I am not starved for attention. I have strong connections to friends and family. I enjoy FB because it helps me keep in touch with them. My friends use FB to organize activities and parties and get-togethers.

There are other plusses. Through FB I was reunited with one of my best friends from high school who had moved to my city.

The company you describe sounds like Google. I almost got a job there back in 2007. I did the interviews, everything went really well. They told me they were going to make me an offer. I made it all the way to the executive committee, and then, nothing. Not a peep from the HR dept. For me the sound of the financial bubble bursting was the silence of my cell phone, waiting for them to call me and tell me that the position I was being hired for had been cut. When I finally got one of them on the phone, months later, they did not even apologize for failing to get back to me.

That's the reason my client didn't pay me for my October hours until mid-January. They even violated their own contractual payment terms by several days, just so they could avoid writing down the accounts payable in 2012.

resume.trunc(lines=50). ageism is real. my only saving grace is that i've gotten so damn good at what i do.

fraud.

Pay attention to your young children, make lots of eye contact with them every day. The younger they are the more important it is to focus your undivided attention on them. Stop playing video games. Stop starting at your computer or your phone or whatever you use to distract yourself. Stop shoveling convenience food down their throats because you can't be fucked to plan and prepare a healthy meal for them. Your children are starving for your attention. If you have a genetically normal child, i.e., one not predisposed to autism, then they will probably be OK, even if you suck. But if your child is genetically predisposed to autism, and if you suck, then your child is doomed. The thing is, you cannot know their genetic predisposition until it's too late. So pay attention. Now.

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From TFA:

The system-on-chip (SoC) solution can accurately distinguish between objects that appear virtually identical using traditional red-green-blue imaging chips.

The sentence immediately preceding that one, claims the product senses outside the visual spectrum ("hyper-spectral") and that it can perform remote spectral analysis, but somehow it uses just a good ol' RGB sensor.

In that case, use the He3 there on the moon for your moon base or whatever.

IANANetworkEngineer, but it sounds to me like you are saying we need a separate network for the handheld devices, to deal with the different TCP settings. Is that even possible with a cell carrier? Can we do something like a VLAN?

Let's say a "day" is the time it takes for the earth to rotate 360 degrees. (Interesting all by itself since such a concrete measurement was unavailable before the earth was created, but whatever.) And then let's say that it took 6 such days for God to create a proto-earth, i.e., the earth the way it was 3.5 billion years ago or whatever.

And then let's say, at the end of day 6, God popped this proto-earth into his cosmic-sized Time Accelerator Machine, closed the lid, programmed the machine such that the relativity factor inside the box yields a 3.5-billion year speedup, set the timer for 1 "day", and then kicked back and cracked open a cold one, or the godly equivalent of a cold one, His work being done.

Great article. Well written, interesting and informative. Once more we are reminded that It's All About The Software.

Wouldn't this petition system be an ideal way for the OWS folks to coalesce, delineate and voice their grievances? At least they can use it to test the government's responsiveness.

"That has to be the second biggest slingshot I've ever seen, but it'll have to do."

It's not the TV that causes harm, it's the lack of face-to-face interaction. The TV is the time suck, taking away precious face time during the earliest, most formative years, when a child should be watching their parents' eyes and mouth and expression to learn how to communicate with other humans.

It depends on how the kid's genes are wired for early childhood development. If he's a late bloomer with language development, then he needs extra attention early on, which means less screen time and more face time, to help avoid any development delays.

The problem is that we cannot know how a child's genes are wired until it's too late. So stop being so selfish with your me-time and give your attention to your infant. You only get one shot per child.