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  1. Re:If yes then what ? on Is It Time To Throw Out the College Application System? · · Score: 1

    I took a class on Creativity in college.
    I was thoroughly unimpressed with the class. As it centered around the standard disciplines of creative people. Art, Music and Writing.
    The student who did the best were the ones who could regurgitate the most "creative" imaginary they had in the past.

    The student who got lower grades were ones who often did something more unique however failed in their execution.

  2. Re:Hmmm on Lennart Poettering: Open Source Community "Quite a Sick Place To Be In" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    People don't like other people for a whole slew of mostly stupid reasons.

    You internet presence causes a lot of those non-verbal cues to get left out. We often say a lot of things, but not all things are weighted equally.

    If one would say they are for Gun Rights and Anti-Abortion you could think that they are a right wing nut-job. But if you get the non-verbal communications you may find out that the person is actually far more liberal on most issues except for say those too.

    A lot of people have a hard time with gray zones anyways, so they can't really get how a person can have a complex relationship between topics and still be in a particular camp.

  3. Re:Navel gazing on Living On a Carbon Budget: The End of Recreation As We Know It? · · Score: 1

    If you go to people saying you can't have what you currently enjoy you are going to have a lot of problems.

    Sure I can lower my Carbon Foot print, by not using the lights in my house, or watching TV or browsing the internet. But to have me stop my current habits will require that I get something out of the deal.

    We as human beings can deal with only so many problems. Global Warming is only one of them in our lives. The fact that it is so Big and out of our control, and for the most part not/mis-understood means you will have big brother saying what you can and can't do. That will in general piss off people, to the point where they take arms.

  4. Re:If yes then what ? on Is It Time To Throw Out the College Application System? · · Score: 3

    Any change to the system people will complain that it will be unfair. Creativity assessments are very Judgemental. So there will be a lot of complaining the their daughter didn't get in because the assessor didn't like her.

  5. Re:What happens to that heat? on Past Measurements May Have Missed Massive Ocean Warming · · Score: 4, Informative

    The ice caps which are melting are taking some of the heat. Evaporating water will cool it down too. The currents moving the water to cooler areas will go to warm up the cold areas. That it is called global climate change. Not global weather change the whole system is changing from the imbalance.

  6. Re:America = snowball on Diners Tend To Eat More If Their Companions Are Overweight · · Score: 2

    I have lost 75 lbs by exercise and avoiding "diet" food.
    Real butter and fatty food fills you up faster and stays longer. Diet foods keep you hungry and eating more.
    Most people will start to diet when they notice that they are getting a little fat. But the diet with diet food makes them more hungry and they overeat and loose will power this you get fatter.
    There is a good trend toward Diet Food and obesity.
    McDonalds Coca-Cola have been around for generations. However diet foods started in the 80s

  7. It depends on what every one considers ethical.
    I mean Facebook itself is an advertising platform. You as a user really should know that. It sells advertising, you get a place to tell your friends how much you like your cat.
    Knowing this you need to expect Facebook to try to get the best possible adds in front of your face so they can sell these adds for more money to the buyers.
    Now Facebook isn't hurting people and the fact that the adds are labeled as such and not tricking you into thinking your friend endorced something that they didn't.

    Facebook business model isn't a secret.

  8. Re:Doh! on Possible Reason Behind Version Hop to Windows 10: Compatibility · · Score: 5, Funny

    I figured it had to do with Roman numerals.
    They skipped Windows 4 (IV) and they are skipping version 9 (IX)
    I figured there is a bug in the roman numeral check for the numbers the need to subtract before the value.

  9. Re:Wow. on Facebook Ready To Get Into Healthcare · · Score: 1

    It is better then getting political advice on Facebook.
    Lets take a complicated issue and simplify it to a square Photoshop JPEG with a witty remark on it.

  10. Re:Samsung Already works with Apple, what changes? on Will Apple Lose Siri's Core Tech To Samsung? · · Score: 2

    Apple seems to have a good track record of working well with its most bitter competitors.
    Apple and Microsoft, Apple and IBM, Apple and Samsung, Apple and Google...
    Apple seems to compete against individual products not against the companies on the whole.

  11. The Desktop is dying on Lost Opportunity? Windows 10 Has the Same Minimum PC Requirements As Vista · · Score: 1

    There isn't really that much investments in Desktop usage to get more OS Power out of it.
    Mobile OS's are having to deal with new gestures and brand new sensors all the time.
    Ever sense we started offloading the work to the video card the OS doesn't need that much power.

