The thing is, Facebook was never intended for someone who is in that kind of position. It was built for STUDENTS, and by god I wish it still required a school email account. People who can post stupid crap, and not have it ruin their life yet. I've checked every Facebook profile of prospective employees. Most of the time I've found out I don't want them once I see their profiles. Runs the gamut from drog use, alcoholics, to straight up racism I've found, and narrowly dodged said bullets because of Facebook and people's inhability to not put every last detail of their wacked out life on FB page for the whole world to see. It's almost as good as a background check. Profile private? Just add them, few people pay any attention to who is adding them.

Once hired? I never look at their profile again unless were actually friends.

People are already doing this with Steam. If anything this is a warning shot across Valve's bow for doing all the hard work of getting Steam up on Mac. Have your game just on the Steam store, or get it on the Mac Store too? Well crap...I'm all for this though as long as Apple doesn't have such a jacked approval process as the iTunes store.

Actually you forgot a number 3. Chinese citizens are even more apathetic than Americans to their government. As long as problems do not affect them DIRECTLY, they do not care. It's really common among my friends who are from there.

huh? Were both talking about the same moron with crazed lunatic with ideas like no abortion for even rape or incest because it's against "god's plan"? Even Palin could do better than this woman. Reed has his issues, but Angle is positively batshit. Bout the only thing I have heard her say that sounded to have some kind of sanity to it was not fluorinating tap water.

The big thing is how much it costs to defend these BS patents. My work got sued for infringement because we sell CPU heatsinks with HEATPIPES!!! They didn't go after the manufacturers of the heatsinks, not the distributors, but the end user sellers. Defending these things cost around $100,000 against some asshat working on commission IF they win. Not to mention, even if you ask for court costs you'll get nothing because the owner of the company likely has 10 other companies with other patents with each one having no real value.

Did you read what I typed? I said people are more likely to rip a DVD which has been fully open for ages, and recompress it. Plus seriously, 60-80 movies per 2TB HD is a complete waste of space, not to mention the shoddy workmanship and crazy prone to failure conditions those garbage $100 2TB consumer drives are subject to. Hell, and even if people resorted to ripping from the HDCP with BR it would be: a real time rip (hope you don't drop any frames!), real time encode, and likely would want to reencode again just to get it to something a little more friendly. It was practical with VHS tapes, not anymore. Especially when I can fit 200-250 DVD rips on a 500GB RAID1 drive, and thats being MAJORLY conservative. Not to mention when your files usually average about 1GB that makes them super portable, and shareable. Lets not even get me started on the processor time, heat, power cost, and wear on a system to just play those massive BR files on demand.

All of this is quickly becoming moot though with the advent of Netflix, and other on demand video sites. YOU may give a flip if your movie is in super duper 1080p with obnoxious bit-rates (3D will go the way or blue/red 3D back in the day if were lucky), but the market that moves technology just wants to have cheap entertainment because it's just that, cheap, entertainment. Adding more cost to entertainment will just make people do other things, like god forbid: go outside, and fly a kite. I knew BR was going to win the war with HDDVD, but that wasn't even the real format fight. Even Sony is admitting in steps that Netflix's model is the way by allowing it on the PS3. I almost shat myself when I heard it was going to be released for it.

No hacker is going to give a crap about this. It's so much easier to just rip the data directly from the disk. Plus, anyone in their right minds is usually going to just get the DVD anyways if they are going rip it. Likely going to downsample it anyways since the full resolution file is obnoxiously large. All this realistically would allow for is for people to make an HDMI to Component conversion box which is one of those DMCA grey zones. The underlying technologies of DVD & Blue Ray encryptions were compromised ages ago.

You obviously didn't bother to read what the parent said at all. Doubt you'll read what I say, but here I go feeding the troll.

It is very difficult to use embryonic stem cells in direct treatments. At best, it could only have half of your genetic makeup, and likely still suffer rejection issues. The point the parents however was making is that embryonic stem cells take almost 1/10th or some other extremely lower amount of time to "proof of concept" a treatment that can then move onto a real treatment where they extract your own adult cells, and work them into the treatment. The difference here is between embryonic vs adult is the blindingly fast speed the discoveries can be made.

