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  1. The Good News on Apple Manager Arrested In Kickback Scheme · · Score: 5, Informative

    Looks like a Global Supply Manager position just became available!

    http://jobs.apple.com/index.ajs?BID=1&method=mExternal.showJob&RID=58206&CurrentPage=7

  2. Online Learning on Forget University — Use the Web For Education, Says Gates · · Score: 4, Funny

    I admit, I attended a brick and mortar school, but there are simply some things that you learn online that aren't covered in college:

    - Cats have horrible spelling and grammar skills
    - There are hot and lonely singles in my area that I wasn't even aware of
    - My great grandfather was a wealthy Nigerian businessman
    - Acai berries cure everything
    - Baby Pandas sneeze, and yes, it's amazing
    - People that I thought had few friends, actually have many, many hundreds (per Facebook)
    - Clock spiders are the scariest ones

  3. Re:If this would allow us to get rid of... on Facebook Adds Delete Account Option · · Score: 5, Informative

    There was a good article in the New York Times about this a week or so ago. It's actually a bit of an issue for the site. Turns out they do have a way of handling it, but it's far from perfect.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/technology/18death.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=facebook%20dead&st=cse

  4. Oblig. Shark Comment on The Laser Turns 50 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I wonder if the original creators knew how their invention would revolutionize shark-based diabolical traps.

  5. Re:+5 T-Shirt of Nerding on Scientists Turn T-Shirts Into Body Armor · · Score: 4, Funny

    And it's super-elastic, so no Dex penalty!

  6. Oblig Colbert on Facebook's Plan To Automatically Share Your Data · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I value my privacy. I've been very consistent about that. I've said it on my TV show, my Twitter feed, my Facebook page, my live web Colonoscopy cam."

    - Stephen Colbert

    http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/267560/march-17-2010/united-states-census-2010

  7. Re:And who's going to buy the pansy version? on Study Finds Gamers Prefer Control, Competence Over Violence · · Score: 1

    Holy crap, is Chainsaw Arena Football 2009 out already?? I totally missed it!

    In all seriousness though, my favorite sports games were the old "Mutant League" series for the Sega Genesis. There was something very fulfilling about having the option for your team to kill the referee

  8. Re:Only a few considerations on UC Berkeley Lab Examines Cloud Computing Obstacles · · Score: 1

    I certainly agree with you when it comes to small and midsize companies.

    However, where I really see a potential advantage to cloud computing is very large companies that operate multiple data centers for their own business use. If these companies were able to start using cloud computing for their internal needs, I could see a huge potential for hardware, software, and energy savings. I have seen large companies run tons of servers, all far under their capacity out of a reluctance to run multiple applications on a single box. Virtualization helps with this a lot, yes, but operating with all of the company's computing load balanced across an entire data center would certainly improve the overall utilization of resources.

    I think the larger companies would certainly have more trouble getting their infrastructure to a point where this idea would be feasible though.

  9. In all seriousness... on Open Source Victories of 2008 · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't surprise me to see the current economic climate steer more business and home users to open-source alternatives to the software they currently use.

    Nevermind, I forgot about bit torrent there for a second...

  10. Great show on the subject on NASA Mars Rovers Hit 5-Year Anniversary · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There is a great show on this subject that aired on the National Geographic channel. I highly recommend it to anyone that hasn't been paying much attention to the rovers for the last five years.

  11. What!?!? on Vietnam Imposes New Blogging Restrictions · · Score: 1

    I found this part of the article to be scariest:

    The regulations, written by the Ministry of Information and Communications, encourage bloggers to use "clean, healthy Vietnamese language."

    So no more Vietnamese 1337 5P34K? Now nobody will know who is the most 1337!

  12. It's simple... on Print News Fading, Still Source of Much News · · Score: 5, Funny

    People don't like to get newspaper ink on their hands. The internet has just been a very elaborate solution to that problem.