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  1. yeah, because that's what IBM is know for on IBM, Remote-Work Pioneer, is Calling Thousands Of Employees Back To the Office (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    the business suited, company-song-singing, Brutalist architecture and monotonous color scheme are all strong indicators of "inspiring" design elements. "your house is too colorful. come back to the office where everything is so boring you'll sing company songs just to feel something!"

  2. as long as it's not in america on Woolly Mammoth On Verge of Resurrection, Scientists Reveal (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    we're getting ready to roll back endangered species regulations because we have a senile fascist at the helm. these guys should get the process nailed down exactly. i have a feeling there'll be a lot more species to resurrect really soon.

  3. this is what happens when you make creation "easy" on Most of the Web Really Sucks If You Have a Slow Connection (danluu.com) · · Score: 1

    unless you're a developer to start with, creating a website happens through a low-code or no-code suite, usually. (or you spend a few weeks learning html and javascript, which is actually less efficient, since you can't learn good practices and sufficient vocabulary to be good in that short time). also, with the vast majority of people using broadband, there's little incentive to work extra hard so that last 0.002% of your user base still connecting through 33.6Kbps dial-up connections has a good experience. you could have just as easily asked "why are OSes so bloated? what about those of us still working on pentium series processors?" the answer would be the same: "they don't think of you, because you're not an influential enough part of the market". imagine you're a developer tasked with creating a news site. do you spend months optimizing your work for the tiniest fraction of the market, or do you spend that time putting polish on the parts the vast majority of your users are going to actually see?

  4. Re:"get their posts hidden often" on Facebook Changes Feed To Promote Posts That Aren't Fake, Sensational, Or Spam (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    summary != exact

  5. you smarmy little... on FCC Calls Out AT&T, Verizon For 'Zero Rating' Their Own Video Apps (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "We will provide the FCC with additional information on why the government should not take away a service that saves consumers money," AT&T wrote in a statement Friday hey AT&T, if you can save them money by giving them YOUR data stuff for free, why not save them a bunch more and do that for all data? idiots.

  6. Re: I'm going to make a prediction on Scientists Create Battery That Charges In Seconds and Lasts For Days (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    "Big Porno"

  7. Re:Impossible vs Reality on For the First Time, Living Cells Have Formed Carbon-Silicon Bonds (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    underpaid, overworked public educators, and his other local distributors of folk wisdom.

  8. Giant Hammer on Ask Slashdot: How To Communicate Security Alerts? · · Score: 1

    be as concise as possible. carry a giant hammer. "There is a vulnerability in IE. If you're paying attention, you will not have any issues. [procedure or new policy]. If you cannot comply with [new policy] please bring your machine to [your office] for molecular realignment."

  9. Re:The EU is safe from insect burgers on Meat the Food of the Future · · Score: 2

    also, since when is "food futurologist" even a thing? i could see maybe "food futurist" but the former implies knowledge of the future instead of utterly blind guessing. why list insects first any way? the majority of the US population would only ever think of eating "Free Range Land Lobster" if there were literally no other alternative to starvation. that said, i'd eat lab grown meat now. actually sounds like it might be leaner and less hormonally twisted than the beef you already get commercially here in the states.

  10. Re:If you ask me on Meat the Food of the Future · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Free tickets to the blue collar comedy tour" should attract most of the Eloi to their doom.

  11. Re:yes on Political Science Prof Asks: Is Algebra Necessary? · · Score: 1

    algebra is any number based variable you do math operations on in any programming language. maybe it is your memory... unless all you wrote was hello world. PoliSci is already kind of a BS degree (no pun intended) to make it so any random person who can't add can get a degree devalues the entire collegiate structure. when you earn a degree it means you went above and beyond in academics and deserve recognition for it.
    lets run with the idea of eliminating unnecessary subjects from degree programs, though (just to see how much actual education we can strip out of college)... for a CS degree, why require english? or history? these have nothing to do with the actual logic, math, and engineering principals that go into designing a program or computer system. you don't need to know that Napoleon had a hard time fighting a ground war in russia in the winter (duh) or that he thought alexander the great was, well, great. you don't have to know about the allegories in the works of twain or be able to discourse on the underlying message of hamlet to be a good programmer.

    unfortunately for you DO need algebra for political science if you're going to continue to call it science.
    From wikipedia: "Political science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government, and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state.[1] It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior. "
    so unless they're all just sitting around and talking about it they're gonna need statistics and good luck learning statistics if you can't handle college level algebra.