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  1. Re:Hypocritic Oath? on Prescription Handguns For the Elderly and Disabled · · Score: 1

    The rate of violent crime perpetrated by elderly people may not be very high because at the moment DOCTORS ARE NOT PRESCRIBING THEM GUNS.

  2. Re:Hypocritic Oath? on Prescription Handguns For the Elderly and Disabled · · Score: 1

    "You could just as easily argue that poverty can cause depression, so doctors could prescribe Money"

    That's actually not the worst idea I've ever heard.

  3. And then of course... on Technical Specs Released For Aussie Net Filtering · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We patch apache (patch XXX obviously) to toss back hex or D-word IP addresses when hit with them. Actually I don't think a patch is necessary; I can think of a quick and dirty way to do it in Korn with forward and reverse proxying on..huh, pretty much any apache from 1.33 on.

    Then all we need to do is wait until the Aussies load so many obfuscated hosts into their border boxen that they all fry themselves and the silly idea it is will be really quite clear to anyone with opposable thumbs.

  4. you can make it even shorter on Apple Says Macs Are Safe, No Antivirus Needed · · Score: 1

    You can make it even shorter than that:

    "Can you show me an infected OS X machine?"

    The answer of course is always "no".

  5. Re:History on Look What's Cooking At Microsoft Labs · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm not sure what you're talking about. Blackbird was never designed to "kill the open internet as we know it", because "the open internet as we know it" did not exist when blackbird was in active development. In those days I was still doing Archie searches and trying to stick with the good guys at Mosaic rather than take the Netscape plunge.

    Acceptance that HTML had become standard had nothing to do with the death of Blackbird, which, from its inception, was complimentary to HTML. Again, the "web as we know it" did not exist at all in those days.

    And who says I'm angry at Microsoft for not shipping it? That's like being mad at someone for calling shell scripting "programming". It's easier for everyone involved to just let them be a dumbass.

  6. I've seen this before... on Battlestar Galactica Gets Spinoff Prequel Series · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "the two houses go toe-to-toe blending action with corporate conspiracy and sexual politics"

    I wonder if it's going to be as good as when it was the Harkonnens and the Atreideses.

  7. Re:Best of intentions on BitTorrent Calls UDP Report "Utter Nonsense" · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Whoops, I don't pay attention to the business school. Like yale, you can buy degrees there. (it is a business school after all, there are none, including Wharton, where you cannot). I thought you were talking about some kind of graduate degree.

  8. Re:History on Look What's Cooking At Microsoft Labs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I was involved with the development and testing of "blackbird" a million years ago by microsoft, which would have owned them pretty much the entire internet in the late 90's had they decided to go through with it.

    But they didn't. Biggest reason? They didn't like that everyone that wanted to develop for it used Macs. There was an enormous Ballmer shaped problem with porting the SDK to Mac OS. So instead of just not doing that and releasing it anyhow, they canned the entire idea, amputating half the department that came up with it.

    And that's microsoft.

  9. I didn't see the word "local" anywhere on European Police Plan to Remote-Search Hard Drives · · Score: 0, Redundant

    But evidently all of you did. Could you point it out? Because really what they seem to have made legal is accessing "cloud data" (thanks, google!) without giving customer nor the managing company notification of any kind.

  10. Re:Best of intentions on BitTorrent Calls UDP Report "Utter Nonsense" · · Score: 0, Troll

    George W. Bush is not a Harvard man, as should be breathtakingly obvious by now. He is a Yale man, and hasn't fallen too far from the tree. He also has no master's degree, but a bachelors.

    Did they not teach that in your bathroom mirror?

  11. Re:Best of intentions on BitTorrent Calls UDP Report "Utter Nonsense" · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's because Linus's OS was written mostly by Cox. Sorry, kiddo.

  12. Re:Entertainment software sales on Game Industry Optimistic About Surviving Economic Crisis · · Score: 1

    Way, way too long.

  13. Re:$10,000,000, eh? on Resurrecting the Mighty Mammoth, Cheaply · · Score: 1

    Retrain from crossing guard you mean?

  14. Re:Cluster B personality disorders on Verizon Employees Fired For Snooping Obama's Record · · Score: 1

    Oh, now it looks like youre targetting me specifically for down mods because you're a pissy little kid who's been shown to be quite incorrect in a subject which he's implied expertise.

    Between systematically modding you down and referencing material and statistics that expose you as a fake, I don't think this will take very long.

  15. Re:Silly Humans! Clone an EINSTEIN !! on Should We Clone a Neanderthal? · · Score: 1

    Wow MindKata, what a brilliant observation.

