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  1. But that is not Washington... on Top NSA Official Raised Alarm About Metadata Program In 2009 · · Score: 1

    As usual, the Democrats and the President are NOT part of the Washington establishment (that is to blame for this) and so this can't be blamed on them. They have campaigned against this (even last week). You should probably look to the Republicans to blame.

  2. Same there on Black IT Pros On (Lack Of) Racial Diversity In Tech · · Score: 1

    I can't think of too many qualified black candidates that I interviewed and then didn't hire. I'd have to say that percentage wise, people from Ohio (no idea) and India have the lowest success rate with me.

  3. FL is fine... on Florida-Based Magic Leap Builds Its Team With Bay Area Hires · · Score: 1

    I was one of those who thought Florida was all wrong until I moved down and figured it out for myself. Obviously, it's a big place with a lot of everything but altitude and snow. We've got enough people and enough "money" so if you don't want to come we don't care.

  4. Re:In Related News on Study: Past Climate Change Was Caused by Ocean, Not Just the Atmosphere · · Score: 1

    That means things will just keep getting warmer and humans are doing a poor job of slowing things down.

  5. Gramling Says What? on Fiber Optics In Antarctica Will Monitor Ice Sheet Melting · · Score: 2

    TFA by Carolyn Gramling is a real piece of work. It makes scary claims and then links to articles that make no such claims. I guess that is what staff editors do for us.

  6. What isn't a limited resource? on Living On a Carbon Budget: The End of Recreation As We Know It? · · Score: 1

    What a crock. All resources are limited. Nothing special here...

  7. Re:Suicide my ass! on Downtown Project Suicides Shock High Tech Community · · Score: 1

    There is no such thing as a coincident. Need to bring in some outsiders to investigate.

  8. Re:ash on Utilities Should Worry; Rooftop Solar Could Soon Cut Their Profit · · Score: 1

    Brooms, really? Cloud scoops maybe...

  9. I wonder what will happen when some big volcanoes spew ash over most of the planet and solar energy production can't keep up with demand and the old, reliable energy production is gone? It's not like that has every happened, well 1816 sure, but it won't happen again.

  10. Self Serve IT on IT Job Hiring Slumps · · Score: 2

    I was talking to a young, bright FBI agent last month and when I said that I was a software developer she said quite appropriately "aren't we all?"

    I'm afraid that IT is becoming very much self serve and the few remaining Development/IT jobs are going to be very specialized and hardcore positions.

  11. Call out the Wildfire team and Michael Crichton on Scientists Find Traces of Sea Plankton On ISS Surface · · Score: 1

    I guess this isn't exactly The Andromeda Strain (1969), by Michael Crichton, but it was my first thought.

  12. Re:Can an "atheist company" refuse too? on U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Religious Objections To Contraception · · Score: 1

    Atheists can't readily be classified beyond not believing in a god. That single thing doesn't categorically lead to much else. I'm an atheist and I think abortions are pretty much murder. But then, I'm not necessarily against murder, especially in this case.

  13. Re:Is that where the pre-Clovis culture came from? on DNA Study: First Farmers Were Also Sailors · · Score: 1

    I certainly don't agree with any claims to great land masses based upon some vague genetic connection. Now watery tarts throwing swords, I understand that!

  14. TFA doesn't have his face... on Chicago Robber Caught By Facial Recognition Sentenced To 22 Years · · Score: 1

    So why the heck can't they show his face in a story about facial recognition? Why the picture of a train? That has nothing to do with facial recognition! For all we know he has some incredibly unique face or maybe a tattoo across his forehead.

  15. Saving Climate != limit a global rise in mean temp on UN: Renewables, Nuclear Must Triple To Save Climate · · Score: 1

    Really bad headline, "Saving Climate" does not equate to "limit a global rise in mean temperatures". I'm all for manipulating the environment to give the best possible outcome for humans. If we could all agree on what climate is best I'd be really amazed.

