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Conroe company still using computers museums want to put on display(chron.com)
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How heavy metal riffs stimulate our brains(deathmetal.org)
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by sodomizer 13y ago
What bothers me most about elite colleges is that they're based on sheer amount of work, not actual ability. Thus you get a lot of droids who are good memorizer/regurgitators but not necessarily all that wise, perceptive, creative, etc. In
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by sodomizer 13y ago
"this method of sleuthing would be far less exciting for users, and would probably generate less traffic, than its current free-for-all approach." When people do things for their own entertainment, they're always thoughtless. When they do t
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Millennials Willing To Share Personal Data — For a Price(yro.slashdot.org)
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by sodomizer 13y ago
"But how is that not discrimination masked in sheep's clothing?" That's what it is. The inconsistency in the law has created a niche market, and people are taking advantage of it. That's why groups like "Women Who Code" exist; show up here
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by sodomizer 13y ago
If you're hiring someone because of their gender, race, etc., that's discriminatory. However, you're also going to be judged by the statistics, which is to say, if you don't discriminate, you're going to be seen as discriminatory. Someone w
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by sodomizer 13y ago
"I dislike your name" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAZOZ5hNN9g Feel differently about it now? I can't think of a better way to illustrate my point about walking a mile in someone else's shoes!
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by sodomizer 13y ago
I think his point is that if we encourage that mentality and don't fight it on twitter etc, soon no accounts will be associated with the employers unofficially, and thus we won't get any of the news that leaks out that way. Our loss.
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by sodomizer 13y ago
I think it's a terrible idea to judge other people's political decisions until you've walked a mile in their shoes. If you are a professional, you should be ready to work with anyone, not just the people who agree with you. Your view is not
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by sodomizer 13y ago
I sympathize. However, I think the most successful WordPress plugins are free, because most WordPress sites belong to dabblers. They are already paying for hosting; in their view, software should be free. As leverage however, having a succe
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by sodomizer 13y ago
Please alert Hari Seldon.
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by sodomizer 13y ago
Go to your local 2600 meeting. Or, find a volunteer group; they all need computer people. Then expand your role to something that requires people interaction. Otherwise, you'll get the mushroom treatment: they'll keep you in the dark and fe
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by sodomizer 13y ago
It could be that laws in general need to be more flexible, and to keep in mind the end goal more than the boundaries of strict limits in the language of the rules. That way, you don't have this one-or-the-other decision.
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by sodomizer 13y ago
I guess it's a good time to post pictures of my junk to Facebook, then?
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by sodomizer 13y ago
Notice how many of the comments in this topic verge on the hysterical, paranoid, reactionary and ill-informed. It brings them out. The sheer emotional appeal of the original headline brings out the worst in people.
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by sodomizer 13y ago
The idea of having a site's TOS be law is terrible for almost infinite reasons. None of the rigor of law is applied to it. Thus, I implore you, all webmasters: insert the phrase "And you promise to have sex with a goat" into your TOS as soo
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by sodomizer 13y ago
I want to meet your parents and grandparents. They sound lovely. In defense of the laws, however, they were formulated only to regulate sex outside of marriage. With love and marriage, sex was viewed as something else. For proof of this, lo
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by sodomizer 13y ago
You mean, sort of like how we all used to log on to mainframes, or rent Linux accounts from our webhosts?
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by sodomizer 13y ago
You mean... Huxley was right?
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by sodomizer 13y ago
Part of the reason USENET got abandoned is the same reason that MySpace and Facebook are being abandoned: as newer services came about, the cutting edge flocked to them, which left a high ratio of malcontents, trolls, bullies, assorted dick
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by sodomizer 13y ago
If Reddit is evolution for humanity, I support global thermonuclear war.
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by sodomizer 13y ago
One other form of regression: people navigating the web through custom apps on their phone, like "Hail a Cab" or "Shop at Target." The whole idea of the web was to create a neutral platform so that custom software wasn't needed. In addition
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by sodomizer 14y ago
She's doing this to get away from "me-first" culture, which is common to all dying firms, and to get people toward a "goal-first" outlook instead. The problem with this attempt is that it's one rule trying to stand in for many. The first th
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by sodomizer 14y ago
I love BSD, but the user community is hostile to entry and hostile to causal users, so it's not surprising that everyone but the experts has switched to Linux.
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by sodomizer 14y ago
The thing that no one's mentioning in these press releases that should be discussed: robotics. Moving a plant here doesn't equate to moving manufacturing jobs here. The traditional fear of manufacturing in the USA has been high cost of labo
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by sodomizer 14y ago
Update to those who last checked in the 1990s: "Hauntingly beautiful" is now officially a cliche. I miss it, too, but the overuse is crushing any significance it once had.
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Does the soul exist as quantum microtubules?(dailymail.co.uk)
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by sodomizer 14y ago
The school bureaucracy is a symptom of something else, as is the monotonous testing and the union power. The American educational system changed its premise back in the 1960s. Since that time, we have become addicted to assembly line, one-s
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by sodomizer 14y ago
This is the real outcome: "Account status should not affect any customer's ability to access their library." Amazon has realized that they can quarantine suspect accounts, but not cut off the customer's right to their purchased books. Every

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