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  1. Re:There's an obvious reason on In America, Most Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad for the Country (chronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Would you care to claim the school? I haven't seen anything like that.

    When I went back to grad school, the only official statement was that, in the case of a teacher/TA and student having a sexual relationship, they would believe the student in the case of a complaint of sexual harassment.

  2. Re:There's an obvious reason on In America, Most Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad for the Country (chronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    From what I've read, infanticide as a standard practice ended a few centuries ago, much closer to the present day than to Jesus's time.

  3. Re:There's an obvious reason on In America, Most Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad for the Country (chronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Which University in particular do you wish to cite as an example, and where can we find documentation of the instructions to police? Which of these plenty of professors would you like to name?

  4. Re:There's an obvious reason on In America, Most Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad for the Country (chronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Your first two examples are of topics where the Democrat position is currently the law, and which Republicans are trying to change and subvert. Why can't we have peace now? It isn't my side that's trying to change the law.

    Monuments are inert, but people putting up monuments aren't. What is taught in school is significant, and adding nonsense is wrong and should not be excused. Why can't you admit the obvious truth? Do you think changing the subject and dismissing legitimate concerns contributes to peace?

  5. Re:There's an obvious reason on In America, Most Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad for the Country (chronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    You're in favor of the flag of your country getting all ratty and torn?

  6. No wonder you guys want to discourage college. It's the easiest way to get your crap history accepted.

  7. Re:Here's what words mean on In America, Most Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad for the Country (chronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Fascism, as practiced, tended to favor capitalism rather than socialism. I don't see "left wing economic policy" as being important in it.

  8. Re:Another NSA sposored story from Slashdot. on US Government Crackdown Threatens Kaspersky's American Dream (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Spasibo, tovarishch. (Do you get paid in rubles, euros, dollars, or Bitcoin, BTW?)

  9. Re: What's good for the goose... on US Government Crackdown Threatens Kaspersky's American Dream (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm an idiot to trust software vendors to not serve their government. In my opinion, the government I'm in the greatest personal danger from is the US government, since I live here. and therefore there's a certain attraction to purchasing security software from a Russian company. I wouldn't recommend it for the US Government, though.

  10. Crimes are prosecuted by the state or federal government (state in this case). Anyone can bring a civil suit. It may be that the appropriate prosecutor declined to prosecute, for whatever reason, or a criminal prosecution may be slow in coming.

  11. Re: WTF is "Sexually Suggestive Assault"?! on BetterWorks and CEO Sued By Ex-employee For Alleged Sexually Suggestive Assault (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    IANAL, but I believe this would be a gross misdemeanor in my state., punishable by up to a year in jail.

  12. Re:Yes, go ahead! on TechCrunch Urges Developers: Replace C Code With Rust (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're discussing safety, please do not use "C/C++". They're very different in that respect., with C++ providing most of the specific safety guarantees people are talking about for Rust.

  13. Re:Cheap bounds-checking is possible: Cheri CPU on TechCrunch Urges Developers: Replace C Code With Rust (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Memory allocation in C++ is normally done with smart pointers, which can solve the use-after-free case by changing all invalid pointers into nullptr.

  14. Re:Recent experience with C on TechCrunch Urges Developers: Replace C Code With Rust (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    C++ can do anything C does (it's a near-superset, and none of the differences affect what can be easily done), and can be used (by complying with an easily verifiable style guide) to eliminate a large number of errors C is prone to.

  15. Re:as if more proof is needed on TechCrunch Urges Developers: Replace C Code With Rust (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    all it does is check the code you write for memory safety issues, and reject it if it's unsafe.

    So it's no improvement over C++.

  16. Re:An embarrassing admission on TechCrunch Urges Developers: Replace C Code With Rust (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Aside from NASA or avionics*, is there any large pool of X programmers who routinely get everything right, for any computer language X? I haven't seen that happen.

    *There are extremely expensive software production techniques that result in very few bugs. These are not normally commercially feasible, partly in that they require specialized developers.

  17. Re:An embarrassing admission on TechCrunch Urges Developers: Replace C Code With Rust (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Do not write C/C++ here. C++, written with an easily enforceable style guide, avoids whole classes of errors C is prone to.

  18. Re:Or Ada. Or Erlang... on TechCrunch Urges Developers: Replace C Code With Rust (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    C++ can easily eliminate buffer overflows and dangling pointer problems. It isn't perfect, but it's better than C and very easy to move to from C.

  19. Re: The Rust community worries me. on TechCrunch Urges Developers: Replace C Code With Rust (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless you're going to institute genital and/or DNA checks to use rest rooms, the "trans people use the rest room of their initially assigned sex" is quite dangerous. If I were to walk into a ladies' room, I'd cause a fuss. There are trans men who look a lot more muscular and hairy than I do, and if you're legally forcing them into the ladies' room there's no justification for a fuss.

  20. Re:Error my ass! on HTC Keyboard Ads Likely an Error, But Damage is Already Done (androidcentral.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It seems more likely to me that HTC made a mistake in underestimating the pushback than in releasing the software.

    I am aware of where Android app revenue comes from. I also believe that basic functionality should not require ads without a prior agreement, and that ads should appear only in the apps that place them. The Android apps I use tend not to push ads on me, since I either pay for them or are conveniences for services I do pay for (like the Kindle app).

  21. Re:I'd hold it against you for being a biker. on Europe Says Employers Must Warn Job Applicants Before Checking Them Out on Social Media (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    There are indeed considerable differences between US and UK law here, as I understand it.

  22. Comparisons of public health systems do include things like life expectancy, etc., and the extremely expensive US system comes out as mediocre.

    One problem with the US system is that we've got a very large amount of overhead in the system, due to inefficiencies that other countries do without. If we were to cut that off, we could approach the subject more easily. It seems likely that the US would have an expensive health care system in any case, but not that expensive.

  23. Re:Trump isn't the problem on Twitter Users Blocked By Trump Sue, Claim @realDonaldTrump Is Public Forum (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously people consider multiple issues with different priorities.

    The relevant points are that the coal jobs are not coming back, despite what Trump says, and the people want their specific jobs back at the expense of everyone else. They're not asking for retraining to take part in the modern economy, which Clinton offered.

  24. Re:Did anyone think it would be otherwise? on Artificial Intelligence Has Race, Gender Biases (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    IQs are normalized for the current test subjects, and someone who got 100 on a 1930s-period IQ test would get something like 80 on a modern one. The normalization is very useful for some things, but tends to hide what happens over time.

  25. Re:ACLU is promoting discrimination on Artificial Intelligence Has Race, Gender Biases (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Recidivism rates by race are irrelevant here, since the issue is that the system overpredicts black recidivism and underpredicts white. That's the interesting part.