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  1. Re:Apple is doomed on Apple: Losing Out On Talent and In Need of a Killer New Device (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    engage in monoculture investing?

    That's what Warren Buffet says to do....

    Do not put your eggs in many baskets. Put all your eggs in one basket – and proceed to watch that basket.

    The thing with Buffet is that he probably owns the basket; that makes it a lot easier to monitor (and make corrections).

  2. Re:Fuck off, Forbes on Forbes Asks Readers To Disable Adblock, Serves Up Malvertising (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    I just figured he was referring to the writing in Forbes

  3. Nope.

  4. Re:How Mark Zuckerberg’s Altruism Helps Hims on Zuckerberg Answers Critics of His Move To Give Away His Facebook Stock (facebook.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    All legal. Don't hate the player, hate the game... (or so I'm told)

    Fuck that--I'll sure as hell hate the player for playing the damn game.

  5. Re: People have been saying this for years. on Is AI Development Moving In the Wrong Direction? (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Comment to undo mistaken mod

  6. Re:Failure of nerve on California's $68 Billion Bullet Train Project Faces Major Hurdles (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's still a tunnel at the bottom of a bay crossing a tectonic boundary. That takes the kind of engineering chutzpah that Californians - even Democrats - used to be capable of.

    You're still wrong:

    McArthur noted that the Transbay Tube was designed from the beginning with seismic safety as a priority because, while the tube does not run directly over any fault lines, all of the Bay Area is earthquake country,

  7. Re:Obvious ruling on EU Court of Justice Declares US-EU Data Transfer Pact Invalid · · Score: 1

    Just wait, the TPP will strip.. er... I mean standardize all privacy rights.

    Harmonize. The euphemism is "harmonize".

  8. Re:A long time coming... on China's Stock Crash: $3.5 Trillion Wiped Out, $2.6 Trillion Frozen · · Score: 1

    China can build bullet train lines thousands of miles long, while we can't even start a research telescope.

    That's because the Chinese government can just forcibly relocate anyone in the way; the US has to at least pretend to care about private property rights and compensation.

  9. Re:Sounds like a plan! on Ask Slashdot: What's the Harm In a Default Setting For Div By Zero? · · Score: 1

    But programming is haaaard!

    Let's go shopping!

  10. Re:Last time we saw crazy market valuations, on Tech Bubble? What Tech Bubble? · · Score: 1

    What will it take to get reform?

    Blood on the streets. Lots of it.

    I don't see how police^W private security forces cracking down on protesters will lead to reform.

  11. Re:Surface area to volume on Researchers Discover Breakthrough Drug Delivery Method By Changing Shape of Pill · · Score: 1

    Undoing mod mistake.

  12. Re:A national shame on American Psychological Association Hit With New Torture Allegations · · Score: 1

    We are filthy hypocrites. Somebody(s) should be locked up a good long time.

    And they will, once we find that cadet who architected the whole scheme.

  13. Re:Very tricky issue indeed. on Who Owns Pre-Embryos? · · Score: 1

    The woman may have her reproductive capability destroyed and so may only have this option to reproduce. However, the guy may not want to be a daddy with this woman.

    That's really easy. Don't fertilize the eggs. The problem with the people in the article is that they fertilized the eggs whereas the woman could have just had her eggs frozen and then if the relationship worked out, have completed the IVF process.

  14. Re:Wow. Just wow. on LA Schools Seeking Refund Over Botched iPad Plan · · Score: 1

    I have mod points; too bad there's no "Wishful Thinking" option.

  15. Re:Money on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Near Launching Presidential Bid · · Score: 2
    I'll see your 10th Amendment and raise you the Supremacy Clause (Article Six, Clause 2):

    This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.

  16. Re:Time for men's liberation on Two New Male Birth Control Chemicals In Advanced Stages · · Score: 1

    remarking to undo moderation.

  17. Re:Kind of.. on DOT Warns of Dystopian Future For Transportation · · Score: 2
    Wow, so many wrong details; it's like you're trying to be wrong.

    and lets take San Francisco Bay as our example (since I live here and have first hand knowledge and experience). VTA handles "some" of the South Bay, but limited to North San Jose and Mountain View.

    VTA Buses go from Palo Alto to Fremont to South SJ to Gilroy. The light rail, from Mt. View down to Los Gatos and east San Jose to the Alameden valley area of SJ....in fact...just...here's the map: http://www.vta.org/getting-aro... (VTA focuses on SJ because it--SJ--has grown like a cancer or ambeoba, absorbing smaller communites, until it's most of the urban South Bay).

    Caltrain handles a single strip running North to south from North San Jose to South (not the city) San Francisco.

    Wrong. It goes from from SF (right next to AT&T Park) down to downtown SJ regularly, extending to Gilroy (30 miles south of the downtown SJ station) during "traditional" commute times (ie, not the 10a-8pm Valley standard time). Here's their map: http://www.caltrain.com/statio...

