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  1. Re:Shame it doesn't mention the engineers name on Researchers Restore the First Recording of Computer-Generated Music (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Cue hordes of anti-SJWs insisting that there is no pay gap because if there was, companies would be trying to get more women into STEM.

    Considering that a lot of those programs are backed by corporations, I'd guess you're onto something...

  2. Re:The Internet on Julian Assange: All That Malware On Wikileaks Isn't a Big Deal (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    So? I have long ago ceased to care for such announcements and just wait for the actual news to hit the floor.

  3. Re: India is number 4? on India Ratifies The Paris Climate Change Agreement (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Cars also get heavier and heavier with all the "must have" gadgets, and of course with all the safety features. It's actually surprising that the average middle class car today weighs about a metric tonne.

    And yes, efficiency is of course increasing. But at the same time people want cars with more comfort and more power. Sadly efficiency still isn't one of the main sellers, what people "feel" when they take a car for a test drive is its power and comfort, its design and the gimmicks. Who cares about mileage if fuel is a buck a gallon?

  4. Re:Shame it doesn't mention the engineers name on Researchers Restore the First Recording of Computer-Generated Music (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    And how are we going to change this by forcing women into STEM fields?

  5. Re:Shame it doesn't mention the engineers name on Researchers Restore the First Recording of Computer-Generated Music (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Ok, I'm apparently very dense and stupid, because I fail to see something as "obvious". It must be obviously obvious, if you have to mention it being obvious so many times.

  6. Re:Shame it doesn't mention the engineers name on Researchers Restore the First Recording of Computer-Generated Music (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Are you saying all women are by definition so insecure that they succumb to any and all peer pressure?

  7. Re:Democrat misinformation on Julian Assange: All That Malware On Wikileaks Isn't a Big Deal (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm fairly sure the average spamfilter can at least determine what is certainly NOT newsworthy.

  8. Re:Most Important Question on Julian Assange: All That Malware On Wikileaks Isn't a Big Deal (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    No. For an obvious reason. If he could somehow even remotely prove he is, the whole charade about him hiding in that embassy would be over and he could travel about and be the flamboyant self-promoting narcissist that he is.

  9. Re:Kremlin shill on Julian Assange: All That Malware On Wikileaks Isn't a Big Deal (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The idea that he doesn't care for either side and only cares about his own well being is impossible? Really?

    Personally, that's what I'd assume first.

  10. Re:The Internet on Julian Assange: All That Malware On Wikileaks Isn't a Big Deal (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Most likely he just doesn't have any stuff on Trump. What should he do, step in front of cameras and declare boldly that he doesn't have jack shit about Trump?

    Assange is a sales man. He knows how to sell what he has. But even he knows he can't sell what he doesn't.

  11. Re:The Internet on Julian Assange: All That Malware On Wikileaks Isn't a Big Deal (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Could we let him leak before we decide about its quality? Personally, I'm waiting. Not holding my breath, but if he delivers, let's judge it. If he doesn't, well, meh.

  12. Re:Democrat misinformation on Julian Assange: All That Malware On Wikileaks Isn't a Big Deal (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    So you have to shovel a buttload of spam and rubbish to sieve out a valuable gem?

    Sounds like a job for a spamfilter.

  13. Well, for one a cell would not suddenly explode if it got too much energy. Neither would a cell be stupid enough to disable any and all ways to repair itself.

  14. Re:Even under the assumption it's real on No One's Bidding on The Shadow Brokers' Stolen NSA Hacking Tools (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Them posting in a faux Borat-speak also does not really increase their credibility.

  15. Re: India is number 4? on India Ratifies The Paris Climate Change Agreement (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Someone has to, but that someone in turn will not sell his car like he used to because it will have to last him another year or two since yes, he would want to buy the latest model but he, too, cannot afford it. The "trickle down" theory works both ways. Or rather, it doesn't work in either way...

    And insulating your home still means that you have to be able to do it yourself or even, depending on where you live, be allowed to do it yourself. The latter especially if you plan to be able to sell your house at some point in the future.

  16. Re:In some ways on Vint Cerf Warns About the Perishability Of Human Knowledge (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Mmm.... more like the inventory list of a supermarket.

  17. Re:Shame it doesn't mention the engineers name on Researchers Restore the First Recording of Computer-Generated Music (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    Put it on the label pile back there, I think there's still some room next to the "pinko commie" and "fascist" ones.

  18. Re:Shame it doesn't mention the engineers name on Researchers Restore the First Recording of Computer-Generated Music (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Yes, there's a lot of social pressure out there that tells women that they make great doctors and pharma researchers.

  19. Re:Shame it doesn't mention the engineers name on Researchers Restore the First Recording of Computer-Generated Music (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    I have no idea. To keep SJWs occupied with something so they think they're relevant?

  20. Re:Just let it fold and be done with it on 4chan Is Running Out of Money and Martin Shkreli Wants To Buy It (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Erh... context?

  21. Re: Sigh not more of this bullshit on Samsung's Next Flagship Smartphone May Not Feature a Headphone Jack (sammobile.com) · · Score: 1

    SSRIs and NDRIs don't do jack shit in my system. I could eat them like candy and there has been exactly zero effect. Apparently my body does not produce serotonin and norepinephrine in quantities where reducing the reuptake would have any sensible effect.

    But pump that stuff in and ... surprise!

  22. Re: Sigh not more of this bullshit on Samsung's Next Flagship Smartphone May Not Feature a Headphone Jack (sammobile.com) · · Score: 1

    Screw SSRIs, SSRAs is where the joy is!

  23. Re:Luckily for us.... on Researchers Restore the First Recording of Computer-Generated Music (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Even more lucky, they didn't bother to burden it with DRM that we'd first of all have to hack to hear it because there is no player in existence anymore, only to be arrested right afterwards.

  24. Re:Shame it doesn't mention the engineers name on Researchers Restore the First Recording of Computer-Generated Music (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    I have no idea where that notion comes from, I don't know anyone who keeps women out of computing. They are not very numerous, yes, but my guess would be that they're over at the biology, medicine, architecture and pharmatech fields where you have a lot of women and a decreasing number of male students.

    Guess what: People study what they're interested in. Who would have thought.

  25. In the veterinary sense, I guess?