10 years is a maximum, not a fixed sentence that all hackers get. The minimum is nothing. It's up to the judge to decide the actual sentence and, believe it or not, most judges understand that the scope of a crime should be taken into account when deciding the sentence given.

In other words, the legal system is set up the way you're saying it should be, but you don't realize it so you're arguing that it's wrong and should be set up the way it's already set up.

Windows is little more than a container for the programs that I launch. What I actually use is a browser, email client, chat client, MP3 player, video games and so forth.

I don't understand how people can get so worked up over which OS someone uses when most people spend 99% of their time interacting with applications, not the OS.

The OS has two jobs:
1) Provide a solid framework for the applications you want to run.
2) Stay the hell out of the way.

As long as it accomplishes those two jobs, the OS you're using doesn't matter.

"According to The Nielsen Company, the 2011 regular [NFL] season reached more than 200 million unique viewers."

Yeah! Grow up and be like other adults. Sit on your ass in front of a TV drinking beer, watching football. Occasionally you can even get your heart rate to go a little higher by cheering or screaming some profanities.

Fuck gaming. You have to have reflexes and think about that shit. That's for babies. Real adults sit on their ass and passively watch other people playing a game and derive their enjoyment from that!

This is nothing new. We, as a society, recognized long ago that children do stupid shit and sometimes shouldn't receive the full punishment for their actions.

If the Steubenville rapists had been tried as adults (and I think they should have), they would have been facing up to 25 years in prison. Under certain circumstances, Ohio law allows for a sentence of life in prison for someone convicted of rape, too, but I don't think that applies to those two. As it is, they not only have their sentences, but they're going to be added to the sex offender list for anywhere from ten years to life. They're going to find it very difficult to find jobs and places to live while they're on that list.

There's nothing shockingly disproportionate about a maximum of 10 years for hacking vs a maximum of 25/life for rape. You might argue about the specific numbers, but I think everyone will agree that rape is the more serious crime and Ohio law allows for more serious consequences, just as it should.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Accelerated_Processing_Unit

APU is the only unusual acronym in the summary. It refers to a chip with both the CPU and graphics processor on the same die. It was previously called Fusion, but trademarks got in the way.

But only if it's an entirely different story set in the same world with no other connection beyond the setting itself. The world of Blade Runner was beautifully visualized and there's more than enough room in it for unrelated stories to be told.

Unfortunately, that's almost certainly not what they're going to do. The script that's being rewritten included characters from the first movie and I doubt the rewrite will remove them.

I think "about 5,000 tonnes of whale meat sitting unwanted in freezers around Japan" and "younger generations of Japanese rarely, if ever, eat whale" suggest that the majority of the population of Japan doesn't really care about whaling and wouldn't care if there was a total moratorium. Last year, whaling companies failed to sell 908 of the 1,211 tons of whale meat that they brought in and the industry was given over £22 million in subsidies and emergency funds to keep it alive.

While it may be different in other countries, the Japanese people aren't eating most of the whale meat that's being taken and they aren't encouraging their kids to eat any. This is purely a case of a dying industry trying to regain some popularity. Insert your favorite buggy whip manufacturer analogy here.

Their ad is below the other two paid-for credit card ads on the page, so they aren't giving preferential treatment to their ad in that way. Sponsored ads always appear above regular search results, too, so there's nothing preferential about Google's ad being above the search results.

Perhaps YOU should try to look at it objectively.

In return for the entertainment industry installing root kits on our computers to lock up files if they believe they've found a case of piracy, the public gets to install root kits on the entertainment industry's computers that will lock up their files if we believe they've acted on a false positive that they didn't properly verify. Once the entertainment executives who were responsible for the program show up at a police station, confess to their crimes and are properly charged, the files will be unlocked.

I think it would take less than 48 hours to shut down all of Hollywood.

Eventually the entertainment companies will get the point and either eliminate rid of the program or go bankrupt since they can't produce anything with the constant shutdowns. Either way, we'll be done with this silliness and we'll have put at least some of the idiots proposing it where they belong; in jail.

Not an exactly answer, but "If all goes well, Goubard aims to release a full version of the suite next year." He's only spent ~14% of the amount of time he thinks he'll need (and that could be an underestimate, of course). That suggests that there's quite a lot that doesn't work.

I was still active. I gradually dropped from hiking ten to fifteen miles in the mountains every weekend (hooray for living close to a national park) to barely being able to finish a two mile hike over a period of about two years. I knew something was wrong and it wasn't a sedentary lifestyle. Unfortunately, there was no way for me to figure out what the problem was on my own and the doctor I was seeing at the time was an idiot.

You're seriously suggesting that someone who felt okay in the past should dismiss new symptoms that they're feeling and not bother trying to find out if they have a life threatening illness?

That's the absolute dumbest response I've seen on here so far.

IgA nephropathy isn't something you recover from. It's a genetic disorder. If you have it, the destruction of your kidneys is inevitable.

Much like my former doctor, you're dismissing a genetic condition as being caused by weight. It's an idiotic thing to do and it shows that you have the same bias which blinds you to the actual facts. The moment you found something that suggested that weight had an effect, you completely dismissed the genetic aspect of the disease. Your response is exactly why doctors need to be able to recognize their own biases.

You clearly don't understand the article you linked. At best, losing weight might slow down the destruction of the glomeruli, but the destruction is inevitable. It's a genetic disorder which cannot be fixed by losing weight.

My doctor dismissed them my symptoms saying "just lose weight and you'll feel better", which was absolutely wrong. Losing weight would have reversed the damage that was causing my symptoms.

In fact, the one thing that would have helped more than anything else would have been going on a protein restricted diet. No such advice was offered, however, because protein restriction isn't something you would prescribe unless you'd diagnosed a condition that called for it and my doctor was too much of an asshat to do any testing. I wasn't diagnosed properly until I was in full renal failure and then it was too late to do anything other than go on dialysis.

I'm not surprised that you have no sympathy for what happened to me. Frankly, you're a lot like my former doctor; an asshole who jumps to the conclusion that any problem a fat person has must be due to their weight. God forbid you should actually look beyond that and search for underlying causes.

I explained it in simple terms and offered a real life example and you still can't figure out why a doctor that doesn't recognize his biases is a bad thing?