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  1. Re:Easy. Don't piss off your IT guys. on How Do You Protect Servers From a Rogue Admin? · · Score: 1

    Don't treat your human resources like mindless little robots that live in a closet somewhere whose sole purpose in life is to be summoned by you, fix whatever you screwed up within 5 minutes, and then disappear.

    Don't treat your janitors like mindless little robots that live in a closet somewhere whose sole purpose in life is to be summoned by you, fix whatever you screwed up within 5 minutes, and then disappear.

    Don't treat your legal like mindless little robots that live in a closet somewhere whose sole purpose in life is to be summoned by you, fix whatever you screwed up within 5 minutes, and then disappear.

    Don't treat anyone like mindless little robots that live in a closet somewhere whose sole purpose in life is to be summoned by you, fix whatever you screwed up within 5 minutes, and then disappear.

    Face it, no one should treat anyone bad, but sometimes when humans interact with other humans conflict arises. These conflicts are often short-lived and solved, but now and then the conflicts are essentially unresolvable and the effect of that might be that someone leaves the building, slams the door behind them and kicks down the trash can on the way out.

  2. Re:Based on the Cover..... on NYTimes On Dealings With Assange · · Score: 1

    To me it carries a meaning that he is human, he changes when extraordinary things happen. Most people change some when they go from being known within a small circle and over the course of a few days becomes a world-known celebrity. It tells me that he was once not unlike me (sometimes forgetting or not taking the time to shower) and now dresses the part of face of a respected organization.

    I see nothing wrong in dedicating two paragraphs of a nine page article to the transformation of the head of the organization that everyone spoke of 2010 (and still does).

  3. Re:His socks, shoes, coat, hair.... on NYTimes On Dealings With Assange · · Score: 3, Interesting

    NYT spent less than 0.5% of the text detailing Assange's transformation from the regular hacker attire to someone wearing formal clothes (thus making him also a human, a person, not just a source) on that and you think NYT considers that part the most important? The other 99.5% detailing the leak and relationship between NYT, Other Newspapers, Assange and The US Government are not considered important to you?

  4. Re:The slashdot logo in the corner... on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 1

    It is already pretty obvious that we are on /. with or without the logo, I don't think I will suddenly forget which site I am visiting. Besides, it has a fixed scroll position, the old one disappeared when you scrolled and I don't think anyone suddenly forgot which site they were reading yesterday.

  5. Re:Let me be the first to say: on Bad Science Writer Talks About the Placebo Effect *NSFW* · · Score: 3, Informative
  6. Re:We might stop making fun of him on Fake Steve Jobs Says 'Leave the Real One Alone' · · Score: 1

    Now when will we get Fake Larry Ellison? That guy is just a comedy goldmine. The often attributed, arrogance of Jobs, greedy, self-serving, with a sense of self-denial and a twinge of bat-shit insane.

    We had him a few years ago: http://fakelarryellison.blogspot.com/

  7. Re:attorneys on Assange Could Face Execution Or Guantanamo Bay · · Score: 1

    I probably misread you there, your main question was probably pertaining the woman's claim rather than the law?

    One of the women, the one claiming rape (the other woman is claiming sexual harassment), said that they had agreed on having protected sex and when the condom broke she asked Assange to stop, but he refused and held her down and consummated the intercourse. This was believable enough according to the prosecutor and enough for the British authorities to accept the international warrant after clarifications.

  8. Re:attorneys on Assange Could Face Execution Or Guantanamo Bay · · Score: 1

    Laws in Sweden regarding rape are in principle identical to all other EU member state's laws on rape: Forced, non-consentual sex, there are multiple countries, such as Norway where the law is even stricter. Whether Assange actually did do it is another question.

  9. Re:attorneys on Assange Could Face Execution Or Guantanamo Bay · · Score: 1
    Sweden has laws that are similar to those in the UK: Extradition for Criminal Offences:

    Extradition is permitted, provided that the act for which extradition is requested is equivalent to a crime that is punishable under Swedish law by imprisonment for at least one year. [...] Extradition may not be granted for military or political offences. Nor may extradition be granted if there is reason to fear that the person whose extradition is requested runs a risk - on account of his or her ethnic origins, membership of a particular social group or religious or political beliefs - of being subjected to persecution threatening his or her life or freedom, or is serious in some other respect. [...] Furthermore, nor may the person who is extradited be sentenced to death.

  10. Re:Cheaper to buy CDs on The Beatles On iTunes · · Score: 1

    In the Swedish store it is 1350 SEK, $150 = 1045 SEK, with sales tax that amounts to 1045*1.25 = 1306 SEK. Much less of a difference here.

