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  1. Re: Huh? on Silicon Valley Still Wrestling With Diversity Issues · · Score: 1

    Donald Trump. Perfect example of incompetence attracting the incompetent.

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

    The Forbin Project. Its a logical extrapolation of taking a good thing too far

  3. Re: You have got to be kidding me on Interviews: Ask Brianna Wu a Question · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No harm, no foul. It's only by (sometimes vigorous) debate that we can come to a better understanding on controversial topics.

  4. Re: You have got to be kidding me on Interviews: Ask Brianna Wu a Question · · Score: 1

    Why not Brianna Wu? Or do you have objections to giving fools enough rope to hang themselves?

  5. Re: You have got to be kidding me on Interviews: Ask Brianna Wu a Question · · Score: 2

    You must have forgotten the "ask Florien Mueller" episode. The parallels - attention-seeker making the mistake of believing that any publicity is good publicity. Not going to end well whether she responds or not. Schadenfreude time.

  6. Re: You have got to be kidding me on Interviews: Ask Brianna Wu a Question · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's not why we change gender. Anyone seeking approval for a sex change on that basis would be denied. This is not to say that I approve of ms Wu's antics - to the contrary, she's been an attention whore and drama queen with dubious motives. Most of us are not like her.

  7. Re: You have got to be kidding me on Interviews: Ask Brianna Wu a Question · · Score: 4, Interesting
    In my experience most people are supportive of transsexual, just not those who are lying assholes.

    Wu, how do you justify your claim of being a feminist when your game has females depicted as an adolescent boy might draw them, play the victim card all the time, have been caught exaggerating and outright lying so often and then hiding behind claims of sexism, etc.

    Follow-up question: your male past is easily found by anyone doing a cursory search. Do you refuse to talk about it because you are afraid that others won't see you as a "real woman?" Wouldn't a real feminist embrace their trans experience to provide a more inclusive view of, and insight into, the female experience from the viewpoint of a transsexual?

    note ... I was outed on Slashdot a decade ago, and overall the experience was very positive. Being open about it has presented opportunities to help others reach a better understanding of who we are.

  8. Re: What "significant cost"? on European Agreement Sets Up Third Greek Bailout · · Score: 1

    The Greeks hollowed out their economy using borrowed bailout funds to continue previous corrupt and unsustainable practices rather than make the necessary reforms they had said that they would, and this is nobody else's fault but their own. It's like using your student loans to party like crazy and then flunk out. Going to the well a second, then a third time, no wonder there are trust issues.

  9. Re: Greeks surrender: no restructuring on European Agreement Sets Up Third Greek Bailout · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Its estimated that the economic turmoil of keeping the banks closed for two weeks has caused 25 billion in damage. Totally self inflicted. This is what you deserve when you have a clown appoint another clown as finance minister. There's a big difference between managing the economy in a game and realpolitik. Otherwise I would be finance minister for having finished sim city 2k. Also, it's far from a done deal. Will the Greek parliament pass the necessary reforms? And either way, will Greeks step up their national sport of dodging taxes? Throw in civil unrest and the expectations of the government getting the boot and a grexit is still the most likely scenario.

  10. Re: How much on For £70,000, You Might Be Able to Own an Enigma · · Score: 1

    Someone set you up the bombe?

  11. Re: Just one? on For £70,000, You Might Be Able to Own an Enigma · · Score: 1

    No, because I am an enigma, you insensitive clod!

  12. Re: morbid story is morbid on Calculating the Truck-Factor of Popular Open Source Projects · · Score: 3, Funny

    Not as f*cked as the dev that was hit by the truck, you insensitive clod!

  13. Re: What could possibly go wrong? on An Organic Computer Using Four Wired-Together Rat Brains · · Score: 1

    That skynet would be a lot easier to defeat because it blends.

