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  1. Re:No power of relevance is signing this agreement on Only Twice Have Nations Banned a Weapon Before It Was Used; They May Do It Again · · Score: 1

    1. An active area denial weapon.

    There could be complications.

  2. Re:funny thing about banning weapons in the US on Only Twice Have Nations Banned a Weapon Before It Was Used; They May Do It Again · · Score: 3, Insightful

    you are going to have to pry my auto-turret from my cold dead fingers.

    No, they'll have a robot to do that for them.

  3. Re:War is Hell. on 100 Years of Chemical Weapons · · Score: 1

    Furthermore, there was no requirement to stay in the union when the US was formed

    You've never read the Articles of Confederation, have you?

    You've never read the Declaration of Independence, have you?

  4. Re:Bad Advice on An Evidence-Based Approach To Online Dating · · Score: 1

    Being yourself has far more to do with actually being honest in not only who you are, but the kind of people you want to hang around with.

    This works if you are already the "right" kind of person. It is counter-productive for everyone else.

    And you can't fool the people who have already tried it.

  5. Re:I.D. on Humans' Big Brains Linked To a Small Stretch of DNA · · Score: 2

    But if it was evolution alone, other species would have it too.

    Evolutionary innovations don't work like that. There's a species that's first. It might not keep the monopoly for long, but humans haven't been around for long.

  6. Re:Bad Advice on An Evidence-Based Approach To Online Dating · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The age old advice still stands: be yourself.

    That's fantastic advice if "yourself" is in the top 1% of the most awesome prospects. Those people don't need any advice at all.

    The best the rest of us can do is to be ourselves after first improving ourselves.

    Unfortunately you can't get to the long term without short term and in reality, being fake is phenomenally successful for the short to medium term. It generally works as long as the plausible deniability lasts.

  7. Re:Not the right way on Ask Slashdot: Parental Content Control For Free OSs? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you think talking to children is sufficient, then you are a classic example of why it's not.

    That doesn't even work with most adults.

  8. Re: Corporate interests on How One Climate-Change Skeptic Has Profited From Corporate Interests · · Score: 2

    If Al Gore is your idea of a scientist, then you don't get an opinion on what is or isn't settled.

  9. Re:T-1000 in button down shirt on The Robots That Will Put Coders Out of Work · · Score: 1

    You try telling one of them they've been replaced by the other.

  10. What bubble means on No Tech Bubble Here, Says CNN: "This Time It's Different." · · Score: 2

    People fail to understand is that bubbles are not bad for the people who are lucky enough to get out in time. (And, yes, it's usually simply a matter of luck.) They are only bad for everyone else.

    Financial analysts are the last people with an incentive to tell people about a bubble if they suspect one.

  11. Re:Dilbert Complete on The Robots That Will Put Coders Out of Work · · Score: 1

    Maybe a few humans can work *for* the robots keeping the PHBs out of their way while they get the actual job done.

  12. Re:T-1000 in button down shirt on The Robots That Will Put Coders Out of Work · · Score: 1

    "Gather your personal effects and vacate the premises. You have twenty seconds to comply."

  13. Re:Is aggression really survival+ for tech. societ on Stephen Hawking: Biggest Human Failing Is Aggression · · Score: 1

    Why does one have to come out on top?

    It doesn't *necessarily* end with one coming out on top but that is with the set of possibilities, so it's worth thinking about.

  14. Re:Actually on Stephen Hawking: Biggest Human Failing Is Aggression · · Score: 1

    Then the 0.001% with natural immunity will rule the world.

  15. Re:There are two people you cannot satisfy with fi on Why Hollywood Fudged the Relativity-Based Wormhole Scenes In Interstellar · · Score: 1

    the '85 Lynch film... did an excellent job of capturing the atmosphere of the milieu.

    So... it captured the atmosphere of middle but not the rest of it?

  16. Re:really? on Delivery Drones: More Feasible If They Come By Truck · · Score: 1

    The truck would actually be an aircraft carrier, of sorts.

  17. Re:WHY to start a business on Advice on How to Start an IT Business (Video) · · Score: 1

    More info: 80% of first businesses fail, but only 40% of *second* businesses fail

    Maybe half of them didn't want to go through the experience again.

  18. Re:Spite? on Game Theory Calls Cooperation Into Question · · Score: 1

    All these behaviours are heuristics that work on average, and work even though in the real world information is imperfect. You can't know with certainty ahead of time what the outcome of any of these strategies will be.

  19. Re:Origin of *Species* on Game Theory Calls Cooperation Into Question · · Score: 1

    They don't survive if everybody else co-operates to beat up the hoarder and take the keys from them.

    It's a strategy, and it has risks - same as every other strategy.

  20. A prisoner's actual dilemma on Game Theory Calls Cooperation Into Question · · Score: 2

    In real life, which so many experts seem uninterested in, the participants in the prisoner's dilemma need to keep quiet until they've talked to a lawyer.

  21. Re:Technology can NOT eliminate work. on What To Do After Robots Take Your Job · · Score: 1

    People weren't unemployed as such under feudalism but that economic system still left something to be desired for the majority.

  22. Re:A license isn't what makes an engineer on Ask Slashdot: Are General Engineering Skills Undervalued In Web Development? · · Score: 1

    Places outside the US exist.

  23. That was before lasers.

  24. Re:Here's what I know, just because you're an EE on Ask Slashdot: Are General Engineering Skills Undervalued In Web Development? · · Score: 1

    w.r.t. is with respect to and about is not an exact equivalent.

  25. Re:There is no engineering. on Ask Slashdot: Are General Engineering Skills Undervalued In Web Development? · · Score: 1

    not viewing programming as engineering is, in my opinion, one of the main reasons so much software is utter garbage.

    I think you have the cause and effect backwards.