I guess it is kind of the project admin's responsibility to ensure that all the contributed code is legal. It's not easy to do though - how do you check it even if someone says that it is?
You just have to trust that if some corporation (they almost always are) takes exception that you can demonstrate identify who contributed what so you can pass the blame rather than taking the rap yourself.
You'd be surprised at the differences in the standard tools between distros. The difference between FC3 and FC5 was enough to completely break our embedded toolset. Slight shared library incompatibilities in the system libs (not the embedded ones). Various other standard tools can change their incarnations between distros. Install didn't work in FC5 because somewhere along the line an option our scripts used disappeared on us.
You really do need to pick one or two platforms for full testing - Windows may as well be one of them (unfortunately).
You would likely pick the one or two platforms you are most comfortable with - simply because that makes it easier to debug any potential problems.
You should smoke test your environment on several platforms to make sure it does at least the bacics properly. After that, you should thoroughly test on one or two supported platforms.
This way, you can recommend a platform to your customers that you know will work (for example RHEL4, update 2) and know they will get a working environment if they do a sane install.
Some industries design things to break on purpose- but usually in a smart way.
That's similar to crumple zones in modern cars - break the device in such a way to minimise damage to more valuable parts (the occupants) in the case of an exception occurring.
And some industries just design things on the cheap and nasty. It's interesting that VHSIC systems (putting the whole electronics design into one or two large surface mount devices) is supposed to increase reliability of systems.
With less devices on the board and the devices that are there having more pins to hold them down they're supposed to be more reliable. Funny that most of this modern crap fails so much earlier than the old through-hole equivalents.
My 386 PC is still kicking along nicely. It was built in the era where surface mount was just coming into play. My P3/800 PC failed already. Both could be comparable in terms of chosing good quality components when I built the PC but term "quality" has been redefined to mean "sucks; but not as much as the competition" for newer components.
My old analog mobile phone still works (I can't make calls because of no network coverage but it powers up and the menu and display work OK) but I have had several digital ones simply fail after about 18 months of light usage.
The University I studied at had just that twice a week for older people. They took a bunch of computer illiterate elderly people and churned out a bunch of computer illiterate elderly people who knew a bunch of Windowsy buzzwords. It's not that the course was bad or that the people in the course were stupid. It's that there's too much to learn. Computing isn't simple. Many of us on/. have grown up with computers and have been able to learn them at our own pace since we were a few years old.
The car analogy is pretty good, and I stick by it. You need a license to use a car on a public road. Not just to say you have a license, but for the safety of other motorists and yourself. Why not the same for the Internet? The Internet is a public place and if more people had the understand and willingness to protect their computers there's be less script kiddies and worms floating about and we could all focus on the important things. A license to use the Internet would signify the understanding and allow enforcing the willingness.
It was going great until this line. I have to go wash my brain out with soap now.
I was doing great with it - brain resisted horrible thoughts (*praises brain with beer*) until you pointed them out. I nearly fall off my chair laughing though.
They feel comfortable with their average ATM because it runs Windows and bluescreens as often as their Internet banking does!
In all seriousness, Linux is a good way to keep old people out of trouble. They are scared of computers and all their "tech savvy" friends are scared of Linux. You can lock it down so they can't bollocks it and let em rip.
But there's no way to keep the elderly safe on computers. They (in general, I have seen one or two exceptions) aren't cluey enough into this new techno-fandangle to understand the risks of being online. If you can't understand the risks you can't take steps to mitigate them or look out for new and unknown problems.
My granny is a spritely 85 and still gets about on her own two feet almost everywhere. She's a fit old bat... She had a VCE before most other people did. She can even program it... but give here a computer and she goes to pieces. She's constantly amazed at the things we can do with our laptops when we go over to visit (photo manpulation, music, movies, word processing, email, teleconferencing, etc), but there's too much new information to absorb to learn how to operate it without inadvertantly handing out your details to some phisher on the Interdoodle. Trying to explain that there are bad people on there who try their hardest to trick you just about causer her head to explode, because there's so many ways they can get at you with a computer.
I studied a few CS electives in my engineering degree. The programming course was woeful. I learned more in a basic high school computing class. Nobody came out of it with any sort of knowledge. Then they moved it from C to Java. Fancy that, now a bunch of engineers are trying to do embedded systems programming in java and wondering why their lovely.class files are crashing the DSP when they load them into RAM and tell the emulator to jump to that address.
