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  1. Re:Great! on Facebook Announces Social Search Tools · · Score: 1

    I am not starved for attention. I have strong connections to friends and family. I enjoy FB because it helps me keep in touch with them. My friends use FB to organize activities and parties and get-togethers.

    There are other plusses. Through FB I was reunited with one of my best friends from high school who had moved to my city.

  2. Re:Local differences on IT Job Market Recovering Faster Now Than After Dot-com Bubble Burst · · Score: 2

    The company you describe sounds like Google. I almost got a job there back in 2007. I did the interviews, everything went really well. They told me they were going to make me an offer. I made it all the way to the executive committee, and then, nothing. Not a peep from the HR dept. For me the sound of the financial bubble bursting was the silence of my cell phone, waiting for them to call me and tell me that the position I was being hired for had been cut. When I finally got one of them on the phone, months later, they did not even apologize for failing to get back to me.

  3. Re:At least one on IT Job Market Recovering Faster Now Than After Dot-com Bubble Burst · · Score: 1

    That's the reason my client didn't pay me for my October hours until mid-January. They even violated their own contractual payment terms by several days, just so they could avoid writing down the accounts payable in 2012.

  4. Re:At least one on IT Job Market Recovering Faster Now Than After Dot-com Bubble Burst · · Score: 1

    resume.trunc(lines=50). ageism is real. my only saving grace is that i've gotten so damn good at what i do.

  5. Smells like... on Ask Slashdot: My Company Wants Me To Astroturf, Should I? · · Score: 1

    fraud.

  6. Pay Attention on CDC Reports 1 In 88 Children Now Affected With Autism In the US · · Score: 1

    Pay attention to your young children, make lots of eye contact with them every day. The younger they are the more important it is to focus your undivided attention on them. Stop playing video games. Stop starting at your computer or your phone or whatever you use to distract yourself. Stop shoveling convenience food down their throats because you can't be fucked to plan and prepare a healthy meal for them. Your children are starving for your attention. If you have a genetically normal child, i.e., one not predisposed to autism, then they will probably be OK, even if you suck. But if your child is genetically predisposed to autism, and if you suck, then your child is doomed. The thing is, you cannot know their genetic predisposition until it's too late. So pay attention. Now.

  7. Re:Watch it be sold off for a song on All-IP Network Produces $100B Real Estate Windfall · · Score: 1

    commercial real estate lawyers

  8. Hyperspectral Imaging on Smart Camera Tells Tobacco From Marijuana · · Score: 1

    From TFA:

    The system-on-chip (SoC) solution can accurately distinguish between objects that appear virtually identical using traditional red-green-blue imaging chips.

    The sentence immediately preceding that one, claims the product senses outside the visual spectrum ("hyper-spectral") and that it can perform remote spectral analysis, but somehow it uses just a good ol' RGB sensor.

  9. Re:Isn't that the same thing, though? on Water Droplets In Orbit On the International Space Station · · Score: 1

    In that case, use the He3 there on the moon for your moon base or whatever.

  10. Re:NTT DoCoMo is the standard gold of mobile netwo on NTT DoCoMo Asks Google To Limit Android Data Use · · Score: 1

    IANANetworkEngineer, but it sounds to me like you are saying we need a separate network for the handheld devices, to deal with the different TCP settings. Is that even possible with a cell carrier? Can we do something like a VLAN?

  11. Re:inb4 on Researchers Show How Cellular Complexity Can Evolve · · Score: 3, Funny

    Let's say a "day" is the time it takes for the earth to rotate 360 degrees. (Interesting all by itself since such a concrete measurement was unavailable before the earth was created, but whatever.) And then let's say that it took 6 such days for God to create a proto-earth, i.e., the earth the way it was 3.5 billion years ago or whatever.

    And then let's say, at the end of day 6, God popped this proto-earth into his cosmic-sized Time Accelerator Machine, closed the lid, programmed the machine such that the relativity factor inside the box yields a 3.5-billion year speedup, set the timer for 1 "day", and then kicked back and cracked open a cold one, or the godly equivalent of a cold one, His work being done.

  12. The Software on How the Tevatron Influenced Computing · · Score: 1

    Great article. Well written, interesting and informative. Once more we are reminded that It's All About The Software.

