http://www.businessinsider.com/texas-da-killing-is-unprecedented-2013-4

Although this is an unpopular view, my take on it is that if we abandon the legitimate means in our system of recalling these people, we weaken those means and force the debate into an unnecessarily volatile mode.

Think with your logic, not your emotions :)

The company's core business of games based on the Star Wars license have been largely disappointing in both quality and sales.

The hidden story here is this: if your core business is not making computer games, and you decide to have an in-house team to do the games, keep in mind that these people are not driven as hard as they would be on the open market where the game is their only product.

When a team is in house, the customer are the other divisions of the company who need to be "satisfied" by what looks like a good project; this is a layer removed from the customer, who actually determines if the product succeeds by buying it or not.

This is the same reason people make fun of government employees. There's no quality-end-result motivation; the real job is to work the job, and to keep taking money for doing whatever it is hasn't gotten them fired yet.

A circle of trolls trolling one another? Starting with /. management.

He was just asserting that editors aren't necessary, correct? He disproved his own point!

FTFA:

D'Ambrosia expects a similar timeline for 400G Ethernet: standard ratification in 2017.

The article also notes that 100G, which was ratified in 2010, is just now barely coming online.

Thus doing a little math, we're likely to see this standard in 2020 at the earliest, later if the nation collapses in insolvency.

Using this now:

http://www.degraeve.com/rot13.php

Limping through /. front page.

As April Fool's official trolls go, this isn't bad. But no goatse. What gives?

send all your articles to Xarciv for free.

Naw, just run them through Dreamweaver and post them to Angelfire.com or livejournal.

Everyone that does actual work does not get payed for it by the publication.

That's "paid," homeslice. Thanks for submitting.

As in many cases, their costs are mostly to hire people who are capable of making intelligent editing decisions as well as doing the bulk work of editing.

Who do you want in charge of the place where you're submitting a paper? Someone who has little education, low intelligence and low personality skills, thus is paid very little? Or a relatively highly-paid, educated, personable and intelligent editor?

If you want quality, it costs all the way. It's not limited to the scientists alone. You will need to hire a competent editorial staff and that is far from free.

The camera built into my laptop most certainly can be turned off or completely disabled. It also has a little LED next to it that lights when it's active, so it's easy to know when it's on.

Actually, this can be circumvented, and as this case shows us, it has been done before.

and visual interfaces that may record motions I make that I do not intend to go into a computer.

I then go on to talk about visual gestures and how I don't want those recorded.

You seem to have mis-read the original message. I would apologize, but after having re-read it, I don't think it's unclear. I often read things hastily as well, and that can lead to this kind of misunderstanding.

While I'm all for new and exciting technology, I'm not sure I like having cameras around that can be hacked, and visual interfaces that may record motions I make that I do not intend to go into a computer.

The simplest example would be idly picking my nose, and then coming back later to find those exciting strokes recorded. For those of you who are pornography enthusiasts, a similar problem exists.

Although keyboards are arguably pretty bad, they don't interpret my actions for me. I have to deliberately seek out the keyboard and type on it. It can't watch me or misinterpret me.

Now my only enemy is my own tendency toward tyops and speeling errors.

You get your own graphics and theme music so it is so worth it.

If someone would consider making a video game about the event, with its own devil-worshipping heavy metal soundtrack, I might consider it.

Actually, I wouldn't. Pointless tragedy crushes my soul. I'd be more likely to fake one to mock the media circus than actually pull off a mass shooting. School shootings especially always seem to me like the emotional equivalent of a truckload of dead kittens.

Since we have not means to read another persons mind a lot of modern psychology involves analysis of the self. After doing so it is hard to think highly of oneself or other humans ever again.
While chemically complex, we are pretty trivial beings.

That reminds me of this essay:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/sorry-but-your-soul-just-died-1276509.html

However, I'd say there's a few counter-arguments.

1. We can become less trivial. Our culture encourages triviality through consumerism, or individualism, or egoism or something like that. Narcissism? It's an -ism, and it means we're basically "amusing ourselves to death" as Neil Postman says. We could fix that.

2. Compassion. I imagine most people think dogs are trivial. I love dogs. They are pure-hearted. Compassion encourages us to not worry so much about triviality.

3. Discover new worlds. There are other planets, new challenges, possibly other dimensions to explore. Maybe we're just bored and underchallenged, like students at public high schools?

Maybe not as impressive as I hoped it would be when I first thought of this message, but there it is.