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  1. Re:News for Nerds? on Arizona "Papers, Please" Law May Hit Tech Workers · · Score: 1

    So... how many times have you posted this request already?

    About twice. When it first happened (oh look, some guy named Clinton won the US presidency...so now we're posting crap EVERY SITE IN THE WORLD ALREADY COVERED) and this state-centric crap. Idle is also a fail (but less so).

  2. News for Nerds? on Arizona "Papers, Please" Law May Hit Tech Workers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is not a political blog. Please keep these topics (medical, political, etc) off the frontpage. If it's on the frontpage news, we don't need it repeated here.

  3. Inspired by "Calculating God"? on Maybe the Aliens Are Addicted To Computer Games · · Score: 1

    Calculating God was a book about this subject. Was it referenced as his inspiration?

  4. Re:Just stop it on WePad Tablet Will Use Linux To Rival the iPad · · Score: 1

    The ipad will fade into obscurity and during that time your efforts could be better invested else where

    I hope you didn't bet money on that...

    I did. I'm winning by keeping my money.

  5. Re:maybe on How Did Wikileaks Do It? · · Score: 1

    Over 10 years ago, it was apparent that Saddam Hussein had to be removed from power.

    Apparent meaning what? There were an equivalent number of despots and mass murderers around the world then, as there are today. A more accurate description is "we chose to eliminate him due to a number of factors including oil dependency, dwindling military support, failure to manipulate the media without an american bodycount, his open threatening of (US) friendly nations wherein we can get bipartisan support from both arabs and jews, etc etc etc"

  6. Re:the missing birth certificate statistic on Obama Administration Withholds FoIA Requests More Often Than Bush's · · Score: 1

    Do /. posters just suck at basic science? The experimental data of "does president O do Y more or less than president B" totally ignores the fact that the inforation being requested initially (while B was in charge) reduced the finite set of information that applies to the FoIA for O to allow. Correlation does not imply causation

  7. Re:Elitist stupidity on Time To Take the Internet Seriously · · Score: 1

    Quantity has a quality all of its own. - Joseph Stalin.

  8. And? on Vivek Kundra On US Government Inefficiency · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I am Jack's unsurprised countenance.

  9. Re:Any alternatives that stick to their guns? on A Second Lessig Fair-Use Video Is Suppressed By WMG · · Score: 1

    > 2. Any data that's encrypted is automatically dropped by ISP routers.

    Explain to me how you determine that data is encrypted instead of being corrupted, padded, or partial and maybe I'll agree with you.

  10. Re:Use it on Learning and Maintaining a Large Inherited Codebase? · · Score: 1

    // The display name should be the fullname
    screen.displayName = user.firstName + user.lastName;

    Later, if the fullname becomes user.firstName + user.middleName + user.lastName, and there is no unit test that fails, there should at least be a comment.

    If you want to communicate context, comments and/or unit tests are how to do it. If you want to ask the question "should I?" then someone else reading the code will ask "why didn't they?" or "what were they thinking?", so comment comment comment. In the end, you want someone reading the code to say "they just didn't do X, they did Y" and the reasoning will be clear that they original author either coded it fundamentally wrong from the beginning (unlikely) or that requirements/dependencies have changed.

  11. What do super-intelligent robots think about? on When Will AI Surpass Human Intelligence? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Entropy. The problem for (potentially) immortal beings is always going to be entropy. Given, we created robots, I'm not necessarily of the belief that robots wouldn't insist we stay around for our very brief lives, so help them solve their problems.

  12. Therefore... on 95% of User-Generated Content Is Bogus · · Score: 1

    This article has a 95% chance of being bogus.

  13. Re:maybe I'm missing something but... on PayPal Freezes the Assets of Wikileaks.org · · Score: 1

    Nowadays I have found it's anything less than 1.50 isn't worth it, depending on your volume. Most places wont let you debit card something less than $1 so it's somewhere around there.

