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  1. Actually it's selectable on Microsoft's Cortana Doesn't Put Up With Sexual Harassment (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    If you get Enterprise Cortana, your license entitles you to a certain number of users who get the completely subservient Cortana, typically including the CEO, the head lawyer, and the VP of sales.

  2. Re:Unhelpful Whining on Thirty Meter Telescope Likely Never Gets Built ... In Hawaii · · Score: 1

    If nothing else, the bribes should be more affordable in Mexico. They'll need their own paramilitary force to discourage going back on the graft, however.

  3. Re:No remote work - no job application on GitHub Is Undergoing a Full-Blown Overhaul As Execs and Employees Depart (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm sorry, but the Current Year Denigration Act of Current Year clearly states that if you start a statement with "It's ", it's automatically of no value.

  4. Xerox Xeroxes Xerox on Xerox Splits Into Two Companies, Icahn Not Behind Move (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    And here I thought they were in Rochester, not Buffalo.

  5. Yep, they're almost useful on Desktop 3D Printers Shown To Emit Hazardous Gases and Particles (acs.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ....must be time to ban them.

  6. I was not at school on 30 Years Since The Challenger Disaster: Where Were You? (space.com) · · Score: 1

    ...because I was suspended, as was often the case. I didn't watch the launch live; I heard on the radio that it exploded.

  7. Re:Basic science, broken. on Why the Calorie Is Broken (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Eat the whole package and you have, umm, log 200 plus log 3, ten to that number ... 603.93521

    Nice try, robot, but humans do not multiply that way.

  8. Who are they cutting? on University of Helsinki To Lay Off a Thousand People (yle.fi) · · Score: 0

    Let me guess:
    Cutting professors, teachers, and researchers
    Jobs safe or increasing: administrators

  9. Re:I guess it's easier... on Why the Calorie Is Broken (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    And around 800 calories a day. That's a guess, because I only ate one meal a day.

    And there's the problem: you guessed wrong.

  10. Re:BMI is a poor tool on Why the Calorie Is Broken (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, BMI is crap. It's convenient to distill everything down to one number based on two measurements, but it doesn't get you anywhere near 99% of the population. If you're reasonably athletic, that bumps up your BMI into the overweight range pretty easily. If you're tall, that bumps up your BMI (because healthy humans do not scale the way BMI assumes), and if you're short it bumps it down. Body type matters; yeah, it's cliche for fat people to claim to be big boned, but the fact is that your bone structure does matter. For sedentary people with near-average height and near-average bone structure, BMI works pretty good. For the rest (which is far more than 1%), not so well.

  11. Sadly, easy to believe on CERN Engineers Have To Identify and Disconnect 9,000 Obsolete Cables (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I've been in relatively new commercial buildings where they had to replace entire conduits because they were literally packed with cables (most of them inactive). 9000 actually seems low for CERN.

    They just need to make sure they don't disconnect the cable that keeps the speed of light constant.

  12. Re:What about Private Property Rights? on Uber's Short-lived Helicopter Service In Utah Grounded (ksl.com) · · Score: 1

    As for operation in the air, since the helicopter has no permit to land, it would not be in the process of landing therefore must abide by the FAA regulation minimum altitude rules.

    There are no minimum altitude rules for helicopters.

  13. We need a new transmission network on US Could Lower Carbon Emissions 78% With New National Transmission Network (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    And we need to actually build all those wind and solar plants. And we need the feeders from the wind and solar plants to the new transmission grid. And we need to ignore the fact that the US isn't the British Empire and the sun does in fact set on the entire country. But hey, if we solved all those problems, we could reduce carbon emissions a lot.

  14. Re:Regulation; is there no harm it cannot bring? on US Regulators Find Serious Deficiencies At Theranos Lab (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    A capillary blood collection tube is Class I and not subject to pre-market approval (21 CFR 864.6150). But for some reason the Theranos capillary nanotube is class II? Why?

  15. It's an affirmative action program on Utah Bill Would Require IT Workers To Report Child Porn (ksl.com) · · Score: 1

    It's intended to encourage hiring blind IT techs. Being blind is a convincing defense against having looked at child porn.

  16. Re:Trump just says stuff on Trump Says He'd Make Apple Build Computers In the US (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    People seem to think "social safety net? That's for irresponsible people". Guess what? There are irresponsible people, and they cost you and I money. Either we plan for this and accommodate the fact that there will be irresponsible people and make it so everyone gets to benefit, for we pay for it via increased costs in everything.

    The question isn't whether irresponsible exist; it's how to deal with them. Liberals think that socializing the burden of their irresponsibility so they can continue to be irresponsible is the answer; conservatives generally believe in the swift sword of death. Except when they're irresponsible and well-connected, in which case both groups are for socialization.

  17. Re:Trump just says stuff on Trump Says He'd Make Apple Build Computers In the US (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately the others aren't better. It seems we've got a choice between a socialist, a fascist, and a national socialist.

  18. Better motto on The Heavily Redacted World of the FBI's Tracking Technology Unit (muckrock.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How about "Mendacium non veritum"... "Lies, not truth".

  19. Re:Time on What's In a Tool? a Case For Made In the USA (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is for some things, like tools, we've moved to a bi-modal distribution of quality and price. I can buy the $10 crap tool, or the $150 decent tool. The middle, the tools for people who use tools enough to appreciate quality but aren't making a living using them, has been disappearing for some time. To make things worse, the $150 decent tool may not be available except from some distributor who only works with tradespeople who provide a lot of business.

  20. Re:Need to replace Asians with everyone else? on Apple Releases 2015 EEO-1 Diversity Data Over Weekend (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Or giving preference to white individuals. But I think diversity is about being underrepresented in the field. Are white individuals underrepresented in all of tech?

    Oh, yes, it's even worse than the numbers indicate; the racial diversity numbers are given only for US nationals, and most tech companies include a considerable number of employees on work visas; most of those employees are non-white.

    But, what we white people lack in numbers, we make up for in deviltry. We are, after all, the original sin and the source of all evil.

  21. Re:LOL - more sickening propaganda on Katherine Johnson: NASA's Pioneering Female Physicist (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    If IQ & scientific accomplishment means so much, then the Jews should be running every nation.

    According to The Daily Stormer, we are!

  22. Re:Computers are bad for you. on The President Wants Every Student To Learn CS. How Would That Work? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    And so a new copypasta is born. Bravo, AC, Bravo.

  23. Re:White racist bitch on The President Wants Every Student To Learn CS. How Would That Work? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Obama's not black, he's a Milano.

    Really? He doesn't look Italian.

  24. Re:Did anyone actually read the articles? on What Spotlighting Harassment In Astronomy Means · · Score: 1

    Well, I don't know about "sexist," but "harassment" is pretty easy to define. It often really only comes down to one guideline: Don't be creepy.

    Ah, "creepy". That word for which the central example is what teenaged girls call unattractive guys who try to talk to them. Might as well stick with the SNL Rules

    1: Be handsome
    2: Be attractive
    3: Don't be unattractive

  25. How many people run outside with their shotgun to shoot down baseballs, tennis balls, etc?

    Not many, but when the trap machine has been broken for a few weeks, you do what you have to.