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Comment Re:Cause and effect (Score 1) 899

by timpaton (#24285507) Attached to: Global Warming Stopped By Adding Lime To Sea

I would want to see evidence one way or the other before I decided whether the 11th time is the same or is different.

Ten times, you're late to work because of traffic.

On the eleventh day your car doesn't start.

"Oh crap", you say, "I'm going to be late for work".

Then you look at the historical records, which prove that all late-for-work events are caused by traffic.

"Phew, that was close" you say. "I won't be late for work after all".

And you go back to bed and get a few more hours sleep, safe in the knowledge that you won't be late for work because you can't even _get_ out into the traffic to get stuck.
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Submission + - Who's a Nerd ?

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sas-dot writes: Is this nerdiness we know? New York Times carries this article on Who is a nerd?, excerpts from it "What is a nerd? Mary Bucholtz, a linguist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been working on the question for the last 12 years. She has gone to high schools and colleges, mainly in California, and asked students from different crowds to think about the idea of nerdiness and who among their peers should be considered a nerd; students have also "reported" themselves. Nerdiness, she has concluded, is largely a matter of racially tinged behavior. People who are considered nerds tend to act in ways that are, as she puts it, "hyperwhite."
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Submission + - LinuxWorld: Samba guru says be lazy, use Winbind

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An anonymous reader writes: For all the work Unix and Linux administrators do with authenticating users and synching their machines with Microsoft Windows boxes, a bit of laziness could do them well in the long run.

But when Jerry Carter, release manager for Samba 3.0, talks about laziness as he did during a session at the LinuxWorld Open Solutions Summit, what he really meant is eliminate redundancy in Linux and Unix environments, specifically, when dealing with identity management and user authentication. In the Windows world, he said, much of the group policy work in the Linux IT guy's day is already done for him.

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