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  1. Re:Could Be Worth Some Money on Meteor Spotted Yesterday Over Midwestern United States · · Score: 1

    Oh Clark, what are you worried about?

  2. Re:This'd be my boss's worst nightmare on How Chat and Youth Are Killing the Meeting · · Score: 1

    It's a deal. What kind of software do you sell anyways?

  3. Re:This would have worked... on Stalker Jailed For Planting Child Porn On a PC · · Score: 1

    Thanks, but how about this.

    "In this sense, everyone was a victim of ... a system that in seeking to prevent abuse was shown capable of participating in and fostering a kind of abuse as damaging as the abuse it sought to prevent."

    http://www.ipt-forensics.com/journal/volume2/j2_4_7.htm

  4. Re:This would have worked... on Stalker Jailed For Planting Child Porn On a PC · · Score: 1

    "People who have been arrested for crimes that they were later found innocent of or even found to have had no involvement in at all becoming social pariahs."

    Have you got a favorite link or anything? I'm curious.

  5. Re:That is very interesting on MIT Finds 'Grand Unified Theory of AI' · · Score: 1

    I dunno, I think my brain has been running serial for about 30yrs. The question might be "what is my purpose?" the answer changes constantly, but at one point I believe I had it resolved to the number 42.

  6. Re:He only took away the sit-down money on Planned Nuclear Reactors Will Destroy Atomic Waste · · Score: 1

    "those risks should not be overstated (like the shrillest environmentalists do), they should not be swept under the carpet, either."

    That pretty much makes it a political deadend.

  7. Re:Who's minding the servers? on Server Room Smells Can Be an Early Warning · · Score: 1

    $200-300 for a good UPS. Your price range was off, pretty much anything under $200 drops to 15min in 6mos and dies in a year. If you want a battery that isn't fundamentally a fire hazard, you can add another $600-$700.

    Then again the best batteries we have in our data center (admittedly fairly small) are about 12yrs old, work like dogs and only fail with a stinky bloat and/or random diagnostic jabber.

  8. Re:It isn't done right until you are bleeding on Speed-Assembling Servers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Your boss is right. If you're really clumsy or doing a lot of work in the cases wear gloves.

    http://www.bestvalsup.com/G-Tek-MaxiFlex-Plus-Gloves-p/pip%2034-846.htm

    I know some folks that have to wear debris masks while dusting out PCs.

  9. Re:Timeline on What Is Time? One Researcher Shares His Exploration · · Score: 1

    Yea, basically the gap between observation and reality is infinite for any individual observer. OTOH, peer review works as a sort of coordinate system where several points of observation allow us to agree on reality.

    My philosophy is that for the really big and the really small, we are all viewing it from the same vantage point - no coordinates.

    "It's possible that you could imagine universes bumping into each other and leaving traces, observable effects. It's also possible that that's not going to happen. That if they're there, there's not going to be any sign of them there. If that's true, the only way this picture makes sense is if you think of the multiverse not as a theory, but as a prediction of a theory."

    Read More http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/02/what-is-time/#ixzz0gifbribG

    I'd say we are too darn small to observe one universe bumping into another, but it's pretty egotistical to say that we have the only universe.

    There's nothing man has discovered that is individual, nothing that can't be replicated or isn't a small piece of a bigger picture or composed of smaller bits. It's little building blocks all the way down and building blocks all the way up as well. Nothing will always be the gap between two somethings, there is no edge of existence, only an edge of our observable existence. If we can say that nothing is beyond our observable universe, it only stands to reason that something is beyond that nothing.

  10. Re:Timeline on What Is Time? One Researcher Shares His Exploration · · Score: 1

    That's funny, his theory "seems" close to my old philosophy. The universe is a particle, rather than thinking the universe is so damn huge, believe for a second, it remarkably small.

    it's a matter of skepticism of sorts. The Earth is not the center of the solar system, the solar system is not the center of the universe, life does not originate on earth and this universe cannot possibly be the only one that exists.

    Horton hears a who? Anybody?

  11. Re:Open letter to Chinese computer professionals: on US Inadvertently Enabled Chinese Google Hackers · · Score: 1

    But, we're not looking for an earthquake.

  12. Re:Ageism on Suspension of Disbelief · · Score: 1

    Except the premise of the discussion was that you were not happy with the business you were getting. Anyways, it's not a bribe for certain circumstances, it's a purchase of time for negotiation.

