Hmmmm... I thought you were going to spout about relativism there for a second, and then you trounce with a statement that seems to be rather pointless.

Contrary to your assertion that we change to the system, very few systems ever changed from those who did not participate in it. Almost all have changed from within. Even the Nazi's weren't defeated by foreign forces, at the end of the day, the system collapsed from the inside. Being outside the system is generally pointless, while you can warm yourself by the fire of your own ethics.

Also, I didn't comment on the "ethics" of his decision. Many people choose not to participate because of their "ethics" but really that is the lazy way out. It is the most effective way to accomplish nothing.

I think the gentleman made a bad decision. Either we adapt or fail.

On the other hand, I happen to be a senior IT manager in a company, where I know personally in my department we will be replacing about 30 jobs over the next 12 months that had been outsourced with direct employees of the company. We are learning that it doesn't give us the quality or the flexibility that we were really looking for. In addition, our customers services is going through a process of insourcing large parts of its contact centre, because at the end of the day, direct employees have a greater stake in the satisfaction of the customer and we manage our people better than our partners.

But eliminating yourself from the mix ensures that your views and thoughts will never be heard. If you really wanted to change things, you would jump in with both feet and see where it goes.

If you read the article, this isn't any different then what you see in your news feed, when one of your friends checks in, it is just that Starbuck's is paying for it to appear in the "Sponsored" section as well... They aren't doing anything you haven't already done, other then putting it in a more visible place. And this just isn't Starbucks, it is whomever decides that they want to sponsor something you are already posting on Facebook.

People do really need to get a life...

There isn't even an air of unbiased or objective statements. Editing it is, censorship it isn't. In today's society, it is true the words can get in the way of teaching a potentially important book. Words like "injun" and "nigger", especially with young people could totally distract from the larger issue and with the sensitivity schools do have (irrespective of individual teachers) around, good teachers might not take up the book for fear.

I see this as a tool to make a decent and important book be able to be taught in classes. Not some sort of "whitewashing" of history. The book is in the public domain, people will always be free to access the original work and I would think that Mark Twain would be happy, given today's society, of allowing the edits.

Only on /. does this get flagged as "Informative".

The UK has been starting to introduce a "credit rating" system (thanks to the same companies in the US flogging their wares over here). It isn't as rigorous or specific as the US one and simply rates the risk. It tends to be some financial activity is good (no matter what type) but late payments or defaulted debt is bad. A lot of it has to do with a verifiable history. When I first moved over here from the US, I had a really hard time because I didn't have a previous address. Once I moved about a year in, and had a previous address in the UK, everything got substantially easier. Youth (I think 25) get a high risk rating no matter what.

In the UK they are card happy (whether it be Debit or Credit) and has moved more and more to a cashless and chequeless society, but I had to remind my partner, who is a Brit, that on our recent holiday to Germany, we needed to carry cash with us and pay for things in cash, because lots and lots of places don't take credit cards and in fact, we found places that do take a card, only take one type of Debit card. Not fun if you aren't prepared.

Change jobs and stop complaining.

No wonder the one developer kept anonymous. Paid only $150k a year... Where did I put that little violin again? Get real!

Now amortize it over 3-5 years, account for failures/replacements and the IT staff to maintain it, M&E costs and you might get around $1.40/Month.

You mean Microsoft(TM) Wheel(R) Series 7, which will go end of support next month, don't you?

So when is this year 0 again? There is no year 0 in the Gregorian Calendar.

The part of Philips that was into speech synthesis and recognition went through many different incarnations until it became part of Nuance.

I couldn't answer because there wasn't "I always select the Cowboy Neal option" option.