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  1. Re:Bullshit Stats. on As Amazon Grows In Seattle, Pay Equity For Women Declines · · Score: 1

    In other words, women who act like men get paid like men. Who would have thought? i'm sure there is still some bias, but from what I've also read, it's incredibly small, but still something to work on. Especially for some of those jerks who pick on those who are "different", and being female is "different" in these cases.

  2. Re:So close, so far on "Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer" Pulled From Amazon · · Score: 1

    If you breed out aggression

    Who needs competition anyway? Why go to the moon, why be the best at anything? Just getting by is perfectly fine. Until a meteor destroys the Earth. Sounds more like lazy people wanting to get carried by those they look down upon.

  3. Re:The biggest news was left out on People Trained To Experience an Overlap In Senses Also Receive IQ Boost · · Score: 2

    Tasting lemons when they see a number seven, regarding a certain letter as being yellow in color.

    When I read this, I didn't think of this "Memory is improved by technique.". It made me think that they're talking about an overlap in perception, not consciously trying to make associations. The only reason I thought about this is because I get an "overlap" with several of my senses with my vision.

    If I am working with something new to me or something happens unexpectedly, I "see" stuff. I can "see" sound, I can "see" touch, I can "see" my thoughts. I actually have a hard time reading story books because of this. When I read, I visualize what is going on and this conflicts with my ability to read. If I am allowed to listen, like someone reading to me, I am free to visualize. I can't remember passages in books, but I can tell you what I "saw". I have very vivid visual memories. The really strange thing is I may not remember something being described, like say a "fireplace", but when I think of the memory, I will "see" the fireplace, making me question if it was actually mentioned in the book or I just added it myself.

    I also process new information this way. I find that I listen better or "think" better when I'm looking at the ground, where nothing is going on. Walking and thinking can be dangerous for me, I can get disoriented as I switch between the world around me and the world in my head. I can start to lose my balance as I lose my orientation. Typically disorientation is more of an issue if I am thinking of a form of navigation than thinking of abstract ideas.

  4. Re:So close, so far on "Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer" Pulled From Amazon · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The best female programmer that I've know, and I thought she was quite good, was a programmer for almost a decade, then quit to become a stay-at-home-mom, but then became a pseudo-part-time programmer who does remote work for a company, since she can do that from home. She's still salaried, but gets paid a lot less.

    Take it how you want, but I don't know any male programmers who quit to be a stay-at-home-dad with a pay hit. Doing this would probably be grounds for divorce for most wives and losing custody of your children, for a man. I assume this kind of stuff can affect the average.

  5. Re:Basically on BitTorrent Unveils Sync 2.0 · · Score: 2

    Not much of a "cloud" if it doesn't support clustering. More like a slew of web services running on a single server. There are some nice services, but Sync allows me to scale with the number of connections.

  6. Re:Impossible to build purely evil robots? on Halting Problem Proves That Lethal Robots Cannot Correctly Decide To Kill Humans · · Score: 1

    Does your atomic bomb have a multi-tasking OS? "sleep(1);" Afraid to tie up the CPU for other processing to run?

  7. Re:I thought the distinction was arbitrary already on Laser Creates Quantum Whirlpool · · Score: 1

    Matter has mass, but not all that has mass is matter

    I'm not saying you're wrong, but I am having trouble finding a nice physics definition of "mass". All that I've found pretty much just says "mass is a property of matter".

  8. Re:Signs clear enough even for a layman on Debian Votes Against Mandating Non-systemd Compatibility · · Score: 1

    Wayland is simplifying how windowing works SystemD is complicating things. Wayland does one thing and it does it well, SystemD does everything.

  9. Re:The Systemd Fiasco or Hello FreeBSD on Debian Votes Against Mandating Non-systemd Compatibility · · Score: 1

    FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonflyBSD, all share a lot of code enhancements. Several times a year you hear how FreeBSD is porting kernel enhancements from NetBSD or OpenBSD is porting some sandbox code from FreeBSD or FreeBSD is importing better thread friendly data structures from DragonflyBSD. There is yet another BSD that recently forked FreeBSD with the sole purpose of being a test-bed for new security code testing, and when something works well, they'll push it upstream to FreeBSD.

  10. Re:The Systemd Fiasco or Hello FreeBSD on Debian Votes Against Mandating Non-systemd Compatibility · · Score: 1

    I don't understand how this didn't get modded funny yet. Made my giggle like a school girl. tee-hee

  11. Re:Yawn ... on Microsoft Azure Outage Across the Globe · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There are many reasons to use the cloud.

    1) You're too small to afford enough full time IT
    2) You can't afford the capital investment into your own servers
    3) You need a low latency global CDN like service, but you can't afford dedicated servers running everywhere
    4) You need only temporarily need to scale up your servers to handle burst load
    5) I'm sure there are other reasons.

  12. Re: Go back in time 5 years on Debian Votes Against Mandating Non-systemd Compatibility · · Score: 1

    The haters are making an effort to turn the tide before more drastic methods are taken, like yet another distro.

  13. Re:Debian OS is no longer of use to me now on Debian Votes Against Mandating Non-systemd Compatibility · · Score: 4, Insightful

    SystemD is a liability for sysadmins, it is the only logical decision unless you have support contract with RedHat. There's already stories of "I moved to FreeBSD to solve one issue and realized it made things so much easier. Instead of 10,000 RedHat servers, we now have 3,000 FreeBSD doing the same work, and the reduced time managing the systems frees me up to work on other things". One of the biggest reasons for sysadmins loving FreeBSD is how "unixy" it is, and systemd is anti-unix.

