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  1. Re:The root of the problem. on Silicon Valley Still Wrestling With Diversity Issues · · Score: 1

    Saying women and men think the same is ignorant. Saying someone pointing out that difference is sexist is even more ignorant. Sexism is the derogatory treatment of women or men based on gender. I've never heard anyone say that helping others is a bad trait to have.

    The problem you seem to have is with generalizations. Unfortunately, the human brain is incapable of not generalizing. Its the way we make sense of the world. So by your definition of sexism and racism (that the mere though that someone is different based on skin color or sex is racist or sexist), you are both racist and sexist and don't even know it. For you, me pointing out that a black man is different than a white man because of genetic mutation that increases melatonin in the skin, would be racist. To me, its just an interesting bit of science.

  2. Re:This Social Justice fad ought to be over soon. on Silicon Valley Still Wrestling With Diversity Issues · · Score: 1

    It's got nothing to do with numbers? Then what is driving this movement? Do you just feel women are underrepresented in the IT workforce? How the hell do we fix that?

    If you can't make a quantifiable argument for the basis of your opinion, it is irrelevant to the discussion at hand and, frankly, deters people from having a real discussion.

  3. Re:Ex Machina is the best on Which Movies Get Artificial Intelligence Right? · · Score: 2

    While I really enjoyed Ex Machine, its not of the "2001: A Space Odyssey" level.

  4. Re:Crash Mitigation on Google Self-Driving Car Rear-Ended In First Injury Accident · · Score: 1

    Why should the car leave the relatively safe road and go off-road to prevent a collision that isn't its own fault, anyways

    To reduce injury of the person in the autonomous car. A very simple solution here is to release the break and idle forward at sub-second intervals before a rear end crash. The crash will push the car forward anyways and this minor change in speed would reduce the whiplash caused to the people in the previously stationary car. We can start with low hanging fruit like this and move into better avoidance as the technology improves, like moving into a red light to avoid a crash in instances where there is no oncoming traffic.

    I'd like to think that at some point these things would be able to prevent fatal crashes that would've been the other drivers fault.

  5. Re:And still the Republicans fight... on Astronauts Forced To Take Shelter From Space Junk · · Score: 3, Informative

    Having been to the facilities that track space junk, I can say you have no idea what you are talking about. They contain some of the worlds most advanced equipment.

    And not that I really care much about partisan politics, but the facilities are military with year over year increasing budgets. Military spending is typically associated with the republican party.

  6. Re:Feels weird agreeing with scientologists on Scientology Group Urged Veto of Mental Health Bill · · Score: 0

    Insightful? You are a moron and this argument has no place in the discussion at hand. That's like arguing walking while intoxicated should be a DWI just like when behind the wheel of a ca,r because in both cases you are moving.

    Just because someone is in a hospital or someone has Ebola, doesn't make them mentally ill, thus this law wouldn't apply anyway. Additionally, there are already laws in place regarding quarantine procedures in the case someone walks into a hospital with Ebola symptoms.

  7. Re:Feels weird agreeing with scientologists on Scientology Group Urged Veto of Mental Health Bill · · Score: 1

    Or they could just call the cops...

  8. Re:One Year on Robot-Staffed Japanese Hotel Opens · · Score: 2
    Judging from the article, it will take longer than that:

    During a press preview Wednesday, the cloakroom robot seemed to develop a sore elbow, so to speak, two of the Nao robots took a tumble from their pedestals and it was hard to ignore the rubbery jerkiness of the android and dinosaur, developed by Kokoro, a group company of Hello Kitty licensing company Sanrio.

    But it’s all part of the awkward theater of spending the night in what feels like a set for a sci-fi B movie, with human support staff in the background.

    And with both highly specialized robots and a full support staff, I'd bet this route is more costly than having minimum wage workers.

    Still, it wont be that far in the future before we are visiting hotels with humans as the staff as an "awkward theater" of how it was before robots replaced people in the service industry.

  9. Re: Who? on Neil Young Says His Music Is Too Good For Streaming Services · · Score: 1

    Until the artist is forgotten because he pulled all his music from streaming services, so a new generation can't be introduced to it.

