As the subject of the article, I entirely agree. Life is very precious, and there is always someone who loves you and who would be devastated if you weren't there. If something good can come of it, then it's this: suicide is most definitely not an answer. I was most definitely not in my right mind when I was having those thoughts, and I'm happy I'm still around :-)

Well, thankfully for my young family, I'm still alive.

You aren't wrong.

I have to disagree. I remember reading the mailing lists when StarOffice was first open sourced. The developers of StarOffice had a very closed source approach to development, and outsiders were not encouraged whatsoever. You'll notice the leaps and bounds taken by LibreOffice - from all the way to improving the build tools to improving the code base.

That wasn't an Oracle issue, but a StarOffice development issue.

Yeah, the Labor Party are getting less liberal every day.

I can't believe you just asked that on Slashdot.

Ignore him. He can't but help but be a moron.

That's not cruel. My aging mother in law, who doesn't speak English, signed up to one of these deals the other day. She had no idea what she was signing, but she wanted the man to go away.

I immediately called the power company and demanded to speak to someone to cancel the control. Which I can do, because we have a 10 day cooling off period AS LAW in Australia. No commission for scum-sucking salesman. A total waste of their time.

No.

I'll bet that you use it though.

The US has done the isolation bit before, and found out the hard way you're part of the world, and if shit goes badly, you're getting bombed or torpedoed or whatever, whether you are involved or not, and whether you were at fault or not.

Citation needed.

As the original author of [citation needed], consider this a [citation provided]!

This is not how the GPU cores work. There are some efforts to offload some tasks that kernel does and are suitable for GPU like block encryption etc, (in general everything that is parallel enough and can be streamed). For instance there's AES acceleration: http://gpgpu.org/2011/05/04/kgpu-gpu-computing-in-linux-kernel

"And they might take advantage of the fact that the shell is built on web technologies."

I thought you said it was designed for non-posers?

Ok. I agree that mining != power plant
But please tell me how do you want to operate coal mines on a large scale without mining?
Costs of mining accidents are identical regardless of dying slaves or volunteers.

Can you point to simulations that show how these 100,000ds of people could die? (hint:
9.0 richter quake and tsunami are not enough to make fukushima kill even single person - for me is good performance of 40 year old nuclear plant.


Lots of people live around chemical facilities and cant move away too. Ever heard about Bhopal or Banqiao? Why single out nuclear plants?

If you compare nuclear with other types of energy you cant point out to the one link in chain and compare only that. You need factor in supporting industry (coal and uranium mines + oil wells). Please do tell me that no one dies on coal mines and oil wells are safe :) Uranium mines for other hand are pretty rare and you dont need that much uranium than coal.