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  1. Re:Bad title wording! Bad, bad, bad title wording! on Mars Mission: How Hard? NASA Astronauts Weigh In · · Score: 0

    Yeah. They should have added one or more of the following:
    - How thick?
    - How heavy?
    - How long?
    - How large?
    - How much?

  2. Re:Who cares on Treefinder Revokes Software License For Users In Immigrant-Friendly Nations · · Score: 1

    It was broad daylight, dude. It was not "against the wall". It was not while intoxicated. It was flat out casually pissing in the middle of the street.
    I fucking hate it when people yell "RACIST!!!111" when you happen to notice a fact. Dude was from the Far East. It's a bloody FACT. Racism is when you say "ALL are doing the same". I didn't. I said that when a foreigner does it, authorities tend to be more lenient. maybe out of fear of retards like you who yell RACISM for no reason, just because.

  3. Re:Online retailers on Will 'Chip and Pin' Credit Card Technology Really Increase Security? (Video) · · Score: 1

    In Europe, cards also have a CVV2 (or CIC, CID, CSC, CVC2, might be named differently in other countries).
    That's what you use to pay online.
    Example: https://www.coastpavementservi...

  4. Re:Who cares on Treefinder Revokes Software License For Users In Immigrant-Friendly Nations · · Score: 1

    No it's not similar, not at all.
    Swedish people let a caught gypsy thief go because they thought it would be unjust to send a "poor soul" to jail, they thought he was just hungry and poor. Back home, he had a mansion. There's a documentary TV series about how our gypsies live in the Northern European countries, this was one of the stories they covered.

    I assume that thief would have spent deserved time in jail were he been caught in the USA.

  5. Re:Who cares on Treefinder Revokes Software License For Users In Immigrant-Friendly Nations · · Score: 1

    Nope, it would not concern me. I would be dead, most likely.
    Jesting aside, I am aware that my children will live their adult life in a changed world. I don't know if it would be changed for the better or worse, "always in motion, the future is". A quarter of a century ago, my country was similar in all aspects to today's North Korea. Today, it feels like a free-for-all, eat or be eaten tournament. Tomorrow, it could be today's Syria or a very developed country (the potential is there, it's just not tapped efficiently).

    Skin color means almost absolutely nothing to me. No more than hair length or eye color.

  6. Re:Who cares on Treefinder Revokes Software License For Users In Immigrant-Friendly Nations · · Score: 1

    Hi, Jobb! Ran out of medication, have we?

  7. Re:Who cares on Treefinder Revokes Software License For Users In Immigrant-Friendly Nations · · Score: 1

    I'm from an Eastern European country. Easy on the assumptions, you might end up building a case on something that's incorrect.
    Now that that's out of the way... Yes, the multiculti has failed in the UK, Germany, France and probably other countries as well. It failed because it was way more permissive than the American "melting pot". The American melting pot basically states that you can keep your original culture as long as it doesn't trample local culture. Rough example: it's okay to wear a long beard and eat kosher, it's not okay to keep wives as slaves and shit on the street. On the other hand, the European multiculti tends to turn a blind eye on keeping wives as slaves and even shitting on the street (I personally witnessed peeing in the middle of the sidewalk by a foreigner from the Far East), as well as other habits/actions that trample local culture.

    What I did was simply state some facts: the dude is still a drama queen (based on his actions) and a racist asshole (has extremist views). I'm seeing many people with such views, and most of them are ill-informed, with a couple just being racist and shutting down in front of information that doesn't fit their rooted wacko ideas.

    Generally speaking, I'm looking at someone's behavior, instead of their skin color, clothing/haircut choice or spoken language. If the person behaves in accordance to common sense and is lawful, I don't care where they're from. if they behave like animals, they're animals to me. It's really as simple as that.

  8. Re:Who cares on Treefinder Revokes Software License For Users In Immigrant-Friendly Nations · · Score: 1

    I don't have Christian beliefs.

  9. Who cares on Treefinder Revokes Software License For Users In Immigrant-Friendly Nations · · Score: 5, Insightful

    From TFA it looks like Jobb is a racist asshole and his Treefinder software is outdated and has plenty alternatives.
    Looks like a drama queen thing.

  10. We wait! on Rogue Biohacking Is Not a Problem · · Score: 1

    The White Plague (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Plague) stays in the Sci Fi realm for now.

