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  1. Well, it worked. on Why Darmok Is a Good Star Trek: TNG Episode · · Score: 1

    Lists of best and worst things always omit something obvious or include something stupid as a way to make discussion of the list go viral.

  2. Re:Its transparent.... on 3-D Printed Skull Successfully Implanted In Woman · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That would be awesome until the first time your brain got sunburned.

  3. Sweet on 3-D Printed Skull Successfully Implanted In Woman · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Can I get a bulletproof one?

  4. Not just misspelled, but misspelled *differently* on TSA Missed Boston Bomber Because His Name Was Misspelled In a Database · · Score: 4, Informative

    Neither "Tsarnaev" nor "Tsarnayev" is the correct spelling; the correct spelling is "ЦÐÑнÐÌÐÐ".

    As another commenter mentioned, utility companies solved this problem decades ago with technology like Soundex. Our intelligence apparatus is apparently crippled by incompetence, laziness, haste, provincialism, or all of the above.

  5. Re:bullshit on Don't Help Your Kids With Their Homework · · Score: 1

    Maybe before we had three generations of stupid parents taught by stupid teachers...

  6. Re:Did Fluke request this? on $30K Worth of Multimeters Must Be Destroyed Because They're Yellow · · Score: 1

    That argument works until you start allowing people to trademark things like colors.

  7. Re:Did Fluke request this? on $30K Worth of Multimeters Must Be Destroyed Because They're Yellow · · Score: 1

    Exactly.

  8. Re:How to get through to anti-vaxxers on Measles Outbreak In NYC · · Score: 1

    It's not an absurd notion. Refusing to utilize available technology is an error of action, not an error of inaction.

    "You certainly have no right to violate the integrity of anyone else's body by forcing drugs into their bodies."

    Fair enough. The other option is to quarantine them. They can exercise their freedom, but they will not be allowed to leave their own property, ever, for any reason, until they have been vaccinated. If they demonstrate a proclivity to violate this restriction, the penalty will be forced vaccination.

  9. Re:Did Fluke request this? on $30K Worth of Multimeters Must Be Destroyed Because They're Yellow · · Score: 1

    "ignorance of the law is not a valid excuse for breaking it" - It should be. If smart laypeople can't figure out the law, the law is wrong, period.

  10. Re:Did Fluke request this? on $30K Worth of Multimeters Must Be Destroyed Because They're Yellow · · Score: 1

    "Their target market is kind of niche" - Niche or not, their target market is the people who are saying they should give Sparkfun a break. 2 + 2 = ?

  11. Re:Did Fluke request this? on $30K Worth of Multimeters Must Be Destroyed Because They're Yellow · · Score: 1

    That's a bullshit rule that trademark lawyers invented to protect their own jobs. Common sense and human decency should override it.

  12. We already have a group to watch the NSA. on Church Committee Members Say New Group Needed To Watch NSA · · Score: 1

    It's called The People. Stop withholding relevant information from the responsible watchdog organization, and everything will work itself out.

  13. Re:How to get through to anti-vaxxers on Measles Outbreak In NYC · · Score: 1

    It's not a "self-righteous crusade", and it has nothing to do with "higher morality". Anti-vaxxers threaten my family in a very real way. Merely taking their kids is better than they deserve.

  14. Re:Why all the fuss about Common Core? on Is the New "Common Core SAT" Bill Gates' Doing? · · Score: 1

    Then the problem is the algorithm used to evaluate those teachers, not the fact that they are being evaluated.

  15. Translation on Ask Slashdot: Can an Old Programmer Learn New Tricks? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "I played around at writing code, but I never actually learned any of the other skills that are just as much a part of being a programmer."

    If you haven't learned those skills in fifteen years as a professional, the problem isn't your age. I became a professional programmer at the ripe old age of thirty-six, and learned all the skills you're afraid of in my first year on the job. I had to!

  16. Danah Boyd is US-centric and out of touch. on The Era of Facebook Is an Anomaly · · Score: 1

    First of all, there is an obvious value in everyone converging on the same social space. The value of the space to any user is a function of the number of other people who use it.

    But it's already not true that everyone uses Facebook. Other social networks are popular outside the US. For that matter, other social networks are popular inside the US. I'm told that many teenagers already regard Facebook as yesterday's social network.

  17. Re:Snowden = Traitor on Snowden A Hero? Gates Says No, Woz Says Yes · · Score: 1

    Or von Braun. SS officer, stole a bunch of his own files and then told the allies where they were.

  18. How to get through to anti-vaxxers on Measles Outbreak In NYC · · Score: 1

    Make their kids wards of the state until they pull their heads out of their asses.

  19. Re:Why all the fuss about Common Core? on Is the New "Common Core SAT" Bill Gates' Doing? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "First off, getting stuck with a class of crappy students can cost you your job . . ."

    No, that's not how the evaluations would work. The improvement of individual students could be tracked and evaluated against the standard.

    "Once they receive tenure, they should no longer be subject to evaluation . . ."

    That should not be true of anyone.

  20. Troll Hunter! on Power Cables' UV Flashes Apparently Frighten Animals · · Score: 5, Funny

    Troll Hunter really was a documentary.

  21. Incompetence or malice? on Crowdsourcing Confirms: Websites Inaccessible on Comcast · · Score: 1

    The majority of issues I have had with any cable company were related to their DNS being shitty. For some reason, cable companies don't know how to operate DNS.

  22. Re:In my experience on Men And Women Think Women Are Bad At Basic Math · · Score: 1

    It is easy and natural to some people. Those are the ones who should be teaching.

  23. Diane McWhorter? on Author Says It's Time To Stop Glorifying Hackers · · Score: 1

    Why do I recognize that name? What other stupid shit has she said?

  24. Re:You keep using that word on Author Says It's Time To Stop Glorifying Hackers · · Score: 1

    And neither does "blaming the victim".

  25. I live in Tucson. on Austin Has Highest Salaries For Tech Workers, After Factoring In Cost of Living · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I make less than half of what I could be making. But I'm also making four times what I need to pay the bills, which means early retirement, hello! And if I ever found myself unable to work in the tech industry, I could still pay the bills working in a grocery store.