  14. Re: Yeah, software developers. on Software Devs Leaving Greece For Good, Finance Minister Resigns · · Score: 3, Funny

    That would be redundant as they just voted to screw themselves far worse than you ever could. If

  15. Re: Blunting on Common Medications Sway Moral Judgment · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You're confusing cause and effect. The SSRIs didn't cause people to become crazy killers, they were taking these drugs because they already had problems. The emotional blunting helps take the edge off of the suicidal thoughts that come with major depression, as the study notes that participants were more adverse to harming to harming themselves or others. The side effects are better than killing yourself.

  16. Re: Is this for real? on FCC Nixes PayPal's Forced Robocalls Plan · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should move to a country with a modern banking system. Been able to make and receive money via email for years in Kanuckistan direct from a bank account, no cc or bank account info transferred, no cc required.t

  17. Re: Wow brilliant move on Is BlackBerry Launching an Android Phone? · · Score: 1

    That's because only a tiny bit of consumers are even aware blackberry still exists, and most of those who are aware have written them off.

  18. Re: Shadowbans for everyone! on Reddit Removes Communities To Address Harassment, Users Respond · · Score: 1

    Shadow bans used to hide disagreements of opinion with the site operator are a sign of deteriorating quality Example: groklaw. As time went on, even qiestioning anything was dangerous. Shadow bans encourage spammers because their posts are still visible. Putting a "spam comment deleted" sends the message to all spammers to try their luck elsewhere.

  19. Re: Social mobility was killed, but not this way on Writer: "Why I Defaulted On My Student Loans" · · Score: 1

    Digging ditches pays quite will. We have a lot of buried infrastructure, and experienced backhoe operators who won't damage to services in close proximity make halfway decent coin

  20. Re:females operate on emotion, not logic on Google's Diversity Chief: Mamas Don't Let Their Baby Girls Grow Up To Be Coders · · Score: 1

    The report of the lack of men's shelters in Canada is totally inaccurate. Just because you want to make a living running a shelter of any kind doesn't mean you're going to get government funding. There are plenty of shelters for men who are homeless for whatever reason.

    Here you can walk into the local CLSC and get a referral to a shelter for abused men.

    Unfortunately, to many SJWs seem to think that feminism isn't just about equality. They're just the latest iteration of that transphobic nutbar Germaine Greer. Bra-burning was never the way to achieve equality, just sensationalist attention-grabbing that took away from the real issues, same as SJWs today are more of a distraction than they're worth.

  21. Re:No thanks. on The Artificial Pancreas For Diabetics Is Nearly Here · · Score: 1

    The thing is, the needle pricks are no big deal any more. They used to hurt a lot more than now, but the finger stickers are sharper, the amount of blood you need is next to nothing (and can be drawn from places other than the finger), and the injections are pretty much painless. And now they're experimenting with inhaled insulin.

  22. Re:Basic income / maybe make full time 32-30 hours on Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs To Computerization? · · Score: 1

    You claimed that humans make semi-rational choices. I pointed out that they do not - they make totally irrational choices. I did not "make your point" as you wrongfully claimed.

    Your interpretation of rape is lacking ..., to say the least.

    Humans over-breed - and we can't export them anywhere else any more, like they did 100s of years ago when much of the world was still unknown. So, where are you going to put 19 billion people?

  23. Re:No thanks. on The Artificial Pancreas For Diabetics Is Nearly Here · · Score: 1

    No, but it has real-time measuring, not a 10 - minute+ delay. Also it's much finer grained in it's operation than the device.

  24. Re:No thanks. on The Artificial Pancreas For Diabetics Is Nearly Here · · Score: 1

    A normal functioning pancreas won't ever put you into insulin shock either. Type 1 diabetics don't have a normally functioning pancreas, or they wouldn't be Type 1 diabetics, duh!

  25. Re:No thanks. on The Artificial Pancreas For Diabetics Is Nearly Here · · Score: 1

    The pump can't add glucose. Your body has a limited store of glycogen in the liver that it can draw on, after which you need calories quickly.