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  1. Re:Finally and ignorant aggrieved white person! on James Damore Sues Google For Allegedly Discriminating Against Conservative White Men (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Adolph, is that you?

  2. You may very well be wrong even when talking about a particular field. There's no reason to a priori assume the aggregates would turn out identical.

    Why wouldn't they? Unless you want to assume that one gender works harder / is smarter / is "better" than the other gender?

  3. Summary of your position: if men make more, it's obvious that it's deserved, and no evidence is needed to support it. But if women insist on equity, it has to be carefully justified.

    Dang, where are my mod points when I need them? Someone please mod parent up faster than the trolls are modding it down.

  4. Re:No rule of law on Google Loses Up to 250 Bikes a Week (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 2

    Other way around... people without any social conscience think that they "deserve" whatever they can lay their hands on.

  5. Re:Frameworks or Limitations of Javascipt? on 'The State of JavaScript Frameworks, 2017' (npmjs.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah, that ship sailed when JS was created. funny how people end up building the stuff like classes and objects that other languages give you for free by creating unreadable mounds of Javascript, and then proudly announce that JS is better than those other languages.

  6. Re:Fuck Frameworks and NPM on 'The State of JavaScript Frameworks, 2017' (npmjs.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You have it absolutely backwards. Coding your own crap instead of using the good, solid, portable, tested code in jQuery is the sign of a code monkey, hacking away until they get something that sort of looks like it works.

  7. Re:FALSE on 'The State of JavaScript Frameworks, 2017' (npmjs.com) · · Score: 1

    C is incredibly portable. If you are getting hung up on "machine-dependent types" you are doing it wrong.

  8. Re:Follow the leader on Math Says You're Driving Wrong and It's Slowing Us All Down (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    How does having a tailgating car force you closer to the car in front of you? The dumbest thing to do when tailgated is to speed up. In fact, I usually slow down so that if there is an accident (more likely with a tailgater) it will be at a lower speed.

  9. Re:cygwin on More Unix Tools Coming To Windows 10 (neowin.net) · · Score: 2

    Cygwin is a gift from the gods. It works, it does what I want, and it doesn't get in the way.

  10. Re: People Still Use Desktops? on Could 2018 Be The Year of the Linux Desktop? (gnome.org) · · Score: 2

    I meet normal people. I have not met ANYONE who would rather squint at a tiny screen and then try to work around the phone's auto-correction errors as they type, over sitting comfortably at a desk, looking at an easy to read screen (or two screens) and typing on a keyboard. As the GP said, people use phones because they have them in their pockets, not because they prefer them.

  11. Re: People Still Use Desktops? on Could 2018 Be The Year of the Linux Desktop? (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    Browsing the web, reading email are PAINFUL on a phone. They are possible yes, but INFINITELY easier on a desktop (or laptop) computer.

  12. Re: No. on Could 2018 Be The Year of the Linux Desktop? (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    Maybe all of your apps run on "the cloud". Mine run locally.

  13. Re:No. on Could 2018 Be The Year of the Linux Desktop? (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    Yes... assuming that all other desktop O/S's stand still, someday Linux will catch up.

  14. Re:Good on Cable TV's Password-Sharing Crackdown Is Coming (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    You are taking the "content" as a given. It's not. The content doesn't materialize of its own accord from the vacuum. Someone produces it, and unless they are making art for art's sake, they have an expected return.

  15. Re:Huh - a subject I'm entirely divided on on Apple's Alleged Throttling of Older iPhones With Degraded Batteries Causes Controversy (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean like when you drive a car, you want to just get where you are going, and not worry about setting a slider to adjust the engine based on power vs gas consumption? That level of not knowing anything about the tech you use?

  16. Re:Good luck with that 30% cut to NASA's budget on President Trump Is Sending NASA Back To The Moon (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    It's also a bit cheaper when NASA has laid the groundwork. Developing stuff from scratch is a lot more expensive.

  17. Re:Good luck with that 30% cut to NASA's budget on President Trump Is Sending NASA Back To The Moon (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    To make stuff up all you need is trump's twitter account.

  18. Re:Good luck with that 30% cut to NASA's budget on President Trump Is Sending NASA Back To The Moon (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Right. Because you'd never use a satellite for earth science. What a crazy idea.

  19. Re:So with his proposed cut.... on President Trump Is Sending NASA Back To The Moon (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Don't be silly... he going to get the Lunarians to pay for it. And every time the Lunarians say no, the rocket gets 10X YUGER!

  20. Maybe you should RTFA and THINK.

    At the moment, yes, it isn't detected. The user runs a program, the program loads and modifies and runs a different program. The actions of the program in loading and modifying another program CAN BE DETECTED.

    Got it?

  21. No. This just another virus. As someone else pointed out, there's no inherent reason you can't detect it the way other viruses are detected. And it doesn't let you gain more privilege. All it does is bypass current virus detection, which presumably will get fixed.

  22. Intelligent people use the operating system that lets them get the tasks they want to get done done, rather than engaging in pointless O/S debates.

  23. ah, slashthink, how old-school

  24. Bible stories aren't necessarily "true" but they provide some basis for discussion and thought. I'm not religious and I don't think God has delivered "his (or her) word" to any particular people, but I do believe that literature that has survived and influence people for 1,000s of years is worth a look.

  25. Yep. The best "toy" I ever gave my nieces was a play mat that had a small town (some buildings and roads) laid out on it, and a toy car for each of them. They loved it and spent more time playing together with that than they did with the other stuff they got that Christmas.

    And on the other side, I've seen kids get many, many presents. They'd rip open each present in seconds, glance at it, move to the next. It was like watching someone get incredibly hyper on 5 cups of coffee.