It's the kind of thing that can make the ability to have the therapy on the market, and cleared by the FDA in your lifetime within reason. Whereas if they keep having to play with old cells that are not in their closest to most pristine condition it makes things so much harder. It's like drawing on a fresh piece of paper vs a piece of paper thats been used, abused, and erased more times than you can count. Theres going to be issues, and setbacks.

This all is really just another case of religion trying to stop an amazing set of discoveries from happening. Worked great during the dark ages where we as a culture were set so far back it's not funny, and the cycle continues to repeat itself. It's great how short human life, and memory is. These kind of remarks were the same kind that were used when invitro-fertilization was going on, which is where a very large chunk of these embryos are being sourced from. Doc makes a whole crapton of embryos, picks his choice that he thinks has the best chance of becoming a human being, and otherwise would send the rest off for destruction. It's not even that they are being created with this purpose, they were created without any intent for this use but something else, and are now the leftover scraps that would be discarded anyways. It's foolish to waste a few cells that are already there, at least with stem cell research they have some semblance of usefulness.

Oh, and one more thing, this kind of crap is whats going to get America, and a few other countries left in the dust. Doctors in countries with more concern for people alive, and kicking let this kind of thing go on because they see the purpose. They have the research, they have the people proficient in it, and they bring money to the country (like Thailand) because people can't get these amazing treatments in their homeland because of shortsightedness, and being blinded by the holy light. Plus something even worse happens because of this, these countries that do it, usually don't have allot of accountability so verifying the treatment is legitimate, or not something that should still be tested in chimps still can, and has caused many people great health problems.

These kind of arguments are like the head of PETA bitching that animal testing is horrible, but he sure as hell won't go without his diabetic medication which has it's history rooted in animal testing. You know if there was some life threatening ailment you or your child had, you would go for it. Wether it had it's roots in embryonic research or not. America will not decide for the world on this, the world will likely end up having to decide for America. That or religion will have to be expunged from politics forcibly.

We all know they are different, but they both are a virus. Both of which most people fight off without too much issue. All the medications in the world won't help you fight either though. All they do is mask they symptoms, and let people get on with things easier till your body does it's thing.

Fuckin MAGNETS!!! How do they work??? Miracles!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs

Huh? Are you stupid? Do you have ANY idea how immunizations work? They typically give you a dead or almost dead version of the virus, your body munches on it, rips it apart, and learns how to fight it from then on very easily. Which is great for viruses that don't mutate much like Polio. IF you catch a fully functional version of the virus before this however, theres not a damn thing any doctor can do for you. Immunization is already occurring. If you survive? Great, your now immune to the virus (like the yearly cold of flu for the layman). If not, or you end up with detrimental side effects? Well, then you piss & moan how the government should have gotten you the immunization, and how your going to sue damnit!!!

The thing I find hilarious about all of these people is that they themselves have had the immunizations. I think you should only be able to sue if you never had the immunization your suing over, and your kid did. There would be almost zero because people would be living the life as someone who had the full blown virus, usually worse off for it, and APPRECIATE that their kid could get it, these morons would have never had kids because they'd already be dead. Hell, if you want to debate immunizations just look at Roosevelt & how he hid how badly Polio hurt his body. Problem is none of these nutters have any experience with how terrible & debilitating these viruses are. People in 3rd world countries would jump for joy for the small chance it might cause autism instead of the virus just killing them or their children.

You mean kind of like the special right to drive?

It always is slighly funny when a little bit of /b/ steps onto another site without trying to destroy it XD

Well China is a fairly easy target to beatup. Seeing as how government officials have repeatedly been showing willingness to screw over one party, or a foreign business group for the benefit of someone they know. There, the government is just a partner of your business. If they aren't? You can bet your ass they'll be helping your competitor because you wern't in lock step with them.

OMG there needs to be a toggle to filter paid services companies like experts-exchange. Their BS is so gaw damn annoying it's not funny. It's bad when I have to create a string of "-experts-exchange -driverskit -driverszone -etc." because Google keeps listing these garbage results.