    Sysadmins live and die by their automated scripts. There are scripts that were made 15 years ago for FreeBSD, and they still work to this day. Linus takes the stance of "don't break userland". If you're going to break your user's scripts, you'd better have a damned good reason.

  14. Re:Systemd works OK in Fedora on Debian Votes Against Mandating Non-systemd Compatibility · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They already are. A lot of the FreeBSD people are sysadmins and there's already conversion stories where these FreeBSD guys admin datacenters and some of their clients are already completely switching to FreeBSD because their sysadmins hate systemd. Then the clients realize how awesome FreeBSD is and start tell their friends, who are also sysadmins. ZFS is like crack, once they've tried it, there's no going back.

    Linux distros seem to be going the way of "We're awesome, so we'll alienate all the non-awesome people and then everyone will be awesome!". Only to realize later that they gutted what made them great in the first place. They don't realize how important it was to have things the way they were because they didn't use them. Screw those power users! Who needs them anyway? Like a corporation that just let go all of their engineers and now only have marketing and sales. How long will it last? Who cares! It looks great on the quarterly report!

  15. Re:I see why the boson is a "God Particle" on Elusive Dark Matter May Be Detected With GPS Satellites · · Score: 1

    I think the issue with the description of "ordinary baryonic matter" is that it was using "ordinary" and "baryonic" synonyms. Not to say (ordinary(baryonic matter)), but (ordinary baryonic(matter)), because "baryonic" is "ordinary", generally speaking.

  16. Re:They WILL FIght Back on Rooftop Solar Could Reach Price Parity In the US By 2016 · · Score: 1

    Over here they don't "pay you", you just exchange kwh for kwh. So if you pulled 100kwh off the grid this month, but you put 100kwh back on it, then your "usage" would be considered as 0. You still have the connection fee, but your consumption fee would be 0. You can not go less than 0, ie, they will never ever pay you.

  17. If you're not using coax, and you're not delivering phone service over twisted pair, there is nothing a local phone or cable company can do to stop you

    Ohh, you mean you don't qualify for easement access? In many areas, only official telephone or cable companies have access to Right of Ways. Obviously electrical, water, and gas also have access. Every city around here has exactly one cable and one telephone company. Adjacent cities may have different phone or cable companies, but only one per city.

  18. Re:cheaper perhaps on Military Laser/Radio Tech Proposed As Alternative To Laying Costly Fiber Cable · · Score: 1

    Cheaper to cut through people's lawns. The city allows this, but only to a select few ISPs to reduce damage to lawns. Any other ISP that wants to break into the market has to figure things out for themselves.

  19. Re:cheaper perhaps on Military Laser/Radio Tech Proposed As Alternative To Laying Costly Fiber Cable · · Score: 1

    The fiber at my house is just as deep and is right next to my underground power line, just like nearly everyone else in the city. I dare someone to cut the fiber, they'll be just as likely to hit the power.

  20. Re:Rain attenuates the radio signal on Military Laser/Radio Tech Proposed As Alternative To Laying Costly Fiber Cable · · Score: 1

    60ms is kind of bad now days. I'm no where near Chicago. The lowest in game ping I've seen while playing was 8ms.

    https://lh3.googleusercontent....

  21. Re:Most people don't object to public breast feedi on Debunking a Viral Internet Post About Breastfeeding Racism · · Score: 1

    Depends on the context. If you stuck a bunch of humans in an area with limited access to food other than what an adult could eat, which meant that the only children that could survive had to be breast fed, then you could argue that in this context, breasts are required to successfully "reproduce".

    If a single celled organism splits and the other copy keeps dying, would you say it's able to "reproduce"? I'm not arguing the scientific definition, but a more general definition.

  22. Re:Most people don't object to public breast feedi on Debunking a Viral Internet Post About Breastfeeding Racism · · Score: 1

    One could argue that the process of reproduction is not over until the offspring are self-sustaining and in a world without tech, most children would die without breast milk. In that way, breasts are part of reproduction. - Devil's Advocate.

  23. Re:I Switched To FreeBSD on FreeBSD 10.1 Released · · Score: 5, Insightful

    FreeBSD devs are almost entirely System Admins or ex-system admins. They eat their own dog-food. Many FreeBSD devs run "current" on production servers at their own jobs. FreeBSD "current" is currently 11.0. The FreeBSD SMP PF changes were running on several production servers as a "beta" for over a year. Each server was a router than handled tens of gigabits per second in a datacenter. These people really eat their own dog food.

  24. Re:Soylent blue is managers! MAAAANAGGGERSS!! on Your Incompetent Boss Is Making You Unhappy · · Score: 1

    If it's something criminal, not illegal.

  25. Re:Soylent blue is managers! MAAAANAGGGERSS!! on Your Incompetent Boss Is Making You Unhappy · · Score: 1

    My work has a paper you sign every year about if you understand that process of reporting people.

    Nutshell:
    1) Report the offense to that person's superior
    2) If #1 didn't work, report it to HR
    3) If #2 didn't work, report it to the CEO
    4) If #3 didn't work, report it to the local government and report it to the news agencies. Paper included contact numbers for local government and news organizations.
    a) If it's something illegal, always report it to the law

    They take the stance that if an offense continues to happen that they deserve to be smeared publicly.