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Comment Musk still claiming that review was "false" (Score 2, Insightful) 167

The fundamental claim that Musk put out -- that the reporter intentionally drained the battery, and that the towing was faked -- has been completely disproven. The reporter used the car in non-optimal user behavior, and the car failed. This is entirely legitimate reviewing, and Musk called him a liar. '

Comment Re:it's not the computer, it's you (Score 1) 301

A) This is inconsistent with the research into the neurology of "surfing." The machine influences how your brain behaves. You need to fix the machine. OP is asking for ways to do that.

B) Putting limiter software on is exactly the sort of self-imposed "remind yourself" that you're talking about. It's not like you can't uninstall it.

Change is hard. I get irritated with people insisting people "take responsibility for yourself" when they are, in fact, doing exactly that.

Comment Re:What I really learned from this submission. (Score 2) 292

This "Lind" guy was required reading in my policy sci department. He's writing about policy, not technology. Putting a policy framework around "cyberspace" is much harder than coming up with a policy framework for telecom competition, free expression, and surveillance.

His most famous book is a dissection of how a wealthy overclass is separating itself from American society and rigging the system, particularly banks, to it's benefit. It was published in 1995, and considered kind of crazy at the time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Next_American_Nation:_The_New_Nationalism_and_the_Fourth_American_Revolution

Comment Re:cue global warming denialists.... (Score 1) 174

Global warming is at BEST a hypothesis.

Get back to me when its cast as a reproducible law.. and not by simply tweaking computer models to get the results you want... and make sure it goes all the way back to the planets formation... not just 100 years of questionable recorded data.

That's how it works.. consensus is not part of it... no matter how many hack statistical only scientists clamoring for acceptance and a group hug say otherwise.

I honestly can't tell if this is satire, or just slashdot being slashdot.

Comment Buy in the small business section (Score 5, Informative) 570

The big PC maker's online storefronts have a consumer and business section. Your milage may vary but the business section of say, Dell or Lenovo, tilts towards good build quality, OS flexibility, and less crapware. Finding a Win7 machine is no problem at all.

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/laptops/thinkpad/x-series/x230

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