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  1. Re:Informative? Insightful? Hyperbole... on China's Response To the Internet Addiction Death · · Score: 1

    It's not a viewpoint - the fact is he was never struck or kicked. The guards allowed him to die as they played at being tough, but he simply was not beaten to death as the GP says. The statement is false - their ignorance and neglect killed him.

  2. Informative? Insightful? Hyperbole... on China's Response To the Internet Addiction Death · · Score: 1

    Manslaughter, yes - but he was not beaten to death. He was an undiagnosed anemic in the presence of idiots.

  3. Informative? Hyperbole... on China's Response To the Internet Addiction Death · · Score: 1

    They should have been convicted of manslaughter, but he was not beaten to death. He was an undiagnosed anemic in the presence of idiots.

  4. Re:Great. on Internet-Based Realtors Win Monster Settlement · · Score: 1

    Some of us nerds have Real Estate agents/offices as customers - who are definitely interested.

  5. The Inhibitors... on Why Life On Mars May Foretell Our Doom · · Score: 1

    ...are doing their job reasonably well - trimming life down as it emerges to prevent another galactic dawn war among any space-faring organisms.

  6. Huh... on Omazing Grace · · Score: 1

    I thought this would be Barak O-bama - I could identify with that and cringe accordingly. Samzenpus, some of us don't feel embarrassment for the disabled - for you, yes.

  7. Re:Raw Deal For Artists Too. on Small Webcasters Offered a Rate Break, Reject It · · Score: 1

    Title 17 of the United States Code...

    (3) Licenses for transmissions by interactive services. --

    (C) Notwithstanding the grant of an exclusive or nonexclusive license of the right of public performance under section 106(6), an interactive service may not publicly perform a sound recording unless a license has been granted for the public performance of any copyrighted musical work contained in the sound recording: Provided, That such license to publicly perform the copyrighted musical work may be granted either by a performing rights society representing the copyright owner or by the copyright owner.

  8. Absolutely right... on Mars Rover Reaches Victoria Crater · · Score: 1

    There is an strong element of self-importance in the notion that the earth needs us. But this argument is also a very common, insular, fatalistic generalization that allows you to conveniently ignore the huge effect we actually do have on the environment in which we subsist every day - a primary focus of environmental science of which you are a major beneficiary. By all means, tell the folks with cancer from depleted uranium shells that the earth will be fine without them.

    It's a case of letting someone else deal with the problem while declaring immunity from it - perfectly acceptable to those who either don't mind shitting where they eat, or putting their shit in someone elses backyard.

    The mind is it's own beautiful prisoner.

  9. Screen Capture... on Making Website Mock-Ups in Linux? · · Score: 1

    ...has always suited me very well for those very elements mentioned in the post - that and your web browser.

  10. As if you didn't have to do the work anyway? on Tracking Dynamic Completion Dates in Development? · · Score: 1


    5. - If your CEO is like mine, the completion date is when you tell him it is - rolling or otherwise.

    6. - If your CEO is like yours, you're probably too miserable to give a shit.

    7. - If your too miserable to give a shit, your probably right where you belong - nestled in the bosom of Corporate Pulp Culture.

  11. No Software, Good Scheduling on Tracking Dynamic Completion Dates in Development? · · Score: 1


    I'm in the same boat and I know you just can't predict the future in this scenario but...

    If your people are keeping track of their time spent accurately and you know their skills well enough: Do your project planning strictly in hours required and set clear milestones. Then try to establish an average of daily/weekly time spent on the rolling project and adjust your completion date accordingly - with a little padding for coffee breaks.

  12. From those who lost their Hawaiian shirt today... on Computer Problem Caused Price Errors on NASDAQ · · Score: 1

    This is not a mundane detail, Michael!!!

  13. Re:Blueberries on New Movies of Whirlwinds on Mars · · Score: 1

    Yes, also - geologic events on mars occur in a timescale is much greater than the earth's volatile and "rapid" changes - plenty of time for erosion in a thin atmosphere. Think hundreds of millions to a few billion years.

  14. dats - yuh velcome on Judge Denies SCO's Ex Parte Motion to Adjourn · · Score: 1

    as in tenk you sheesh...

  15. From Ms. Hau's Page - Speed of a bicycle on Optical Computer Made From Frozen Light · · Score: 1

    Recently, the Hau group succeeded in reducing the light speed to 17 m/s (the speed of a racing bicycle).

  16. Re:Yes...Go by email on Does Anyone Still Play-by-Mail? · · Score: 1

    ...sending CGoban files as attachments.

  17. Yes...Go by email on Does Anyone Still Play-by-Mail? · · Score: 1

    Our last game lasted 8 months. I won :-)

  18. Safety? on Students Tracked By RFID · · Score: 1

    As a parent, It would be pretty vacuous to think "Hmm, my child is safer now..." An RFID tag simply can not prevent a child or teen from being abducted. It would be great to hear a story about how an RFID tag allowed law enforcement to find a missing child, but a safety measure? I don't think so.

  19. Getting back to the topic on Outsourcing To Rural America · · Score: 1

    As part of a rural IT company that has done very well serving SMBs (think even smaller) for the past 5 years, I'm suprised I havn't seen a story like this sooner. In my opinion, the rural U.S. is also a place that is begging for business solutions using FOSS technology by a community that's organized enough to do it. Judging from the comments, most of you are too busy talking shit to think about the topic or your jobs.

  20. Lynn Margulis' Research on Humans Are Superorganisms · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Am I the only one suprised not to see the microbiologist Lynn Margulis' name mentioned here?

  21. Cognitive Science on Ask Neal Stephenson · · Score: 1

    What are your speculations as to the role of Cognitive Science in the long term development and/or survival of our species.

  22. more like... on Microsoft's Lobbying Priorities: Limiting Open Source · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Where do you want it today."

  23. Communist? on China to Crack Supercomputer Top Ten List · · Score: 1

    Most people familiar with it's true definition will tell you that China is communist in name only. Veiled capitalism with very strict government control is more like it.

  24. How about... on NYT Calls For Open-Source Election Machines · · Score: 1

    ...suspicious of unchecked privilege.

  25. Re:A bit of a disposition? on The Lyrids Are Coming! · · Score: 1

    s'ok, i remember thinking a girls period had something to do with getting to class. :)