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  1. I know one.... on Dr. Dobb's 38-Year Run Comes To an End · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I wish I could point you to another site that does similar work, but alas, I know of none."

    You mean you haven't read Bennett's high-quality journalism?

  2. Re:Watson is a scientist on James Watson's Nobel Prize Medal Will Be Returned To Him · · Score: 1

    measurable intelligence between sub-Saharan Black Africans and Ashkenazi Jews

    Can anyone name me a black sub-suharan psychologist? Now, let's try the same with Ashkenazi Jews. (Freud comes to mind immediately for me -- but he's not the only brilliant mind)

    I find it simpler to explain the differences in the tests with the differences of the people who created them.

  3. Malcolm Gladwell Talks About Smoking Crack on Interviews: Malcolm Gladwell Answers Your Questions · · Score: 2

    There's you clickbait headline, Gawker, et al. :)

  4. I don't blame WalMart Employees on Customers Creating Fake Amazon Pages To Get Cheap Electronics At Walmart · · Score: 4, Insightful

    After all, when your employer pays you terribly, why do you care? Reject the idea, customer complains to your manager. Who is also, may not be the brightest star in the constellation, who may discipline/fire you.

    Also? Average wage at WalMart: $8/hr (weekly: 8*8=64 * 5 days=$320). Which means, pulling this once and reselling the console is almost a week's pay. Taking $300 from WalMart, whose family owns more money than the bottom 42% of the US combined to feed your family doesn't seem like the most heartless crime in the world.

  5. Re:Well, to be fair... on "Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer" Pulled From Amazon · · Score: 1

    This Barbie actually does sound like some computer "engineers" I've known.

    Does that mean we need a "Police Officer Ken" book where he shoots an unarmed teen of color because that sounds like some police officers we know?

  6. Or you can always have blow on money on Blowing On Money To Tell If It Is Counterfeit · · Score: 1

    Why blow on money when there's already blow on money?

  7. Creato on Battlestar Galactica Creator Glen A. Larson Dead At 77 · · Score: 1

    Slashdot Editing: Dead At 0.

  8. Bias much? on Debunking a Viral Internet Post About Breastfeeding Racism · · Score: 1

    Despite not being able to find anything of "significance" (there is actually a 7% difference in his own data!), Bennett starts not with the neutral headline "Do Black Women Experience Discrimination Breastfeeding", but with "Debunking" -- which assumes is patently false. This assumption is probably because of the amount of experience he has breastfeeding. Or being black.

    I'm a white male as well, but sheesh, white priviledge much sir?

  9. Re:Real cross-platform is HARD on Microsoft To Open Source .NET and Take It Cross-Platform · · Score: 1

    The framework must provide for platform-independent ways to do things so that it is easier/shorter to do it the right way than using a naive but non-portable approach.

    You're totally right. Otherwise, it flies in the face of the virtue of laziness. If the easiest way to do something is cross-platform, you'll write all your code to be cross-platform whether the project requires it or not. Requirements, after all, always change;)

  10. I'm optimistic... on 'Star Wars: Episode VII' Gets a Name · · Score: 5, Interesting

    After the terrible new trilogy, I'm cautiously excited by the new movie written by Lawrence Kasdan, who had zero involvement with the episodes 1-4, but did write such films as The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

    They'll be plenty of eye candy (to be sure -- so did the originals!), but maybe having a good writer (who made almost all the Star Wars films you love -- and none of the ones you hate) means you'll have a good story?

  11. Re:Hiring managers perspective on The Great IT Hiring He-Said / She-Said · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have an ASCII diagram here describing a technical interview.

    Post

      O -- You
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    At what speed does it have to travel in order to make a pleasant "wooshing" sound (2 m/s total velocity) assuming it must also travel at least 2 meters high vertically? (Assume gravity is 10 m/s 2 and air resistance is negligible for purposes of this exercise).

  12. Re:Terrible on Russia Takes Down Steve Jobs Memorial After Apple's Tim Cook Comes Out · · Score: 3, Interesting

    allowing gay marriage will mean fewer "traditional" marriages.

    To play devil's advocate, if bisexuality exists, then yes, it very well may.

    Not that it's a reason against it. To me, a traditional marriage is where the partners stay together until death parts them -- gay/straight/otherwise.

  13. Re:Political science on Ferguson No-Fly Zone Revealed As Anti-Media Tactic · · Score: 1

    Why not reform the way election laws work, so elected representitives of both state and federal government reflect the will of the people?

    There's a certain nerd (Lawrence Lessig) who used to work for the EFF who's working on precisely that.

