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  1. Re:Deal on Joel Rants About Resumes · · Score: 1

    Still, I'd rather do this if I have an offer, or at least an interview (since I have a very high interview -> offer conversion ratio, it's pretty much the same to me). Filling out this crap each time to be considered for interview is just annoying.

  2. Finally on 802.16 WiMax Wireless Broadband on the Horizon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    People can stop trying to hack 802.11[abg] into a long range protocol. I've have potential clients ask me for long range wireless solutions and basically had to tell them that it can be done with 802.11[abg] but it's hacky, unsupported, and I can't do it (being a software guy and neither an infrastructure nor soldering guy).

  3. Re:Prior Art on Perens on Patents · · Score: 1

    Actually, I think it only follows an O(n^2) pattern

    GLAVIN!!

  4. Re:Dead? on United Linux Dead · · Score: 1

    C'mon, you didn't have to be Kreskin to predict this.

  5. Re:Google Company Directive on Google Social Network: Orkut · · Score: 1

    Yeah, about that Orkut project? I'm going to need you to work on it on Saturday. We lost a few people and we need to play catch up. Oh and while you're at it, why don't you come in on Sunday as well. Great.

  6. Re:Orkut? on Google Social Network: Orkut · · Score: 1

    Tatsumakibuyukkokten

  7. Re:Are taxpayers donating to Microsoft? on Microsoft Revenue Up, Tries to Hook Third World · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If they write off $100, they have to show that the software was worth $100. If they show that the software was worth $100, they have to pay taxes on $99 of capitol gain. They can then write off the $100 and get a net writeoff of $1.

  8. Re:Domain names? on Slashback: MyCrowzOft, Inundation, Taxation · · Score: 1

    Or is it Ms now?

  9. Re:o boy on Is Your Silver-based Thermal Paste Really Silver? · · Score: 1

    So was lead, but this isn't 1904. Silver might be toxic, but we haven't found any evidence to suggest it.

  10. Re:The goods on Electronic Burglary in the Senate · · Score: 1

    I agree on both points, the federalists won and so the U.S became federalized and there is no guarantee that the EU will follow. I do feel that the desire to combat U.S. hegemony will accelerate the E.U.'s federalization.

  11. Re:The goods on Electronic Burglary in the Senate · · Score: 1

    And this effects 50 states and several territories. The E.U. is a union in the way the United States is a union. They haven't fully embraced federalization, but we didn't start to favour stronger federal right here until the Civil War.

  12. Re:Shit- on The Absolute Worst Working Environment? · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of something that happened at Carleton U when my friend worked there as a sysadmin. We used to do late night "network testing" (playing Duke Nukem in the labs). One night we walked out of his building and I noticed a lot of leaves on the ground. A lot of them. And then I noticed they were moving, very fast in many directions. They were cockroaches. The building next to his has research labs with cockroaches in them and apparently some had gotten out and multiplied. His building was infested for about a week. Lucky for him, he was on the 5th floor and they only really took over the first 3 floors.

  13. Ahem on Exchange Rates Play With Online Music Prices · · Score: 1


    Hey everyone. We can go to websites in russia and get music for a lot less. Yay!

    Hey everyone. These executives are sending their programming jobs to russia because they want to save a quick buck! Waa!

    I know that /. is not a single entity and not everyone on /. holds these two views and is thus a hypocrite, but I'll bet there are those that do.

  14. Re:The internet will bring about true global econo on Exchange Rates Play With Online Music Prices · · Score: 1

    Pure capitalism utterly collapsed in 1929. It was and never could be sustainable. Pure communism is the same way. We have a hybrid now, and as a centrist I like it.

  15. Re:But do the artists get paid from allofmp3.com? on Exchange Rates Play With Online Music Prices · · Score: 1

    Do the artists get paid from iTunes?

  16. Re:Seems to reflect CD pricing bias on Exchange Rates Play With Online Music Prices · · Score: 1

    More like, it's measuring your wang in millimeters to make you feel better.

    "A whole 178 millimeters!" Woohoo!

  17. Re:IMHO, but I must admit IAAL on Web Ad Trademark Law To Be Retested · · Score: 1

    "Doctor Dobbs Swimsuit Issue"... (unless you like reading articles about how to use Java to see through women's clothing).

    Doctor Dobbs is thought of as a Java magazine now?

    God, I'm getting old.

  18. Re:regulate? on Lawsuit Filed Against Unregulated GloFish · · Score: 1

    Smack or Tax it.

  19. Re:It just won't be the same if not... on Star Wars Sequel Trilogy Rumors · · Score: 1

    Taht was pretty funny, but I don't think anyone can do the voice for Darth Vader, blackest brother in the galaxy, Nubian god, other than James Earl Jones.

  20. Re:My sons experience on Neural Feedback Training as Therapy for ADHD? · · Score: 1

    This comment should have been a 5. It directly relates to the question asked and really important to consider.

  21. Re:Not a disease on Neural Feedback Training as Therapy for ADHD? · · Score: 1

    I know exactly what you me. I find people when they talk repeat themselves to the point of it becoming insulting. Unfortunately, my parsimony with others makes it such that they often don't understand what I am asking, so I understand why people are so long winded. Now I am terse with someone until I get an understanding that they need repetition to get things.

  22. Re:what? on Apartment Lit Solely by LEDs · · Score: 1

    ***BUY THIS BOOK***

    Or you can fill out a form and get access to is free online.

  23. Re:Sony had to have a custom motherboard configure on Sony X505/SP Notebook Review · · Score: 1

    Yes and no. A motherboard is often shared across two brands, though not that often among two models of the same brand. An IBM may have the same mb as a Sager, but a Sager 5800 wouldn't have the same as a 5802. But it's still not that exciting. Even Dells and Compaq desktops will typically have custom motherboards. It just as common int he desktop world.

    I might be missing something about why this custom board is special, though, because I can't get the article up :(

  24. Re:electronic voting sucks on Touch Screen Voting Trouble in Florida · · Score: 1

    No, it prooves poor communities can't afford the same voting machines rich communities can. I can say I'm neither in shock nor awe.

  25. Re:This isn't exactly new tech... on Photoshop CS Adds Banknote Image Detection, Blocking? · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure if such a machine exists, having never transported a large amount of cash. If there aren't, I could make one really easily (which leads me to believe they exist. I keep finding that everything I can do easily has already been done). I wasn't thinking of a consecutive pile. If I had to move $10,000, I would change it to $1000 bills and write them down manually. If I had to move $1,000,000, I might buy a machine to record it. There are already bill counting machines, having them scan the SN would not be hard. OCRing it would not be hard either, but also would not be necessary, a digital image of the SN is all that's needed unless they are stolen (then an OCR on the digital image could be preformed).

    Just being to vegas, I have little doubt that the machines that casinos use to could the money preform counterfiet checks and SN tracking though. They were pretty pedantic about running your money through them, even when it's just a single five.