  11. Data? Statistics? on (Over-)Measuring the Working Man · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Now wait a second. Management, generally speaking, doesn't understand data. They like to look at a nice Powerpoint slide with people ranked from best to worst. this means that all measures taken relative to workers' productivity get aggregated/coalesced into one, which will most likely be skewed because the aggregation algorithm would never take all variables into consideration.
    Management won't look at 15 metrics per worker and try to understand the data; they want one value and that's it. Not good.

    Consider journalism. You have Worker A and Worker B. You give A an assignment about work effectiveness evolution through history, and B gets to write about Kim Kardashian's choice of panties colors. A writes a 5000 word article, well documented, with references and shit, with a serious title. B writes a 300 word article filled with generic panties pictures with a clickbait title. A gets 300 views, B gets 5 million views. The algorithm generates a value based on efficiency and ROI, and A gets a score of 5/100 while B gets a score of 100/100. You look at the values, fire A and promote B.

    Now you know why most articles out there are about Kim Kardashian and panties. Incidentally, you know why automatically measuring productivity can go tits up very quickly.

  12. Re:Technical stuff. Read if you want real info. on Ditch Linux For Windows 10 On Your Raspberry Pi With Microsoft's IoT Kit · · Score: -1, Troll

    Your post is unpopular on this website. You will be punished.

  13. Re:Avoid the Microsoft tax! on Ditch Linux For Windows 10 On Your Raspberry Pi With Microsoft's IoT Kit · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you're willing to code a lot, you can build your own OS.

  14. Re:The Volkswagen scandal is a good thing on How the Car Industry Has Hidden Its Software Behind the DMCA · · Score: 1

    EULAs have been proven unenforceable time and time again. If you put a sign on the front of your business that says "if you hurt yourself while on our premises, it is not our fault", you can be sure the first idiot that stubs his toe is going to sue you. And even if they don't win its going to be expensive for the business.

    In the States, probably.
    In my country, nobody would give a fuck. Such a sign is legally-binding.

  15. Download link on Fable Legends DX12 Benchmark Stressing High End GPUs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ok, I'm stupid.
    Now that we got this out of the way...
    Where the hell can I get a download link?
    TFS doesn't have it.
    TFA doesn't have it.
    A quick search online found... nothing. Only benchmark results. Clearly I am missing something.

  16. Re:$949/week? on Girls-Only Computer Camps Formed At Behest of Top Google, Facebook Execs · · Score: 1

    There is no "all boys" CS camp, so not equal.

  17. Re:Darwinism: After RTFA, I say let'em do it on Selfies Kill More People Than Shark Attacks · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the count includes that Romanian guy who fell off a mountain clip while trying to take a selfie and died. It happened about two weeks ago.
    Earlier this summer, a Romanian woman was swept away by sea waves while taking a selfie as well.

    Probably that count is severely underestimated.

  18. Re:Not tachyons? on Scientists Propose Using Fast Radio Bursts To Chart Universe In 3D · · Score: 1

    I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

  19. Re:I swear... on Girls-Only Computer Camps Formed At Behest of Top Google, Facebook Execs · · Score: 1

    It's just that there are some things that are easier discussed in a room that is mostly black.

    Such as?
    I really can't think of any, and being from a continent and country where there's very few black people around, I can't ask around.
    I would really appreciate if you elaborated on your thought - for my knowledge.

  20. Which is fine.
    What we're looking at is a dilution of the meaning of "geek".

  21. So... fight discrimination through positive discrimination?
    Fight fire with fire, CS edition.

  22. Re:$949/week? on Girls-Only Computer Camps Formed At Behest of Top Google, Facebook Execs · · Score: 1

    Two words: "Positive Discrimination".

  23. Re: When Does Software Start Becoming Malware? on When Does Software Start Becoming Malware? · · Score: 1

    How do you determine whether the author KNEW the code was buggy?

  24. Re:For how long are we "advanced" enough on Advanced Civilizations Probably Don't Exist In Our Galactic Neighborhood · · Score: 1

    Power required for transmitting the stuff?

  25. Re:When you didn't ask to install it. on When Does Software Start Becoming Malware? · · Score: 1

    NSA would argue that spying on people is not against their best interests.
    In a nutshell: depends who you're asking :)