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  1. Re:the top 1000 search terms on Google Switching to SSL By Default For Logged-In Users · · Score: 1

    For users who are logged in; an extremely small fraction of users.

  2. Re:the top 1000 search terms on Google Switching to SSL By Default For Logged-In Users · · Score: 3, Informative

    Engaging Webmaster Tools is just part of maintaining an active website. Google analytics just slows your site and is not any better than your own server logs.

  3. Re:the top 1000 search terms on Google Switching to SSL By Default For Logged-In Users · · Score: 1

    Slowly, people are realizing that stability and profits are maximized by being a service to your customers, employees, and the world--profit is a consequence of these priorities. Henry Ford spoke of this when he was building Ford Motor Company.

  4. Re:the top 1000 search terms on Google Switching to SSL By Default For Logged-In Users · · Score: 1

    When does the algorithm come out of patent protection anyway?

  5. Directions? on Microtouch: 8-bit Open Source Media Device · · Score: 1

    The post mentions directions, but I have downloaded the source, perused the blog, looked through the SF page and have found no instructions, parts lists or anything. If someone knows where they are please let us know. I found change log info, that is it.

  6. Re:CALPERS on Investors Campaign To Oust Murdochs From News Corp · · Score: 5, Interesting

    No, this is a good thing. Hopefully people wake up to this new form of democracy. Where if you don't act morally and for the benefit of employees, customers, and the earth then we pull our umpteen millions or billions out of your company now. Government has been dysfunctional for over thirty years in America. William Greider covered this in The Soul of Capitalism where he predicted this very thing. He said that people would start to act through their enormous pension funds to affect change in the world because government simply can't get it done, and it is easier to do this than to change government. Awesome. Get it done.

  7. Re:The authors on SF Authors Predict Computing's Future · · Score: 1

    I don't think Star Wars ever purported to be science fiction. It is fantasy. The beginning gives it away, "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...." This is not some science fiction based on supposed advances of humans living on earth. They are saying this has happened somewhere in the universe, which it may have, but the fact that we do not know for sure or that the story/movie has been contrived leaves it to fantasy of course. Case closed.

  8. Re:And they came up with....the same BS as always on SF Authors Predict Computing's Future · · Score: 1

    I think if someone builds a graphene based CPU encased in aerogel I would have to change my pants.

  9. Re:And they came up with....the same BS as always on SF Authors Predict Computing's Future · · Score: 1

    Progress with graphene is moving along nicely it seems. It looks like better electronic components are right around the corner.

  10. Re:And they came up with....the same BS as always on SF Authors Predict Computing's Future · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and a successful Cathar rebellion would have had us using Pentiums one thousand years ago--rather, unsuccessful Albigensian Crusades (the Cathars were passive).

  11. Eager for implants on SF Authors Predict Computing's Future · · Score: 1

    I, for one, welcome my cyborg implants. I have been committed to them for some years now--all I need is a mad scientist friend or enough time to implant my own.

  12. Re:Forget all of this nonsense on Amazon Bypassing Publishers By Signing Authors Directly · · Score: 1

    In a skeletor kind of way.

  13. Re:There is room for both. on Amazon Bypassing Publishers By Signing Authors Directly · · Score: 1

    Not just a lion's share...they get the copyright.

  14. Re:Publisher Pricing on Amazon Bypassing Publishers By Signing Authors Directly · · Score: 1

    I couldn't stop reading "The Road" on my Xoom. $Free

  15. Re:Amazon is just another publisher. on Amazon Bypassing Publishers By Signing Authors Directly · · Score: 1

    Yes

  16. Re:A parade and a funeral on Microsoft 'Hut' Opens Outside Seattle Apple Store · · Score: 1

    Even over the previous losses?

  17. Re:Literate = Psychopath... on Correlating Psychopathy With Speech Patterns · · Score: 1

    Was it not Plato who warned about being steeped in philosophy too long?

  18. Re:first draft syndrome on Correlating Psychopathy With Speech Patterns · · Score: 1

    the definition doesn't do it justice. You need case studies. Read "Snakes In Suits"

  19. Re:PR Stunt on Correlating Psychopathy With Speech Patterns · · Score: 1

    You will never make it that high up into a company as a psychopath. To become a CEO, no matter how corrupt you become, you must still be disciplined, well rounded, and a have a sense of purpose. A sociopath will never have those qualities.

  20. Re:According to the DSM and ICD... on Correlating Psychopathy With Speech Patterns · · Score: 1

    Kind of in the same way that Jehovah's Witnesses, the Catholic Church, and who knows how many other sects, promote sexual abuse of minors--by protecting them.

  21. Re:PR Stunt on Correlating Psychopathy With Speech Patterns · · Score: 1

    That is exactly the problem. They have no meaning to their lives and they don't even know that they have no meaning and have no way of realizing that. They are very dangerous and need to be quarantined. In older societies they would have been killed immediately upon diagnosis. It seems as though they actually have no soul, very weird.

  22. Re:DSM means little on Correlating Psychopathy With Speech Patterns · · Score: 1

    While studying psychology is becomes readily apparent that they are or were on the ropes for years, derided by the rest of the medical establishment and desperate to prove their worth. The decisions to exclude homosexuality from their DSM was purely political. It also became apparent through those same studies that they want to include it back in the DSM again because of the above mentioned womb/hormone issues that have been discovered. I think there needs to be more studies conducted.

  23. Re:PR Stunt on Correlating Psychopathy With Speech Patterns · · Score: 1

    It has been found that homosexuality is correlated with increased levels of a certain hormone in some women who have had multiple male babies. I think it is only a matter of time before it is once again classified as a disorder. Maybe not a mental disorder but one nonetheless.

  24. Re:PR Stunt on Correlating Psychopathy With Speech Patterns · · Score: 1

    Agreed, there is no treatment. The rights inherited from our society protect psychopaths. You just have to know how to spot them and avoid them. It would be nice to have a scientific way of pinpointing them.

  25. Re:same as with everything else on Who Killed Videogames? · · Score: 1

    Plus, many software technologies that had to be developed from scratch are now well known and can even be hijacked in part from open source projects.