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  1. Re:Why? on Google Engineer: We Need More Web Programming Languages · · Score: 0

    I think the stupid thing in that sentence is "any".

    What is the point of more languages, if they all must be built to act exactly the same?

  2. Server? on HP Unveils 'The Machine,' a New Computer Architecture · · Score: 1

    So I am guessing this is planned for corporate servers?

    Or will everyone be playing Crysis 3 on Windows 10, The Machine edition?

  3. Re:On behalf of all network specialists, on Latin America Exhausts IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ya, you have been warning people that it was going to happen in 2 month for the last 6 years. And this article is still about "almost completely out".

    Your predictions for the v4 "apocalypse" are nothing to brag about.

  4. Re:Restaurants etc. on Credit Card Breach At P.F. Chang's · · Score: 1

    Carry hundreds of dollars worth of cash around with you at all times = security.

  5. Re:Good on Teacher Tenure Laws Ruled Unconstitutional In California · · Score: 2

    But you have to weight the good that a good teacher can do with more breathing room with the bad. For every single teacher who might chuck the curriculum because it is politically correct garbage, 100 would use it to teach creationism.

    At the end of the day these are high school teachers, they are not really qualified to make judgement calls on what the truth is.

  6. Re:Stupidly tricked, not clever on Was Turing Test Legitimately Beaten, Or Just Cleverly Tricked? · · Score: 1

    But this was not even a restricted test, it was a simple cop out. I could write a 500 line script that tricked people into believing it was a mentally retarded foreigner.

  7. Re:question on NSF Researcher Suspended For Mining Bitcoin · · Score: 0

    Bitcoins are just like any other currency, no intrinsic value. And the onyl think that happens when you make new currency is use up resources.

  8. Re:Throw the book... maybe literally at him. on NSF Researcher Suspended For Mining Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    "That 150k may have been only a day of sporadic use in total."

    That would make sense to me. Hell, 150K sounds more like a few hours.

    Super computers are EXPENSIVE. A super computer is not just a tower with 30 gigs of ram and 10 processors, this is a building full of wires and computer components. I can just imagine the power draw on one. Hundreds of leading scientist crowd around them to hopefully get 30 minutes to run some computations.

  9. Re:Limits of incremental change or other constrain on Study: Male Facial Development Evolved To Take Punches · · Score: 1

    It is because evolution is set by many different issues.
    yes a face could just be one giant bone shield and it would be better at absorbing punches, but that would also mean you were blind or had your eyes located at a worse vantage point.

    I think this finding is pointing out that Fist Fighting prowess was a signification factor in evolutionary terms, and this related to your face being able to absorb a few punches before becoming horrendously deformed or your death.

    At the same time the ability to see (alongside others) was obviously higher on the list of important features.

  10. Re:Sexual selection by the opposite sex. on Study: Male Facial Development Evolved To Take Punches · · Score: 1

    Yes, and not have a crushed faced from your cheek bone giving in in a fist fight is on the top of the sexual selection check list.

  11. So, let me get this straight on Did Russia Trick Snowden Into Going To Moscow? · · Score: 1

    A government agent secretly posed as a government agent and promised that should he come to Russia he would come to no harm and be treated well.
    And then he arrived and learned that the government agent that told him those things was allowed to lie about it.

  12. Same thing on New Car Can Lean Into Curves, Literally · · Score: 1

    "Mercedes says it's not design for increasing cornering speeds, but increasing pleasure for the driver and passengers."

    Of course if it not literally going to make the car faster, but if you reduce the drag on the driver, the end result will be faster turns.

  13. No mention of Hitler? After Jesus he is probably the most mentioned historical figure on the Internet. And if influencing to not be like counts, then I would say he might rival even Jesus in influence.

    But really, at the very least the politically party that he controlled (the Nazi's) influenced pretty much the entirety of the modern world in their short life. From the Olympic Games, through all of science, to modern animal welfare laws; These were all a hundred years ahead of their time and put in place by Nazi Germany, controlled by Hitler. And pretty much everything not directly copying something Nazi, is something specifically put in place to be unlike Nazi Germany.