I also studied the software engineering course. What a wank. The lecturer was a subscriber to the waterfall model and wouldn't entertain any other notion of software development. The top down approach is great if you're a single developer, single customer scenario and you can sign off on what the requirements are VERY early.
Unfortunately the real world is nothing like the fairy tale that university lecturers live in. CS courses are mostly useless. Most companies that want software developers/engineers tend to be hiring electronic engineers because they're better at developing real softwrare. Unis seem to be teaching "this is how to make a webpage" in their CS courses.
Seconded - those little foam ear plugs work the treat when you're in high dB environments. I used to work a lot of rock shows and it doesn't take long to get used to them. Depending on the brand you can get as little as a few (10 or so) dB attenuation. That might be OK if you're working in a noisy server room, but it's no good if you're working under a jet turbine or something.
Noise cancelling headphones do nothing to prevent the hearing loss. They are designed to make the headphone signal more audible by trying to removing some of the frequencies that your ears are most sensitive to (in the human voice range). I regularly use "noise cancelling" cans in high dB environments and if you don't plug up first you come out with just the same amount of hearing damage...
The proper in-ear monitors work well to attenuate ambient noise (as someone has said). You can get around 30dB attenuation from them. The problem is they're more difficult to get in and out and they really need to be moulded to the shape of your ear canal to be effective. The attenuation is so great that it's difficult to hold a conversation with them in so you'd be taking them in and out all day long if you need to communicate with others.
To the OP: don't be a dill. If you're supposed to wear hearing protection then wear PROPER hearing protection. Even if you're not required to protect your ears, if you feel the ambient noise is at potentially unsafe levels then protect your hearing properly. You only get one set of ears and the damage is progressive; you don't notice until you have tinnitus or worse...
So we have one man responsible for thousand of deaths (Saddam) and they're now liberated. Only since the beginning of their liberation, they've actually being dying by the thousands. The irony.
By this courts own verdict Dubya should be tried, convicted and sentenced to death in a media circus as well. He is responsible for just as many thousands of civillian deaths in Iraq. Will we see the day? Of course fucking not.
Are the heat issues with the macbookpro exaggerated?
Only by some pansies. I don't have any trouble with heat with my MB and it's been damned hot here the last few days. Sure, using it on the lap causes discomfort - it's farking hot out. It certainly doesn't cause any concern about burning though and I load the crap out of it with compile jobs...
They don't have very many programmers there however.
They have a lot of things I like there. Grog, women, sun, sea. Cubes or offices, I don't imagine that productivity of programmers in the Caymans would be very high. That is so long as the programmers didn't all star in revenge of the nerds;)
After spending over 7 years trying to make that happen... I failed. So I moved to country where cube farms are illegal.
Where are cube farms illegal? I'll move there too. Our company recently moved into a new building and they asked the opinion of all the staff about office design and it was unanimously decided that cubes are a bad idea. Everyone wanted their own office.
You see, you take a bunch of socially awkward, private, people like engineers and put them in a situation where they have to constantly overhear the social lives of others, and have their own privacy basically removed and you're going to reduce their productivity by a huge amount.
You put the same socially awkward people in individual offices with closable doors and they will close themselves away and hammer away at their tasks with much less distraciton. Joel on software talks of the 12 minute workday. Apparantly the average worker cannot go more than 12 minutes without some kind of distraction that completely bursts their concentration bubble. I know that some of the tasks that I work on can take hours to get into the "zone" to be able to nut out a solution. A constant stream of interruptions means that the tasks takes a lot longer than required and the solution is almost always hacky rather than well thought out and complete.
But I digress; our company wanted to increase productivity and make its engineers happy. Problem was that building offices was about 50c per engineer more expensive than cubes or something like that (yes, I exaggerate but initial outlay per engineer was insignificant compared to the amount of money they spend on Rational products yearly...) and the powers that be decided that the cheap cube solution would be better. Sure, the company was more profitable in that year because of the reduced expense but at what cost? Completely shattered overall productivity. This means that they are getting less than half the value out of their engineers that they could be!
Good luck convincing management to give you a decent work environment because decent environments cost money. Managers tend to think only in dollar terms.
I'd really like to see broadband over pie. I could really enjoy plugging my laptop in a steaming hot meat pie and having high speed pr0n downloads while I wait for my pie to cool.
You don't enter the key into the NIC - the OS and drivers takes care of that for you. If you're so crazy as to want to manually bash bits into your NIC be my guest. I have better things to do so I use the drivers supplied.
The average home user will not be able to make this device function.