    Bart handles SF -> Oakland, and a straight line down to Fremont.

    Wrong. BART goes to SFO and Millbrae (and where it shares a station with CalTrain) up through SF and into the East Bay, extending from Richmond down to Fremont and out to Dublin/Pleasanton and Pittsburg/Baypoint. Here's BART's map: http://www.bart.gov/stations

    These systems don't connect, use different payment systems, have different rates, and are _MORE_ expensive than driving.

    The one bit that's true, but due to the compound sentence ends up being wrong. Connections are a pain in the ass, but the Clipper card is accepted by BART, CalTrain, VTA, SamTrans (San Mateo's bus service), Almeda Transit, MUNI (SF's transit system), plus more. Oh, and both VTA and SamTrans have stops at or near (ie, a block or two) almost all CalTrain stations on the Peninsula (the Atherton station is at least one exception) and VTA has service up to Fremont's southernmost BART station (and VTA is in the process of extending BART into east San Jose--it's not their fault that in the 1950s & 60s San Mateo and Santa Clara residents opted out of the BART system). And add into that that we're talking about five counties (SF, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda, and Contra Costa) with all the territorialism and desire for control that brings with it (leading to different fare schedules, subsidies, etc.).

    Taking our "cheap" (said with a hearty chuckle) mass transit is extremely expensive and time consuming.

    Trip from Mt. View to Twitter's HQ (in SF): Leave around 8am. Car: 40-45 mines, $17.64 (31.5 mi at $.56 per mile); starting from Shoreline & 101 (hell, saving you driving from the CalTrain station to 101). (via Trulia's map...it looks like Google maps will no longer let you specify the time for traffic projections and 1am is actually one of the times the freeways are relatively empty). Pub: 1:03, $9.50: Mt. View CalTrain station to end of line in SF, then 38X followed by 2 minutes of walking (per 551.org). Oh, and you can read, sleep, etc. on the train. Plus, monthly passes and commute FSA will reduce that cost.

    Yet instead of addressing the problems with mass transit, California is dumping many billions into a train from Fresno to Sacramento. Go figure..

    True, but the train is also supose to go to SF, SJ, LA, and SD (PDF of rail proj

  18. Re:Boy who cried wolf on New Virus Means Deadlier Flu Season Is Possible · · Score: 1

    ...additionally, they're admitting their guess was wrong so that people can be better prepared. Were there more situations like this.

  19. Re:IMHO Copyright sucks but APIs are copyrightable on Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court To Rule APIs Can't Be Copyrighted · · Score: 1

    A lot of work goes into creating a good API.

    The amount of work put it doesn't matter a single bit as "sweat of the brow" is not sufficient to grant copy right in the US since 1991 (since Feist_v._Rural ). The rest of your opinion, quite frankly, is tainted by that opening statement and it's implied relevance to the discussion.

  20. Re:boat anchor on HP Is Planning To Split Into Two Separate Businesses, Sources Say · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, but it will help with their parachutes.

  21. Re:They will just cheat anyway on The Argument For a Hypersonic Missile Testing Ban · · Score: 2

    Ukraine disarmed. First nation to do so in the history of nuclear weapons. /p>

    Wrong. South Africa was the first nation to give up nuclear weapons.

  22. Re:Is Coding Computer Science? Of Course! on Does Learning To Code Outweigh a Degree In Computer Science? · · Score: 1

    You're also assuming that the people who wrote the listing actually know WTF they need (vs what they want vs what Everyone Else Is Doing So We Need To Do It).

  23. Re:It seems a poor comparison. on Weapons Systems That Kill According To Algorithms Are Coming. What To Do? · · Score: 1

    I suppose that the argument can be made that they fill the same role as land mines,

    Well, we're fucked in that case

  24. Re:in other words... on The Quiet Fury of Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates · · Score: 1

    "Blindly "tightening the purse strings" leads to those parts of government that are good and useful to be sacrificed first, while the partisan and corrupt parts better defend themselves and their budgets.....

    There's no evidence for this, and a moment's thought will reveal that it flies in the face of common sense and historical evidence......

    Wrong.

  25. Re:Honor your screwups. on Website Checkout Glitches: Two Very Different Corporate Responses · · Score: 2

    So why is Delta honoring the price? I think it is because of delivered product

    Nope. It's because the Dept. of Transportation makes them honor the fare:

    Delta's contract of carriage states that in the event of an "erroneous" fare, " Delta reserves the right to cancel the ticket purchase and refund all amounts paid by the purchaser or, at the purchaser's option, to reissue the ticket for the correct fare." But rules set forth by the Department of Transportation state otherwise, saying that an airline must honor a purchased ticket, mistake fare or not.