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Comment Re:Copyrights (Score 1) 193

The reality is there is no need to go to the game to get score information, you could easily get that same information from having a small group of people watch the game on TV. However, I was speaking of a more specific loophole, a friend buys 2 tickets and hands them over at the gate. You just show up and walk in.

Comment Re: Left & Right Brain etc (Score 1) 502

Go talk with someone with a PHD in neuroscience and they will call the Left Brain (logic) / Right Brain(art) divide nonsense or try and sell you something. There is some task specific specialization between the two sides, however learning takes place in ALL PARTS OF THE BRAIN. Unfortunately, there is also a market for books that perpetuate this nonsense so you can find a lot of sources for this crap, which is written by people that either don't understand what they are talking about or simply chose to misrepresent what they do understand.

PS: Language is localized to more areas than you might expect, the ability to name something is a very specific skill that is separate from understanding what is named. Basically, one part of the brain learns how to name something, another part learns how to understand names, another part learns how to decode speech, another part learns how to decode written language, another part learns how to recognize sounds... etc. (However, each of the above tasks involves several parts of the brain working together so naming something when writing and speaking uses the same areas for part of the task and different areas for other parts.)

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Outlook 2010 Bug Creates Monster Email Files 126

Julie188 writes with this snippet from Network World "Office 2010 is still in beta and a patch is already out. Microsoft is trying to fix a bug in the email program Outlook 2010 Beta that creates unusually large e-mail files that take up too much space. The Outlook product team has offered a bug fix for both 32-bit and 64-bit systems that fixes the problem going forward, although previous emails will remain super-sized. This could be a problem for email programs that limit message sizes, such as Gmail or BlackBerry."

Comment Re:A Christian's take (Score 2, Insightful) 1252

There are only two options you can extrapolate from what you can see, or you can live in a total dream land where everything that happens is based on a fantasy. "By suspending judgment, by confining oneself to phenomena or objects as they appear, and by asserting nothing definite as to how they really are, one can escape the perplexities of life and attain an imperturbable peace of mind." Pyrrho (ca. 360 BC - ca. 270 BC) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrho

PS: Plenty of people chose to live their life based on a fantasy of one sort or another, but it's a dangerous path with no clear boundaries between there and true insanity.

Comment Re:Sad news (Score 1) 920

SS spending has been cut in the past by increasing the retirement age for full benefits which helps because you pay for a shorter period and even more people die before receiving benefits. Medicare is harder to cut directly, but increasing premiums is an option and what is covered is also optional. Just because they keep calling it Medicare does not mean it's always costs the same amount.

Comment Re:Sad news (Score 1) 920

but what is required to meet the law's requirements.

But, the government get's to change the law, so it get's to adjust how much they cost. As to eliminating the debt, all we need to do is reduce the growth of the debt to below that of inflation, or even inflation adjusted GDP. If it's growing by 1% a year that's actually a good thing and our economy can quickly outpace that growth over the long term. As to stimulus spending that's only a problem if it lasts for several years, the real question is if we can avoid stimulus spending once things improve.

PS: All government money comes from the same pool, US. Washington has many sacred cows, DoD, SS, Medicare, but they can all be sacrificed.

Comment Re:Sad news (Score 1) 920

Tax breaks distort non governmental spending, which reduces economic efficiency so removing them can have a positive net effect on the economy while increasing revenue. SS and Medicare are just another type of spending that can be reduced like any other. However, the major cause of that 1.3 trillion $ deficit a weakening economy and two wars both of which should be short lived. It took 10 years to go from reducing the deficit to a 1.3 trillion $ one, and the trip back can be faster than you might think.

Comment Re:IPv4 doesn't die (Score 3, Interesting) 264

IP's are given away and there is no reason to give them back so of course there is a lot of demand and we are "running out". But don't think just because IANA runs out of IP's you will be unable to get new ones. They will just come with a price tag. It's a classic land grab, and people that got large chunks of IP space are going to start selling them as soon as there is no free competition.

Comment Re:IPv4 doesn't die (Score 4, Informative) 264

One of the quick and dirty ways to continuing to use IPv4 is to have some of the huge chunks of the address space given back. Do FORD, MIT, Apple, IBM, etc each need 256^3 addresses? (http://xkcd.com/195/) IPv4 has almost 256^4 or around 4 billion IP's that's almost one IP per person on the planet and plenty to last a *LONG* time.

Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 1) 926

It is a near certainty that the average person will eventually have access to nuclear-scale weapons.

Consider, for the last several years the average doctor in the US is capable of making bio weapons that could kill millions of people. Yet, more people have been killed by lighting than said bio weapons over that time period. Capability != Threat.

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