  16. Re:2nd derivative of plot on Anathem · · Score: 1

    Well, now I see that it's you that's been following me around specifically and targeting me with down mods. I note that you chose not to respond to my queries for more information in other threads, so instead of just coming forward and admitting that you really don't have any evidence to support any of your points, you take it out on me.

    That's fine, MindKata. Have your little childish tantrum, secreting behind it the fact that really, you're an expert at nothing and a bullshitter of all.

  17. Re:2nd derivative of plot on Anathem · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It won't. He's nowhere near the artist that Vonnegut was, and therefore nowhere near as temperamental.

  18. Re:Cluster B personality disorders on Verizon Employees Fired For Snooping Obama's Record · · Score: 1

    I asked you what disorder you have not as an object lesson (which would have been great if at any point you had been interested in anything that someone other than yourself had to say), but instead because it dawned on me that your interest in the subject is probably not academic, as is quite clear by the emotional component in each of your posts on the topic.

    By the way, if you were to actually pay for an account, you would see a bit more of my posting history and it just might be that your sample (didn't you mention something about me not knowing anything about statistics?) is somewhat lacking.

    Anyway, I'm not a psychologist or a psychiatrist, and I expect that you don't know who the hell Chiou or Howard are anyway, as it's pretty clear at this point that at best you're an academic poseur, and at worst probably a paranoid delusional.

  19. Re:Cluster B personality disorders on Verizon Employees Fired For Snooping Obama's Record · · Score: 1

    Tell me, which disorder do you have?

  20. Re:Cluster B personality disorders on Verizon Employees Fired For Snooping Obama's Record · · Score: 1

    See that was still anecdotal. It was just much longer.

  21. Re:Cluster B personality disorders on Verizon Employees Fired For Snooping Obama's Record · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah, not really a lie though. I suggest you seek out someone who's qualified to speak on the subject of psychology (and certainly not me, the work I did with Chiou and Howard was thoroughly speculative), who will undoubtedly tell you that the fact that 30.8 million adults in the US meeting the diagnostic criteria for at least one personality disorder is not actually a problem with 30.8 million adults in the US, but instead a problem with the criteria itself.

    This has been discussed for years, and is one of the major issues that tends to divide psychologists from psychiatrists. The reasoning is simple-- psychologists deal with these diagnostic criteria exclusively in a "talk" setting, as they cannot prescribe medication, while psychiatrists only use "talk setting" (if they do at all--they are not required to) as one of a myriad of tools to tackle mental illness, the largest one in their arsenal of course being pharmaceuticals.

    I'll leave the math as an exercise for the class.

  22. Re:Not where I work, and not me... on Verizon Employees Fired For Snooping Obama's Record · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I understand that PCI doesn't actually prevent unauthorized access to records. But it does put into place (or should, too many people are cheating) a system of checks and balances that go longer to insure the discovery of such shenanigans than much that came before it.

    What I was referencing is the next few permutations of PCI DSS, in which much discussion has been had on implementing a general policy of ACL on *all customer data*. Yeah, it's going to be a huge, huge headache for a lot of people, but ultimately for the best. Especially for consultants. Huzzah.

  23. Re:Cluster B personality disorders on Verizon Employees Fired For Snooping Obama's Record · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I actually did some work with Chiou and Howard on traumatic dissociation.

    Could you point to some statistics regarding your claim of "millions of people", specifically celebrities, criminals and politicians being studied? I have run across no such studies (maybe if you added up the samples of every study ever done on personality, whether they're relational or not).

  24. Re:2nd derivative of plot on Anathem · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Your review suffers from the same disease as Anathem itself: the mode of your verbiage is unnecessarily ornate and inappropriate for the subject. So much so in fact that I very nearly missed your little dig at academia there.

    Some authors (Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Norman Mailer, Truman Capote as a smattering of example) like to put it something like this: "if you can use fewer words to achieve the same effect, do so. If you can use smaller words in order to achieve the same effect, do so. And if exactly the same effect can be had from not writing your book at all, then don't write it".

    That last one is a paraphrase from a letter Capote wrote to Tennessee Williams decades ago, referring to yet another dry, lengthy work by Gore Vidal. Perhaps the single most important thing a good writer can do if they want to remain a good writer is to stop writing all together.

  25. Re:Cluster B personality disorders on Verizon Employees Fired For Snooping Obama's Record · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hi, you don't know any celebrities, politicians, or criminals evidently. I have a few friends and acquaintances in the first two groups, and honestly few of them fit your bill there.

    Wikipedia + mistrust of wealth does not equal valid psychology, skipper.