I know it won't be as funny pointing out the irony, but it's his decision on what is the maximum amount reasonable so he goes on to say that he can't make the amount lower because it isn't his decision? How the hell did he drop it to $54,000 if it wasn't his decision?

No, that's not the real story, that's a line of condescending bullshit from someone who probably doesn't have kids or kids in daycare. Yes, I see the hidden attitude -- dual income parents, who want to have it all -- material possessions and kids -- and who, at the end of the day, are just too tired or self-absorbed from their ceaseless search for money and goods to take proper care of their children.

I got news for you. Ain't the case. Life is expensive. Very expensive. You really can't take care of a family in this shitty, overpriced, bought-and-sold by Goldman Sachs world of ours without dual incomes. This necessitates daycare, which I might add is extremely expensive, $1300 a month for us, and even when you pay as much as you can you still find yourself making sure they do things right (ie, milk at meals).

It's *so* tiring to hear people without kids get sanctimonious about how people with kids live their lives, as if it were a simple set of choices made by logic.

it doesn't (shouldn't) matter. OSS is about giving and receiving. for contributing resources to open source, a company gets word of mouth press, free beta testers, input on features, and maybe even someone that doesn't work for them contributing code to their product.

It's been a while since I did one so I'd better ask: do people still do full backups overnight?

It's the "International Space Station". Seems to me that iss.int would be good.

At the risk of overposting in this story, Video glasses generally have horrible "real" resolution, and rely upon an idealized face and idealized viewing positions / angles. In practice, their a blurry PITA to try to keep in the exact right position for even remotely viewable video, let alone 1080p levels. And, as an added bonus, they seem to make you more nauseous than normal 3D glasses.

If it's not something phone providers support and/or provide a warranty on, why do they sell locked-down, carrier-specific models of a specific phone?

Hate them all you want (and I do) but this is partially why companies (see: Verizon) get away with their ancient phones. They support what they sell, mostly.

When it comes to an 'unlocked' phone like the Nexus One, though, I completely understand the carrier telling people to PTFO. But if it's something the carrier sells...

Good article, I don't think it's too long, and as a tech that has been trying to deal with this SPAM I appreciate the research that has gone into it. This is the only SPAM which currently makes it through my filters which work on DNSBL's and Greylisting. I'm frustrated the MS has allowed this to go on for so long. Maybe the people who run Spamhaus, SORBS and other blacklists should take action by listing Hotmail's servers. If there was a security breach that isn't being remedied on anyone else's servers they would take action. Maybe that would get MS's attention.

Sega sold them domestically (US) in 1988 for the Master System. That's 22 years ago now, at mass market, for 50 bucks.

http://everything2.com/title/SegaScope+3D+Glasses

"Will your viewing experience really be that much elevated watching Lifestyles of Clueless Trust Account Celebutantes in 3D?"

Well, their primary assets are 3D, so in that case, yes, 3D might very well be an improvement.

Thanks! Wonderfully lucid answer :). I'm filing this one away. And yes, it does make sense now.

well, negative motion of particles is still motion nonetheless. Temperature isn't so much an energy gain / loss of a system. That's flux. Temperature is more of a measure of the movement / vibration per arbitrary number of particles. Heat is the energy dissipated by these movements / vibrations.

I thought that being a good sysadmin, or a good tennis player, or a good anything depended on the experience and natural talent the person has, not his or her age. There are kids out there that can probably develop much, much better than many with years and years of experience in the field; hell, most of the hackers back in the day were kids themselves!

I think that actually letting these folks do something of importance with their skills is more laudable, since most companies that hire undergrads or high school students can only afford to give them low-risk projects that may or may not contribute to their development of in-field experience.

figures they would come up with such a horribly flawed plan. i remmeber the chief geo at a place i worked trying to explain to me how geologists weren't trained to think in uni, and how that's a good thing...