Comment Re:I gotta be honest... (Score 1) 91
Incidentally, the bitching and the lack of salient points are the all the salient points. So mission accomplished I guess.
Comment Hockey (Score 1) 615
At least Whitehurst seems to like hockey. That's good enough for me.
Comment Re:Build It in Space (Score 1) 78
Not enough demand. Only one space telescope.
That's not a problem. Once this is built, other projects will present themselves.
It's a problem for whomever is tossing the money around to fund these projects.
Comment Re:This is not a bad idea (Score 1) 848
So I'm just curious, did we or can we disprove creationism?
Valtor
No, it's not a valid hypothesis.
Comment Re:owned. (Score 2, Funny) 273
Then I guess the only thing that remains is to figure out what percentage of each set of populations are judges.
Comment Re:My heart leaped (Score 1) 231
Is Duluth really that bad of a town?
Comment Re:Go for it! (Score 1) 114
Well-heeled investor types generally don't like getting told what they're allowed to do with their money. Especially when they're told they're not allowed to put it somewhere where they think it will make them lots of money.
Comment Re:what's the big deal? (Score 1) 117
Maybe I'm missing the humor here, but there is a compatibility pack for opening Office 2007 files in Office 2003.
FileFormatConverters
FileFormatConverters
Comment Re:According to MS? It IS a work-around for this (Score 1) 117
And what, pray tell, will the people who need to open
Open Office?
Comment Re:This is about purchase orders, not bank account (Score 4, Informative) 138
If this was a purchasing issue, why does the article quote the interviewee as suggesting, "Their IT people should have known better,"
The interviewee is quite possibly a douche nozzle.
Submission + - Evil is as evil does
SafT1st writes: Google Earth may compromise your safety according to Wired's blog. Clearly some evil is showing in Google's 'recently released desktop app Google Earth 5 contained a little surprise for many Mac OS X users — it installed Google's automated Update Engine without clearly asking. Worse, the latest version of Google Earth won't work without the Update Engine running in the background.'
Submission + - Judges Jail Youths for Profit (nytimes.com) 1
Maximum Prophet writes: "At worst, Hillary Transue thought she might get a stern lecture when she appeared before a judge for building a spoof MySpace page ..."
"Instead, the judge sentenced her to three months at a juvenile detention center on a charge of harassment."
"The answers became a bit clearer on Thursday as the judge, Mark A. Ciavarella Jr., and a colleague, Michael T. Conahan, appeared in federal court in Scranton, Pa., to plead guilty to wire fraud and income tax fraud for taking more than $2.6 million in kickbacks to send teenagers to two privately run youth detention centers run by PA Child Care and a sister company, Western PA Child Care."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13judge.html?em
Comment Re:Coming soon (Score 1) 184
I think you won that race, but I think everyone will agree that we all lost something back there.
Comment Re:Coming soon (Score 4, Funny) 184
You underestimate the amount of beer that the 10 Canadian guys who watch the Stanley Cup Playoffs drink.
Comment Re:This may sway me to an iPhone (Score 2, Funny) 172
MAJOR Business killer application.
Why is your application killing businesses?
