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  1. Re:Biological Basis to Race on Geneticists Decry Book On Race and Evolution · · Score: 1

    'Race is a commercial qualifier in the industry that breeds cats, dogs and horses'. And that's all there's to it.

    There are dominances of certain genes within certain biotopes, but there are no races. Case in point: the entirity of South America, more or less. Human males will fark everything that moves - that's just how it works. And that's how there isn't even a question of subspeciation *). We're really all of us quite the same.

    *) A subspecies is when the same species is separated by, for example, a mountain range, and have differentiated to the point that they don't recognize each other as mating material, even though they could produce viable offspring.

  2. Re:What they complain vs what they publish on Geneticists Decry Book On Race and Evolution · · Score: 1

    That must be 'scientific' in the way that it's down from 'medical' or even to 'sociological'.

    'Race' is not a qualifier in biology. Because humans fuck around too much.

  3. Re:IQ != Intelligence on Geneticists Decry Book On Race and Evolution · · Score: 1

    And life outcomes have no correlation with race?

  4. I guess on Ancient Skulls Show Civilization Rose As Testosterone Fell · · Score: 1

    It was because we started cross-breeding with Neanderthals. And then wiping them out, because they were *still* friendlier than we were.

  5. I've got an answer! on Vint Cerf on Why Programmers Don't Join the ACM · · Score: 2

    Because of Internet.

  6. 1) This service will survive for all of two weeks tops - it's him against the collective power of Google. I put my money on Google.
    2) Ads should come inline with the other HTML, as well as associated images. It's not difficult, and adblock can never really find a solution to that.

  7. Re:Hypothetical on The Daily Harassment of Women In the Game Industry · · Score: 1

    Yes they are. What a strange thing to say?! It may not be interesting, but you can surely start any discussion, right?

    "Their conferences get shut down"

    [citation needed]

  8. 5GHz ? on FCC Proposal To Limit Access To 5725-5850 MHz Band · · Score: 1

    That doesn't travel very far, right? At least not with acceptable power. It's almost microwave!

  9. Re:Remove the ransom note excuse with Deparse on Ask Slashdot: Choosing a Web Language That's Long-Lived, and Not Too Buzzy? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I just did your deparse trick on my worst perl script, and it made it *worse*! I must be doing something right.

  10. Re:Half a century on Unisys Phasing Out Decades-Old Mainframe Processor For x86 · · Score: 1

    Wasn't Unisys in the eighties still Sperry and Univac?

  11. Re:Lack of intent on iOS 8 Strikes an Unexpected Blow Against Location Tracking · · Score: 1

    It's not about intent at all - a MAC address is simply meaningless! A car's serial number is something that is officially alotted, and has all sorts of codified repercussions. A MAC address is simply a number. Prosecutors arguing that changing your MAC address is akin to filing off a car's serial number, are like those that argued that etoy.com had a .com address and therefore was meant to be using in the US only: a complete fabrication intended to pull the wool over the judge's eyes!

  12. "every species on the planet is parasitized" on Lyme Bacterium's Possible Ancestor Found In Ancient Tick · · Score: 1

    And "Parasites represent at least half of all modern animal species". Unless there's some Escher-like parasite-chain at work here, I don't think that this can be remotely true.

  13. Re:Stupid is as stupid does on Facebook Refuses To Share Employee Race and Gender Data · · Score: 1

    77% of the USA is white male? That seems a bit unlikely.

  14. Re:US on Professors: US "In Denial" Over Poor Maths Standards · · Score: 1

    The thing is, *education* should *not* be heterogenous.

  15. Re:Noob on IT Pro Gets Prison Time For Sabotaging Ex-Employer's System · · Score: 1

    The problem with that is that, after a year, he'll not be angry anymore. And what's the use of that?

  16. Re:data retention on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Experts Unable To Replicate Inmarsat Analysis · · Score: 1

    Yes they do. Their sattelite is essentially a faceted mirror. When using it, you fall into one of the facets. In order for them to know which facet you're going to use next, they keep track of where you are, and your movement.

  17. The problem isn't the RNG on Physicists Turn 8MP Smartphone Camera Into a Quantum Random Number Generator · · Score: 1

    Well, the problem is *also* the RNG. The bigger problem is finding a RNG like this, that can be easily embedded in electronics that you lock away. A camera won't do that.

  18. The hate for RSA on TLS 1.3 Draft Prepares to Drop Static RSA Key Exchange · · Score: 1

    is a bit *too* trendy these days. The NSA should be about five - ten years away from breaking it. If you have secrets that will be worthless by then, then by all means, use it.

  19. Re:Static DH is not better than Static RSA on TLS 1.3 Draft Prepares to Drop Static RSA Key Exchange · · Score: 2

    Are you purposely, or ignorantly, confusing RSA, the company, with RSA, the assymetric cipher suite based on primes?

  20. That's great, but.. on Finally, Hi-Def Streaming Video of the ISS's View of Earth · · Score: 1

    extremetech is the kind of website that requires you to allow such an enormous crapload of all-interconnected javascript, that re-iterates every time you 'temporarily allow all this page', that I can't watch it.

  21. Re:It's a turd that's slowly being polished on C++ and the STL 12 Years Later: What Do You Think Now? · · Score: 0

    Can you read? The person you replied to was not fanboying about C++ at all!? He was calling it a turd!

  22. Re:Gobbledigook on Erik Meijer: The Curse of the Excluded Middle · · Score: 2

    But you have to agree that 'functional programming is the next big thing' has been said for so long now - it's the flying car of computer science. When people say 'any day now' for so long, some scepsis *is* in order.

  23. Re:Concurrency is still badly understood on Erik Meijer: The Curse of the Excluded Middle · · Score: 1

    Agreed on main points. A few remarks:

    - In C's pthreads library, you *can* tell the 'system' 'I'm leaving this object to wait' of sorts (pthread_condition_wait requires you to pass a mutex).

    - Overall, there are many, *many* programs out there that, justifiably, do not use threads at all. To require these programs to incur the overhead associated with threading even though they don't use it, seems a bit much.

  24. Or.. on Not Just a Cleanup Any More: LibreSSL Project Announced · · Score: 1

    you use polarssl. Which is already exactly that.

  25. Re:Ironic and Iconic on This 1981 BYTE Magazine Cover Explains Why We're So Bad At Tech Predictions · · Score: 1

    I guess this is what that moment is called just before somebody makes a million bucks off of a simple idea.