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  1. Fixed It For You on Researchers Test Developer Biometrics To Predict Buggy Code · · Score: 1

    2) Bugs

  2. YMMV on Math, Programming, and Language Learning · · Score: 2

    Until you hit something that does require higher math.

    Find the optimal coverage schedule for employees next week given their varied availability

    As simple as this sounds, unless you're willing to wait for the computer to churn thru every possibility: you are going to need some higher math know how to program that answer.

  3. Useability on Massive Job Cuts Are Reportedly Coming For Microsoft Employees · · Score: 1

    I don't think Gary is a great example of design defeating purpose.

    Gary's design is somewhat grotesque and awkward: but that's exactly the kinds of things he highlights about the human experience. So it fits.

  4. Windows 8 on Massive Job Cuts Are Reportedly Coming For Microsoft Employees · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Blame Julie Larson-Green.

    She's responsible for this and the awful Office ribbon: perfect examples of graphic design stomping all over useability

    Why she's still around: I think this is a case of people being swayed by her personal "charisma" and not facing the fact that Windows 8 "metro" is a gimmicky circus act that literally gets in the way of using Windows. Just terrible!

  5. Re:Anyone who... on Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek To Control the Internet · · Score: 1

    50% are of below-average intelligence

    Assuming a Gaussian distribution. Given the rise of drug use and non-education in the United States I'm not sure that's true anymore.

  6. Re:Consciousness on Consciousness On-Off Switch Discovered Deep In Brain · · Score: 1

    Just because the radio can be switched off does not prove the absence of a radio transmission.

  7. Agree on FCC Proposal To Limit Access To 5725-5850 MHz Band · · Score: 1

    Most FPV transmitters are at 5.8Ghz. Used to be important that you were hitting this as close to 5800Mhz as possible so as to stay in the middle of the ISM band. Really hard to believe these 500mw transmitters can cause a signature on Doppler when most times they drop useable signal after 1200 meters.

    It does seem that the FCC and the FAA are working together on this. The FAA specifically targeting FPV last week, and now the FCC trying to take back the same radio band this week.

    Another happy independence day in the land of the free and the home of the brave...

  8. Re:Class G on That Toy Is Now a Drone · · Score: 1

    True the article is talking in reference to regulated flight.

    However areas from ground structures to 500 feet are the property of the land owner (with some variation by state, but that's not the FAA's call). If the FAA wishes to traverse the airspace over a land over at less than 500 feet they must obtain navigational right-of-way from the land-owner.

    This is not a matter of flight regulation, this is basic property rights.

  9. Re:Not anything new on That Toy Is Now a Drone · · Score: 1

    I can't tell if you're just being snarky or you still work for Rahm Emanuel

  10. No Such Regulations on That Toy Is Now a Drone · · Score: 2

    What regulations are you talking about?

    TFA is referring to the interpretation and enforcement of HR 658 which specifically separates hobby and commercial (with no commercial provisions for the Continental United States!)

    http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/B...

  11. Re:The Goggles! on That Toy Is Now a Drone · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Let existing state nuance laws handle the peeping-tom problems

  12. Class G on That Toy Is Now a Drone · · Score: 1

    So since I'm not a government agency, this still leaves me class G airspace on private property (assuming I have permission from the land owner).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

  13. Re:Line of Sight on That Toy Is Now a Drone · · Score: 1

    If I operate my computer-controlled drone no higher than 500 ft above obstacles on private property the FAA has no jurisdiction.

  14. Re:Not anything new on That Toy Is Now a Drone · · Score: 1

    My understanding is operating my drone outside of public airspace (no higher than 500 ft above obstacles) while on private property where the land owner has given me permission: the FAA has no jurisdiction

    Whether I have line-of-sight, radio control, or out-of-sight completely computer autonomous: in private airspace the FAA has no say.

  15. No Fair on Google Is Offering Free Coding Lessons To Women and Minorities · · Score: 1

    I want 3 months of lessons to expand my skills and I've been in this industry for 20 years.

  16. See: Morgan Freeman on Tech Workforce Diversity At Facebook Similar To Google And Yahoo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Stop talking about this crap.

  17. Blind-eye on IRS Recycled Lerner Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    It is a conspiracy that's what's being investigated!

    This is not just a political animal (i.e. an elected administration), this is the company in charge of tax records who is in non-compliance with the Federal law it enforces.

    Or (more likely) the actual conspiracy has more connections, enough that someone is covering them up.

  18. Exchange on IRS Recycled Lerner Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    No backup of the email server either? Hmm...

  19. What The Government Subsidizes It Regulates on Hundreds of Cities Wired With Fiber, But Telecom Lobbying Keeps It Unusable · · Score: 1

    But I guess the NSA is piping everything through their basement already, so maybe it doesn't matter...

  20. Wait on Study: Stop Being So Cynical, You Could Give Yourself Dementia · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So critical thinking leads to dementia?

    Or do we notice more when people with high mental function lose it than those who never had good thinking skills in the first place?

  21. The people in the White House are now the ones naming the science: I'm sure their only motivation is in the best interest of the scientific community.

  22. Smart Cities, Smart Growth on Most of What We Need For Smart Cities Already Exists · · Score: 1

    Just euphemisms for big brother is watching and we own all your base.

  23. Wow on Erik Meijer: The Curse of the Excluded Middle · · Score: 3, Insightful

    After programming for 16 years, I finally realize I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm so glad these people are out there to point this out.

  24. At least on HealthCare.gov Back-End Status: See You In September · · Score: 1

    Not for lack of trying :)

  25. Working for You on HealthCare.gov Back-End Status: See You In September · · Score: 2

    True, clueless politicians made last minutes changes like, "don't show them raw premium, sticker shock, make them do subsidy calculation first" a week before roll out. True, dimwitted bureaucrats gave out contracts with idiotic levels of fragmentation and blame-dodgeability. Obama raised expectations insanely by saying "as easy as buying books in Amazon..".

    Of course, these are the reasons government-run health care will be so much better: politicians can control it and tell you how much better off you are.