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  1. 7/11 on Using Classical Music As a Form of Social Control · · Score: 1

    The 7/11 mini marts in Los Angeles, California have been doing this for over a decade to repel gangs and homeless persons. The biggest problem is that over time the "undesireables" have beecome desensitized to the classical music and have aquired an immunity to it.

  2. Just when I thought... on Misa Digital Guitar Runs On Linux · · Score: 1

    Just when I thought all the fun of playing guitar had been completely eliminated, somebody yet again proved me wrong.

  3. In the words of Holmes himself... on Sherlock Holmes and the Copyright Tangle · · Score: 1

    "This story presents some very singular features".

  4. fp on Escaped Convict Continues To Update Facebook · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

  5. Food is literally cheaper than dirt in the US on Priest Tells Poor To Shoplift · · Score: 1

    You can get a loaf of bread and a dozen eggs at Walmart for $2.50. A typical beggar could earn that in less than an hour of begging in front of the store. Here in the US, we have subsidized farms, put entire villages out of business, and monopolized entire agricultural sectors so that food can be extremely cheap. Even the poorest of the poor can afford a meal if they are willing to work or beg a little.

    Furthermore, anything small enough to shop-lift is most likely not going to be nutritious.

  6. Re:Mathematicians on Grigory Perelman and the Poincare Conjecture · · Score: 3, Funny

    but at the time I knew her (1986-1972)...

    Fascinating... you must have studied T-Symmetry.

  7. Re:Thank you on Shuttleworth To Step Down As Canonical CEO In 2010 · · Score: 1

    To be fair, a lot of the problems you mentioned were the result of upgrades, not clean installs.

  8. Re:My gawd on Google Releases Open Source JavaScript Tools · · Score: 1
  9. John 2:19 on Pirate Bay Closure Sparked P2P Explosion · · Score: 1

    Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days."

  10. Dries? WTF? on The Most Influential People In Open Source · · Score: 1

    This guy created the huge sloppy mess that is Drupal. I suppose it may have been influential in that it has influenced developers to look for more mature, well-planned, scalable solutions. Drupal is hardly something the open source community should be proud of.

  11. It's a nice thought on Netgear WNR3500L Open Source Router Announced · · Score: 1

    It's a nice thought, but have you every actually used the Netgear open routers? They are terrible. DD-WRT and Tomato are both quite buggy on them, and the documentation is pretty poor. I suggest going with Buffalo.

  12. Re:host the servers in antigua on The Pirate Bay Sails To a New Home · · Score: 1

    I am a software engineer. I write SAAS applications. What is software intellectual property theft? Should I be worried it?

  13. Re:Err, so just like the Pre? on Nokia Leaks Phone With Full GNU/Linux Distribution · · Score: 1

    Um, have you actually tried getting root on the G1? Unless you have the older versions of Android or have the developer phone, it is now extremely difficult to get root.

  14. As a working musician... on Goodbye Apple, Hello Music Production On Ubuntu · · Score: 0, Troll

    As somebody who writes and performs music professionally, AND as an avid Ubuntu user, I would be hard pressed to find any competent recording engineer using Linux, simply for the fact that competent engineers want to RECORD, not compile device drivers and tweak kernel flags.

  15. Drupal cannot currently be taken seriously on Front End Drupal · · Score: 5, Informative

    I have been developing for Drupal for 5 years, with a portfolio of many large scale projects. I am also the author of some popular Drupal modules.

    With all that said, in my experience, Drupal offers zero TCO or ETA advantage over Django or Symfony on any medium to large project. A lot of the great things you may hear about Drupal are coming from either (a) Non-developers or (b) People who have staked their careers on Drupal.

    A few reasons why Drupal cannot be taken seriously include...

    1) Lack of unified model layer and no ORM. The recent efforts to implement schema definitions are still, unfortunately terrible. All content types should be able to be defined as a model, including CCK fields.

    2) Over-reliance on Views and CCK modules. These are just fancy interfaces for a model layer. They are great for non-developers, but in no way compare to a proper model implementation. At the end of the day, you will save zero time by implementing a Drupal View over implementing a simple ORM call. Views and CCK slows down development.

    3) Lack of any solid deployment procedures. Ever tried merging changes between different Drupal configurations?

    4) Using native PHP as the templating language. This causes more headaches than one you can possibly believe. A proper templating language should be used instead which will prevent lazy or incompetant developers from adding business logic into templates.

    5) An army of incompetant, unexperienced developers contributing sub-par modules.

    6) Lack of any kind of namespacing whatsoever. "De-Facto Namespacing" is a pile of shit.

  16. It's Not Voodoo on Freelance Web Developer Best Practices? · · Score: 1

    1. Bill hourly.

    2. Contracts will do you no good in the end. Only work with people and companies you trust.

    3. Set small milestones. 1 - 2 weeks is preferable.

    4. Know the technologies you are working with. Don't be a jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none.

    5. Speak good English.

    6. Always deliver on time.

  17. Re:It's a deformed child, not a moral trophy on Down's Symptoms May Be Treatable In the Womb · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "I know the every sperm is sacred types will whine about this"

    FYI, sperm != human life.

    "Wouldn't you prefer never to have existed if you knew you would be subjected to mental retardation, health complications, and a short lifespan"

    What qualifications do you have to make this decision on behalf of others?