that's a little over 909 kilos.

remember your audience!
oop ack, snort!

First they "As-A-Service"ed the search and I did not speak out,
for I was not a search specialist.

Then they AASed the aggregation and I did not speak out,
for I was not an aggregation specialist.

Then they AASed the compiler, ...

Then they AASed the debugger, ...

Then they AASed the programmer, ...

They they AASed the algorithmist, ...

Then they AASed the thinker, ...

Then they AASed the lover, ...

Then they programmed us remaining robots to never speak out again.

This is not a discovery; making a model is part of the process, true (forming a hypothesis), but there is no validation. Anyone can poke a few formulas into a spreadsheet and call themselves scientists, otherwise.

Furthermore, doesn't the subject matter have something to do with the maleability (or commitedness) of the individuals? How is that addressed in the study?

Kind of opposite of "anonymous coward" is the "authenticated coward", which is what this "culture of restraint" will encourage. You are someone only if you don't say anything. Anyone who says something (not officially condoned) is a persona non grata.

Yuck! Someone tag this Do Not Want, please.

VISA: "Done! Would you like us to destroy their credit rating and kidnap their dog as well?"

USGOV: No need, we have a seal team for that.

Diplomacy requires lots of hand-shaking, true.

But this?

WTF, 1.5 months after the U.S. change of guard and we're already recycling Enron?

"The brain is nothing like a man-made computer."

That's because for most people, the brain is woman-grown.
Thanks, Mom!

(-1, tearjerker :-P)

Well, the

cat POST | tr [A-Z] [a-z] | fold -w1

portion can be handled by sed, though less succinctly:

sed -e 'y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/' \
        -e 's/./&\n/g' POST

It used to be only super burglers needed to don the (invariably black) gloves and/or wipe their fingerprints from every surface. Now, it's become a common concern.

I can see it now, nestled eye-level with the toothbrushes and mouthwash, in a spring green box with a smart creme-colored swoosh on the side:

SWASN'T ME! (tm)
retractable screen wipes
(attractive wrist band included!)

A joint venture between Swifter and Swatch, of course...

A lot of the discussion is justification for ownership on the grounds of utility, style, and so forth.

Fine.

But i still wonder: Does ownership of this product (or any other, really) help one develop empathy for those for whom such justifications are not fitting?

Much twistings heard tell to escape the uncomfortabe "elite" monicker; what of the equally important "selfish" portion?

Face it: The Buddha was elite, too.

Ahhh, can't resist...

Real hackers don't dread unpleasant tasks. They write code that (perhaps write code that) does the unpleasant task for them.