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  1. Re: Great one more fail on High School Student Builds Gun That Unlocks With Your Fingerprint · · Score: 1

    If you don't report it when your lethal weapon is stolen, you deserve to go to jail.

  2. Re:Alibaba Is Useless on Alibaba's US IPO Could Top $20 Billion · · Score: 2

    So you told him to learn Mandarin, because he found a site confusing, and then used a Cantonese insult to drive your 'point' home. Learn French, zakkenwasser.

  3. Re: all that money on Alibaba's US IPO Could Top $20 Billion · · Score: 1

    "about 0%" means that it isn't 0%. And these people are surrounded by infected people. Who may not have used soap or hand sanitizer anyway.

    It's the same thing as herd immunity: If everyone disinfects, then you're good. If a fraction disinfects, then even that fraction is at risk simply by being surrounded by infection sources.

  4. Re:Please stop spreading such drivel on Low-Carb Diet Trumps Low-Fat Diet In Major New Study · · Score: 1

    That's why they tried it on 148 people, and why they're posting average results, for average people. I am curious as to the outliers though.

  5. Re:Calorific value? on Low-Carb Diet Trumps Low-Fat Diet In Major New Study · · Score: 1

    They didn't do caloric restriction here. Apparently, a low carb diet allows people to lose weight better than a low fat diet. People ate how much they wanted. Whether it is because they ate fewer calories or because the body processes the food differently is irrelevant for the conclusion that low-fat works better.

    Also, a claim of this study was that fat is *not* bad for you, and better than high carb.

  6. Re:German version is cheaper?! on XKCD Author's Unpublished Book Remains a Best-Seller For 5 Months · · Score: 1

    They should make a book called 125 Years of German Humor. That would be the best two pages in comedic history.

  7. Re:customer-centric on Microsoft Defies Court Order, Will Not Give Emails To US Government · · Score: 1

    Employees of companies are not legally required to be obedient. They can tell their US bosses 'no'. At which point it would be up to the discretion of the US bosses to decide to take action like firing the Irish employees, or to shrug and say 'oh well'. They are not legally obligated to fire them.

  8. Re:1 Billion Mobile Users? on $33 Firefox Phone Launched In India · · Score: 1

    When I worked for a mobile app startup, we saw major usage spikes in Indonesia, India and the Middle East, as well as some African countries. They required data. Part of this is that they pretty much skipped the whole landline thing for the majority of the populations, so they could jump ahead on the technology curve.

    I would not be surprised to see the 80% figure being true, even with the income difference.

  9. Re:How many years could he be charged with? on WikiLeaks' Assange Hopes To Exit London Embassy "Soon" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There's law, and there's international diplomacy. If they yank him out of an embassy, every embassy is at risk of wanton search, and you can say goodbye to diplomatic immunity. If, at some point, Sweden extradites Assange to the US and there's a bit of outcry, they'll say "Oops, maybe we shouldn't have done that", and there will be no repercussions (except for Assange).

    I haven't heard Sweden state that they will categorically not extradite him to the US, though.

  10. Re:Pauses my 16 GB desktop working on 4K program on Oracle Hasn't Killed Java -- But There's Still Time · · Score: 3, Informative

    I can write a one-liner script that will bring a Unix machine to a crunching slowdown. Stupid in, stupid out.

    If your little editor / mini-IDE craps out your machine, it is poorly written. Noticeable garbage collection will only be triggered if your Old Gen memory space is too full, which means you're maintaining references in memory which you should not (circular references are fun-- in someone else' code). Also possible is that it's simply not updating the UI while running a compile script, which is definitely bad programming. Blaming Java for that is idiotic.

    Disclaimer: I write high-performance Java applications using Spring. Also maintaining a pile of spaghetti that has grown over the past ten years, that still performs adequately.

  11. Re:Slaves of Dubai on Dubai's Climate-Controlled Dome City Is a Dystopia Waiting To Happen · · Score: 1

    I'm sure many unemployed black people would like being slaves for rich folk again, since they'd get to serve in the kinds of houses they couldn't afford. </sarcasm>

  12. Re:What if there isn't any truth out there? on Hunt Intensifies For Aliens On Kepler's Planets · · Score: 1

    If the system you're going to harvest has a usable, replenishable worker pool you only need to send a small colony ship.

