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  1. Re: I FOUGHT THE LAW AND THE LAW WON on US Court Grants ISPs and Search Engine Blockade of Sci-Hub (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I kinda have a problem with the court directing third parties, who have no real involvement, to take some kind of affirmative action in order to support the Court's ruling.

    It also smacks of a kind of illegal gag order.

  2. Re:As someone who lives in Florida on Florida Attempts the Largest Hydraulic Restoration Project In the World To Save the Everglades (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    So why aren't we looking at returning the island of Manhattan to it's original, beautiful, state?

  3. Sorry... on The Disappearing American Grad Student (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    ...but explain to me how Republicans are making Grad school expensive?

    Did they set the compensation rate?
    Did they set the tuition for undergrads?

    Maybe you should instead look to the University. THEY are the ones that are taking you for all you have as an undergrad and then pay a pittance for your doing the bulk of the research work in the lab.

  4. Rotate on Should Developers Do All Their Own QA? (itnews.com.au) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    EVERYONE on your team should be a developer.

    But QA should come from that pool for one project. Swap them out for the next, etc.

    Developers working at QA know where the mistakes are likely to be.

    Developers testing their own shit subconsciously avoid the shoddy parts.

    This also keeps the team as one.

    It's like a platoon of Marines taking turns burning the shit.

  5. There are many very boring and mundane things that require elevated privileges.

    Creating accounts
    Granting permissions
    Patching servers
    etc.
    In fact, it's deadly dull and a complete pain in the ass.

    Not stuff that would really keep some senior technical employee interested.

  6. Re:Trading one problem for another on Timber Towers Are On the Rise in France (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    Time between harvests on most "farmed" forests average 25-30 years. Might be some with faster growing tree, but even that is about 15 years.

  7. Where have we heard this kind of thing before? on Scientists Have Mathematical Proof That It's Impossible To Stop Aging (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    What was that guy's name?

    Lord...

    Lord Kelvin, or something like that?

  8. Stupid Idea on Government Won't Pursue Talking Car Mandate (apnews.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    May as well just put cameras in the cars too. If your going to fuck over privacy, might as well go all the way.

    And don't talk about Safety because when this was proposed...and even now, there is no system that would mitigate impending wrecks.

    Nope, I think they had something completely different in mind than Safety.

  9. Re:Moscow Donald Defends Russia on Facebook, Twitter and Google Berated by Senators on Russia (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Do you need more Salve for you Buttocks?

    See Kevin Spacey

  10. Re:Moscow Donald Defends Russia on Facebook, Twitter and Google Berated by Senators on Russia (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Epic Fail.

  11. What is this? War Games?

  12. Re:Universities Just as Bad as HR on 'We Can't Compete': Universities Are Losing Their Best AI Scientists (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    A-Fucking-Men.

    Universities are out of control. They are the embodiment of the entitlement mentality even when you remove the fact that most students today are SJW victims with little no interest in learning anything useful. I am actually kind of glad that my son is in college now because the competition he faces sucks.

  13. Universities Just as Bad as HR on 'We Can't Compete': Universities Are Losing Their Best AI Scientists (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Universities can and have been just as bad as HR when it comes to finding talent and building a "workforce".

    In business, HR is usually looking for unrealistic requirements and filter out people who are probably more than qualified, but lack experience or requirements in specific area of length or experience. I experienced this many, many years ago when I had 5 years .net experience, not 7. Stupid. ( Thankfully, those fuckers went out of business. Fuck'm)

    Academics does the same thing when it comes to admitting people to advanced degree programs.

    Have a crappy undergrad record, but nevertheless excel in industry and work in cutting edge technology? Too bad. They look to what you did 20 years ago not what you are doing now.

    Then there's the stupid test they want you to take. Do they have an ACT for A.I?

    Don't have the means to quit your day job? Well, the University says, Fuck You, you ain't getting in.

    Then, of course is the cost. People with homes, kids, spouses that spend money like water, aren't going to be able to afford ten of thousands of dollars.

    Universities are living in yesteryear. They need to wake up and understand what's going on with talented people today.

  14. Re:And yet, little effect on Carbon Pollution Touched 800,000 Year Record in 2016, WMO Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Only until you stop peddling.

  15. Re:And yet, little effect on Carbon Pollution Touched 800,000 Year Record in 2016, WMO Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    OK...You and the Anti-Hydro nuts, that are tearing down dams all across the US, are going into a cage fight.

  16. Re:And yet, little effect on Carbon Pollution Touched 800,000 Year Record in 2016, WMO Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    There is NO form of energy that can provide the base power load requirements that is not fossil based, other than nuclear.

  17. Re:And yet, little effect on Carbon Pollution Touched 800,000 Year Record in 2016, WMO Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    Let's start with your local power plant.

  18. Re:And yet, little effect on Carbon Pollution Touched 800,000 Year Record in 2016, WMO Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Climate Change is a Threat...

    But apparently not enough of a threat to convince the anti-nukes to abandon their irrational fears.

  19. Re:Very userful on How Data Science Powered the Search for MH370 (hpe.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    CNN is still looking.

  20. Someone gave the Unibomber access to the internet.

  21. Re:We need to take a look at our politics on Many Junior Scientists Need To Take a Hard Look at Their Job Prospects (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    If you are living paycheck to paycheck while taking down $250k a year, you are an idiot.

    And yes, that includes if you live in Silicon Valley or Manhattan where a 300st foot apartment/home goes for a quarter mil.

  22. Re:student loans need chapter 11 and 7 on Many Junior Scientists Need To Take a Hard Look at Their Job Prospects (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    Substitute, "taxpayer" for all those terms and then you get it right.

  23. Seems to me that the majority of PhDs should be going into the private sector.

  24. Re:Inequality is meaningless on 'The Second Gilded Age Is Upon Us' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Everyone in Venezuela eating their pets for lack of food.

  25. Re:Inequality is meaningless on 'The Second Gilded Age Is Upon Us' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    I'm pretty sure multitudes in Venezuela would rather be living under a bridge here where they could get food stamps, section 8 housing, medicare, etc.

    99% of people living under a bridge are there because they refuse to avail themselves of available services...in other world, they are usually mentally ill.