>>The reason that real Christians live seperated lives is that it helps keep down the tendency to sin.

> Maybe people wouldn't have such a problem with Christians and other religious folk if they were out in the world living the way they believe they should even with temptation around them

Indeed, the New Testament speaks to this very issue:

I Corinthians 5:9-12

I have written you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people-- not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. But now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat. What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?

The idea being, if someone inside the church is immoral, they should be ostracized, but there is no reason to judge anyone who is not a Christian. Christians are only to judge internally, not externally. Kinda puts the whole right wing gay-bashing, sex-focused BS in it's place doesn't it? The "leave this world" reference meaning that Christians are NOT to isolate themselves at all. So, don't isolate yourselves, and don't judge. Exactly the opposite of the hypocrisy we see today.

I once downloaded an open source project, checked the hash and found it was bad. Wrote the admin about it and NEVER got a response. Anybody else seen this or had a hash not check out? I can't remember what it was.

The offer for more money at work is part of the system. You provide a valuable service and they compensate you for it. They trust you to do useful labor, and you trust them to compensate you for it. It works because they make money off your labor and everybody is happy. If somebody was to write a program to take the .00001 cents rounded off from a company's transactions (a la Office Space) then they are trying to game the system. They are taking money without providing anything useful in return. It amounts to stealing and is in fact treated that way in law. I guess your point is taken in terms of "they" being unable to stop themselves if there is money to be made. So I rescind my call for "them" to stop being greedy and amend it to say "let's create laws to stop it". However, I will point out that many people, while wishing to have more money, would not try and game a system to get it even if they could. I would not call those people greedy.

Agreed. When are some of these people going to realize that greed is bad. Trying to game a system is inherently wrong. Not just morally, but wrong systemically. It will always result in harm to the system. These people soothe their conscience with excuses- "We're spreading the risk and that's a good thing", "It's only fractions of pennies off of many people, nobody will notice." , etc. Until the whole thing comes crashing down because in reality the financial system is core dependent on actual investment and trust, not on gambling. To quote Chinatown:

Jake Gittes: How much are you worth?
Noah Cross: I have no idea. How much do you want?
Jake Gittes: I just wanna know what you're worth. More than 10 million?
Noah Cross: Oh my, yes!
Jake Gittes: Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What could you buy that you can't already afford?

>Translation: it might not be a bad time to change your password if you use Facebook.

According to the article, the passwords are gleaned from malware installed on the user's machine. So even if you change your password, what is to prevent the same malware from sending the new password to this hacker guy and allowing him to resend the changed account info to his buyers?

I don't know what kind of 3.5s you were buying but mine failed regularly. I think I still have some in storage and I would wager they are all hosed. But I dunno, maybe I was buying the cheapo floppies. I can't remember.

Couldn't they just use two cloaks placed at the appropriate angles in relation to each other?

Time and again do hear that the purpose of business is to generate profits for the owner, not care for the common good...Should it really come as a surprise when the rest of us say "fine" and jump in on the bandwagon?

IMHO this is one of the most insightful slashdot comments I have ever read. Thank you for this. The whole "We can be as greedy as we want because it's good for society, therefore you should act selflessly" argument has been totally eviscerated by your post. I'm actually going to save this in a file.

If they track my wife's phone, they'll notice she spends 93% of the time in her desk drawer. Why the heck do I pay for her phone when she never has it on her!?

That's probably a plastic cover for the antenna because metal would interfere with reception. Even the ipod touch has a little plastic corner. I assume this is where it receives wifi.

> Amino acids that have shown this have been tryptophan

couldn't they have told us this before thanksgivig?