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  1. Re:Stories from a Company Town on Apple and Google Are Rerouting Their Employee Buses as Attacks Resume (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Almost Any State, USA.

  2. Re:Haven't we already done this? on Flat Earther Plans New Rocket Launch, Predicts Super Bowl-Sized Ratings (phillyvoice.com) · · Score: 1

    They're trapped in the Truman show

  3. or climbing a reasonable tall mountains. Ive seen it at 12k , it is even more apparent at 14K.

  4. Re:Notice the weak winter Sun is strengthening? on Flat Earther Plans New Rocket Launch, Predicts Super Bowl-Sized Ratings (phillyvoice.com) · · Score: 1

    because the angle changes. FYI, the atmosphere is not uniformly distributed. It bulges out at the equator and this thinner at the poles. Which is exactly what to expect from a fluid on a spinning sphere-ish object.

  5. Re:90% of flat-hearters are trolls on Flat Earther Plans New Rocket Launch, Predicts Super Bowl-Sized Ratings (phillyvoice.com) · · Score: 1
  6. Someone obviously did not understand Multivariate Analysis.

  7. Re:As a deeply conservative Christian I am appaled on Now Meltdown Patches Are Making Industrial Control Systems Lurch (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    If you're not living by the example of Jesus (The man from the middle east, not the guy who trims the hedges) you're not a Christian.

  8. The hazards of monoculture on Now Meltdown Patches Are Making Industrial Control Systems Lurch (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    relying on one piece of tech is as bad as relying on one food crop.

  9. Re:Morons on California Will Close Its Last Nuclear Power Plant (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Predicting the future are you? It that a GENUINE Gypsy crsytal ball you are using?

  10. Who developed the internet? Paide for developing networking gear and protocols? Most of it started with the government.

  11. The fact that the private sector doesn't like competition is worrying. They can easily be pressured into blocking pr0n sites, access to various religious sites based on who is the terrorist of the day. Plus, history shows that the private sector cannot run things efficiently.

    I'm just glad we have people in office who are defending our services and letting the public servants do the job and do it right.

    As for service? Good luck. It is another added fee, and the cost of it can easily double, triple, go up an order of magnitude... and you either pay or else.

    Comcast isn't perfect, it is an inefficiently run organization which can provide sloppy service to individuals.

    Don't forget the creeping specter of fascism. If this keeps up, maybe we can use the gcorporate run Internet to share recipes for our pets and zoo animals.

    Fixed that for you. Have a nice day.

  12. why should a city civil engineer work 60 hours a week w/o over time (except during times of natural disasters). The problem is that most of the people on this board have developed a slave attitude about working over time.

  13. Re:Because on Why Uber Can Find You but 911 Can't (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    No. Run for office or work for the opposition party to boot them out of office. As a citizen it is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to run your government.

  14. Re:honest answer: on Why Uber Can Find You but 911 Can't (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    Sales taxes are regressive, and the rich make sure property and income taxes remain artificially low.

  15. Re:Because gubbermint! on Why Uber Can Find You but 911 Can't (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with pensions? Civil servants make less than the private sector they need some reward.

  16. Re:Because gubbermint! on Why Uber Can Find You but 911 Can't (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    At the end of the day all the data gathered by Uber et. al. will be scattered far and wide to be used by marketers, insurance companies, credit reports, identity thieves etc. There are more safeties in place in government information gathering.

  17. Re:Prod vs. Subprod? on The Tech Failings of Hawaii's Missile Alert · · Score: 1

    OK, all you have to do is create a simulator. Which captures every nuance of all the alert paths with will be taken; twitter, FB, radio, shortwave radio, police radio, fire department radio, hospital alert systems, maritime systems, etc. Get it?

  18. Re:UI Design...again on The Tech Failings of Hawaii's Missile Alert · · Score: 1

    No, we put BAs in charge. Arts majors would probably know more about it than your typical manager.

  19. Re:Tech failed? on The Tech Failings of Hawaii's Missile Alert · · Score: 1

    "you're dealing with testers, not people who are habituated to the system and who thus use it differently."

    This is a direct violation of Agile. developers should be given close contact and ability to collaborate with the end users. Not having 5 degrees of separation between developers is the key to bad software. You end up playing telephone and with no understand of the real problem.

    I am appalled at the SW development I have seen in large SW companies. the waste, mis-management, slippage, and distain users and developers develop for each other. Layers of management who seem to have as a purpose only in preserving their jobs.

    That's why I prefer smaller companies with in-house projects, as opposed to larger companies with outhouse projects.

    This is

  20. Re:Uforgiveable on The Tech Failings of Hawaii's Missile Alert · · Score: 2

    Don't even put it in the same location. And reverse responses e.g., yes cancels the alert and no triggers it. It was an approach used at a refinery I worked at (left handed valves etc.), and also was relayed to me by a coworker who was a submarine Nuclear Reactor Operator. Force people to think. This is SOP in mission critical applications, and I mean mission critical as in people will die. Not mission critical in terms of a person not making their bonus so they can't buy that new Mercedes.

  21. Re:What does this say? Vibrant, helpful community? on Stack Overflow Stats Reveal 'the Brutal Lifecycle of JavaScript Frameworks' (stackoverflow.blog) · · Score: 1

    Or is it popular because mgmt. dictates it?

  22. don't I know it.

  23. Re:Morons on California Will Close Its Last Nuclear Power Plant (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is that why it is the 6th largest economy in the world? I'll hang with the morons thank you very much.

  24. Re:Guess they were not serious about climate chang on California Will Close Its Last Nuclear Power Plant (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You sure about that? Germany's economy is larger than CA but using renewables they have more energy than they can use.

  25. Re:What does this say about Javascript? on Stack Overflow Stats Reveal 'the Brutal Lifecycle of JavaScript Frameworks' (stackoverflow.blog) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Obscure code is bad code. If you can't do it simpler you;
    1) are using the wrong tools
    2) Don't know what you are doing
    3) don't understand the first thing about programming, which is 90% of the cost of a program is maintenance
    4) trying to be clever, which is stupid

    I hereby sentence you to 5 years maintnce programming on code produced by clueless programmers like yourself.
    (odds are in 6 months you won't be able to fix you own code.)