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What about the "deficit" for 2016? Government will tell you that it was $587 Billion. However "federal outlays - federal receipts" was $1417 Billion. The difference is "other borrowing".

http://usgovernmentspending.bl...

Not to mention the fact that they include SS taxes in "receipts", spend any surplus and do NOT count that as part of the deficit or national debt. They don't actually issue Treasury Securities(i.e. securities that can be sold on the open market) to cover the borrowing from SS. They just issue an IOU. An obligation to pay something back is, by definition, a "debt", but the federal government keeps it off the books.

"I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me."
-George Carlin

Re:Star Trek was never SJW by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-20 14:53 · Score: 0 · on Star Trek Discovery Gets Delayed Again As Spock's Father Is Cast (hollywoodreporter.com)

Except it wasn't murder and Picard/the Federation didn't have jurisdiction.

Worf was a Star Fleet officer. By choice. By any rational understanding of organizational dynamics, they had jurisdiction over him enough to fire him, at the least, and more likely, to put him through whatever actual system of corrections that the Federation has.

Which is usually ignored in the Trek fictionverse, because they'd much rather exonerate the captain. Even Worf got to murder his own brother and ANOTHER Klingon Chancellor just for political convenience.

Here's a hint: If you're in the main cast, whatever you do, the writers will make it out to be heroic and rightful. Guest Stars aren't so lucky.

My point is the version of liberalism that Star Trek tended to embody was not of a separatist, relativist, identity politic-oriented sort. You said in your previous reply that this was because they've already achieved perfect equality, but this obviously isn't true regarding alien races (particularly the Cardassians and Klingons.)

The Ferengi are a better example. Of the writers, once again, failing to not fall into a trap of stereotypes. That's not liberalism, or any politics at all, that's bad writing.

And they did it TWICE over with the one group. Not that it's exceptional, but how many aliens exist in Star Trek just to be the problem of the week?

If Roddenberry wished his works embody the perpetual-victimhood and relativist narratives that have existed in one form or another at least since the mid-twentieth century, he could have done so. But he did not.

That's because that is your narrative that you're spouting off about, not his. If you want that, try John Ringo, he genuinely seems to believe that, based on my personal interactions with him. Go read his books if you want that. I'm sure there are others in that vein as well.

Roddenberry's failings are entirely different, though they are legendary. This has nothing to do with any real world ideology.

Wow by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-16 19:43 · Score: 0 · on Study Finds Link Between Profanity and Honesty (neurosciencenews.com)

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Re: Sad that the Republicans... by Ol+Olsoc · 2017-01-16 14:38 · Score: 2 · on NASA Astronaut Gene Cernan, Last Man To Walk On the Moon, Dies At 82 (engadget.com)

Because the democrats and Obama love science so much that the space shuttle program was ended during their reign with no viable replacement in the near future.

From G.W. Bush's "Vision for Space exploration speech, January 14, 2004:

The Shuttle's chief purpose over the next several years will be to help finish assembly of the International Space Station. In 2010, the Space Shuttle — after nearly 30 years of duty — will be retired from service.

— President George W. Bush

January 14, 2004

reference http://spaceksc.blogspot.com/2...

It was extended by a few lights after Bush left office.

Re:Who cares? by JoKer_Destroy · 2017-01-10 19:04 · Score: 0 · on 'OLED TVs Will Finally Take Off in 2017' (engadget.com)

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Depends on what you mean by "gaslighting" by Scareduck · 2017-01-07 12:57 · Score: 5, Insightful · on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Deal With A 'Gaslighting' Colleague?

The problem with "gaslighting", as I wrote here, is that it tends to be used in two contexts, one legitimate (people lying about factual events) and one illegitimate (people disagreeing on interpretations of those events). Based on what I'm reading here, it looks like some of both: the unscheduling in particular seems like a red flag, but a lot of the other stuff is contextual and missing details. Furthermore, the fact that the author complains about coworkers' criticisms — and in particular, the criticism of someone they label as a "superstar" within the company, i.e. a person who has developed a sterling reputation — leads me to question the submitter's competence. So, I would advise,

If you know from prior work experience that you are competent and the work environment is toxic, leave, knowing you can find a better employment situation elsewhere.
But also be open to the idea that you may have your own "crisis of competence" here.

