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  1. Re: safeguard the sanctity of the classroom? on France Bans Smartphones in School (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    A student is more likely to be killed by a deer than by a school shooting at a U.S. school

    Bad maths. How many deer are there at US schools?
    Can I choose to go to a school that doesn't have deer thereby eliminating this risk altogether?

  2. Re:This research is sexist, homophobic and antitra on Dads Pass On More Than Genetics In Their Sperm (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems like coverage a wide range of news with photos appropriate to the story.

    Every time I see the news there is something about Trump. I'm over it. I'm counting the days to 2024 when I never have to hear about that clown ever again...

  3. Re:I've often wondered about this on Dads Pass On More Than Genetics In Their Sperm (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    The past lives thing might be more believable if thy weren't always of only the popular cultures such as Vikings, or Romans, or whatever theme movies are doing the rounds at the time. It's never obscure unknown cultures that appear in these memories, and there's never any new information that isn't already widely known.

  4. Re:Suing your own company. on Shareholder Sues Facebook After Stock Plunge (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    But you just got 10 million dollars. Who cares about the shares at that point.

    If the CEO and CFO are lying about the state of the company then the share price may suffer even more long term. Not every situation is win/lose. As we learnt from the Iraq invasion and the 2016 election, sometimes the choice is lose or lose more.

  5. Re:You have that backwards asshole on Teen Allegedly Broke Into a Couple's Home To Ask For Their WiFi Password, Police Say (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    More guns, less crime.

    Yet the facts say otherwise.
    Look I'm not anti gun, I grew up in a family of farmers and hunters so they have a place, but guns don't solve all problems. In many cases they create problems as evidenced by the over represented gun violence statistics from the US compared to the rest of the civilised world.

  6. Re: You have that backwards asshole on Teen Allegedly Broke Into a Couple's Home To Ask For Their WiFi Password, Police Say (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    No, these laws still apply in the US because police coverage is low or non-existent, citizens need to defend themselves. .

    Sounds like 1840 to me...

  7. Re:Anyone else on Slack is Buying HipChat and Stride From Atlassian (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    for high productivity, dynamic let's-make-stuff-work type teams

    1% of teams who think they're all that actually are.

    And those 1% need better tools, hence why Slack was created

  8. Yes, stupid enough actions should get you killed. That's how evolution, and the world, works.

    Yet you're still alive after that comment. Clearly the world doesn't work how you think it works...

  9. Other than that though, if you're in a castle doctrine state, if you - as a genuine surprise - find any intruder in your home or dwelling you're clear to shoot immediately.

    Sounds civilised...

  10. Re:You have that backwards asshole on Teen Allegedly Broke Into a Couple's Home To Ask For Their WiFi Password, Police Say (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup, that's what it means to have a "Stand Your Ground" law.

    Is it 1840 where you live?

  11. Re:Anyone else on Slack is Buying HipChat and Stride From Atlassian (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    As someone who thinks 75% of cases where email is used would be better using something like usenet[1], do these things leave a trace?

    Because if they don't, they're useless.

    Monday. Marketing: Make it all purple! Tuesday: Your boss: Why did you make it purple? Marketing are throwing a fit.

    [1] Yeah, first rule...

    Yeah it's persistent, but the point of it is for high productivity, dynamic let's-make-stuff-work type teams, not cover your ass type culture where everyone's primary function seems to be to find someone else to blame. If your boss is a cunt then it's probably best to stick with email.

  12. Re:Mind boggling? on Star Spotted Speeding Near Black Hole at Centre of Milky Way (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Came here to say the same thing....

  13. Re: Huh... on Slack is Buying HipChat and Stride From Atlassian (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    There's a great many developers that still do work on LANs without cloud based systems junior. I worked on embedded platforms until a few years ago and even though the dev team is spread out over several countries that team STILL uses Subversion and an in-house bug tracking system.

    I have a guy at my work who still insist on deploying everything manually and screenshotting all the steps of the install as the most robust method for releases. He will also be the same guy who moans the loudest when finds out he no longer has a job.

  14. Re:Huh... on Slack is Buying HipChat and Stride From Atlassian (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    After reading the post, I laughed out loud because I have been working as an engineer for 20+ years and never really heard of any of those companies or "products".

    Probably says more about you than them.

    Guess I will get back to work just writing code that actually makes people money.

    Atlassian went from Startup to $10B by selling developer tools and Slack went to $5B just because of their Team Chat platform. I get that not everyone chooses to use these products, but having some smug anonymous internet user guy not knowing who they doesn't make their products any less useful.

  15. Re:Anyone else on Slack is Buying HipChat and Stride From Atlassian (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm an old fart who once wrote JCL from scratch, but am I the only one who went "Who, what, what, who?"

    Allow me to try fill you (and anyone else) in.
    Team Chat is a thing that when used properly within the right scope pretty much replaces the olde worlde email as the primary communication platform
    Slack is the cool player in the team chat space. In Digital-land everything is Agile and Devops and modular and distributed, so open team chat is the best method to collaborate rather than email. These new team chat platforms are not just apps like IRC, Skype, Messenger etc, they have all sorts of useful new features such and integrations, APIs, Bots, wiki, document storage, search etc.
    Atlassian is company that got popular in developer world for creating newer Agile type tools such as Confluence (wiki), Jira (issue tracking), Bamboo (CI/CD), and Bamboo (repo). Hipchat is their version of team chat.
    Microsoft as usual realised late the Slack and Atlassian had a potential game changer that threatend Skype and Outlook/Exchange so created their product 'Teams' to try and do the same thing. Teams is a lot more shit, but MS have market power which a lot of the times means more than good products.
    I assume that Slack and Atlassian saw this threat so have joined forces to try fight Microsoft.

