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  1. Re:Perl? LOL. on Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0 · · Score: 2

    > So PHP, Java servlets, ASP took Perl golden child status, as they are better designed to interact with the database,

    I think it has to do with readability and cost to maintain, not specific API design choices.

  2. > I suspect that many Linux developers have conjured up some really long and interesting code that they then never submitted

    All programmers do this. That's part of the development cost. I think you meant potential Linux developers that never contributed. We don't know about the code that we don't know about. Ok? What's more important is the 5 billion completely ignores the trillions that would be made off of licensing fees...you know, how they would have paid these theoretical costs. Since the US BEA calculates the GDP based on potential Tech valuation, might as well use potential value in the Open Source calculations.

  3. Re:Java != javascript on Google AdSense Click Fraud Made Possible By Uncloaking Advertisers' Sites · · Score: 1

    I am mistaken. Apologies.

  4. Re:Java != javascript on Google AdSense Click Fraud Made Possible By Uncloaking Advertisers' Sites · · Score: 1

    I think Java is being used correctly (in the PDF/paper http://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.0774... ) and the article linked, does not confuse the terms.

  5. Re:More like....this on This Is What a Real Bomb Looks Like · · Score: 1

    I see what you did there.

  6. Re:More like....this on This Is What a Real Bomb Looks Like · · Score: 1
  7. More like....this on This Is What a Real Bomb Looks Like · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Works both ways on A Call To RICO Climate Change Science Deniers · · Score: 3, Funny

    > How does any of this behavior differ in any way from any other organized crime ring?

    It's not a crime to be wrong.

  9. Re:Does it really matter... on UK Researcher Applies For Permission To Edit Embryo Genomes · · Score: 1

    a report by scientists from Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, who have edited a gene in fertilized human eggs, called zygotes. The team used new gene editing technology known as the CRISPR/Cas9 system. That technology can precisely snip out a disease-causing mutation and replace it with healthy DNA. CRISPR/Cas9 has edited DNA in stem cells and cancer cells in humans.

    This is a just one REPORTED case. I don't think you are keeping up.

  10. Re: You're doing it wrong. on The Ethical Issues Surrounding OSU's Lab-Grown Brains · · Score: 2

    > Umm, nobody remembers being 4 as well

    I remember being 2. I have 2 distinct memories. Being wheeled into an operating room while my mom calls out that we will get Taco Bell after I get out and when my father was assembling a spring rocking horse. My memory is terrible today, yet I retained those all these years. Who the fuck doesn't have memories from being 4?

  11. US Bill is only 4 Trillion? on Researcher: The US Owes the World $4 Trillion For Trashing the Climate · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What's the Chinese bill?

  12. Wow, way to fuck that up on Why AltaVista Lost Ground To Google Sooner Than Expected · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The article says "URLs" when the Quora post, cited as the source, says LINKS. Also the article is basically devoid of any information, other than "Google did better because it used LINKS to help determine ranking." Thanks for the headline, with a summary, linking to an article that misquotes the linked source, that has a healine worth of information. No really, thanks.

  13. Re:Queue a thousand /.ers on You Don't Have To Be Good At Math To Learn To Code · · Score: 1

    +1

  14. Re:Bullshit on Systemd Absorbs "su" Command Functionality · · Score: 2

    > Deciding what a full login comprises is the shell's responsibility, not your init system's job.

    systemd is not an init system. It's a service manager. Mischaracterization makes your opinions seem ignorant.

    systemd is bad for trying to force utilities to be rewritten into a unified application layer, for no other reason. Error prone initiative, to create a new class of problems (where coordination preemption occurs, is just moved around). There's no misuse of a utility role, in this case.

  15. Re:Do we really want Google... on Chrome To Freeze Flash Ads On Sight From September 1 · · Score: 1

    > You've replaced something with a grey box. It's gone.

    That's not what Chrome beta is doing. Turning off autoplay/autoexecute for 300x250 and smaller swfs is not the same as removing flash support.

  16. Trump makes sense again? on Donald Trump Thinks Going To Mars Would Be "Wonderful" But There Is a Catch · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > In other words, dreams of going to Mars must take a back seat to more Earthly concerns. It is not an answer many space exploration supporters want to hear.

    That sounds perfectly sane. Sending people to Mars now, is a waste of resources. We send probes, probes tell us basically what we already know (its slightly less inhospitable than say...Venus) and we learn some new details about the inhospitable conditions. Artificial Intelligence or Genetically Engineered creatures to send to Mars is a much more efficient approach. Let's get that working on Earth, first and we can talk about the myriad of inhospitable places that open up. That's very long term thinking, which is part of what space exploration is about. I don't think Trump supposes to know anything about long term technological viability. He just happens to be on the right side of this.

