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  1. Re:A virtuous Perl programmer on An Army Medal For Coding In Perl · · Score: 2

    "I'm always amazed at what non-programmers are impressed by. "
    Mostly this is because you have a narrow view of your work and don't consider the needs of the people for whom you are actually producing that work.

  2. Re:Let them drink! on NYC Loses Appeal To Ban Large Sugary Drinks · · Score: 2

    "you have to wonder about the intelligence of the sort of people you are imposing the ban on"

    Or maybe they are humans exhibiting verified human behavior. These creatures may be unfamiliar to you.

    It has actually been shown that the amount a person will consume is affected by the size of the portions, regardless of the number of portions provided.

  3. Re:B&N on Barnes & Noble To Spin Off Nook Media, Will Take It Public · · Score: 1

    The post I was responding to was specifically referring to buying things at B&N because of the lower price, and failing to account for the time spent when doing so. In that case my value of my free time is irrelevant to AC's failure to account to count for the AC's value of the AC's free time.

  4. Re:B&N on Barnes & Noble To Spin Off Nook Media, Will Take It Public · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Other people have been trained to consider their free time to have no value. There is nothing I could possibly want to buy a a B&N that could provide enough discount to offset the the time I would spend getting there.

  5. Re:Who is that? on Wikipedia Editors Hit With $10 Million Defamation Suit · · Score: 1

    "I don't find any period where anyone "erased" the MWP"

    Obviously the climate change activists also erased the edit history. That's shows you just how far the conspiracy goes!

  6. Re:Sudden outbreak of common sense on Federal Judge Rules US No-fly List Violates Constitution · · Score: 1

    The Tenth Amendment does not say "explicitly" anywhere. In addition, Article One does contain the Necessary and Proper Clause.

  7. Re:Here's the Solution on Federal Judge Rules US No-fly List Violates Constitution · · Score: 2

    Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

  8. Re:job security on Workaholism In America Is Hurting the Economy · · Score: 2

    The point is that past a couple of weeks 80-hour work weeks are useless not just for you but for your employer as well. You are providing LESS productivity so it would really be in your employers interest to stop.

  9. Re:work life balance is a myth on Workaholism In America Is Hurting the Economy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    All things have a marginal utility. Either you are proposing a 168 hour workweek or we are just haggling about price.

  10. Re:What the hell is wrong with the FAA? on FAA Bans Delivering Packages With Drones · · Score: 1

    "The judge DID strike down the rule. He then went on to explain that the reasoning the judge used was because it wasn't part of a formal rulemaking process."

    The opening claim was that the judge said that the FAA was not permitted to make rules in this area while the judge was actually silent on that matter.
    First paragraph of cited article: "A federal judge slapped down the FAA’s fine for a drone operator, saying there was no law banning the commercial use of small drones."
    Third paragraph of the cited article "NTSB Administrative Law Judge Patrick Geraghty ruled Thursday that the policy notices the FAA issued as a basis for the ban weren’t enforceable because they hadn’t been written as part of a formal rulemaking process." This contradicts the claim from first paragraph that the judge said the FAA could not legally make any rules in this area.

    "But it would be a mistake to then assume that if they HAD made it part of a formal rulemaking process, it would automatically be legal! "
    It would also be a mistake to assume to assume that it would be automatically illegal, which was the claim.

    "This is important: yesterday SCOTUS made it very clear that the FAA does not have authority to regulate things that are not specifically authorized by Congress and signed into law. Their CO2 regulations were part of a formal rulemaking process."

    This in no way implies that ALL rulemaking by hte FAA is illegal, you you still have to demonstrate the the specific area of rulemaking has not been authorized. This has yet to be shown.

    "What the law allows the FAA to do is to regulate navigable airspace [faa.gov]. "
    You citation does not define navigable airspace, and does not even refer to any regulation of aircraft at all.

    "It does not have authority over all the airspace in the U.S.!"
    49 U.S. Code 40103 - Sovereignty and use of airspace (a) (1) "The United States Government has exclusive sovereignty of airspace of the United States."
     

  11. Re:Luddites on the loose. on FAA Bans Delivering Packages With Drones · · Score: 1

    "crashing into a... school playground"
    This is the latest addition to Amazon Prime subscriptions. I ordered 3 playground crashes today at no additional cost.

