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  1. Re:Why Damore is wrong on James Damore Explains Why He Was Fired By Google (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Damore argues that differences of (in the largest case) 58-42% in psychological traits explain differences of 19-71% in employment.

  2. Re:He was fired for making a hostile work environm on James Damore Explains Why He Was Fired By Google (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    1) Google's management decide to have a quota on how many men and women are supposed to work there.
    2) There is an open position. Two people apply for it - a man (more qualified) and a woman (less qualified).
    3) The woman is hired because currently there are too few women working for the company.

    Strawman, that is not how affirmative action or hiring preferences work -- obviously not because it would be suicidal.

  3. Re: Dumbass on James Damore Explains Why He Was Fired By Google (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Not pseudoscience, well documented research.

    Simon Baron-Cohen's "The Essential Difference" is well documented research?

    He'd have been better off citing Sacha Baron-Cohen!

  4. Re:"John has a long Moustache..." on The Ghostly Radio Station That No One Claims To Run (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, actually "Les Sanglots longs des violons de l'Automne... blessent mon coeur d'une langueur monotone".

    Followed by:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ... and through United Nations Radio, Mediterranean.

  5. Re:It's encrypted messages... on The Ghostly Radio Station That No One Claims To Run (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    As I said above, a $20 clock/radio from Amazon (SW:3.2-21.9MHz) could pick it up. (3.2MHz is, of course 3200KHz -- 4625KHz is easy).

  6. Re:No Real Mystery on The Ghostly Radio Station That No One Claims To Run (bbc.com) · · Score: 1
  7. Re:No Real Mystery on The Ghostly Radio Station That No One Claims To Run (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Follow the youtube link in the BBC article -- it has broken down in the past. Given that we're still here it probably isn't part of Dead Hand.

  8. Re:Purpose on Google Cancels Town Hall To Discuss Diversity In Its Ranks (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Affirmative action is a company saying (or being forced by some government entity to say) "we need x% of employees of ethnic/gender/species group z. We are not finding enough qualified applicants of said group to meet that quota." They then lower the skill, training and education requirements for members of group z until they do get enough.

    No, it isn't Why do you idiots keep blathering on about it when you don't even know how it works?

  9. Re:Purpose on Google Cancels Town Hall To Discuss Diversity In Its Ranks (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 0

    Shh... don't bring reality into it, you'll trigger the conservative special snowflakes, remember, reality has a liberal bias.

  10. Re:Purpose on Google Cancels Town Hall To Discuss Diversity In Its Ranks (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 0

    Nothing. That is the problem with affirmative action: by definition some candidates are less qualified.

    Only if you define affirmative action as something other than what it is.

  11. Re:what's a heat-trapping gas? on Leaked Federal Climate Report Finds Link Between Climate Change, Human Activity (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Neither CO2, nor methane trap heat.

    So in your universe the average temperature of the Earth is -18 Celcius?

  12. Re:Correlation_does_not_imply_causation on Leaked Federal Climate Report Finds Link Between Climate Change, Human Activity (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    To date there is ZERO proof climate change is affected by humans.

    Oh, god, this is so boring.

    1. The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is rising.

    2. All of this rise is due to human activity.

    3. All things being equal a rise in atmospheric CO2 will cause a rise in temperatures.

    4. The temperature is rising.

    If you think the temperature rise is not being caused by human activity you have to find two unknown effects, one that prevents the CO2 rise from causing a temperature rise and another that is causing the temperature to rise despite the first unknown effect.

    Or, you could pull your head out of your arse.

    [1. Keeling curve
    2. rise in CO2 is less than human emissions, as established by simple book keeping and chemistry-- we know how much concrete we're pouring and how much fossil fuel we're burning.
    3. Tyndal, Arrhenius, Fourier.
    4. BEST, NOOA, HADCRUT, UAH, RSS]

  13. Re:Thinking about it on FreeBSD 11.1 Released (freebsd.org) · · Score: 1

    $ man alien

  14. Re:Systemd doing what it does best -- following RF on DNS Lib Underscore Bug Bites Everyone's Favorite Init Tool, Blanks Netflix (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Hehehe -- criticism of Netflix for not following RFC's is now seen as trolling on slashdot.

  15. Re:So let me get this straight on DNS Lib Underscore Bug Bites Everyone's Favorite Init Tool, Blanks Netflix (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Wow. A list of bugs that have been fixed. Shocking.

  16. So, you don't know much about the history of DNS software on unix, do you?

    The standard resolver functions are unbelievably shitty, the first major DNS server made the error of conflating caching and authoritative name services and has been one of the longest ongoing security disasters on the net, giving almost any piece of Microsoft software a run for their money...

  17. Re:So let me get this straight on DNS Lib Underscore Bug Bites Everyone's Favorite Init Tool, Blanks Netflix (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    thegarbz and the rest of the systemd fan club start pretending that just because this one bug isn't serious, the rest of the problems with systemd and its developers aren't real.

    So, care to point out the real problems then?

  18. Re: Lennart Poettering responds. on DNS Lib Underscore Bug Bites Everyone's Favorite Init Tool, Blanks Netflix (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Nah, your phone doesn't run systemd. It runs the joke android init system.

    My phone does run systemd.

  19. What kind of record is that? SRV or TXT -- OK. A or AAAA -- nope, try again.

  20. Re: When's sshd getting incorporated? on DNS Lib Underscore Bug Bites Everyone's Favorite Init Tool, Blanks Netflix (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Wayland, not X. X has been deprecated.

    (My phone runs systemd and wayland. The one before ran upstart and X).

  21. Re:NOTABUG, WONTFIX, RESOLVED on DNS Lib Underscore Bug Bites Everyone's Favorite Init Tool, Blanks Netflix (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Which is all true.

    NOTABUG -- underscores are illegal
    WONTFIX -- the problem was in the experimental libidn2, not in systemd code
    RESOLVED -- libidn2 has been fixed.

    HTH. HAND.

  22. Re:The problem is systemd breaking unexpectedly on DNS Lib Underscore Bug Bites Everyone's Favorite Init Tool, Blanks Netflix (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    So if I compile your program with a broken library instead of the working one you tested it with and your program does the wrong thing then it's your fault?

  23. Re:The problem is systemd breaking unexpectedly on DNS Lib Underscore Bug Bites Everyone's Favorite Init Tool, Blanks Netflix (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Reading comprehension fail.

    1. systemd uses the non-experimental library libidn, which doesn't have the bug, in production code.

    2. if you recompile systemd with the experimental option on it uses the experimental library libidn2.

  24. Re: The problem is systemd breaking unexpectedly on DNS Lib Underscore Bug Bites Everyone's Favorite Init Tool, Blanks Netflix (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Because those idiots at Netflix have a hostname that starts "ipv6_".

  25. Re:The problem is systemd breaking unexpectedly on DNS Lib Underscore Bug Bites Everyone's Favorite Init Tool, Blanks Netflix (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    What, you mean the stupid default of not using libidn2?