WTF?!?!?! Poor families are less enlightened, as a rule? So poor equals dumb, and rich equals smart. Huh. Yeah. That totally makes sense. Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton must have been the smartest kids in school!!

Except that it's changed; according to the Wiki article, after France retook it after WWII, they pushed out all the Germans who had moved there since 1870 (that's 65 years' worth of immigrants), and also strictly forbade any public use of any language besides French, effectively oppressing the peoples' native languages.

So the demographics of the area now are probably quite different from pre-WWII due to these policies.

Personally, I think it would have been nicer if they let the inhabitants of the region vote on what they wanted, whether to join one country or another, or to be independent.

That's basically one more rule than what is there now for most employees. I can't speak for all, but my wife works for a federal agency, and she has no control over what happens to her computer. The whole building came in a few months ago, for example, to find they had been upgraded from XP to Windows 7 without any notice. Hilarity ensured! They have been switched back and forth between Exchange and Lotus Notes several times. And I can't send her any email attachments, they are usually and somewhat capriciously blocked.

In addition, control is from the top down. All email from the hinterland is routed via Washington, where presumably is it examined for evil and then archived forever.

She was issued a brand new out of the box IBM-branded Palm III in 2005. She finally got a Blackberry two or three years ago.

And so on, at the whim of whatever contractor they have selected to do IT (most of the federal-employed IT people have been let go and rehired as contractors.)

Wait, I thought this was the North American Man/Boy Love Association?

I did embellish I admit but the latest figures I could get were from a Google blog in March of 09 (via IResearch) and put them at 25%:

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/03/googles-market-share-in-your-country.html

http://www.search-engine-feng-shui.com/parts-de-marche/ (in French)

Others have reported 30%-40% but I have yet to see any clear figures. If anyone has some post them, I'm kind of curious now.

Fair enough. I don't disagree. Be well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who's_on_First%3F#Sketch

Where does this idea come from?
If the host is compromised no guest is secure. It does not matter one bit what kind of virtualization your use. If input goes from the suspected bad host to the other machine, game the fuck over. All Dr.Evil has to do is record input.

Something. All I'm seeing lately on /. are the same articles I saw on Fark a day or two before.

If it wasn't for having a four digit ID (and all the perks that come with that!) there'd be nothing for me here... ;)

No, he's *buying* an apartment. "Apartment" is used for ownership, apparently more often on the East Coast. (Most of us use condo for that, like you did.)

Yes, but this time they have CONCLUSIONS! Which is more newsworthy than an unbiased study by honest researchers who caution people not to overreact to their results. It is always this way, which is why even after that study linking vaccines to autism has been completely demolished, a depressing amount of people still run around thinking that autism is caused by vaccines. That study was poorly done, and the results were announced to the world as final proof rather than something that would merit at most one or two repeats of the experiments before it was taken seriously.

If you want to get a lot of attention and don't care that all of the serious professionals in your field will immediately see that you are a quack and will eventually prove you wrong, then make a quick study and shout your results as the word of God for all the public to hear.

""We can now say with utmost confidence that regardless of research method -- that is experimental, correlational, or longitudinal -- and regardless of the cultures tested in this study [East and West], you get the same effects,"

Yes, you can say that, Mr. Anderson. You should also point out IN THAT SAME FUCKING BREATH that regardless of research method, YOU COULD STILL EASILY BE WRONG. As you're promoting this as infallible truth, based on research you didn't even do, I'd say that increases the chances that you're wrong, because you're a complete moron.

I'm actually a bit surprised he actually says policy needs to be changed, rather than "Elect me to be supreme overlord and I'll have this whole violence thing sorted out in a month." I mean, if you're going to boldly overstate your results, then by God, overstate your results, don't pansy out at the end and suggest someone else be empowered to deal with it.