Re:Anonymity is Wrong Strategy. Data Obfuscation! by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-06 01:26 · Score: 0 · on Ultrasound Tracking Could Be Used To Deanonymize Tor Users (bleepingcomputer.com)

http://retroworks.blogspot.com...

Re:HELP I BURNED MY GIRLFRIENDS COOTER by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-03 04:41 · Score: -1 · on Solar Could Beat Coal to Become the Cheapest Power on Earth In Less Than a Decade (bloomberg.com)

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Re:NIMBY in full effect by Ol+Olsoc · 2017-01-02 09:30 · Score: 5, Interesting · on France Begins Opt-Out Organ Donation (theoutline.com)

I'd rather them not turn me off prematurely just so they can steal my organs, thanks.

Cases in point: http://legalpublication.blogsp...

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/or...

And here's the icing on the cake: http://www.melissacaulk.com/th...

I'll just leave this here form the article:

"In a shocking statement, Dr. Neil Lazar, Director of the Medical-Surgical Intensive Care unit at Toronto General Hospital, says the focus should be on the well-being of donors rather than whether they are legally dead. That could mean giving anesthetics during organ harvesting.

He and his co-authors, Dr. Maxwell J. Smith of the University of Toronto, and David Rodriguez-Arias of Universidad del Pais Vasco in Spain, advocate replacing the current “dead-donor rule” with a policy that educates the public about the true nature of patients used in transplants, obtain informed consent from everyone — and ensure the donor does not suffer during the organ harvesting. The study was published in the American Journal of Bioethics.

The authors state frankly that under current practices donors may be technically still alive when organs are harvested – a necessary condition to produce healthy, living organs. Because of this, they say that protocol requiring a donor’s death is “dangerously misleading,” and could overlook the well-being of the donor who may still be able to suffer during the harvesting procedure.

All I know is that if I need anesthetics while they are ripping me apart, I might have a few concerns about whether I am dead or not.

Re:I have worked on parts of power meters and this by drinkypoo · 2016-12-30 16:20 · Score: 1 · on Smart Electricity Meters Can Be Dangerously Insecure, Warns Expert (theguardian.com)

According to his profile Netanel Rubin was in the IDF, so I googled for Smart Meters in Israel and, please forgive my source because it is not highly relevant, all I wanted was the model of meter. And what's interesting about that is that it does offer an optional turn-off relay.

Dark Matter is a horrible kludge by digitalride · 2016-12-27 14:00 · Score: 4, Informative · on Vera Rubin, Pioneering Astronomer Who Confirmed Existence of Dark Matter, Dies At 88 (www.cbc.ca)

and Rubin wasn't a huge fan of it either:
"If I could have my pick, I would like to learn that Newton's laws must be modified in order to correctly describe gravitational interactions at large distances. That's more appealing than a universe filled with a new kind of sub-nuclear particle."

I have high hopes for this new theory that can account for the galaxy rotation problem ( and the emDrive ): http://physicsfromtheedge.blog...

Re:Eagleworks by Tenebrousedge · 2016-12-27 05:54 · Score: 1 · on Prepare For Even More Volatile Weather in 2017 (engadget.com)

It's always the dumbest arguments with you.

No, that is not what it means. It is a layman term with runs down to an abbreviation of "it does not eject reaction mass"

Those words are synonymous.You are simply wrong, and ignoring every word written on the subject because you can't otherwise reconcile your space fantasies with your knowledge of basic physics. Reactionless drives violate CoM by definition. But hey, maybe you'd rather hear it from Lubos Motl. Maybe that's a bit harsh. Sean Carroll? Ethan Siegel is also on record saying similar things, but you can't trust him, not when he has that kind of beard.

Anyway: if you can write down a few formulas why an EM drive violates CoE ;D you probably get a Nobel Prize :D

Every equation with a term for momentum would be violated. Relativity though is easiest. You remember Einstein's thought experiment with the elevator, that you cannot determine whether you are at rest or in uniform motion from within it? So one consequence of this is that you can't do anything within that elevator to affect its motion, and of course these are pretty much restatements of Newton's first and third laws. For an exactly analogous scenario, imagine you are in a space in free fall in the center of a 10m cubic room. Einstein, Newton, and Galileo say that you will never be able to reach the sides of that room without throwing a ball or otherwise changing your mass. Now, you are correct in believing that any device which did lose mass in order to accelerate would be compliant with CoM/CoE, but that is not what is being claimed. This is not being described as a super-high-efficiency ion thruster, it is a basic electromagnetic device which claims to affect motion without reaction mass, as you yourself said. That means that you can use it to escape the 10m cube, or test whether your elevator is in uniform motion. If it is expelling some massive particles, then it will have to take those as fuel, and the Rocket Equation applies, and this is just a normal rocket drive with particularly bad efficiency.