  12. Re:And yet IBM soldiers on... on End of an Era: After a 30 Year Run, IBM Drops Support For Lotus 1-2-3 · · Score: 2

    IBM Did a lot of big screwups.
    OS/2 their marketing was horrible, they had an opportunity with Windows 3.1 lagging for too long, but they made a stupid commercial that the public didn't even know what it was about. And they let Microsoft make Windows 95 seem like what Windows 7 is. (and cost hundreds of dollars less)

    The PowerPC line, They were doing good until the Gigahertz range was common in Intel, Power PC was still in MHZ. Intel started to make much faster chips and PowerPC couldn't get caught up.

    Lexmark Printers, I hated repairing those guys used by Banks and other IBM shops, they in general were hard to maintain.

    DeskStar hard drives. They weret nicknamed DeathStar hard drives for a reason.

    x86 Servers. Why go with IBM when everyone else had one as well.

    The ThinkPad was good.

  13. Re:But its perfectly Ok for the NSA on CEO of Spyware Maker Arrested For Enabling Stalkers · · Score: 1

    By arrested, is a code word for recruited by the NSA.

  14. Re:I would like to see a return... on Apple Faces Large Penalties In EU Tax Probe · · Score: 1

    Or companies will leave the US in droves, to other countries where they can get better tax rates.
    Leaving the rest of the population without any work nor a tax base to pay for such services.

    It is really a fine balancing act. There is a particular amount of Tax that a company is willing to pay, but not so much that it will just pack up and move.

  15. Re:This is a defense of iPhone 6? on Consumer Reports: New iPhones Not As Bendy As Believed · · Score: 1

    My old candy bar Audiovox phone which I got in 1998 didn't bend at all (except for the retractable antenna). Removable battery, took voice commands, battery life that lasted days.

    However it broke because it was so thick that when I wacked my leg on a piller it took all the force and broke.

  16. Re:You know what this means on Breakthrough In LED Construction Increases Efficiency By 57 Percent · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In Low light environments you really need red LED's
    Sure Red LEDs are old. But for low lights your eyes don't adjust as much to red lights.

  17. Re:So offer a cost effective replacement on Security Collapse In the HTTPS Market · · Score: 4, Funny

    Paper disproves Spock

  18. Re:Its not the CFL/LED on The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    We really need DC Power Outlets for our homes.

    Most of the stuff we are plugging in nowadays are already DC Devices, we plug in these unsightly power bricks that chew up power even when the device isn't used.

  19. Re:"could be worse than Heartbleed" on Flurry of Scans Hint That Bash Vulnerability Could Already Be In the Wild · · Score: 1

    Back in the day I had made some csh (not bash) scripts.
    It took the posted data parsed it and printed a formatted report on paper.
    So employees could then use it to process the order and ship it out.

    It was a low volume thing, and we did it in csh just because it was quick and easy to do.
    The web server wasn't ran as root and the script didn't run as root.

    There could also be a Bash based Menu system for a public Telnet/SSH Site which could cause issues too.

  20. Re:Shocking. on Apple Yanks iOS 8 Update · · Score: 1

    From my understanding the update is fine. The problem is in installing the update.

    I expect the actual cause isn't in the code, but a setting in their method of pushing software. They probably kept the iPhone 6 values secrete, until it was released and they didn't quite setup the update to automatically handle the 6s yet.

    I bet in a few days we will get a working fix.

  21. Re:Attacking 4chan is poor strategy on Emma Watson Leaked Photo Threat Was a Plot To Attack 4chan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That sounds like a most of activists groups to me.
    My view is common sense. If you disagree with me you must be influenced by some sort dark forces.
    It should be obvious that my view is right, so there must be some force preventing you from understanding that.
    Those democrats are being paid off by George Soros and fed misinformation from GE who owns MSNBC, those Republicans must be paid off by the Koch brothers and fed misinformation from News Corp who owns FoxNews.

  22. Re:Let me guess... on Users Report Warping of Apple's iPhone 6 Plus · · Score: 1

    This is just an other attempt to get a free Case out of the deal.

  23. Like a Linux zealot would ever state that Linux systems has any flaws to begin with.

    Linux is better then any OS in every way. In the ways it isn't it is because those are the features you don't need (until it gets them)

    You could say the same about Mac Fanboys or Windows Cheerleaders.

  24. Re:They will never learn on jQuery.com Compromised To Serve Malware · · Score: 1

    The exact moment when your site is safe is when you think it is safe.

    Because at the point where you think it is safe, is the point where you have stopped trying to improve security and that is when problems can happen.

  25. Re:Very sad on Phablet Reviews: Before and After the iPhone 6 · · Score: 1

    It slid out of my pocket too easily, I bend over and it falls out of my shirt pocket. I get fabric cases to help stop this.