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  1. Re:NIH syndrome on NYT: Healthcare.gov Project Chaos Due Partly To Unorthodox Database Choice · · Score: 1

    No, it would not work. The database portion might be faster, or more stable, or at least better understood by the developers.

    The database is XML - that's neither good nor bad. The rest of the system seems to be where they have problems - authentication, load, and accessing external data.

    Your statements do not make any sort of sense given what we know. And your mention of Rand, where the context was a choice of individuality, and in this case it was a requirement given by Medicare to the contractor, is a complete non sequitur.

  2. Re:Teaching programmer? on Code.org: More Money For CS Instructors Who Teach More Girls · · Score: 1

    Library counts as opportunity, and support. Of your family? Not necessary. Just the support system needed to develop skills. That counts. And you obviously accomplished this outside of the standard classroom, so that pretty much supports the point you oppose on what appears to be purely semantic grounds.

    And I don't think you made any sort of point about bias and gender, considering it is rare for a girl to be encouraged in the sciences compared to boys. Give your documentation so we can have an actual conversation. Otherwise, I call bullshit on your bullshit.

  3. Re:Yes. on Should the US Copy Switzerland and Consider a 'Maximum Wage' Ratio? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Socialism is merely a word to ward off the unwanted. A talisman, in this context. Tomorrow the word may be economy, or global warming.
    Any excuse will do when you ask the people who have and control the power to give up some of it.
    Arguing the definition or merits of socialism is irrelevant, in this context.

  4. Re:Because they're EXPENSIVE on Electric Cars: Drivers Love 'Em, So Why Are Sales Still Low? · · Score: 1

    We haven't bought new cars in 10.2 years, on average. Price of electrics takes a back seat to price of cars.

    Ask about electrics when normal cars are selling like hotcakes.

  5. Re:violation of trust on Google to Pay $17 Million to Settle Privacy Case · · Score: 1

    Don't trust.

  6. Re:Chuck Schumer on Sen. Chuck Schumer Seeks To Extend Ban On 'Undetectable' 3D-Printed Guns · · Score: 1

    No, because people are listening and believing. Ignoring does not make the words go away.

  7. Re:Some Fun Statistics To Look Up On Teh Internets on Sen. Chuck Schumer Seeks To Extend Ban On 'Undetectable' 3D-Printed Guns · · Score: 1

    You don't understand the word hysterical. At all, or you would have typed it and said oh, I get it now.

    Fear is not rational, and if you want to teach people to respect logic, you are preaching to the choir.

    Besides that, should we not attempt to fix a problem just because it is not in the top ten problems?

    I see your point, but you need some polishing to do more than state the obvious.

  8. Re:Happy Saturday/Sunday from The Golden Girls! on Getting the Dirt On Ancient Life With Coprolites · · Score: 1

    Not sure if you are trying to correct improper usage, or have never lived where such usage exists. Either way, you are wrong despite being right.
    And this is why discussion on the internet is hard.

  9. Re:Getting the dirt? on Getting the Dirt On Ancient Life With Coprolites · · Score: 0

    I shat a fact. Tis true. Disprove it, dare say I.

  10. Re:Happy Saturday/Sunday from The Golden Girls! on Getting the Dirt On Ancient Life With Coprolites · · Score: 0

    Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural.
    Git yo grammar all in a ro fore I beat you, an yo nana fo raisin you like she did. NUH-uh, ain't nobody gon' listen achoo when yo words soun like at.

  11. Re:Education con game on Questions Raised By Education Dept's Road Show On College Value · · Score: 1

    We are left with the value of the education. Free or not, the value dropped as prevalence increased. If everyone gets university, and need not pay, what is the advantage?
    Why not extend mandatory schooling 4 years, free?

