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  1. Re:Review Ruby for the perl enthusiast please on Ruby 2.0.0 Released · · Score: 1

    For some reason, I always end up spending more time in debugging than in programming with Python. This could be because I don't use much of an IDE for Python (and there aren't very many compelling options...)

    You are doing it wrong. There is a first-class IDE for Python (I mean, really first-class, by all standards), PyCharm. Give it a try and see the your productivity go way up.

  2. Re:The BBC isn't state sponsored media? I must be on State Media Rushing Into Coverage Void Left By Dying Newspapers · · Score: 1

    I have no idea if they behave similarly with respect to the government that has power over them.

    Yes, they do behave similarly. I prefer not to watch what RT is reporting about Russia and, respectively, what Al Jazeera is reporting about Quatar's interest spots, such as Syria and Libya.

  3. Valve? on Unity 4 Adds Linux Support · · Score: 1

    It makes perfect sense for Valve to buy and opensource Unity to get more games for their upcoming Linux-based game console.

  4. Re:This is one area we've regressed. on FBI Wants To "Advance the Science of Interrogation" · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up.

  5. Re:Will it start a renaissance? on Will Kickstarter Launch a Gaming Renaissance? · · Score: 1

    They've eventually added GNU/Linux support!

  6. Re:Yes, this is what we need on Will Kickstarter Launch a Gaming Renaissance? · · Score: 1

    Oil running out, rampant corruption and government abuse in so-called "first world" countries, corporations buying the best laws they can, lobbyists, but what we really need is a *game* renaissance. No wonder the powers that be are not afraid, you're a bunch of children.

    Don't forget, that before the *game* renaissance, we've seen a *documentary* renaissance on Kickstarter. Hopefully, some of the people who got attracted to games on Kickstarter, will allso donate money to serious documentary movies about what's really going on in the world.

  7. Re:Nasa.gov website unavailable in Russia on Comet Lovejoy Plunges Into the Sun and Survives · · Score: 1
    Switching to Google Public DNS fixed the issue.

    Strangely enough, I'm unable to reach neither http://nasa.gov/ nor http://science.nasa.gov/. Other web sites and services are working perfectly well. Anyone experiencing the same issue? I'm using Corbina/Beeline, one of the largest internet providers in Moscow...

  8. Nasa.gov website unavailable in Russia on Comet Lovejoy Plunges Into the Sun and Survives · · Score: 1

    Strangely enough, I'm unable to reach neither http://nasa.gov/ nor http://science.nasa.gov/. Other web sites and services are working perfectly well. Anyone experiencing the same issue? I'm using Corbina/Beeline, one of the largest internet providers in Moscow...

  9. Re:detached robotic torture on Philosopher Patrick Lin On the Ethics of Military Robotics · · Score: 1

    This is a terrible (human) atrocity. This is humans renouncing their humanity, by trying to get as far as possible from the victims of their actions through robots and drones, thus avoiding the moral responsibility. Horror.

    Precisely what I've thought. The dream of any repressive government agency.

  10. Re:Have non-expert users run Testing, not Sid on 9 Features We May See In Ubuntu 11.10 · · Score: 2

    Parent might want to try aptosid.

  11. Re: Skynet on Quadruped CHEETAH Robot To Outrun Any Human · · Score: 1

    I've got exactly the same feelings. Technological advancements don't always assist social progress.

  12. Re:who? on Contents of Leaked HBGary Emails Reveal Wrongdoing · · Score: 1

    You mean all that social activism shit? I'd rather play CS than worry about some groups vendetta.

    "You may not be interested in politics, but, sooner or later, politics will be interested in you." -- Vladimir Lenin

    Life's too short

    Exactly! Too short to waste it on Slug.

  13. Re:Another sad day, now move on on Terrorists Bomb Moscow Airport · · Score: 1

    To your point, though, that's pretty much SOP anyway, bomb or no bomb. Second, the Russians are running out of civil liberties to take away. As the case of Khordovsky has shown, if they can't find a charge against you, they'll make one up. It's not as if freedom of the press (where press==television) is something that Russia encourages.

    I'm not going to argue with the fact that Russia has some great problems with civil liberties. But, just to be fair, Khodorkovsky is no different from the current ruling elite. He is just another mobster that wanted more power and got imprisoned by his colleagues. Western press made a ridiculous theater out of it, which is quite ironical.

  14. Re:Just a nitpick on HP CEO Resigns During Sexual Harassment Investigation · · Score: 1

    Yes, and we shouldn't forget that the chemistry has developed to very high level without any help of quantum mechanics. Even if quantum mechanics is playing core role in social development, it haven't to play core role in evolution of social sciences.

  15. Sad thing about social sciences on HP CEO Resigns During Sexual Harassment Investigation · · Score: 1
    is that the societies don't want educating them to bee good and objective, they want education to justify current political and economical systems.

    The soft sciences (whether or not they really are science) often do not use the scientific method and frequently are more opinion-based than anything.

    This is plainly not true. Social sciences actually use scientific metod, but education about them don't.

    It shouldn't take more than 2,500 years for them to catch up, though. Less, if they put in the fundamental research necessary.

    Research is literally already there, good books are already there. The problem is that the social sciences are really complex and hard to learn (I say that as a person who studied fundamental and applied maths) and good books about them are eclipsed by the pills of rubbish. For example, there is a great Russian social scientist, Yuriy Semenov, but you probably never heard about him even if you lived in Russia. And he is an Einstein of social sciences.