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  1. Re: I dont want to live on this planet anymore on Engineering the $325,000 Burger · · Score: 1

    So, what if I were to tell you that I have a PhD in nutrition, or that it was the first time we'd eaten there in over a month?

    That still wouldn't justify crippling your children's life by exposing them to junk food.

  2. Re:I hope on Engineering the $325,000 Burger · · Score: 0

    It's the same reason in both cases: craziness.

  3. Re:Music recorded on Earth on Astronaut Chris Hadfield Performs Space Oddity On the ISS · · Score: 2

    I want a full orchestra in the ISS

  4. Re:Crap, the sky is falling on Last Forking Warning For Bitcoin · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I was using an analogy. Of course nothing needs to be exchanged.

  5. Re:The dream? Really? on Engineering the $325,000 Burger · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but that still doesn't count as culturing.
    A dictionary could have told you as much and spare you the public shame.

  6. Re: I dont want to live on this planet anymore on Engineering the $325,000 Burger · · Score: 1

    Not only do you eat McDonald's for lunch, you bring your family there?
    Do you want your children to be obese and have health problems?

  7. Re:So... on Engineering the $325,000 Burger · · Score: 1

    What is an animal?
    This piece of meat is certainly animal tissue.

  8. Re:I LOVE BACON on Engineering the $325,000 Burger · · Score: 1

    I happen to have some of this myself.

  9. Re:I hope on Engineering the $325,000 Burger · · Score: 1

    From my experience, most vegans are actually just people who don't like the taste of meat. It's like those people that overcook it because they don't like the taste.

  10. Re:Crap, the sky is falling on Last Forking Warning For Bitcoin · · Score: 1, Troll

    What technical problem is there?
    It's just that the new Bitcoin and the old Bitcoin are becoming two different currencies. People need to convert all their old Bitcoins to new ones to avoid this.

  11. Music recorded on Earth on Astronaut Chris Hadfield Performs Space Oddity On the ISS · · Score: 1

    Why couldn't they push the envelope and record the music on the ISS too?

  12. Re: inconvienence of rape on California Lawmaker Wants 3-D Printers To Be Regulated · · Score: 1

    Pregnant from the ass?
    You have some pretty magic body!

    More seriously, those things are extreme cases and are not necessary for an act to be qualified as being rape. Thankfully, not all rape cases are that violent.

  13. Re:Gun control however... on California Lawmaker Wants 3-D Printers To Be Regulated · · Score: 1

    Whether women have been conditioned to convince themselves they need to self-inflict psychological trauma after being raped has nothing to do with the fact that factually it is just someone doing something to your body against your will for a short duration, typically without any physical after-affects.

  14. Re:Gun control however... on California Lawmaker Wants 3-D Printers To Be Regulated · · Score: 1

    Ok, you don't understand what enforcing means.

  15. Re:perspective on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Programmers Who Have Not Stayed Current? · · Score: 1

    Well if you want something harder, try lockfree programming.
    It's almost impossible to write a valid program, and you have no way of being sure whether it's correct or not other than doing a formal proof.

  16. Those games crash easily on Vulnerability Found In Skyrim, Fallout, Other Bethesda Games · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Those games crash easily, isn't that proof enough they're full of vulnerabilities that you could exploit to run arbitrary code?
    Now the question is, why does it matter? It's a game, not a production server.

  17. Re:perspective on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Programmers Who Have Not Stayed Current? · · Score: 2

    Concurrency is when you write an application which uses multiple threads for different tasks (GUI, networking, processing, whatever) so that they run independently, and you need to synchronize them.
    Parallelism is when you write an application where you use threads to split one algorithm on several computation units so as to speed it up.

    The distinction exists and is recognized by quite a few people; last month at a meeting of the Concurrency Working Group of the C++ Standards Committee, it was used to remind someone who was trolling a bit that what was being standardized are concurrency primitives, not parallel ones.

    Of course using parallelism implies that you will need to synchronize and do concurrency, but that's usually quite different because it's done with high-level scalable techniques rather than low-level concurrency primitives.

  18. Regulate machine tools on California Lawmaker Wants 3-D Printers To Be Regulated · · Score: 1

    If you're going to regulate 3D printers, you might as well regulate machine tools as well.
    They can be used to build weapons too.

  19. Re:Gun control however... on California Lawmaker Wants 3-D Printers To Be Regulated · · Score: 1

    What is your point? In those countries, sexual assault is not enforced.

  20. Re:Gun control however... on California Lawmaker Wants 3-D Printers To Be Regulated · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You die when you are killed, while rape is simply a 20 minute inconvenience.
    Assuming you had 40 years to live yet, death is worth one million rapes.

  21. Re:perspective on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Programmers Who Have Not Stayed Current? · · Score: 1

    HPC is about parallelism, not concurrency. It's a different thing, even though they're related.

  22. Re:perspective on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Programmers Who Have Not Stayed Current? · · Score: 1

    People that deal with concurrency well are rarer than you think.

    In the industry I've seen people use volatile to deal with concurrency, or that only locked mutexes when writing to some data, not when reading it.

  23. Re:Not current... on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Programmers Who Have Not Stayed Current? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've worked with a lot of people who couldn't use revision control or bug tracking systems well at all, or that cannot follow coding standards consistently.
    They were good scientists, just bad engineers.

  24. Re:Chris Cassidy is a fucking hero on Astronauts Fix Phantom Space Station Ammonia Leak · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Too bad he couldn't teach you about grammar ;)

  25. Re:Keeping people. on Microsoft Developer Explains Why Windows Kernel Development Falls Behind · · Score: 3, Informative

    C++ is made by a standards committee mostly composed of industrials and a couple of academics.
    The features that are added are added due to demand of members of the committee.

    There are at least two major people on the committee that are from Microsoft.