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

    programmers got it in their heads that being called an engineer is better than being a programmer or software developer.

    Unless you specifically need to be a programmer or software developer, it is better being called an engineer.

    Which is why in many places it is illegal to call yourself an engineer unless you licensed to be one.

  2. Re:Is nothing Hackproof? on Bank Hackers Steal Millions Via Malware · · Score: 1

    ...because of the human...

    But we're talking about banks.

  3. Re:July Fly-by on Time-Lapse of Pluto and Charon Produced By New Horizons · · Score: 3, Funny

    As opposed to February, which is in summer. (Note both depend on your hemisphere.)

  4. Not how to code on Should We Really Try To Teach Everyone To Code? · · Score: 2

    It does not make sense to teach everyone *how* to code any more than it makes sense to teach everyone law or brain surgery or aircraft repair.

    However, everyone does need some degree of understanding *what* coders do, for the simple reason that coding is something that has a large impact on society and the economy. Same as people (particularly those choosing careers or education) need to know what law or surgery or aircraft maintenance are, and maybe some rudimentary knowledge of the field so they have some minimal frame of reference in common with the experts.

  5. Re:Good on Smoking Is Even Deadlier Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't buy that for a dollar.

  6. Re:All droughts are bullshit on NASA: Increasing Carbon Emissions Risk Megadroughts · · Score: 1

    Sun? I'm not having your dirty solar panels in our street

    They don't want your street. They want all that desert that no-one is using. I'm sure you think your street is the most awesome, special, exceptional street anywhere, but it's not good enough.

  7. Re:NWO on Trans-Pacific Partnership Enables Harsh Penalties For Filesharing · · Score: 1

    It's been coming true for all of those 25 years. People just didn't pay attention when it was merely about other people losing their jobs.

  8. Re:Boring on Oldest Twin Remains Found In Siberia · · Score: 2

    It does seem that the find is more of a statistical fluke, given that twins and death in childbirth are not unknown phenomena. But we may well learn something. Or not. Either way science will happen.

  9. Re:Peanuts on Your Java Code Is Mostly Fluff, New Research Finds · · Score: 1

    Unless not all "fluff" is equal.

  10. Vaccinations for others on Low Vaccination Rates At Silicon Valley Daycare Facilities · · Score: 1

    Maybe they're relying on everyone else to have their children vaccinated. Their own children, of course, are exceptional.

  11. Collaboration on EFF: Hundreds of S. Carolina Prisoners Sent To Solitary For Social Media Use · · Score: 1

    The question remains, how were the prison workers who allowed this in the first place punished?

  12. goto is open to abuse.

    Rigid prohibition of goto is also open to abuse.

  13. Oracle says a lot of things.

    They inflicted Fusion on my employer, and not a single claim about it has turned out to be true.

  14. Re:Mmmmmmmm....... on Comets Form Like Deep Fried Ice Cream Scoops · · Score: 1

    Why would anyone want to deep-fry the scoop?

  15. Re:Peanuts on Your Java Code Is Mostly Fluff, New Research Finds · · Score: 1

    The problem here is that "fluff" is being used to mean anything that's not the sexy and exotic part of the algorithm. Genuine "fluff" gets in the way of comprehension and is bad code, but structuring and redundancy are extremely valuable.

  16. Re:The whole idea is crazy on Quantum Equation Suggests Universe Had No Beginning · · Score: 1

    I've never heard a model of space-time geometry called 'god' before...

  17. Transparency on Jeb Bush Publishes Thousands of Citizens' Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    Perhaps Jeb Bush is trying to show voters that he believes in transparency for government officials. Instead he is showing that he has entirely misunderstood the point.

  18. Re:The whole idea is crazy on Quantum Equation Suggests Universe Had No Beginning · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Thats a bit like asking what is south of the south pole.

    Maybe. But the current model could be wrong.

  19. Re:The problem is the "social sciences". on Will Elementary School Teachers Take the Rap For Tech's Diversity Problem? · · Score: 1

    It would be wonderful to study all these things scientifically.

    A lot of terrible harm has been done and is being done precisely because the people studying them were not actual scientists.

  20. Re:The problem is the "social sciences". on Will Elementary School Teachers Take the Rap For Tech's Diversity Problem? · · Score: 1

    And the theory of evolution wasn't political? What about the belief that the Earth orbits the sun?

    No, those weren't political.

  21. Re:The problem is the "social sciences". on Will Elementary School Teachers Take the Rap For Tech's Diversity Problem? · · Score: 1

    The ignorance in your statement is mind-boggling

    Yet you are more or less in agreement:

    The biggest problem in the social sciences isn't their practices, it is that their findings are inherently political

  22. Re:Can't eat what you don't grow on Free-As-In-Beer Electricity In Greece? · · Score: 1

    What is so much better about CEOs making 500 times as much as their office workers

    The catch is that there are always examples of truly gifted CEOs who, on the basis of both supply and demand and the value they bring to a business actually are worth the exceptional salary they earn.

    Of course, the other 99% of CEOs who 'earn' the inflated salaries think they deserve that kind of compensation but actually don't; most of them add nothing to the business or do so only by chance.

  23. Parliament on Canadian Supreme Court Rules Ban On Assisted Suicide Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    I find this troubling, not because I disagree with a policy of permitting assisted suicide - it's a tricky issue and I accept that there's no perfect solution - but because far too often 'unconstitutional' is a thinly disguised version of 'something the Supreme Court disagrees with politically'.

    This is a political matter for Parliament, not a question of law that needed clarification. It would be nice if our politicians were not so lazy and cowardly that they decline to deal with the issue, but that does not mean it's a good idea for the judicial branch to start legislating for them. Even if you think judicial activism is a good idea - and not everyone does - it can be taken too far.

  24. No, he informed people about what other people already knew.

    He does not have the superpowers some people seem to think he has.

  25. Re:Debate? What debate? on Canadian Climate Scientist Wins Defamation Suit Against National Post · · Score: 1

    No, there's no debate.

    Lies are something different.