I've always kind of wanted to see bees sucking on some Bawls, does that make me abnormal?

Ah, thank you.

Isn't this exactly the same as the P45 chipsets? Those things had SLI support but not crossfire; if you want Crossfire, you got/get an X48 or whatever. Seriously, this doesn't seem like news to me, other than a new chipset will be produced in the future. Now if it said there will NOT be a chipset for the new generation ATI cards... then that'd be news. Did I miss something?

Well, in my case, as and experimentalist, it's simply that I don't consider thinking about subject matter that I love and playing with expensive toys that I could never afford on my own as "work." And as long as I produce publishable results every so often, no one bothers me. Maybe when I get my own lab, or otherwise rise through the ranks, this will change, but right now, I'm high enough level to not be belabored with the mundane, but low enough that I can go unnoticed by the higher-ups. It's a sweet deal... although the pay is certainly better higher up.

As a research scientist, I don't even 'work' ON the clock... hehe.

Ya, the whole cooperate "elite management" style is really troublesome to me; you know, the idea that the company pretty well owns you, and that the managers are superior human beings simply because they are above you on the food chain. That's why I'm staying the heck away from it all.

Also, many programs like ultrasurf and gtunnel work quite well, so you don't even have to search for those proxies. The problem is, your average user doesn't know that, and will not acquire the knowledge easily (websense and others like it can block most sites that link to/advertise proxies, too... you have to already have some knowledge of it).

Having operated under a rather oppressive form of websense at college for years, I have very little love for the company. But this still seems like a case of over-extending the blame. Sure, they are probably more evil than they want to pretend, but at least they bother pretending; which is more than I can say for some.

I think I'll reserve judgment until more facts are out, especially Websense's next step. If they actually do uphold their anti-censorship statement, then props to them; they'll be the least annoying filtering software in the market, which is not saying a whole lot.

It is unfortunate, but it is certainly not without precedent. During major wars, we usually censor mail from soldiers to try to prevent security leaks, accidentally revealing the rumors to the enemy really can cost lives.

We need to strike a balance between freedom and safety/security. Preventing all social networking seems excessive to me, but perhaps there were some recent incidents that made the Pentagon panic that we don't know about. I doubt such a policy will stand for long, perhaps they just need some extra training in cyber-safety (like most of America).

I must have misunderstood. It was my impression that "(randomly chosen) article" meant that a reference was provided by the user, thus the service need only search the one article for the text. That wouldn't be too computationally heavy, unless they are getting several such requests a second (which I doubt... but I suppose it's possible).

Good point. And they did refund the money. I guess the flaw is assuming that the user wants to play by the rules, and I suppose we'd be complaining even at the unnecessary restrictions to account for the users who do not. We can make any machine look stupid when we misuse it.

The beef here I think is that they have the 'audacity' to sell the license... but now that I think about it, it's still a much better system than trying to contact a real person and deal with it. Still, I don't think it should be too hard to have a JavaScript check to see if the words come from the actual article. At the very least that might help prevent people from accidentally misquoting it if they are silly and type by hand or copy the wrong article or whatever.

Should be changed to "$.46-a-word" press.

Especially not in the regulation from ISP side (there'd be a better chance if it just limited the ability of third parties to requisition or request such data). People still seem to think that internet traffic is public domain, which is like saying mail I send to my parents is privy to the USPS's inspection to make sure it isn't copyrighted material or child porn, imho. It's ridiculous, but people (especially those who still see the internet as "new" just don't understand it the way we do.

It burnss our eyeses preciousss!

Joke detection fail.

Hardware failure is just Marvellous. ;D