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  1. Order in the universe on Study: Science Still Seen As a Male Profession · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The greatest unsolved mystery to Man is Woman. Men who don't score try to understand why that is. Men denied a solution are programmed to decompose problems. Less complex than Woman is Science. One cannot hope to comprehend the one prior to the other.

    The greatest unsolved to Woman is why Man doesn't get it. Women are programmed to multitask. From birth, they apply a duality of logic: How to serve Tribe and Family equally. To that end, they give hope to the scientists who by extension serve Tribe, and they give body to real men who by application serve Family.

  2. I'll tell you what's going to happen on Los Angeles Raises Minimum Wage To $15 an Hour · · Score: 1

    The minimum wage in Melbourne Australia has been in the $15 range for many years, and where it 'hurts' is in the costs of the service sector. It's really tough to set the value of a Big Mac at like $5.50, and as a result I eat out much less than when I was in California. But, there is a large sector who will pay what it takes to indulge their behavioral addictions, and the service sector is nonetheless very robust. So yes there's a transfer of wealth into the lower income levels which results in them earning a living wage (minimum wage is tied to a percentage of the cost of living) and I find that far more tolerable than six people crammed into a 2-bedroom flat.

  3. Devops is all the rage these days but I think I'd rethink that if it means going up on a live jet test.

  4. Re:Good for them! on Blizzard Bans 100,000 Cheaters In Massive "World of Warcraft" Ban Spree · · Score: 1

    EVE Online minimizes grinding. Irrespective of one's inclinations, it's not hard to hook up with like-minded players to contribute to some shared purpose. Highly skilled mining groups will take on a hauler to skill up and take a cut to become a highly skilled miner. Competent pvp groups will take on a relatively young player with limited assets and share access to resources. The social aspect is quite profound, actually.

  5. 14 million on Harry Shearer Walks Away From "The Simpsons," and $14 Million · · Score: 1

    Momma said there's only so much fortune a man really needs and the rest is just for showing off.

  6. Re:how about we go back to the old days? on The Music Industry's Latest Shortsighted Plan: Killing Freemium Services · · Score: 1

    Amen. If you love music and hate how artists make out, Before I Get Old (The Who by Marsh) is essential reading.

  7. Exclamation marks on As Hubble Breaks a Distance Record, We Learn Its True Limits · · Score: 0

    Any science article that insists on shouting at me... sucks. I HATE HATE HATE this writer.

  8. Re:Hmmm on Mysterious Sounds Recorded During Near Space Balloon Flight · · Score: 1

    They thought about projecting sound 10hz lower, but there was a chicken farm nearby.

  9. Re:Rooting against on IBM CIO Thinks Agile Development Might Save Company · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Agile doesn't solve your problems mate, it just exposes them sooner. If everyone is working on the same thing today as yesterday, there's your problem right there in front of you.

  10. Re:Other explanations: on Mysterious "Cold Spot": Fingerprint of Largest Structure In the Universe? · · Score: 1

    Not socks. They're in the hozone.

  11. Re:Never consumer ready on 220TB Tapes Show Tape Storage Still Has a Long Future · · Score: 1

    By that measure, how credible are you exactly?

  12. Re:Never consumer ready on 220TB Tapes Show Tape Storage Still Has a Long Future · · Score: 1

    I haven't been in a server room in an embarrassingly long time, but I understood enterprise drives to mean hot pluggable with online redundancy. For a not large business, knowing a drive failure would result in no downtime and never having to roll back to tape was worth virtually any premium. In this scenario, tape only came into play when wanting to retrieve deleted data.

  13. Re:Terrorism brought to you by the FBI on Would-Be Bomber Arrested In Kansas; Planned Suicide Attack on Ft. Riley · · Score: 1

    The hardest part in bomb making is not blowing yourself up in the process. Chemical reactions do not always scale well, especially ones that deal with explosive compounds.

    Continue...

  14. When they start using cold drops to coordinate, that's when to start worrying. With surveillance as it is, they've got nothing better than a rogue or two using IEDs and assault rifles.

  15. Re:Corollary on 9th Circuit Rules Netflix Isn't Subject To Disability Law · · Score: 1

    That guy in a wheelchair is specifically who I was referencing above. I was involved in ADA in California when it rolled out, working within a consultancy that advised businesses specifically in how to handle this tactic. The fun part is the consultant attorneys were formally qualified to argue to the California Supreme Court, whereas this guy's attorney couldn't get beyond municipal. Good times.

  16. Corollary on 9th Circuit Rules Netflix Isn't Subject To Disability Law · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That would be like suing a book store for not having audiobooks and braille for all of their titles. Sometimes that little prick in a wheel chair causing trouble at the end of the day is just a little prick.

  17. Re:Meanwhile down at the track... on Tesla's April Fool's Joke Spoofs Market Algorithms · · Score: 1

    Game Set Match. I love it when the point is missed.

  18. Meanwhile down at the track... on Tesla's April Fool's Joke Spoofs Market Algorithms · · Score: 2

    Unless you have 20 hours weekly to become an expert in an investment sector, the only winner when a small investor buys and sells stocks is the bookie. Er broker. Managed funds are better. Or was it diamonds. I can't remember which.

  19. Not ideopathic on Rare Ideopathic Encephaly Tied to Higher IQ, Not Lower · · Score: 1

    Ideopathic means from unknown cause. This is clearly congenital.

  20. Pete Townsend as my guide on Why You Should Choose Boring Technology · · Score: 1

    Townsend wrote about a powerful idea, of the perfect note. Clapton, who crossed paths with Townsend, preferred a simple guitar lick to communicate his ideas. I started as a business consultant with software skills, and I've always considered -- even now as a consulting developer -- a line of code to be the last resort when all else fails -- because of the cost involved. Back before the concepts had buzzwords, I advocated 'just in time' development over 'just in case', and that if you're writing a lot of code you're probably doing it wrong. These days it's called Emergent Architecture on a formal level, and YAGNI informally. Every line of code, every expansion of the technology footprint, should be when all else fails.

  21. Re:Suck it Millenials on Millennial Tech Workers Losing Ground In US · · Score: 1

    My daughters were born in 86 and 92, and they out-type my 95wpm by 25 and 45 wpm respectively. Absolutely insane watching them at the keyboard. No technical sense in their heads, but they type as fast as the nix-heads back in my uni days.

  22. Re:Hmmm on RadioShack Puts Customer Data Up For Sale In Bankruptcy Auction · · Score: 1

    I'd suggest you actually look it up. Most cities grant merchants this power.

  23. Re:Hmmm on RadioShack Puts Customer Data Up For Sale In Bankruptcy Auction · · Score: 1

    In general, they have the right to temporarily detain you if they have reasonable suspicion that you've stolen something. I simply ignore them, and the day one touches my arm will get him fired by the time I'm finished. Even if you "agree" on entrance to have your bag searched when leaving, they can do nothing more than ask you not to return, which is legally binding.

  24. Reuters is singular on Researchers: Smartphone Use Changing Our Brain and Thumb Interaction · · Score: 1

    From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...:

    Reuters /rtrz/ is an international news agency

  25. Stay true on First Prototype of a Working Tricorder Unveiled At SXSW · · Score: 1

    The medical scanner needs to be fashioned from an old salt shaker.