>Do you believe rehabilitation is impossible or do you want revenge?

I don't believe that someone who commits mass murder can be rehabilitated, no. It isn't about revenge; it's about public safety.

Someone once pointed out that hoping a rapist gets raped in prison isn't a victory for his victim(s), because it somehow gives him what he had coming to him, but it's actually a victory for rape and violence. I wish I could remember who said that, because they are right. The score doesn't go Rapist: 1 World: 1. It goes Rape: 2.

What this man did is unspeakable, and he absolutely deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison. If he needs to be kept away from other prisoners as a safety issue, there are ways to do that without keeping him in solitary confinement, which has been shown conclusively to be profoundly cruel and harmful.

Putting him in solitary confinement, as a punitive measure, is not a victory for the good people in the world. It's a victory for inhumane treatment of human beings. This ruling is, in my opinion, very good and very strong for human rights, *precisely* because it was brought by such a despicable and horrible person. It affirms that all of us have basic human rights, even the absolute worst of us on this planet.

This is precisely why I lost all interest in Oculus the instant I heard that it had been acquired by Facebook.

At Pax East, they commented further on this. Kill-stealing is solved because everyone who participates gets full credit and full reward for doing so. They also said that if 10 people are fighting and 2-3 are standing there, the AI is smart enough not to count them in its scaling calculations (they can even plink the enemy a bit to "act" interested...but still not count because they aren't meeting the level necessary to be considered "active" participants). From what they said at the convention panel, it does truly appear like all of these things have been taken into consideration.

Given how rudimentary and just plain awful Kodak's interface was for their WiFi picture frames from 2 years ago when I bought a few for the family to share the same albums with each other across the nation, this story doesn't surprise me in the least.

I mean, who lets the frame go on the internet and builds in a timer for when to turn the frame off and on at night...but then when it comes back on it ONLY goes to its own internal memory and NOT the last gallery you were viewing via the WiFi?? Every morning you have to reconnect it to the internet galleries...and its ability to cache the pics from the internet is so poor that it will often claim it has an "error" and...REVERT BACK TO INTERNAL MEMORY! It's next to impossible to use it to view galleries on the internet...that can ONLY be on their website...AND that they're now CHARGING you to keep "active"!

So, no, it doesn't surprise me at all that they could screw even this basic security up.

This is good advice, and gives me an opportunity to speak to the community at large: some of us who go to cons and are in a position to shake tons of hands politely decline. It's not because we're being dicks, it's because we know it's a good way to substantially decrease our chances of catching and spreading any germs.

I played the PAX Pandemic game, where the Enforcers handed out stickers to attendees that read [Carrier] [Infected] or [Immune] (There was also a [Patient Zero].

I got the [Immune] sticker, and by the time I got home on Monday, it was clear that I had the flu. I've had a fever between 100 and 104 all week that finally broke last night, but I'm going to the doctor today because I think whatever I had settled into my lungs. I'll tell him about the H1N1 outbreak and get tested if he wants to run the test, but at this point I think it's safe to assume that I was [Immune] to the Pig Plague, but definitely [Infected] with the damn PAX pox.

Even though it's been a week of misery, it was entirely worth it, and I don't regret going to PAX for a single second.

Isn't something of "pure evil" going to ultimately not be evil?

Wouldn't that be the ultimate evil act against someone who is searching for an A.I. that is pure evil?

To give him something that is not evil at all in return for his efforts.

You are spot on with the MMS and Tethering delays. That, alone, is enough reason to indict AT&T for asshatery more than any lack of upgrade pricing on 3G to 3GS.

You're squeezing us so hard because of your exclusivity, AT&T, but not keeping up with the hardware/software developer. You might just find more of us finding our way between your clenched fingers because of it. I've held off on jailbreaking my phone, but I could be using MMS and tethering TODAY if I wanted to, AT&T. Of course, then, I wouldn't have to be forced into being your customer, either. Consider your expediency in meeting the developer's abilities wisely.

I shall be twittering this with a sigh
On someone's blogs and blogs hence:
Two paths diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less googled by,
And that has made all the difference.

--RFrostie1977

This is why my motto (and fundamental rule for life) is Don't be a dick: it's simple to understand, and reasonable people can agree on what it means.

No, unlike the neurons in your head, they do work...en masse and never to 100% of all strains of the virus for which they immunize.

Anyone who has gotten an MMR shot, including myself, are immunized against the Mumps virus with Genotype A (Jeryl Lynn strain). In 2006, Iowa recently had a big (relatively speaking) Mumps outbreak that was sourced to Genotype G. Even MMR-immunized people were susceptible (albeit to a much lesser likelihood than the non-immunized).

If not immunizing your kids were to get out of hand and less than 75-86% of the U.S. were immunized against genotype A, it would infect enough people that it could change into a new genotype and infect even the immunized by getting around the vaccine, the same way genotype G is already able to do.

Being vague in how you define a vaccine "working" isn't insightful and does nothing but shroud reality.