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  1. Re:Fucking rednecks on A War Over Solar Power Is Raging Within the GOP · · Score: 1

    But... that would be "raising taxes"! And that is a sin against the lord our god, Grover Norquist.

  2. Re:Sucks to be them. on A War Over Solar Power Is Raging Within the GOP · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The ACA is not the crown jewel of the left. it is a right leaning overly compromized piece of shit.

    A single payer healthcare system would have been the solution of the left.

  3. Re:The ability to chose your peers is important. on Vint Cerf Thinks Privacy May Be an Anomaly · · Score: 1

    Wrong. People didn't generally have the opportunity to move about and seek a place where they can fit in.

    Serfs were tied to the land of their lord. The were not allowed to simply free themselves of those obligations.

  4. we have always been at war with eastasia on Britain's Conservatives Scrub Speeches from the Internet · · Score: 1

    get with the pogrom.

  5. Re:Medical on Stop Listening and Start Watching If You Want To Understand User Needs · · Score: 1

    And it is. Every aspect of medical software is scrutinized by risk management, including medical professionals.

  6. Re:Medical on Stop Listening and Start Watching If You Want To Understand User Needs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The person using my software is not my customer. My customer is the patient and the FDA. If making it easier for the nurse compromises the safety of the patient, its BAD software.

  7. Re:Medical on Stop Listening and Start Watching If You Want To Understand User Needs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Medical software is a medical device and subject to regulation as such. I am in the business of writing that software, and while I as a developer can and would be happy to make things easy and awesome, risk management often determines that "easy" can also be "dangerous". Make the default route too easy and you risk a user accidentally skipping the correct route.

  8. Re:Arthur C Clarke strikes again! on Is Europa Too Prickly To Land On? · · Score: 1

    actually earth had the "sharks" with birdlike beaks. Earth had a crap-load of weird-ass creatures in the long long ago.

  9. Re:Probability gobbledygook. on No, the Earth (almost Certainly) Won't Be Hit By an Asteroid In 2032 · · Score: 1

    So? Nearly impossible things happen all the time given a sufficiently large sample.

  10. Re:Isn't that a bad estimate? on No, the Earth (almost Certainly) Won't Be Hit By an Asteroid In 2032 · · Score: 1

    Not really. if current measures are accurate, and there is a 99.9999 chance of a miss, more measures are 99.9999% likely to support that miss and only 0.0001% likely to contradict it.

    Its not quite as simple as that, but its not anywhere near 50/50 like you suggest.

  11. Re:Probability gobbledygook. on No, the Earth (almost Certainly) Won't Be Hit By an Asteroid In 2032 · · Score: 1

    over 5 orders of magnitude is as close to "almost certain" as science gets.

  12. focusing on work on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Hardest Things Programmers Have To Do? · · Score: 1

    Hence this post.

  13. Re:Gross receipts tax on Barbarians At the Gateways · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure you replied to the wrong post.

  14. Re:Gross receipts tax on Barbarians At the Gateways · · Score: 2

    I'm not sure the math on that will work out.

    From the perspective of personal income, we need an average taxation rate of around 27% to balance the federal budget.

    And what happens when you transfer money from one account to another? You "receive" the money, so does that mean you get taxed?

  15. Re:Oh how I love this game! on Shutdown Cost the US Economy $24 Billion · · Score: 1

    Social services are not a zero sum game.

  16. Re:Really? on Shutdown Cost the US Economy $24 Billion · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Free market health care is NOT the most economically efficient.

    A free market only functions when both parties have approximately equal negotiating power, are fully informed and not under threat.

    By its nature, healthcare decisions are almost always made under threat of a cost to ones health or life, and since the alternative is to die, the victim...patient has no negotiating power.

  17. Re:Solar panels on Volvo Developing Nano-Battery Tech Built Into Car Body Panels · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It is if you park near the focus point of one of the parabolic death ray buildings.

  18. Re: Yeah, but they nailed the "documentation" par on Oracle Attacks Open Source; Says Community-Developed Code Is Inferior · · Score: 2

    The patches for these issues are intentionally withheld from their products until you encounter them, many of them have existed and have patches for them for several years. Its intentionally crippled code.

  19. Re:Wouldn't Java be a counterexample? on Oracle Attacks Open Source; Says Community-Developed Code Is Inferior · · Score: 1

    What the fuck are you talking about?

  20. Re:Wouldn't Java be a counterexample? on Oracle Attacks Open Source; Says Community-Developed Code Is Inferior · · Score: 1

    Not entirely true these days.

  21. Re:Check their work on Oracle Attacks Open Source; Says Community-Developed Code Is Inferior · · Score: 1

    decompiling any code will not inspire confidence. Decompilation doesn't necessarily reproduce the original code.

  22. Re:Yeah, but they nailed the "documentation" part on Oracle Attacks Open Source; Says Community-Developed Code Is Inferior · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As opposed to Oracle error codes that are documented as "Please contact Oracle support", for shit they know about and have a patch ready for but they have you over the coals and want to extort a couple hundred grand from you.

  23. Re:Could be good. on Grocery Store "Smart Shelves" Will Identify Customers, Show Targeted Ads · · Score: 1

    I've literally driven a buggy of goods up to the CSM monitoring the self checkout and told him that he lost a sale today because they were unable to provide a checkout clerk.

    And self checkout does not save time. Each item scans slower, bagging is problematic, and it randomly halts requiring assistance.

    I've bagged groceries before. I could do it 10 or 20 times faster than the maximum allowed by the self scan station.

  24. Re:Nitpicking on Gravity: Can Film Ever Get the Science Right? · · Score: 1

    Or maybe Sandra Bullock used way to much hair gel and it was too rigid to float around.

  25. Re:Could be good. on Grocery Store "Smart Shelves" Will Identify Customers, Show Targeted Ads · · Score: 1

    I feel the same way about self checkout lines.