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Invade your personal space? Really? Your personal space? You entitled piece of shit.

Wow you're stupid.

What's wrong with with discrimination based on eye color? Shouldn't anyone with blue eyes be killed at birth? That's not on the list you mentioned, so it's fair game, right?

And don't forget sports teams. Almost all football programs, for instance, actually cost the university more money than they bring in. This includes revenue from sports memorabilia. Source: friend worked in athletics at my uni and they were extremely proud when they started breaking even.

Take some time off. Decompress. Start up a conversation with a random pretty girl in Hyde Park. Look around and see the happy people and try to capture some of their energy. If you still feel horrible, please seek professional help. No job is worth that level of stress, and if it's hurting you then you just need to cut your losses and find something and someone that makes you happy.

Interesting! Did working for Isohunt help or hurt you in the post Isohunt job search? I would think that the technical skills learned from working at such a massively popular site would go a long way. But I wonder if employers would worry about affiliating themselves with an entity that's been deemed illegal. Thoughts?

Yeah I generally don't think it'd be a good idea to give kids access to parental bank accounts. Maybe I'm wrong, but it just seems like a poor decision.

So....what exactly is Isohunt.to? Isohunt.com was shut down and the footer of Isohunt.to says they are not affiliated with Isohunt inc. So...wouldn't it be safe to assume that Isohunt.to is just an MPAA/RIAA honeypot that's designed to snap up users of the original Isohunt who just don't notice the difference? I'd stay 50,000 miles away from them and any of their "products."

A friend of mine discovered his color blindness when he joined the military and took an eye exam. He said he never noticed things like stoplights red/green being very similar because he just thought that was how it is supposed to be.

Interesting! I would have thought the color "trueness" would have a lot more of an effect. But I guess the originator of the test took that into account.

I scored a 12 on an uncalibrated laptop display (late 2010 MacBook Air) so I don't think that's too poor for my age range (29). Still, I would have liked to see some median scores.

My results: http://screencast.com/t/s5ohpINp

Also, by the end of the process I felt like I was going to be sick, not sure if it was the brightness (my eyes are extremely sensitive to light and I normally keep the brightness at 1 bar but I had it at full brightness for this).

It made a million dollars!

Maximizing shareholder value is less important than offering good customer service. Corporate greed is so disgusting.

"He made me not make as much money as I wanted to have made and thus he is a traitor."

So is this basically a sort of more-visual copyscape/turn-it-in system where you can see which parts and how much of a document come from other sources? It's interesting from that perspective, but there's far too much visual noise for it to be the primary document structure of the internet. To simultaneously see every related document to what you're currently reading? Seems like there would be a high cognitive load there.

In other words, steroids have become more effective.

I up voted this because it made me laugh, even though I don't understand.

So my interface looks something like:

Age: Height: Sex: Eye Color: Skin Color: Build:

and I can fill it in and I will be presented with an image (or images) that matches that query, along with basically all the other information currently collected about that individual?

So, a use case would be...a 6'2'' individual with medium complexion and shinny build with heavy facial hair was caught on a camera doing some potentially illicit activity and the feds can feed that info into the DB and the output is a list of people who match that description, along with all available information such as (I'm guessing here), last known location (most likely according to their last internet login and/or cellphone ping), full transcripts of their emails, chat, voip conversations, etc..?

But how does the system match the photo to the name? [The app 'NSA' would like access to your Facebook Photos. This app will not be able to post on your behalf."]?

I'm assuming that I misunderstand the point of this technology, as used by the NSA. It seems that they have pictures of people that they want to arrest. And they have information about those same people, but without pictures. And so they have developed a technology that matches a picture with the name of the person in that picture?

If the NSA wants to have person A detained then wouldn't it be a good idea for them to already know what that person looks like? Am I entirely missing the point?

The stated reason for this are two failed bombings. How would this facial recognition tech have stopped those two failed bombings?

Actually, you may have proved exactly how safe it is by damaging the protective layer and leaving the main glass unharmed.

I only recently started using Tails myself. I found it to be pretty easy to get going, and the Windows Camouflage mode is fun. I don't see this being a real replacement. Maybe a competitor?

You hit the nail on the head here. Most of my family is entirely and strongly anti-education. My brother and I (32 and 29, respectively) were the first and so far only people in our family to ever go to college. My grandparents championed it, but our father has gotten progressively more and more anti-intellectual (he's what you might call a "crazy redneck"). Upon our last meeting he actually asked me if I am "actually smart" or if I am "just good with the computer." The sad part is he had a chance to go to college, my grandparents were going to pay for it if he would have just gone. But he's paranoid and thinks college is where they convince you to not love Jesus and to get rid of your guns.

You just blew my mind. I now want to learn everything I can about algebraic topology.

Let's see some logical refutations before we start with the emotional down votes, you purely logical genius gods of knowledge.

I was an English major in undergrad and grad school and I see these arguments all the time. I learned a great deal in my university career, and much of what I learned in the humanities took real intellectual curiosity, hard work, and deep thinking. You're not going to put together a real, publishable work by copy and pasting work from Stackoverflow, not in a master level English course. And let's be honest, the majority of CS students are lazy and incompetent, just like the majority of all students in all majors. Sure, you get some truly brilliant students that come along, but most of them never really produce anything of value. And most engineers, talented as they may be at slinging code and doing the lambda calculus, are pitiful communicators and can barely write a coherent sentence.

Because it's important to feel like you're important. Not having a job, especially being turned down for jobs, can make you feel worthless and unnecessary. It's a terrible place to be.

I can see value here. Personally, I find it extremely difficult to pick up on non-verbal cues. Often someone will make a statement or ask a question that's primarily meant as normal social conversation "Got any plans for Memorial Day?" And it will confuse me more than it should. (Why are they asking me this? What good will it do for them to know? Do I have any plans? I'm going to look over some things for work but I don't think I'm supposed to talk about that. Oh shit, I never sent in that report, I better do that when I get home. I wonder if I can do it now, if my laptop is still on I can just connect through Screens. I need to set up wake-on-lan this weekend. Did I let the dogs out? What were they saying? Why are they staring at me. Better make a run for it!)

I don't know if this sort of tech would help me or not, but it'd be worth a shot to be able to dial my social awkwardness down to a 10 and even better if it could help people with real disabilities.

This is amazing. "...I knew I had to make the planet greener." Yes! I love how he saw a problem and just set out to solve it because he knew no one else would. He's a real hacker.

I agree 100% You get people listening to Beats headphones that pump so much bass that they destroy the mid and high end. It's stupid to pay that much money for a decidedly low-end product. Just because it's loud doesn't mean it's good. And beyond that, the actual physical quality of Beats headphones is absolute rubbish. I unfortunately bought into the hype my first year of college and picked up a pair and returned them a week later as they were falling apart and sounded like dirt. Bowers and Wilkins are far superior in basically every way.