  14. Pyramid Sceme on Fixing the Humanities Ph.D. · · Score: 2

    The career options for half of the courses offered in universities are strictly limited to teaching that subject at some university. In that way, from a financial angle, they are simply pyramid schemes. Many of these disciplines important for science, ie Theoretical Physicists, but the idea of churning out classes of hundreds of future physicist is just ridiculous.

  15. Just What I Need on Intel Wants To Computerize Your Car · · Score: 2

    My car blue screening while hurtling down the highway.

  16. Re:Reflections on trusting trust... on Google Announces 'End-To-End' Encryption Extension For Chrome · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How would that help?

    What would me, you, or him reading the code accomplish? I guaranty that none of us would spot an NSA level backdoor.

    Open Source guarantees optimal security, if you are one of the top ten security professions on the planet and basically have enough time to write the software yourself.

  17. Most on Ask Slashdot: In What Other Occupations Are IT Skills and Background Useful? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Most occupations make use of the computer.

    It is incredible how horribly bad everyone is at using computers when they are so ubiquitous and necessary.

  18. Not a Tech Issue on Ask Slashdot: Taking a New Tack On Net Neutrality? · · Score: 1

    Sure, you could do something like this technically with little trouble. The issues here, over and above moral, are legal and business.

    Is this illegal? Maybe, but I really hope you at least have to inform the residents and it could not take effect until after current leases run out.

    And what sort of long term profit change should you expect by degradating your service to existing customers and offering less for future customers?

    Also, is 35K enough clout to even have anyone with any money to listen to you (and suffer the horrendous press along with you).

  19. Re:Article is totally misguided. on HR Chief: Google Sexual, Racial Diversity "Not Where We Want to Be" · · Score: 1

    So the Asian way of no TV, video games, or free time and ignoring sports and physical education is best?

    The lazy American culture of having leisure time and hobbies that do not look good on a resume is preventing people from excelling in sciences (or really anything) and that is bad for everyone?

  20. Re:Article is totally misguided. on HR Chief: Google Sexual, Racial Diversity "Not Where We Want to Be" · · Score: 1

    Well I suppose if you are not forcing all races to act the same then they probably would intermix less. Imperialism throughout history has probably been the cause of most of current mixed race people.

    I was just going to dismiss as a troll, but actually I guess that is the result. At least if you took my question as a suggestion, and acted on it.

  21. Re:Not Google's fault... on HR Chief: Google Sexual, Racial Diversity "Not Where We Want to Be" · · Score: 1

    Also note that the official word from the Heinz champaign is that Blacks own "African-American".

  22. Re:Not Google's fault... on HR Chief: Google Sexual, Racial Diversity "Not Where We Want to Be" · · Score: 1

    African-Americans are Black skinned people with an American Citizenship. Period.

    You know you cannot actually get any statistically worthy data when you skew the input that much right? If you took a random sampling of the African population and brought them to American you could, but immigrants are by many many different metrics not a random sampling of their population.

    Also, if you want to bring Race into the equation you have to actually be aware of the generics. Most of the Black African-Americans have some White ancestry, many even have a majority of white ancestry. At the very minimum people all the why up to 2/3 white are considered Black, after that they can sometimes start looking more Middle Eastern.

  23. Re:Article is totally misguided. on HR Chief: Google Sexual, Racial Diversity "Not Where We Want to Be" · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Which brings up a good question, should we?

    Should we reach out of Asians and tell them to be less focused on academic success so that they get similar results to whites?
    Should we tell than them that the Violin matters less than they think and some of their kids should be learning to play the drums, or just have more time to play video games or watch TV?

    Is the exact right amount of interest in academia the While Male Standard, and all other numbers and styles inferior for one reason or another?

  24. Re:Asians != Diverse on HR Chief: Google Sexual, Racial Diversity "Not Where We Want to Be" · · Score: 1

    The correct mix is whatever Google does not currently have.

  25. Re:Not Google's fault... on HR Chief: Google Sexual, Racial Diversity "Not Where We Want to Be" · · Score: 1

    What?
    Ethiopia is in Africa... Or do you mean that she does not have citizenship here so she is just African/Ethiopia?