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  1. Re:Choices man. Choices. on Truth Or Dare — What Is the Best US Cell Company? · · Score: 1

    Credo Mobile is the best. They have the same prices as everyone else, but they lobby/donate to charities with ideology much more left on the spectrum than the others (AT&T gave a lot of money to Bush). And their customer service bludgeons the lights out of Verizon/AT&T/Sprint (they don't charge you to turn off texting and data access, awesome!)

  2. Re:Freelance decker on How To Get a Job At a Mega-Corp · · Score: 1

    Maybe he has two girls and had a kid with A, then with B, then with A, then with B.

  3. Re:Other words... on How To Get a Job At a Mega-Corp · · Score: 1

    Al Gore? WTF are you smoking? You sir are fucking paranoid...

  4. Re:93% of Programmers Think You're Wrong on Why Programmers Need To Learn Statistics · · Score: 1

    I'm quite sure we would hate each other actually. He sounded pretentious without proving to me that he was right. Then I would brush him off and say "I don't fucking care, it's a user, make it click some shit and we'll see how it does with a thousand of these at once".

  5. Re:93% of Programmers Think You're Wrong on Why Programmers Need To Learn Statistics · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "It's also possible the author of the article is a know-it-all douchebag who tries to solve problems with overwrought solutions."

    That was kinda what I got from this. Sure, my powers of ten runs to determine performance isn't statistically sound. Did I say it was? No. Why don't I care? Because my samples are cheap. Spiking vs non-spiking is something pretty easy to see when you glance at the data.

    I mean, he said we're going to die if we don't learn statistics, but he never gave a compelling argument for it.

    The best example was users, but even that was lacking. If you design a script that's as aggressive on a system as a high use user and your system supports as many 'users' as students, you're safe, if it supports less you work on qualifying the problem better then.

  6. Re:Dances With Smurfs. on Anti-Technology Themes in James Cameron's Avatar · · Score: 1

    Does this make Kill Bill biased because of the underrepresentation of heart attacks as causes of death?

  7. Re:Hard to tell on Psystar Activation Servers Down? · · Score: 1

    Psylocke is hot.

  8. Re:I just don't even open the door on Recession Turning Software Auditors Into Greedy Traffic Cops · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So they lost $20,000 present day value for $2,000,000 present day. Sounds like a good deal for Adobe.

  9. Re:My brain/eyes are incompatible with 3D TV/movie on Hot Or Not — 3D TV · · Score: 1

    Sure it is. It was pretty good, but it's just a movie.

  10. Re:It's finally happened...a tech I will not use on Hot Or Not — 3D TV · · Score: 1

    Not sure, but I'm glad. I've been thrilled by the prospect of 3d since high school (out of college now). I want a 3d TV and 3d live action movies.

  11. Re:My brain/eyes are incompatible with 3D TV/movie on Hot Or Not — 3D TV · · Score: 1

    It's only a fraction of the process for people who don't use it. (and as such have learned to compensate without it) For people like me it's absolutely essential. If I close an eye, walk around, stop in front of something, close the other eye (both eyes closed) and reach out to touch that item, I miss. If I do the same thing with both opens open, then close both, I can touch it reliably.

  12. Re:FIRST!!!! well almost on Why Everyone Has High Hopes For Apple Tablet · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's not going to be $300... I'm betting $800-$1200 knowing Apple and at that price I'd think about it.

  13. Re:People aren't robots on Office Work Ethic In the IT Industry? · · Score: 1

    Interesting. New/hard I can log way more hours than routine. At my last job I was dwindling to about two hours (average, not worst case) of daily productivity. That job was all just processing XML and adding buttons. Really quite mind numbing simple work... The new job has all sorts of math and fun and I hit 7 pretty reliably.

  14. Re:People aren't robots on Office Work Ethic In the IT Industry? · · Score: 1

    At my old job I was dwindling down to 2 hours a day of productivity. At my new job a 6 hour day is a bad day and 7 is more typical.

  15. Re:Dances With Smurfs. on Anti-Technology Themes in James Cameron's Avatar · · Score: 1

    Societies go through periods of peace and conflict. The Na'vi were in a time of peace, but Neytiri's grandfather helped end a massive civil war. That's what? 30-70 years ago? I think the last massive human civil war was about 60 years ago, seems realistic.

  16. Re:"Innocent until proven guilty" on Texas County Will Use Twitter To Publish Drunk Drivers' Names · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If I walked up to you with a partially loaded revolver, spun the chamber, and pulled the trigger, am I committing a crime if the gun doesn't fire a bullet? I say yes. You seem to be saying no. I believe in reckless endangerment. People who DUI are gambling with my life, so they can go fuck themselves.

  17. Re:First! on Texas County Will Use Twitter To Publish Drunk Drivers' Names · · Score: 1

    Texans actually... They are very social people. Antisocial people wouldn't waste their time with this because they already hate people. People who interact (and potentially gossip) will subscribe to this to see who they knows who gets caught.

  18. Re:My say on this on Not Enough Women In Computing, Or Too Many Men? · · Score: 1

    Too many women says there are girls who should be going into computing who aren't for some reason. Too many men says there are men who shouldn't be going into computing who are for some reason. It's possible for both of these to exist at the same time, or only one. Let's pretend that all of the girls who should be in software are in software. It's not a fix to pull that girl over there who's into teaching into software, where she does a bad job. Now let's pretend that there are some guys in software who don't belong here. Okay, so put that guy over there into theater. Tada. The world is better now because we got rid of a man, not because we increased the girls (which would have made things worse).

  19. Re:Good indie music? on MySpace-Imeem Deal Leaves Indie Artists Unpaid · · Score: 1

    Yup, that's what he said. Most of the bands lost between nothing and next to nothing, so no big deal. Not what I said, I was just clarifying for icebraining. I'm kinda neutral on this.

  20. Re:Good indie music? on MySpace-Imeem Deal Leaves Indie Artists Unpaid · · Score: 1

    BadAnalogyGuy was suggested that people DIDN'T buy their music. That they maybe sold $10 of music or less.

  21. Re:Programming without music? on Music While Programming? · · Score: 1

    Your advice sucks. I rarely interject myself into conversation and yet I am still a chronic eaves dropper. I already view many conversations as annoying distractions. I still can't block them out. My brain is simply not mapped that way. I also can't sleep with conversation going on. I can sleep with music. Brains are complicated and different. You shouldn't assume that a technique that works for you would work for everyone.

  22. Re:Programming without music? on Music While Programming? · · Score: 1

    Instrumentals with a good beat built energy and momentum IMO. This is why they are better than silence.

  23. Re:Social networking is not about privacy on Facebook Masks Worse Privacy With New Interface · · Score: 1

    What I believe they did was make it so you can't put your name without a picture or location in the searches. This is actually a GOOD change. If you want to keep your location and picture secret, do so. But it's a great frustration to search for someone and get back 10 people with the same name. Who knows which one is the right one, none of them have pictures or locations! Take those people out of the searches (which is what they've done).

  24. Re:It all comes down to what you do with it on Biometric Face Recognition At Your Local Mall · · Score: 1

    Except for the number of sex offenders who slept with their 15 year old gf when they were 17. If sex offender status is going to be taken seriously we need to stop throwing the status at young couples. Until then, it's a mark that says "I might have done something bad." but so is being human.

  25. Re:What the fuck? on Biometric Face Recognition At Your Local Mall · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This isn't police state, this is police corporation. In my experience people who make comments about the big government tend to vote in politicians that don't like regulating businesses. Regulating businesses is the only way to stop police corporations. This is the opposite of a police state, this is a free state that lets the corporations do whatever they want.