That it is not violating CoM is self evident, or it would not produce thrust

The essence of your logical failure in a nutshell. If Q, Therefore P. P, Therefore Q. Logically, you cannot exclude the possibility that it produces thrust in violation of CoM. And in point of fact, the device does not produce thrust -- no one has been able to measure thrust in excess of their error bars, except those that failed to adequately quantify their systemic errors. And no, there are no "reputated institutions" working on this, even if that were an argument for the correctness of any position. And to forestall a couple other objections, no, dark matter won't save you as it is not charged, and there does not exist anywhere enough mass density for something this size to work as a bussard ramscoop.

The EmDrive is a fantasy fueled by those with more exposure to Star Trek than Einstein.

Re:i dont get it. by Dagger2 · 2016-12-26 13:31 · Score: 2 · on Is Your Internet Connection Free From Bufferbloat? (blogspot.com)

It's pretty much not that at all. It's closer to:

* The provider is selling 100/100 Mbit/s to 20 people with a 1 Gbit/s uplink.
* You hook a WiFi router up to the 100/100 connection.
* While trying to VoIP/Skype on one WiFi device, somebody else starts watching Netflix on another.
* The latency on your WiFi (and thus your VoIP call) jumps up to 50-100ms due to bad buffer management on the WiFi.
* A third device starts trying to sync photos to a backup service, introducing another 100-250ms* of latency by tying up your upstream and generating another badly managed queue on your router.

That's a ton of unnecessary latency being generated right in your own house, by your own gear, and none of it will be helped by the ISP putting in more upstream bandwidth.

...on the topic of which, it would be insanely unnecessary to have 2 Gbit/s of bandwidth for twenty 100 Mbit/s users. You don't need enough bandwidth for every user to max out their connection simultaneously, because that never happens; you only need enough to cover whatever your actual peak traffic is without dropping any packets. When averaging over thousands of customers, this actually works out to needing something around 100 Kbit/s(!) per customer today.

Of course 20 is much less than "thousands" and the traffic profile of 20 customers will be much more peaky than the one of 1000 customers, but I suspect even then that 1000 Mbit/s would be enough to cover twenty 100 Mbit/s connections without dropping any packets. It certainly wouldn't be anywhere near having a "real uplink of 50 Mbit/s".

(*: Probably it wouldn't be this bad with a symmetric 100/100 connection; the graph I linked is for a 140/12 connection, but those are probably more common than symmetric connections anyway.)

Alt Right by alternative_right · 2016-12-26 07:26 · Score: 1 · on What's the Best Book You Read This Year?

Go to the source: Alternative Right

Re: Cute name, no tangible problem by Dagger2 · 2016-12-25 23:15 · Score: 4, Insightful · on Is Your Internet Connection Free From Bufferbloat? (blogspot.com)

Badly managed buffers are a massive problem for latency. Just look at this graph from the article. You see the four ping time measurements on the right? You see how one of them is 100-250ms and the rest are more like 20ms? That's exactly the same link in all cases, but the first measurement has a giant pile of latency introduced purely by poor buffer management.

I'm not going to dismiss the problem you described, because I agree it's a problem. But it makes no sense to worry about 100ms on cross-Atlantic links and yet completely dismiss 200ms right on the first hop.

Re:The One and Only by fyngyrz · 2016-12-25 08:56 · Score: 1 · on Voice Is the Next Big Platform, But Amazon Already Owns It (backchannel.com)

No problem. I'm down with the magic underwear, floating, and bubbling.

Lisp to C by jbolden · 2016-12-24 10:35 · Score: 3, Interesting · on How Would You Generate C Code Using Common Lisp Macros? (github.com)

How (and why) would you convert your Lisp code into C

Well that's pretty easy. There are tons of simple Lisp compilers. Heck building a LISP used to be an exercise for many years included (full source) with Microsoft's C compiler.

