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  1. Re:Sucks to be a foreigner on Inside Piston-Powered Nuclear Fusion Company General Fusion · · Score: 1

    So because America has more money, they should pay more?

    Hint: that philsophical, political and economic system doesn't work.

  2. IT workers are basically self-employed anyway on Percentage of Self-Employed IT Workers Increasing · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No training, so people build labs at home.
    No laptop, so people BYOD.
    Stupid corporate standard desktops, so people do VirtualBox/Cygwin/VMWare/etc/etc
    Nobody hires FTEs because of (insert reason here) so people often contract anyway with middlemen pimps.

  3. Re:Asimov's premise could never exist ... on How Asimov's Three Laws Ran Out of Steam · · Score: 2

    Back in the 50s, the individual was still worth something, and it was assumed that a single individual, smart enough, would create a scientific breakthrough. The 21st century reveres the collective, and ignores the individual, so this type of story/plot no longer seems sensible.

  4. Why not just push the old one down to Earth on Smooth, 6.5 Hour Spacewalk To Fix ISS Ammonia Pump · · Score: 1

    Why store it? Why not just give it a good push away from the station earthwards?

  5. Re:This is despicable and indecent on China Rejects 545,000 Tons of US Genetically Modified Corn · · Score: 1

    ...been vetted and proven by the Chinese government

    Not sure if serious.

  6. Good luck keeping the genie in the bottle on China Rejects 545,000 Tons of US Genetically Modified Corn · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Since GM crops are already shown to jump to other fields, it's hardly surprising. And hardly the only time this has happened. This is just another friendly FU, like the "near collision" in the sea off China, to remind the US that China holds all the cards.

  7. Re:Take the Manifest Destiny approach on How To Avoid a Scramble For the Moon and Its Resources · · Score: 1

    You mean the native moon-dwellers?

  8. How is this a big deal? on How To Avoid a Scramble For the Moon and Its Resources · · Score: 1

    There's already a framework for establishing claims and exercising rights on those claims, and for resolving disputes over those claims.

    Enforcement will always be the problem - since currently, and in the future, there's really no way to enforce the rules eleventy million miles away, it's going to come down to either put up or shut up, as it should.

  9. If exchanging a keypair is too hard on BitTorrent Unveils Secure Chat To Counter 'NSA Dragnet Surveillance' · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Then maybe you shouldn't be using the Internet. Just because a child can reach the steering wheel of a car doesn't mean that they should drive.

  10. The Internet of Things isn't a thing on Embedded SIM Design Means No More Swapping Cards · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's marketing, like "the cloud". It's such a gross oversimplification that it's meaningless.

  11. Re:Very different code on Comparing G++ and Intel Compilers and Vectorized Code · · Score: -1, Troll

    Your situation is unique because you have a monopoly contract and an undemanding customer.

  12. Re:Very different code on Comparing G++ and Intel Compilers and Vectorized Code · · Score: 2

    And trying to do it all yourself is a risk of never getting to market.

  13. NeandertHal get it right on Genome of Neandertals Reveals Inbreeding · · Score: 1

    Just because they're trendy to talk about, you don't need to use some new-age, look at me, I know about Neanderthals and Denisovans way of spelling their name. They're Neanderthals, despite the fact that 'tal' is the German word that it's based on.

  14. Re:Remember TEMPEST? on Scientists Extract RSA Key From GnuPG Using Sound of CPU · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or HCF, if you wanted to be really sure.

  15. Police probably there for traffic on Police Pull Over More Drivers For DNA Tests · · Score: 1

    And because if you set up a random roadblock type scenario, you probably need traffic control and a police presence in case of accidents. It doesn't mean that they actually cared or were part of it.

    That people immediately assumed it was a Gestapo maneuver and then complied is more an indictment of the them and the degree of freedom people have already willingly given up for the veneer of security.

  16. can I just say on Bitcoin Exchange Value Halves After Chinese Ban · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ROFL.

  17. Probably happens everywhere on Multidrug Resistance Gene Released By Chinese Wastewater Treatment Plants · · Score: 2

    Just because they found it 1 place that they looked, doesn't mean its not NOT in other places too.

    Uneducated consumers + modern denial of causality + business interests = fail. You have ignorant parents who buy antibacterial everything because its "for the children" and because after all, they need to protect theirs, and it probably wont turn into MRSA _for them_, so shouldn't they do everything they can,etc. etc. Ditto with food - people buying shit at Walmart because they need to save money, meanwhile their neighbors lose their jobs and their kids end up playing with cadmium laced toys, but hey, they need to save 3 dollars on that gizmo.... Add the business interests capitalizing on this ignorance and philosophical gap (A !is !A) and you end up with the shitstorm we're in.

    Moral: know what you're buying, know why you're buying it.

  18. Data is not the problem on Healthcare IT's Achilles' Heel: Sensors · · Score: 1

    Poor eating habits & inadequate exercise are the problem. But heaven forbid people are responsible for their own actions.

  19. Re:Cold, dead hands on Fedora 20 Released · · Score: 1

    Citation needed.

  20. Cold, dead hands on Fedora 20 Released · · Score: 1

    Are where you will find syslogd and init scripts. Get away from your wibbly-wobbly daemony-waemony way of doing things, and let the admin adjust startup stuff and view logs via simple text edit commands.

    Anyone know when RHEL7 is out?

    Amusingly, the ./ motd below reads "Heisenberg may have slept here"

  21. Re:Yes! on Fedora 20 Released · · Score: 1

    There's probably an emacs mode which does what you're looking for.

  22. It all applies to "highspeed" too on Surviving the Internet On Low Speed DSL · · Score: 1

    All of his incredibly insightful suggestions are wise even if you have a fat pipe. Local DNS? Adblock? A VPS somewhere when you need to look like you're somewhere else? DUH. -1, Oblivious.

  23. Re:It's a meta joke on Fedora 20 Released · · Score: 3, Funny

    With Linux, are you ever really DONE installing?

  24. It's a meta joke on Fedora 20 Released · · Score: 5, Funny

    Heisenbug - nice. A fitting name for a bleeding edge distro.

  25. How is this a remotely useful product? on Google Testing Smart Appliance, Would Compete With Nest Thermostat · · Score: 1

    Set the heat at 60, and when you come home from work, bump it to 65. What is so hard about that? Why do you have to tell Google when you're home and when you're not? To those who posit "But you can set the thermostat if you leave the house and forget to change it", there's a solution for that. Don't forget. People have been not forgetting to change their thermostats for probably 100 years now. You don't need some masturbatory iThing to do this.