The average home user uses Windows (or possibly Mac). There aren't too many who use something where configuring a WPA is a hassle. In Windows (and MacOS) adding a WPA key is identical to adding a WEP key. Windows tells you the network is there, you click it, it says "enter your key".
All the user guide needs to do is say that you should enter this key when prompted.
Another post suggested that older gear only supports WEP. I know all about that - my Palm only supports WEP. It's shit, they released a new driver for the lifedrive that does WPA but not for the Tungsten. All things considered I'd rather have my Palm off the network than use WEP. I don't think there is too much gear out there that only does WEP though. A lot of things can be made to do WPA (even if in the driver) by a driver upgrade.
Just shipping all routers with a pseudo-random long WPA-PSK pre-loaded into each router and a sticker in the user guide telling what the PSK is will go a long way to securing routers.
Anyone who wants to change from WPA-PSK to something else should have the experience to understand the implications of doing that, and if they don't then well... let them suffer the consequences of their actions.
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Stingers usually range from 4cm to 6 inches.
You working for the NASA ?
Honesyly, we're nerds. Who cares about the size of our stingers...
/tangent
I personally though Steve Irwin was a tosser. I couldn't stand the guy on TV. What he did before the camera came along and off the camera will be missed. He was a genuine bloke who put a lot of effort into conservation. He did what he did for the environment not because he got paid, but because he loved it. I certainly feel bad for his family, but I hope they are able to quickly move on and continue his love and devotion to conservation.
While the news of this came as a shock, I had expected it for so long. When you get that up and close with wild animals on a daily basis it becomes a case of when something bad happens, rather than if.
Inciting hysteria allows the governments to reduce our freedoms without hearing the complaints from the "common" man. Commonman doesn't want to get blown up by terrorists. He's never seen the "crazy arab terrorist" that the government tells him is hiding everywhere and wants him dead. Commonman doesn't realise that the term "crazy arab" is not apt.
When the government says "we are going to give the police power to buttfuck anyone they suspect they might one day think could possibly want to maybe consider walking past a terrorist in the street" then commonman says "that sounds good, do that and protect me from these crazy people".
The events of Sept 11 gave the Bush administration the mass public hysteria to play on and do this in the US. Prior to that the "it won't happen to us" mentality prevailed and people were more happy to complain when the government wanted to trounce their freedoms.
Back to the iPod in the loo.. I can understand them landing the plane on account of that. Aircraft cans contain some nasty chemicals. I wouldn't be putting my hand in there to get my ipod out. iPods contain all sorts of nasty chemicals (batteries). The reaction of the loo chemicals and the chemicals in said iPod may or may not have been able to produce some kind of toxic chemical that may or may not have been able to make people sick or dead.
Interrogating them vigourously for it. I can't support that.
Person A with a "bachelor's degree in psychology" who now works as an online (read: bullshit tabloid) journalist. Psychology degrees qualify him to work (at best) as a counsellor; he doesn't actually understand how the human mind works or processes imagery of voilence.
or
Person B with a Ph.D in something or other. The Ph.D in anything at least indicates that the person is capable of devising, executing and documenting experiments in a way that the scientific community agrees is non-biassed and accurate.
Disclaimer: I didn't read the attached article just because I really don't give a flying fsck.
It is all about making sure your actions don't get the company sued, and if they do get sued, making sure they have lots of CYA to keep from losing in court and having to pay out mucho moola.
Funny that - this paragraph reminded me of those crappy email "disclaimers" that basically say:
This email represents the opinion of the employee and this opinion is not representative of that of the company. This email probably won't blow up your country, but if it does it's not our fault, yadda yadda yadda
And then the company getting sued because of something written in some email. The company then tries to sue the employee because the email must have been his/her personal opinion. I simply refuse to put that "disclaimer" into my emails. I think it's wanky, and it has questionable enforcability given that it's at the bottom of the email that you have to first open (good way to get a virus if you happen to run outlook) then read all of to get to the disclaimer. Fucking stupid corporate morons.
All good nerds should have a leatherman! I've lost count of the number of occasions that having a leatherman saved my hide. The screw driver in em is about perfect for PC screws, the sharp knife (made from high grade steel) opens almost anything, including fingers if not careful, and there are a host of other tools including a bottle opener for those home made root beers that you put in pop-top bottles.
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Insurance is really just a form of gambling. If you've seen Rat Race you'd know that people will gamble on anything. ;)
I guess it is kind of the project admin's responsibility to ensure that all the contributed code is legal. It's not easy to do though - how do you check it even if someone says that it is?
