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  1. Re:C++ is not the language you start with on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Wish You'd Known Starting Out As a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Medical school is still just an incremental learning experience based on things learned previously. In fact, you will /never/ get into medical school without building on a solid base of existing elementary and high school knowledge.

  2. Re:C++ is not the language you start with on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Wish You'd Known Starting Out As a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    That kind of psychotic elitism isn't helpful in any field. Imagine if doctors were trained with that philosophy. "You better buckle down and jump straight into brain surgery. Only losers learn how to deal with scraped knees and basic principles of infection prevention first."

  3. Re:Clothes on Calif. Court Rules Businesses Must Reimburse Cell Phone Bills · · Score: 1

    The IRS has absolutely nothing to do with your /employer/ reimbursing you for clothing they required you to purchase. It has nothing at all to do with tax deduction. Why don't you take your paranoid rants somewhere they're relevant?

  4. Re:Massive Environmental Damage on Scientists Baffled By Unknown Source of Ozone-Depleting Chemical · · Score: 1

    Well, California is pretty hot this year and they're just itching for someone to blame.

  5. Re:Source is HVAC Contractors on Scientists Baffled By Unknown Source of Ozone-Depleting Chemical · · Score: 1

    You are, yes. Any water you use will end up in the atmosphere, because evaporation is inevitable.

  6. Re:reality check on Smartphone Kill Switch, Consumer Boon Or Way For Government To Brick Your Phone? · · Score: 1

    I don't know. I have had zero phones stolen in my lifetime, but I am becoming increasingly interested in attending protests...

  7. Re:Why such paranoia ? on Smartphone Kill Switch, Consumer Boon Or Way For Government To Brick Your Phone? · · Score: 1

    What scenario would any of your proposed "solutions" to the authorities bricking your phone actually help in? The time frame is obviously too short to make a trip to Walmart, and what kind of lunatic carries two phones all the time?

  8. Re:In other news... on 51% of Computer Users Share Passwords · · Score: 1

    This is insightful. I wish I had mod points.

  9. Re:Here's a quick fix. Kinda... on Google Receives Takedown Request Every 8 Milliseconds · · Score: 1

    I don't see that this strategy solves anything at all, except making frivolous copyright claims even more powerful.

  10. Re:In other words... on 51% of Computer Users Share Passwords · · Score: 1

    The flaw here is that they don't say which passwords to what, or with whom.

    There's no good reason not to share the password to a shared computer, and yet this poll puts anyone who does so in the same box as anyone who graffitis their bank login information on a bridge.

  11. Re:Muslim dogs on Netflix CEO On Net Neutrality: Large ISPs Are the Problem · · Score: 1

    People who live in a civilized nation where that is far from the population's most pressing concern.

  12. Re:Beats Ferguson Mo on Phoenix Introduces Draft Ordinance To Criminalize Certain Drone Uses · · Score: 1

    Just wondering, but what would you expect a cop to do after shooting someone if they were perfectly justified in doing so?

  13. Re:armed drones guarding my property on Phoenix Introduces Draft Ordinance To Criminalize Certain Drone Uses · · Score: 1

    No, it's still a perfectly legitimate strategy. You just need to make sure your armed drones are also blind.

  14. Re:Redundant laws weaken the system on Phoenix Introduces Draft Ordinance To Criminalize Certain Drone Uses · · Score: 1

    So you'd rather have the unscientific congress lobbied by the eugenics industry?

  15. Re:How does this make a difference? on Losing the Public Debate On Global Warming · · Score: 1

    And you're quite right about that, barring the introduction of other predator species like wolves that have been almost entirely eliminated from most states in the name of protecting livestock. I don't have a problem with meat eating in itself, but it is true that it is far from an efficient way to produce food.

  16. Re:Prove it on Banned From Kickstarter For Being Cyberstalked · · Score: 1

    Woooosh.

  17. Re:This is a slippery slope on Canada Post Files Copyright Lawsuit Over Crowd-sourced Postal Code Database · · Score: 1

    Longitude and latitude existed long before the US government was born. I doubt they can even attempt to make that claim.

  18. Re:How does this make a difference? on Losing the Public Debate On Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Domestic animal only breed because the farmers allow it. If you want to reduce the size of your herd, you don't mix the males and the females. It's that simple. Seriously. Cows don't have calves because of magic airborne spores.

  19. Re:Technology for stupid people and assholes on Mandatory Brake-Override Proposed For All Cars · · Score: 1

    The problem is that all these reasonable things you could do with an old fashioned vehicle you cannot do with a state-of-the-art car because for everything you do there's a computer between you and the moving parts. When the computer decides to go HAL 9000 on you, there is not much you can do about it.

  20. Re:This is bizzare on Dental X-Rays Linked To Common Brain Tumor · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, try to find a dentist who has an x-ray machine manufactured more recently than the 1980's.

  21. Re:not sure on Dental X-Rays Linked To Common Brain Tumor · · Score: 1

    Key word being "modern equipment". It's not like most dental offices are just thrilled to discard their insanely expensive, decades-old X-ray machine and buy a brand new insanely expensive machine that does the same thing.

  22. Re:Population crashes are not new. on MIT Institute's Gloomy Prediction: 'Global Economic Collapse' By 2030 · · Score: 1

    Yes, and that's a big if. Is it, in fact, impossible to refresh them faster than they are consumed? How much funding has gone into researching this frankly vital question?

  23. Re:Flowers on MIT Institute's Gloomy Prediction: 'Global Economic Collapse' By 2030 · · Score: 1

    You're charging more than a stack of empty pizza boxes and an old laptop for mod points these days? Discriminatory against underprivileged royalty, I say!

  24. Re:Population crashes are not new. on MIT Institute's Gloomy Prediction: 'Global Economic Collapse' By 2030 · · Score: 1

    Organic fertilizer is renewable, it's just that we've reduces our agricultural industry down to a single person working thousands of acres of land, who can't handle the added workload of making an actual sustainable farm. If we're going to make it through the next century we're either going to have to accept an increase in food prices, or go back to buying food as raw materials (and actually start cooking at home again) as the extra cost of food is put into healthy farming rather than making sure all food appears on store shelves as frozen pizza.

  25. Re:Flowers on MIT Institute's Gloomy Prediction: 'Global Economic Collapse' By 2030 · · Score: 1

    My kingdom for mod points.