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  1. Re:Bayes rule on Gene Testing Often Gets It Wrong · · Score: 1
    If you had bothered to read the article, you would have found that in the 11% that were compared by more than 1 company, 17% came back with differing interpretations. That's alarming.

    11 percent have been analyzed by more than one lab so results can be compared. In 17 percent of those cases, labs interpreted the findings differently, as either raising the risk of a disease, having no effect on it or having an unknown effect.

    So what do you do - get 3 tests and let the majority inform your decision?

  2. Re:All kudos to Uwe Koch-Gromus on A Ph.D Thesis Defense Delayed By Injustice 77 Years · · Score: 0

    for arranging this. It might be largely symbolic, but I heartily approve of what she has done. Something bright & positive, better than the trials of ancient concentration camp officials.

    FTFY

  3. Re:Gidwin in the summary on A Ph.D Thesis Defense Delayed By Injustice 77 Years · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nah, they're just a Godwin Nazi. :-)

  4. Gidwin in the summary on A Ph.D Thesis Defense Delayed By Injustice 77 Years · · Score: -1

    Godwin right there in the summary - how often do you see that

  5. Re:Answer on How Much C++ Should You Know For an Entry-Level C++ Job? · · Score: 1

    The right answer is "If you have to ask, you don't know enough." :-)

  6. My ex half-filled an empty tank with diesel. I said to fill it the rest of the way with gas, drive around for a few hours, filling it every hour. No problem. It's not necessary to drain the tank completely, just have a layer of gasoline floating on the diesel. The diesel will eventually all be burned off, and when the exhaust doesn't smell like a Mac truck, you can stop topping up the tank.

    And the owners manuals for heavy equipment give ratios of gasoline to #2 diesel to use in extreme cold when #1 isn't available.

  7. And yet we have successes every day, so they're not eating all our resources. Maybe a disproportionate amount, but the same can be said for any other group. The aged, the infirm, the red states.

  8. Re:Why is this dribble on the front page? on Creationists Manipulating Search Results · · Score: 2

    Why? For asking for some evidence? That out of all the gods that man has had, that even ONE of them has some actual basis in fact? Because I'm not willing to believe in any of them just because someone says that their bible says so (the fallacy of argument from authority).

    Many of the same people who refuse to accept tons of evidence for global warming) accept the bible without a shred of evidence. "You gotta believe ." No, I don't. It's not intolerant to point out that the emperor hasn't had clothes for thousands of years, any more than it was "intolerant" to denounce slavery or child-beating in opposition to that same bible.

  9. Sticking some diesel in a gas tank won't damage the engine. And in really cold weather, doing the opposite is necessary if you don't have access to #1 diesel (#2 waxes up at lower temperatures).

  10. Absolutely correct. "Self parking" and "Pedestrian detection" are two completely separate features using two separate sets of hardware. Here, the driver was manually driving towards people assuming that the radar in the front of the car would tell it to auto-brake. There was no radar in that car, though.

    In other words, it will drive over any pedestrians standing in your desired parking spot. I can see how some people would pay extra to be able to claim "it was an accident - the car did it!"

  11. Re: Human error? on Volvo Self-Parking Car Hits People Because Owner Didn't Pay For Extra Feature · · Score: 1
    Good thing he didn't push "Plaid" - there would have been no survivors.

    Oh wait - that's an "extra feature" too.

  12. Re:Great marketing on Volvo Self-Parking Car Hits People Because Owner Didn't Pay For Extra Feature · · Score: 2

    How many accidents are caused by people flooring the gas when they wanted to brake? Or driving forward while thinking their car is in reverse and looking over their shoulder?

  13. 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

    You're in the US. You claim there are no homeless shelters for men within 2,000 miles. That's VERY hard to believe. Even a quick look at google maps shows that every point in the continental US is within 2,000 miles of a homeless shelter.

    There's a bunch of them in Montreal, some for men, some for women, some for teens, even for LGBT.

    Doing a quick search, there are homeless shelters in every Canadian province, and every state that I looked at at random.

    The rest of your post is as fact-free. You're being paranoid.

  14. Re:Powerpoint resulted in the loss of 2 space shut on Why PowerPoint Should Be Banned · · Score: 1

    Powerpoint (originally called Presenter) certainly did exist at the time - it was written for the Mac. Microsoft bought them in 1987, after the name change.

