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  1. Re:Coincidentally... on Most Doctors Work While Sick, Despite Knowing It's Bad For Patients · · Score: 1

    Where do you think the doctor contracted the thing(s) making them sick?
    How many of us work in an environment full of sick people?

  2. No matter the sincerity, or lack of it, from the "current administration" or any previous one, when negotiations are on-going with an entity that believes it holds all the cards (yet needs finds itself 'negotiating'), it will demand no concessions and maintain a hard line while implying that some kind of compromise is possible. Germany and Greece.

  3. a basic working Python currency? on How Much Python Do You Need To Know To Be Useful? · · Score: 1

    I'd say "not dead yet", "the lumberjack song", "spam", "Torremolinos!", and a couple movies.

  4. Re:Okay... on D.C. Police Detonate Man's 'Suspicious' Pressure Cooker · · Score: 1

    The kettle was arrested and exploded for cooking while black.

  5. Re:Only Two Futures? on The Demographic Future of America's Political Parties · · Score: 1

    Actually we need do to reset the upper tax rate to 90%, graduated and of course adjusted for inflation. Back when this was the case large incomes actually paid around 50% tax after deductions and credits, while today they are well under 20%. And they make the vast majority of the income and should pay the majority source of the income tax.

    The Republican party has problems finding voters to support policies that benefit just .01% of current citizens. Fear-mongering and extremism is feeding on itself so that its "leaders" argue against each other about who is more authentically extreme, making it difficult or impossible to move to the middle and appeal to more voters. Its "leaders" are paid/financed by the .01% to espouse radical right-leaning ideas in public forums so that uninformed voters might find them attractive. Seems like that snake has finally ate itself.

  6. Re:Fast track on University Overrules Professor Who Failed Entire Management Class · · Score: 1

    If the professor has issues, they are issues with setting limits and issuing consequences.
    No student who swore at the professor or disrespected him in class should have been allowed to continue, they should have been thrown out on the spot and possibly readmitted pending appeal and review. If they threatened him he should have called security.
    And the same goes for cheating - he should have terminated anyone's right to continue in the class as soon as he had evidence that they cheated.
    Perhaps the situation was not so clear cut, that it was not obvious who was cheating or who was disrespecting, but if so I'd like to hear it.
    It looks like he missed several opportunities to put management techniques into practice.

  7. Re:They don't know who Snowden is on Except For Millennials, Most Americans Dislike Snowden · · Score: 1

    I saw that John Oliver show, and I can't agree that "most people think Snowden is Assange". However, it sure seemed, from their impromptu sampling of people in the street somewhere, that most people they talked to had either no idea or a very inaccurate idea of who Snowden was and what he did.
    If in fact most people don't like Snowden, and most people also don't really know what he did, then maybe it's just an issue of getting proper information.

  8. There is no isolation problem anymore on Road To Mars: Solving the Isolation Problem · · Score: 1

    The problem now is how to provide sufficient bandwidth so that tablets and phones can be used indefinitely as a distraction. Think of a trip to Mars as just a really long line to wait in.

  9. Re:Oh good.... on The X-Files To Return · · Score: 2

    They are 20 years older now and middle managers. Instead of tracking down actual abnormalities themselves, they spend their days in meetings wondering which of their other co-workers are aliens or supernatural.

  10. Re:Co2 AND O2 Displacement on How To Execute People In the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    Apparently you haven't been around enough mentally ill or socially defective people - they aren't deterred by it (painful death), may even see it as a challenge.

  11. Re:Three easy methods on How To Execute People In the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    Agree. I can't understand how Oregon allows a doctor to write a prescription for something that will kill you, yet some state can't obtain drugs to execute people. Which is fine by me, since I don't think they should be executing anyone anyhow.
    And as you said sufficient morphine, or propofol, or other strong narcotics will kill you, and that stuff is available from any pharmacy supplier. Perhaps their ethics prevents them from supplying executioners.

  12. Obligatory joke,,, on Prison Program Aims To Turn Criminals Into Coders · · Score: 2

    ...about capitalism doing it the other way around.

