jorahmormont
Re:BYTE Interview With Richard Stallman (1986)
on Friday August 31, 2012 @08:24AM (#4459321)
whoa. I wasn't, uhm, jeez. Why do you assume I was trying to insult him.
Re:BYTE Interview With Richard Stallman (1986)
on Friday August 31, 2012 @02:31AM (#4458552)
BYTE: What are you going to do when you are done with the GNU system?
Stallman: I'm not sure. Sometimes I think that what I'll go on to do is the same thing in other areas of software.
He's 60 this year. He was crying on a staircase this year in Spain. Someone stole his laptop.
Re:JFK's Application to Harvard
on Monday August 27, 2012 @01:36AM (#4437588)
GWB's yale record and application would be good.
Re:A Linux dev who helped thousands needs help to fight cancer
on Friday August 24, 2012 @11:03PM (#4430926)
$ cd kernel ; git log | egrep -i starks
$
Nothing there.
It would help if they told us what his contribution actually was.
Re:Build Your Own Home Automation w/ Pusher, Twilio, and Arduino
on Tuesday August 21, 2012 @10:05PM (#4415738)
I use Wiser Home Control to take care of those annoying left-the-AC-on cases, works on my iPhone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHsjTdTPVnU
Re:Jonah Lehrer Resigns From The New Yorker After Making Up Quotes
on Monday July 30, 2012 @11:54PM (#4315611)
I disagree. Gladwell's long standing self-disclosure is a serious analysis on his own motivations and corporate relationships. http://www.gladwell.com/disclosure.html . Claiming that he is a corporate shill seems unfair. Despite his "igonvalues" issues, I haven't seen any serious corporate bias in his works. Are you sure your own remarks aren't due to some bias that you may have?
Re:Young Gorillas Observed Dismantling Poacher Snares
on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @01:20AM (#4284451)
I guess it can't be worse then giving them to our own Army. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00Z_haZqh60 (Pat Tillman case)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-EwReGl88o (Laveena Johnson case)
Re:Don’t Jump to Conclusions About the Killer
on Sunday July 22, 2012 @07:59PM (#4278914)
Slightly offtopic, I read a comment somewhere that asked what would have happened if the killer had been an Arab. It is interesting. When the killer is one of our own, we are able to quickly switch off group-think and acknowledge that the killer was insane. In contrast, when the killer is of an outgroup, we instantly assign group blame and then exact group retribution.
Re:The Terrifying Background of the Man Who Ran a CIA Assassination Unit
on Sunday July 22, 2012 @07:51PM (#4278899)
Reading the comments here, you wouldn't be blamed for thinking we (the side of rational thinking and intelligence) have lost. The question you should ask yourselves is whether the CIA, or even a big chunk of our government are working to protect us or working to protect their own interests. They do these things in our name. Murder civilians and call it collateral damage. They make up fake dossiers and our media swallows it whole. What have we come to? We used to be the shining city on the hill. We didn't need to invade people to "protect" ourselves.
Re:Eric Schmidt's thoughts about Pakistan
on Friday June 22, 2012 @04:42AM (#4145989)
The following article by a Pakistani-Indian is a good read and explains the fundamental problem that Pakistan faces. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230491110457644...