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  1. The cry of the criminal on Implementing the Bureaucratic Black Arts? · · Score: 1

    The cry of the criminal is that morals are just things that the people on high write in books to keep them down, and the only thing that separates them from those in power is just that they got there first.

    It never occurs to them that morals are things that you develop by using sound judgement and enable people to get ahead.

  2. He said "commercialism" not "capitalism" on Heart Surgeon Takes Notes from da Vinci · · Score: 1

    There's a big difference, Besides people have been indoctrinated to be obivious or at the least indifferent to expert authority.

    Observations from the Andy Griffith marathon currently being shown on the TV Land channel:

    Barney Fife consistently shows disrespect for Andy's formal authority as the Sherrif. By calling their combination Police office and Jail, a Jail they deempasize the police aspect of their work, and Berney Fife, expresses the notion that having prisoners looks good. They also show a disrespect for expert authority, not even have read the procedure manual revealed to have been in Andy's desk by a lawyer sent there by the district attorney to get a feel for field work. Regarding the attorney, they reveal a further disregard for expert authority, in being completly oblivious to the amount of education and ability to apply it a lawyer has.
    In one episode they show no appreciation for credentials as they fail to ask for credentials of two men posing as FBI agents.


    The cereal shows that take place in an executive workplace are another good example.

  3. unfortunately "covered" with bleach gives them too on Heart Surgeon Takes Notes from da Vinci · · Score: 1

    much credit. If you go looking in a hospital for gunk, you're sure to find some. They'd be better to apply probiotics, but somewhere they picked up "biotic is bad"

  4. The problem isn't teaching science on Heart Surgeon Takes Notes from da Vinci · · Score: 1

    The problem is that they try to teach concepts that have emerged from scientific practice without teaching the processes the practices use.

  5. Government Corporation on NYC & SF iPod Subway Map Controversy · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what ""chartered by the state of new york" means but it seems it is somehow a government company, which, in my opinion should not exist.
    According to http://www.pwsacramento.com/sitf/Pdfs/TR6_Sec6.pdf the MTA's board of directors includes the. Governor of New York, the Mayor of New York,and the executives of the suburban counties served by the MTA.
    Furthermore, government should not hold copyrights.

    However the root post itself adds nothing new and should not be modded up.

  6. I turn off themes altogether on Pepping Up Windows · · Score: 1

    I turned off the themes service... can't find the way to uninstall it completely though.. there is an official way to uninstall services, but it requires .net which I blew away long ago.

  7. Deleting unwanted windows stuff on Pepping Up Windows · · Score: 1

    xerox\nwwia, among other things is protected by the C:\windows\system32\sfc*.* files that are loaded by winlogon.exe, I went into safe mode, killed the services winlogon was running, did a shutdown -a to abort the immediate shutdown windows wanted, killed winlogon, (maybe with another shutdown -a, this accout isn't strictly accurate) deleted the sfc files, met with a blue screen of death, but it rebooted and came up with pretty much no more protected files and directories. I deleted WMP (actually before the SFC discovery), which, possibly because sfc was still there meant I had to delete backup files in subdirectories of the windows directory first or they'd just come back, deleted the wmp*.* files in system32, discovered that Microsoft for some strange reason snuck a wmp file into the inf directory...I may be talking about wmplayer.adm, though I'm not absolutely sure.

    I moved all the screensavers and games out of system32 into their own directories and I put the games help files in the same directory as the game...may move the console tools, though their interaction with other programs is an issue. Also, Program Files or bin, for that matter is a bad idea. Tools should be grouped by function, that way you can have an easier time of telling when certain tools are less useful and that you still have them.

  8. The name the developer game on Best Buy vs. The Game Makers · · Score: 1

    I can't think of any developers I want to support. Care to mention the ones you like and for what achievements they should be supported for?
    Note: John Carmack, Doom III will not cut it.
    John Carmack, He did 1, 2, and 3 in Doom III is better. Also consider http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft &words=engine

  9. I read the article on id Turns Down Activision, Gets Sued · · Score: 1

    Nowhere does it describe the mechanism by which rejecting the Activision offer enables them to fire him, it merely links the two. Correlation is not causation.

  10. My first thought? on Reports of Cyan's Death Greatly Exaggerated · · Score: 0
  11. Re:Happiness Myth on A Pay Cut for Personal Growth? · · Score: 1

    Society will adjust. Maybe we can automate some of the tasks or maybe we will do without. Anything is "potentially" damaging. Your own post is "potentially" damaging. so I'm curious to know why you aren't taking your own advice?

