on L.A. County Bans Use Of "Master/Slave" Term · · Score: 1

    They stated in the article that they received memos and called the department. They didn't use any externally linkable resources.

    Regardless, though, from the URL, you can see it's part of the Moral Outrage subsection of the Inboxer Rebellion section, and not part of T.R.O.L.L.

  2. Re:Better would be: on L.A. County Bans Use Of "Master/Slave" Term · · Score: 1

    'One' is a generic, while 'they' refers to a specific person or people.

    One should not speak out of turn.
    They should not speak out of turn.

    The first prescribes a rule for all, the second a judgement against a person or group of people.

  3. Re:cardboard boxes in a closet. on How Do You Organize Your Gear? · · Score: 2, Informative

    For those, I recommend those CD binders. The Walmart in my area has ones that can hold 280 CDs for $25. It ends up being a lot neater and more compact than 1000 jewelcases (or even individual sleaves).

  4. Re:The final irony? on Web Pages Are Weak Links in the Chain of Knowledge · · Score: 1

    Actually, the media reported that SCUDs were launched, but later backed off from the story because they were incorrect. Associated Press reported on March 22 that "Maj. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the vice director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a Pentagon news conference that the Iraqis have not fired any Scuds and that U.S. forces searching airfields in the far western desert of Iraq have uncovered no missiles or launchers." The exact quote from Stanley McCrystal on March 22 (two days after the SCUD story broke) was "We're doing a different job of it this time, but so far, there have been no Scuds launched, which is very positive to date."

  5. Re:Anyone read "Prey" on Epson Creates Tiny Flying Robot · · Score: 1

    only to create Mechasquito!

  6. Re:Entirely too ambiguous! on Airspeed Velocity Of An Unladen Swallow · · Score: 1

    As opposed to groundspeed, which is the speed at which a swallow bobs (bird equivelent of walking)

  7. Re:OLAP Services on PostgreSQL 7.4 Released · · Score: 1

    AFAICT, it's referring to speed increases that improve queries against a star or snowflake schema. IOW, it's for relational OLAP.

  8. Similar laws in other states on Apple Claims Ownership of Shareware · · Score: 1

    Are there similar laws in other states?

  9. Re:Since nobody said it yet..... on Replace Your Music....Again · · Score: 2, Informative

    Oh, it's been said. Practically every time one of these articles come up...

  10. A whole new format in 5 years? on Replace Your Music....Again · · Score: 1

    I don't think so. A format takes longer than that to gain miniscule market share. If anything replaces CDs in the next 5 years, it'll be DVD based technology like DVDA, since there are a lot of players out there already.

  11. Re:Easier solution. on Ritz Disposable Digital Camera Hacked · · Score: 1

    Assymmetric key operations are expensive, but the reality is that they are usually only ever used to do one thing: encrypt a symmtric key. In the case of the camera, it should generate a symmetric key, encrypt the picture with that, then encrypt the symmetric key with the public key, and attach the symmetric key to the picture.

    The random key generation should be at least burned in ROM so that that peice cannot be tampered with.

  12. Property rights on Orbdev Files US Federal Suit Over Asteroid Claim · · Score: 1

    The reality is that might is what makes properties rights. What gives an individual the ability to say he owns a peice of land, is that if someone goes on that land, he can call the government and get the trespasser to leave. The person has the might of the government behind him to enforce his idea of what is his property.

    What enables a government to say that they have such and such borders depends on the might of the government. If a country, like Iraq, invates a smaller country, like Kuwait, then it is the might that enforces the Kuwaiti borders that define them. In the case fo the Gulf War, this means that U.S. might enforced Kuwaiti property rights. In the context of Operation Iraqi Liberation, it is our might that defined that Saddam's government did not have property rights to the land and that we now do. Only time will tell what we do with these rights.

    People are wrong when they say you can't just point at something and say "mine." Everyone and anyone is entitled to do this, but if someone else challenges your claim and you don't have the ability to enforce it, then you don't intrinsically have any right over them. In this case, NASA says they will not pay and there is little that can be done about it. Unless he can turn another branch (such as the judicial system) against NASA, they won't ever pay, nor do they have to.

  13. Re:About the ending--**SPOILER** on 'Matrix Revolutions' Opens Today · · Score: 1

    and what is a kid???

    Oh come on. It was obviously a child process.

  14. Re:Curses! Foiled again! on Quantum Cryptography Systems Commercially Launched · · Score: 1

    what would be nice, is if slash had the ability to store two comment view preferences: one for when you are not moderating and one for when you are. That way it could automatically switch to nested, newest first when modding.

  15. Re:Ethics on Are Review Units Better Than Store Versions? · · Score: 1

    "votes are only $300 in tax-reduction apiece"

    LOL!

    It's funny cause it's true

  16. Re:Car reviews Motorcycles and Televisions on Are Review Units Better Than Store Versions? · · Score: 1

    I've noticed that at Best Buy they seem to introduce "christmas lights" into the signal for the non HDTVs to make the difference for the HD ones that much more.

  17. Re:How can this be "insightful" ? on CIO Magazine On Offshore IT · · Score: 1

    You can ask for free trade and have it all they way out, or tariff and protextionism

    You're kidding, right? This is the United States of America. They can and do whatever the hell they want.

  18. Re:Yeah... on Linux Most Attacked Server? · · Score: 1

    *cough* that you know of

  19. Re:The Matrix Reloaded introduced us... on Cubism For CG And Movies · · Score: 1

    From one of the "Making Of"s for the Matrix (the first one), the bullet time scenes were produced by taking the pictures as described, but then the pictures were mapped onto a 3d world, and the scene was generated from the 3d world. It was like in the second movie, except that the actions that Reeves did in RL in the first one mapped pretty much exactly to the 3D model, so the effect looked better. In the 2nd one, they had Reeve's avatar do things he didn't do in RL, and so it looked more generated. Unfortunately, is seems like they didn't even use the skin technology from FF: Spirits Within (also used in theAnimatrix short
    "Final Flight of the Osiris"), so the skin looked flat. His trenchcoat also had color problems.

    Still, I liked the second movie overall and am looking forward to the 3rd.

  20. Re:Post the text on 2002 SAGE Salary Survey Finally Released · · Score: 1

    Let me put it this way: I've seen the articles listing the average starting salary for a new college graduate; and, I want to know where I went wrong

    Stop going to the wayback machine. You need to read articles from 2003.

    Also, I think where you went wrong was going into computers for the money.

  21. Re:Getting paid in Rupees. on 2002 SAGE Salary Survey Finally Released · · Score: 1, Funny

    Is that indian rupees, or Zelda: the Wind Waker rupees?

  22. Re: Mozilla/W2K cut-n-paste on Judge OKs Competitive Pop-Up Ads · · Score: 1

    I get what looks like a web page when I copy and paste from Moz 1.3 into Word on Win2K.

  23. Uh on Windows Cheaper When Studied by MSFT Analysts · · Score: 1

    Of course, the story is quick to state that the whole study was funded and commissioned by our favorite Redmond, WA based software giant

    so then why is this news?

  24. Re:I think on RIAA Sues 261 Major P2P Offenders · · Score: 1

    Peter: It's like singing in the shower. When you sing in the shower, you wouldn't call that stealing, would you?
    Joanna: No, I..
    Peter: Well, we do the same thing, only with a bigger shower, and a lot more songs.

  25. Re:And here comes his sister, the most famous fema on The Most Famous Geek in IT · · Score: 1

    One would think so with our market share.

    (it's a joke)