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  1. More Users Are Shunning Facebook? on Google Launches Google+ Social Network · · Score: 1

    So I'm thinking Google marketing must have been driving all of those More Users Are Shunning Facebook "news" stories recently.

  2. Fantasy World on UK Twitter Users Declare 'I'm Spartacus' · · Score: 1

    Words have meaning. Threats have consequences. Chambers and his supporters seem to live in a fantasy world and do not understand this.

  3. New Form on Intel Co-Founder Calls For Tax On Offshored Labor · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Your proposed solution to general social economic problems will fail because:

    [X] It requires investors to care about something other than short term profits
    [ ] It requires corporations to care about something other than short term profits
    [X] It requires politicians to care about citizens rather than corporations
    [X] It requires laws without loopholes

  4. Cylon Detector on Building a Better CAPTCHA · · Score: 3, Funny

    Will this detect Cylons?

  5. Re:"surgical" on Surgical Robot Removes Calgary Woman's Brain Tumor · · Score: 1

    Me too. Live Bookmarks surgically removed the Tumor from the RSS title.

  6. TFA has scripts from 9 different domains on The Worst Workspaces In Tech · · Score: 1

    Not sure which domain I have to unblock in NoScript to see the pictures (unblocking the home site didn't help). Not going to bother...

  7. Windows Pulls Further ahead of Linux on Windows 7 in the Next Year? · · Score: 1

    Windows 7 is coming out while Linux remains stuck on version 2.

  8. Re:Web Services on Ultra-Stable Software Design in C++? · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking of decoupling the modules physically so that, even if one crashes/becomes unstable (say, the distributed communication module encounters a segmentation fault, has a memory leak or a deadlock), the others remain alive, detect the error, and silently re-start the offending 'module'.

    AFAIK gSOAP doesn't come out of the tarball with fail over. Also, why waste all that CPU encoding and decoding XML if you can avoid it? And HTTP is a crappy protocol unless you are using it for hypertext. You might consider ICE. You can also optimize communications down to in-proc function calls when critical by taking advantage of the co-location optimization feature. Try that with web services!
    As far as not crashing, minimize the use of naked pointers and use RAII and C++ becomes a very high level language.

  9. Fair and Balanced on Wikipedia Entries 'Cleaned' By Political Staffers · · Score: 1

    They're just helping Wikipedia to be more Fair and Balanced!

  10. Re:Who/what to use instead? on Google Agrees to Censor Results in China · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know if Gigablast or Lycos are reasonable alternatives?

  11. Red Has is anti-software? on Reports from the MySQL Users Conference · · Score: 1

    From the article:

    [Tiemann] next cited Bruce Mau's work, "Massive Change,"
    saying that for most of us design is invisible until it fails.

    From Bruce Mau's An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth:

    24. Avoid software. The problem with software is that everyone has it.

    Bruce Mau must be a really clever designer to get his web site to function without software.
  12. Re:The easy way on Show Me The Money - Microsoft Money Vs. Quicken · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you need some financial counseling. I used to be like you; when I was four! I use both, Money and Quicken. I use the best features of each and always double check everything with the other. My finances are too important not too! I don't trust GNUCash, it's too scary.
    I don't use automatic paychek deposits, because I like the feel of a real check in my hands. I also like reviewing stacks of old pay stubs when I get nostalgic. I drive up to the state capital to stand in line and pay may taxes in person. I feel more patriotic that way.
    I don't have my house paid off and I am over 30. I make allot of money and I enjoy having lots of new shiny things around. I have a problem with credit card debt, but that's OK because it's the American way.
    I drive 1 hour to work everyday in my SUV. It's much simpler for me than trying to get telecommuting working (what is this V P N?). I enjoy waiting in line at the grocery store, especially when only one lane is open. It's a great way to meet people and read dirty magazine covers. I only drink at home, but not beer. I always pay full fare when I travel. I have been married 3 times with 10 children. Its worked for me.

  13. Re:hater's dilemma! on Microsoft Plans IE Changes Due to Plugin Patent · · Score: 1

    I did some deep research and I think I have found an obscure patent that this one is a duplicate of.