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  1. Re:HAVE NO FEAR! on Study Suggests Crabs Can Feel Pain · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually fruitarians can eat grains, pulses and legumes. You can harvest grains (delicious grasses) after the plant has died.

    Since I have lived with dogs my whole life, I am an ethical vegan.... also I have met a few fruitarians. The fruitarians that I have met were not Christian and would never quote the Genesis as a motivation for their ethical choices.

    Cheers

  2. Re:Promiscuity on Asthma Risk Linked To Early TV Viewing · · Score: 1

    TFA doesn't suggest that promiscuity is undesirable. Simple:
    "The U.K. researchers used television viewing as a marker for sedentary behavior, since home computers and video-game systems weren't as widely used when the study began in the early 1990s. The results add asthma to a catalog of factors, including obesity, diabetes, smoking and promiscuity, tied to TV viewing."
    Whether or not promiscuity is undesirable is highly subjective. In fact whether or not asthma is undesirable is also subjective. I know that via the magic of bicycling my asthma has virtually disappeared and I am happier for it, but I do less indoor activities as a result. If true, it certainly is interesting that TV-watching causes promiscuity!

  3. Re:Sometimes the simplest statement is the best on The Art of The Farewell Email · · Score: 2, Interesting

    insightful?!?! The fact that this is modded insightful is funnier (or scarier) than the post!

  4. Re:Old news is old on New York Wants To Tax Internet Downloads · · Score: 2, Insightful

    and Connecticut too. I list untaxed internet purchases when I do my tax returns. Sales tax keeps our states running!

  5. Re:If you have a choice... on Beginning Portable Shell Scripting · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The tradeoff is that your scripts have a huge memory footprint now. I loathe shell script as much as the next person, but find it necessary when I am working in a minimal busybox-type environment. Perl/Ruby it is whenever I have the chance.

  6. penetration testing on How To Argue That Open Source Software Is Secure? · · Score: 1

    Arguably there is a disadvantage to open source software which gives the attacker something to analyze. Peer review is great, but remember the Debian OpenSSL vulnerability? If your customer is concerned, treat their concerns seriously. Remember who the boss is.

    I would recommend the only way to be certain is to hire a pen-testing company. Have a team of dedicated professionals try to exploit your software. If they succeed, you learn how to improve your systems to secure them, if they fail, you look good. Either way you win.

  7. Re:Prosecute the parents on 6-Year-Old Says Grand Theft Auto Taught Him To Drive · · Score: 1

    Yes my 16 year old is not getting a deathmachine on 4 wheels, and my first grader is not getting a 2-wheeled deathmachine. I'm going to practice lowest risk and get them both GLOCKs.

    You are right about cars being dangerous,but at this point we *need* cars. They have a useful function. The only point of a gun is to be used for violence and murder. You may say "self defense is not murder", but you cannot argue that it is violence. Arguably driving a car is a form of violence too, but there is no question that cars right now are very useful to us. We don't just keep them around until someone really pisses us off or we get in a fight that starts to get out of control.

    Also most people who have access to guns, have cars. That's why they do drive-by shootings.

  8. Re:urk. on Getting Started With Part-Time Development Work? · · Score: 1

    that sounds good to me. The question remains, how to build up a customer base on a part-time basis? Rent-a-coder seems fairly ridiculous with lots of people asking for significant amounts of work for little to no pay. Nobody wants a customer base like that.

  9. fear high school graduates! on ACM Urges Obama To Include CS In K-12 Core · · Score: 1

    They are smart and have lots of free time and need less sleep than me! Plus they are fueled by buckets of testosterone and think that $6 / hour is a lot of money! Teaching them CS will only drive the tech wage down even further!

    The less people that know CS, the more we will make! Would you like to be replaced by someone who hasn't even gone to college yet? No! All of you, especially those in the ACM, no more ideas and get off my lawn!

  10. Re:Interesting idea, poor implementation. on Lenovo's New ThinkPad Has 2 LCD Screens, Weighs 11 Pounds · · Score: 1

    Synergy is awesome! I actually do use 2 laptops connected with a crossover cable and synergy2. Really I could just switch keyboards, but with my little usb lasermouse is only plugged into one pc.
    Synergy shares keyboard and mouse between PCs, and it even allows you to copy and paste (although trying to use that feature will crash Netbeans), but there is no ability to drag a window from one desktop to another. I think it should be possible between systems running Xwindows, but the software is not even close yet.
    Two monitors is still better than synergy for a "bigger desktop". Two computers with two monitors has advantages as well (at least in terms of performance). Is there way to send an Xapplication from one display (say :0.0) to another without losing its state?
    Rohit

  11. Re:No compatibility problems? on The Economist Suggests Linux For Netbooks · · Score: 1

    Finally, Arch and Ubuntu are separate operating systems.

    I guess it depends if you consider the operating system just the kernel or the entire software suite that goes along with it. I would say that Arch and Ubuntu are two different *distributions*, and that the *operating system* is Linux, but that's just my preference.

