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  1. Old Policy, still used... by TeddyR · · Score: 4, Informative · on NewEgg: Installing Linux Breaks Laptop

    Old news. This has been Neweggs policy for a while now...

    http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/97248/index.html

    http://parrot-farm.net/Newegg/Newegg.com%20Horror%20Story.html

    I stopped buying computers from them in 2007 as well. (still get the occasinal HD or videocard)...

  2. Re:Eccentrics at the labs? by DougDot · · Score: 1 · on The Political Assault On Los Alamos National Laboratory

    Also, I would be remiss if I didn't use to opportunity to leach of Slashdot's bandwidth to mention my new science fiction novel, Second Cousins: http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins/

    :)

    --Doug

  3. Re:Incredibly slanted article by DougDot · · Score: 1 · on The Political Assault On Los Alamos National Laboratory

    Agree completely. I also left in June, 2005 when Act 3 was just one year away.

    --Doug Roberts, http://parrot-farm.net/lanl-the-real-story/

  4. Re:Hack Job by DougDot · · Score: 4, Informative · on The Political Assault On Los Alamos National Laboratory

    Speaking as the author/creator/owner/maintainer of the original LANL, The Real Story blog, http://parrot-farm.net/lanl-the-real-story/ [parrot-farm.net], and as a person who spent 20 years on staff at LANL, I can tell you that Hugh Gusterson's paper, if anything, understates the levels of incompetence, arrogance, and these days under its new corporate ownership, the *greed* demonstrated by the management of Los Alamos National Laboratory. The place had become nearly completely dysfunctional during the Nanos period, and is now simply treading water. The primary goal and business plan these days is to ensure that the annual award fee is received in it's entirety. Science has taken a back seat to making money for the LLC that now owns the contract for running the place.

    --Doug Roberts LANL, Retired 2005

  5. Re:Eccentrics at the labs? by DougDot · · Score: 5, Informative · on The Political Assault On Los Alamos National Laboratory

    Speaking as the author/creator/owner/maintainer of the original LANL, The Real Story blog, http://parrot-farm.net/lanl-the-real-story/ [parrot-farm.net], and as a person who spent 20 years on staff at LANL, I can tell you that Hugh Gusterson's paper, if anything, understates the levels of incompetence, arrogance, and these days under its new corporate ownership, the *greed* demonstrated by the management of Los Alamos National Laboratory. The place had become nearly completely dysfunctional during the Nanos period, and is now simply treading water. The primary goal and business plan these days is to ensure that the annual award fee is received in it's entirety. Science has taken a back seat to making money for the LLC that now owns the contract for running the place.

    --Doug Roberts LANL, Retired 2005

  6. LANL, The Real Story by DougDot · · Score: 2 · on The Political Assault On Los Alamos National Laboratory

    Speaking as the author/creator/owner/maintainer of the original LANL, The Real Story blog, http://parrot-farm.net/lanl-the-real-story/, and as a person who spent 20 years on staff at LANL, I can tell you that Hugh Gusterson's paper, if anything, understates the levels of incompetence, arrogance, and these days under its new corporate ownership, the *greed* demonstrated by the management of Los Alamos National Laboratory. The place had become nearly completely dysfunctional during the Nanos period, and is now simply treading water. The primary goal and business plan these days is to ensure that the annual award fee is received in it's entirety. Science has taken a back seat to making money for the LLC that now owns the contract for running the place.

    --Doug Roberts LANL, Retired 2005

  7. Morale at the lab was so bad by Presto+Vivace · · Score: 3, Informative · on US Nuclear Weapons Lab Loses 67 Computers

    They had a blog about it