A few examples:
http://www.buildyourownlisp.co...
http://howtowriteaprogram.blog...
http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/
http://clisp.sourceforge.net/

A little off topic but a Lisp in Java by a master of the programming craft which is worth looking at: http://norvig.com/jscheme.html
And finally also off topic but the original LISP in assembly: http://www.softwarepreservatio...

In short the way you convert LISP to C is writing a LISP interpreter or compiler.

Re:Civilians by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-22 15:46 · Score: 1, Informative · on Russians Used Malware On Android Devices To Track and Target Ukraine Artillery, Says Report (reuters.com)

It's not clear that Russia has any intention to minimize civilian casualties. For one thing, their proxy forces (the DNR and LNR) get paid to fire off a certain amount of salvos, and when they shoot these artillery shells, they often fire pretty indiscriminately. This guy is located in Lugansk, and his Twitter timeline is dedicated to keeping track of the artillery shelling, in case anyone's curious about it. Second, Russia controls all of the media in the occupied territories, and their MO has been to get one of their GRU/FSB-connected "journalists" into an area (there are certain channels, such as LIfeNews, which are particularly linked to Russian security services), have the Russian journalist direct artillery or tank fire into a civilian target, and then present the footage under the guise of "the junta" shelling Donbas civilians - this is intended to foment a local uprising against Ukraine, but it only works on the most gullible individuals, and according to Russian pollsters, most people in Donbas still support Ukraine.

Possibly two most famous incidents of Russia shelling civilians in Donbas were the Volnovakha bus station bombing (it was an MH17-like situation, where the Russians thought they hit a Ukrainian military target, took credit for it, realized they hit a civilian target, and started fabricating stories that Ukraine did it) and the Mariupol bombing, in which Russia killed at least 29 people, and injured at lest 97. Another famous one was a Donetsk city mortar shelling, which, of course, the Russians tried to pin on Ukraine, until everyone realized that the shelling was done by mortar, the mortar used has a range of a few km, at most, and the nearest Ukrainian position is 20km away; at that point, the Russian terrorists shut up about it. In summary - the only sure way to limit civilian casualties, is to get the Russian invading force off of Ukrainian territory.

Re:We are all haters now by ebvwfbw · 2016-12-22 13:46 · Score: 1 · on Twitter Will Hand Over Data On the User Who Sent a Seizure-Inducing Tweet To a Journalist (theverge.com)

You may very well be right about that. But freedom of speech isn't about ensuring that everything done serves a useful purpose. Your proposal to criminalize disrespect of what YOU stand for is fascism, pure and simple. You try to paint it as something else, but you're straight up delusional.

If it isn't for a useful purpose then why do it? It's done to incite. As much as a punch in the mouth. Since the guy doing it often has nothing to lose, kind of a tough situation. More on this later.

Not sure if you realized it or not, please don't put words into my mouth. I know the left loves to tell other people what they think the other person is thinking, stop it. Listen more. Do you even know what fascism is? Clearly not. I'm not a fascist. Did I ever say it should be criminalized? No. Here, find out what fascism is all about - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Bundle of sticks, H - "stronger together"... Humm.... Coincidence? Her Clinton Foundation, Eva Perone's foundation - anther fascist... coincidence?... Just sayin'

The left? Oh boy. Nazis? The Nazi party may have started as a left-wing party, but it ceased to be one on The Night of the Long Knives when every single leftist in it was purged (see: executed) by the Hitler-supporting far-right wing of the party. You don't get to call the Nazi atrocities some kind of left-wing stereotypical behavior... Well, you do, because you're free to do and say anything you like, regardless of how stupid it is, as long as it doesn't infringe on my rights.

Wow. Just wow. Revising history too. Know about communist, socialist and fascist? Clearly not. You have no clue. It's funny you think leftist become right. A lot of people were thrown off by the question to Stalin. They asked him where were the NAZIs compared to Communism. He said the Nazis are to the right, yes, right of Communism. Still plenty far to the left. Redirection.

Reminds me when they tried to make Americans all think in the 1960s that the racist Democrats all became Republicans and the Republicans became Democrats. http://blackrepublican.blogspo... . I still know people that believe that.

