Comment Salt! (Score 1) 332
NaCl is salt isn't it?
We also throw a nickel at the rookie Windows sys admins and tell them, "Here's a nickel. Get a real operating system, kid."
Actually, it costs less than that
Sure beats a self-knitted sweater, formed for a mutant, with asymmetric arm lengths, a hunchback and a hole in the stomach area for the tentacle.
And yes, I speak from experience.
Man, school must have been rough for you.
So honest people have to do extra work, and cheaters get a second chance. What a great life lesson this school is teaching.
From what I've seen in politics, banking, business, and pretty much anything else in the world, it's a fairly realistic lesson.
4chan can use their powers for good?
Um... I just don't know how to process that information...
4chan strikes me a bit more like the classic greek gods, capricious, capable of granting blessings and curses on a whim.
Just don't tell them that.
What the hell is [Illegal media]? And how do you download any sort of media?
Well, according to dictionary.com, Media is the plural of medium, which is, as we all know, "a person through whom the spirits of the dead are alleged to be able to contact the living". Thus, "Illegal Media" are illegal shaman immigrants. I'm guessing "download" would be to make them carry lots of stuff? I guess making them work isn't that bad..? Unless they start channeling me-maw, then you're in for a world of tongue lashings.
[...]but simple logic says that there is a unified equation.
Can you elaborate? The only thing I can think of is a bigger "Game of Life" type thing... Is that what you mean? Seeming complexity from simple equations?
The problem is then the people in management don't understand it so they force the tech people to "dumb it down" to the point where it becomes essentially false. For example:
Cookies can store data about where you have been and what ads you have seen. Therefore, cookies can be used to track you.
Soon becomes:
Cookies track data about people.
Eventually becomes:
Cookies are a privacy threat.
Which gets read by the masses as:
Cookies are viruses.
Which then gets read as:
You'll get sick from eating cookies.
Which is true, if you eat enough I think.
He's not completely psycho. Discovery's (TLC's) support of Jon and Kate Plus Eight, 19 Kids and Counting, etc is disgusting. Those parents should be in jail, not rolling in money.
I wish I could mod you up beyond 10.
The only thing cheaper than hardware is talk.
