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  1. Re:Yes. on Is Sexual Harassment Part of Hacker Culture? · · Score: 1

    There is already a policy. Don't be a dickhead. I would venture to say that most if not all red shirt goons would intervene if they saw some creep groping a woman against her will, with the consequences probably being removal from at least that year, if not forever.

    A good percentage of the red shirt goons are women as well. And most of them are women that you really wouldn't want to piss off.

  2. Re:Defcon isn't the problem Vegas is on Is Sexual Harassment Part of Hacker Culture? · · Score: 1

    The cards didn't work that way. If you showed a goon tits then they would punch your card (yeah even fat man tits, if they were a good sport). The goal of it was not for attendees to solicit tits from random women. Now I will grant that the goons giving these cards out did not explain how the "game" worked.

    As far as I know, having a fully punched card got you nothing. The whole thing was just a way for goons to get free beer and flashed tits.

  3. Re:Tell that to Jeanne Calment on Why People Don't Live Past 114 · · Score: 1

    Receiving your "beliefs" from churches and your "information" from cable news networks will make you fat, lazy, and stupid.

    My grandmother who just died at 97 was very catholic and watched cable news networks as long as she was still able to. She did stay active otherwise though.

  4. Re:The article was referring to the real world on Go For It On Fourth Down? Ask Coach Watson · · Score: 1

    The harder question is probably not whether to punt or not, but whether to take the field goal attempt or not.

  5. Re:No Ramp? Not Interested on The Car Faster Than a Speeding Bullet · · Score: 1

    Things traveling at 1000 mph tend to act more like fluids upon collision. Even if the ramp had a relatively mild slope, it would be hard not to just become a smear on the surface of it.

  6. Re:1050 MPH? Thats not very fast for a bullet. on The Car Faster Than a Speeding Bullet · · Score: 3, Informative

    1540 feet per second is a respectable bullet.

    Handgun rounds generally are around 1000 feet per second. 30 caliber carbine is about 1500 fps.

    Yeah a .223 which is one of the small and fast rounds can push 2500 feet/second or higher. The fastest rifle rounds go around 3800... but still I'd consider anything over 800 fps to qualify as "faster than a speeding bullet".

  7. Re:Well on The Car Faster Than a Speeding Bullet · · Score: 5, Funny

    People like you are why socialism doesn't work.

  8. Re:Helium Shortage on Crew Builds a Flying House Modeled After UP! · · Score: 1

    They aren't selling it "as fast as possible". There's a set amount they draw from the reserve every year.

    It was wrong for the government to spend so much money distorting the helium market in the first place. Selling off the reserve is a necessary evil to correct past wrongs, and once it's complete, the market for helium will no longer be distorted.

  9. Re:Helium Shortage on Crew Builds a Flying House Modeled After UP! · · Score: 1, Informative

    We have this thing called "money" that is used to purchase scarce goods on a thing called a "market". It ensures that people pay a high premium for more scarce goods.

    It lets people do the things they want to do, free from moralistic assholes like yourself trying to dictate how other people spend their time and resources.

  10. Re:Systematic bias and groupthink on The Encroachment of Fact-Free Science · · Score: 1

    Insulted on the Internet by a guy named after a cartoon character. I don't think I'll be losing sleep.

  11. Re:Clueless on Melbourne College May Give iPad To Every Student · · Score: 1

    So what? So it's OK to steal $125,000 as long as they have more?

    It's some weird logic that makes it OK to take from someone because they own a lot.

  12. Re:there will have to be a marker event on Can For-Profit Tech Colleges Be Trusted? · · Score: 1

    There's already plenty of Fortune 500 companies who pay to send employees to schools like Capella. As well, the NSA has recognized Capella's information security program, as has the ISC2 (the CISSP people).

    UoP might have an image problem, but not every for-profit school has that issue.

  13. Re:Heard from a graduate of both on Can For-Profit Tech Colleges Be Trusted? · · Score: 1

    I attended a state college as well as Capella. They were both hard, in different ways. I'm not really happy with what I learned in either one of them. Both were generally a complete waste of time and money, with the exception of a small handful of classes.