You need to get out and see the world. 1%? Not even close. Pretty high up- sure. Nowhere near 1%.

I've done quite well getting around the world. I've seen some real toilets. I rent to people that came from some real toilets in the world. I even have my own airplane. You need to get out more. Here's an article that I think will help -
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

So, if you include that top 1% with the other 99% of Americans, we're all in the top 1% of the world.
Go ahead, call the Washington Post a fascist/right wing paper. That'll be funny. You need to admit you're wrong. Even our poor have it darn well. To me.. man.. you really don't know. I've seen stuff that I couldn't get out of my head for a year. Still disturbs me, however even if I had a billion dollars to throw their way, it wouldn't change anything. Few things very briefly, however corruption would get probably all of it.

Again- an attack on the things you stand for is not an attack on you. You don't get to censor those who attack your beliefs. That's fucking fascism. You are a fascist. I don't personally burn flags, but I defend the *RIGHT* of asshats to do it.

Wow. Just wow. Really wow. You seem to defend the left. The left/democrats are all about telling us what we can and can't do. Regulations - which carry the power of law. From farms to where we can fish... all kinds of stuff. They even want to tell us what we can think. Anything other than what they

Re:There is no civil war in Ukraine by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-22 04:49 · Score: 1 · on Hotbed of Cybercrime Activity Tracked Down To ISP In Region Where Russia Is Invading Ukraine (bleepingcomputer.com)

That's a load of rubbish. Nazi/fascist political philosopher Dugin is an advisor to Putin's closest advisors, and his philosophy has become more or less mainstream. Russia annexed Crimea on nationalist grounds, very similar to what Hitler used to justify his Sudetendland annexation. Putin even said things along the lines of "Crimea is sacred Russian land" - you just don't hear stuff like this anymore from civilized countries. This was supported by over 80% of the Russian population. Many (most?) Russians still consider Ukraine and Belarus to be Russian territory. That's nationalism.

In Ukraine, the "nationalist" parties (Svoboda, and Pravy Sektor), whose "nationalism" mostly consists in wanting to be free of malicious Russian influence, have almost no representation in the parliament. In part, thanks to Russia's sponsorship of ultranationalist parties all over Europe (AfD, National Front, Golden Dawn, Jobbik - I could name major Russia-sponsored far-right parties all day, but you get the point), Ukraine is easily one of the least nationalistic countries in Europe. In fact, the Trump election reveals that Ukraine is even less nationalist than the US. The only way that you can call Ukraine nationalist is if you subscribe to the insane Russian ultranationalist notion that Ukraine's desire to de-Finlandize itself is somehow tantamount to nationalism.

Re:The popular vote is trivia by djinn6 · 2016-12-21 07:04 · Score: 1 · on Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com)

That's just not true. With the right selection of states, you'd only need the votes from 16% of the area of the US to get to electoral majority. Someone did the calculations for 2012, and here's an updated map for 2016. Now do those maps look representative of small states to you?

Re:Yes, but will it be thin? by Yvan256 · 2016-12-20 07:22 · Score: 1 · on Tim Cook Assures Employees That It Is Committed To Mac and 'Great Desktops' Are Coming (techcrunch.com)

I thought the TVs took care of that?

Re:Don't forget by sabri · 2016-12-19 15:24 · Score: 1 · on South Carolina Bill Wants To Put Porn Blocks On New Computers (zdnet.com)

If they really really REALLY wanted to stop human trafficking they would legalize prostitution.

Yeah, that worked out really well in Amsterdam..

Re:Yeah since when do you give a shit you hypocrit by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-19 15:20 · Score: 0 · on IBM Employees Protest Cooperation With Donald Trump (theintercept.com)

Where the fuck are all these special-snowflake IBM employees when they have no problem helping their corporate masters commit actual violations of civil liberties in China?

http://vannevar.blogspot.com/2...

I'll feed the troll. Some comments:

1) IBM absolutely deserves to get crap for their past decisions - but there were a LOT of companies that profited off of WWII in some manner. IBM's just didn't do as good as a job hiding their role as they should have compared to other companies.

