I was recently watching Hulu and saw an ad for what I first thought might be Firefox. Turns out it was Chrome, which is too bad (we already know Google can advertise). It seems like the perfect space to advertise for Firefox or, better yet, a Linux distribution. You know people there are somewhat tech savvy, and frankly for whatever your friend says, having professionally-produced advertisements on respectable places like Hulu stamp "Ubuntu" into your consciousness means a lot for acceptance.

You don't understand addiction if you think it something to be fought with logical persuasion. And you are probably normal in saying to ditch him, but really, I'm disgusted by how callous people are today. Friendships and relationships involve a little inconvenience, not just saying, 'well, I told him it's a bad idea, fuck him!'

Experimenting by delaying a pageload for 500ms is worthy of ethical considerations? Would you like to sue Microsoft for emotional damage? Too many people are afraid of doing anything these days.

Look at some of the other awful shit this esteemed publication has put out:

The People's Republic of China claims to have invented the world's first completely unhackable operating system. The project, known as Kylin, is supposed to keep the evil running dog imperialist pigs from stealing all those glorous technological secrets that have made China the centre of technological development. Or at least those that its workers have used their superior technological skill to half inch from foreign servers.

Interesting but it's all really simple and looks prewritten. Try where do you live, who are you, what do you like, what can you do.

This has all the empty hyperbole and hubris of the dot com bubble. I wish these preening fools just quietly made it work.

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Your save the world, fuck the rules, and money means nothing attitude makes me cringe. You may really burn yourself here. Life isn't some television show. Providing for yourself or being broke is not a joke.

This is a VM integrated graphically into the Win7 GUI. FTA: "Most of the features called Windows XP Mode are really features of the new Windows Virtual PC." Their "virtual application support" for the top Win7 editions just makes it more convenient.

It was said in a BBC News article a few days ago, which I can't find at the moment, that Mexico has so many deaths because there is a culture that you go to the doctor only as a last resort, and by then the infected people are really bad.

You absolutely in no circumstances can ethically give a healthy person mind-altering substances without their consent... People quoted who say it's interesting for potential are on a massive ego trip.

"Spanish flu" came about because all countries infected before Spain were at war and had press censorship in place. Therefore, the first real public record of the pandemic was in Spain...

That's silly. Look, GDP measures economic activity. Research and development is a form of investment in technology, which is one of the forces in economic growth. Because not all or even most investment is done by the government, investment is best measured by GDP rather than government budget.

Wikipedia has normal flu mortality at 0.1%.

People may be interested in the book The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague In History on the Spanish flu.

It mentions that these killer strains of flu are an anomaly in a virus that mutates rapidly, and so the general trend is for an outbreak to become less and less deadly as it continues (i.e., subsequent generations revert to the mean). Also, there were multiple strains in play at different times during the whole 1918-1920 crisis.