How does having only one child makes my opinion useless, I grew up in a family with three siblings and never did ANY of us randomly eat obviously inedible objects at 6 years old. I realize many kids are much harder to manage than one, but that doesn't make the point any less valid. Take an active role in raising a child (don't just sit a child in front of the TV or somewhere unsupervised), be mindful of what is left laying around, and generally don't be a idiot and I promise you, kids will be a lot less problematic with regards to things like this. Certainly kids will be kids, and you cant control every variable, but they generally have a capacity for learning way beyond what we give them credit for. That said, they only learn what their parents choose to teach them.

The senate and house can come up with all the laws and other bull shit they want. But ultimately it should be up to the people not these bone heads to vote on them. I understand that in 1776 there was a need to have representatives in government due to the lack of speedy communication from constituents. However in this day and age, we have the technology to allow people to vote on all of these issues. There is no longer any need for electoral college, and obviously our senators no longer speak for their districts so there is no longer any need for them to have the power to vote on laws that apply to us. I know this is unlikely to ever happen, but I can dream cant I?

I have a child, he is 12 now. He NEVER had a problem swallowing stupid shit when he was young. At 6 years old he was at least competent enough to know not to swallow anything but food. When he was a bit younger yea sure that might have posed a risk but we were very attentive parents and always kept an eye on him and were very careful about what we left out. Additionally we talked to him constantly and warned him about the risk of such things, and yes believe it or not that does work. Children are smarter than we give them credit for and allow them to be by dumbing everything down for them. Personally, I think that if you have 6 year old still doing that sort of thing you've got more problems than you know. Lets just say the problem extends beyond your child, stupid parents make stupid babies.

Interesting article written by a Harvard Law professor detailing specific cases show how SOPA violates the constitution. http://www.scribd.com/doc/75153093/Tribe-Legis-Memo-on-SOPA-12-6-11-1

Haha my bad... in any case how about you go fuck yourself?

http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/president-obama-signs-national-defense-authorization-act

This already got passed.... the president signed it gladly.

Have you ever been to H&M? The entire premise of that place is to sell "designer style" clothing for cheap. Sure its not Ross or some second hand store, but I applaud their attempt at making more choices, more affordable. And on that note, if they want to save a little money on models/advertising to keep their prices down then I am all for it. Although honestly I think the one on the left in the article looks kind of creepy like a Real Doll. Very weird. Obviously not quite the real thing.

Off topic I know, but that's really weird... why would he have 13k in cash in a suit pocket that he intended to spend on hospital bills? Something doesn't add up there.

When I get mod points, I tend to browse from the bottom. I do that generally because, when I come in to work after a long vacation I found it was always much more informative to browser the newer emails first. If I found and interesting chain, or post in this case, I would read the preceding posts.

The real question is, if this system is so broken, why do people keep coming back?

I did the same thing in my life, except I went to college for about a year for a CS degree though I never finished. I think mostly if you dont have a degree they will look at job experience, if you don't have experience, be prepared to prove yourself. Ask an employer if they would be willing to let you sit with one of their top developers to prove that you know your stuff. Not only with that show initiative, but it will show that you are not afraid of working under pressure and the scrutiny of a experienced developer. This is my advice at least, and with this approach, I have never been turned down for job that I have interviewed for. You do have to be careful to pick jobs that aren't over your head though because it can also make you look rather silly if they are expecting something you aren't aware of.

I think the biggest reason is possibly that the integrated graphics can function as your primary adapter when the the power of the dedicated cards is unnecessary, reducing power consumption and heat overall. Certainly its not going to win any graphic wars, but its more than enough to run Aero efficiently. I suppose power consumption is not on the top of the list of most peoples concerns when buying something like this, but its nice to have the option to do so.

This, on the heels of the accouncement of that MS is discontinuing Silverlight development as well. Seems like a bad business decision on the part of both companies. I realize that HTLM5 is intended to take the place of them both, but being a .net developer I can say from experience that HTML 5 is a lot more frustrating to code and debug... more than silverlight at least cant really speak for Flash. My point is, there is a place for both and with the only two big players jumping ship its going to be hard for developers that have already learned Flash or Silverlight, to just switch gears and starting mucking around in JavaScript again.

Having worked in a VERY large data center, with hardware from many different manufacturers and functions, I have found this to not always be the case. When you have large systems interacting as such, one single bug may cause a chain reaction of events that are different every time it is triggered. Stack traces, network dumps, etc, all vastly different. What is truly random may not be the "instructions" themselves but the usage patterns of the users, and thus the processes on those machines as a result of that erroneous instruction. Its like playing Plinko, both the board and the game piece follow a simple set of rules, but the path of the game piece is and always will be truly unique each and every time.

Best comment in this entire thread! lol Mod parent up for favor :)