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  1. Re:Remember Hypatia on Woman Behind Pakistan's First Hackathon, Sabeen Mahmud, Shot Dead · · Score: 1
  2. Re:incorrect attribution on The Crazy-Tiny Next Generation of Computers · · Score: 1

    Thanks for pointing this out, that this seems to be mostly forgotten rubbed me the wrong way, too.

    Especially since Lem really gamed out how this will change warfare.

  3. Email anger management on Can Online Reporting System Help Prevent Sexual Assaults On Campus? · · Score: 1

    'We're all guilty of pressing send on an angry text or email that, had we had to put it into an actual letter and proofread, we probably wouldn't have sent,'

    Ah, lawyers, thinking since they represent the highest infallibility standard, they can speak for all humanity?

    Did you ever sent an inappropriately angry email or text? I don't recall that I ever had that problem.

  4. It's in really populous countries like India ... on India's Net Neutrality Campaign Picks Up Steam, Sites Withdraw From Internet.org · · Score: 1

    ... where this question will be decided. If the f***books of the world succeed there they will know they can get away with it, and will double down their efforts.

  5. Re:Turkey on Turkish Hackers Target Vatican Website After Pope's Genocide Comment · · Score: 1

    When moving up to Canada, Ontario to specific, I was surprised that this province hosts the most Native Americans up here, since in contrast there are hardly any on the East Coast and Mid-West in the US.

  6. Re:Either fast breeder or thorium on The Last Time Oceans Got This Acidic This Fast, 96% of Marine Life Went Extinct · · Score: 0

    It's really not all crackpotty. After all you can drive the reaction with a particle accelerator to create a non-critical reactor design, a design so flexible it can handle all sorts of nuclear fuel while also allowing for the transmutation of nuclear waste.

    From my point of view the latter is much more environmentally sound than to bury the crap.

  7. Re:Lies, bullshit, and more lies ... on With H-1B Cap Hit, Zuckerberg and Ballmer-Led Groups Press For More Tech Visas · · Score: 1

    A friend of mine who works in IT a the German Railways company (DB), tells me they are regularly scouting in Spain/Portugal where unemployment is high to convince talented IT folks to move up to Germany.

    So while there is a shortage of IT specialists in Germany this is too a large extent mitigated by inter-EU mobility.

  8. Re:Echo chamber on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Near Launching Presidential Bid · · Score: 1

    Your point is well taken, but then look at the other contenders in the Republican camp. If there's any group of people who can make Fiorina look good in comparison in must be Ted Cruz et al.

  9. Death by co-option on NY Times: "All the News That Mark Zuckerberg Sees Fit To Print"? · · Score: 1

    Newspaper execs have proven over and over again that they don't get the new digital media. If they sign up for this it'll be just more proof that they still don't get it. Further diminishing their own brand to prop up the declining Facebook one.

  10. Re:what will be more interesting on Jeremy Clarkson Dismissed From Top Gear · · Score: 4, Funny

    Have you ever watched it? It's like Monty Python with adult sized hot wheels.

  11. Re:Quantum Computing Required? on Steve Wozniak Now Afraid of AI Too, Just Like Elon Musk · · Score: 1

    Your priors need updating.

    After all you can buy a machine now that solves numerical problems with qubits (no transistors involved).

    The quantum speed-up evidence is still shaky, but this is not nothing, and the speed-up conjecture for the gate model is as ironclad as physics can make it, nor is there any reason to think it cannot be built. It's just much harder to scale up than quantum annealing.

  12. Shameless plug on Steve Wozniak Now Afraid of AI Too, Just Like Elon Musk · · Score: 1

    Now if only we could get Woz to invest in our QC start-up :-)

    We have QC AI patents for Bayesian learning on the gate model.

    Don't let AI fall to the irrational artificial neural net crowd. Bayesian learning is the only way to keep them sane!

  13. Re:It is surprising to me that this is news on Speaking a Second Language May Change How You See the World · · Score: 1

    Thanks for restoring my faith in humanities!

  14. It is surprising to me that this is news on Speaking a Second Language May Change How You See the World · · Score: 1

    Would have expected this to be already extensively studied. C'mon humanities there must be already some linguistic research on this?

    Being fluent in English and German I know exactly what this refers to, in fact it is so glaringly obvious that it simply must have been studied before now.