  13. OWS on A Digital Direct Democracy For the Modern Age · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't this petition system be an ideal way for the OWS folks to coalesce, delineate and voice their grievances? At least they can use it to test the government's responsiveness.

  14. Re:Failed to launch a monkey? on Iran Tried and Failed To Launch a Monkey Into Space · · Score: 1

    "That has to be the second biggest slingshot I've ever seen, but it'll have to do."

  15. It's Not The TV on Doctors Recommend Against TV For Kids Under 2 · · Score: 1

    It's not the TV that causes harm, it's the lack of face-to-face interaction. The TV is the time suck, taking away precious face time during the earliest, most formative years, when a child should be watching their parents' eyes and mouth and expression to learn how to communicate with other humans.

    It depends on how the kid's genes are wired for early childhood development. If he's a late bloomer with language development, then he needs extra attention early on, which means less screen time and more face time, to help avoid any development delays.

    The problem is that we cannot know how a child's genes are wired until it's too late. So stop being so selfish with your me-time and give your attention to your infant. You only get one shot per child.

  16. The Reason on What Happens When the Average Lifespan is 150 Years? · · Score: 1

    There is a reason why we age they way we do. Don't ask me what that reason is because I'm just a computer geek, but I do know that all of our other genes developed via evolution to suit specific purposes. Perhaps we should figure out exactly the mechanisms we plan to tamper with, and their side-effects, before actually tampering?

  17. What's Changed? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    Why are we so pissed off now, but we weren't so pissed off 5 years ago? Why are we protesting now and not 5 years ago? What has changed? The economy tanked, that's what changed.

    What happened to the economy? Greedy financiers gambled away our future. Unfettered capitalism ran amok and very nearly triggered the collapse of western civilization.

    The heart of the Occupy Wall Street protest, I believe, is the utter lack of accountability and the borderline criminally negligent disregard for checks and balances within our financial institutions. It is clearly the government's responsibility to regulate that industry, to control the greed so that it cannot do such terrible damage ever again.

  18. Re:And it's not the liberal Tea Party!!! on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    You contradict your own claim that OWS has no political stand. Demanding fair representation is a political stand. Loosening the grip of corporations is a political stand. Perhaps we should start talking about how we plan to achieve those goals, with specific, bipartisan ideas such as campaign finance limits and term limits.

    I always find it interesting what people are not saying. With the exception of Mayor Bloomberg, in whose backyard the protest first formed and who happens to be ineligible for reelection, I have not noticed any other elected official speaking for or against the protest. It's as if they are all watching and waiting for some transcendental moment before they feel safe enough to voice an opinion.

  19. Re:Losing Hydrogen on MIT's 'Artificial Leaf' Makes Fuel From Sunlight · · Score: 1

    "Usul has called a big one!"

  20. Re:The future is here at last on AIDS Vaccine Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    You are completely overlooking Africa.

  21. Re:New domain on Ask Slashdot: Am I Too Old To Learn New Programming Languages? · · Score: 1

    I'm interested in bioinformatics. Would a Professional Sciences Masters degree in bioinformatics be a good idea?

  22. I'm middle-aged and teaching myself Python. Pyhon rox! Python is hawt! I feel younger already.

  23. Re:LOL, "really inflammatory, inaccurate" messages on UK Police Arrest 12 Over Facebook Use Inciting Riots · · Score: 1

    I am in no way, shape or form condoning the looters or their actions. What they did was despicable. I am just curious: how will a judge ascertain whether the "information" was "inaccurate", particularly if the "information" are accusations of wrongdoing allegedly perpetrated by the government, which the government vehemently denies?

  24. BSG on Why Netflix Had To Raise Its Prices · · Score: 1

    BSG. First four seasons. No commercials. 'Nuff said.

    Vote with your wallets.

  25. Re:Worth it? on Oracle Acquires K-splice For an Undisclosed Amount · · Score: 1

    By itself an Oracle database is not horizontally scalable. Without designing the database split into your app from the outset, you cannot simply place a pool of Oracle databases behind a pair of load balancers and call it a day. Even RAC gets you only so far because rolling upgrades of cluster nodes are either ill-advised or outright impossible. Therefore downtime of an Oracle database gets expensive quickly.