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  1. Re:Still can on Remember When You Could Call the Time? · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Criterion of Artificial Intelligence on Artificially Intelligent Russian Robot Escapes...Again (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    As that is pretty low bar, no.

  3. Re:Spydot? REALLY?? on Artificially Intelligent Russian Robot Escapes...Again (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    You may have just given your position away. ICBMs on the way.

  4. Re:I don't want robots making my pizza on Robot Pizza Company 'Zume' Wants To Be 'Amazon of Food' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Or being barristas

  5. Like Hurd, Zuckerberg, Ellison and host of others have any. They do have something soft, but it isn't people skills.

  6. Re:I don't want robots making my pizza on Robot Pizza Company 'Zume' Wants To Be 'Amazon of Food' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    "who do you think makes pizza, graduates with a 3 year degree in pizza making?"

    Hell no, Art History Majors

  7. "Zume" as in "fast going in and fast going out"?

  8. Re:There was no installation error on 154 Million Voter Records Exposed Due To Database Error (dailydot.com) · · Score: 2

    Unless the installation was so negligent it allowed an attack. This is clearly a case of trotting out the Evil Hackers(tm) to deflect focus on the company's stupidity.

  9. Re:Because "Oops" on 154 Million Voter Records Exposed Due To Database Error (dailydot.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What needs to happen is that failure must be made expensive.

  10. Re:Why does it keep happening? on 154 Million Voter Records Exposed Due To Database Error (dailydot.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In software there are no consequences for idiocy. There are no laws governing the quality of software, e.g. requiring warranties or health and safety laws. In addition Software "Engineers" are not true engineers as there is no licensing procedure and unlike true engineers no liability for a poor design. So these so called Software "Engineers" can slap code together and get away with out getting sued. The same is true of Network "Engineers", Security "Engineers" etc.

    There is no such thing as "Software Engineering".

  11. Re:Torrent Magnet Link to the Documents on DNC Hacker Releases Clinton Foundation Documents (washingtonexaminer.com) · · Score: 1

    After re-reading that it seems ambiguous as a person may need to be in office.

  12. Re: Torrent Magnet Link to the Documents on DNC Hacker Releases Clinton Foundation Documents (washingtonexaminer.com) · · Score: 1

    "Then, that eliminates any American corporation, from giving to either campaign. Even, the telcos are foreign controlled. And where are the gambling houses making their monies?"

    Close but not on the money. They must be controlled by "foreign princes" which I interpert as:
    1) At lest partly state controlled or
    2) The leaders of a country own a significant stake in it.

    If you had said "Saudi Arabia" I would have said "BINGO!"

  13. Re:Torrent Magnet Link to the Documents on DNC Hacker Releases Clinton Foundation Documents (washingtonexaminer.com) · · Score: 1

    The foreign emoluments clause only applies at the Federal level.

  14. Re:Torrent Magnet Link to the Documents on DNC Hacker Releases Clinton Foundation Documents (washingtonexaminer.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I often think of the foreign emoluments clause of the US Constitution. If a corporation is controlled by the leadership of a foreign country and a gift is accepted, or campaign contribution, is that a violation?

  15. Re:Benjamin Franklin.... Cruel irony? on Bigger Isn't Better As Mega-Ships Get Too Big and Too Risky · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wrong Franklin but appropriate as he wrote about the Gulf Stream and sailing, from his biography:

    "Yet I think a set of experiments might be instituted, first, to determine the most proper form of the hull for swift sailing; next, the best dimensions and properest place for the masts; then the form and quantity of sails, and their position, as the wind may be; and, lastly, the disposition of the lading. "

  16. Re: One approach on Ask Slashdot: How Can You Manage Developers Distributed Across Multiple Projects? · · Score: 1

    Whoa! not so fast. Don't you think we a pre-planning agenda framing conference call?

  17. Re:Plenty of experience on Ask Slashdot: How Can You Manage Developers Distributed Across Multiple Projects? · · Score: 1

    Agile doesn't work for us; 7 teams time zones 12 hours out in some cases (i.e' half way across the globe), 300 employees (developers, testers, managers, support teams, architects etc.). A couple of the teams were part of other companies which were acquaired and their companies networks were pasted into ours and so we have large numbers of hops and so lags which makes downloads across teams of artifacts difficult at times (1.5. day sofr a standard completely provision and integrated application).

    Due to time zone differences communications is hard and constant close communication is the lynch pin of Agile. I don't think Agile scales well or works well with large projects. A water fall with a 3 month release schedule and restricted scope works better, IMO.

  18. Re: One approach on Ask Slashdot: How Can You Manage Developers Distributed Across Multiple Projects? · · Score: 1

    I think we need a video conference on this. WHat itme is good for half a dozen teams located across 6 time zones?

  19. How?

  20. And MongoDB, Agile, Ruby, Python, and Python.

  21. I hope this was a woosh

  22. Re:Your Anus is not its real name. on Astronomers Say There Could Be At Least Two More Mystery Planets In Our Solar System (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 2

    you could name one probe "catheter" and the other "colonoscopy".

  23. Mother very easily made a jam sandwich using no peanu tbutter mayonaisse or glue

  24. Yes it was a joke. We all know NoSQL solves everything, right? :)

  25. The problem is you should've taken a job with a NoSQL guy. You would have avoided all of those lame SQL problems.