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  1. Re: News? on The Programming Talent Myth · · Score: 1

    I dont think that view is exclusive to programmers, it could probably apply to any skilled labor profession.

  2. Re: News? on The Programming Talent Myth · · Score: 1

    I expect the next one to be on the "?" Shape of myths.

  3. Re: FFS on Reactions to the New MacBook and Apple Watch · · Score: 1

    Ethernet is also one of the first to get tripped over and be violently mangled leaving a permanent sadness scar on the side of the laptop.
    In that vein, i am more concerned of the non-magnetic connector.

  4. Re: illogical captain on Why Atheists Need Captain Kirk · · Score: 1

    Summary:
    The frustration is that science is about as emotional as alphabetic order, but like Kirk the author is going to try to have sex with it anyway, then watch it cry with regret.

  5. Re:re I don't care on Microsoft Defies Court Order, Will Not Give Emails To US Government · · Score: 1

    The motives of MS are fairly clear, they want it to be ordered with no options before they give up. But in the same vein of "it does not matter who said it, as long as it rings true", I see this as a good and true test of the long arm of federal data interrogation.
    Does it really matter why? Their are not that many companies that can do this in a meaningful way. The fact that its Microsoft should not change the result that its being done. I have no particular love for them, but I do applaud them for making this public and tang the stand - even though it probably took thousands of man hours running hundreds of scenarios to come to this conclusion. An entity should be judged by their actions. They seem to be doing this.
    At the same time, I would take this as evidence that MS is starting to see themselves as an underdog in the tech industry. They might not be wrong.

  6. Re:Not in this instance on Choose Your Side On the Linux Divide · · Score: 1

    GNU/Linux is still pretty irrelevant outside of cheap servers...

    I am curious, what do the expensive servers run?

  7. Re: I hope not on If Java Wasn't Cool 10 Years Ago, What About Now? · · Score: 1

    Seconded on the grounds that there are 'worse' languages. Though usually I see Java as the example.

  8. Sounds profitable on Study: Ad-Free Internet Would Cost Everyone $230-a-Year · · Score: 1

    This is an odd way to look at who is paying for an ad-full internet. We are already paying for the ads, saying that in some way it would cost us that much to get rid of them is gibberish. The study would have been great if it weren't for the twisted logic applied to it.

  9. Re: American car companies... on Microsoft Considered Renaming Internet Explorer To Escape Its Reputation · · Score: 1

    Yes. Drivers should be calm when driving a car that can go off for like, no reason.

  10. Re: We only use JS now? on The Technologies Changing What It Means To Be a Programmer · · Score: 1

    Depends, how long did you spend on the assembly language?

  11. Re: Yes you do. on Geneticists Decry Book On Race and Evolution · · Score: 1

    The fact that a theory is racist does not make it untrue. The part where the author had to resort to purposefully misrepresenting the research to prop up his racist conjecture makes it untrue. I would think that's the majority of the researchers issues. Or do you suspect the researchers would have been OK with misrepresenting their research if it was used to support something like alternative fuels? Basically an ends justifies the means bit...

  12. Re:Great step! on Google Will Give a Search Edge To Websites That Use Encryption · · Score: 1

    In terms of their mission, they do a lot of things to "promote a healthy internet". Suggesting that two equal websites and the one that uses SSL gets higher ranking would fall under "healthy".

  13. Re:Monopoly Claims Are Only A Cover Story on Chinese Government Probes Microsoft For Breaches of Monopoly Law · · Score: 1

    In my experience, one should always read the tea leaves or die. The more someone has to lose the better the intelligence gathering should be. As big as Microsofts interests are in China, Microsoft should have had fair warning that this was to happen. Hardly anything is really a secret. To me, the lose proposition is that they did not seem fit to do anything about it before it happened.

    And yes, I am aware of all the complications of doing the job. Thats what makes it special. And inexcusable for Microsoft. Keep doing more of that, keep losing.

  14. Trained to be clickers on The Psychology of Phishing · · Score: 1

    Trained to click on shit by bad interface design. It might have been a different story if UI designers didn't think every simple little thing demanded the users exclusive attention and acknowledgment right now.

  15. Re:Why did they release Windows RT? on Microsoft's CEO Says He Wants to Unify Windows · · Score: 1

    They did it to hit the price point. No one asked for windows on ARM. Wait, was one of you guys trolling Microsoft again?

  16. Re:It's the chemicals.. on Even In Digital Photography Age, High Schoolers Still Flock To the Darkroom · · Score: 2

    He huffed, but he didn't inhale.

  17. Re: Python on Ask Slashdot: Best Rapid Development Language To Learn Today? · · Score: 1

    I think you meant Perl. Python is for something else.

  18. Re: Python on Ask Slashdot: Best Rapid Development Language To Learn Today? · · Score: 1

    "Have to" is pretty strong wording considering you must do nothing of the sort.

  19. They need a better market research dept. on 3D Bioprinters Could Make Enhanced, Electricity-Generating 'Superorgans' · · Score: 1

    If they really knew what they were trying to build it would be a multiply redundant liver with wireless charging pad.

  20. Snowden is misinformed on Snowden Rallies Privacy Advocates In New York City · · Score: 1

    With 4.3 million personnel, the federal government licks its genitals pretty much all the time.

  21. Wannabes on Should Everybody Learn To Code? · · Score: 1

    I too get annoyed at virtuosos trying to play the violin without the proper Fortran running through their head.

  22. Its to be bloodshed then on Wikimedia Community Debates H.264 Support On Wikipedia Sites. · · Score: 1

    Let the contributor opt in/out.
    Or doesn't anyone do compromise anymore?

    --dant

  23. Re: What controls the ceiling of the energy output on Fusion Reactor Breaks Even · · Score: 1

    Reference to E=mc^2 is a truism and largely irrelevant. Every energy-producing reaction loses mass. Yes, even the chemical ones.

    What of burning magnesium?

  24. Re: Dupe on CNET: Feds Put Heat On Web Firms For Master Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    Freeze his account!
    But sir, we don't have his PIN number...

  25. Re: The problem is that you see different ones spe on 802.11ac: Better Coverage, But Won't Hit Advertised Speeds · · Score: 2

    So to clear up the confusion 802.11n rate specification should be "180mbps unless its higher, up to 300 or less".