  13. Re:Ageism on Suspension of Disbelief · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There's also a plainly huge difference between what we understand as bias and what we understand as bias that forms an ism. So, it's not completely uncommon for a woman to bitch about men labeling women as either virgins or whores, yet they do the same with men and they do the same with themselves. The difference between natural forming opinions and overt oppression is probably on a scale somewhere.

    Disclaimer, this is my own opinion I don't know what the experts say or even if they've looked at it much. It might be anecdotal, but I don't flippin' care. Im Right.

  14. Re:Ageism on Suspension of Disbelief · · Score: 1

    Um, what? Take a hundy to the owner and ask them for a little discussion. I would think that in either case you're working in a business discussion that is somewhat negotiable. Some will be less receptive than others sure (for example, the owner with children that are not allowed to rent), but I don't think it's a total loser of an idea if you really want in a place. Heck, the Hotel works on the same principal, it's a guideline that forces a higher barrier to entry. A lot of folks will get into a hotel at a discount that matches other dives, but the key is they had to be business savvy enough to earn it.

  15. Re:Good advice for all developers on PageRank-Type Algorithm From the 1940s Discovered · · Score: 5, Funny

    It would have been a pretty exhaustive search without google.

  16. Re:Enough of the faith bashing on Brain Surgery Linked To Sensation of Spirituality · · Score: 1

    Do you respect the first amendment? Am I really a fool? Does a belief in God indicate a man of superior morals? Are you going to tell my children I'm going to hell? Are you going to tell me I'm going to hell? Do homosexuals have a right to the legal benefits of marriage? Are abortion doctors murderers or are they doctors performing a medical function within the bounds of the law? If it's the law you disagree with, can you refrain from inciting the lunatic fringe to murder medical professionals and instead take the moral high road by addressing the issue in the medium provided? Can you respect science as the discipline it is, without letting your insecurities lead you to deliberate and overt attempts to sabotage the progress of humanity? Can you make the distinction between a war on terror and a war on Islam?

    Tell me again, what does it feel like to be put down by atheists?

  17. Re:Enough of the faith bashing on Brain Surgery Linked To Sensation of Spirituality · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I can see you're frustrated, I also agree that this thread is a bit more bold than usual, but do you realize you just sunk to their level?

  18. Re:Or its all in our head on Why Time Flies By As You Get Older · · Score: 1

    After gaining a working understanding of relativity I independently(?) adopted the fractional model. It seems what Einstein was talking about in your quote is emotional impact and denial.

  19. Re:Diploma mills prove the worthlessness of degree on Key EDS Witness Bought Internet Degree · · Score: 1

    Read the labels? Wait, you don't eat people do you?

  20. Re:Second Opinion on US Grants Home Schooling German Family Political Asylum · · Score: 1

    You're confusing the public school system for the crap that children watch on television.

  21. Re:Second Opinion on US Grants Home Schooling German Family Political Asylum · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What your parents taught you to gather from public school is a bit different than what every body else learns. What exactly are you doing to raise your kids so that they don't come to highly critical and sweeping generalizations when they meet my children in the workplace? Is my son bound to be a liar and my daughter a whore, because they did not receive a proper christian homeschooling?

  22. Re:Considering "duh!" as a state of mind on Does Personalized News Lead To Ignorance? · · Score: 2, Informative
  23. Re:Also on Data Breach Costs Top $200 Per Customer Record · · Score: 1

    Your comment has absolutely nothing whatsoever with what I just said. Nothing, I was just thanking the people that give a shit.

  24. Re:So essentially on Man Uses Drake Equation To Explain Girlfriend Woes · · Score: 1

    Yes, you are quite right. I hate the fact that people are predominantly obsessed with appearances. It is as irritating as swallowing a glass of rotten eggs and parking yourself upside down on the commode for a month, only to live through it by ingesting what so happens to trickle down the front. I'm sure you can imagine the shriek.

  25. Re:Also on Data Breach Costs Top $200 Per Customer Record · · Score: 0

    This is really the great thing about distributions like OpenBSD, Engarde Linux, Openwall, and other FOSS secure systems. They just don't buy into that shit. Oh and thank the US government for also giving a rats ass and providing us with SELinux too.