  13. Re:I'd just assume keep the two separated... on Gigabyte Brix Projector Combines Mini PC With DLP Projector In a 4.5-Inch Cube · · Score: 1

    I don't disagree with your main point, but computers don't depreciate as much as they used to. You can still do good work on an 8 year old machine running a fairly recent version of your favorite OS. Hell, my gaming PC is only now beginning to show its age of about 5-6 years, and gaming PCs definitely depreciate faster.

  14. Re:Don't be so simple on Pentagon Document Lays Out Battle Plan Against Zombies · · Score: 1

    No, he's saying that you can choose between the guy who's going to take your right to know what's in your food because money, or the guy who's going to take your right to know what's in your food. Because money.

    Y'all have a de facto two-party system. That means that neither party has any reason to make drastic changes to their intended policy. They just have to slag the opponent, and 4-12 years later they've got the presidency again. Why bother listening to people?

  15. Re:Not terribly surprising on US College Students Still Aren't All That Interested In Computer Science · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm disinclined to have to disagree with whoever denies that you aren't incorrect.

    There is a more obvious way of writing the above sentence, and it should be employed. Even though none of the words are terribly complicated, the whole cannot be understood at a glance.

    The same goes for simpler things like operator precedence rules. Code should be understandable upon scanning it, unless it's black magic, heavily optimized code.

  16. Re:Drone? on U.S. Passenger Jet Nearly Collided With Drone In March · · Score: 3, Funny

    Luckily, irresponsible amateur enthusiasts never pump vast quantities of money into their hobbies.

  17. Re:Enough "world days" on It's World Password Day: Change Your Passwords · · Score: 1

    World world day day.

  18. Re:Oh well on You Are What You're Tricked Into Eating · · Score: 1

    You'd have six times the mass of food, but you're not going to be too healthy if all you eat is pig feed.

     

  19. Re:a modest proposal of sorts on Bill Gates & Twitter Founders Put "Meatless" Meat To the Test · · Score: 1

    Your statement being corny notwithstanding, we are not truly what we eat...

  20. Re:So few on Google May Be $1 Billion Behind In Tax Payments To France · · Score: 3, Informative

    For much of the 20th century, the United States has had >70% tax on the wealthiest as well, with at some point >90%. Apparently, that did not seems to hurt the US.

    Not that various American ultra-rich folks are calling for higher taxes on the wealthy too. Instead, they get tax breaks.

    A few rich people being a bit upset that their income from labor gets taxed heavily, which they don't feel because the vast bulk of their income comes from investment, won't hurt them. It's the desire to spend spend spend that really gets Hollande. Actual socialists do more harm than good.

  21. Re:Safe just from prying eyes? on Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen Say Google Data Now Protected From Gov't Spying · · Score: 2

    "They wouldn't dare" is not a long term argument with a government that is increasingly using the methods of totalitarian states.

  22. Re:Wouldn't opening the helmet clear the water? on How An Astronaut Nearly Drowned During a Space Walk · · Score: 1

    I doubt you'd be able to reseal the helmet once you break the seal, so you can't just "open it enough". Once you open it, it would depressurize the suit to a vacuum, which is not where a person wants to be.

  23. Re: Why? on Asia's Richest Man Is Betting Big On Silicon Valley's Fake Eggs · · Score: 0

    Citation needed for your claim that eggs are unhealthy.

    Eggs are good food, containing lots of animal protein and useful fats, and very few carbs.

    If you're still on the fat = bad bandwagon, that seems to have been a dead-end line of reasoning. Literally, in many cases.

  24. Re:When I hear "I work 60 hours a week"... on Your 60-Hour Work Week Is Not a Badge of Honor · · Score: 1

    In the 1800s we also sent toddlers into chimneys and down mines because they were small.

    You're an idiot. But if you're happy with yourself, who am I to poop on your parade? Enjoy yourself.

    I work 36 hours a week, and am looking to drop down a bit. Friday afternoons I'm with my friends, having a life. I do sports in the evenings before dinner. I spend much of my free time working on my hobbies, getting good at them and enjoying the hell out of them. This makes enough money for the company I work at for them to want to pay me, for me to pay for the things I want. Sure, there's lots of other work, housekeeping related, helping friends or neighbors, but that's just life.

    Sacrificing that life so you can provide 'value' for someone else? No thanks.

  25. Re:Another type that is interesting... on Your 60-Hour Work Week Is Not a Badge of Honor · · Score: 1

    You want me to respond to emergencies because our software is crappy? Fuck you, pay me.