  15. Re:Powerpoint resulted in the loss of 2 space shut on Why PowerPoint Should Be Banned · · Score: 1

    Sure it did - The first version was called "Presenter" and later changed to Powerpoint in 1987 because of trademark problems. Then Microsoft bought them. And no, it wasn't a Windows program - it was for the Mac, which certainly had a GUI at the time.

  16. Re:So where's the transcript? on Building Hospitable Open Source Communities (Video) · · Score: 1

    Woof! :-)

    None of this derogates from the fact that the most prominent SJWs were engaging in unrealistic and often fake histrionics and outright lies (Briana Wu especially) for their own self-aggrandizement and/or financial interests.

    Once that became painfully obvious, I say a pox on both their houses - they deserve each other. Calmer, more rational people will withdraw from such stupidity and work on the problems via other means.

    Both sides have a few valid points (reverse discrimination being one of them for men and discrimination and sexism for women) but the extremists are so caught up in making drama instead of solving problems. The crazies on both sides are a very small minority (which is why they had to create so many sock puppets - they obviously don't have much of a following).

  17. Re:None. on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Skills Do HS Students Need To Know Now? · · Score: 1

    If you can't make a trivial loop to automate repetitive tasks, then your computer is reduced to a glorified typewriter/TV/gaming console.

    Guess what? That's all that most people want or need. They leave the automation of tasks to someone who actually knows how to do it, rather than create a million different buggy solutions that screw up the data.

    With local search and MRU lists in each application most people don't even need to know how the file system is structured.

    People with zero knowledge of html use the internet all the time. It's so simple even a child can do it :-)

  18. Re:Why should we listen on Building Hospitable Open Source Communities (Video) · · Score: 1

    To a Man that thinks he's a Woman? Your judgment is clouded by your obvious mental illness.

    Coming from an AC who thinks he's a man, that's pretty funny.

  19. Re:This is how organized religion dies on Ireland Votes Yes To Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1

    So what? You asked how we dealt with it - I told you. Your problem is that you don't like the answer because it doesn't fit into your preconceived notion of what the "right" answer is. So what if the ban has certain exceptions? That's how we deal with it - on a practical level, not by being pedants.

    And now you complain about things like inheritance. Again, so what? Those are also dealt with in the law.

  20. The ones who don't want help are a self-regulating problem - they'll die.

    And that has NOTHING to do with the fact that there are those who want, but can't get, help.

  21. You can argue that all you want, but that's not how real life is. People visiting either go on business, as tourists to see sights (not restaurants, etc) or friends and family.

    As far as where to eat, they'll go with what's nearby or what others recommend.

    Just look at how many restaurant web sites never get updated because even the restauranteur has forgotten about them, and customers never mention them.

  22. Re:Alternate story title on Creationists Manipulating Search Results · · Score: 1

    If you can't breathe through your nose with your tongue out, maybe you should see an eye-ear-nose specialist. Also, I just tried DuckDuckGo, Bing, Yahoo, Amazon - they all have this problem.

  23. Re:Alternate story title on Creationists Manipulating Search Results · · Score: 1

    "Everyone trying to manipulate search results"

    Yep. Don't like it? Use duckduckgo.com. Meh. A non-story.

    DuckDuckGo has the same problem. Ditto Bing, Yahoo Search, and of course Amazon.

  24. Re:Why is this dribble on the front page? on Creationists Manipulating Search Results · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Your theory requires that the universe be infinite. No proof of that yet, and maybe never.

    What is so hard to believe that we created the "god" myth? It's been done many times over the ages, so we have more proof of that than the other way around.

    Otherwise, who created god?

  25. Powerpoint resulted in the loss of 2 space shuttle on Why PowerPoint Should Be Banned · · Score: 4, Funny
    here and here

    The shuttle disasters Richard Feynman, the late Nobel laureate and CalTech physicist, saw that "bulletized" thinking contributed to the Challenger disaster, where 7 crew members died and a multi-billion dollar craft destroyed due to an O-ring failure. The big problem was that NASA management wasn't really listening to the engineers - and breaking issues up into bullets helped them do that.

    The engineers who worked on the Challenger O-rings knew they weren't qualified for cold weather. But management didn't want to hear it and OK'd the launch despite the engineer's opposition.

    As sometimes happens, disaster ensued.

    In the 2003 Columbia shuttle disaster, Prof. Tufte dissects the PowerPoint slides that buried important information - such as volume, mass and velocity - about the large piece of foam insulation that penetrated the Columbia's heat shield. Creating useful engineering reports in PowerPoint is difficult if not impossible.

    And of course, powerpoint makes you stupid