  14. Um, there are not-unforseen problems on Super Strength Substance Approaching Human Trials · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We have a world food distribution/shortage problem as it is. Imagine SUPER STRONG STARVING Humans.

    http://www.ashtreehill.com/the-hungry.html

  15. Why buy an outlet converter? on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips? · · Score: 1

    The hotels I stayed at were happy to hand me a couple converters.

  16. Re:This is part of NASA's purvey. on NASA Attempts To Assuage 2012 Fears · · Score: 1

    Purview is similar, but not precisely what I wanted to say. NASA's purview (scope) is beyond these reassurances, but to provide evidence and findings is part of their purvey (what is supplied).

  17. Re:This is part of NASA's purvey. on NASA Attempts To Assuage 2012 Fears · · Score: 1

    but if you've seen a couple of them and you still believe it

    Seen a couple of what? Movies? It's the media, at large, who has pushed this low grade panic. Ex-NASA "scientists" on the Syfy to NBC news. Since people cannot disprove that there is an impending disaster (just another fear they cannot understand) and see "infotainment" mirroring fiction, is it irrational to feel sorry for the Earth in addition to themselves? I think not. They are simply mislead and ignorant. The fear is real enough. The uncertainty persistent. It's not a surprise that FUD works.

  18. This is part of NASA's purvey. on NASA Attempts To Assuage 2012 Fears · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ignorance is not stupidity. NASA has addressed the ignorance. Good for them.

  19. Agile = Advance on Becoming Agile · · Score: 1

    Acronyms and paradigms aside from SCRUM, there is no other project framework that has processes to identify and highlight the interests of all parties involved in development, other than BUG TRACKING.

    Business interests are described, enumerated and ranked then broken down.
    Technical difficulties are described, broken down, enumerated and ranked.
    Work is broken down, allocated and individual tasks assigned to and by tiers matching your company's hierarchy.
    Metrics can be performed and any interest can track what happened and why (if you have decent SCRUM management software).

    Talented developers don't mind (as per all the posts here), weak developers can be pointed out and weak managers are unhappy they need to spell out what they want. More things get done faster. Simply said. SCRUM doesn't address bug tracking, which is the only weakness I have found. Take care of designing how you will deal with bugs during a Sprint. Any other system, is probably usable, but certainly less efficient.

    The identification and organization of addressing the various interests is much better than having (non-?)technical designs drawn up prior to implementation. This is what I have seen come out of Agile (which is just "Lean" repackaged) that can be used at any company, so I call it an advance. Not perfect, just a GOOD THING(tm).

  20. Re:How does one go out of business... on URL Shorteners Get Some Backup · · Score: 1

    So I guess that's how they go out of business, by suicide.

  21. Re:How does one go out of business... on URL Shorteners Get Some Backup · · Score: 1

    How do they generate the shortened link without going to the site? The problem is that a shortened link is in perpetuity and you don't recoup those bandwidth and service costs through simple adsense on creation. A cron to remove links over a year old would be a better idea.

  22. Re:What do you expect? on Software Piracy At the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    Obviously the moral threshold for "committing copyright infringement" is countless orders of magnitude lower than for robbing other people.

    I lol'd

  23. Er muscle weighs more than fat on Why Doesn't Exercise Lead To Weight Loss? · · Score: 1

    I like the approximation that dieting is 40%, exercise is 30% and the rest is genetics. More importantly, weight is not such a 'big' deal, but where it's distributed and what the tissue is, that matters.

  24. Re:The Cloud on IT Snake Oil — Six Tech Cure-Alls That Went Bunk · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression that water vapor wasn't visible. Clouds are microscopic crystalline suspensions.

  25. Re:Seconded on Installing Linux On Old Hardware? · · Score: 1

    Some people may still have misconceptions about Gentoo. The negative stereotype has long passed, though.

    According to whon? I still have nightmares about portage.