You just have to trust that if some corporation (they almost always are) takes exception that you can demonstrate identify who contributed what so you can pass the blame rather than taking the rap yourself.
You'd be surprised at the differences in the standard tools between distros. The difference between FC3 and FC5 was enough to completely break our embedded toolset. Slight shared library incompatibilities in the system libs (not the embedded ones). Various other standard tools can change their incarnations between distros. Install didn't work in FC5 because somewhere along the line an option our scripts used disappeared on us.
You really do need to pick one or two platforms for full testing - Windows may as well be one of them (unfortunately).
...and support it.
You would likely pick the one or two platforms you are most comfortable with - simply because that makes it easier to debug any potential problems.
You should smoke test your environment on several platforms to make sure it does at least the bacics properly. After that, you should thoroughly test on one or two supported platforms.
This way, you can recommend a platform to your customers that you know will work (for example RHEL4, update 2) and know they will get a working environment if they do a sane install.
Some industries design things to break on purpose- but usually in a smart way.
That's similar to crumple zones in modern cars - break the device in such a way to minimise damage to more valuable parts (the occupants) in the case of an exception occurring.
And some industries just design things on the cheap and nasty. It's interesting that VHSIC systems (putting the whole electronics design into one or two large surface mount devices) is supposed to increase reliability of systems.
With less devices on the board and the devices that are there having more pins to hold them down they're supposed to be more reliable. Funny that most of this modern crap fails so much earlier than the old through-hole equivalents.
My 386 PC is still kicking along nicely. It was built in the era where surface mount was just coming into play. My P3/800 PC failed already. Both could be comparable in terms of chosing good quality components when I built the PC but term "quality" has been redefined to mean "sucks; but not as much as the competition" for newer components.
My old analog mobile phone still works (I can't make calls because of no network coverage but it powers up and the menu and display work OK) but I have had several digital ones simply fail after about 18 months of light usage.
what about training / courses
The University I studied at had just that twice a week for older people. They took a bunch of computer illiterate elderly people and churned out a bunch of computer illiterate elderly people who knew a bunch of Windowsy buzzwords. It's not that the course was bad or that the people in the course were stupid. It's that there's too much to learn. Computing isn't simple. Many of us on /. have grown up with computers and have been able to learn them at our own pace since we were a few years old.
The car analogy is pretty good, and I stick by it. You need a license to use a car on a public road. Not just to say you have a license, but for the safety of other motorists and yourself. Why not the same for the Internet? The Internet is a public place and if more people had the understand and willingness to protect their computers there's be less script kiddies and worms floating about and we could all focus on the important things. A license to use the Internet would signify the understanding and allow enforcing the willingness.
It was going great until this line. I have to go wash my brain out with soap now.
I was doing great with it - brain resisted horrible thoughts (*praises brain with beer*) until you pointed them out. I nearly fall off my chair laughing though.
get back to using ATMs.
They feel comfortable with their average ATM because it runs Windows and bluescreens as often as their Internet banking does!
In all seriousness, Linux is a good way to keep old people out of trouble. They are scared of computers and all their "tech savvy" friends are scared of Linux. You can lock it down so they can't bollocks it and let em rip.
But there's no way to keep the elderly safe on computers. They (in general, I have seen one or two exceptions) aren't cluey enough into this new techno-fandangle to understand the risks of being online. If you can't understand the risks you can't take steps to mitigate them or look out for new and unknown problems.
My granny is a spritely 85 and still gets about on her own two feet almost everywhere. She's a fit old bat... She had a VCE before most other people did. She can even program it... but give here a computer and she goes to pieces. She's constantly amazed at the things we can do with our laptops when we go over to visit (photo manpulation, music, movies, word processing, email, teleconferencing, etc), but there's too much new information to absorb to learn how to operate it without inadvertantly handing out your details to some phisher on the Interdoodle. Trying to explain that there are bad people on there who try their hardest to trick you just about causer her head to explode, because there's so many ways they can get at you with a computer.
You mean the whole class should be managers?
.class files are crashing the DSP when they load them into RAM and tell the emulator to jump to that address.
I studied a few CS electives in my engineering degree. The programming course was woeful. I learned more in a basic high school computing class. Nobody came out of it with any sort of knowledge. Then they moved it from C to Java. Fancy that, now a bunch of engineers are trying to do embedded systems programming in java and wondering why their lovely
I also studied the software engineering course. What a wank. The lecturer was a subscriber to the waterfall model and wouldn't entertain any other notion of software development. The top down approach is great if you're a single developer, single customer scenario and you can sign off on what the requirements are VERY early.