  12. Re:They should be much more paranoid. on How Big Companies Can Hamper the Surveillance Infrastructure · · Score: 1

    Sure based on what? Your anti-corporate bias? Internal knowledge? Things you decided not to cite?
    You are the epitome of disillusioned doogoders everywhere. Where a single failure lies, all others are equally damned.
    Business makes bad decisions, this is true. Business rarely makes the same bad decision.
    As with any rule, follow the money. If big business hands over your data, and Snowden reveals it, you have big money coming at you.
    Your homework: who would risk that, and what is the minimum payoff to make it boost the bottom line?

  13. Re:The U.S. government is hideously incompetent on FBI Reports US Agencies Hacked By Anonymous · · Score: 2

    "Stories like this" meaning flaws in Adobe products? I don't know the purpose of the attacked systems, so I can't say whether having the leaked data was appropriate, therefore extrapolation is not supported.
    Any way you look at it, your conclusion is at bestmisplaced, which is why you are modded as troll.

  14. Re:"Hacked!"? on FBI Reports US Agencies Hacked By Anonymous · · Score: 2

    Quick look at ColdFusion vulnerabilities suggests this is probably a real hack. And they aren't saying because its not patched everywhere.
    You seem to imply that if details are not known, nothing of substance happened. Save your objections for when the details are known, and it is actually not a hack.
    Preemptive objections make you seem stupid.

  15. Re:Changing definition of Kernel on MenuetOS, an OS Written Entirely In Assembly Language, Inches Towards 1.0 · · Score: 1

    This is not a kernel, nor is it the core of an operating system. This is a full operating system which supplies what you need, out of the box, to accomplish stuff. The kernel plus the core plus bundled stuff. That's what comes with MenuetOS.

    This has nothing to do with defining a basic operating system. This is making one smaller so it gets out of the way of the stuff you want to run - including the stuff bundled with the OS.

  16. Re:Might actually be the case on MenuetOS, an OS Written Entirely In Assembly Language, Inches Towards 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Why are you arguing about speed when the project goals are about having a small OS with few layers?

    The goal is to have your code go fast due to minimal layers, and apparently to have an ASM-friendly environment. The entire design could be accomplished in C, but it is in ASM because people who write an ASM friendly OS from scratch are probably interested in writing ASM.

    Once you have a C library and can compile things like Quake (screenshots are on the homepage), equivalent code should run faster on MenuetOS compared with Linux or Windows. It's not guaranteed, because you can customize your OS to some extent. But to generalize, most things should respond more quickly on Menuet than an equivalent OS without code changes.

    Faster is a side effect of design, and language choice is a side effect of the OS purpose.

  17. Re:Comon.. Really? Robots to move cows around? on Robots: a Working Breed At the Dairy · · Score: 1

    What is it that " Most dairy farmers in Australia" are doing wrong that causes them injuries that may benefit from robots? And why would they do that?

  18. Re:We don't on Zuckerberg To Teach 10 Million Kids 0-Based Counting · · Score: 1

    Zero, one, two. I have three stones.

    That makes no sense. Or we have to re-record every sesame street episode of The Count.

    Four, ah ah ah. I have 5 things. Five? You just said four, where did you get 5?

    No, if this is for kids it needs to stop now.

  19. Re:Counting From Zero Actually Makes more Sense on Zuckerberg To Teach 10 Million Kids 0-Based Counting · · Score: 1

    Zero is not a counter, it is a placeholder meaning no things to count. It was not even a concept in early number systems.
    Count cookies. Do you close your eyes and say "zero cookies" before moving to the first? No, because that's stupid.
    Remove cookies, does anyone really enumerate zero after the last cookie is gone? No. 2, 1, none.
    If you enumerate with zero, it is far more intuitive to count
    2 cookies
    1 cookies
    0 cookies, zebras, Mexicans, herpes, doors, suns, darts

    Because there is nothing left to say what you are counting. There are zero of all of those, and more. Start with apples and oranges, remove oranges. At the end do you have 0 oranges? No, you have a number of apples.

    Conceptual thinking does not apply to counting. We should not force it to so that programming makes sense.

