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Comment Over-monitoring is problematic (Score 4, Insightful) 117

While the breathing and sleeping alerts will calm a lot of parents,

I would argue the opposite is more likely to happen. Most parents are not qualified to properly interpret these data, and over-monitoring can cause excessive anxiety and obsessive-compulsive tendencies.

Submission + - Texas Teen Jailed For Sarcastic Facebook Comment (cnn.com)

tukang writes: 18 year old Justin Carter faces up to 8 years in prison after posting on Facebook that he was "going to go shoot up a school full of kids and eat their still, beating hearts". According to Justin, the comment was a sarcastic response which he followed up with "lol, jk". Unable to make $500,000 bail, Justin has been incarcerated since March 27th.

Comment Only upgrade firmware if you have nothing to lose (Score 3, Insightful) 467

After bricking three successive broadband routers using firmware upgrades recommended by their respective manufacturers, my position on firmware upgrades is simple: NEVER do them, unless you have nothing to lose (i.e. if your device is working so badly that you would need to replace it anyway).

Comment Why look like a tramp and behave like an asshole? (Score 1) 573

This is a serious, though exasperated question, born of years of frustration with the leader of ideals I subscribe to:

Why in all of the universe don't you bother to look basically presentable and behave in a basically likeable way? Do you really not realize that you are the Free Software movement's greatest liability because of your shitty appearance and behaviour? How does this basic fact of humanity manage to evade you for all these years?

Comment Re:Why Slackware? (Score 1) 183

Simplicity and long-term convenience. The complications caused by those "conveniences" of other distros have a way of getting in the way at unexpected moments and making life very inconvenient. Doing the configuration right the first time by learning to understand what you're actually doing may take extra effort but pays off in the long run.

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