i thought you'd came up with some conclussive scientific study showing irrefutable evidence that black humans are more prone to violent behaviour than white.

instead you're just babbling about crime statistics around the ghettos in your little corner of the world were you happened to threw some blacks in a while back. so now you have a problem with them? don't tell ...

i guess with such a display of skewed naiveness there's no point in even bothering to talk about civilization. have a nice day, keep enjoying your "commonly accepted definitions", you racist scumbag :-)

saying those things can only offend yourself because in absence of a clear definition of "violence" and "civilization" in context it just exposes you as ignorant and racist (what a coincidence!).

me. actually government is just a proxy for enlarging the pie of a few. it's just a coverup for private tyrants.

"we the people" should oppose this, uphold our rights etc. we don't because we are mostly dumb and lazy, but anyway if we tried hard enough to be taken seriously they would simply kill enough of us to keep the rest in line.

me too and i'm not even in there. but plenty fuckwitts who have my email are.

alienware can do as they please. all i'm saying is that i will not buy any m$-infested hardware.

my point being (sorry for repeating myself but i guess it wasn't clear to everybody) that if we all abstained from buying dishonest crap, better alternatives would naturally get a boost. i.e, as weird as it sounds, you can effectively stop crap from invading everything by simply not buying it. :-)

in all modesty, i do, i've been doing it for years and i'm perfectly fine with what i get. needless to say, i like games a lot, but not at any cost. of course not at the cost of being stick-carroted around by corporations. that just isn't fair game.

if more people did the same we would all benefit from better technology and entertainment. yes, you can! start now! :-)

wondering what those two circa 5-billion/year spikes mean in the "maximum effective effort" curve. that's about doubling the budget of "accelerated" just for 3 years hurry.

since it is opensource you can know now with absolute certainty where the bug was and for how long it has been there, and you can check exactly how it is fixed. with closed source you would know next to nothing. definitely worse.

replacing that ROM is a straightforward form of "patching" a device. at the very extreme, replacing the whole device could be seen as a patch. ergo doable. it may not be cost effective, though, so industry might be tempted to shove the cost on the customer by coercing him to buy a new device. whatever justification, this boils down to the provider refusing to take responsibility over his own work, and this alone should promptly disqualify him, but it seems to be common accepted practice. still nonsense! :-)

this makes no sense. nothing is unpatchable. where you read "unpatchable" you should read: "we will not patch it because it isn't profitable, so please upgrade to our new shiny shit which we obviously won't patch either".

of course folks with malicious intent can find a way to patch it, and will. there is nothing adding to security here, quite the contrary. it's just a big clusterfuck. industry is only interested in perceived security. then of course people get what they pay for.

time to take opensource software and hardware seriously, already? not yet? ooooooook ...

thank you. i already missed an inflamated post about wtf "mpg" should mean.

now that i know, i'm still struggling to understand why this should be posted on a tech category, and why the fuck should i care about how much drivers have to pay for happily keeping on polluting our planet. ah, slashdot! hang them all!

that's not a regular computer user. it's more like a regular tv-watcher. computers should make us smarter, not dumber.

of course, everybody seems to endorse getting everybody dumber. governments, industry and preachers of all sorts, for good reasons. even the users, although their opinion is pretty irrelevant. they have very much proven to be eager to eat whatever shit they get served.

if this is some sort of joke it' clearly woooshed me.

please someone explain what's funny in this ignorant nonsense. this guy has absolutely no idea of what he is talking about, and makes it evident on every single sentence. i don't even unterstand how this gets published here. is it a parody?

some ideas just to not rule this option completely out:
- make it public, host it in github or similar. someone might volunteer to help maintain it. i could.
- contact unicef. as a peer in the workflow they might be able to help with resources, tools, knowhow or specifications.

why on earth does a charity run w7? were those computers a gift?

average computer illiterate users can do absolutely nothing with ms-access. specially smart average computer illiterate users can do utter crap with ms-access in which they themselves will get lost very soon. geeks can use ms-access as they would use any other relational engine (just a very limited one). in short: ms-acces offers zero, it's not really an alternative in this case.

developing something for them (the cited mysql/django approach) is cool but will make them dependent on you. do it only if you reasonably expect you'll be around for a while and are up for the compromise :-)

i second the spreadsheet suggestion. and i would add that probably the best contribution you could make is to train someone in that staff to be self-sufficient in this kind of tasks. it might be substantially more effort but definitely worth it, specially if you make sure he/she passes the knowledge on before quitting. of course, first thing to do is to ask if there's another bizarre requirement for having commercial software. if not, promptly format those bitches and grab free software for them, show them how to start using it.