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  1. That is not a business decision. on Companies That Don't Understand Engineers Don't Respect Engineers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Exactly how long should this database field be? And of what datatype? How and where should it be validated? How do we handle all of the edge cases?

    That is not a business decision, that is a technical decision where you try to come up with the most universal and correct to spec answer you can. You are not shaping the business with this decision, you are trying to shape your solution to the business.

  2. But ... on Fukushima's Biological Legacy · · Score: 1

    Did it cause anything to grow bigger?

  3. Re:Are there any reasons... on Tesla Removes Mileage Limits On Drive Unit Warranty Program · · Score: 1

    Which should not be underestimated. Paypal, as a matter of routine break the law separating people from their money so they can blackmail them for more information/linked accounts.

  4. Re:not-so-rare Musk trifecta in play on Tesla Removes Mileage Limits On Drive Unit Warranty Program · · Score: 1

    First it was Apple, then Jobs had to go and die on us.

    And there was the whole being a huge raging dick since the moment he was born and feeding off the the talent and innovation of others.

  5. Re:So there is a problem... on Tesla Removes Mileage Limits On Drive Unit Warranty Program · · Score: 1

    Things failing after the warranty period is not a problem, as that is expected end of life time.

  6. RapeLay on Swedish Dad Takes Gamer Kids To Warzone · · Score: 2

    "And when they came back home, they would be free to play whatever games they chose."
    That opens up so many possibilities...

  7. Because many human rights organizations are run by government so that they can release promising reports about said government.

  8. Re:hum on Type 225 Words per Minute with a Stenographic Keyboard (Video) · · Score: 1

    Well when you are trying to maximize everything to within a tiny tolerance, no. The position, size, resistance, everything has to be precisely right.

  9. Re:I don't get it. on Geneticists Decry Book On Race and Evolution · · Score: 1

    The burden of proof is on the person making a claim.

    That is not just a win all argument for everyone. That saying means that the burden of proof is on the unlikely. Every statement is a claim: That is is no god and that their is a god are both claims, both sides cannot claim that this saying proves the people arguing against them wrong. The claim with no evidence is that every race has an identical brain, when there is no reason to believe that they would be identical.

    And genes tend to change slowly because environment tends to change slowly. But organisms thrown into new environments can show incredibly fast evolution, many thousands of times higher than normal.

  10. Re:I don't get it. on Geneticists Decry Book On Race and Evolution · · Score: 1

    Well to start off, We have no good test for intelligence. IMHO, we do not even have a middling one at one specific area of intelligence.

    A population is, by definition, just an extended family. The likelihood that one genetically distinct population would have the same intelligence as another is basically zero. You would need a huge amount of proof and a theoretical model of why it would be the same for there to be a scientific reason to believe that it might be. As left alone there would be huge amount of drift and change in even just 1,000 years; Let alone the hundreds of thousands that some cultures have been genetically separated from others.

    And the idea that a genetically separate and unique tribe that has been persistence hunting for the last 2 million years in generally the same location would be at all similar to cousins who broke away and left 200,000 year ago, traveled to the himalayas and started farming goats and mountain climbing, or another group that broke off, developed writing, and for the last 5,000 years has been living in huge dense colonies and working in factories. There is almost nothing at all similar between these three environments. That these people would not be completely fundamentally different in how their brains work would require a lot of scientific evidence and theory before anyone has any reason to believe that they do.

  11. Re:I don't get it. on Geneticists Decry Book On Race and Evolution · · Score: 1

    That is racist nonsense. Black people just get more sun than the rest of us, being closer to the sun at the equator, so have darker tans.

  12. Re:I don't get it. on Geneticists Decry Book On Race and Evolution · · Score: 1

    The research does not back up your hypnosis at all. It is well understood how variable intelligence is with even tiny chances to genetics, and how incredibly inheritable it is. It is well understood and accepted that on a family to family basis, IQ will come in clumps. One family will not be equal to another, on average, as it is so very inheritable.

  13. Re:Are You Kidding? on Geneticists Decry Book On Race and Evolution · · Score: 1

    No actually, they are not necessarily comparable with each other "from a reproductive point of view". And some different species are compatible with eachother.