  12. Re:No compatibility problems? on The Economist Suggests Linux For Netbooks · · Score: 1

    I have seen this problem in KUBUNTU with strigi. dpkg -l |grep strigi dpkg --purge (any package with strigi in the name) No more wasteful crazy inefficient indexing.

  13. Re:I wouldn't hold my breath on Time To Discuss Drug Prohibition? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It is true that some individuals profit from the War on Drugs, but the costs are immeasurable. The demand is there, and a black market commodity commands high profits, so like you say, dealers and cartels get large profits. But since their profit is illegal, they cannot put their money in the bank, they cannot call the police. To protect their wealth, they buy guns. There is inter-gang warfare, and the lives of innocents are destroyed in the process.

    Those people if they were given the chance to live, to go to school outside of a warzone, would be spending money, going to school (creating jobs for teachers and universities), and contributing to this economy. We haven't even considered the approximately 1 million nonviolent drug offenders that we spend 20k-40k / year to keep imprisoned.

    We all know war is profitable for some few and devastating for most. The War on Drugs is no exception. The question is whether or not there are those who have a vested interest in continuing The War, but whether or not we can put a stop to it.

  14. Re:some biggies on Mono 2.0 and .NET On Linux · · Score: 1

    Hmm I didn't know java lacked multidimensional arrays. What does JNI stand for and does it predate C#?

  15. Re:Made for hackers on Linux Turns 17 Today · · Score: 2, Informative

    A "hack" is not necessarily a negative thing. In fact, most hacks can arguably be called ingenious! Read about the origin of the words "hack" and "hacker": http://tmrc.mit.edu/hackers-ref.html

  16. Re:Crows, for one on Magpies Are Self-Aware · · Score: 1, Interesting

    One what basis was it determined that the behavior was instinctive and not learned? Also I'm wondering if your conclusion (Hens are dumb) is due more to the fact that the hens were reared in an unnatural environment that stunted their learning. As a point wild turkeys are highly intelligent social animals. Factory farm raised turkeys never get the opportunity to develop the same skills and as a result are often regarded as "dumb". After seeing how easily advertising companies manipulate humans, I would surmise that humans are not so different from other animals.

  17. Re:oblig. ISR on The First Paper-Based Transistors · · Score: 1

    I am an ass you insensitive clod!

  18. Re:ghack on Google Lively Review · · Score: 1

    /request muliplayer google nethack for great justice.

    /request++ I want multiplayer nethack too! I tried http://www.mangband.org/ but there were no slime molds to eat and I couldn't figure how to engrave Elbereth anywhere...

  19. obligatory xkcd reference on Best Buy Is Selling Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    Does that mean, I can no longer do this? http://www.xkcd.com/272/

  20. Re:About time. on Senate Hearing On Laptop Seizures At US Border · · Score: 1

    They cannot force a citizen to decrypt a drive for entry. However, they can simply seize the hard drive if you refuse to decrypt it. Your best bet is to wipe your disk of any personal information or patentable ideas before crossing the border. It's not worth subjecting your life's work to potential theft and abuse by corrupt border agents. Also, you can sftp across borders. Consider the chance to travel internationally a chance to try out a new distro.

  21. Re:They are unpleasant already on PETA Offers X-Prize for Artificial Meat · · Score: 1

    DHA supplements are not required if you eat your flax seeds. B12 supplements are required for a vegan diet in the modern world where we chlorinate water and are extremely sanitary. In a "natural" state you would not need B12 supplements. Our cousins the bonobo eat primarily vegan and do not have access to B12 supplements found in health food stores, and if they did, they probably could not afford them ;-)

  22. Re:Ruby Saved Us From Perl on The Ruby Programming Language · · Score: 1

    Ruby is very good for that, and very easy. I am not qualified to speak on other languages (except maybe perl, or c/java/c++ which you are not interested in). However without being a Python expert, I think Python will do all the things Ruby does equally well. You may also consider PHP for all the same tasks, but PHP definitely seems more web-oriented to me.

  23. Re:Ruby Saved Us From Perl on The Ruby Programming Language · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Please mod the parent up. I am a fellow PERL->Ruby convert. While PERL always has a soft spot in my heart and has one of the best communities in the world, Ruby really is an *easier* language. It is clean, simple and extremely easy to write readable code. I am not a Rails expert, but for sysadmin stuff, Ruby and Python are great alternatives to PERL.

  24. Those who don't use UNIX are doomed to reinvent it on Sneak Peek at Windows Server 2008 · · Score: 1

    'nuff said

  25. Re:Pro-science can be bad too on Science Debate 2008 · · Score: 1

    Thanks! That is interesting indeed! I certainly need to study Darwin more thoroughly. It does appear that Darwin was influenced by the racism of the times.

    However from this one quote taken out of context, I do not see Darwin advocating extermination of those who he considered to be "less civilized races". I know Darwin
    was witness to destruction of many American species of birds by hunters. Perhaps he saw destruction of those whom he considered "less civilized" as inevitable.

    For instance if I state:
    "In some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, large portions of the planet will be unlivable to humans due to man-made pollution"
    It would be far a stretch from that statement to think that I advocate polluting the Earth (although unfortunately my computer is not powered by green energy).