  11. Re:Cheaper to buy CDs on The Beatles On iTunes · · Score: 1

    Perhaps some sales tax? But even then $150 = €110 and 110*1.2 = 132. Makes little sense to keep it that different.

  12. Big on The Beatles On iTunes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is big, at least for Steve Jobs and Apple. Steve is a huge Beatles fan and the distinction between Apple and Steve Jobs is blurry at best.

  13. Re:Obligatory XKCD on British Teen Jailed Over Encryption Password · · Score: 1

    WTF, how was that posted as AC?

  14. Obligatory XKCD on British Teen Jailed Over Encryption Password · · Score: -1, Redundant
  15. Re:Nothing I'd pay for. on Xmarks May Not Be Dead After All · · Score: 1

    I don't trust any browser keeping multiple windows and multiple tabs going for months. I just know the browser or (more likely) some plugin is going to hit a bug sooner or later that will kill the browser. That is why I begun using bookmarks to begin with.

  16. Re:Nothing I'd pay for. on Xmarks May Not Be Dead After All · · Score: 1

    I think you imagine bookmarks as rather permanent and I understand that, sometimes I go moths without a new bookmark. However, like real world bookmarks I tend to use mine frequently when I actually use them. For example, researching some subject online I tend to create dozens or more new bookmarks on a subject that I later delete when finished. If I wasn't happy using Delicious I would certainly have tried Xmarks. On top of my head I think I have created about 150 bookmarks this year and deleted about 120 of those. Bookmarks to me are rather fluid.

  17. Re:I'll need to rethink my lighting. on Apple Patents Directional Flash Tech For Cameras · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The difference from what I can tell is that Apple is seeking a way to make all this work automatically in a pocket-sized system (as far as I know this is the first time this has been attempted). Don't worry, you can keep doing what you are doing, almost no amount of technology can compete with a good human who knows what he/she is doing.

  18. Re:Simple on Don't Cross the LHC Stream! (Maybe) · · Score: 1

    But but, it stops just before I can begin my data collection!

  19. Re:Leif Silbersky on Assange Asks For New Lawyer, Denies Blaming CIA · · Score: 1

    At least he was one of the driving forces in the sexual revolution that made pornography legal in Sweden and defended Doris Hopp. That has got to count for something.

  20. Leif Silbersky on Assange Asks For New Lawyer, Denies Blaming CIA · · Score: 5, Informative

    Leif Silbersky, for those not familiar with Swedish media and Swedish courts, should know that he is a high profile defense attorney who often works on cases where there is lot of media interest. Silbersky knows how to deal with journalists better than most lawyers in Sweden. His track record in court seems no worse or better than anyone else's though. Björn Hurtig is a TV celebrity lawyer, he also knows media but that is all I know about the guy.

  21. Re:Oh yeah? on WikiLeaks Calls For Assange To Step Down · · Score: 1

    Mr. Assange was so furious over the tabloid that broke the news that he gave them at least one private interview a while later. Yes, it is a tabloid (I never read it), and they more or less have people living at the police looking for all kinds of dirt and celebrity gossip. Had they not broken the news a more reputable source would have done so the morning after anyway. All major news outlets did report it the morning after (some never crediting the tabloid, presumably because they do their own research in the police records).

  22. Re:Oh yeah? on WikiLeaks Calls For Assange To Step Down · · Score: 1

    My main point was that the case against Mr. Assange has enough credibility to convince at least two different legal entities to take action (and about half the worlds journalistic corps) while the status of your child rape accusation currently is currently only at the level of internet heresy, I will join you in calling the woman out on it once it passes some sort of threshold where it at least can be confirmed that the boy has spoken to a practicing psychiatrist, lawyer or journalist (print, tv)

  23. Re:Oh yeah? on WikiLeaks Calls For Assange To Step Down · · Score: 1

    Iceland has a legal age of consent at 15 years (Wiki link). So you can only accuse her of regular rape. If you want to compare your story to that of the Swedish and Assange you also need the boy to tell the police he has been raped and the police to take it seriously enough to warrant an arrest in absence.

  24. Tape reels, and an ergonomics person on Ideas For a Great Control Room? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yup. No, he desperately needs to hire an ergonomics person as soon as possible! Especially if he gets only one shot at it and has no experience he should hire someone with experience and the right education for the job. The cost if something goes wrong (quite likely) when someone uneducated and unexperienced runs things is minimal compared to what a few days worth of consulting time from a ergonomics individual wold cost.

  25. Re:Rear cam stills under 1MP is not dominance on Apple Announces New iPods, iTunes 10, Social Network, AppleTV · · Score: 0

    That 960 x 720 is video resolution. The 8GB number is not RAM, it is flash-based storage.