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Comment: Re:Politically correct bias, maybe? (Score 2) 464

by CubeRootOf (#37145986) Attached to: American Grant Writing: Race Matters

On the other hand black athletes do overwhelmingly better than white ones.

Bullshit.

Is it because of discrimination in the granting of NFL contracts to black guys over the whites?

Oh - you mean in the NFL. I thought you meant Athletes!

You are cherrypicking one sport out of many. grow your sample size a bit.

Comment: White (Score 1) 464

by CubeRootOf (#37145910) Attached to: American Grant Writing: Race Matters

What color are most professional athletes?

Oh, I see, genetics can have an effect on one's physical attributes but not their mental attributes.

MAYBE, we need an affirmative action program for professional sports. Sounds pretty stupid right? But in the hiring process, it isn't the best qualified it is the best qualified AFTER you have satisfied all of your racial hiring quota's.

Most professional Athletes are white.

so maybe we SHOULD have AA for sports.

Comment: Who is a Coward? (Score 1) 1695

by CubeRootOf (#33523084) Attached to: Rackspace Shuts Down Quran-Burning Church's Sites

I would like all of you folks who are complaining that X is a coward for 'caving' to Islam:

Please walk up to a coworker

Ask him/her to see his/her latest un-cashed paycheck.

go to the bank with him/her, and get it in cash.

Burn the cash. All of it.

Not going to do it? You are a coward for not intentionally pissing off someone who doesn't have any reason to be pissed off with you.

Going to do it? You are an idiot.

Wouldn't even entertain the thought? kind of strikes you as wrong?

Think there might be an analogy that can be drawn here between Money Loving Capitalist Americans and Quran Loving Islamic Muslims?

No... couldn't be.

Don't insult someone you don't have to.
Don't insult someone you don't have to.
Treat others as you would like them to treat you.

One of those is a golden rule. I don't care which one you pick.

PlayStation (Games)

US Air Force Buying Another 2,200 PS3s 144

Posted by Soulskill
from the quick-who-knows-a-good-ps3-flight-sim dept.
bleedingpegasus sends word that the US Air Force will be grabbing up 2,200 new PlayStation 3 consoles for research into supercomputing. They already have a cluster made from 336 of the old-style (non-Slim) consoles, which they've used for a variety of purposes, including "processing multiple radar images into higher resolution composite images (known as synthetic aperture radar image formation), high-def video processing, and 'neuromorphic computing.'" According to the Justification Review Document (DOC), "Once the hardware configuration is implemented, software code will be developed in-house for cluster implementation utilizing a Linux-based operating software."
Image

Scientists Say a Dirty Child Is a Healthy Child 331

Posted by samzenpus
from the snack-is-going-to-be-on-the-floor-today dept.
Researchers from the School of Medicine at the University of California have shown that the more germs a child is exposed to, the better their immune system in later life. Their study found that keeping a child's skin too clean impaired the skin's ability to heal itself. From the article: "'These germs are actually good for us,' said Professor Richard Gallo, who led the research. Common bacterial species, known as staphylococci, which can cause inflammation when under the skin, are 'good bacteria' when on the surface, where they can reduce inflammation."
Social Networks

Mafia Wars CEO Brags About Scamming Users 251

Posted by Soulskill
from the all-about-the-benjamins dept.
jamie writes with a follow-up to our recent discussion of social gaming scams: "Mark Pincus, CEO of the company that brought us Mafia Wars, says: 'I did every horrible thing in the book just to get revenues right away. I mean, we gave our users poker chips if they downloaded this Zwinky toolbar, which was like, I don't know... I downloaded it once and couldn't get rid of it.'" TechCrunch also ran a interesting tell-all from the CEO of a company specializing in Facebook advertisements, who provided some details on similarly shady operations at the popular social networking site.

Comment: Re:Wow , at 8 cents a page for a PACER document... (Score 1) 445

by CubeRootOf (#29658257) Attached to: FBI Investigates Liberator of Court Records

If the state or country doesn't have enough money to pay for people to work, people stop showing up to work. Just like a private enterprise.

This is why cutting federal taxes has crippled state and local governments which used to depend on that money getting back to them.

That is why you are seeing increasing fees, tuitions at state colleges get jacked up, and taxes state and local going through the roof wherever they can be pushed through. You also don't see people being replaced when they retire, or leave for the private sector.

Now, this in this case, I have no problem with what this kid has done, as he has actually helped the government do their job better, cheaper, and for free. he probably saved us all a lot of money, because I bet it costs a heck of a lot more than the fee that is charged to serve up those pieces of paper.

In general I think folks need to stop thinking that the ... gubmint... has an infinite supply of money, and therefore it is ok to steal from them. It is not. If you don't like what they are doing, get together with some like minded folks and take over your congressional district. Run for office and try to fix the problems instead of complaining about them.

Microsoft

Microsoft open source chief joins cloud startup->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Former Microsoft open-source chief Sam Ramji has joined cloud-computing startup Sonoa Systems, taking over product strategy and business development at the California-based company. In his last job at Microsoft, Ramji was responsible for fostering more interoperability and collaboration with the open-source community as head of its Platform Strategy Group. Last month he also took a position as interim president of the CodePlex Foundation, an open-source group formed out of his work at Microsoft. However, when the foundation and Ramji's role in it were unveiled, he said he was leaving Microsoft Sept. 25 to join a cloud-computing startup, though he did not specify which one."
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