Unfortunately the real world is nothing like the fairy tale that university lecturers live in. CS courses are mostly useless. Most companies that want software developers/engineers tend to be hiring electronic engineers because they're better at developing real softwrare. Unis seem to be teaching "this is how to make a webpage" in their CS courses.
Seconded - those little foam ear plugs work the treat when you're in high dB environments. I used to work a lot of rock shows and it doesn't take long to get used to them. Depending on the brand you can get as little as a few (10 or so) dB attenuation. That might be OK if you're working in a noisy server room, but it's no good if you're working under a jet turbine or something.
Noise cancelling headphones do nothing to prevent the hearing loss. They are designed to make the headphone signal more audible by trying to removing some of the frequencies that your ears are most sensitive to (in the human voice range). I regularly use "noise cancelling" cans in high dB environments and if you don't plug up first you come out with just the same amount of hearing damage...
The proper in-ear monitors work well to attenuate ambient noise (as someone has said). You can get around 30dB attenuation from them. The problem is they're more difficult to get in and out and they really need to be moulded to the shape of your ear canal to be effective. The attenuation is so great that it's difficult to hold a conversation with them in so you'd be taking them in and out all day long if you need to communicate with others.
To the OP: don't be a dill. If you're supposed to wear hearing protection then wear PROPER hearing protection. Even if you're not required to protect your ears, if you feel the ambient noise is at potentially unsafe levels then protect your hearing properly. You only get one set of ears and the damage is progressive; you don't notice until you have tinnitus or worse...
So we have one man responsible for thousand of deaths (Saddam) and they're now liberated. Only since the beginning of their liberation, they've actually being dying by the thousands. The irony.
By this courts own verdict Dubya should be tried, convicted and sentenced to death in a media circus as well. He is responsible for just as many thousands of civillian deaths in Iraq. Will we see the day? Of course fucking not.
Are the heat issues with the macbookpro exaggerated?
Only by some pansies. I don't have any trouble with heat with my MB and it's been damned hot here the last few days. Sure, using it on the lap causes discomfort - it's farking hot out. It certainly doesn't cause any concern about burning though and I load the crap out of it with compile jobs...
They don't have very many programmers there however.
They have a lot of things I like there. Grog, women, sun, sea. Cubes or offices, I don't imagine that productivity of programmers in the Caymans would be very high. That is so long as the programmers didn't all star in revenge of the nerds ;)
After spending over 7 years trying to make that happen... I failed. So I moved to country where cube farms are illegal.
Where are cube farms illegal? I'll move there too. Our company recently moved into a new building and they asked the opinion of all the staff about office design and it was unanimously decided that cubes are a bad idea. Everyone wanted their own office.
You see, you take a bunch of socially awkward, private, people like engineers and put them in a situation where they have to constantly overhear the social lives of others, and have their own privacy basically removed and you're going to reduce their productivity by a huge amount.
You put the same socially awkward people in individual offices with closable doors and they will close themselves away and hammer away at their tasks with much less distraciton. Joel on software talks of the 12 minute workday. Apparantly the average worker cannot go more than 12 minutes without some kind of distraction that completely bursts their concentration bubble. I know that some of the tasks that I work on can take hours to get into the "zone" to be able to nut out a solution. A constant stream of interruptions means that the tasks takes a lot longer than required and the solution is almost always hacky rather than well thought out and complete.
But I digress; our company wanted to increase productivity and make its engineers happy. Problem was that building offices was about 50c per engineer more expensive than cubes or something like that (yes, I exaggerate but initial outlay per engineer was insignificant compared to the amount of money they spend on Rational products yearly...) and the powers that be decided that the cheap cube solution would be better. Sure, the company was more profitable in that year because of the reduced expense but at what cost? Completely shattered overall productivity. This means that they are getting less than half the value out of their engineers that they could be!
Good luck convincing management to give you a decent work environment because decent environments cost money. Managers tend to think only in dollar terms.
I'd really like to see broadband over pie. I could really enjoy plugging my laptop in a steaming hot meat pie and having high speed pr0n downloads while I wait for my pie to cool.
So.. does you'r house go Boom! when you suffer a DOS attack?
No, your computer just refuses to let you load programs into anymore than 640k of RAM.
how to enter the key into the NIC?
You don't enter the key into the NIC - the OS and drivers takes care of that for you. If you're so crazy as to want to manually bash bits into your NIC be my guest. I have better things to do so I use the drivers supplied.
