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  1. I support the non-bringing on board of sexual harassers.

    Problem is, you can't tell whether someone's a harasser by looking at him, and he's certainly not going to tell you. Companies are going to try to eliminate the problem the easy way.

  2. Muslims are certainly a minority in the US, as well as in the world as a whole (they come in at #2 with about 22%; Christianity is #1, and they're still only about a third.) In Saudi Arabia, not so much, but I don't think you were thinking about that.

  3. No one expects the Robot Inquisition!

  4. Re:Very easy. on Facebook Really Wants You To Come Back (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Stupid word wrap.

    :0
    * @facebook.com
    /dev/null

  5. Re:Very easy. on Facebook Really Wants You To Come Back (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean: :0
    * @facebook.com /dev/null

  6. More reasons... on Facebook Really Wants You To Come Back (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    ...why I will never, ever have a Facebook account.

  7. Re:DontBeAMoran = fake name massive human fail on Apple: We Would Never Degrade the iPhone Experience To Get Users To Buy New Phones · · Score: 1

    Rants about "UNIDENTIFIABLE FAKE NAME" of another user.

    Posts as Anonymous Coward.

    ?

  8. Re:And it was completely accurate on False Hawaii Missile Alert Sent After Drill Recording Said 'This Is Not A Drill' (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Drills are not meant to tell you how prepared you are for the real thing. They are there to prepare you for the real thing.

    Acutally, they're usually meant for both. And part of being prepared for the real thing is being rehearsed in reacting properly without warning, although it is true planned rehearsals are good for building proper muscle memory. So both announced and unannounced drills are useful.

  9. Re:Lorem Ipsum on AI May Have Finally Decoded the Mysterious 'Voynich Manuscript' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Lorem Ipsum is garbled text from Cicero; it was munged to produce the desired letter frequencies. It's pretty much gobbledygook.

  10. What is that? on Naked Mole Rats Defy Mortality Mathematics (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1
  11. Re:And it was completely accurate on False Hawaii Missile Alert Sent After Drill Recording Said 'This Is Not A Drill' (npr.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Depends on how serious you are about your drills. After all, the real thing isn't going to be scheduled a day in advance, so a drill that is doesn't really tell you how well prepared you are for the real thing.

  12. Re:This should lead to Fines for Intel on Intel Told Chinese Firms of Meltdown Flaws Before the US Government (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, on re-reading the Constitution, we can even possibly charge them with treason--while one clause on treason defineds it as adhering to our enemies, giving them aid and comfort, it's also defined as levying war against the United States, which launching a preemptive strike would definitely fall under, whether it involved a country we had declared war on or not.

  13. Re:This should lead to Fines for Intel on Intel Told Chinese Firms of Meltdown Flaws Before the US Government (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Your point about the lack of declarations of war is well taken (and is, iMHO, a problem that needs to be fixed, but that's another rant). So if a delcaration of war doesn't define a foreign country as an enemy, what does? What, specifically is the line we can draw that allows us to say, "This country is an enemy"?

    It is also pretty clear that "enemy" as written in the constitution isn't defined by the Congress declaring war or not.
    If it were then there would be no constitutional support for punishing Americans who conspire with enemies to launch a preemptive strike against the US.

    It's not all that clear to me.

    There's plenty of constitutional support for punishing conspiracies with countries we can't define as "enemy". We just can't constitutionally charge them with treason.

  14. teach Microsoft what "Out of Band" means? Hint--it doesn't mean "unscheduled."

  15. Supposedly it was US$100MM construction cost (which seems high; I would expect closer to $50MM)

    "MM"? They were paid in chocolate candy pieces?

  16. Re:The Absurdity Of Claiming To Be An Atheist on A 15-Year-Old Convinced Verizon He Was the Head of the CIA (newsweek.com) · · Score: 2

    Wow, that's a really long post for insisting you believe in magical invisible pink unicorns. What, you don't believe in magical invisible pink unicorns? But you have to! You can't prove they don't exist!

  17. Re: I'm shocked, shocked! on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That meme was funnier when it was cows.

    "An armed society is a society of cows"?

  18. Re:Arggghh! on Fantasy Fiction Novelist Ursula K. Le Guin Dies At 88 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    "For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after."

  19. Re:Why are the owners of the cars unknown? on The Mystery of the Cars Abandoned in a Robot Car Park (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you handle leans[sic] when you borrow money to buy a car?

    The title will state that the owner is the finance company, with you as the debtor in possession of the car. When you finish paying off the loan, the title will be re-issued in your name. I remember when I finished paying for my car and the bank sent me the title. The registration for the license plate will be in your name since it cares about who is in possession of the car, not who owns it.

  20. Re:Msmash's boner is used to cut off sick kids on Facebook VP Says Company Won't Use Experts To Fix Fake News Because It is Worried About Criticism (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    So then it would go to Ryan.

  21. Re:Msmash's boner is used to cut off sick kids on Facebook VP Says Company Won't Use Experts To Fix Fake News Because It is Worried About Criticism (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump might be impeached, but replaced by Hilary? No, that's not how this works. If Trump is removed from office, we get Pence--he's veep and next in the line of succession. If they get Pence as well (and I haven't heard of any proceedings against him) then it'd be Speaker of the House--that'd be Paul Ryan. And Orrin Hatch after that. Hillary, holding no office in the line of succession, isn't anywhere in there. In fact, the list I found goes 18 deep and there's not a single Democrat on it.

  22. That is not how bases work. So how do you count with this new system, where "1" is an irrational number (and so is 10, "3.18" is just an approximation. In fact, *every* integer is irrational!).

  23. In base pi

    How, exactly, do you base a digital number system on anything except a natural number greater than one?

  24. "Representation of real numbers accurate" on Has the Decades-Old Floating Point Error Problem Been Solved? (insidehpc.com) · · Score: 1

    "to the last digit." Cool. I'd like a representation of pi, please.

  25. Re:Actually indeed before ~1995 it was liveable on Apple and Google Are Rerouting Their Employee Buses as Attacks Resume (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    If your work is in Silicon Valley, that's likely to be difficult. Your employer may be willing to let you telecommute, but they're not likely to let you telecommute from Texas; they're going to expect you to come to the office once in a while.