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  1. Re:It's the way shared transit should be on Google's Best Perk — Transport · · Score: 1

    Part of the reason I hate public transit is the other people on the bus/train/plane with me: there are the ones who smell, the ones who talk to themselves, the ones who start ranting, the ones who panhandle, and the ones who won't fucking shut up and let me read.
    I dunno, I ride the DC Metro to and from work each day, and I have never had anybody disturb me in the ways you mentioned.

    I did the same in San Jose as well as New York and also was never disturbed. Actually, I take that back, every so often, someone would panhandle on the New York subway, but never agressively.

    If you have such issues, perhaps you should just discontinue bathing and begin speaking to yourself. People should leave you alone. Or you could just be honest with people: "You know, it's truly fascinating to hear how your cat Jameson licked his left testicle last night instead of his usual right testicle, but it turns out I have to read this book by Friday for a class, so I'm going to have to get back to it now. I'm truly very sorry."
  2. Responses on Open Source Image De-Noising · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you're experiencing a lot of noise at ISO400, it's time for a new camera.

    Also, in response to your later post, what many DSLRs do for long exposures (usually taken at night and with high ISO and experience a lot of noise in the black areas) is to take another exposure immediately after the first one, but with the shutter closed. Then, the camera knows where the sensor noise is and can subtract it from the actual picture.

    So if you take an 8 sec. exposure and your camera freezes up for the following 8 sec, you'll know why.

  3. Isn't that the whole point? on Homeland Security Offers Details on Real ID · · Score: 1

    Also, unless we hold the airlines responsible for security failures, giving them the job is pointless. Having the same organzation responsible for both security and security failures is the only way it should work.
    Isn't that the whole point of making the airlines responsible for security? I mean, whose expensive planes are being targeted? Who is going to be on the receiving end of all the wrongful death lawsuits? The airlines. The TSA is a great example of making noone responsible. Ever try to sue the federal government? Does the TSA own any airplanes? What would the consequences to the TSA be if there were another successful terrorist attack against airplanes?
  4. Not quite true on IBM Sued for Firing Alleged Internet Addict · · Score: 1

    either way, this guy is screwed: it's not illegal discrimination to fire someone for mental issues
    It turns out an employer is required to make "reasonable accomodations" to disabled people.

    If "Internet Addiction" is not a disability, then this guy is screwed. On the other hand, if it IS a disability, then IBM is going to have to demonstrate that "allowing this disabled person to use the Internet" is not a reasonable accomodation.

    So as silly as it may sound, if the guy was getting his work done, and "Internet Addiction" actually is a disability, then this guy may have a case.

    Of course, if he was fired, it probably was because he wasn't getting any work done, so IBM would simply say that allowing this guy to use the Internet is not a reasonable accomodation because it's unreasonable for IBM to pay someone to sit around and jack off all day.

    Wow, I want that 90 seconds of my life back.
  5. Just look for controversial websites on Alternative Registrars to GoDaddy? · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Just use whois to see where controversial websites are registered. For instance:
    • godhatesfags.com is registered through Network Solutions
    • nambla.org is registered through Tucows
    You get the idea.
  6. FTA on FBI Arrests Neteller Execs · · Score: 1

    They are charged with money laundering, not the UIGEA. That seems to be a bit of a stretch, but what do I know?

  7. Re:Zero-Knowledge Proof Authentication Systems... on Secure Ways to Determine 'Something You Have'? · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure this is not the case for NAGRA-2/P5.

  8. Ghetto on A Proper Environment for Web Development? · · Score: 1

    That was the most ghetto setup I've heard of in a long time.

    For Apache and perl CGI, why can't every developer have his own Apache instance on his own development workstation? Use Subversion, and away you go.

    You have a simple architecture. I don't see why you need to be more complex than this.

  9. Re:For people with no sense of direction on Using Cellphones to Track Your Kids · · Score: 1

    My mom was a Realtor. We had several dozen maps. You have not identified a solution. Those with a sense of direction will never understand those without.

    Personally, I don't understand it. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own two eyes.

    The problem has been solved, incidentally. He moved to Manhattan and doesn't drive. If the subway can't get him someplace, he will never arrive there.

  10. Re:this is terrible on Using Cellphones to Track Your Kids · · Score: 1

    That ringtone.

    I hate it.

    I'm 30, and you're goddamn right I can hear it.

    It sounds like that awful whine the TV makes.

    Why on earth would anybody who is capable of hearing it want to hear it?

  11. For people with no sense of direction on Using Cellphones to Track Your Kids · · Score: 1

    My little brother (little in the birth-order sense... he's 26 years old) has the worst sense of direction. Ever. After he got his driver's license, he routinely got horribly lost. As in, not even close to his intended destination.

    The problem was, he was so lost and so clueless, he couldn't really explain to anybody where he actually was, or worse, he would think he was somewhere and be wrong. In-car GPS wasn't very common back then, and I doubt that would have helped anyway. If he couldn't figure out that a "Hospital" sign could be any hospital, not just one specific hospital (I'm driving by "XYZ Hospital" right now. Help!, but he'd really be by "ABC Hospital"), how is he going to properly enter his destination into a GPS unit?

