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  1. Patrolling on Droning For Sharks · · Score: 1

    Not just sharks but everyone in law enforcement out on patrol should be recording their activities so that confrontations with citizens can be reviewed objectively and perhaps avoided altogether. Just because they carry frickin' lasers instead of guns should not make a difference.

    The sharks really should have body cams but this is the next best thing.

  2. Re:Jesus H. Christ on Tech Jobs and Apple: Every Bit As "Fun" As Pleasure Island? · · Score: 1

    Diversity for the sake of diversity is NOT a good thing.

    Diversity for its own sake does in fact have some value, but it has costs as well, and in principle it's just as illegal and repugnant as any other form of discrimination.

  3. Re:Sick and tired of the political correctness on Tech Jobs and Apple: Every Bit As "Fun" As Pleasure Island? · · Score: 1

    equal opportunity does not mean equal outcome

    Far too many genuinely don't understand why this is true. They've been so sheltered from unequal opportunity that they take it for granted and assume the equality people have been fighting and dying for for hundreds of years must be something else.

    We will have to keep spelling out "equal opportunity" until they clue in.

  4. Re:Women who want to do it are doing it on Tech Jobs and Apple: Every Bit As "Fun" As Pleasure Island? · · Score: 1

    No, those who want to do it more than they want to avoid putting up with harassing, unprofessional, boorish assholes, are doing it already.

    In other words, *exactly* the same as men.

    If you think all men are equally content with dysfunctional workplace cultures, well, that's just sexist.

  5. Not even about gender on Tech Jobs and Apple: Every Bit As "Fun" As Pleasure Island? · · Score: 1

    The CEOs just want to portray the menial jobs as 'cool' so they can reduce wages even further.

  6. Re:Hire That Programmer Immediately! on Commodore PC Still Controls Heat and A/C At 19 Michigan Public Schools · · Score: 1

    So anyone who can write a program for that platform that is still running problem-free after 30 years deserves to be making stacks of cash in the embedded/IoT space.

    For contemporary bloatware, that might be true. If it's a simple program doing the same thing for 30 years, it could be full of bugs that just haven't surfaced yet.

  7. Re:Commodore Amiga or Commodore PC? on Commodore PC Still Controls Heat and A/C At 19 Michigan Public Schools · · Score: 1

    So, you're saying it's a mainframe?

  8. Re:Suck It Palpatine! on Trade Bill Fails In the House · · Score: 1

    Palpatine's predecessor is the one who sent the two special-ops assassins to "settle" the "conflict".

  9. Re:well isn't that special on NASA Probe Reveals More Detail In Pluto's Complex Surface · · Score: 2

    Why don't we do world peace?

  10. Re:Go Solar, it can make good financial sense. on Solar Power Capacity Installs Surpass Wind and Coal For Second Year · · Score: 1

    Do you quibble with Wall Street over earnings reports as well, because they're all bad at math?

    Yes, I do.

    Though I would use the word 'dishonest' rather than 'bad'.

  11. Re:Install is not a noun on Solar Power Capacity Installs Surpass Wind and Coal For Second Year · · Score: 1

    They are not the same. "Installation" can be an action, and abstract category, or a result. "Instal" can only refer to an action. "Install" is spelled wrong.

  12. Corporations on Do Robots Need Passports? Should They? · · Score: 1

    It would be easier for the corporations and governments they own to just take citizenship away from those pesky humans, and level the human and robot playing field that way.

  13. Re:I'm already useful on How Much Python Do You Need To Know To Be Useful? · · Score: 1

    systemic bias against those with a specific set of... skills

    That's every job interview.

  14. False Advertising on An Origami Inspired Bacteria-Powered Battery · · Score: 2

    The alleged "origami flat-pack robot" had components that weren't paper.

  15. Competition on How Much Python Do You Need To Know To Be Useful? · · Score: 1

    It does not take much of any skill to be useful. There's always a certain amount of entry-level work that has value.

    It takes god-like powers, however, to be competitive in today's job market, which I suspect might be the question actually intended.

  16. Re:slowly unfurling crisis? on Why Our Brains Can't Process the Gravest Threats To Humanity · · Score: 1

    Because not all "small changes" are equal.

  17. Threat to humanity on Why Our Brains Can't Process the Gravest Threats To Humanity · · Score: 1

    There are very few people who believe any of these threats genuinely pose a risk of the extinction of the human species, or even setting back civilization more than a few decades or so.

    But there is a lot of human suffering that could happen before that level of disaster occurs. A whole lot.

  18. Laboratory on Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Criticizes Role of Women In Labs · · Score: 1

    Now, I'm really curious - what does he think is different about the lab versus any other workplace?

  19. Re:I'm Not Sorry: It's Not Sexism on Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Criticizes Role of Women In Labs · · Score: 1

    If they aren't also calling for "safe spaces" for vulnerable men etc., then, yes.

  20. Re:You know what else sucks? on Congress: We Didn't Know the FBI Was Creating a Small Surveillance 'Air Force' · · Score: 2

    Seriously, Dice seems truly surprised that the Slashdot crowd can tell bad user interfaces and web page designs from good ones.

  21. Re:Congress has little or no awareness... on Congress: We Didn't Know the FBI Was Creating a Small Surveillance 'Air Force' · · Score: 2

    No, they can take back their power and responsibilities at any time.

    Every single day that they don't should be considered a separate act of treason.

  22. Re:Bend the Constitution for a while, please? on White House Asks FISA Court To Ignore 2nd Circuit's Decision On Bulk Surveillance · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is it really as dire as a civil war?

    The 1% are trying to reduce the 99% to serfs. And succeeding.

    What would you call it?

  23. Re:Technically, they are correct. on White House Asks FISA Court To Ignore 2nd Circuit's Decision On Bulk Surveillance · · Score: 1

    The US started with a rebellion.

    Which pretty much sums up his attitude about the rule of law.

  24. Re:Technically, they are correct. on White House Asks FISA Court To Ignore 2nd Circuit's Decision On Bulk Surveillance · · Score: 2

    Yes, but the Executive telling the Judiciary what the law is is completely backwards in the first place.

  25. Re:At the cost of the tax payer on Emails Show How Industry Lobbyists Basically Wrote The Trans-Pacific Partnership · · Score: 1

    Economist also believe that money is what determines what is true.