    I generally recommend that anyone who is smart at all should avoid the college trap. If you already have the ability to learn things on your own, it's just going to be a massive and frustrating waste of some of the best years of your life. We have the Internet now. If you want to learn things, you don't need to listen to some egotistical asshole talk about it for 50 minutes three times a week. You can just type some things into Google and start learning and creating.

  14. Re:No you cant on Can For-Profit Tech Colleges Be Trusted? · · Score: 1

    Correlation is not causation.

    With the exception of certain "hard barrier to entry" degrees, I'd venture to say that most people who get degrees already were in the top 20% IQ wise and would have earned far more than median salaries, even without any kind of degree.

  15. Re:Systematic bias and groupthink on The Encroachment of Fact-Free Science · · Score: 1

    George A. Ricaurte is still doing research and publishing papers. Enough said.

  16. Re:No. on Is Attending a CS Conference Worth the Time? · · Score: 1

    What the hell is a "computer science professional"?

    You don't get a job doing "computer science". You get a job doing programming which uses none of the worthless math that you learned, and very little of the other things you learned.

  17. Re:"Giving"? on Melbourne College May Give iPad To Every Student · · Score: 1

    That works in an ideal world where technology never gets obsolete or breaks, and companies never go bankrupt.

    How many books in my bookshelf or your bookshelf are out of print from publishers who are no longer in business? I'd venture to bet quite a few.

  18. Re:Ultimately NATURE has the final say on The Encroachment of Fact-Free Science · · Score: 0

    Losing Florida would be no big loss.

  19. Systematic bias and groupthink on The Encroachment of Fact-Free Science · · Score: 0

    It seems that science has been more and more biased by groupthink. As things get further specialized, you have many fields with a small handful of experts doing nearly all the research.

    With the Internet and instant communication, these experts can constantly stay in touch, and influence each other's research and results. Often these same people are doing the peer reviews as well.

    When this situation occurs in fields with highly political implications among researchers with known political affiliations, the situation is even worse. No longer do we have truly independent discovery and corroboration, we are left with discovery followed by sycophantic nodding.

  20. Re:Why is this here? on Meth Dealer Faces Loss of His Comic Book Collection · · Score: 1

    The free market is good because state capitalism and the other alternatives are shit.

    State capitalism and fascist socialism is getting overthrown all over the world, as people realize that the only kind of powerful government is corrupt powerful government.

    Bush Jr.'s massive increase in state capitalism created a backlash within the Republican party. There is no inherent dogma there, other than the recognition that big government is created for the sole reason of taking wealth from one group and giving it to another.

  21. Re:It had to be Florida on A Spamming Attorney Gets Sentenced To 40 Months · · Score: 1

    Yes!

    It's always Florida that these scams are run out of. The only time I ever lost money to a scammer, the guy was in Florida as well.

  22. Re:idiotic laws on A Spamming Attorney Gets Sentenced To 40 Months · · Score: 1

    I know you are trolling, but, stealing millions of dollars 0.1 cents at a time is still stealing millions of dollars.

  23. Re:Clueless on Melbourne College May Give iPad To Every Student · · Score: 1

    Your argument would make more sense if taxes were flat. In the US, someone who makes 250k is going to pay more like 50% taxes, someone who makes $25k is going to pay -10% or so (yes negative).

  24. Re:"Giving"? on Melbourne College May Give iPad To Every Student · · Score: 1

    Ebooks are worthless though. You can't buy a used e-book, or sell it back at the end of the semester. You probably can't even keep it after the class, since the DRM or your device will break at some point.

    I got out of college 10 years ago. I still have some of my textbooks. My computer from college is long gone, as is pretty much every other electronic device I owned back then.

  25. Re:"80% attachment is extremely high" on Melbourne College May Give iPad To Every Student · · Score: 1

    I don't know if a touch screen should be matte ever.

    I like that I can wipe the finger grease off my android without any liquids. Can you imagine the nasty black buildup a matte touch screen would gather?