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  1. Re:Discrimination on US Dept. of Education Teams With Microsoft-Led Teach.org On Teacher Diversity · · Score: 1

    Right, and that's exactly the point. White people are more likely to hire other white people, it's an inherent bias. Even if they are not the most qualified for the job, even when studies show that a minority candidate would be a better choice (as with this study). A certain amount of programs encouraging the hiring of minorities is a necessary step towards counter-acting this bias.

  2. Re:Outsiders will forever be outsider if ... on US Dept. of Education Teams With Microsoft-Led Teach.org On Teacher Diversity · · Score: 2

    So if a minority doesn't care, then it must be true? How about if a white guy does care, does that not count? Why does a minority opinion count more?

    And why the total ignoring of science? If a well-run study suggests minority teachers are helpful, doesn't that trump personal anecdote from some stranger who says "hey guyz I'm chinese and I don't care!"

  3. Re:And it's not even an election year on Ten US Senators Seek Investigation Into the Replacement of US Tech Workers · · Score: 1, Funny

    Because we want to brain drain other countries? The smartest people come to the US, they stay here, they're better educated and make the entire country better. Maybe they go on vacations back to their home country, maybe they send their parents some cash, but it's a huge win when the smartest people from all over the world move to the US. All this nativist bullshit on Slashdot drives me crazy.

  4. Re: Raspberry Pi on Ask Slashdot: How To Introduce a 7-Year-Old To Programming? · · Score: 2

    You know the sad thing is that AC is totally right on this one. RPi is just another computer, giving a kid a cheaper computer isn't going to be helpful unless they don't have access to another computer.

  5. Oxymoron: A short man on Did Natural Selection Make the Dutch the Tallest People On the Planet? · · Score: 1

    Not at all surprised by this. Men who are less than 6 feet tall are barely even men, and women would never be with them unless all the tall men are taken and they can't do any better.

  6. Re:In other words on Google, Apple and Microsoft Squirm As Global Tax Schemes Scrutinized · · Score: 2

    Companies work within existing tax laws, and they have nothing to be ashamed by abiding by current tax laws. If the government offers you a tax break for buying a new home, of course you are going to take the tax break - even if you think the tax break is total bullshit.

  7. Re:So - the fact that others are doing it makes it on Google, Apple and Microsoft Squirm As Global Tax Schemes Scrutinized · · Score: 2

    Of course people don't want to pay their taxes - they just want to reap the benefits of living in a civilization (what taxes pay for). It's the prisoner's dilemma, and what is best for the individual is that they don't pay their taxes and that everybody else does.

    This unwillingness to pay taxes doesn't prove taxes are inherently stupid, just that people haven't collectively worked out the dilemma yet.

  8. Re:Did this really need demonstration? on Turning the Arduino Uno Into an Apple ][ · · Score: 2

    I hate to quote the fucking article because who reads that anyway? But When the 6502 was first released it was priced at $25 USD. At the time this was unheard of, being up to six times cheaper than the nearest competitors. Some people even thought that the low price had to be some form of scam. does in fact establish that the processor was considered a cheap processor.

  9. Re:Did this really need demonstration? on Turning the Arduino Uno Into an Apple ][ · · Score: 2

    To be fair, he was mostly emulating a MOS 6502 that would cost about $125 in today's dollars.

  10. Did this really need demonstration? on Turning the Arduino Uno Into an Apple ][ · · Score: 0

    Very cheap modern computer is capable to emulating a 28 year old cheap computer.

  11. Re:Good on Sony Buys, Shuts Down OnLive · · Score: 5, Informative

    The original CEO/investor, Steve Perlman, was forced out. The company is surely being sold for a pittance and at great loss for the investors. Even if the idea didn't work out, if the investors/CEOs hadn't made the company, the engineers wouldn't have had jobs in the first place. They can make big money, and in this case they lost a large amount. The engineers just shrugged it off and got another job.

  12. Re:The joke's on us. on Tesla's April Fool's Joke Spoofs Market Algorithms · · Score: 1

    That had nothing to do with the article, but I'm glad you were able to get that off your chest!

  13. Re:Fine with me on Ask Slashdot: Living Without Social Media In 2015? · · Score: 0, Troll

    You are way better than the "sheeple" out there who use Facebook to talk with their friends and family rather harmlessly! Keep fighting the good fight! I hope you don't use any Google products, either!

