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  1. You mean like how telling people to code is rejected as "hate speech"?

    Yeah, re-think that stuff. Just because someone is a millennial doesn't mean they have to be a snowflake.

    If you can't find any buyers for your low ball offer and then the one turkey who is interested changes their mind it's time to go back to the drawing board.

  2. Re: Magic on Researchers 3D-Print Heart From Human Patient's Cells · · Score: 1

    Says the person whose heart is not dying.

  3. Re:Screw that noise! Gimme full conversion! on Researchers 3D-Print Heart From Human Patient's Cells · · Score: 1

    Given that the life expectancy of a computer is 3 to 5 years ... would this be an advantage?

  4. Re:Picture of stuff that may be around a black hol on Black Hole Picture Captured For First Time in Space 'Breakthrough' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Hmm ... maybe this isn't a bad question? If a black body (super giant planet or something) orbited in front of a large bright object (e.g. a star) wouldn't the back side of the object be black like this?

  5. Re:Collection will not stop on 'It's Time To End the NSA's Metadata Collection Program' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do the tax payers have to finance this?

    If Sarbanes-Oxley says CEOs are liable for their goofs, why not hold the public sector people personally responsible for their shortcomings?

  6. By that token, perhaps politicians (e.g. senators) should be held responsible for government data breaches.

    E.g. the Office of Personnel Management breach of 2015.

  7. Re: Whew, that's a relief! on Facebook Says it Will Now Block White-Nationalist, White-Separatist Posts (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    What's Twitter? Is that like one of those SF flashpans that was going to be sold for zilche and then the buyer pushed the deal off the table? Those guys should learn to code real fast.

  8. Re:So 2000s on India Shoots Down Satellite in Test (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Respectfully disagree. If an invading country lost all their satcomms (e.g. Pakistan), this could easily be a decisive advantage.

    The biggest defense anyone has here is limited intel on where/which sats their adversaries have.

  9. Now that we have a handful of different VR hardware options ... would somebody like to start making some AAA games?

  10. how does Moz do this? on Firefox Lockbox Comes To Android To Ease Password Pain (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't FF have a shoestring budget? How are they rolling out all this new stuff? I don't understand their business model.

    FF is the only browser that runs on my Mac at home.

  11. Re:Larry Ellison on Oracle's Surprise Unannounced Layoffs 'Clear-Cut Teams of Engineers' (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    But think of if the government had been directing the construction. They could have paid a cut of the money to attacking the tea party.

    This whole thing about government not getting to attack people based on their political beliefs is a race to the bottom !

  12. Re:Very Impressed - this woman has done her homewo on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Labor Shouldn't Have To Fear Automation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    As the US president who won the most electoral votes in the 20th century once said:

    "If you're explaining ... you're losing."

  13. Re:somewhere between a cockroach and a zebrafish.. on Scientists Grow 'Mini-Brain On the Move' That Can Contract Muscle (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Just because these scientists lack ethics doesn't mean they have cockroach brains

    But I sympathize with your comparison

  14. Re:Spirit of Forgiveness on Wells Fargo Sued By 63-Year-Old Pastor They Wrongfully Accused of Forging Checks (nj.com) · · Score: 1

    The Bible talks about forgiving your brother ... but if you start extending it to companies where does it end? Forgiving bad algorithms? Forgiving viruses? Forgiving bad ideas? Forgiving overly patternized wall paper textures? Forgiving hypothetical mistakes people could have made?

    If you can forgive everything it means forgiveness isn't a thing to you.

  15. Re:Wells-Fargo is a criminal organization on Wells Fargo Sued By 63-Year-Old Pastor They Wrongfully Accused of Forging Checks (nj.com) · · Score: 1

    A credit union is just a bank that doesn't have to pay taxes.

    I've worked at one. People there are such slackers ... wouldn't happen in a private commercial financial entity to that extent.

    I feel like I'm rewarding lethargy by going with a credit union.

  16. Early blackhole formation on Astronomers Discover 83 Supermassive Black Holes at the Edge of the Universe (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    What is the challenge in understanding early blackhole formation?

    If energy coalesced into enough matter that was close enough to other matter, wouldn't that be enough g to create a mass that collapses on itself?

    Shouldn't need a supernova to do that, right?

  17. will corporate jobs allow slack now? on Slack Hands Over Control of Encryption Keys To Regulated Customers (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    I've only seen slack at smaller type shops.

    I wonder if this will scratch the security itches to get it approved at the larger firms.

    Wishful thinking?

  18. Re:perhaps kids are like this in the u.s. on Kids Have 'Math Anxiety' Thanks To Parents and Teachers, Report Finds (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Parent of children that I have helped with Common Core math here ...

    All by itself this is a reason I am pulling my kids out of public school at the end of this year.

    The "ten boxes" are confusing supremo and often times my wife and I cannot help them. I have two science degrees, score 600 on the math part of the SAT, and passed Statistics for math majors in college with a B.

    I have a buddy who is a high ranking admin in a charter school. I asked him what good it is being in the charter system if you have to follow the *OUTRAGEOUS* public school regulations, and he told me, "We don't have to teach Common Core".

    Bam !!! He persuaded me.

  19. conflicted on Consumer Groups Want To Tax Facebook To Save Journalism (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    This seems conflicted to me.

    The proposal is obviously intended to help journalists ... but it also presupposes journalists and journalism are too sketchy, undesirable, and underwhelming for people to freely pay money to support them.

    In some ways this is an attack on journalism.

  20. People want the benefits of products without paying for them.

    What exactly is there to this accusation?

  21. Re:It's not really traveling to the past on Physicists Reverse Time Using Quantum Computer (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Theoretically if you can recreate a past state you can embed information from another time in that state and learn something from another time.

  22. Re: so... if doc brown was russian... on Physicists Reverse Time Using Quantum Computer (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Robert Zimikis (sp?) said he will never allow a remake and has written it into his trust that a remake will never happen.

    Boo that !!

  23. Re:Definition of Universe. on Vladimir Putin Wants His Own Internet (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a mental distinction. A rose by any other name smells just as sweet, ... etc.

  24. why I take this as a victory on Disputed NSA Phone Program Is Shut Down, Aide Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Any time the news is NOT about government expanding intel into individual people's lives I for one will take as a win for everyone in this country.

    Usually the government expands this stuff and then they almost publicly BRAG about. The fact that the bragging might be receding and and attempt to portray a whiff at privacy at least leaves young minds open to the ideal that government should not be invading our every choice.

    Bush and Trump did so many brazen things over this and both parties in DC LOVED it. Boo that!

    So I say, turn your smoke detectors down for once and enjoy an isolated, narrow victory.

  25. Call me when I will be able to shoot lasers out of my eyes