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  1. Re:#notallgeekyguys on Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds · · Score: 1

    No. No. I'm afraid you really are an entitled, sexist douchebag. I'm sorry that you don't have the self-perception to see that for yourself, but that's not my problem. But the reception you get is not unjust at all. You deserve it.

  2. Re:#notallgeekyguys on Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds · · Score: 1

    men know that rape is wrong, except for a vile handful of predators

    The number of men who actually carry out rapes is relatively small, so long as you only define rape as a violent act that occurs in dimly lit alleyways. Once you open it out it becomes substantially larger. But the real problem is not the rapists, it's the rape culture, which very few men do not contribute to in some way. Rape culture is what enables rapists of whatever degree to justify their actions to themselves.

  3. Re:#notallgeekyguys on Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds · · Score: 1

    Dude, if you want to talk about misogyny, citing RedPill is probably not the way to go about it, unless you include words like "LOL". Also, it is irrelevant what people actually are; the point is what they identify themselves as because of the culture they are raised in.

  4. 4K cards & monitors on Testing 65 Different GPUs On Linux With Open Source Drivers · · Score: 1

    Since we're on this subject and I'm too damned lazy to research, I'd welcome any suggestions for cards that play nicely with 4k monitors, preferably at 60Hz, on Ubuntu derivatives, especially Mint.

  5. Re:Piketty's work will be done for him on Why You Shouldn't Use Spreadsheets For Important Work · · Score: 1

    And how do we tell the difference between that and him being wrong, if you please?

  6. Re:Damn BBC on The World's Worst Planes: Aircraft Designs That Failed · · Score: 1

    Use nyud.net

  7. Re:Bothered on The Big Bang's Last Great Prediction · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, when you create a theory of the universe's creation, you should probably take a hint from the name "universe" that there will be just one starting point...

  8. Re:Teach my tone-deaf sister to sing on Fixing the Pain of Programming · · Score: 1

    The problem there is that anyone who does not actually have a brain defect, which is almost no-one, can be taught to sing and taught to sing well. People who can't sing were typically brought up on a diet of recorded music, were not sung to as children, and were discouraged from singing from an early age. Give her six months of weekly lessons with a vocal teacher then come back and tell us she can't sing.

  9. Re:Bigger problem on Can Google Influence Elections? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because the problem with Athenian democracy was that there weren't enough people involved. Right.

  10. Re:It's always manipulating the results.... on Can Google Influence Elections? · · Score: 2

    Google probably weights your search reults more by what it knows about you than anything else. For instance, I play the bagpipes and searching for anything with the term "pipe" in it doesn't result in plumbing results. Of course, if you're a bagpipe-playing plumber, you're in trouble...

  11. Re:Nobody ever got fired for buying $big_corp on How To Approve the Use of Open Source On the Job · · Score: 1

    Very much this. Once something is done and working, getting retrospective permission is typically a lot easier. Your industry may vary.

  12. Re:Bigger problem on Can Google Influence Elections? · · Score: 2

    Because representative democracy. The Athenians tried democracy for reals and it was a fucking disaster.

  13. Re:Motivated rejection of science on Wyoming Is First State To Reject Science Standards Over Climate Change · · Score: 1

    this peculiar strain of stupidity is generally right-wing in nature

    I take it you're not familiar with the people whothink GMO crops are the spawn of the devil and their typical voting instincts?

  14. Re:Selection bias much? on Programming Language Diversity On the Rise · · Score: 1

    Yes. I am completely wrong and realise the error of my ways. How idiotic I feel now. Thank you for setting me on the path to righteousness. I realise now that all Turing machines are entirely seperate from their substrate and that if their substrate is required to operate they clearly cannot be Turing machines. Gosh. The scales have really fallen from my eyes.

  15. Re:Selection bias much? on Programming Language Diversity On the Rise · · Score: 1

    Right, remove the clock edge from your CPU and let's see how Turing complete it is...

  16. Re:Selection bias much? on Programming Language Diversity On the Rise · · Score: 1

    No, the JS is only used to iterate the state machine. You can do it entirely using keyboard events but that gets tedious, a bit like slashdot discussions.

  17. Re:Selection bias much? on Programming Language Diversity On the Rise · · Score: 1

    Actually, CSS with a little accompanyine HTML and JS to turn the handle can run a simple state machine that is Turing complete, though it wins an award for being inferior to Brainfuck.

  18. Re:preventing officers from being able to deactiva on London Police To Wear Video Cameras In Pilot Project · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, the default for these cameras is to be off. They will only be turned on when something the officer deems worth recording is happening.

  19. Re:Probabilities, Summation on Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit? · · Score: 1

    Sitting on the other side of the fence, I know how competitive auto insurance is. Barriers to entry are low - you just require a decent slug of capital - and inefficiency in pricing is exposed very quickly. I realise it doesn't feel like it when you buy cover but private auto is probably the most competitive line of insurance around. It almost invariably runs at a combined ratio of >100% (ie lossmaking) at industry level, and certainly has in the US and UK for many years.

  20. Re:Probabilities, Summation on Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit? · · Score: 1
    OK, IAAA, IANYA, and this is not actuarial advice.

    This isn't really an insurance problem. As driverless cars take to the roads, the accident experience will gradually improve, which will be reflected in insurance rates. As and when they crash, the liability issues will be sorted out in the courts, and that isn't an insurance issue, except when case law changes. Speaking broadly, driverless cars won't really create new case law, though they will probably produce interesting corner cases. As for the original question, I'm sceptical that you will see events where a computer's choice would have such ramifications. It seems far more likely the computer saw it coming and glided to a stop 200m back.

  21. Re:If not... on Did the Ignition Key Just Die? · · Score: 1

    Not really. Factory working conditions were poor and dangerous but people voluntarily left rural poverty in droves to work in them. We wouldn't want to work in them but they were a lot better than relying on your cabbage crop succeeding to get through the winter.

  22. Re:The actual technical fault. on Did the Ignition Key Just Die? · · Score: 1

    Ignition keys nowadays link to a computer anyway, they don't isolate the electronics. In addition, the correct response to uncontrolled acceleration is to firmly apply the brake pedal, not turn the engine off.

  23. Re:I miss Groklaw :-( on Lavabit Loses Contempt Appeal · · Score: 1

    Umm, she shut up shop because of Snowden.

  24. Re:What this basically means... on Study Finds US Is an Oligarchy, Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because the threat of death is a big motivator for honest people to get involved in something.

  25. Re:u can rite any way u want on Is Germany Raising a Generation of Illiterates? · · Score: 1
    This explains why people who spoke Old Enlgish could not communcate with each other.*

    *Oh, apparently they could. Er.