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  1. Re:Land of the free? on How a Video Game About Sheep Exposes the FBI's Broken FOIA System (dailydot.com) · · Score: 2

    Now that Glen Beck endorsed Hillary Trump looks to be the sane and sensible solution. In an insane situation, total madness is the best solution.

  2. Re:Land of the free? on How a Video Game About Sheep Exposes the FBI's Broken FOIA System (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    What if trump wins by one vote? In a winner take all state one vote could swing the entire electoral college.

  3. Re:The FOIA is not broken on How a Video Game About Sheep Exposes the FBI's Broken FOIA System (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Underfund so there is plausible deniability

  4. The Ford Pinto of mobile phones.

  5. Re:Is "ship with" really the big takeaway here? on Melinda Gates Was Encouraged To Use an Apple and BASIC. Her Daughters Were Not. (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not so much the neckbeards from what I have observed but rather the brogrammers

  6. Re:Perl Is A Great Applesoft Replacement on Melinda Gates Was Encouraged To Use an Apple and BASIC. Her Daughters Were Not. (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Per is easier than Java. Compare Perl code

    print "hello world"

    to java code

    public class hello
    {
    import java.io.
    public static void main()
    {
        System.out.println("hello world");
    }

    }

  7. Re:Is Perl really that hard to learn? on Melinda Gates Was Encouraged To Use an Apple and BASIC. Her Daughters Were Not. (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Their parent should learn how to spell Fortran. What's so hard about

    print "hello world" ?

  8. autom=nomous flying cars are on the way. Personally I am holding out for nuclear energy too cheap to meter.

  9. Can you justify the closed form assumption?

  10. will it ship with Jesux? on Emacs and Vim Combined In New 'Spacemacs' Distro (spacemacs.org) · · Score: 0
  11. Re:IEEE Code of Ethics on Machine Logic: Our Lives Are Ruled By Big Tech's 'Decisions By Data' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Software engineers will never be true engineers.

  12. Re:The problem is not-- on Machine Logic: Our Lives Are Ruled By Big Tech's 'Decisions By Data' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    And of course GIGO. Decisions made on incomplete and questionable data. Once a data stream is polluted there is no going back. Which is why non-ACID compliance enrages me.

  13. Re:Well of course apes can on Apes Can Guess What Others Are Thinking -- Just Like Humans, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I was modded as "informative". Go figure...

  14. Try to scam them on Fake Call Centers in India Scam Americans Of Millions (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Just for fun try to run a 419 scam on them and see what happens. Also pretend to be hard of hearing and make it sound like they want to give you money. Etc.

  15. Re: Indians are immoral on Fake Call Centers in India Scam Americans Of Millions (ap.org) · · Score: 2

    Where are you getting 47% from?

  16. Well of course apes can on Apes Can Guess What Others Are Thinking -- Just Like Humans, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Humans are apes....

  17. yes and it depends on where the ape was hit. There's even a movie about it http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...

  18. Re:No and No on NSA Contractor Arrested in Possible New Theft of Secrets (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's low for Silly Valley, DC, or NYC. But for those of us who live in the real world it isn't bad in most cases.

  19. Re:why don't they just add permanent staff? on NSA Contractor Arrested in Possible New Theft of Secrets (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Not really. You have to negotiate a deal with the contracting house as well. Trying to deal with non-perfomant contractors in my experience is a nightmare. Depending on the contract it could end up with your company having to "buy out" the contract or having the contractor replaced with a, just as bad, replacement contractor. Or go through a long and drawn out remediation process.

    It's as bad as dealing with a dysfunctional union contract.

  20. But soon the cameras will be useless on Police Complaints Drop 93 Percent After Deploying Body Cameras (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1
  21. Re:A poor craftsman blames his tools. on Are Flawed Languages Creating Bad Software? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    There we go, blame the victim

  22. Re:A poor craftsman blames his tools. on Are Flawed Languages Creating Bad Software? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have worked in the industry since the late 80's. I have NEVER been allowed to choose all of my tools.

  23. Re:A poor craftsman blames his tools. on Are Flawed Languages Creating Bad Software? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Or built by some low end contractor who got their degree from a street corner diploma mill school. And then get thrust into building enterprise scale software.

  24. If it's not innovative why is it patented?

  25. The government really screws things up on New US 'Secret' Clearance Unit Hires Firm Linked To 2014 Hacks (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    But to turn into a total fuck up requires the private sector. See also http://www.wsj.com/articles/ep...