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AutoCorrect··on NASA Planetary Protection Policy
never underestimate the power of government regulations
AutoCorrect··on NASA Planetary Protection Policy
dna.
AutoCorrect··on Student Is Sanctioned for Creating Class-Registration Web Site
The University idiot that sanctioned him should have to write a 12 page research paper on why it would have been better to buy this guy out and fold his product into the University website, so it could serve it's STUDENTS better!
AutoCorrect··on Why Men Can't Have It All
we have 5 kids. They're older now (youngest is 10), but I watched them while their mother shopped, or had other things to do. We had great fun! I'm like you - I can't understand why people would think men are incapable of handling kids.
AutoCorrect··on Valve: OpenGL is faster than DirectX — even on Windows
notice he said mitigate, not eliminate. There's a difference.
AutoCorrect··on Whatever happened to kids' chemistry sets?
maybe they purposefully put the wrong chemicals to deter 'experimenting'?
AutoCorrect··on Introducing Outlook.com - Modern Email for the Next Billion Mailboxes
No thanks, I've had enough of Microsoft monopolies, I'm not helping them build another. As recently as the Skydrive mess they've battered the customer. I'm even moving off of gmail because Google is getting the same way.
AutoCorrect··on Two More Patients HIV-Free After Bone Marrow Transplants
once the affordable health-care act goes completely into effect, it may be out of the reach of 99.995% of people in the US too.
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no child left behind - but plenty of children abandoned by their parents in the pursuit of the all-mighty career.
AutoCorrect··on [dead]
Having been through multiple pregnancies with my wife, I can tell you that a pregnant woman's decision-making capabilities take a back seat during the first trimester - any board that does not move to limit a CEO's power during the first trimester of pregnancy is doing a dis-service to the shareholders. I can see lawsuits on this in the future.

(dons flame-retardant clothing)

AutoCorrect··on ACLU launches phone app to help motorists secretly record police stops
I'd say that's spot on: YOU didn't form the government you live in, you have been coerced (by force, if necessary) to follow the laws and rules of society since the day you were born.
AutoCorrect··on Lisp Hackers: Peter Seibel
completely off topic, but when I started reading your comment, the 'inner voice' was C3PO...
AutoCorrect··on Sen. Paul proposes bill protecting Americans from drone surveillance
the Constitution was written to protect the Citizens of the country.
AutoCorrect··on Gow - The lightweight alternative to Cygwin
Shift + right-click, not Ctrl.
AutoCorrect··on Microsoft offering Linux virtual machines on Azure
I would add a third point to that: we've watched MS use their size and position to stifle and destroy good companies. Now, when MS does something that could cause them problems, we react with glee.
AutoCorrect··on Anders Hejlsberg: You Can't Maintain Large Programs in JavaScript.
I had a lot of respect for Anders in the Borland days. Now he seems more and more to be just a Microsoft shill.
AutoCorrect··on A $20 Trillion Rock That Could Turn a Startup Into Earth’s Richest Company
I don't believe it either: I think the crunch will be the spur that finally gets us out of this single-point-of-failure that we call the Earth.
AutoCorrect··on A $20 Trillion Rock That Could Turn a Startup Into Earth’s Richest Company
reduced and zero-gravity environments allow crystals to grow faster, and in more perfect configuration than gravity-bound locations. This could lead to some really interesting metal alloys.
AutoCorrect··on A $20 Trillion Rock That Could Turn a Startup Into Earth’s Richest Company
less environmental controls, that's the biggest reason it's cheaper.
AutoCorrect··on A $20 Trillion Rock That Could Turn a Startup Into Earth’s Richest Company
all I hear is "blah blah blah, never been done before, too hard, no money" - same things said about flight prior to the Wright Bros. These guys (who are smarter than us) see an opportunity. I, for one, would like to see them succeed. We need to get heavy industry off of the Earth.
AutoCorrect··on The House passes CISPA with a vote of 248 to 168
if it's a refinement of an existing law, then remove the existing law, and put this one in. don't add layer upon inscrutable layer.
AutoCorrect··on ‘Big brother’ black boxes to soon be mandatory in all new cars
It's for the CHILDREN!!! Yes! that's exactly the kind of bone-headed thinking that's taking us down this path now.
AutoCorrect··on ‘Big brother’ black boxes to soon be mandatory in all new cars
pretty simple - they (the dealership) do not have the right to modify a EULA - it would be like Best Buy accepting a EULA change for a MS software product.
AutoCorrect··on How Microsoft Fought True Open Standards I
uhh, did we read the same article? he suggests that in all instances FRAND would be acceptable if there were not a truly open standard.

MS is still doing it's best to 'cut off the air supply' of a free and open IT ecosystem. Nothing new to see hear. MS fanbois will proclaim innocence until the last GPLed piece of code is eliminated.

AutoCorrect··on Nokia Projects Disastrous Losses as Shares Plunge 17%
what's funny is that MS is probably making more off the Android market than the WinPhone market - all they have to do is threaten a patent lawsuit, and suddenly they're making a couple of dollars for every Android phone a vendor makes.
AutoCorrect··on Nokia Projects Disastrous Losses as Shares Plunge 17%
ehh, Microsoft will fall back on the old tried and true: Change apis for each successive version of Exchange, and make minor api changes during patches - just enough to cause Apple products to work inconsistently, and make sure Windows Phone X stays up to date with the changes. Corporations are too stupid as a group to see what's being done to them, so they will drop Apple like yesterday's news and join the Microsoft death-cult.
AutoCorrect··on Redditors who are rich (net worth $1 million+) - how did you get rich?
no, it's how government employees pay for the good things, and modify your behavior to match their preconceptions of how you should behave
AutoCorrect··on The new Comcast Xbox Xfinity app is the first nail in net neutrality’s coffin
it's total bullshit on Comcast' part. If you remember, the argument was that the top 5% were causing issues for the remaining 95%, and the issues were stated, at the time, to be with the 'last mile' pipe. Just another example of a monopoly being a monopoly.
AutoCorrect··on ISPs to start policing copyright by July 12
I understand that you get your info from CNN, but a mesh network will work. See the research into ant colonies for more info. There was a headline today about a neutrino network that would transmit directly through the Earth, for true point-to-point communication.
AutoCorrect··on ISPs to start policing copyright by July 12
but by doing this they ARE giving up their safe-harbour provisions.
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