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  1. Re:I am fed up with these icons and UI changes on Gmail's Mic Drop April Fool Backfires Horribly Costing People Their Jobs (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Maybe this is a shocker, but Google and Android also spend hours on UI/UX testing, research, and so on.

    Maybe they're just more efficient at it than your company is?

  2. I think you need to step back and think about the fact that the 'Star Trek' type future arose from a 'Mad Max' one.

    That's not unintentional writing by Roddenberry, it's the only way it really makes sense even today.

  3. Why would the US indict it's own intelligence agencies, that's now how this works.

  4. Re:Here comes the apologist ... on Brussels Bombers Filmed Nuclear Researchers, Hoped To Build A "Dirty Bomb," Expert Says (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Can we please drop the panic religious shit and realize terrorism accounts for less than 1% of murders that occur in these areas?

    Seriously if you want to bold 'reality' you should actually look it up and give me a count of how many 'Christians' murdered some guy over some Heroin last week.

  5. Re:If their intent is to destroy ... on Brussels Bombers Filmed Nuclear Researchers, Hoped To Build A "Dirty Bomb," Expert Says (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The trouble with this thinking is there isn't some kind of test you can issue where you'll know who the 'bad immigrants' are, which means you have to do something like this completely indiscriminately.

    The problem with this? You end up alienating even MORE of that population against you. You need the 'good ones' to trust you enough to feed you the intelligence you need to stop the 'bad ones'. Booting everybody out of the country who's an immigrant from the middle east isn't an effective long term strategy.

  6. They technically aren't, Software Engineers, Programmer Developer, various Developers are all in the study and represented by much larger samples as well, they just don't show up with such a large discrepancy.

    The problem here is with terminology which is just terrible. Computer Programmer to pretty much anybody other than people who like to read in depth into studies means 'some nerd who writes code', I think pretty much all of those above would fall into that category for at least 90% of the population who will read this headline.

  7. Re:Bullshit on Female Computer Programmers Make $0.72 For Every Dollar Made By Male: Study (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    You need to read the article linked.

    "Part of the explanation for the large computer programmer wage gap, said Andrew Chamberlain, chief economist at Glassdoor, is that these are the scientific programmers, “people who would do coding with mainframe computing or other scientific related computing. It’s one of the older profession.”"

    That's straight from glassdoor, who also did the actual study.

    If you're going to break out TFA, actually read TFA.

  8. Re:Bullshit on Female Computer Programmers Make $0.72 For Every Dollar Made By Male: Study (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Because 'Computer Programmer' in this instance is 'Mainframe Programmer', one of the older 'types' of computer programmer.

    More recent job titles that gap is much closer to the national average, it's not a statement on 'everybody who writes code'.

  9. Re:The article is self-contradictory on Female Computer Programmers Make $0.72 For Every Dollar Made By Male: Study (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    The .72 cents number seems to be directly related to the actual literal job title of 'Computer Programmer' at least from what I was reading. I don't think it's an aggregated total of 'Computer Programmer Jobs'.

  10. Being more aggressive doesn't necessarily give you an advantage at negotiating higher pay.

    If you mean being more willing to take a risk then sure, I can see that.

  11. Re:Warren Buffet dodges taxes on Millionaires: Raise Our Taxes To Address Poverty, Fix Roads (go.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Barely anybody in this country ends up paying the inheritance tax, it doesn't exist as a revenue stream.

    The whole point of it is to prevent landed gentry, the government doesn't care if you pay it to them or give it out to foundations, the end result is the exact same thing.

  12. Re:Give an inch and they take a foot on Sexism Is Still a Thing At Microsoft's GDC Party (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wouldn't be watching it, but I certainly wouldn't be out there making the claim that this party was sexist because it's 'clearly intended for heterosexual females'.

    See how stupid that last part sounds? Do you?

  13. Did we forget what words mean? on Sexism Is Still a Thing At Microsoft's GDC Party (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    Sexism, this is not it.

    If they had hired a bunch of chippendales would we even be having the sexism debate? No? There ya go.

  14. It's in the summary...

    Snowden is a bit more click bait than the ACLU, mostly because there's people who absolutely hate the guy. As judged by your OP...

  15. Re:We know the FBI *can* unlock it without help on Snowden: FBI's Claim It Can't Unlock The San Bernardino iPhone Is 'Bullshit' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do we care about time here again?

    If there were a legitimate need to 'get this done as quickly as possible' they'd have been in court and done with this whole deal by now. I don't care of government employees have to work hard.

  16. Re:so everybody is lying all around on Snowden: FBI's Claim It Can't Unlock The San Bernardino iPhone Is 'Bullshit' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The current hardware brute force method requires physical acquisition of the actual device.

    What the FBI is asking for would not.

    There's a pretty big difference in the 'lie' as it were.

  17. He can read the same ACLU submission as the rest of us, which clearly shows that their claims are complete and utter bullshit. Which of course anybody with rudimentary knowledge of the hardware involved already knew.

  18. Re:Totally misleading title on MIT's New 5-Atom Quantum Computer Could Make Today's Encryption Obsolete (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    1.) It says could, not will.

    2.) Says right in the article that this particular design holds some promise on scalability.

    3.) Poor reading comprehension skills is just insulting to our entire species at this point.

  19. Re: The kryptonite of slashdot groupthink on Laid-Off Disney IT Workers Decry Offshoring At Trump Rally (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Are we talking about Union Workers or Sys Admins, I can't tell.

  20. Are you actually making an implication that Donald Trump hasn't done things on par with or even worse than Hillary Clinton?

    Are you not familiar with how business and politics works in New York or something?

  21. Re:The kryptonite of slashdot groupthink on Laid-Off Disney IT Workers Decry Offshoring At Trump Rally (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    People who support the party of 'Unions are inherently evil and lazy' really shouldn't throw stones 'crony capitalism'.

    And if you do I don't really know how to even handle the conversation. It's a wonder how these people haven't self annihilated yet.

  22. Re:What kind of telemetry on ZDNet Writer Downplays Windows 10's Phoning-Home Habits · · Score: 2

    Usage statistics for windows users is easily worth that much to the UI/UX and Application development people at Microsoft on it's own.

    Then you can add in all that information being rolled into Bing and the targeted advertising they can potentially do.

  23. Re:Not only am I bothred by the phone-home, on ZDNet Writer Downplays Windows 10's Phoning-Home Habits · · Score: 1

    It's their business for as long as you use the software I suppose. It's free so you're not out of any money by rolling it back.

  24. Re:Really? on MIT Inches Closer To ARC Reactor Despite Losing Federal Funding (computerworld.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The nuclear waste problem IS solved. It's just that nobody wants to actually implement the solution.

  25. Re:legalism is a crap philosophy. on Homemade Speed Trap Made By Former UVA CS Professor (cvilletomorrow.org) · · Score: 1

    If a 12 year old jumped in front of my car going 25 mph they would still get injured.