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  1. Re:"Class Divide"? on A Year With Google Glass · · Score: 1

    The class divide reasoning was bogus and made me more than a little angry.

  2. Re:Yes on Will You Even Notice the Impending Robot Uprising? · · Score: 1

    low-skill jobs? Not just those. High-skill jobs are being replaced.

  3. Re:I for one on Will You Even Notice the Impending Robot Uprising? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not notice them? You mean all the unemployed?

  4. Re:Work smarter, not harder. on Warning At SC13 That Supercomputing Will Plateau Without a Disruptive Technology · · Score: 1

    I meant a cultural adaption. Things are changing very very very quickly now, even within a single generation.

  5. Re:Work smarter, not harder. on Warning At SC13 That Supercomputing Will Plateau Without a Disruptive Technology · · Score: 1

    Considering how disruptive computer power AI is becoming, a temporary slow down can be good for us...To give us time to adapt, put in place controls, and decide on a future without need for human labor

  6. Re:Needless? on Ask Slashdot: Communication Skills For Programmers? · · Score: 2

    Agree. Communication skills = politik = Bullshit because communications skills just mean understanding people's turf, and how not to step on it (unless intentionally). Its this kind of bullshit that allows inept people to continue, bad ideas to live longer, or people having to choose between quality work and covering their bosses (and friend's) behinds. All you should need to do is: Be nice. Be kind. Say hello. Don't be abrupt. Say thank you. Do your job expertly. Be helpful and willing and understanding.

  7. Re:Is it working? on US FDA Moves To Ban Trans Fat · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Right now .5 g is reported as 0.0 g transfat. Unfortunately it doesnt take but 1 to 3 grams daily to be associated with serious cardiovascular risk.

  8. Re:Artificial trans fat, not just trans fat. on US FDA Moves To Ban Trans Fat · · Score: 2

    Mabe not ban it, but at least accurately report the amount in the food on the label. e.g. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Diet/trans-fat-information-food-labels-deceptive-researcher/story?id=12515022

  9. Re:Artificial trans fat, not just trans fat. on US FDA Moves To Ban Trans Fat · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Small amounts of transfats can cause a large amount of health risk. Current rules allow food makers to say there is 0.0 grams of transfat per serving if there is less than .5 g transfat preserving. Unfortunately, a diet of 1 or 2 grams transfat daily is associated with all sorts of bad things, and you can easily rack it up by eating a couple servings of foods labeled 0.0 grams transfat. Transfat should be labeled in mg, not g, and reported with at least a precision of 0.1 g.

  10. Re:bitch and moan on HealthCare.gov: What Went Wrong? · · Score: 1

    you are my foe, so I will not tell :) Seriously, though..I have too much work to do right now, but I'll try looking some up later

  11. Re:A distraction on HealthCare.gov: What Went Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Well thats one point of the law I like. It does require some minimum percentage of revenues be used to pay for healthcare.

  12. Re:Here is a thought.. on HealthCare.gov: What Went Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Contractor fraud and abuse is the problem.

  13. Re:bitch and moan on HealthCare.gov: What Went Wrong? · · Score: 1

    All over the place. For example, cut funding to oversight agencies, then blame failures of oversight on the evils of government.

  14. Re:bitch and moan on HealthCare.gov: What Went Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Once can argue a lot of things. However, I am sure the real problem is corruption in awarding contracts, then leniency in monitoring the work of contracts, or not enough resources to do so effectively. I mean, companies continually screw the public in their contracts with the government, and yet we do nothing about it.

  15. Re:So it's Zippy the Pinhead for the new millenium on Horse_ebooks Is Human After All · · Score: 1

    as

  16. Re:So it's Zippy the Pinhead for the new millenium on Horse_ebooks Is Human After All · · Score: 2
    Except I thought maybe ppl thought there was a horse typing messages.

    However, I agree. Others have been worse, and I just wanted to use this post a platform to make a point more broadly about the editorial process at Slashdot and tenets of Writing 101.

  17. Re:So it's Zippy the Pinhead for the new millenium on Horse_ebooks Is Human After All · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I'd like to note that the article summary fails to define the subject, and assumes the reader is already informed. I have noticed this lapse in many articles on slashdot recently and it is frustrating. Sure I can look it up on Google, but why would I when the article does not have any clear explanation of why it would interest me at all?

    I mean...I am reasonably informed on many geek matters, but I do not have time or interest to follow up every new internet trend.

  18. Re:We might just have to wait but... on Forrester: NSA Spying Could Cost Cloud $180B, But Probably Won't · · Score: 1

    My data, I share it with agreed on tags. You see it. Shared. Done.

  19. Re:Open Source Failure on Forrester: NSA Spying Could Cost Cloud $180B, But Probably Won't · · Score: 1

    And yes, I know I've failed to contribute code

  20. Re:Political Corruption and the NSA on Forrester: NSA Spying Could Cost Cloud $180B, But Probably Won't · · Score: 1

    And Yes, I know I've failed to contribute.

  21. Open Source Failure on Forrester: NSA Spying Could Cost Cloud $180B, But Probably Won't · · Score: 5, Insightful
    My information is my private property.

    Why isn't there a "simple" host your own "data manager" for people that will be their "email, social, storage server"?

    If opensource had a cause, that should be it,

  22. Re:move along on DEA Program "More Troubling" Than NSA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually. We are all criminals. I mean, how many laws are there? Yes, I've said this before. You can't live without breaking laws, there are too many laws. Equality before the law really just means, "on whom is the law enforced?" The poor and the brown...and those that speak uneasy truths.

  23. Re:We are living in interesting times on Half of Tor Sites Compromised, Including TORMail · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I care. I'll get voted down on this, but the internet is a marketplace for all sorts of products, and when the product is the ruination of children's lives and welfare, I care very very deeply that that market is extinguished. Period.

    Nevertheless, the legal questions in this case are important for legal speech also, so it must be carefully weighed.

  24. Re:I predict on Spatial Ability a Predictor of Creativity In Science · · Score: 1

    I don't know. Its also about how much effort is put in. The task interested me professionally as a cognitive scientist, so I was really motivated.

  25. Re:I predict on Spatial Ability a Predictor of Creativity In Science · · Score: 2

    age. faulty memory of past brilliance. Tired. Multi-tasking is bad. Must concentrate on one thing.