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  1. Emergencies? on Hyperloop One Reveals Test Track Progress (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Looking at photos of the test track, you have to wonder how the hell do you get out if something goes wrong?

    What happens if there is a sudden "repressurization"? Seems to me that would be like hitting a brick wall at the speeds they are talking about.

    What if the motive element fails and the pod comes to a halt? There you are, stuck in a sealed tube.

  2. Re:How to make them more professional on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Make Novice Programmers More Professional? · · Score: 1

    NO.

    Tell them to go into Web Development.

    Then be hired by Slashdot. Then create with a Slashdot site that doesn't jump up and down like a God Damned Fucking spastic French Poodle when you are trying to read/post/moderate the fucking articles.

    Based on how Slashdot pages are behaving, they don't even have trained monkeys working for them, but rather drooling, hydrocephalic, brain damaged shit heads that delight in ruining any web page they can smear their feces on.

    HOLY FUCKING SHIT Slashdot!!!!
    WHAT THEY FUCK????

  3. On the One Hand... on China Developing Manned Space Mission To the Moon · · Score: 1

    ...China has made impressive advancements in technology (I'll let you argue how that happened).

    On the other, they have persistently shown that state propaganda goals are a higher priority than safety.

  4. ...is now only 20 years away!

    Wait...it was 20 years ago!

    I'm confused.

  5. ...BMC, a company who happens to make "service management" software does a survey with Forbes and Shazaam! the Majority of IT Executives, who probably never heard of this thing called ITSM, think it's important.

    Just more bullshit in the river of bullshit from software companies seeking to be the new imperative of the decade.

  6. I'm Not Buying it. on US Suspends 'Expedited' H-1B Visas (sfgate.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Third World countries that still can't provide basic sanitation to their populace are highly unlikely to be producing technical talent that can't be found in the U.S.

  7. I don't buy the Premise... on US Suspends 'Expedited' H-1B Visas (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    ...that Third World countries which are still trying to get basic sanitation to its populace is the wellspring of talent that can't be found in the U.S.

  8. Seems to me that any long term solution for space travel or space occupation should just involve a centrifuge as living quarters.

    Heavy? Yes.
    Expensive? Yes.

    But if man can't live in space without getting totally fucked up, then I guess that's a small price to pay.

  9. Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Hobbits?

  10. Re:Whoa - too far! on Twitter To Get Even Harsher On Trolls (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Soon, only Blue Butt Ferries and unicorns will be allowed in Twitter posts.

  11. Re:oh no my hugbox on Twitter To Get Even Harsher On Trolls (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    It IS censoring...it's just not against the law for a private company to do it on their private platform.

    People should call them out on it because it is at odds with the intent of the platform.

  12. Re:Wrong Definition of Neutrality on FCC Chairman Calls Net Neutrality a 'Mistake' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Everyone is confusing providing data with delivering data.

    If I connect to a site with crappy network cards or they paid for slower connections, that'd not the provider's fault. Everyone knows that.

    If I'm at site A and I'm getting X speed and then I switch to site B and get X+100 (which matches the advertised speed), then it's all good and I know that Site A sucks.

    I see this all the the time with YouTube telling me that interrupted videos is the network's fault while Pornhub and screaming along just fine. YouTube Sucks. Well, the sucking is on Pornhub, but that's another topic.

  13. Wrong Definition of Neutrality on FCC Chairman Calls Net Neutrality a 'Mistake' (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think it would be better if they simply stated that:

    1. If you advertise X speed, then the users gets X speed, every time, all the time.
    2. Get rid of this, "Up To" bullshit. no one is interested in some speed you might get once in a while.
    3. No traffic is EVER restricted for ANY reason.
    4. If you can't support your sales pitch, then either build out to where you can or change your pitch.

  14. Skeptical on SpaceX Plans To Send Two People Around the Moon In 2018 (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    2018?

    How long does it take to build a man rated capsule? Even one that's been designed, tested, approved, trained workers, supply chain in place, work instructions, quality instructions, etc?

    It took them about a year to rebuild Space Ship One and they had already done it once.

    I'm just not seeing it.

  15. 62 Comments and no Mention of Skynet! on Supersmart Robots Will Outnumber Humans Within 30 Years, Says SoftBank CEO (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    You Young Whipper Snappers don't have a clue about evil A.I.!

  16. "Fake News" and "Spam" are now an excuse to censor on Is Google's Comment Filtering Tool 'Vanishing' Legitimate Comments? (vortex.com) · · Score: 2

    I've seen it on Disqus too.

    Google and Diqus and others provide tools to the site operators also who seem to use them to disappear comments without being accused of censoring.

    I've had comments, all of the same political temperament and even the same text be "detected" as spam on some sites and not others.

  17. Re:All reported strikes false? on FAA Warns More Drones Are Flying Near Airports (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Drones are the equivalent of deer.

    "Hello? Insurance company? Ya...I hit a deer and I need a new grill, hood, and bumper."

  18. Dinner and an Other Movie for less. on Studios Push for $50 Early Home Movie Rentals (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    I can take my sweetie to a nice dinner and released movie for less than $50.

  19. The continuing push to automate all areas of the workforce will eventually, in the theory, eliminate the need for a workforce.

    I don't recall reading anything about what people will be doing after that in terms of self fulfillment and societal structures. The paradigm of go to school, get a good job, raise a family, save for retirement, will be blown up. To be replaced by what?

    And don't start with the pie in the sky bullshit. Policy is what will determine the outcome. Is anyone thinking about that?

  20. Being so close to their star, wouldn't radiation be a huge issue?

  21. Symptom, not the cause. on Owning a Cat Does Not Lead To Mental Illness, Study Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Cats are symptom of Crazy, not a cause.

  22. Wanted. Outstanding Candidates with at least 3 years experience with DeepCoder. Must be able to show past work experience successfully writing DeepCoder specifications, implementing and maintaining the results.

    This position is H1-B eligible.

  23. Re:Security focused on US Homeland Security Employees Locked Out of Computer Networks (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    I work for one of the largest Defense companies in the nation. In the last year we have had two major network outages. One related to provider issues and the other related to firewall changes gone bad.

    This shit happens. Creating/Managing/Upgrading huge networks like this a very complicated and delicate task.

  24. Technique Applied! on University Offers Course To Help Sniff Out and Refute 'Bullshit' (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Their course was singled out as Bullshit as a result.

  25. Maybe $23 billion could answer these questions.

    I don't believe not knowing the answer has ever stopped us from trying.