Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 26th Jan 2011 22:38 UTC, submitted by brewmastre
"President Barack Obama on Monday nominated former Recording Industry Association of America lawyer Donald Verrilli Jr. to serve as the nation's solicitor general. The solicitor general is charged with defending the government before the Supreme Court, and files friend-of-the court briefs in cases in which the government believes there is a significant legal issue. The office also determines which cases it would bring to the Supreme Court for review. Verrilli is best known for leading the recording industry's legal charge against music- and movie-sharing site Grokster. That 2003 case ultimately led to Grokster's demise when the U.S. Supreme Court sided with the RIAA's verdict." Cough.
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RE[2]: 3rd tier educations
by Soulbender on Thu 27th Jan 2011 15:12
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RE[2]: 3rd tier educations
by kaiwai on Thu 27th Jan 2011 17:25
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May you please enlighten me about, between the well known almost same 2 candidates with real chance because the election is not direct anyway, options Americans have?
How about getting involved politically with the parties - if the majority of Americans are sane then how come the politics don't reflect it? they don't reflect it because Joe and Jane Sixpack just don't get involved thus they have the parties controlled by wingnuts and ideologues rather than real people offering real solutions. Do you really think if there was decent civic engagement in the United States that people like Christine O'Donnell would actually become a candidate for a major party? Come on - you've only got yourself to blame if the two only choices makes a decision being the vote for the lesser of two evils.
As for third party candidates in the US - the whole system needs an overhaul; it is amazing how the US government can always agree on spending more but it is like pulling out teeth with pliers when it comes to tax reform, cutting spending, agricultural reform and so on.
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RE[2]: 3rd tier educations
by kaiwai on Thu 27th Jan 2011 17:37
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That's funny, I've had friends at MIT vote for Obama...didn't realize it was 3rd tier.
Unfortunately there are those who confuse knowledge for wisdom - one only needs to look at religious fundamentalism/extremism and the number who have degrees in the hard sciences as one example of that dichotomy.
RE[2]: 3rd tier educations
by Soulbender on Thu 27th Jan 2011 18:25
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You people actually think there's a difference between the 2 parties?
I agree with that it is basically a one party state.
I can't say I do about the universities. Larry Summers was head of Harvard. Bush went to Yale, and had ties there. Obama has strong ties to Columbia.
Whom do you think the faculty and alumni of most the first and second rung universities was voting for in these last elections? Ron Paul? You may believe that -- I have my doubts.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/11/13 21:41 UTC
"Windows is indeed slower than other operating systems in many scenarios, and the gap is worsening." That's one way to start an insider explanation of why Windows' performance isn't up to snuff. Written by someone who actually contributes code to the Windows NT kernel, the comment on Hacker News, later deleted but reposted with permission on Marc Bevand's blog, paints a very dreary picture of the state of Windows development. The root issue? Think of how Linux is developed, and you'll know the answer.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/08/13 14:22 UTC
This is one of those news items that's fun to write, fun to read, fun to comment on, and where no one will be able to say anything unkind. It's all just one big ball of awesome fluffiness. TuneTracker, the BeOS radio automation software, has just released something very special: TuneTracker System 5, the first version designed entirely and specifically for Haiku. In fact, it actually includes Haiku in the software package. Better yet, TuneTracker also unveiled several system-in-a-box products - which have Haiku and TuneTracker pre-installed.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 04/29/13 21:06 UTC
Oh multitasking. That staple of computing that got thrown out the window with many modern smartphones. We got some rudimentary thing in its place - but even as multitasking on phone and tablets improves, its user-visible side remains cumbersome. Windows 8 has a neat implementation, and now it's time Android follows in it footsteps.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 04/24/13 22:24 UTC
They're here! Whether that excites you or not remains to be seen, but the Galaxy S4, which will most likely become the best selling Android smartphone of the year by a huge margin, has been reviewed by all the major sites, and there's lots of interesting conclusions in there - although I think most of you will get the gist.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 04/18/13 11:21 UTC
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This is why people with educations from 3rd tier universities shouldn't be allowed to vote. You people actually think there's a difference between the 2 parties? Please. There's a difference in rhetoric, but no difference in implementation. Good job at being brainwashed partisan hacks. Go get some trivial programming books and pretend you're well educated.
The reason our country is in shambles is because you 3rd stringers vote these scumbags into office.