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  1. Trantor on Spitzer Space Telescope Finds New Planet · · Score: 1

    I just want to find Trantor, so I can get home.

  2. Mormonism on Kolab Summit 2015 Announced · · Score: 2

    I thought it was a conference on Mormonism for a moment.

  3. Re:Good method for improving on The Programmers Who Want To Get Rid of Software Estimates · · Score: 2

    This is a very insightful post —the original poster was asinine to even suggest that we need to get rid of them. For "software engineering" to grow up, we need more accurate means of pricing projects — otherwise you have no business.

  4. Re:Pointless on Removing Libsystemd0 From a Live-running Debian System · · Score: 2

    A thousand yeses could not match the rightfulness of this post.

  5. What are the practical results of this? on FCC Officially Approves Change In the Definition of Broadband · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What are the practical results of this?

  6. Re:Infamous Tor Network? on 'Silk Road Reloaded' Launches On a Network More Secret Than Tor · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How would you do a traffic study on a network that is encrypted or otherwise as private as it is?

  7. Cross State Lines on Tesla vs. Car Dealers: the Lobbyist Went Down To Georgia · · Score: 1

    Isn't this sales over state lines, which should be federal.

  8. You mean? on Big Names Dominate Open Source Funding · · Score: 2

    You mean to say that the people with the most money are the ones donating the most to fund open source development?

  9. Re:Functional as in C on Anthropomorphism and Object Oriented Programming · · Score: 1

    I believe you want this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  10. Re:Staples outsourcing prime factor in PCI breache on Staples: Breach May Have Affected 1.16 Million Customers' Cards · · Score: 1

    Can this include some criminal liability? Jail perhaps for a CEO or CIO?

  11. Re:Suing over something that can easily be changed on Comcast Sued For Turning Home Wi-Fi Routers Into Public Hotspots · · Score: 1

    Do some painting... http://www.lessemf.com/paint.h...

  12. Credit Cards? on European Parliament Considers Sharing Passenger Information By Default · · Score: 1

    A lot of that information seems reasonable if you want to know who is crossing into and out of your border. But why credit cards?

  13. Re:I guess they missed the first step of engineeri on Codecademy's ReSkillUSA: Gestation Period For New Developers Is 3 Months · · Score: 1

    I doubt they would last through the interview. I do like the system they have of video / guided code editing for learning. But to extend that beyond initial learning is way too far.

  14. Re:Low pay? on Fortune.com: Blame Tech Diversity On Culture, Not Pipeline · · Score: 2
  15. Re:Buy low, sell high on Mystery Gamer Makes Millions Moving Markets In Japan · · Score: 1

    or Sell Short, Buy Low

  16. Re:Standing on the Shoulders of Giants on Mangalyaan Successfully Put Into Mars Orbit · · Score: 1

    What you say makes perfect plausible sense. I would even give them the double credit, if nothing else for doing it on that budget.

  17. Standing on the Shoulders of Giants on Mangalyaan Successfully Put Into Mars Orbit · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Could it be they succeeded in part because much of the previous experience? Either way, great job doing it on their first attempt and cheapest.

  18. Re: Great idea! on School Installs Biometric Fingerprint System For Cafeteria · · Score: 1

    Let's put a tattoo on their wrist. That could work...

  19. Punitive Damages? on Silicon Valley Fights Order To Pay Bigger Settlement In Tech Talent Hiring Case · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How about the amount of money they didn't have to pay their employees times 2 or 3?

  20. Re:Selling Free Software on Microsoft's Windows 8 App Store Is Full of Scamware · · Score: 1

    AAC and A52 can be troublesome if you are in the United States. But I kid you not that if you change your time zone to a place in Canada, it magically works. If you do a search you will see some posts about this.

  21. Re:Selling Free Software on Microsoft's Windows 8 App Store Is Full of Scamware · · Score: 2

    For your amusement: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/ap...

  22. OR better... on ICANN Offers Fix For Domain Name Collisions · · Score: 4, Insightful

    OR better — they can shove the new TLDs so far up their ass that they choke on them.

  23. Re: question: does IE support adblock and noscript on Microsoft Considered Renaming Internet Explorer To Escape Its Reputation · · Score: 2

    As a web developer, you might target the W3C specifications, but you don't test against them. You would test on a number of browsers. Unless you don't do tests... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  24. Re:A complaint on Cisco To Slash Up To 6,000 Jobs -- 8% of Its Workforce -- In "Reorganization" · · Score: 1

    In fairness, that 'java guy' has to close it too. The difference is that most Java IDEs will tell you in a warning about it. That is why we have try (Resource r = ...) { .. } style now, where r must be 'autoclosable'.

  25. Re:While Buying Back $1.5 Billion In Stock on Cisco To Slash Up To 6,000 Jobs -- 8% of Its Workforce -- In "Reorganization" · · Score: 1

    But the concept of broadening the tax base is great from a government perspective. The broadening at this point would be better understood as diversifying sources of taxes — so that interruptions in any one area do not affect the whole (unless it is a systematic decline, like a recession).