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  1. Re:Addressing Some of the Objections Here on Timber Towers Are On the Rise in France (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    was only pointing out there are some caveats and cautions, there are plenty of ways to implement wood structures that wind up being more dangerous than concrete

  2. Re:Modern civilization on Massive Government Report Says Climate Is Warming and Humans Are the Cause (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    no, modern civilization is the industrial age and it's over 250 years old

    which is also the age of fossil fuel use to drive forward progress and human health & longevity. we finally have useful alternatives to fossil fuel and carbon pollution

  3. Re:The free 'Windows 10 upgrade' project was a bus on Microsoft Quietly Announces End of Last Free Windows 10 Upgrade Offer (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I run windows 7 in a VM for things that require it. Have Windows 10 in a bootable partition I upgraded to test it...it's more resource pig and UI sucks. Microsoft should just go back to the UI that has 25+ years of maturity behind it.

  4. Re:Careful what you wish for on Ask Slashdot: Why Do We Still Commute? (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    actually I've seen the lack of cultural understanding make outsourced projects train wrecks. Ignorance of things that *anyone* that grew up in USA/most of europe would know are a source of bugs and bad design in business systems.

  5. ignorant of biology - immortal organisms on Scientists Have Mathematical Proof That It's Impossible To Stop Aging (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    there are plenty of multicellular organisms that are essentially immortal (no set lifespan) except for accident, predation or disease

  6. Re:Addressing Some of the Objections Here on Timber Towers Are On the Rise in France (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    not quite right, how about some experts?
    https://www.nist.gov/sites/def...

  7. Re:Greedy Capitalism Accentuates Social Problems on 'We Can't Compete': Universities Are Losing Their Best AI Scientists (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    your confused, the liberal schools with their ivory tower internal hierarchy are the ones gouging students with overpriced training and putting them in debt for years. what a racket college education is

  8. a couple decades late to worry on Rise of the Machines Must Be Monitored, Say Global Finance Regulators (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    large insurance companies have been using rules-based "expert systems" to adjudicate claims for a couple decades, the exceptional/problematic ones are sent to humans. Use to work in that software industry in the 90s.

  9. Re:Complete cop-out on Interviews: Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst Answers Your Questions (redhat.com) · · Score: 0

    CEO is copping out and you are spewing in ignorance.

    macos is a desktop system, and I'll agree systemd might be fine for a desktop system.

    The other Unix have superior systems to systemd for init that actually address enterprise needs and also still prove traditional functionality/compatibility. Bringing them up is a fine way to start discussion of how systemd went off the rails as a failed attempt to make something better

    Systemd does not solve any problem nor address any need for the hundreds of servers I administer. Systemd has proven to be unreliable and put systems in unstable states on those couple dozen of our servers that have that have it

    Systems far more stable and well engineered than GNU/Linux, e.g. the BSD, perform wonderfully without systemd with more traditional init systems (which by the way are evolving in a sane way)

  10. Re:Elections have consequences on While Equifax Victims Sue, Congress Limits Financial Class Actions (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    there is no realistic hope to get even 1/10 the amount of candidates elected to congress that would change anything about our corporate fascist government courtesy of the Republican, Democrat and yes even LIbertarian parties. And a president that would do it, pffft?

    Hot button issues distract from that core problem of large corporations having our government in their pockets.

  11. Re:Thanks Obama on India, China, and Japan Are All Planning Moon Missions (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    You are very ignorant of the U.S. space program's extent, plenty of missions have been recently launched. Plenty in 2016, plenty in 2015, etc. etc.

  12. Re:Thanks Obama on India, China, and Japan Are All Planning Moon Missions (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    left space behind? I'm pretty we have a few missions in progress right now, with a few more exciting ones launching next year even.

  13. Re:Don't talk about economic outcomes in aggregate on NYT Op-Ed Argues Amazon 'Took Seattle's Soul' (bendbulletin.com) · · Score: 1

    we have the lowest unemployment rate since 2001 right now, you're doing something wrong

  14. Re:The worst is typing in Android on If You Type 1+2+3 Into Your iPhone's Calculator on iOS 11, You Probably Won't Get 6 (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    apps with adware / spyware / social media connections / high rate of "phone home" will do that

    having more than one spell checker running will

    I stick to basic useful stuff, my running my phone like most run windows desktops

  15. Vaccines are great BUT:

    Vaccine not credited with drop in cervical cancer cases: the biggest cause of decline in cervical cancer deaths is from pap screen according to CDC. Most healthy people will clear viral infection naturally in under 2 years. The bulk of cervical cancer deaths are in patients older than 45 years. The vaccine is useless in one third of cases since it involves HPV not targeted.

  16. Re:Isn't inequality about someone not having enoug on 'The Second Gilded Age Is Upon Us' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    but FDR was president, not congress critter. Well the Democrats better run a serious candidate next time, what a mistake with the part-of-the-system Hillary

  17. Re:The worst is typing in Android on If You Type 1+2+3 Into Your iPhone's Calculator on iOS 11, You Probably Won't Get 6 (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    hmmm, my moto x pure doesn't do those things, maybe you saw a StupidPhone.

  18. the rise of the eyecandy tards on If You Type 1+2+3 Into Your iPhone's Calculator on iOS 11, You Probably Won't Get 6 (qz.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    UI and software quality is falling because of the emphasis on appearance rather than function, hence Unity and GNOME 3 and this article's stupidity.

  19. Re:Is it slowing down? on First Extrasolar Object Observed Racing Through Our Solar System (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Even though this one is leaving the solar system already we're not out of the woods yet, "the Ramans do everything in threes."

  20. Ah, Einstein the wife beater on Einstein's Note On Happiness, Given To Bellboy In 1922, Fetches $1.6 Million (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    No mention on the paper was Einstein's use of his wife as a stress ball/punching bag

  21. Re:Open BSD Linux ... WTF on Every Patch For 'KRACK' Wi-Fi Vulnerability Available Right Now (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    no, you have defective logic. bug fixes that don't happen for months lessen security, you are a shill for the lazy and incompetent. no one has to respect the wishes of such

  22. Re:Isn't inequality about someone not having enoug on 'The Second Gilded Age Is Upon Us' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    history

  23. Re:Isn't inequality about someone not having enoug on 'The Second Gilded Age Is Upon Us' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    electing a congress critter won't give anyone a "fair share" of anything nor a "fair" wage

  24. you'll need more than that in Silicon Valley, find out what the cost of living index is for there (or anyplace else you'd relocate) compared to where you were

    Claiming performance reasons without performance review or HR documentation of performance problems can be basis for lawsuit in many states.

  25. no, healthy food can be very cheap, cheaper per pound than the crap most of those buy. you're going to tell me a pound of processed meat is cheaper than say whole chicken? snack food vs. brown rice in bulk? Ignorance is the problem.