  20. Re:i wish you could read on TSA Screening Barely Working Better Than Chance · · Score: 5, Informative

    It looked at the meta-analyses to see if there was any support at all to behavioral detection. It looked at the TSA data to see if the TSA could defend its own assertions. The few positive points were basically nullified by poor data collection.

    Half of the GAO summary was devoted to the part of the story you ignored, which was the relevant part. It's like you can read, but chose not to for the middle half. The story you will love is that the TSA is inept at capturing relevant data. The GAO is capable of seeing through that.

    Don't bother straining yourself, I'll even paste the words here so you can ignore them more easily.

    Further, the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) April 2011 study conducted to validate SPOT's behavioral indicators did not demonstrate their effectiveness because of study limitations, including the use of unreliable data. Twenty-one of the 25 behavior detection officers (BDO) GAO interviewed at four airports said that some behavioral indicators are subjective. TSA officials agree, and said they are working to better define them. GAO analyzed data from fiscal years 2011 and 2012 on the rates at which BDOs referred passengers for additional screening based on behavioral indicators and found that BDOs' referral rates varied significantly across airports, raising questions about the use of behavioral indicators by BDOs. To help ensure consistency, TSA officials said they deployed teams nationally to verify compliance with SPOT procedures in August 2013. However, these teams are not designed to help ensure BDOs consistently interpret SPOT indicators.

    TSA has limited information to evaluate SPOT's effectiveness, but plans to collect additional performance data. The April 2011 study found that SPOT was more likely to correctly identify outcomes representing a high-risk passenger--such as possession of a fraudulent document--than through a random selection process. However, the study results are inconclusive because of limitations in the design and data collection and cannot be used to demonstrate the effectiveness of SPOT. For example, TSA collected the study data unevenly. In December 2009, TSA began collecting data from 24 airports, added 1 airport after 3 months, and an additional 18 airports more than 7 months later when it determined that the airports were not collecting enough data to reach the study's required sample size. Since aviation activity and passenger demographics are not constant throughout the year, this uneven data collection may have conflated the effect of random versus SPOT selection methods.

  21. Re:What we really need on Stanford's MetaPhone Project: Crowdsourcing Metadata To Challenge the NSA · · Score: 1

    A few volunteers at the capital and it is guaranteed. But what happens then?
    First hint, I'm not volunteering.
    Second, eavesdropping.
    Third, national security.

    Result, failure to prove anything. Something that would have an effect is a far better aspiration than turnabout.

  22. Re:Misunderstanding the argument on Stanford's MetaPhone Project: Crowdsourcing Metadata To Challenge the NSA · · Score: 1

    And the argument, which you misunderstood, is that it is provably private data because it reveals way too much. The decisions have been in error.
    As increments, they were logical and sound. At some point, though, you have to reset the starting point and ask if it has gone to far. Inch to inch, no. But from 1776 yes.
    I am concerned that the study is gathering far more data tan necessary due to the Facebook comment above. Of course if you have Facebook data plus location you know all.
    What is being claimed publicly should be the maximum, and conclusions drawn from there. FISA data and nsl requests and anything other than the metadata will not prove a point.

  23. Re:Why? on Physicists Plan to Build a Bigger LHC · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We don't yet know. Isn't that terribly exciting? That is basic research at its finest.

  24. Re:Peanuts on Physicists Plan to Build a Bigger LHC · · Score: 1

    You should stick with the actual numbers for the bailout if you want to make a point. The imputed values distract from it.
    And, the intents of these 3 expenditures is wildly different, making dollar value hard to compare.

  25. Re:Other meal-replacements? on Soylent: No Food For 30 Days · · Score: 1

    Carnations and ensure give you calories if you are not getting enough, but a lot is just sugar. Not good for long term nutrition.
    Significant changes to any diet can cause these symptoms, and other articles have stressed the importance of staying comfortable, especially during the first few days.
    Sounds like you are predisposed to disagree. With that in mind, do a bit more reading. There are legit attacks to be made, but you went for easily countered blathering instead.
    Consider the population who consumed "the old ones" compared to the soylent market and your points break down.