  16. Waiting for Microsoft's "Goto Fail" on Bug In the GnuTLS Library Leaves Many OSs and Apps At Risk · · Score: 1

    Just waiting for Microsoft's "Goto Fail" bug to surface. It may be too early to thank Snowden, but I'm starting to think I will have to at some point.

  17. Blame the gamers on Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Trust Bitcoin? · · Score: 1

    Clearly Bitcoin's downfall was the cannibalization of gamer video cards for bitcoin mining and the related price increases of those cards. Gamer's know alternative currencies and bitcoin wasn't one they liked.

  18. I'm embarrassed on Death By Metadata: The NSA's Secret Role In the US Drone Strike Program · · Score: 1

    "...Whether or not Obama is fully aware of the errors built into the program of targeted assassination, he and his top advisers have repeatedly made clear that the president himself directly oversees the drone operation and takes full responsibility for it." The press making up excuses for all that tee time? Fuck That!

  19. RE: the early explorers died out..calamities on Britain's Eastern Coast Yields Oldest Human Footprints Outside Africa · · Score: 0

    "the early explorers died out in the ice ages or other calamities"

    You human centric slob! The earth is what is important and an ice age or anything else (except human occupation) was NOT a calamity for the earth. The earth is OK with almost everything including asteroid hits, ice ages, super volcanoes and plate tectonics. But humanoids burning hydrocarbons? No way!

  20. Why is this so complicated. on What Killed the Great Beasts of North America? · · Score: 1

    If you know the history of megafauna mammals then the end of them is obvious.

    "Subsequent to the Cretaceous - Paleogene extinction event that eliminated the non-avian dinosaurs about 66 Ma ago, terrestrial mammals underwent a nearly exponential increase in body size as they diversified to occupy the ecological niches left vacant. Starting from just a few kg before the event, maximum size had reached ~50 kg a few million years later, and ~750 kg by the end of the Paleocene. This trend of increasing body mass appears to level off about 40 Ma ago (in the late Eocene), suggesting that physiological or ecological constraints had been reached, after an increase in body mass of over three orders of magnitude. However, when considered from the standpoint of rate of size increase per generation, the exponential increase is found to have continued until the appearance of Indricotherium 30 Ma ago."

    So, they got bigger because there was a sudden niche to exploit. The niche ended and eventually they died off as the advantage was lost. Did humans effect the timescale of this, maybe. Did humans change the course of nature, almost certainly not, as if humans aren't part of nature.

    BTW, when did the avian dinosaurs go extinct? I can't find that fact.

  21. Re:In other news, colony collapse disorder... on Scientists Glue Sensors To 5,000 Bees In a Bid To Better Understand Them · · Score: 1

    I sure hope they run the test with different types of glue. Too many variables to trust the results.

  22. firearm owner's identification card? WTF! on Federal Judge Rules Chicago's Ban On Licensed Gun Dealers Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Mommy, Mommy, Look what I got today! My very own Twitter Account Owner's Identification Card. Now I can tweet three times a week, whatever I want, as long as it doesn't offend anybody or disparage the police or incite violence or discontent or encourage people to queue up for things they don't really need. Isn't the First Amendment wonderful?

  23. Re:My crack-brained theory: on Scientists Forced To Reexamine Theories In Light of Massive Gamma-Ray Burst · · Score: 1

    Yep, we may be looking at the results of a long ago war or terrible accident. Of course, maybe we don't know Jack.

  24. Re:Better solutions that actually work on As Hurricane Season Looms, It's Disaster-Preparedness Time · · Score: 1

    Actually, in the Ft. Lauderdale/Palm Beach area the Atlantic is rather deep and not going to produce a big storm surge. You need shallow water for the water to pile up. They have shallow water in most places in the Gulf but not all of Florida is susceptible to major storm surge issues.

    http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/surge/miami_mom5h.png

  25. What's next Cass? on How Human Psychology Holds Back Climate Change Action · · Score: 0

    Maybe Cass can use the same explanation to explain our $16 Trillion debt.