"Though this does not in any way help to cool down your Mac, it will allow you to monitor its temperature to ensure that your MacBook Pro doesn’t overheat." Translation: This will allow you to monitor on an ongoing basis how much your MacBook Pros heat situation sucks. - j1m
"Can the open public Web fight back? Yes. It’s called FriendFeed. Notice that FriendFeed replaces almost all of Facebook’s killer features with open ones that are open to Google’s search." - ƃuɐʞ
Gah, I like Friendfeed, but calling it a Facebook replacement is absolutely bogus. Friendfeed is a hell of a lot of fun and I greatly enjoy the conversations here, but it lacks about 95% of the functionality of Facebook. - Adam Lasnik
Agreed, which is why I'm (currently) a FriendFeed user but not a Facebook user... - ƃuɐʞ
o.o I think I might have to give up my Facebook account... - Amy Tureen
I stopped using Facebook sometime in the last 6-9 months. Right around the time I started using FriendFeed. Coincidence? :) - Evan Parker
yeah, I don't think that friendfeed can really be called a Facebook replacement. I still use both. - Chieze Okoye
check out the URL (fashion? not science?). also, this report is completely different than what my personal experience has been. the problem here isn't the tech industry - it's the nytimes. - ƃuɐʞ
"The ideal worker in this realm is “the hacker who goes into his cubicle and doesn’t emerge for a week, having not showered or eaten anything but pizza. Those people exist and they are seen as heroes.” " -- sounds like the author believes that people that get so absorbed by their work are clearly Evil, and it is unfair to have the poor women compete with them for the same jobs - ana
just because you haven't experienced it doesn't mean it doesn't exist... - Neha Narula
I'm not sure why not showering and eating only pizza would be considered "predatory and demeaning and discriminatory" -- it just sounds like a bad idea. (Why is it ok to bring up the most insulting stereotypes of male tech workers though?) It would have been nice to have seen a few more concrete examples. - Jim Norris
=all 4 of you. I'm baffled every time I see this article written. Perhaps because I spend so much of my life surrounded by successful women working in science and technology. Perhaps because I've found actual locker-room conversation much tamer among technologists and scientists than among others. But yeah, the real problems with this article are the offensive stereotyping of men, and the fact that it works much harder than reality would to scare women away from technology careers. - j1m
and also, Paul Tyma (creator of mailinator) works at Google. :) - Sanjeev Singh
I personally prefer SpamGourmet (www.spamgourmet.com). I find it easier to use, though I do find there's a bit of a delay (a few minutes) sometimes in receiving mail, which can be problematic when I need an e-mail right now. - Adam Lasnik
also guerillamail.com, mintemail.com seems to be down. - felix
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“@jessicalee: i obtained for you a maple-bacon lollipop but i eated it :(”
“in narita, waiting for my connecting flight, using free yahoo++ japan internet cafe. had a full row to myself for 4 hours, one of the best pacific crossings i:ve ever had!”
The airplane gods are with you - hope the good flying luck continues. - Howard Trickey
though my takeoff from narita was delayed an hour, i got a WHOLE row to myself - a whole 2 seats + 3 seats + 2 seats. slept like a baby. good grief! i feel like i should be making a blood sacrifice to the airplane gods now. - ƃuɐʞ
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“in JFK airport international terminal... checked in and walked through customs in < 15 minutes. go JAL!”
Lucky you -- or maybe JAL is doing something right. JFK is third on the list of airports I hate with a passion -- after CDG (Paris) and ATL (Atlanta). - Tudor Bosman
The in-terminal experience varies greatly by terminal. The on-tarmac experience is uniformly terrible, maybe ƃuɐʞ will tell us if JAL can do anything about that... - ⓞnor
Well, FAA-mandated flight throttling started at JFK this weekend. I wonder if that'll result in any user-visible improvements... - ƃuɐʞ
I can only vouch for the JetBlue terminal (7?) -- not fully built when I was there, so a horrible mess -- and the Delta terminal (2?) -- way overcrowded, so a horrible mess. - Tudor Bosman
plane took off *fast*. thanks, FAA! (tudor, i agree with you on both terminal assessments) - ƃuɐʞ
this guy's IQ scale from 100-200 goes: university students < post-graduate students < intellectuals < professsors < nobel prize winners < high genius < highest genius < unmeasurable genius. - ƃuɐʞ
Not really interested in the "ZOMG there was sexism in the 1940s" angle of the piece, but what this British woman did during the war was unbelievable: parachuted into France and led the resistance. Other training assessments said "probably the best shot - male or female - we have yet had" ..."this student, though a woman, has definitely got leaders' qualities. Cool and resourceful and extremely determined". - ƃuɐʞ
the article actually completely fails to explain how... - ƃuɐʞ
"I've finally had enough of 15 years of physical and emotional abuse."
She accused her "controlling and bullying" father of forcing her to work in the cold to aid concentration and added that she never wanted to see him again." - sounds like she was manipulated by her dad and was trying to please him, protect her family, and still get to go to school. So sad. - Ginger Makela
Lions and big cats don't normally hug like this. I wonder if he learned it from watching humans. More than just mere imitation, it seems he had the social awareness to know how and when to apply it, this suggesting a larger brain center for mirror neurons than i had known and thus a larger capacity for consciousness. - John Lam