  12. Your valuation methods is flawed. on A Pay Cut for Personal Growth? · · Score: 1

    Responsibility:
    Top manager at a small shop.
    Engineer for one of the internet search companies
    To value this situation, first you have to decide how much responsibility both businesses have in the overall scheme of things, then your responsibility in the business.

    You are overlooking the potential for pay raises and promotion.
    Look at your choice of words: pseudo-management? Is the company you are working for now going to be around much longer? Do you really want it to be around for much longer?
    Does the word bureaucrat appeal to you?
    How do you relate toHermes Conrad? You have been given a job offer. The terms should be negotiable. If you can't negotiate terms that are acceptable to you, then don't take it.
    This is also an opportunity to look at other jobs.
    If your current position doesn't make you highly marketable, you'd better find out why not.

  13. Employee? Part-owner is more appropriate! on id Turns Down Activision, Gets Sued · · Score: 1

    Actually both should have been in the Summary. Also how does the rejection of Activision lead to his firing?

  14. Pin Number on Too Many Passwords · · Score: 1

    I use digits selected from pi

  15. Sounds like they psyched him out... on Katamari Creator Wasn't Interested in Sequel · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It doesn't seem like they were actually planning to release what they showed him. (Christmas graphics? Oh please!) They just wanted him to go "Oh no! I can't let them ruin my vision!" so he'd do the second one.

  16. Passwords I might use for this page on Authentication Tokens for Password-less Access? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    noitacitnehtuA
    todhsalsksa
    522361
    or some mix of the above with each other, doubled, etc.
    Another interesting password is:
    drowssapymyllaersisihteveilebt'nacI

  17. Therapy? on Blogging As A Form Of Therapy · · Score: 1

    What a sad world, that its people need so much therapy.

  18. Re:It is what IT is? on Wireless Devices Could Foil Hijack Attempts · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Funny mine says "News for nerds, Stuff that matters," but then it says:
    Advertisement

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  19. Re:Slashdot CSS on OpenOffice 1.1.5 Released · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If you think the changes to normal mode make it look like you were running an ancient browser, you should see the canges it makes to 'ancient brwser mode', aka 'Light', which I prefer.

  20. Re:Pixiedust on Thoughts on the Space Elevator · · Score: 1

    And if he wasn't making a point by carrying the argument to the absurd, I'd agree with you. I can't find the Wikipedia entry for the he's committing, but you are making a few as well.
    They are not only building something they know works, they are planning high-stakes, low-yield missions around it. Furthermore, what they know works has not been established to work for the purposes they are now put.
    Research that would benefit a space elevator would also benefit other solutions if such solutions become more economically feasable, as well as benefiting other problem areas.

  21. Tip to moderators regarding "Redundant" on Games Teaching the Basics of Programming · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Comments regarding the same thing posted at roughly the same time should not be modded Redundant. There was probably no way of knowing whether or not they were the first. BTW this moderation gets meta-moderated unfair.

  22. You're overlooking the obvious... on Cursing as Peephole Into Brain Architecture · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That in some people, myself included, curse words don't even come up as options so they don't get evaluated.

  23. Bad, Bad Zonk and Gamespot. on Microsoft In Legal Battle Over Halo 2 Packaging · · Score: 2, Informative

    What they both posted is basically just rumors without sources.

    Links: http://www.glud-marstrand.com/sw67.aspGlud & Marstrand Website Can't find anything here about the lawsuit. Earlier The Inquirer Article 9-16 as opposed to 9-19, but equally shoddy on the details...no wait, slightly better in that it says the lawsuit is taking place in a washington court. (Washington in this case being a State of the United States).
    Viva's website is harder to pin down.
    A search for Microsoft on Washington's Courts Website, most of which are about the Microsoft Word format... :) tp:wwwcourtswagovfadwhomeWashington Case Search Page...Wants a last name first initial . Don't know how you'd do Microsoft.

  24. Re:IQ scores go up every generation on Intelligence in the Internet Age · · Score: 1

    Yes, but does his score stay the same?

  25. Re:Inner workings of a computer on Learning to Code with a Boardgame · · Score: 1

    But none of this has anything to do with whether the summary said they were forced to play. This is about whether an indeterminate "they" "should" learn about the internal workings about computers. You could have countered his "Tell me again why they should learn the inner workings of the computer." with the reason "Because they want to" but you didn't, instead responding with a negative "should", so I countered your "should" with a reason.