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  1. Re:To the anthropology professor... on The Rise of the Pointless Job (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You should have told the carpenter's mechanic that the carpenter replaced the brake lines on his own truck.

  2. People moving for tech jobs are going to be mostly men [citation not needed]. This means that Canada is draining men into the biggest sausage party in the Western Hemisphere. Which means there will be a surplus of women left behind. So, the clever guy who is having some trouble finding himself a girlfriend can just head north and have a darned good chance at picking up a Canadian girlfriend.

    Only downside? Nobody's going to believe he has a Canadian girlfriend.

  3. No, and fuck off on Can We Live Without Concrete? (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Because we know you'll also object to wood, steel, aluminum, carbon fiber, plastic, bone, fiberglass, or any other structural material we can come up with. Magical unobtanium which can be produced and used at scale without any environmental effects doesn't exist and never will.

  4. Re:If anyone is doing that it's them... on FCC Commissioner Broke the Law By Advocating for Trump, Officials Find (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    So having read all the argument in the thread, he's a less-restricted employee but they're arguing that he used his political office to "interfere with an election" by saying that and all the stuff about the hours he works and whatnot are mostly irrelevant.

    Yep, and you're right that's crap. He's explicitly allowed to participate in political activity not being paid for as a part of his official position, and "Hey, vote for my guy" is pretty central political activity. He was at a CPAC conference, not an FCC event. This is just the Office of the Special Counsel trying a power grab. He should tell them if they have a problem with it, let them go to court.

  5. The relevant law appears to be 15 USC 2302 (c)

    Prohibition on conditions for written or implied warranty; waiver by Commission

    No warrantor of a consumer product may condition his written or implied warranty of such product on the consumerâ(TM)s using, in connection with such product, any article or service (other than article or service provided without charge under the terms of the warranty) which is identified by brand, trade, or corporate name;

    The FTC left out the parenthesized portion in their letter, and it seems to me it's relevant. If repair service is provided without charge under the terms of the warranty, it's exempt from this provision. But I don't know the case law on this.

  6. TwilightFan2006: Has terrible taste in movies.

    EmilyProust75: Probably a reference to something I haven't read.

    Monktastic: Also probably a reference to something, maybe a fan of the TV show "Monk", maybe something else.

    PuppyLove53: Oh, fuck, a refugee from AOL

    CheetaGurl08: Another damn AOL refugee, but this one's definitely male and attention-seeking.

    YellowHummer345: Well, I know what this person probably drove at one point.

    Except CheetaGurl, not getting much from them.

  7. "Overseas coder" narrows down to two groups. You can tell between them by the insults you get when you point out their cluelessness. One will concentrate on how much YOU suck, and the other will concentrate on how much THEY are superior to you.

  8. I assume everyone on stackoverflow is Indian or European.

    But everyone knows African and European, so what's the unladen airspeed of an Indian swallow?

    (nb: [Indian swallow] is considered a porn-seeking search on Google, much to my surprise)

  9. Re:Frist on Facebook Competitor Orkut Relaunches as 'Hello' (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 1

    If only you knew how close you were.

  10. Re:Finally, following one best practice. on YouTube Will Increase Security At All Offices Worldwide Following Shooting (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, she was a Persian vegan bodybuilder, and Persians once considered themselves Aryans, so same as Hitler, right?

  11. Shooting was on the patio on YouTube Will Increase Security At All Offices Worldwide Following Shooting (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    So basically YouTubers aren't going to be allowed to eat outside any more? Or they'll put a Lexan cage around the patio?

  12. Re:The government and business wins? on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If Everything On the Internet Was DRM Protected? · · Score: 1

    The backdoors that may exist cannot be legally used in court to prosecute somebody.

    Through the magic of parallel construction, they can be illegally used in court to prosecute anybody.

  13. Re:Crystal blue persuasion on New Deep-Learning Software Knows How To Make Desired Organic Molecules (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    For overpriced gourge level pharmaceuticals left and right handed molecules sometimes matter.

    Not just overpriced gorge-level pharmaceuticals; the reason "Dex" is called "Dex" is because it's the right-handed (dextro) version of amphetamine. Active methamphetamine is dextro too.

  14. Here's my public comment on US To Seek Social Media Details From All Visa Applicants (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is fucking stupid. For any number of reasons, but the main one is that there are countries which will reciprocally put the same requirement on US citizens visiting them. And then if I go to one of those countries, I'll have to admit that I have a Google Plus account. Embarrassing.

  15. Re:Crystal blue persuasion on New Deep-Learning Software Knows How To Make Desired Organic Molecules (nature.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, finding syntheses of controlled substances from uncontrolled precursors is an obvious use of this tech.

  16. Of course not on Tim Cook Says Apple's Customers Are Not Its Product, Unlike Facebook (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Apple's customers are not its product. Apple's customers are it's MINDLESS SLAVES, as we have known for years.

    --- Sent from my iMac.

  17. Re:The difference is the left on Sex Workers Say Porn On Google Drive Is Suddenly Disappearing (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When you're talking left wing puritanicals you're talking feminists. Outside of your local community college's women's studies program they're powerless.

    Nope. They're in charge at Google.

  18. Re:This makes sense on Chinese Companies Are Buying Up Cash-Strapped US Colleges (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    But wouldn't it be wondrously ironic if a Chinese buyout is what it takes for our liberal arts schools to return to their traditional role of passing on the history and culture of Western civilization? It would be acceptable to teach the works of dead white men once more.

    Why wouldn't they instead teach the history and culture of Eastern civilization, dead Chinese men instead of dead white ones? I will grant this is still an improvement over teaching nothing but hatred of white people.

  19. Re:Many ways to lose on When China Hoards Its Hackers Everyone Loses (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Turns out it's usually A; few American companies have managed that holy grail of getting one dollar each from a billion Chinese.

  20. even one guard or police officer, trained in close quarter combat in the school would stop them dead in their tracks.

    Unless, of course, they decided they were too close to retirement to bother.

  21. Re:Truthful?? Dunno. Accurate...WELL... on Are Research Papers Less Accurate and Truthful Than in the Past? (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep. Except for particle physics, which uses 6 sigma. Most fields use 2 sigma.

  22. It's called _Nature_ nowadays, but yeah.

  23. Doctors and lawyers and investment bankers without strong soft skills tend not to advance to ridiculous pay levels either.

    Radiology pays well.

    But if you've got the soft skills the technical skills are superfluous in any case.

  24. Must be a YouTube staffing manager.

  25. Re:Whats the story on New York's Subway Is Slow Because They Slowed Down the Trains After A 1995 Accident · · Score: 1

    There are even plans for open-gangway cars, where the connection between cars is almost as wide as the car itself, and passengers can more freely between segments.

    As can bumstink, so one bum can smell up an entire train instead of one car. I don't know what they were thinking. (If you ever see an empty subway car at a busy time, DO NOT GET ON)