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  1. Re:H1B applicants are people too on Labor Department To Destroy H-1B Records · · Score: 1
  2. Re:H1B applicants are people too on Labor Department To Destroy H-1B Records · · Score: 1

    With aggregated data, you can't go to a sample of individuals for comfiration, you would just have to take the Governments word for accuracy; and just the possiblility of being able to do so would have a chilling effect on potential fraudsters.

  3. Re:Plausible deniability on Labor Department To Destroy H-1B Records · · Score: 1

    Actually they can, there is no Statute of Limitations on Civil Fraud, only Criminal Fraud.

  4. Re:Only YEC denies it on Pope Francis Declares Evolution and Big Bang Theory Are Right · · Score: 1

    So it's better for Christians to allow some 6,000 year old Pagan Drivel to contaminate their faith on the say-so of a crotchety old lady with a fifth-grade reading level? Sometimes you just have to say "Citation Please", but say it with love.

  5. Re:Tip of the iceberg on Pope Francis Declares Evolution and Big Bang Theory Are Right · · Score: 1

    The main problem with using the bible here is that it has no predictive power at all. It's all the classical case of "hindsight is 20-20". We can't read into the bible as to what to look for in future scientific endeavors.

    So it's kind of like climate modeling?

  6. Re:Tip of the iceberg on Pope Francis Declares Evolution and Big Bang Theory Are Right · · Score: 1

    (Full disclosure, I'm an atheist) Actually, god was afraid we would steal his power. That's why he kicks us out.

    And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever."

    - Genesis 3:22

    No the not entirely correct, the Gods were afraid is just as correct, Genesis I could refer to a parthenon through the word Elohim, You don't want to ask who made the people in the land of Nod or who Lilith was.

  7. Re:Tip of the iceberg on Pope Francis Declares Evolution and Big Bang Theory Are Right · · Score: 1

    All lifeforms use DNA and protein synthesis using almost identical mechanisms. It is extremely unlikely that these mechanisms evolved in parallel, so they must have shared a common ancestor.

    And you said that is such a strong authorative tone, too bad,

    A retrovirus is a single-stranded RNA virus that stores its nucleic acid in the form of an mRNA genome (including the 5' cap and 3' PolyA tail) and targets a host cell as an obligate parasite. Retrovirus

    you're completely wrong. Not all lifeforms use DNA. I'm not even sure there is a solid definition of what a lifeform is, Viruses certainly push the envelope.

  8. Re:Tip of the iceberg on Pope Francis Declares Evolution and Big Bang Theory Are Right · · Score: 1

    The chirality of aminoacids in known lifeforms does point in that direction, it's far from a given fact. We just don't know that all life forms have a single progenitor, that's one of the reasons everybody goes GaGa over every Martian meteorite found in Antarctica and every space probe to Mars has included some kind of life detection apperatice.
    Not every "spacecraft" is manmade, we might all be desended from space aliens for all we know.

  9. Re:Physical requirements are not all that tough on US Army May Relax Physical Requirements To Recruit Cyber Warriors · · Score: 1

    The PFT is scored, the numbers that are being thrown around are the minimum passing score. When you have done as many pushups as you can in two minutes, followed by as many situps as you can in two minutes, followed by running 2 miles as fast as you can is quite a bit more challenging than doing any of them in isolation would be. Pushups work the pecs and the abs, the situps work the abs and hip flexors, and of course running works the hip flexors quite a bit. Having good PFT scores effect your ratings, your promotability and even whether you services will still be required, so there is considerable pressure to not just pass but to achieve the maximum scores.

  10. Re:Why not train? on US Army May Relax Physical Requirements To Recruit Cyber Warriors · · Score: 1

    BCT is kinda like football 2-a-days, but lasting for 10 weeks, almost nobody is physically qualified for that. The enterence requirements are more about having a chance at passing BCT than being physically qualified. There was a rule on post where if you marched for 13 or more miles you didn't have to do Physical Training, we didn't do much PT.

  11. Re:What a great idea! on US Army May Relax Physical Requirements To Recruit Cyber Warriors · · Score: 1

    It proves your able to play the game when you decide to play the game, very important in the military.

  12. Re:What a great idea! on US Army May Relax Physical Requirements To Recruit Cyber Warriors · · Score: 1

    I used to get hit with "random" urinalaysis something like every other month for 3 years straight before they either got the idea I don't do that anymore, or who ever was trying to get me transfered.

