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  1. Classical Liberals Would Object on Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales is Launching an Online Publication To Fight Fake News (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    This is an example of how far the Left has strayed from its classical liberal roots.

    The very idea that any organization could set itself up to be the arbiter of the Truth in media is anathema to everything a classical liberal believe in.

  2. Swap?? on Gamers in Hawaii Can't Compete... Because of Latency (theoutline.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Holy fuck.

    Someone is in Hawaii and they elect to stay inside playing games???

    I tell you what...you come here and stay in my suburban home in the states with a high speed connection that will allow you to pwn everyone in the game, and I'll stay in your home in Hawaii, surf, scuba, hike, and lay out on the beach.

  3. It's All Soup on Ask Slashdot: Do You Like Functional Programming? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    I've seen many of these "paradigms" come and go.

    It's like someone coming up with a new way to make soup. New ingredients, new cooking methods, new ways to chop vegetables, new pots to put in in, blah blah blah.

    In the end, it takes about the same about of time, tastes pretty much the same, and only refrigerates so many times before you have to throw it out.

  4. Number One Rule... on CC'ing the Boss on Email Makes Employees Feel Less Trusted, Study Finds (hbr.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...never let your boss get blindsided by anything you are even remotely related to if you can help it.

    If you have information, reservations, disagreements with anyone, co-workers, customers, no matter, loop your boss in on it. The Boss is there to coordinate and clear obstacles so that you can do your job and so the company can achieve its goals (at least in a healthy, sane organization).

    There are always two sides at least to everything and each "side" will go up the other chain of command. If you don't keep your management involved, they will look like fools when asked about it in their meetings and they have no knowledge or response. That will then come back to you.

    If your colleagues are professionals, they will understand and will do it themselves.

  5. I'm Sorry, but... on Scientists Invent Ultrasonic Dryer That Uses Sound To Dry Your Clothes (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    ...I never imagined that even the looniest of loons could come up with such a incredibly lame issue such as the idiocy you are spewing here.

    Is this all a conspiracy by some agency to make money off of people who will suddenly be afflicted with Laundry Lung?

  6. Question for the Physicists. on Supercomputers Help Researchers Find Two New Kinds Of Magnets (phys.org) · · Score: 0

    I just don't get something about permanent magnets.

    A magnet exerts force, no?

    Exerting force requires energy, no?

    Where is the energy in a magnet? How is it obtained, stored, replenished?

  7. Norman on Tiny Changes Can Cause An AI To Fail (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    We've known this since the 60's

  8. Re:Brilliant ad campaign! on Burger King Won't Take a Hint; Alters TV Ad To Evade Google's Block (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    Of course Google is no stranger to injecting ads in your face on their platforms.

    Remember when they used to say, "don't be evil" or some bullshit like that?

  9. ...to make an ass of yourself on the internet.

  10. Re:sigh on Portland Commits To 100 Percent Renewable Energy By 2050 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's going to get cold in Portland.

  11. COBOL is the Caterpillar D11 of data processing.

    When you need to process millions of records reliably and constantly, a correctly constructed COBOL solution is robust, maintainable, and reliable.

    COBOL doesn't and shouldn't give a shit about drop downs, java, PDFs and all that other bullshit. It's is doing the heavy lifting that C, Java (don't make me puke), and all these other supposedly superior languages can't do.

    Eye Candy has nothing to do with making sure 50,000 employees get their checks every week or millions of SS recipients get their checks every month.

    And the best thing, it's not rocket science...by design. A single semester of COBOL can get someone up to speed to the point where they can maintain everyday COBOL applications. When things get crazy, it's not the language that's the roadblock, it's just the normal analytical skills.

  12. My tech called me into his office and showed me the performance tab of the task manager.

    He had nothing but a PDF open. when he scrolled the PDF, CPU usage went to 120% apparently because the graph went off the scale.

    He was unable to complete some assigned training because his Win 10 laptop was too slow.

  13. Private payrolls grew 263K in March vs. 185K est.: ADP

    Can the labor dept and ADP possibly be talking about the same thing?

  14. Re:I think someone without a degree wrote that sum on Why More Tech Companies Are Hiring People Without Degrees (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Absolute Fucking Bullshit.

    What do un-degree'd and H-1B people have in common? They are cheap labor.

    What is happening is that these companies (Ironically run by all those SJWs) saying to all the people who did things the right way, stay in school, get a degree, etc, "Fuck You, we can get cheaper labor elsewhere."

    And yes, Intel sure as fuck would respond to SJWs. Have you fucking read the news lately?

  15. Re:Let the mansplaining begin! on In Tech, Wage Gender Gap Worsens For Women Over Time, and It's Worst For Black Women (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    More like Economists explaining how career choices, motherhood, etc. take their toll.

  16. There is no wage gap.

    Economists have debunked this time and again.

  17. Re:How Much Salt? on Graphene-Based Sieve Turns Seawater Into Drinking Water (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Three ships leaving port a month and dumping the salt during the trip to HI would be enough.

    Really...given the ships plying the waters these days distributing the salt over a large area is a trivial exercise.

  18. Re:How Much Salt? on Graphene-Based Sieve Turns Seawater Into Drinking Water (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yikes.

    This is why I'm not a mathematician and I'm overweight by 40 lbs.

  19. How Much Salt? on Graphene-Based Sieve Turns Seawater Into Drinking Water (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Los Angeles consumed about 17,957,000,000 in August of 2013

    A gallon of sear water contains 4.5 oz of salt

    So if LA used exclusively desalinized water, they would have 10,100,812,500 lbs of salt on their hands (17,957,000,000*4.5/8)

    This is about 126,260,156 cubic feet.

    Your average Panamax cargo ship has about 3.6 million cubic feet of space.

    This is about 35 ships worth of salt.

    There are about 16,900 bulk carrier ships operating in the world.

  20. Easy Fix... on Computer Programmers May No Longer Be Eligible For H-1B Visas [Update] (axios.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you are required to train your replacement, then you don't need to be replaced and the H-1B should not be allowed in.

    Same for outsourcing. If you require your people to train the outsource company's employees, then the laws should make outsourcing extraordinarily difficult.

  21. Re:Superbowl winning QB Tom Brady traded to Buffal on Ask Slashdot: Seen Any Good April Fool's Pranks Today? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This new Slashdot format better be a fucking prank.

  22. Re:It's become derogatory? on 'Verified' Is Now a Derogatory Term on Twitter (theoutline.com) · · Score: 2

    If it is not intended as an endorsement, then Twitter would not be treating it as an endorsement. Which they clearly did.

    Since it's their fucking site, I think that pretty much means that's how they intended the Verified moniker to be used.

  23. Is there anything that compulsory anything encourages except wanting to get the hell out of the situation?

  24. Re:It's become derogatory? on 'Verified' Is Now a Derogatory Term on Twitter (theoutline.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Before they banned Milo Y. they"unverified" him.

    So this either means that they believed someone had kidnapped him and was now posting in his name...

    or...

    The didn't like what he was saying, so they unverified him as a way to de-legitimize him.

    So which is it? Why would the "unverify" him?

  25. You just wrote your code to be a complete fucking asshole.

    You succeeded.

    Holy Fuck. Kill yourself and spare us all the knowledge of your existence. Seriously.. Do it, you mother fucking cunt. No one cares about you anyway.