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  1. Re:I saw a live demo of this at NASA, was interest on Geophysicists Discover How Rocks Produce Magnetic Pulses · · Score: 2

    Except all studies seem to indicate that animals do NOT act any differently before an earthquake. It's all seems to be post hoc, ergo propter hoc reasoning.

  2. Re:Easy on US Secret Service Wants To Identify Snark · · Score: 4, Funny

    yeah, that will work.

  3. It's a cover up on Geophysicists Discover How Rocks Produce Magnetic Pulses · · Score: 2

    those pulses are clearly a MUTO mating call.

  4. Re:Did anybody catch this tidbit? on Google Announces 'End-To-End' Encryption Extension For Chrome · · Score: 1

    Money. It's due to money;' although 10 years ago is meaningless. I know system that are 40 years old and still work great at what they where designed to do.

  5. Re:So they are begginig the monopoly on Google Announces 'End-To-End' Encryption Extension For Chrome · · Score: 1

    If only there was an article some place that talked about it.

    https://code.google.com/p/end-...

    sheeesh.

  6. Re:Email should not just be encrypted in transit on Google Announces 'End-To-End' Encryption Extension For Chrome · · Score: 1

    It is with this encryption.

    " Encrypted data is useless to Google."
    arguable, but so what? Why does that mean they wouldn't do it? Your hate boner is getting in the way for your thinking.
    stop it.

  7. Re:Reflections on trusting trust... on Google Announces 'End-To-End' Encryption Extension For Chrome · · Score: 1

    Why wouldn't you be able to spot a back door that's in the code?
    It's not that hard.
    Of course if the backdoor is being inserted by the compiler, well then you are screwed. Or, use your own compiler.

  8. Re:Saves NYers nothing on How Open Government Data Saved New Yorkers Thousands On Parking Tickets · · Score: 1

    Agrees. All monies gathered should go into the general fund and never back to the police dept. If people don't want to pay for police, then so be it.

    And property confiscated should, generally, go to the family of whom ever did the crime.

  9. Re:Why is he so astonished? on How Open Government Data Saved New Yorkers Thousands On Parking Tickets · · Score: 1

    Actually, you are insulated from the real world.
    They didn't analyze becasue of man power. Agency love to look through their data and improve service, but it takes time and cost money.

    And it's a out parking fines not creating parking spaces.

  10. Re:So that you don't have to RTFA on How Open Government Data Saved New Yorkers Thousands On Parking Tickets · · Score: 1

    Still, when you gte out off you car it's right there, so you should notice it and move. becasue paring that close to afire hydrant is a ticket-able offense

  11. Re:no plugins? on Netflix Ditches Silverlight For HTML5 On Macs · · Score: 1

    Nope.

    Plugins live outside the browser processor space.

    Of course the industry often doesn't use the terms correctly, so the definitions might be moot.

  12. FUnny on Netflix Ditches Silverlight For HTML5 On Macs · · Score: 2

    "... only browse the Internet ..."

    It just occurred to me that 'only browse the internet' is archaic.
    Because you can do anything on the internet, so 'only' doesn't apply.

  13. Re:Self promoting crap on Ask Slashdot: Where's the Most Unusual Place You've Written a Program From? · · Score: 1

    Or.now hear me out, you just ignore it and move on?
    Or do you think life is there for your entertainment?

  14. I win.

  15. That's not agile.

  16. Re:240,000 jobs for robots? on EU Launches World's Largest Civilian Robotics Program; 240,000 New Jobs Expected · · Score: 1

    And you realize we are automating the building of the automation, right?

    We turn that corner in the 90's.

  17. Re:Recruiting Tool on Pixar To Give Away 3D RenderMan Software · · Score: 2

    Just like any other companies have done.

    You overlook the part where people learn the skills also can make competing companies. Start there own company, and get free training.

  18. Re:there is some evil in this on Pixar To Give Away 3D RenderMan Software · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    yes Disney MAKES you pay for cable. I"m sure they have a gun right at your head every month when you pay.

    The cable company has a package of what they offer You take it or YOU leave it.

    I should complain to Saturn* because they made me pay for a spare tire I never used.

    *hahaha...

  19. Re:Who designed this, and what drugs were they on? on Apple Announces New Programming Language Called Swift · · Score: 1

    immutable is about state change from an external point of view.

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

  20. Re:Who designed this, and what drugs were they on? on Apple Announces New Programming Language Called Swift · · Score: 1

    Eer aptal

    Intuitive isn't it? it's almost like you have to learn the language.

  21. Re:Who designed this, and what drugs were they on? on Apple Announces New Programming Language Called Swift · · Score: 1

    Oh, we're Sooooo sorry you don't know how to engineer and need code that holds your hand.
    Here, maybe this is your speed:
    http://office.microsoft.com/en...

    and set a new value for an existing index of an array doesn't mean the arrays state will change. hence immutable.

  22. Re:Wow! .6 GHz Faster Than 3 Year Old 2600k! on Intel Announces Devil's Canyon Core I7-4790K: 4GHz Base Clock, 4.4GHz Turbo · · Score: 1

    You don't really understand how chips work or what power means, do you?

  23. Re:More useful metrics? on Intel Announces Devil's Canyon Core I7-4790K: 4GHz Base Clock, 4.4GHz Turbo · · Score: 1

    If you know about those things then you know where tt get that info, if you don't know about those thing that will just makes someone eyes glaze over.
    So, give a metric with the widest appeal.

  24. Re:Even higher! on Seattle Approves $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage · · Score: 1

    The final result of the experiment in Canada showed that one very few people worked less.

    I suspect wages will spiral down towards 0.

    I think Mincome of some sort will happen. Probably when unemployement is around 15% due to vast automation.

  25. Re:Even higher! on Seattle Approves $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage · · Score: 1

    " I have to fire 40% of the workforce."
    Why? why is that you only option?

    If you were correct, then there would be no jobs.

    http://thehill.com/blogs/congr...

    http://www.dol.gov/dol/aboutdo...
    "In a recent review of the literature, Professor Richard Freeman of Harvard, a widely respected labor economist, wrote: "At the level of the minimum wage in the late 1980s, moderate legislated increases did not reduce employment and were, if anything, associated with higher employment in some locales."

    and so on. YOU are the bitch of the corporate spin machine.