User: jawahar

Or

On: WikiLeaks To Ship Servers To Micronation of Sealand?

start your own country

Cute girl

On: Programming Prodigy Arfa Karim Passes Away At 16

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arfa_Karim

Re:How do you feel about Lumberjacks?

On: Ask Slashdot: Advancing a Programming Career?

I think Project/ IT Management involves fair amount of marketing and business development.

Glossary of diabetes

On: Gut Bacteria Can Control Diabetes

Worth skimming if you're diabetic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_diabetes

Wake up

On: Leaked Memo Says Apple Provides Backdoor To Governments

Why is it difficult for the citizens to comprehend the fact that every regime prefers you to be subservient and defenseless?

No alternative

On: Japan Plans To Scrap Nuclear Plants After 40 Years

What's the alternative?
Japan is devoid of natural resources.

Re:Statistics

On: Why Fuel Efficiency Advances Haven't Translated To Better Gas Mileage

Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

Written exam

On: Are Brain Teasers Good Hiring Criteria?

I think objective type written exam is same as a quiz.

Why you should not go to medical school

On: How Doctors Die

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/abinazir/2005/05/23/why-you-should-not-go-to-medical-school-a-gleefully-biased-rant/

And

On: Iran Wants To Clone Downed US Drone

"Imitation is the sincerest of flattery." --Charles Caleb Colton

environment

On: You Really Are What You Know

"You are a product of your environment." --Clement Stone

Check this

On: Webhosting For A Large Art Project?

http://www.lowendbox.com/

Re:I'm offended

On: India Moves To Censor Social Media

1. Is it a correct thing to allow interpretation of Constitution?
2. Is it a correct thing to allow the government live on debt?
3. Is it a correct thing to allow the government control money supply and cost?
4. Is it a correct thing to give the government power to insure people in any way (from deposit insurance to health and retirement)?
5. Is it a correct thing to give the government power to tax people's incomes?
6. Is it a correct thing to give government power to provide security against criminal activity by diminishing individual liberties?
7. Is it a correct thing to allow government regulate business?
8. If these same questions were posed differently, would you have recognized them in their true form?

I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy addresses/resolves these issues.

Re:India is a democratic country, right?

On: India Moves To Censor Social Media

836 million Indians are living on 20 rupees/day ($0.38).
They'll NOT vote as per conscience.

Outsource it.

On: Ask Slashdot: Getting a Grip On an Inherited IT Mess?

Outsource it.

Re:the cake is a lie

On: Ask Slashdot: One Framework To Rule Them All?

Another difference.
Application calls the Libraries.
Framework calls the Application.

Employee-owned companies

On: US Senator Proposes Bill To Eliminate Overtime For IT Workers

Overtime makes sense when you're working in https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_employee-owned_companies

Re:Need

On: Why America Doesn't Need More Tech Giants Like Apple

"Unless the people benefit, economic growth is a subsidy for the rich." --Richard Falk

Mark Twain

On: Muslim Medical Students Boycott Darwin Lectures

"Religion was born when the first con man met the first fool." --Mark Twain

Common crawl

On: Free Software Activists Take On Google Search

Isn't http://www.commoncrawl.org/ better?

Re:Curse of the british hahaha

On: Philippines Call Centers Overtake India

and now india is not only becoming a superpower

I disagree.
836 million Indians are living/starving on 20 rupees/day ($0.38) as per Govt of India.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/836-million-indians-live-on-less-than-rs-20-a-day/47645-7.html

MBA

On: How To Get Into an Elite Comp-Sci Program

Unless you're rich & connected, you need MBA to prevail in globalized economy.

Farmlands

On: Has Apple Made Programmers Cool?

How many of you think working in farmlands is cool?

Re:Money = Sexy

On: Has Apple Made Programmers Cool?

True. Money has been the measure of success in the society.

Re:on the contrary

On: Has Apple Made Programmers Cool?

I think programmers are like chefs.