  14. OMG April Fool's LOL! on Obama Authorizes Penalties For Foreign Cyber Attackers · · Score: 1

    Making rules against cyberattacks against US computers? LOL!!! Foreigners should just be able to hack away with no repercussions! This HAS to be an April Fools! LOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  15. Re:original used non-union actors on Why More 'Star Wars' Actors Don't Become Stars · · Score: 1

    Well similarly, nothing in your post disproved the existence of a teapot orbiting the sun.
    It's fairly common practice with action movies. Godfather, Lord of the Rings, Matrix, Batmans, all did not have opening credits.

  16. Re:original used non-union actors on Why More 'Star Wars' Actors Don't Become Stars · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's true that George Lucas was forced to pay a fine over this, but basically your post is nonsense. To quote Wikipedia, that infallible source of wisdom:

    Many major American motion pictures have done away with opening credits, with many films, such as Van Helsing in 2004 and Batman Begins in 2005, not even displaying the film title until the closing credits begin. Similarly, Welles's Touch of Evil originally waited until the end to display the title as well as the credits; however, Universal Studios took the film out of his hands, and his vision was not restored until 1998. Had Universal not wrangled Touch of Evil away from Orson Welles, it might very well have been the first film to follow this practice.

    George Lucas is credited with popularizing this with his Star Wars films which display only the film's title at the start.[1] His decision to omit opening credits in his films Star Wars (1977) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980) led him to resign from the Directors Guild of America after being fined $250,000 for not crediting the director during the opening title sequence.[2] However, Hollywood had been releasing films without opening credits for many years before Lucas came along, most notably Citizen Kane, West Side Story, 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Godfather.

  17. Re:Single core 39% that of the new macbook. on Microsoft Announces Surface 3 Tablet · · Score: 1

    The Macbook is quite expensive and rather large for a laptop, this is the budget model of a tablet/ultraportable latop. Personally I would consider that a poor showing by the Macbook.

  18. Re:We should lobby to break the cable companies on Comcast's Incompetence, Lack of Broadband May Force Developer To Sell Home · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Dude lives in the middle of nowhere. There's nothing wrong with Comcast not offering him service, there's something wrong with them claiming they did when they didn't.

    Additionally, the homeowner should have been more diligent that his home in the middle of nowhere, with no cable box, would actually have cable.

    Internet over 4G really isn't that expensive, and that's what he uses now. I'm surprised that doesn't work for him.

  19. Re:Amazing post on Hacking Weight Loss: What I Learned Losing 30 Pounds · · Score: 2

    True, I was simplifying. But basically he just said he ate less and exercised. Why would this be a hack? It's just common sense. A hack implies some kind of clever nerdy invention.

  20. Re:Brain Over Brawn on Hacking Weight Loss: What I Learned Losing 30 Pounds · · Score: 1

    The bro-science book that says you should eat 6 meals a day? It has some good ideas on lifting at home if you are poor and can't afford weights or a gym membership, but that's about it. Later, the author went to jail for transporting loaded assault rifles across state lines.

  21. Re:Eat less than you burn on Hacking Weight Loss: What I Learned Losing 30 Pounds · · Score: 1

    So you weigh only like 45 kg/100 lbs? Do you even lift, bro?

  22. Amazing post on Hacking Weight Loss: What I Learned Losing 30 Pounds · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow! The guy ate less calories, and he lost weight!

  23. I meant solid state external hard drive, of course.

  24. While I think the basic premise is a little silly, I imagine a $200 fanless laptop is powerful enough to run Plex (I run Plex Server off an old Mac Mini, and never have had any problems).

    Depending how much space you need, get a solid-state SSD or even SD card, put some kind of basic protection about it (a cheap laptop bag?) and throw it in your crawlspace.

    My Plex server runs fine over wifi (with the router right next to it), but I still have it connected to Ethernet. I imagine that could be a problem with higher bitrate movies.

  25. Re:Tesla and Elon on Ask GM's Exec. Chief Engineer For Electric Vehicles Pam Fletcher a Question · · Score: 2

    Holy crap, and the GM of Toyota probably doesn't go on record as being a fan of Ford's latest offerings, either.