"Having, by a time of very intense concentration, planted the problem in my sub-consciousness, it would germinate underground until, suddenly, the solution emerged with blinding clarity, so that it only remained to write down what had appeared as if in a revelation."

http://www.davemckay.co.uk/philosophy/russell/russell.php?name=how.i.write

"Thinks he sees"? Doesn't that strongly suggest that we're dealing with a lunatic here?

...is fun. But how the hell is it legal? Can you really take a game like Scrabble or Monopoly and give it a new name? And what is it about social networks that makes them ooze slime?

If I type "Lniux" into the google search box, I get the results I wanted, not the ones I asked for.
But if I type "Mkdri" into the Linux command line, I get what I didn't want.

That's the difference.

Haywood Jabuzoff

Robots don't need headphones.

Please. Your political preferences are boring. Let's talk about something of interest to /. readers.

If you manage a small site or blog that accepts advertising, this is the time to make some cash. For years, small media outlets such as newspapers and TV stations have used the political buying season to get well. Now it's your turn.

If you design web sites, here's a chance to understand how web advertising really works.

And if you have privacy concerns, put them aside for a few months to observe just how bad it can get.

Voters are lab rats. Learn.

"Asked" is transitive and should not precede a prepositional phrase. "Asked you guys" and "talked with you guys" are both correct because "talk" is intransitive. Eighties, 80s and 80's are acceptable but not 80ies. I'm not sure what you meant by 2k. I'd read that as 2,000, which can't be what you meant.

I must say your use of idioms and tech argot is surprisingly good for a non-native speaker, but I know y'all like to be perfect.

I am one of Facebook's 900 million odd users. I log on two or three times a year in response to friend requests; how do you spit in the eye of anyone who wants you to like him? At the same time, I resent the company's emotional blackmail more than just a little bit.

This company provides next to no value to people like me, and until it gets a real CEO, I can't see it prospering over the long term.

People who support radical change have hijacked the word "conservative" just as those who support extremism in religion have hijacked the word "Christian."

  Many, perhaps most, of the engineers and scientists I know are instinctively conservative. They want to build on the past, not toss it out. As Edmund Burke wrote, they have the disposition to preserve but the ability to improve.

True conservatives also want to conserve the earth; it is no accident that the word is closely related to "conservation." And when science comes in conflict with religion or traditional belief, the first instinct of conservatives is to defend the old order, but after science prevails, as it did by 1926 in the matter of evolution, conservatives defend the new "old order." They do not seek to return the 21st century to the time of the robber barons of the 1800s.

The problem is that true conservatives--the ordinary people you live and work with--have allowed extremists like Limbaugh run the so-called conservative agenda because they see these loudmouthed firebrands as helping them hold back too-rapid change. In this, they resemble the Junker class in Germany that despised Hitler but supported him because they thought that he and his own brand of firebrands would hold back socialism.

If the stranglehold that extremists have on today's U.S. Republican Party is ever to be broken, it must be broken by true conservatives in the tradition of Burke, Churchill, Eisenhower, and the first President Bush. Until that is done, they have no real choice except to stay home or vote for the Democrats.

Lying on an SEC document is more serious than run-of-the-mill resume puffery. The time to clean up any inadvertence or carelessness is before filing sworn documents.

Investors deserve complete candor from CEOs. The degree he received in 1979 is not important; lying about it in 2012 is.

Inflated resumes are indeed common among Silicon Valley cubicle slaves, but Thompson should be held to a higher standard. That, as they say, is why he gets the big bucks.

Agreed. Ninety-nine percent is a bit high, but my dictionary and others say that it means to break into a computer illegally. The AP Stylebook, which governs most media coverage, says the term "hacker" "has evolved to mean one who uses computer skills to unlawfully penetrate proprietary computer systems."

Since the meaning of "hack" has evolved, or at the very least is evolving into this negative sense, automated computer systems flag it.

Maybe the magazine can contact a live person. Or find a different word although I'm not sure what it would be.

There's more to engineering than classwork. This kid's got it in his genes. Go Bears!

They take some people off the street who, at the very least, have an abnormally high interest in making war against the U.S. within our borders. More important, it makes terrorists wary of trusting one another, thus disrupting their operations.

At the time of 9/11, people criticized the FBI for sitting on its ass and letting Bin Laden get away with it. Call me crazy, but I'm all for jailing and killing people who want to destroy the U.S.

State and local governments are responsible for the actions of Microsoft and Apple because they passed the laws making such tax avoidance possible. It's unreasonable to think that any company or individual would not try to pay the lowest legal amount.

But the lengths to which Apple, Microsoft, and the other tech giants have gone to influence these laws is what offends me. The tech lobby's biggest priority is to allow high-tech firms to bring back profits from overseas operations that were established precisely to avoid taxes in the first place. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-18/technology-companies-lobby-u-s-lawmakers-for-lower-corporate-taxe-rates.html

Companies download software from countries with lower tax burdens, claim their profits there, and now are pushing hard to be allowed to bring that money home free from U.S. tax. It's nice that Apple and Microsoft help Ireland pay for its schools, but not while Cupertino's and Seattle's are cutting educational spending to the bone and beyond.

And if the tiny city of Cupertino has the temerity to ask Apple for something as modest as citywide free wireless, Apple threatens to move out of town, neglecting to point out that, to a large extent, it already has.

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