2) MOST current IBM employees were born AFTER WWII. MOST current IBM employees in a company of 400k+ have absolutely no interaction/influence of business done in China. It would be the equivalent of saying "I object to the horrible acts of ___ that ___ religion/company performed ___ years ago and a small group of individuals from that religion/company is performing in ___ area of the world today - therefore I should quit that religion.company".

3) I'm sad to see this posted to Slashdot. A good discussion would be on what role Tech CEO's will play on the incoming US president-elect. This current focus on a limited number of employees reacting negatively to a corporate CEO playing politics is a tabloid story being picked up by mainstream media (and unfortunately now Slashdot).

4) The individual who went public with this is the equivalent of a Software Engineer II - barely above a new hire. This individual is NOT a technical executive or respected senior non-executive engineer within IBM making a public statement - i.e. this isn't Bruce Schneier or an equivalent. I don't expect this individual will be disciplined directly. There are PLENTY of opportunities to reassign to crap positions with impossible goals to meet to either force them to quit OR poor performance records naturally come as a result. Pure speculation on my part, but and I don't see individual lasting another 2-3 years in corporate culture.

Disclaimer: Posting as AC for obvious reasons.

Yeah since when do you give a shit you hypocrites? by CajunArson · 2016-12-19 08:50 · Score: 4, Insightful · on IBM Employees Protest Cooperation With Donald Trump (theintercept.com)

Where the fuck are all these special-snowflake IBM employees when they have no problem helping their corporate masters commit actual violations of civil liberties in China?

http://vannevar.blogspot.com/2...

Re:I actually don't remember that by argStyopa · 2016-12-18 06:40 · Score: 0 · on US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change (cnn.com)

"You've got a bunch of folks with PHds, usually with a heavy emphasis on math and statistics, but the implication I get again and again from folks is that they're somehow trying to cheat us all for the mountains of grant money."

Because it's been proved (at least as well as AGW)?

- http://a-sceptical-mind.com/th... That trickey 'hockey stick' graph that so motivated the world?
- http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.... "We don't have the original climate data"
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/com... and
- https://notalotofpeopleknowtha... Massive, and repeated 'creative' manipulation of the data;

IDM 6.19 Build 7 Crack Free by pcgamesandsoftwares · 2016-12-16 22:54 · Score: -1 · on Researchers Find Roads Shatter the Earth's Surface Into 600,000 Fragments (phys.org)

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IDM 6.19 Build 7 Crack by pcgamesandsoftwares · 2016-12-16 22:51 · Score: -1 · on Apollo 11 Moon Rock Bag Belongs To Buyer, Not NASA, Judge Rules (behindtheblack.com)

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Re:zero day? by JThundley · 2016-12-16 11:25 · Score: 1 · on Zero-Days Hitting Fedora and Ubuntu Open Desktops To a World of Hurt (arstechnica.com)

Right, it was a 0-day when it was released... a month ago:
https://scarybeastsecurity.blo...

My Debian stable machine is safe, I'm missing that file, don't use chrome, don't use gnome file managers that attempt to preview music files. Yes 0-days are bad and can happen in Linux environments as well as any other, but there's still the lack of monoculture in Linux. Show me a windows machine that doesn't have IE installed.

Microsoft Office 2007 Free Download by pcgamesandsoftwares · 2016-12-15 16:46 · Score: -1 · on GM Expands Testing, Production of Self-Driving Cars In Michigan (reuters.com)

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Microsoft Office 2007 by pcgamesandsoftwares · 2016-12-15 16:42 · Score: -1 · on Aging Process May Be Reversable, Scientists Claim (theguardian.com)

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Re:Huh? by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-13 15:16 · Score: 0 · on Google Publishes Eight National Security Letters (techcrunch.com)

Google's own published numbers show that they get requests covering between 1000 and 3000 accounts per year. Dunno where "26" comes into anything.

Windows Xp Sp3 ISO Download by pcgamesandsoftwares · 2016-12-07 22:03 · Score: -1 · on Earth's Day Lengthens By Two Milliseconds a Century, Astronomers Find (theguardian.com)

Windows Xp Sp3 ISO Download Someone help me with the math on this. If 1000 milliseconds=1 second, and we gain 2 milliseconds a century, it would take 500 centuries to lengthen the day by 1 second. Right?