  12. Re:Luddites on the loose. on FAA Bans Delivering Packages With Drones · · Score: 1

    The delivery by truck requires a licensed driver and an inspected vehicle.

  13. Re:What the hell is wrong with the FAA? on FAA Bans Delivering Packages With Drones · · Score: 1

    Actually, what happened there is that the reporter didn't know what he was talking about and contradicted his opening statement in the 3rd paragraph.

  14. Re:Oh well, Jeff on FAA Bans Delivering Packages With Drones · · Score: 1

    Vernor Vinge, is that you?

  15. Re:Why are we saving a law? on How Vacuum Tubes, New Technology Might Save Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    '"Moore's Law" was simply a prediction.'

    In the scientific sense, this is the only definition of a law: that it predicts.

  16. Re:More expensive for whom? on How Vacuum Tubes, New Technology Might Save Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    It is possible for gross margin to be positive but net margin to be negative. In this scenario you are losing money on every unit you sell but you can make it up in volume.

  17. Re:Overclocking is Recommended? on Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Steps Up Its Game & Runs Much Faster · · Score: 1

    The BIOS has safe default settings that do not require active monitoring or even knowing the ambient temperature. (Consider a laptop that had been left an a car overnight during winter. When booting you need to have high voltage and low frequency to get it to initially work. That is not necessarily a typical condition, but the system when booting does not know anything yet.)

    Once the driver is running it can start adjusting things to account for ambient temperature, work load, relative usage of other system components, etc. However, not this from the summary "isn't yet dynamically controlled". That means that the driver had the ability now to change the frequency, but does not yet have the monitoring to do it safely.

  18. John Poindexter on US House of Representatives Votes To Cut Funding To NSA · · Score: 1

    Is John Poindexter available? He has experience not only with information awareness but also self-funding operations.

  19. Re:Guard bands sound like on Will 7nm and 5nm CPU Process Tech Really Happen? · · Score: 1

    Guard bands are a rational engineering tradeoff, when confronted with the physical laws of random fluctuations on one hand and developing entirely new computational models on the other.

    When a difference of one dopant atom creates a measurable change in device characteristics you have to accept that its past the point where just spending money can tighten up the tolerances. Sometimes it's just faster to overdesign the part than to re-invent mathematics, physics, and chemistry simultaneously.

  20. Continues to be a bullshit excuse on Former FCC Head: "We Should Be Ashamed of Ourselves" For State of Broadband · · Score: 1

    "For 1, it is a much smaller country. The US is by comparison VAST"
    This is as much of a bullshit excuse as it ever was.

    The thing about the areas of low population density is that MOST PEOPLE ARE NOT THERE. Even if it is true that ti is too hard to cover the large areas of low density that is no reason not to cover the areas of higher density where most of the people are.

    Compare New Jersey to Belgium and Switzerland. Given that New Jersey is smaller than either and has the same or better population density, why should New Jersey have the same or better telecommunicaations infrastructure, or trains, or anything like that?

  21. Grey's law, a corollary to Clarke's Third law on IRS Recycled Lerner Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

  22. Re:prices on Amazon Announces 'Fire Phone' · · Score: 1

    The off-contract Fire Phone is still locked to ATT.

  23. And a pony on Yahoo's Diversity Record Is Almost As Bad As Google's · · Score: 1

    " I said the most qualified and motivated people get jobs in a perfect world."

    That's a pretty big qualifying statement, which makes everything else you write entirely removed from reality. You should have asked for a pony while you were at it.

  24. Re:Most qualified and motivated candidates? on Yahoo's Diversity Record Is Almost As Bad As Google's · · Score: 1

    "Perhaps women are being guided away from technical pursuits at an early age by the gender stereotypes of their parents and teachers."

    At least they are not victims of sexism. Oh, wait...

  25. Re:Kind of see their point... on Ikea Sends IkeaHackers Blog a C&D Order · · Score: 2

    "It is pretty obvious that such a site should just be placing the "we are unofficial" disclaimer somewhere up front."
    And they didn't; that was the problem. Now they do, and the problem is resolved.