The average home user will not be able to make this device function.
The average home user uses Windows (or possibly Mac). There aren't too many who use something where configuring a WPA is a hassle. In Windows (and MacOS) adding a WPA key is identical to adding a WEP key. Windows tells you the network is there, you click it, it says "enter your key".
All the user guide needs to do is say that you should enter this key when prompted.
Another post suggested that older gear only supports WEP. I know all about that - my Palm only supports WEP. It's shit, they released a new driver for the lifedrive that does WPA but not for the Tungsten. All things considered I'd rather have my Palm off the network than use WEP. I don't think there is too much gear out there that only does WEP though. A lot of things can be made to do WPA (even if in the driver) by a driver upgrade.
Mod Parent Up.
Just shipping all routers with a pseudo-random long WPA-PSK pre-loaded into each router and a sticker in the user guide telling what the PSK is will go a long way to securing routers.
Anyone who wants to change from WPA-PSK to something else should have the experience to understand the implications of doing that, and if they don't then well... let them suffer the consequences of their actions.
Stingers usually range from 4cm to 6 inches.
You working for the NASA ?
Honesyly, we're nerds. Who cares about the size of our stingers...
/tangent
I personally though Steve Irwin was a tosser. I couldn't stand the guy on TV. What he did before the camera came along and off the camera will be missed. He was a genuine bloke who put a lot of effort into conservation. He did what he did for the environment not because he got paid, but because he loved it. I certainly feel bad for his family, but I hope they are able to quickly move on and continue his love and devotion to conservation.
While the news of this came as a shock, I had expected it for so long. When you get that up and close with wild animals on a daily basis it becomes a case of when something bad happens, rather than if.
(i.e. simulating memory using HD space)
Simulating high speed solid state random access memory using hard disk memory.
Hard disks are memory too. Last time I put data on a hard disk it seemed to remember what I put there.
Inciting hysteria allows the governments to reduce our freedoms without hearing the complaints from the "common" man. Commonman doesn't want to get blown up by terrorists. He's never seen the "crazy arab terrorist" that the government tells him is hiding everywhere and wants him dead. Commonman doesn't realise that the term "crazy arab" is not apt.
When the government says "we are going to give the police power to buttfuck anyone they suspect they might one day think could possibly want to maybe consider walking past a terrorist in the street" then commonman says "that sounds good, do that and protect me from these crazy people".
The events of Sept 11 gave the Bush administration the mass public hysteria to play on and do this in the US. Prior to that the "it won't happen to us" mentality prevailed and people were more happy to complain when the government wanted to trounce their freedoms.
Back to the iPod in the loo.. I can understand them landing the plane on account of that. Aircraft cans contain some nasty chemicals. I wouldn't be putting my hand in there to get my ipod out. iPods contain all sorts of nasty chemicals (batteries). The reaction of the loo chemicals and the chemicals in said iPod may or may not have been able to produce some kind of toxic chemical that may or may not have been able to make people sick or dead.
Interrogating them vigourously for it. I can't support that.
Yeah - except are we to believe:
Person A with a "bachelor's degree in psychology" who now works as an online (read: bullshit tabloid) journalist. Psychology degrees qualify him to work (at best) as a counsellor; he doesn't actually understand how the human mind works or processes imagery of voilence.
or
Person B with a Ph.D in something or other. The Ph.D in anything at least indicates that the person is capable of devising, executing and documenting experiments in a way that the scientific community agrees is non-biassed and accurate.
Disclaimer: I didn't read the attached article just because I really don't give a flying fsck.
Funny that - this paragraph reminded me of those crappy email "disclaimers" that basically say:
This email represents the opinion of the employee and this opinion is not representative of that of the company. This email probably won't blow up your country, but if it does it's not our fault, yadda yadda yadda
And then the company getting sued because of something written in some email. The company then tries to sue the employee because the email must have been his/her personal opinion. I simply refuse to put that "disclaimer" into my emails. I think it's wanky, and it has questionable enforcability given that it's at the bottom of the email that you have to first open (good way to get a virus if you happen to run outlook) then read all of to get to the disclaimer. Fucking stupid corporate morons.
Damn I wish I had mod points right now! I can't agree more.
All good nerds should have a leatherman! I've lost count of the number of occasions that having a leatherman saved my hide. The screw driver in em is about perfect for PC screws, the sharp knife (made from high grade steel) opens almost anything, including fingers if not careful, and there are a host of other tools including a bottle opener for those home made root beers that you put in pop-top bottles.