  14. Re:Was pretty obvious on Skilled Foreign Workers Treated as Indentured Servants · · Score: 1

    What corporation owns Senator Bernie Sanders (I VT)?

    I guess those nasty "unions" who hold "elections" to "represent" their largely blue-collar workforce to ask for things like "fair pay" and "increases in the minimum wage"? Oh yeah, those little guys. ...but let's pretend all politicians are equal -- because cynacism is easy. That will surely change the system.

  15. Re:Why is he worried on Elon Musk Warns Against Unleashing Artificial Intelligence "Demon" · · Score: 1

    I think a better "ethical principle" would be to maximize "life for everyone" -- meaning "years of life remaining".

    If the 4 occupants are hospice patients, saving the child would make more sense from an ethical perspective -- but that's just me.

  16. It has Windows? on The Airplane of the Future May Not Have Windows · · Score: 4, Funny

    Airplanes are the only thing with Windows that don't crash (often).

  17. Re: It helps to actually use the thing. on How Sony, Intel, and Unix Made Apple's Mac a PC Competitor · · Score: 1

    That's a pretty big premium for what seems like an intangible benefit.

    Mac OSX 10.10 (Yosemite -- or 10.9 if you don't like the new UI) is free on any Mac. Windows "upgrades" (like 8 or 10) cost ~$100.

  18. Now I can panic! on Positive Ebola Test In Second Texas Health Worker · · Score: 1

    Thank you Overzeetop! I was looking for a reason to go into all-out-panic mode, grab my family, some shotgun shells, and head to the hills!

    My family thinks I'm crazy, but if you're right, we'll all be dead before the 4th of July! DOOMED!!!!! REPENT SINNERS!!!!! ::Goes off to take medication::

  19. Re:Same old American Xenophobia on How English Beat German As the Language of Science · · Score: 1

    Isn't it odd that no matter how much progress America makes, the Left is always ready with a cutting criticism? How welcoming is Egypt to new people? Nigeria? China? Thailand?

    Yeah, it's stunning that some of us aim higher than Egypt, China, or Thailand as the aim for our moral compass. It's like aiming for bug-free code: we may never get there, but even incremental progress is still progress.

  20. Re:Quality of life in Sweden on Why America Won't Match Sweden's Cheap, Fast, Competitive Internet Services · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That a person who chose to not buy health insurance goes bankrupt when he gets sick, is hardly grounds for mandating such insurance for everyone.

    Since you clearly have no idea how hospitals the rest of the world work, allow me to explain. You get sick. You go to the doctor. You go home. There is no "copay" or "insurance you choose to buy into".

    I know it's hard for you to understand that "not dying from preventable illness" is considered a basic human right in most other countries or how you can have a healthcare system that works efficiently without the invisible hand jerking off a group of plutocratic shareholders. The US has the highest healthcare costs as a % of GDP and the a life expectancy between Qatar and Cuba -- and there's the reason for that: it turns out people will pay a lot of money not to die if you force them to.

  21. Re:Money money money on Why America Won't Match Sweden's Cheap, Fast, Competitive Internet Services · · Score: 1

    And government is necessary to increase the wages of workers. At least according to this communist:
    "When the regulation, therefore, is in support of the workman, it is always just and equitable; but it is sometimes otherwise when in favour of the masters." ~ Adam Smith Wealth of Nations

  22. Re:Cost of government-provided services on Why America Won't Match Sweden's Cheap, Fast, Competitive Internet Services · · Score: 2

    Sewer/water lines work the same way in every US city and state. It's a shame that most Americans are so ignorant of the services they use every day that their elected representatives ensure work.

  23. Re:Quality of life in Sweden on Why America Won't Match Sweden's Cheap, Fast, Competitive Internet Services · · Score: 4, Insightful

    those demography, social and cultural characteristics

    Like a superior educational system (free public universities), a healthcare system where people don't go bankrupt, better transit, and free childcare?

    You get what you pay for -- divorcing higher taxes from the services those taxes provide is moronic at best.

  24. Re:And some say Obama isn't a Republican on Former Department of Defense Chief Expects "30 Year War" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's a false dichotemy. Everyone's moved to the right to the point that Mitt Romney's quite successful healthcare program is considered "socialist" if you attach Obama's name to it (actual socialized medicine is quite different)

    There is no left any more. Obama's continued warmongering is the best evidence.

  25. Re:Systemd AND PULSE AUDIO on Lennart Poettering: Open Source Community "Quite a Sick Place To Be In" · · Score: 0

    I don't excuse boorishness or violence - but Linus and Alan Cox never got this level of treatment. Not even Hans Reiser for his obtuseness

    How about Hans Reiser for murdering his wife. Does that count as violence?