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  1. Re:Treat people humanely? on Searching For Backdoors From Rogue IT Staff · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Good reason in this instance could mean 'we can get the remaining people to do the same work and look good for the quarter' while ignoring the whole 'dead company in 5 years' part.

  2. Re:I'd say treat it like a DR drill on Searching For Backdoors From Rogue IT Staff · · Score: 1

    You don't start with 'burn the building down'. You start with restoring to a backup set of hardware and doing basic validation, then work up to milton style DR by steps. Besides, backups are never the problem - it's the restores.

  3. Re:What a coincidence on RIAA President Says Copyright Law "Isn't Working" · · Score: 1

    so he's clearly delusional. Why listen to him in that case?

  4. Re:Hype on Skills Needed For a Future In IT · · Score: 1

    naw, you're thinking 2^10, which does equal 1024, but if you double one, ten times, then it's only 512. The initial unit doesn't start at two.

    2^10 means exactly doubling something 10 times. Problem here is you're overthinking things.

  5. Re:Good Example: GTA4 on Tensions Rise Between Gamers and Game Companies Over DRM · · Score: 1

    Last I looked, it cost $35 to file in small claims, and lawyers were not allowed. Sure, the representative for the company will probably be a lawyer, but procedure is designed with an average joe in mind, not a professional lawyer. Your bit about valve only demonstrates what most people agree with: that Valve is one of the few good guys in the industry.

  6. Re:Is he bloody stupid? on Tensions Rise Between Gamers and Game Companies Over DRM · · Score: 1

    I didn't; I stopped upgrading the PC when I realized it was just $GameOS + a handful of games and wasn't worth $1000/yr given the amount of time I spent on it. Went and got some dance shoes and a bike and came out ahead on the bargain.

  7. Re:Charge for support on National Park Service Says Tech Is Enabling Stupidity · · Score: 1

    I don't want an 11 carrier battlegroup. Some cowboy sees that and the next thing you know, we're invading a bunch of random countries..

  8. Re:Medical corruption on A Million Kids Misdiagnosed with ADHD? · · Score: 1

    Dieting doesn't work because it's temporary. I didn't lose significant weight until I got off the willpower trip and found a way to be active that I liked. Once that happened, the weight came off fairly easily, with no particular effort on my part. You can bitch about it or make a change - the choice is yours.

    Now for the simple actionable bit of advice: eat slowly and stop when not hungry. Don't eat until you're full and try to listen to what your body is actually asking for. You'll eat less.

  9. Re:Medical corruption on A Million Kids Misdiagnosed with ADHD? · · Score: 1

    I found that a change of approach removed the need for willpower. Dieting never works - if you want to drop weight, then make permanent changes.

  10. Re:Medical corruption on A Million Kids Misdiagnosed with ADHD? · · Score: 1

    Well you have to choose. fuck willpower, that's the weight that goes with your lifestyle, so make a change and the weight will change with it; that's how it works. People keep trying to turn weight management into some moral dilemma when it just isn't.

  11. Re:Medical corruption on A Million Kids Misdiagnosed with ADHD? · · Score: 1

    Well, if you want to lose the weight, making small changes (but real ones) in your lifestyle will help. The weight will come off slowly as a sideeffect of the changed lifestyle. I know this is often a pain, but that's how it worked for me.

  12. Re:Many times it's to make the adult's life easier on A Million Kids Misdiagnosed with ADHD? · · Score: 1

    Been there, done that. For a few years, I'd drink a coke to go to sleep. Stopped largely due to the calories.

  13. Re:Sigh again on A Million Kids Misdiagnosed with ADHD? · · Score: 1

    I guess I'm just lucky - one of the local shops offers classes on giving blowjobs.

  14. Re:Sigh on A Million Kids Misdiagnosed with ADHD? · · Score: 1

    So, no, the kids aren't turned into zombies. On the contrary.

    Says someone who was never that kid.

  15. Re:Medical corruption on A Million Kids Misdiagnosed with ADHD? · · Score: 1

    probably because people take offense and go get another doc, so now the doc is hesitant to be direct, lest he lose another thin-skinned snowflake.

  16. Re:Interesting on 7-Inch iPad Rumored · · Score: 1

    SSD instead of spinning platters and thin enough that lots of people don't think it's actually a laptop - you can stuff it in a manilla envelope ferchrissakes!

  17. Re:Less than one percent... on The Fuel Cost of Obesity · · Score: 1

    The other thing is... 300hp in a 4100lb car is way WAY faster than 300hp in a 6800lb block of lead from the past

    You want fast? Get a tuned WRX STi - 330AWHP on a 3300lb chassis with 4 wheel grip + diffs = hold on to your lunch!

    You want insane? Get an exige 240 - 240 NA HP@1900lbs. If only I had the cash to spare.

  18. Re:Let's have Fair Flying on The Fuel Cost of Obesity · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why? You weigh what you weigh

  19. Re:The Atoms on How Much Smaller Can Chips Go? · · Score: 1

    It really did hurt them. Or were you not paying attention? AMD managed to leapforg them for a few years and intel basically adopted their strategy for a 64 bit ISA

  20. Re:Pardonez-moi on The Risks of Entering Programming Contests · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So you're OK with contests used as a substitute for hiring people to work on your projects?

  21. Re:Wrong on US Students Struggle With Understanding of the 'Equal' Sign · · Score: 1

    true, but I like the crazy languages. Same with women, I suppose - the sane ones are often boring.

  22. Re:Meanwhile, on Long Island... on Drunk Driver Mugshots Featured On Facebook · · Score: 1

    I'm fine with posting pics and names of uniformed cops, but addresses serve no legitimate end that I can see, and they allow pissed off idiots to go after cops personally. Doesn't seem like a smart thing to do.

  23. Re:How does on Obama Wants Allies To Go After WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    I was asking more about the informants being outed; I already know that the Taliban are a bunch of dirty bastards.

  24. Re:How does on Obama Wants Allies To Go After WikiLeaks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They aren't stupid - give them a list of people who've informed on them and they'll round them up, kill them, and say that this will happen to anyone else who cooperates with us. Now, has this actually happened, or is it just more Wharrgarrbl?

  25. Re:*Global*-ization on Microsoft & Intel Get a Pass On Higher H-1B Fees · · Score: 1

    I was thinking more of rising up and taking the power from them - corporations are dangerous things, as was demonstrated by the dutch india company