    The first time I really became aware of this is when doing product management in a role that required me to sometimes position products in English and sometimes German. I was startled how much easier marketing spin works in English.

  15. Re:Useless for budget scientific computing on NVIDIA's GeForce GTX TITAN X Becomes First 12GB Consumer Graphics Card · · Score: 1

    Glad to hear we have a taker who can make some use of them.

  16. Re:Useless for budget scientific computing on NVIDIA's GeForce GTX TITAN X Becomes First 12GB Consumer Graphics Card · · Score: 1

    True, when I wrote 'scientific computing' I meant fp64 numerical simulations. Data mining is filed under 'business intelligence' in my mind :-)

  17. Useless for budget scientific computing on NVIDIA's GeForce GTX TITAN X Becomes First 12GB Consumer Graphics Card · · Score: 1

    Which is really a shame, numerical simulations would easily make full use of the memory.

  18. Re: HOWTO on How To Execute People In the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    Release all the nonviolent offenders who received massive sentences due to the three-strike, and mandatory sentencing rules, and you have plenty of savings to offset the far smaller number of dangerous criminals.

    Many of them rot in prison for nothing else than selling pot.

    Per capita the US incarcerates more of it citizens than any other industrialized nation.

  19. Doesn't compute. on Steve Jobs's Big Miss: TV · · Score: 1, Insightful

    He was also CEO of Pixair and clearly got movies.

    Nowadays it's all about recreating movie atmosphere in your living room.

  20. Re:Then again ... on Homeopathy Turns Out To Be Useless For Treating Medical Conditions · · Score: 1

    Nope. It's very real and the neurological mechanism is indeed scrutinized in peer reviewed papers

    http://www.fuenterrebollo.com/...

    http://www.jneurosci.org/conte...

    http://www.ptsdforum.org/c/gal...

  21. Then again ... on Homeopathy Turns Out To Be Useless For Treating Medical Conditions · · Score: 1

    ... the placebo effect is real, and only works if people believe in the remedy.

  22. Re:Yes. What do you lose? But talk to lawyer first on Ask Slashdot: Should I Let My Kids Become American Citizens? · · Score: 1

    Minor tax issues?!

    You have to file income tax on both ends, your country of residence, and the US for the rest of your life. I hated that red tape.

    The US is the only country that takes the stance that all your world wide income no matter where it is generated has to be declared, and is going to be taxed by the IRS.

    Yes, there are double taxation agreements, but if you make a lot of money you are screwed.

    Many banks outside the US these days won't even service Americans because they have to report all account details to the IRS, an extra workload that they are not interested in taking on, especially since it exposes them legally to US laws.

    All of the above also applies to green card holders. Which is why I gave mine back. Not so easy to get out of citizenship. You have to pay hefty fines that seem to get hiked up regularly if you want to hand in your passport.

    Sorry folks, but your government seems to think it owns you.

  23. The US won against Germany and Japan while obeying the Geneva convention. Japan did expressly not, Germany at least to some extend.

    The US did not obey the Geneva convention at Abu Ghraib.

    Not playing by the rules worked out just swimmingly for you, didn't it?

    Now for the first time the US finally faces an enemy that really makes America good look in comparison. And they are also morons that can be easily defeated.

    But no ... for America's learning challenged winning the heart and minds is never an option, even in a beauty contest with barbarians from the 9th circle of hell.

  24. Re:not the first time on Photo First: Light Captured As Both Particle and Wave · · Score: 1

    True, the heuristic for quantum chemistry like DFT are pretty good but that only takes you so far. Statistical physics with the particle model is much easier but then you miss all the emergent phenomena of collective quantum dynamics like superconductivity.

    That's why I am excited about quantum computing. Recent research from the ETHZ group of Mathias Troyer have shown that quantum chemistry will already greatly benefit from even modest quantum computing resources (unlike Shor's algorithm which is pretty useless unless you are with the NSA).

  25. Colin Powell on Iraq in summer 2002 on ISIS Threatens Life of Twitter Founder After Thousands of Account Suspensions · · Score: 1

    .".. once you break it, you are going to own it."

    Well, you broke it and now the chickens are coming home to roost.

    Doesn't matter that the bleeding heart left just wants to be left alone, and the hard right just wants to blame Obama.

    The rest of the world doesnt give a f*** about these internal squabbles.

    The US broke it, you own it.

    It's not like you haven't been warned.