MtGox tells us that they don't have those lenses any more, because people claim they didn't get lenses when they wanted them from MtGox, but they did get them delivered. MtGox now says that their stock inventory program was flawed and that this, combined with a flaw in the shipping companies track and trace software resulted in people maliciously requesting double deliveries.

This results in two observations. 1) The "flaw" in the track and trace was a long time known thing and everyone had found a way to deal with it, except MtGox. Due diligence anyone? 2) MtGox didn't do proper inventory counts and only found out that they had no lenses left when their warehouse was completely empty. Again, due diligence.

I don't know about the Japanese law, but it seems to me that because of the lack of due diligence, the management of MtGox would be personally responsible in a lot of jurisdictions for this fiasco?

The real problem is that universities demand publication of your paper in a "renown" magazine. These magazines know you need to get published and thus are willing to publish anything, as long as you pay the hefty fee required. These magazines have no incentive to check for the quality of the submissions, since relatively very few people actually read the magazines and skip the publications that don't interest them. Give your publication an uninteresting title and people will most likely skip it.

If Universities would set up a peer reviewed web site system themselves and allow their students to publish there free of charge, these magazines have no other way to survive than to pay for good submissions. Students wins and science wins in that case. Even better, getting copies of your paper to interested people does no longer require you to purchase expensive prints of the magazine, since *they* hold the copyright and you can't even publish anywhere else. The few magazine publishers that won't be able to get a third home in the Caymans and won't be able to get a bigger yacht might complain, but they brought it on themselves with their greed.

I'm sure AC/DC will be delighted with their new title of oldest rock on the planet.

Mortality has only been the case for about 90% of humans ever born. Statistically speaking, you have a 10% of living forever.

Really, these people need their dick sizes predicted by comments on SlashDot. Maybe then they'd understand that any form of profiling is equally bad, regardless of what you profile on.

I want to know what he thinks of the new SlashDot beta

You'd expect that people working for SlashDot would know how to write a simple comment. How about using paragraphs that are just about one thing? This looks like incoherent blabbering and after a few attempts to parse it, it still does.

Don't nickel and dime customers after they bought the product. You already paid for the "life time" updates when you bought the equipment years ago. Now they want you to pay *again*? Sorry, you may want to do that for new purchases and announce it 6 months ahead. People already budgeted and bought stuff and now all of a sudden you're messing with their budget after the money is spent?

If it's one thing I hate it is a vendor on which I can't rely after I made a commitment to them. HP sold this equipment with "free" downloadable supportpacks and firmware upgrades. That deal has been made in the past and now they're coming back on it? Sorry, you just made my blacklist HP, I'd rather buy Lenovo or Dell if you don't come back on this decision really fast.

Since only EU citizens can apply for these jobs and there is a EU shortage of said professions. A lot of work was shipped out to "cheap labour" countries but is now coming back because team work and quality control have proven to be too cumbersome to warrant the lower price. The people capable of doing these jobs don't exist in the EU, since these jobs often require experience with new technologies and if there was no work in it, nobody learned or got experience with the new stuff. As far as the free market goes, that means that restricting these jobs to EU only people and the big myth that off shoring would be so much cheaper have killed the market and wages are rising again for certain professions. The price will go up so much, that most companies won't be able to afford it and either they will not hire and struggle, or outsource longer, delaying the economy and not solving anything for the local job market on short term. So, no free market and the EU governments have to step in to fix this.

Medieval texts are both full of truth and full of utter bollocks. History and especially scientific history from around that era is scarce and subjective at best. Unless they can give actual examples that are clearly interpretable only one way, I don't think it should be taken seriously.

Why bother what the questions are if half of the people taking them are cheating? Why did they get the job in the first place? What tests did they have to pass to get the job? How is it possible that half of the people that are supposed to be 100% honest and dependable get implicated in cheating? We can't afford to have this happen with the people that are supposed to handle such a responsible job. Until this is absolutely clear, new test methods have been devised and retesting has been done, world peace is in trouble.

MicroSoft can't guarantee compatibility with a lot of formats either, including older versions of their own formats. Any major upgrade or change is going to give compatibility and training/skill issues, regardless of what vendor you had or will go to. Sure, it'd be really nice if OpenOffice and/or LibreOffice would actually be able to fully work with at least current MicroSoft formats without messing up some of the formatting some of the time, but if you're looking beyond that, you'll be fine once you've migrated.

Solaris isn't open source anymore. I doubt they download Solaris sources from RedHat?