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  1. Re:Where? on The Ugly Underbelly of Coder Culture · · Score: 1

    Post a different, more emotional sounding position. Then hire them unskilled and train them, obviously. Problem solved.

  2. Re:Where? on The Ugly Underbelly of Coder Culture · · Score: 1

    We have one at my workplace. Other way though. Great developer.

  3. Re:Where? on The Ugly Underbelly of Coder Culture · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the bias comes earlier, in high-school and university, where the discrimination and harassment helps ensure that there will never be substantial pools of female applicants for positions.

  4. Re:insert picture of exasperated 50's guy on The Ugly Underbelly of Coder Culture · · Score: 1, Troll

    Sure, they get scholarships. They also get harassment. Lots and lots of harassment. Worse than the black kids.

  5. Re:So much for random on Quantum Random Numbers · · Score: 1

    There's a subtle difference between learning and selling.

  6. Re:So much for random on Quantum Random Numbers · · Score: 1

    Sorry, the placement made my eyes skim that, I thought it was your sig. ;-)

  7. Re:Don't think so on Quantum Random Numbers · · Score: 1

    That's incorrect. For true randomness, it need only be possible (and equally probable), that the prior number can be generated as a series of smaller numbers glued together, as that 424242424242..... (a string of equal length) would be generated.

  8. Re:So much for random on Quantum Random Numbers · · Score: 1

    XKCD: 2007-2-9
    Dilbert: 2001-10-25

    Guess who's stealing ideas from whom?

  9. Re:There's no such thing as random on Quantum Random Numbers · · Score: 2

    There's no proof of that. That's a commonly held belief, but that doesn't make it true. The bottom line is that we don't know whether there is any randomness in the universe, and there is certainly considerable evidence that there might be.

  10. Re:of course on Quantum Random Numbers · · Score: 1

    Some programs have a very specific need for non-repeatable results.

  11. Re:Ex post facto on Appeals Court Rules TOS Violations Aren't Criminal · · Score: 1

    My solution if things are headed that way will be to set up my own terms of service for sending me web pages over my internet connection. I will make sure my terms are at least equally visible and available.

  12. Re:Ex post facto on Appeals Court Rules TOS Violations Aren't Criminal · · Score: 1

    Yeah, there's no chance of that holding up, particularly since they've never forced me to see either the use requirement or the actual contract. Click-through has a small chance of holding up, but this? None.

  13. Re:Ex post facto on Appeals Court Rules TOS Violations Aren't Criminal · · Score: 1

    Thankfully that's not a contract I've accepted.

  14. Re:any sound in the world.... on Audi Gives Silent Electric Car Synthetic Sound · · Score: 1

    Really, if you hear a puppy walking up, you jump out of the way? Every time you hear someone carrying a radio playing classical music .... etc.

    There are lots of sounds that don't make us jump.

  15. Re:Ex post facto on Appeals Court Rules TOS Violations Aren't Criminal · · Score: 1

    http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/unconscionable

    "An unconscionable contract is one that no person who is mentally competent would enter into and that no fair and honest person would accept."

    You're probably stuck with your contracts so long as your carrier is able to attract significant numbers of new people to sign on to the same terms, as that pretty much blows the unconscionable requirements.

    Personally, I don't use any services with frequent TOS changes. It's not that hard to avoid.

  16. Re:Good luck with that fair trial thing on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    I would certainly agree that Martin cannot be prosecuted for murder due to the stand your ground law.

  17. Re:any sound in the world.... on Audi Gives Silent Electric Car Synthetic Sound · · Score: 2

    If it doesn't sound like a car, do you know to jump out of the way?

  18. Re:Tennessee is doomed... on Tennessee "Teaching the Controversy" Bill Becomes Law · · Score: 1

    That would be nice. But not true in my experience.

  19. Re:Tennessee is doomed... on Tennessee "Teaching the Controversy" Bill Becomes Law · · Score: 1

    I had to live and work in the Atlanta area for 4 years. Compared to interviewing, for example, people graduating from average CA schools, most of the people from most of the top schools in the SE US are depressing to interview.

  20. Re:Good luck with that fair trial thing on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    I don't think those facts are clear actually. Particularly about pursuing Martin against 911 operator's advice. Z's side hast at least at one point claimed that he was, in fact, returning to his car when M confronted and attacked him.

    I do agree that given a charge of 2nd degree murder, a finding of anything other than not guilty seems unlikely, unless the facts as reported by the media are grossly erroneous (a real possibility, given how many conflicting 'facts' have already been reported).

  21. Re:Trust us! on Super-Privacy-Protecting ISP In the Planning · · Score: 1

    Somehow I don't think that's going to work out. Because people who choose such an ISP are obviously the compliant types.

  22. Re:Good luck with that fair trial thing on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 0

    Mod parent up. There is no way this doesn't come out hung jury. It just takes one white supremacist to find his way onto that jury. And how many of those do you imagine are exactly the types who have a hard time avoiding jury duty?

  23. Re:Trust us! on Super-Privacy-Protecting ISP In the Planning · · Score: 1

    And the people who would use such an ISP are all going to be compliant, I take it?

  24. Re:Trust us! on Super-Privacy-Protecting ISP In the Planning · · Score: 1

    And issue a gag order on the victim and his lawyers, friends, and family?

  25. Re:Trust us! on Super-Privacy-Protecting ISP In the Planning · · Score: 1

    Given the rate at which prosecutions are happening, it would become obvious pretty immediately if this ISP were not doing what it promised.