That's a nice summary of uninformed, dismissive, and polarized views that folks who don't understand organized labor levy against it.

Perhaps at Wharton, everybody IS cheating ... which, given the prestige that school has in the business world, might explain a lot.

$150 isn't "orders of magnitude" greater than $19. It's ONE order of magnitude ... if you round up.

Just sayin'.

How YOU doin'?

The information released is not "in the public domain". It might be publicly available but it remains classified and it's still a crime to discuss the contents. And yes, that's about a thousand kinds of absurd, but that's how classification works.

Got it in two.

Seriously, fuck this guy. His next step since he can't get anyone to buy his product voluntarily will be to explain to some legislators over dinner (his treat) and maybe a round of golf (ditto) why it's a good idea for them to mandate it. One way or another, our boy Scotty gonna get paid.

Ralph Ellison's book is "Invisible Man". It's hard to take seriously the literary lamentations of someone who biffs something as basic as the titles of the books being lamented.

"You can have my DNA when you suck it out of my dick."

Schneier will _not_ be testifying. Sorry, nerdlingers.

We were notified last week that Those Who Run The Machine are throwing in the towel on Panasas and are securing a Lustre-based farm for Cielo.

If the Cray architecture selected for Blue Waters is akin to that of Cielo then UIUC is going to rue -- RUE! -- the day they got in bed with these Cray con-men. The uptime and filesystem stability of Cielo is an absolute dog (as in, at least 2 FS rebuilds per week with data loss accompanying 2 in 5).

Well, that's just bullshit. Go play your children's games somewhere else. The Left has been howling with rage at Obama's civil liberties failures: continuation of Gitmo, expansion of the TSA, refusal to pursue prosecution of Bush torturers, etc.

The idea that a man's very name can be placed under legal protections this sweeping is utterly absurd and I think that's what has so many people in a tizzy.

I have no problem with laws allowing the Tolkien estate to prevent someone from publishing "Gutter Sluts by JRR Tolkien" and using the 4-letter symbol on the cover. Being able to deny someone the privilege of even USING the name in another context? That's wack, yo.

For what it's worth, when I clicked "Submit" the site was reporting exactly zero comments on the article. 20 minutes after, it was still reporting exactly zero comments. All I can figure is the site is suffering from the Self Effect.