    Something like this would have been good for him. He could call home and say, "Help, I'm fucked." and somebody could see just where on the planet earth he was actually fucked, and unfuck him.

  12. Did we not just talk about this last month? on College Freshmen Struggle With Tech Literacy · · Score: 1

    I thought we already had this discussion last month.

  13. Hahahahah on Wal-Mart Asked to Drop Christian Video Game · · Score: 1
    This is absolutely the funniest Torah interpretation I have ever read. At first I didn't get it, because you make the mistake of assuming that the Torah was written in English.
    So I read the passage literally.
    No, you didn't. You read an English translation of it and assumed that in Hebrew the words "to lie" (to tell a falsehood) and "to lie" (to have sex with) are the same word, as in English. Let me assure you that you are totally wrong.

    Take a minute and actually read Leviticus 20:13. In fact, read the whole chapter. It's all about forbidden sexual relationships. In fact, read Lev. 20:15 two verses later: And if a man should lie with a beast, he shall be put to death, and you should kill the beast. Are you going to honestly suggest that the Torah is going to prohibit a man from telling a falsehood to a beast (and prohibit women from lying with beasts in the next verse)? At any rate, the Hebrew word for telling a falsehood is not used anywhere here. This chapter is all about forbidden sex.

    Hopefully now you can see how it can be interpreted "any other way". That other way happens to be the correct way. Your interpretation, while hilarious, is utterly wrong.
  14. Lame on Wal-Mart Asked to Drop Christian Video Game · · Score: 1
    So if two people stood up, and one said, "I believe God does care that you call him by the correct name" and one said, "I believe God does not care that you call him by the correct name", then only one of these people was right.
    So let me get this straight. If I make my kids call me "dad", but I let my wife call me whatever she wants, then I don't exist?

    Maybe God wants one group of people to call him one thing and one group to call him whatever.

    Also, maybe it's difficult for humans to articulate using human language the attributes of the supernatural.

    At any rate, it's pretty clear that from your "call me this or call me that" example, it does not follow that God is only manifest inside a mortal individual. Also, even if it did follow, many religions believe in a mortal body and an immortal soul. Perhaps God is manifest inside of everybody's immortal soul.
  15. Explain the situation on Where Should I Get My Job Interview Code Samples? · · Score: 1

    Call your interviewer ahead of time and tell him/her the same thing that you just told us. Offer to work through some technical problems during the interview so they can see how you think. Most people in the business world (that you want to work for, anyhow) are sane and would understand your situation.

    I have never been asked for code samples as part of an interview. Probably because the vast, overwhelming majority of code that people get paid to write is either proprietary, classified, or both. Seems a strange request in this day and age where people could just download some code and hand it in.

  16. Re:There is a moral to this tale... on IT and Divorce? · · Score: 1

    Lick on deez nutz and suck the dick

  17. Re:You need to work it out... on IT and Divorce? · · Score: 1
    When she is not in one of her psychotic fits of rage, does she understand and acknowledge the pain that she is causing the rest of her family? Is she at least trying to work on treating those she loves better? Or is she just using her abusive father as an excuse to be selfish?

    She should be working with professionals on her issues. I doubt she enjoys her fits of rage when she sees the pain she's inflicting on others.

  18. A quick survey on GoDaddy Caves To Irish Legal Threat · · Score: 1
    I just did a quick survey of controversial sites, that I won't link to here. They don't need any more help in their search engine results. But basically, I was looking for anti-gay and KKK chapter sites.

    They were all registered at Network Solutions.

  19. Re:Talk to a lawyer on Wiretapping Charges Dropped · · Score: 1
    Just ask the ACLU
    OK.
  20. Re:That door is staying closed until you land on Are Liquid Explosives on a Plane Feasible? · · Score: 1
    Also, not to be a wiseass, but how do skydivers get out of a plane?
    Usually, skydivers use small prop planes and the cabin is not pressurized. The plane I dive out of has a door that just slides upwards.
  21. Re:Flight 505 to MacGyver City... on Are Liquid Explosives on a Plane Feasible? · · Score: 1

    Marty, I'm sure in 1985, Cesium is available in every corner drugstore. But in 2006, it's a little hard to come by.

  22. Talk to a lawyer on Wiretapping Charges Dropped · · Score: 1
    because you are wrong. There is no difference in the eyes of the law between a grudging submission and an invitation. You either gave consent or you did not. And in this case, you did.

    "I will not physically resist you, but I do not consent to any search of my home, vehicle, or person."

    GP had it right.

  23. Re:Let's get this straight. on Charter Flight Websites / Services? · · Score: 1
    Why forge the labels? Just take the original contents out of the bottle and put something neasty in instead. Do you really thing some airport screener will know the difference? I heard an ad for TSA screener positions the other day. A highschool diploma is preferred, but not required.

    Yahoo for school!

  24. Re:Pilot yourself on Charter Flight Websites / Services? · · Score: 1

    "There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots. But there are no old, bold pilots." -- Old pilots' saying

  25. Re:Come on guys.. on Lead PHP Developer Quits · · Score: 1