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Comment Re: Change the law (Score 1) 1430

"George Bush was often compared to a chimp, and yet when some politician back east made a similar comparison about Michelle Obama on facebook a week ago she ended up being forced to resign."
That's disingenuous and you know it.

George Bush was compared to a chimp because of demonstrated stupidity.
Michelle Obama was compared to an ape entirely out of racism.

Are you really saying those things are the same ?

Comment Re:Affirmative Action (Score 1) 529

by Dogboy88k (#49709875) Attached to: Harvard Hit With Racial Bias Complaint

How was this rated 5 - insightful ?
All affirmative action is racial discrimination.
But not all racial discrimination is affirmative action.
This example of a group needing 140 points MORE than white candidates to achieve admission is NOT affirmative action. It is racial discrimination.
I don't agree with either.
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Paul Wilmott Wants To Retrain and Reform Wall Street's Quants 198

Posted by timothy from the reductionism-has-its-downsides dept.
theodp writes "What if an aeronautics engineer couldn't reconcile his elegant design for a state-of-the-art jumbo jet with Newton's second law of motion and decided to tweak the equation to fit his design? In a way, Newsweek reports, this is what's happened in quantitative finance, which is in desperate need of reform. And 49-year-old Oxford-trained mathematician Paul Wilmott — arguably the most influential quant today — thinks he knows where to start. With his CQF program, Wilmott is out to save the quants from themselves and the rest of us from their future destruction. 'We need to get back to testing models rather than revering them,' says Wilmott. 'That's hard work, but this idea that there are these great principles governing finance and that correlations can just be plucked out of the air is totally false.'"
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Hitachi Fined $31 Million For LCD Price Fixing 135

Posted by samzenpus from the pay-up dept.
MojoKid writes "The Japanese electronics manufacturer has just agreed to pay a staggering $31 million fine for its role in a conspiracy to fix prices in the sale of TFT-LCD panels sold to Dell, Inc. The United States Department of Justice made the proclamation, and details show that Hitachi has plead guilty to a one-count felony. The charge, which was filed in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco, blames Hitachi Displays Ltd., a subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., with 'participating in a conspiracy to fix the prices of TFT-LCD sold to Dell for use in desktop monitors and notebook computers from April 1, 2001 through March 31, 2004.'"
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How Big Should My Swap Partition Be? 900

Posted by timothy from the wait-until-ram-is-infinite-then-double-it dept.

For the last 10 years, I have been asking people more knowledgeable than I, "How big should my swap be?" and the answer has always been "Just set it to twice your RAM and forget about it." In the old days, it wasn't much to think about — 128 megs of RAM means 256 megs of swap. Now that I have 4 gigs of RAM in my laptop, I find myself wondering, "Is 8 gigs of swap really necessary?" How much swap does the average desktop user really need? Does the whole "twice your RAM" rule still apply? If so, for how much longer will it likely apply? Or will it always apply? Or have I been consistently misinformed over the last 10 years?

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