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Comment Re:It's certainly time for this already! (Score 0) 212

Woah. Over reaction, dude. I never said Win7 didn't 'just work'. I said I got a BSOD recently. And I installed Linux on a different machine. That's a lot of hate you got stored up there. Glad you got some of it out. I'm not a microsoft hater. I just decided it wasn't for me anymore. I'm liking Linux a lot more than I did Windows 7. My preference, not yours. I don't push my OS on other people, I was just saying Windows still gives the BSOD. Great story though, bro.

Comment Re:Great use of our time and resources (Score 1) 212

Everyone always leaves out that it's voluntarily collected information when they're google-bashing. It's like these people have never even installed a google product, or they'd have noticed the opt-out checkbox. Right? And in addition to blasting it out over unencrypted wireless channels, don't forget twitter and facebook. There's a branch of market research that uses something like google realtime search to collect product/service opinions. Oh no don't talk about your opinions on Twitter! Companies will STEAL your OPINIONS! OH GOD! THE HORROR!

Comment Re:pseudo-trolls (Score 1) 417

I agree. Their brain wants confrontation. If they're ignored, they pump up their game and try again. When still ignored, they go elsewhere for their stimulation. The best way to deal with trolls is to ignore them completely (or delete/hide their posts before they can provoke anyone). And people with the aggression-seeking brand of ADHD can seem perfectly sane face to face. For a time, anyway. Then you realize you've somehow entered an argument where you're both on the same side of an issue, yet it's unmistakably an argument.

Comment pseudo-trolls (Score 1) 417

First off, some hilarious comments. I laughed really hard at the trolls trolling this article about trolls (though TFA wasn't even about trolls, it was about people who are loud and have opinions). Second of all, have you guys ever met a troll in real life? They have ADHD like 90% of the time (Temporal Lobe ADD). Since TFA is plugging a psyc book: if you have any interest in actual science in Psychology check out Daniel Amen's book "Change Your Brain, Change Your Life". If you like pseudo science and half-baked Cognitive Behavioral methods buy the book from the article.
Windows

Submission + - Nokia sells Qt licensing and services business (engadget.com) 1

Google85 writes: Now that Nokia has shifted to a Windows Phone-centric smartphone strategy, it's only natural for the company to divest itself of responsibility with regard to the Qt framework. It has been announced Digia will acquire the Qt commercial licensing and services business from Nokia, including the transfer of some 3,500 desktop and embedded customers actively using Qt today.
Moon

Submission + - Giant Underground Chamber Discovered On the Moon (siliconindia.com) 2

siliconeyes writes: "Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organization have discovered a giant underground chamber on the moon, which they feel could be used as a base by astronauts on future manned missions to moon.

An analysis by an instrument on Chandrayaan-1 revealed a 1.7-km long and 120-metre wide cave near the moon's equator that is in the Oceanus Procellarum area of the moon that could be a suitable 'base station' for future human missions."

Education

Submission + - Falling Demand for Brains?

Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Paul Krugman writes in the NY Times that information technology seems to be reducing, not increasing, the demand for highly educated workers (reg. may be required), because a lot of what highly educated workers do could actually be replaced by sophisticated information processing. One good recent example is how software is replacing the teams of lawyers who used to do document research. “From a legal staffing viewpoint, it means that a lot of people who used to be allocated to conduct document review are no longer able to be billed out,” says Bill Herr, a lawyer at a major chemical company who used to muster auditoriums of lawyers to read documents for weeks on end. “People get bored, people get headaches. Computers don’t.” If true this raises a number of interesting questions. "One is whether emphasizing education — even aside from the fact that the big rise in inequality has taken place among the highly educated — is, in effect, fighting the last war," writes Krugman. "Another is how we [can] have a decent society if and when even highly educated workers can’t command a middle-class income." Remember the Luddites weren’t the poorest of the poor, they were skilled artisans whose skills had suddenly been devalued by new technology."

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