Windows Xp Sp3 ISO Download by pcgamesandsoftwares · 2016-12-07 21:59 · Score: -1 · on Paris Makes All Public Transportation Free In Battle Against 'Worst Air Pollution For 10 Years' (independent.co.uk)

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At the Apex of the Planet of the Apes by TheRealHocusLocus · 2016-12-02 17:27 · Score: 1 · on The 'USB Killer' Has Been Mass Produced -- Available Online For About $50 (arstechnica.com)

Witnessing small but steady improvements of technology over common sense. Ultimately there will be a single technological moment in which there will be no common sense at all.

Seeing this on Slashdot is like picking up a carpentry trade magazine where one expects to see advice on practical projects, tools and plans, to find a feature article about stepping on rusty nails. Carpenters sometimes step on them and there are bits of humor and sympathy here and there but this article is different. There are lurid photographs of nails sticking out of feet, everyone seems enthusiastic about the topic. They have obviously scoured the Earth to gather present those excited about this thing, and there a distressing number of people. It is even obvious that folks have stepped on rusty nails to be featured in the article.

The long time reader is horrified and confused. Perhaps something has gone horribly wrong with the world in a way that is surreal.

As stupidly pointless as inBOIL's death in Richard Brautigan's work, In Watermelon Sugar ,

Pauline started mopping up the blood and wringing it out into a bucket. When the bucket was almost full of blood, inBOIL died. "I am iDEATH," he said.
"You're an asshole," Pauline said.
And the last thing that inBOIL ever saw was Pauline standing beside him, wringing his blood out of the mop into the bucket.

IETF BCP: no public smearing servers by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-01 06:27 · Score: 0 · on Google's New Public NTP Servers Provide Smeared Time (googleblog.com)

Google has been smearing leap seconds over NTP since 2011. This is a public reminder that Google NTP will be serving smear seconds because there is one coming.

Best current practice (BCP):

Leap Smearing must not be used for public-facing NTP servers, as they will disagree with non-smearing servers (as well as UTC) during the leap smear interval.

* https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ntp-bcp-02#section-4.6.1

Not new, just a holiday reminder PSA by Anonymous Coward · 2016-12-01 02:56 · Score: 5, Informative · on Google's New Public NTP Servers Provide Smeared Time (googleblog.com)

Google has been smearing leap seconds over NTP since 2011. This is a public reminder that Google NTP will be serving smear seconds because there is one coming.

Re:Yeah? by rmckeethen · 2016-11-29 13:48 · Score: 1 · on The Internet Archive Is Building a Canadian Copy To Protect Itself From Trump (theverge.com)

Geez people get a grip. It's like half the population of the country is throwing a temper tantrum like a toddler who acts like the world is ending because they can't get the toy they want.

Perhaps you're simply too young to remember the reaction when Obama was elected eight years ago, but it wasn't pretty.

Four years later, in 2012, reactions from the right to Obama's second election as president hadn't changed much. Back then, Donald Trump tweated:

"This election is a total sham and a travesty. We are not a democracy!"
"We can't let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided!"
"He lost the popular vote by a lot and won the election. We should have a revolution in this country!"
"Let's fight like hell and stop this great and disgusting injustice! The world is laughing at us."

Re:The false metric problem by TheSync · 2016-11-29 07:38 · Score: 1 · on Trump Says He's Going To 'Get Apple To Build a Big Plant In the United States' (arstechnica.com)

US Total Manufacturer sales.

US Manufacturing corporations after-tax profits.

Re:Has the lord and savior told you by alvinrod · 2016-11-28 03:57 · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Has Your Team Ever Succumbed To Hype Driven Development? (daftcode.pl)

The problem with TDD is that it's not a tool you can apply to all problems. Some things are sufficiently complex and not well understood enough that trying to build them to incrementally pass more tests is just asking for headaches. There's a famous example of Ron Jeffries trying to use TDD to implement a Sudoku solver that didn't turn out well.

It's good in that it ensures some unit tests get developed and those can be a great asset if it's software that's going to stick around and will probably be enhanced, refactored, or reused later on because it makes it a lot easier to do regression testing if you've already got a good set of tests. Some developers can be trusted to write those after they've written the code and others just rush off to the next thing.

Like a lot of other things TDD probably fails mostly because people can't use it properly or try to treat every problem like a nail that can be pounded in with their shiny new TDD hammer.

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