Recommendations must, above all else be honest in regards to what YOU know.

As the response above suggests you can say "He did some stupid things in the past, but later he worked very well for me, and I think based on this that he is now a high quality person." Yada... Yadd..

Lay the facts on the table along with your opinion.

As for the original topic. The AC's mistake was keeping a low profile online. HR will be suspicious of anyone with no online identity at all. Especially for tech jobs. However. Let's say you apply for a Sysadmin position, and they search on your name. That search brings back a flood of discussions, forum posts and debates, most of them technology related. After the 1st few pages of boredom they will announce: "This guy is a geek and spends his online time in the company of geeks."

An ancient blog post about a criminal investigation would probably get lost in the torrent.

Gotta love /. for this :D

Isn't that what everyone dose? I need lots of freinds to "help" me play whichever game I am into at the moment. Other people do too. I just assume that when someone I don't know and have no connection to, adds me, it's because they need help with some game or other.

If that person drops me a polite note with the application invite, I usually help out.

I also became friends (The kind you break bread with if you are ever in the same town) with several people I met throgh FB games.

I also add every local political leader I see on FB and occasionally a celebrity who has a personal account (as opposed to the PR firm managed "fan page"). Just for the hell of it.

In all this, I have no problem with obvious fakes like "Syler Petrely" or one of the 500+ "Bob Marley"s. I post info to my account that I would feel comfortable putting in a newspaper. I conduct no financial transactions throgh FB or the email address I use for FB (Facebook is that account's only purpose)

So even a complete takeover of my FB account would be just annoying. Not painful. I wonder though. How defective is FB if simply being on your friend list allows someone to do anything to you or your account? Tag you in a dirty picture perhaps?

I don't see what the big deal is. These games are simulations. That means you can make all the stupid mistakes possible without killing yourself or wiping out a village. Any good quality simulator should be usable as a training platform for people who intend to do it for real.

Which makes me wonder about those Resident Evil fans. Are you really planning to have a Zombie Apocalypse? Ohh... that's right you are. Must tune my trigger fingers. and practice how to decapitate with a machete while avoiding splatter.

If only NASA started doing this 30 years ago. We would probably have colonies on Mars and the Moon already and maybe mining missions to the Asteroid belt.

I like Hardcore. But that may be because of y pr0n bias. I'm shocked to see that nobody has yet asked us to imagine a Beowulf cluster of Hardc... Ouch, stop hitting me.

I think you are missing his point. The nutrients which would be fed to this meat are the source of the energy.

So the energy he is looking to recover is just the nerve impulse (or substitute)used to trigger the contractions and perhaps the energy used to pump in the nutrients.

That is quite possible as inefficient animals (like cows and horses) can be compelled to carry all the food and water they will consume in a day, each morning. Without risk of starvation.

When I saw the name my immediate reaction was "Ambassador Peter King is dead, isn't he?"

Yeah. Now I remember. His boy friend inflicted multiple stab wounds in a fit of rage, moments after they had sex. That boyfriend is now serving life for the murder.

I wonder if this guy is as perverted as his namesake was? The police recovered 30 self produced gay porn tapes from the crime scene which included maneuvers that shocked everyone who saw it. Some forensics detectives allegedly needed counseling to cope.

This kind of meet adds a whole new sub category for picky eaters to separate into. Those who eat meat from animals and those who eat meat from a factory lab.

For those of us who already eat anything, this only matters if the production technique produces a slab of meat that tastes as good and costs less than the old fashioned method: Feeding a real pig on everything from corn and table scraps to bits of other pigs, then chopping his head off when he gets fat enough.

BTW: They might have to get some nerve tissue into this lab meat before it can be exercised with electrical pulses (And yes. That dose sound like the best idea so far). Hmm... I wonder if I qualify for the job of "Experimental R&D Chef"

BTW: If this proves viable, expect the patent to be bought by someone who will fight/bribe tooth and nail to have "Animal Slavery" outlawed, or to protect us from the dangers of our pork addiction.

If you don't think that plausible consider what happened to hemp after nylon became viable.

This kind of meet adds a whole new sub category for picky eaters to separate into. Those who eat meat from animals and those who eat meat from a factory lab.

For those of us who already eat anything, this only matters if the production technique produces a slab of meat that tastes as good and costs less than the old fashioned method: Feeding a real pig on everything from corn and table scraps to bits of other pigs, then chopping his head off when he gets fat enough.

BTW: They might have to get some nerve tissue into this lab meat before it can be exercised. Hmm... I wonder if I qualify for the job of "Experimental R&D Chef"

BTW: Neglected to mention. Editors choice awards are given out after consultation with Accounts receivables and advertising sales.

I.e. If you want to win one, just buy lots of advertising.

This phenomenon is not unique to Games. I watched a TV Rerun of the Matrix last night and remembered that some Newspaper reviews were very harsh on it. That I would watch it again after all these years and loosing count of how many times I have seen it suggests that the reviewer has standards incompatible with my own. That is not the worse case however.

There was the Mag Innovision letter to the editor after it's 17" monitor received the worst ranking in a roundup of 17" monitors. The Editor's choice award went to a Gateway 2000 monitor. The point of the complaint letter? "This is the same monitor, we just print different labels on the ones we ship to Gateway 2000." Or words to that effect.

So as a general rule I have very little use for published reviews of any product. Word of mouth, and personal trials work best. Also it's good to know what advertisers are allowed to lie about.

"This POS is the best on the market" -: Allowable lie.
"This overpriced crap is great value for money" -: Acceptable lie.
"This 500GB drive holds more data than 750GB of data without using compression" -: dangerous ground.

It will be great for people who can't drive. Like the blind or those with limited vision.

guess I am not "anybody".

While it is true that I have a computer with 192GB of RAM, that is not the box I use for enduring /.

The point is that the claim was just stupid. "100 times as much RAM, Storage or processing power as the average desktop" can be a sensible statement, If you find out what is the average for desktops currently in use or for desktops sold this year, and base the comparison on one of those numbers.

There really is no way to know how how powerful a computer each reader has. Next this writer might say "Yow Ming is two feet taller than you". That makes just as much sense.