  17. Re:Slavery 2.0 Rocks!!! on The Challenge of Working At Amazon · · Score: 1

    > No, this happened before.

    No, it did not. You are holding up Enron and comparing it to a slavery relationship (which is the nature of this part of the thread). How the fuck did this get upvoted? Oh, it's just anti-corporate and that's enough? Sigh.

  18. Re:I'm opposed to censorship on Reddit Updates Content Policy, Bans More Subreddits · · Score: 2

    > There's a whole lot of stuff that most advertisers don't want to have their product associated with, so Reddit just wants to sweep all of that under the rug so they can present a shiny-clean image to the world

    That seems ridiculous Statistically, NOBODY has a comprehensive understanding about all the subreddits that exist. There are literally too many to even visit them all. I didn't know about the ones being altered, nor did they list them all. Nobody has done a diff, because there's literally no way to iterate through all the private and public ones to know the exact changes. Conceptually, nobody can make a single association with an innumerable set of interests (especially a trivial minority of the traffic).

    They haven't swept anything under the rug, in making public policy changes and it hasn't affected the content, so I really have to wonder what data supports this conspiracy theory?

    Your views show a shocking ignorance toward digital advertising process. Advertisers don't care about "unwanted" audience segments, only the targeted ones (which can include exclusions among a targeted set) but it's never "they like cars but aren't bigots". Networks don't care about inventory (impressions) the way you are trying to characterize. Someone like Univeral Mccann drops millions of impressions on you and gives you the singular detail "here's our 500k sites, figure it out". Nobody manually prunes that with blacklists on some nebulous moral stance. The sites are all pooled because the content is a minor concern (usually you have quova or blue kai or digital envoy, etc etc do contextualization). If there is a budget from a DSP, they will look for those segments from the entire pool of inventory. The source is incidental, unless it's a vertical buy and then it's inclusive with explicit exceptions, as previously described.

  19. Re:Solves part of the mystery. on MH370: Fragment Is From Missing Flight · · Score: 4, Interesting

    From my 9-11 experience....I watched the news about 13 min before the second plane hit and for hours afterward. There was a newsman on the ground who asked a chief about building 7 needing to be demo'd and the chief, obviously alarmed that the newsman might be creating an unsubstantiated panic, almost called him an idiot and said there is no reason for that nor would there be based on conditions, finally that he had not heard anything like that and it was absurd. I have not met another person who remembers that shocking exchange nor have I seen the footage anywhere. It happened and I do not understand how such a national broadcast seemingly disappeared and is never spoken about again.

  20. Re:Another thought... on Will Robot Cabs Unjam the Streets? · · Score: 1

    > For everyone complaining that other people will make the car unusable

    They aren't using their brain. We live in a world where technology, ironically, solved this already and has it in practice through our temporary proxy, Uber. You have to have an app/ID and can flag cars as unacceptable. Flagged cars avoid you for pickup and you re-queue. 3 flaggings and the car is sent to service. Done.

  21. Re:It'll never happen on Will Robot Cabs Unjam the Streets? · · Score: 1

    Quite simply, it's going to happen. Autonomous does not mean anonymous and there will be apps/levers for "unacceptable" to signal the car needs cleaning/service. None of the problems you describe, will be a large scale issue. The wealthy will have dedicated cars (just like they do now) but most people will simply hail autonomous ones. Your paranoia will disappear, just like every other individual, when this is put into practice.

  22. Re:I don't get it,... five a day? on Soylent 2.0 Comes Bottled and Ready To Drink · · Score: 1

    > cooking my self I can manage a (I hope) tastier alternative for less,...

    I don't eat much (once a day). I routinely forget to eat. I do not cook (my home's kitchen is pristine). For me, it's been a chore to eat, for as long as I've been alive.

  23. Re:And it all comes down to greed on Sociologist: Job Insecurity Is the New Normal · · Score: 1

    This is not insightful. This is typical denial. Hey mods, wtf?

  24. Re:HAHAHAHA! on Will Autonomous Cars Be the Insurance Industry's Napster Moment? · · Score: 1

    > How much you pay for a service has nothing to do with how much it costs to provide a service

    Competition drives prices down. So there is a direct correlative effect in non-regulated/monopolized markets. I don't believe there is a car insurance price regulation in effect in the US.

  25. Re:How about 2015 July 15 0000UTC? on Facebook's New Chief Security Officer Wants To Set a Date To Kill Flash · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > If you're not using HTML5 by now, you're a fucking dinosaur.

    Using HTML5 is not the same as killing flash. The entire multi-billion dollar programmatic advertising industry uses (predominantly) flash for waterfalling/timeouts/buffering and RTB interactions. See the IAB (which still mentions silverlight alongside javascript) which sets standards, about killing flash, then you might see change.