  14. How does the Tagging Work on Point-and-Shoot: TrackingPoint's New Linux-Controlled AR-15s · · Score: 1

    How does it know what the target is after it has moved? Does it have to stay within the sights at all times, you cannot even lose sight of it in that tiny reticule? Or is it like marked at long distance with some sort of tracer?

  15. So let me get this Straight. on Point-and-Shoot: TrackingPoint's New Linux-Controlled AR-15s · · Score: 1

    First, you need to perfectly accurately sight the target, with no help. Then after you have done that, the computer will track for you. And if you screwed up the first step, and tagged a plant instead, you are screwed.

  16. Robot on Point-and-Shoot: TrackingPoint's New Linux-Controlled AR-15s · · Score: 4, Interesting

    At this point, the main problem seems to be putting the human into the mix. I could see putting a laser distance gauge, and some rudimentary calculator to automatically adjust for distance; I am sort of thinking, highlighting the correct location in the scope instead of actually adjusting it. But if you you are going to design complete tracking tech, put the gun on a tripod with a few motors. Hell, you could probably even mount it on a guys backpack.

  17. Re:Before you go rushing off to support JMS... on Babylon 5 May Finally Get a Big-Screen Debut · · Score: 1

    As another fan of B5, who in general hates JMS, I think you are miscaregorizing that article. Skimming it, it sounds likes Alan Moore never wanted to do anything with Watchmen, ever again, and never wanted anything done with them. But fortunately he did not own Watchmen so eventually they went around his back. It sounds to me, after skimming this article for 5 seconds, that Moore was just being a huge childish dick: "its mine and no one else is allowed to play with it". Now JMS has done his own things to sabotage B5, so it is perfectly legitimate to hate him as well in my books.

  18. Re:Politician thanks company for doing his job on Chicago Mayor Praises Google For Buying Kids Microsoft Surfaces · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ya, because a bunch of toys that will distract from coursework and be broken in 2 months are "needed equipment".

  19. Re:Would YOU be able to sleep in space?? on Study Finds That Astronauts Are Severely Sleep Deprived · · Score: 2

    I have never understood this sentiment.
    It is like no one even understands space. It is like everyone is blinded my the laserwork of star trek space battles. It is, by definition, the most boring place in the universe; Bar none.

    It is not subjectively boring like a poetry reading, it is objectively boring. And not only boring, but, again, the most boring place in the universe, by definition. The place where, by definition, nothing ever happens and nothing ever is, or at least relatively nothing compared to everything not-space.

  20. Is it just Me on Ask Slashdot: Life Beyond the WRT54G Series? · · Score: 2

    Or is the only router ever produced that actually looks good is the wrt54G line? I have yet to see another that does not look really bad.

  21. Re:DD-WRT's information on Ask Slashdot: Life Beyond the WRT54G Series? · · Score: 1

    Except their primary response to that seemed to be purely based on price. Most of us are not looking for the cheapest 100% compatible dd-wrt router.
    Then the second choice is just the old solid 54G. Then a few middling OK routers. Then a few on the really expensive side.

  22. Re:Option: Linksys WRT1900ac on Ask Slashdot: Life Beyond the WRT54G Series? · · Score: 2

    Ya, it is just that most people cannot get past the little issue of it being the most expensive consumer router on the market.

  23. Re:netgear wndr3700/4000 series on Ask Slashdot: Life Beyond the WRT54G Series? · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  24. So I guess all that Leaves is Alien Swarm on Valve Discloses Source 2 Engine In Recent DOTA 2 Update · · Score: 2

    By my count every single Valve game except for Alien Swarm has exactly one sequel.

  25. Re:Whats to stop them on 40% Of People On Terror Watch List Have No Terrorist Ties · · Score: 1

    Having a terrorist tie only means that your second cousin is friends with a person who has a roommate suspected of being a Hama sympathiser.

    Not having a tie, and being on the list, means this person might possible like a build a bomb and blow up some civilians. I am more leaning to the ones with ties are more likely to not belong on the list than the ones without.