  16. Re:As a vegetarian since 15 years... on Impossible Burgers' Key, Bloody Ingredient Wins FDA Approval (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    A bunny's life is actually worth MORE than a cow's based on cuteness and relative flavor.

    I can only assume you are a city dweller? In a lot of rural areas, rabbits are a plague and it's open season to kill as many of them as you can. The phrase 'breed like a rabbit' actually comes from the fact rabbits (strange huh?). I would put them on the bottom of the list right near mosquitoes and flies.

  17. Re:Why am I an omnivore ? on Impossible Burgers' Key, Bloody Ingredient Wins FDA Approval (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Take a look in the mirror, and smile. The Incisors and Canines in your mouth evolved primarily for eating meat, and the premolars and molars evolved for grinding vegetable matter. I go with what my biology is optimized for.

    Your body is optimised to adapt to its environment. The teeth you currently have are a result of previous experiences of your ancestors, but you are by no means a finished product. So if optimisation is your thing, then adapting to new things should be your primary goal.

  18. It's the new buzzword. Although a Govt project costing $150k is pretty good value. Around here it would cost that much just to get the idea formalised into a proposal. The project itself wouldn't budget at least $20Mil plus spend another $20Mil in project blow out costs.

  19. Re:Nickel and dimed to death on Cord-Cutting Keeps Churning: US Pay-TV Cancelers To Hit 33 Million in 2018 (Study) (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on how big your family is. But to answer your first question, No. If you have Netflix you really don't need HBO.

    As much as I hate Cable fees, sometimes I like the casual flick-through-tonnes-of-options nature of consuming passive TV, as opposed to having to browse a selection then choose. It's like Radio vs Spotify, I prefer to just chuck on a station and if a shit song comes on flick to another one, rather having to spend effort curating my own list of things to listen to. (sure Spotify has playlists and radio, but it's not the same experience.
    Sometimes I'll decide to sit down for a couple of hours so will choose a good Netflix show, but more often than not I want meaningless shit on in the background that I can walk away from if I want.

    I'd like to see a streaming service that has the option of passive programming (ie like TV) or planned (like Netflix) so I have both options

  20. Re:Got my Model 3 on 7/2. . . on Elon Musk Calls Boss of Tesla Troll Who's Heavily Invested In Oil Industry (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    It really is an amazing car. . . I feel like a requirement to short the stock is one of the following: 1) You have never test driven a Model 3 2) You are a shill for some competing industry/company

    3) You believe cars as a concept have no long term future. At 10m2 (approx) per vehicle they simply take up too much space to be useful in higher density living environments.
    I'm too poor to gamble on shorts, but the way population growth and urbanisation is going, the car is a dead end strategy for a transport solution. Tesla really should be getting into electric city buses like the Chinese https://www.weforum.org/agenda...

  21. Do they think about this beforehand? on 24 People Have Now Been Sentenced In India-Based Phone-Scam Case (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    I always wonder with these big scams, do the people creating them know that they're likely to get caught and spend decades in prison, or do they think they'll actually get away with it?
    I've come up with tons of get rich quick schemes/scams but the fear of lengthy jail time has always kept me honest. Is the only difference that these people don't think enough bout the risks of such ventures in advance? Or do they get years into it, then one day wake and think oh shit, we might got to jail for this but it's too late?

  22. Re:Fahrenheit 451... on Boston Dynamics Is Gearing Up To Produce Thousands of Robot Dogs (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Whenever I watch those types of disaster scenario movies I always think what would I do to get out of this situation? Most Hollywood productions are so full of holes it's not funny, but this one was one of the few that I had no answer for. Humans will be fucked against robot death drones, and the scary part is that this tech (or a simpler but just as effective variation) is already here. Scary indeed...

  23. Re:"Didn't make anyone smarter..." on ADHD Drugs Aren't Doing What You Think, Scientists Warn (inverse.com) · · Score: 1
  24. Re:"Didn't make anyone smarter..." on ADHD Drugs Aren't Doing What You Think, Scientists Warn (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm also afraid that their medical effects are more similar than many wish to admit, resulting in their misuse.

    Of course you have a citation for this? I only ask because I just watched a Netflix doco on recreational use of Adderall (and Ritalin) and the experts they interviewed said the two are like chalk and cheese. This doco matched my own personal experience where I've seen Meth users go completely off the rails, resulting in heavy addiction and violent crime while Amphetamine and Methylphenidate users seem to behave like regular people, just with more periodic boosts in energy and happiness.

  25. Re:Oh they did that years ago on Facebook Notification Spam Has Crossed the Line (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    ... and so they will get constant notifications from messages and times they have been tagged in a image(there something unsettling about that "being tagged").

    For the second time today I'm referencing a Black Mirror episode. Check out the episode 'Nosedive', it has already predicted how this ends.