  13. Dog 2.0... on Dog Sniffs Out Cancer In Human Urine · · Score: 1

    .... cures it.

  14. Re:Right now I am thinking... on NBC Thinks Connected Gloves and "Bullet Time" Can Make Boxing Cool · · Score: 1

    When will we see real-time brain injury analysis like "Wow Bob, that left hook to the face just left him with a level 6 concussive trauma that will mean severe aphasia in 12 years - he won't be able to say ****."

  15. Re:Communism doesn't work for humans. on Apple Hiring Automotive Experts · · Score: 2

    Fantasy, unless it's well and thoroughly regulated. Capitalism when free incentivizes monopolization and centralization of power and eliminates competition. Seems like everything else does too. We're doomed.

  16. Re:It's what you do with it on EFF: Hundreds of S. Carolina Prisoners Sent To Solitary For Social Media Use · · Score: 1

    Don't running gangs and smuggling phones have their own penalties? Does it matter (illegal activity) if it's done via FB, or via carrier pigeon, or via verbal whispering? It's the illegal activity that should be being prosecuted, not the online access. And doing it online just provides a neat "paper" trail - ask your friends in Utah for a dump of every I/O from your devices.

  17. Re:Stronger regs ? Try a better radar on White House Drone Incident Exposes Key Security Gap · · Score: 1

    Macro-object anti-virus protection in 3 dimensions. Develop macrophages that identify, target, and dispose of invading objects with little to no collateral damage to surrounding areas (residential, for example), little to no disturbance to the area on an on-going basis. Not just for the White House, but for lots of other attractive targets (industry centers, nuke plants, famous attractions, etc.) A new industry becomes public as well as a new operational environment we'll all be getting used to.
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  18. Re:Obvious work is obvious on Scientists Slow the Speed of Light · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, this is progress! One way to travel at the speed of light is to slow down that speed.

  19. Vote on the negative on US Senate Set To Vote On Whether Climate Change Is a Hoax · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wish the vote were worded "Is the denial of climate change a hoax?"

  20. Re:Bells, horns, skates, mowers, pogo sticks on Ask Slashdot: Sounds We Don't Hear Any More? · · Score: 1

    I have and use a manual lawn mower. They're still made and you can buy one at a big-box hardware store.

  21. Re:I hope they will come at you next ! on Gunmen Kill 12, Wound 7 At French Magazine HQ · · Score: 1

    Murderers are responsible for their murders.

    Philosophers are responsible for their philosophy.

  22. Re: Bombs in the US? on The Interview Bombs In US, Kills In China, Threatens N. Korea · · Score: 1

    >>That is the dumbest thing I read all morning

    Then get hold of some of the script for this movie, your superlatives are about to be reset.
    Can't say I didn't laugh, but I felt I was watching The Two Stooges Play James Bond in North Korea.

  23. Re:Please don't on Ask Slashdot: How Should a Liberal Arts Major Get Into STEM? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Speaking of debts, after you find the STEM topic that interests you most (motivation should be key to choosing what to study), and identify the kind of program you want to apply for, get as much of the requirements done at inexpensive community college or other local institutions with transferrable credits. A few years ago my local community college offered classes at $70 a credit or less - books often cost more. To me that's almost free.
    And vote to elect people who will fight for less profits made off student loans, and even for more subsidies for eduction.

  24. Re:Hard to say on Facebook Founder Presents Vision For The New Republic, Many Resign In Protest · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hard to believe 20% of the staff, including some senior writers, would all quit as an overreaction to some email. But as you say we don't know the details.
    Imagine working for years at a small well-regarded tech company (assuming you're more familiar with tech companies) with 56 employees that gets bought out. What kind of actions would cause 12 of your long time valued employees to up and quit?

  25. Re: Is it still October 9? on Health Advisor: Ebola Still Spreading, Worst Outbreak We've Ever Seen · · Score: 1

    Anyone aware of a site publishing current and accurate infection rate info?