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  1. Re:LOL .. 0.9.0? on Bitcoin's Software Gets Security Fixes, New Features · · Score: 1

    That would be FireFox version number 28.0.0 and Chrome major version 33, minor version 0, patch level 1750, build 154.

    Or, don't you know how version numbers work?

  2. Re:LOL .. 0.9.0? on Bitcoin's Software Gets Security Fixes, New Features · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because it is generally accepted that the three digit version number system works as major.minor.patch_level. A 0 major version level means the software is still in beta and not fit for production use.

    Does that answer your question, Trolio?

  3. Re:Prison is more than punishment on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 1

    For the actual human therapist, the time would be much shorter and some of the therapy could be done through computers.

  4. Re:It will never fly in the US on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 1

    No one is being driven mad nor is anyone's "people's brains to make them docile servants of the state". Those are both false assumptions by you. You are engaging in straw man.

  5. Re:Prison is more than punishment on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 1

    How about a thousand years of therapy while confined?

  6. Re:It will never fly in the US on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 1

    While it might be unusual, how is it cruel? Also, with these drugs one could do a ten year sentence in one year.

  7. Re:More like the movie Demolition Man on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 1

    The shared dreaming technology of Inception has a time dilation component. I believe it is something around a factor of 12, though there is a factor of 20 also.

  8. Re:More like the movie Demolition Man on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 1

    What, exactly, were the unintended consequences of the confinement depicted in "Demolition Man"?

  9. Re: Ridiculous. on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 1, Insightful

    1000 years subject time, all spent strapped to a gurney and looking at the ceiling

    False assumptions on your part. One doesn't have to be strapped to a gurney for these drugs to be effective.

    submitting someone to 1000 years of that torture

    Confinement isn't torture.

    Apparently you need a course in reading comprehension.

  10. Re:Ridiculous. on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 1

    Confinement doesn't cause damage.

  11. Re:Why not take out Trademarks on $30K Worth of Multimeters Must Be Destroyed Because They're Yellow · · Score: 1

    All of Fluke's equipment uses the Yellow/Gray color scheme.

  12. Re:Get the EPA involved on $30K Worth of Multimeters Must Be Destroyed Because They're Yellow · · Score: 1

    I don't see how that would solve anything. It is Sparkfun's responsibility to destroy them in an environmentally friendly manner.

  13. Probably should ask where they can go on $30K Worth of Multimeters Must Be Destroyed Because They're Yellow · · Score: 1

    Instead of destroying them or sending them back to China, Sparkfun should have seen if they could send them to another country where Fluke doesn't hold the trademark. Forget China, try the Philippines or someplace in South America.

  14. Re:Damn, donate them already on $30K Worth of Multimeters Must Be Destroyed Because They're Yellow · · Score: 1

    The mulitmeters can't be brought into the country at all.

  15. Re:Did Fluke request this? on $30K Worth of Multimeters Must Be Destroyed Because They're Yellow · · Score: 1

    I think the OC is also new to trademarks. If one wants to maintain a trademark, one cannot allow anyone else to "dilute" it. That means one can't make a "one time exception" as it opens the door to other exceptions and soon one looses one's trademark.

  16. Re:"Changing how americans drive" on Lit Motors, Danny Kim, and Changing How Americans Drive · · Score: 2

    Reminds me of the Segway hype.

  17. Re:"It's just one line... it won't break anything" on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 0

    If you point a 10 shot revolver at your head and pull the trigger 10 times and 90% of the time it doesn't fire, you are still dead 10% of the time. Also, you are overgeneralizing, a common fallacy.

    And, yes, everyone lies, both to themselves and to others, most of the time.

  18. I know exactly what happened. on Prominent GitHub Engineer Julie Ann Horvath Quits Citing Harrassment · · Score: 5, Insightful
    This was because of the founder's wife and the founder believing what his wife tells him. This isn't about her being a woman, it is about her failure to see what was going on and the politics involved.

    the wife went on to claim that she was responsible for hires at GitHub, and asked Horvath to explain to her what she was working on. The wife also claimed to employ “spies” inside of GitHub, and claimed to be able to, again according to Horvath, read GitHub employees’ private chat-room logs, which only employees are supposed to have access to.

    This sounds like the founder's wife is a loose cannon with a her own little unofficial organization within the company. I have seen this before. This seems like the founder's wife was trying to recruit her into her network of spies.

    Horvath called the situation, aptly, “bananas.”

    Yeah, I can guess who the head banana is, the founder's wife

    In her email to TechCrunch, Horvath says she felt “confused and insulted to think that a woman who was not employed by my company was pulling the strings.” She also said she felt bullied by someone with perceived power and influence over her personal relationship and her career at GitHub.

    As anyone would be.

    Horvath then told her partner, also a GitHub employee, about what was happening. She warned him against being close to the founder and his wife, and asked him not to relay information to them.

    This was good idea.

    According to Horvath, her partner “agreed this was best.” He had talked with the founder’s wife, who agreed to give Horvath space.

    This is where things are going sideways and neither she nor her partner see what is going on. By Horvath's partner talking to the founder's wife, they both made it onto her enemy list and became targets.

    Instead of the issue blowing over, Horvath received a meeting request from HR at GitHub, and was asked to “relay the details of that personal conversation that took place out of the office.” Horvath recalls that she was “uncomfortable with this but complied to the best of my ability.” Her partner was also asked to relay past events.

    This is an indication that HR has been made aware of a situation and is investigating it. This was probably initiated by the founder's wife via the founder because of Horvath's partner.

    Radio silence ensued for a month, according to Horvath, while rumors cropped up that the founder was asking other employees about her, as well as her relationship with her partner. To Horvath, the silence made her think that she was “being bullied into leaving.”

    This is the investigation.

    At this point, Horvath said she began to feel threatened.

    Why exactly? Was it

    She said that having her personal relationship dragged into her work life and put on show for her coworkers didn’t sit well with her.

    That is always a danger when one dates or is married to a coworker. Or was it

    The aforementioned wife began a pattern of passive-aggressive behavior that included sitting close to Horvath to, as she told TechCrunch, “make a point of intimidating” her.

    Or was it something else? The fact that the founder's wife is sittng close to her raises the question of whether the founder's wife has an official capacity in the organization which would partially contradict what Horvath has said thus far.

    This stalemate ended when the founder asked to see her. Horvath said that she “wasn’t going to put myself in a position like that, so I required HR be present if we were to meet.” The meeting did not go well.

    If she thought it would, she was a fool

  19. Re:show me code thats not self-documenting on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 0

    I would paste some here, but the company I work for would probably fire me.

  20. Frameworks on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 0

    Everyone will use this new framework I wrote (even though it is a poor documented, non-intuitive replacement for the last framework I wrote that no one uses, both of which use a freely available, well understood, well documented API for all the heavy lifting which is what everyone IS using.)

  21. Re:Whoops... on Cameras On Cops: Coming To a Town Near You · · Score: 1

    And, how upset do you get when there is creative editing of "bystander" video when the unedited version of the footage comes out?

  22. Re:"It's just one line... it won't break anything" on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 1

    I say this line often, and I'm usually right.

    Every time you said it and it wasn't right, it was a lie you told yourself.

  23. Re:Some ones from our most recent project on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 1

    I think we work for the same company.

  24. Re:Commenting code on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 1

    I would prefer to do with nine irons instead.

  25. From the support perspective on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "I am logging what is needed to trouble shoot a problem."