  13. Re:Summary on Leaked Documents Reveal Behind-the-Scenes Ebola Vaccine Issues · · Score: 1

    Most of the high risk people will resist or outright refuse the vaccine, they don't trust healthcare workers and they especially don't trust 1st world healthcare workers and a lot firmly believe that drug companies are actively trying to poison them.

  14. Re: software on Ask Slashdot: Aging and Orphan Open Source Projects? · · Score: 1

    That doesn't do you any good without a decollator and a burster

  15. Re:Why the cloak and dagger? on Ask Slashdot: Aging and Orphan Open Source Projects? · · Score: 1

    The generally understood definition In production and development, open source as a development model promotes a universal access via free license to a product's design or blueprint, and universal redistribution of that design or blueprint, including subsequent improvements to it by anyone. disagrees with you. Universal = anyone = public.

    Genrally is not specifically, Most of the GPL' conditions apply to responsibilities that are incured when you distribute not when you develope for internal use. It's perfectly legal to aquire and modify GPLed software or even develope for internal use without giving back to up-stream developers; most consider not giving back to up-stream developers rude and bad form, but it's legal.

  16. Re: Politics on Ebola Does Not Require an "Ebola Czar," Nor Calling Up the National Guard · · Score: 1

    Non-profit just means that expenses are reasonably close to revenues, and there is limits to how much money they can sock away for future expenses and capital; basically that means instead of paying a dividend to stockholders that anyone can become, it all must go into bonuses or a liquid asset. We have two non-profit hospitals and they are constantly expanding and buying and selling property like some kind of malignancy because they can't hold assets as money. There is no inherent goodness involved with being a non-profit and much less inhibition to badness because of the erroneously perceived goodness.

  17. Re: Politics on Ebola Does Not Require an "Ebola Czar," Nor Calling Up the National Guard · · Score: 3, Funny

    American Hospitals are almost always Non-profits.

  18. Re:'Bout time on 32 Cities Want To Challenge Big Telecom, Build Their Own Gigabit Networks · · Score: 1

    There really are valid reasons not to vote, first getting registered to vote is a matter of public record, so every whacko can get your address, not good for people who have been stalked, testified in some trials or are controversial public figures.

  19. Re:And this is why Linux will never win the deskto on Debian's Systemd Adoption Inspires Threat of Fork · · Score: 1

    Tell me about it, the last update made my 486SX a brick; bastards!

  20. Re:Emacs OS on GNU Emacs 24.4 Released Today · · Score: 1

    But systemd is written in C. I gather we would have to start by implementing C in elisp.

    Not really just moving the lisp interperter to /bin and it should work, and from what I'm hearing it should add much to systemd's runtime size or slow it down much. A recursive run level manager, sounds like tons of fun!

  21. Re:Ho-lee-crap on The Largest Ship In the World Is Being Built In Korea · · Score: 1

    A lot of Lakers are pushing a 1000 ft and you have to be 740ft or less to get through the lower locks, so they're not getting built in Korea. This also make the Saltys we see look kind of puny; but still it's pretty spectactular when they bounce a 740 foot ocean-going freighter off the seawall, they have to run 8MPH just to maintain steering, so that's a lot of momentum going down-bound.

  22. Re:Question on The Largest Ship In the World Is Being Built In Korea · · Score: 1

    So does an airliner weight more when the housefly inside is airborne than it does when the fly has landed inside the plane?

  23. Re:Telsa's lobbiest crashes on Michigan About To Ban Tesla Sales · · Score: 2

    In Michigan being labeled anti-auto is pretty much end of career for a politician and it's not illegal bribery it's campaign contributions and providing volunteer union minions as campaign workers.

  24. Re:Telsa's lobbiest crashes on Michigan About To Ban Tesla Sales · · Score: 1

    State laws can shut down a store, even if the products there are from out of state.
    State laws can say a type of car can't be operated on roads in the state.
    State laws can prevent a type of car from being registered.

    Sure the States can do all of that, and the Dept of Transportation can send a couple hundred million in highway funds elsewhere.

  25. Re:Designed in US, Built in EU, Filled in Iraq on Pentagon Reportedly Hushed Up Chemical Weapons Finds In Iraq · · Score: 1

    The article was saying that they did know where the chemical weapons were and was covering it up, it's only coming out now because DAETH (ISL/ISIS) is overrunning the storage bunkers.