  10. Re:Tax dollars at work. on Man Arrested After Charging iPhone On London Overground Train · · Score: 1

    Foremost, Slashdot has a primary liberal readership (+50%), judging by its more politically polarizing polls.

    Secondly, lets use a little common sense. Governments and companies are both run by people, which are fallible. The woman crying thief is at fault and the cops enforcing this silly claim are also at fault. I'll call you a lib because of the idiocy of your statements.

  11. But Brawndo's got what plants crave. on Bomb Squad Searches House Over Teenager's Chemistry Experiments · · Score: 1

    It's got electrolytes.

  12. Re:This is a curse... on Technology and the End of Lying · · Score: 1

    I think you are taking the statement too literally. While the idea of a fact is steadfast, what people interpret as fact is not, and can be molded.

  13. Re:This is a curse... on Technology and the End of Lying · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Facts can be changed. Welcome to 1984.

  14. Re:Color Blindness is a "Micro-Aggression" on Silicon Valley Is Filling Up With Ex-Obama Staffers · · Score: 1

    I honestly doubt it. Either you add nothing of interest to a conversation, no opinions of your own, and only state bland facts; you say the right things to the right people all the time, and are as such a very manipulative person; or you are one of those who doesn't realize when they offend someone. Even if this wasn't the hyper-politically correct world we live in, it is impossible to please 100% of the people 100% of the time.

  15. Re: Good for greece on Greece Rejects EU Terms · · Score: 1

    The public school system is a means to an end. That end is education not class rooms, books and computers. The classes could take place outside on the ground as long as we meat that goal.

    So, I would argue the opposite, you need good curriculum and teachers. No amount of money can fix that. The U.S. is a perfect example. We throw so much money at our school system and yet it rates incredibly low in the value of education.

  16. Re: Good for greece on Greece Rejects EU Terms · · Score: 1

    Your anecdotal evidence is Argentina, arguably the only first world country to revert to third world status. Not really a good comparison.

    Having first and second hand experience in a few country's school systems myself, I can say our system is behind at least Japan and Germany, two FIRST WORLD countries.

    But that's just anecdotal evidence. A quick search of school rankings, the US does not show up in the top ten of any list. Not hard to believe when we push things like creationism into our science classes.

  17. Re:Color Blindness is a "Micro-Aggression" on Silicon Valley Is Filling Up With Ex-Obama Staffers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Lol, yeah after reading this the only option left is to not talk to someone that is a minority or a woman. Anything you say is a micro aggression.

    Here are some addendums:

    White men should not congregate together. Groups of white men send the message that women and minorities are not welcome.

    White men should not congregate with minorities or women. It trivializes their struggles and and makes it seem like you are patronizing them.

  18. Re: Good for greece on Greece Rejects EU Terms · · Score: 1

    public school system is great

    By what metrics? Yeah if you compare it to a third world country, it looks pretty good. I mean we have floors that are not dirt and seats for the students. Looking at most developed nations, we are way behind the curve.

    Additionally, we are not a socialist nation. We are a Totalitarian Oligarchy with an every increasing push into a full on police state.

  19. Re:"Software" has no opinions of race. on Google Apologises For Photos App's Racist Blunder · · Score: 1

    You're right. I am sorry you are such an idiot.

  20. Re: lol on Google Apologises For Photos App's Racist Blunder · · Score: 1

    Your right to be offended should end with you and not in punitive damages against the offensive individual or company.

  21. She is starting to think about refreshing her coding skills and looking for a job

    Doesn't sound urgent or like they need the money.

  22. However, she is not very eager to go back to coding

    Then why force her?

  23. Re:So? Not everyone is even a programmer! on To Learn (Or Not Learn) JQuery · · Score: 1

    How will your plumber ever fix your IoT toilet, running node.js, that simulcasts your poops play by play on facebook and twiitter?

  24. Re:Don't be fooled on To Learn (Or Not Learn) JQuery · · Score: 1

    I was running sentiment analysis on some articles and there impact on stock prices. The word "JQuery" had a 100% negative correlation with stock prices. Seems fitting.

  25. Re:Not all programmers are web frontend devs on To Learn (Or Not Learn) JQuery · · Score: 1, Insightful

    frontend developers

    Isn't that an oxymoron?