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  1. Re:What about English? on Which Programming Language Is Most Popular - The Final Answer? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    English has ovrloaded words and ambiguities. A subset of English with strict rules of their meaning forms several languages, including COBOL.

  2. Re:more anti-ITT FUD on slashdot on How ITT Tech Screwed Students and Made Millions (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    similar places also get those

    again why the special focus. I'm wondering if someone with government in their pocket had competition removed or wanted to change landscape of IT education for some agenda.

    Note I didn't attend ITT, don't know any employees there, had no investments in them nor anything that depends on ITT, don't even know anyone hurt by this since the ITT grads I know already have good jobs

    I don't know if ITT classes worse than normal or better than normal, nor the quality of the teachers. Only know some grads that are doing very well.

  3. Re:I find this hard to believe on How ITT Tech Screwed Students and Made Millions (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I already stated clearly what my interest is. If you are wondering, I did not attend ITT, I never recommended the place to anyone, and I had no financial interest in it. I don't even know if the curriculum was better or worse than other tech schools. I don't know any teacher or administrator or even janitor who worked as employee.

    I only know people that went there have job similar to mine that pays pretty well for the area in which I live. I know those people were ok with attending there. Apparently it is possible to hold degree from that place and have useful skills and after time, 5 years or more, have an IT job paying over $120K a year

    I also know ITT singled out by the government even though similar to a lot of other places. I'm just curious why, suspicious of possibility people in government were in someone's pocket who wanted competition removed

  4. Re:Should they start sooner... on California Launches Mandatory Data Collection For Police Use-of-Force (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    maybe certain races should get their act together and they'd no longer be treated as lawless thugs by default. When a racial group that is 12% of the population commits over 50% of the violent crime, there is a problem all right.

  5. Re:The USA wont follow this on UK Standards Body Issues Official Guidance On Robot Ethics (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Israel has their "Harpy" missile that cruises until it finds radio emissions considered hostile, then targets

  6. Re:I find this hard to believe on How ITT Tech Screwed Students and Made Millions (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    the dumb fuck put it on his credit card, then cries that ITT screwed him.

    As I pointed out in other comment, plenty of people took their ITT degree and have a good job. Why was ITT singled out by the Federal Government when no different than many other places?

  7. more anti-ITT FUD on slashdot on How ITT Tech Screwed Students and Made Millions (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    I have friends who have degrees from ITT and DeVry and have same type of job as I do - $120K+ IT operations job.

    For some reason ITT was singled out by the federal government even though plenty of other places have the same business model.

    A person who went to ITT and then whines they didn't get the dream job has one person to blame. A lazy git who gets a diploma and then sits around with their thumb up their ass probably will not go far in the IT world.

  8. Re:With all due respect to Mr. Hawking and us... on Stephen Hawking Wants To Find Aliens Before They Find Us (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    GR says no such thing about impossibility of FTL. there are valid FTL space-time metric solutions in GR, for example Miguel Alcubierre's system. Again I remind you we already know most of the universe, that which is outside the visible universe, is receding from us at FTL and that is perfectly valid in GR too

  9. Re:fallacy on London To Tech Startups: Please Don't Mind the Brexit Gap (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    wrong

    oÂpen marÂket (noun)
    an unrestricted market with free access by and competition of buyers and sellers.

    It is harder to do business in a market fettered by artificial restrictions

  10. if a country needs to be in the EU to have access to another country's markets, then that is NOT an "open market"

  11. Re:The USA wont follow this on UK Standards Body Issues Official Guidance On Robot Ethics (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    autonomous mechanisms for killing human have existed for centuries, the chinese invented the first land mines quite a while ago.

    funny you would single out the USA, plenty of other countries have automated killing machines.

  12. Re: Keep in mind on Costa Rica Has Gone 76 Straight Days Using 100% Renewable Electricity (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    wrong, it is only an engineering issue to solve the problem of not polluting but still having the growing energy supply to drive progress and health benefits. I don't want to pollute, and it's not necessary to pollute.

  13. "corn sugar" people say this:

    http://corn.org/products/sweet...

    big problems with that propaganda include saying just calories in / calories out only issue. No. Spiking blood sugar high all the time causes immense problems, research insulin resistance for example.

  14. also there is hilarity factor if big bad creature actually gets loose and maybe even eats a couple douche-bags (idea: set one loose in Wall Street right after market close). Jurassic Park has given me enormous expectations

  15. Re:Law enforcement subpoena on Woman Sues Sex Toy App For Secretly Capturing Sensitive Information (ctvnews.ca) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    it can also be used for defense, "the records show my client was in her home self-pleasuring and could not have been having an affair at Mr. Klinton's house during the time period in question. The fact the records show she was shouting Mr. Klinton's name after turning the intensity knob to 11 for the first time is immaterial"

  16. we have worse now on Sugar Industry Bought Off Scientists, Skewed Dietary Guidelines For Decades (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    High fructose corn syrup even worse. And it's not just fructose and glucose.

      That 42/58 and 55/45 is a bulk culinary description, the truth is there is about 3-5 percent saccharide polymers plus leftover reagents (which until very recently even included mercury)

    Food for thought: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  17. Re:If only on Stephen Wolfram Reveals Ambitious Plan to Teach Computational Thinking (stephenwolfram.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Tech literacy? That is not a source of critical and abstract thinking skills. We should be putting most our money into literacy, speaking, writing, debate and learning history. All those things a typical tech education leaves behind, and also people who use social media as their main information source leave those things behind.

    Tech? those that like it can it, most tech jobs are droid jobs anyway.

  18. Re:Other attack vectors on The USB Kill Stick, Priced at $56, Is Designed To Destroy Laptops, PCs, TVs (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    one that happened at place I worked, moron jumps onto glass to copy his butt, and glass breaks and he goes to ER to get shards picked out of his buttocks.

  19. Re:Easy way to avoid the issue on US Investigating Potential Covert Russian Plan To Disrupt November Elections (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    That is merely artifact of autocorrection of phone in use on crowded train during commute.

  20. Re:Easy way to avoid the issue on US Investigating Potential Covert Russian Plan To Disrupt November Elections (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I refer you to history books

    you are ignorant of facts and history

  21. Re:So no time travel then on It's Official: You're Lost In a Directionless Universe (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    you don't need time travel to fuck yourself. Certain spacetime geometries would allow you to grab yourself, or manrape yourself from behind (saving the expense of the sex change, you're welcome)

  22. Re: Not Giving Up My Gasoline Car on Costa Rica Has Gone 76 Straight Days Using 100% Renewable Electricity (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not how this world works. The rest of the world wants the tech and industry products. Takes energy to make those, and even in Costa Rica half the energy used comes from fossil despite misleading headline

  23. Not remarkable at all, Costa Rica is mostly ghetto.

  24. Re: Keep in mind on Costa Rica Has Gone 76 Straight Days Using 100% Renewable Electricity (vox.com) · · Score: 0

    It's hysterical you people avoiding the fact that Costa Rica is a third world craphole with 1/7 the energy consumption per person and per capita income of 12k $, if you had a single light bulb in your house to light you could go 100% renewable too. I'm not interested in living like a ghetto rat thanks.

  25. Re:Order Phones with Removable batteries on Apple Hikes Order Volume For iPhone 7 Parts In Wake of Samsung Recall (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    people generally do their charging overnight. at least in the phone the battery is enclosed with not just the phone but a case, but those typical chargers (worth a $1.50 and made in chinese sweatshops) are going to let the flames be little Free Willy's.