Steve Jobs, RIP

I don't mean to make this seem like a joke, but every time Slashdot posts about race there is a whole slew of White people coming out of the wood-works claiming that racism is not the problem? And then form a defense out of the following...

A. Affirmative Action is the problem Black people can't be trusted.
B. Black people are not smart enough and thus can't be qualified.
C. Black people score lower on academic tests, and if they did well they did not deserve the grade. See (A)
D. How come my Asian friend is so smart and you are so dumb.
E. Let me pull out my statistics textbook: if you are Black, then you are dumb. QED.

Then sprinkle it with:
A. Oh BTW I am not racist,.. racist rant..., racism is bad
B. I voted for Obama, how could I be racist?
C. I have a Black friend somewhere! I call him by the N word and he loves it. How can I be racist?
D. Look at all of the Black Athletes this proves that genetics determine everything about a person. And since Black people don't have Neanderthal DNA...
E. Oh don't mind my friends dropping the N-word on that other post. He is just an anomaly.

Then pat yourself on the back for proving that 500 years of social engineering is meaningless and get modded up. Brillant because the next article will be about how social engineering causes somebody to hand over millions of SSN to a stealthy hacker.

I think there is a sick person who posts these flame bait articles on Slashdot. I am calling you out! You post these articles and wait for hundreds of responses and then you revel in the racist commentary. It does not make sense otherwise. If Slashdot cared about race they would have auto tagged the racists or blocked Anonymous cowards spewing racial epithets.

Let me put it into perspective for you guys. If you were Black, and you had to read that the government has be rejecting your best and brightest because of your race and then log into Slashdot and read through the most offensive racist rants. You would have quite a shitty day. Now imagine that you had to interact with a bunch of people who pretend to be your friends when talking face-to-face and then they log on to Slashdot and drop the N bomb uncontrollably. Then you will have a better understanding of what being Black is like.

How do you know about these breaks that Black people get that you don't have access to? You are making a lot of assumptions about plagiarism and stating them as fact and then you want data to prove that the problem is not the NIH it is the applicants lack of ability. How can this be? Where is your data? The NIH did the research to prove that it is not being fair in the grant selection process. The director of the NIH practically provided his mea coupla!

Next you assert that you would avoid Black doctors because you don't trust their qualifications. In your mind you believe even the possibility of corruption invalidates an entire race. Yet you fail to mention that there have been case of White doctors faking credentials. Exibit A: (http://www.cnbc.com/id/19330471) Should I then say all White doctors are frauds? Of course not! That would be idiotic!

Last time I looked that is text book racism. You can pull any reason out "they are not smart enough", "they got a free ride", etc.

I love at the end you scoff "Racism needs to go away." I got news for you, until you go away it will be here on Slashdot.

Slashdot is a terrible forum to discuss this stuff because the deck is stacked. If you need proof grep the archives for the N word.

That is called binning. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_binning
It is standard industry practice. Doing so saves *you* money because it gives customers the option to buy underperforming or semi-functional yields at a lower cost. It is good for the environment because it reduces manufacturing waste. Higher sellable yields improves profits for manufacturers and reduce costs for you. It is a win-win situation!

No!

(IANAL) I am not sure why everyone seems to be upset when one company sues each other over Intellectual Property (IP) rights or when company signs an IP agreement with another company. This is how an IP economy works. The only way for companies to agree on price for IP is to have the court determine the price, settle out of court, or sign an agreement to obtain IP. Microsoft claims that some of its technologies used in Android infringe on their patents and they will negotiate a price or take a company to court. This is how IP works. This is how business works. If you run a software company make sure you have a lawyer on retainer, because that is how companies communicate discuss IP rights via lawyers. Patents are validated or invalidated by the court and that is the law in the US.

I think what people here do not like is that you can patent software. I agree! I believe it is foolish and counterproductive for the software industry. But there is no point in getting upset when you hear that one company is suing another etc etc. They do this crap all of the time.

Only a geek would not appreciate being imitated! Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery! Don't worry about appreciation, no one has really appreciated geeks before so what else is new? :-)

Don't get me wrong though it looks pretty good so far: http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/21/nokia-n9-first-hands-on/

For all of you Android haters that want a true Linux phone experience! Built with blessed APIs and running the latest mainline Linux kernel. This is your chance to prove us that a phone OS built using a fully open source development methods works. I am sick of going to conferences and hearing about how Android is bad for the community etc and then these same people pull out Apple iPhones. Needed to get that off my chest! :-)

No app developer is going to use the feature checklist as a deciding point to developing apps.The only thing that will attract developers to the platform is the ability to make money. No one has made a million dollars making software for Honeycomb (AFAIK), so until that happens it is going to be tepid developer ecosystem.

In other news Microsoft is releasing DirectAzureX exclusively for Internet Explorer bringing secure 3D content to the Web. Innovation at work people! Microsoft the true king of standards fragmentation.

If you sort the graph from highest median salary to lowest, you will see that the people who are care about the future generations (educators, counselors, social workers, etc) are paid the least while people (like me) that help drive our unsustainable culture are paid the most. That is not really something to be proud of.

The NES went on a diet in the early 90's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NES_2 as well. I am surprised that CNET missed that!