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  1. Re:Banks vs Manchester. Law, no. Indexes by publis on Georgia Lawmakers Sue Carl Malamud For Publishing Georgia Law · · Score: 1

    There are many unconstitutional things that happened. The ACA itself is unconstitutional in a multitude of ways, the SCOTUS decisions notwithstanding. The House-Senate compromise bill was not actually legally passed in the Senate, jiggery-pokery by Harry Reid prevented the vote from occurring legally.

    Further, critical votes in the Senate were made by persons there illegally, most notably Al Franken.

  2. Re:Emissions! on NY Mayor Commits To Reduce Emissions 40% By 2030 · · Score: 2

    de Blasio should reduce his emissions by 100%, by not breathing.

  3. Cut energy consumption in half on France To Reduce Reliance On Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    Whoopee ! . . We're all gonna die.
    Youpie ! . . On va tous crever.

  4. Re: Legislate 50% less consumption? Good fucking l on France To Reduce Reliance On Nuclear Power · · Score: 1, Funny

    Perhaps you need to do some research about the correlation between party affiliation and rape. Starting with Bill Clinton.

  5. Re:Earth Mark II on NASA Spies Earth-Sized Exoplanet Orbiting Sun-Like Star · · Score: 1

    Chia Earth.

  6. Re:Too Far Away on NASA Spies Earth-Sized Exoplanet Orbiting Sun-Like Star · · Score: 1

    There's a technical problem here. Assuming electromagnetic broadcasting, for a signal's content to be discernible on Earth, the broadcast from a planet 1400 L.Y. away would have to use a substantial portion of all the energy impinging on the planet. What civilization would use that much power on such a dubious project?

  7. Re:Too Far Away on NASA Spies Earth-Sized Exoplanet Orbiting Sun-Like Star · · Score: 1

    We have run 95% of our evolutionary path.

    Please show your 100% evolved samples so that competent scientists (i.e. you're excluded) can measure our exact progress toward the 100% limit.

  8. Re:2 time the gravity thought on NASA Spies Earth-Sized Exoplanet Orbiting Sun-Like Star · · Score: 1

    Density of Earth is about 5.5. 1.25 times that is still less dense than iron or copper.

  9. Old-timer here on 19-Year-Old's Supercomputer Chip Startup Gets DARPA Contract, Funding · · Score: 1

    Darned overloaded abbreviations. RTL has priority, means Resistor-Transistor Logic.

  10. Re:About $40M on 19-Year-Old's Supercomputer Chip Startup Gets DARPA Contract, Funding · · Score: 1

    Proof-of-concept doesn't have to be on the latest technology, which is undeniably expensive. Do a shared-wafer (https://www.mosis.com/) on some near-obsolete technology, and when the bugs are worked out it's time for scaling.

  11. Early discoveries and hypotheses on small stuff have led to immense improvements in chemistry and electronics, and the development of nuclear power. Is there even a hint of a notion that this sort of work is going to lead to something practical? If so, what?

  12. Re:Commodore on What's the Oldest Technology You've Used In a Production Environment? · · Score: 1

    Tenure helps make propaganda-spewing nutjobs unfireable. Exposing educators to market pressures is a good thing.

  13. Berkeley Breathed on Berkeley Breathed Revives Bloom County Comic Strip After 25 Years · · Score: 0

    Unfortunately.

  14. Re:I'm surprised on Berkeley Breathed Revives Bloom County Comic Strip After 25 Years · · Score: 2

    Did you actually listen to and understand what Trump said? That being a prisoner does not make you a hero?
    McCain obviously thinks he can shamelessly denigrate anybody without consequences, and his alleged supporters will howl when criticism is set back to him.

  15. Re:I'm surprised on Berkeley Breathed Revives Bloom County Comic Strip After 25 Years · · Score: -1, Troll

    Greek political mess is due to massive entitlement, which believe it or not has nothing to do with liberal politics.

    Modern liberalism is very much taking from earners and giving to scum, which characterizes Greece and Detroit.

    The destruction caused by liberalism is slower to take hold in Scandinavia because of the climate. In cold countries it's much more obvious that those who don't produce, die. Where the weather is mild, it's much easier to believe that food will come from "somewhere", and if it doesn't, stamping your feet and screaming (rioting) will make it all better. The latter belief is liberalism.

  16. Re:This is a direct consequence of Afirmative Acti on Silicon Valley Still Wrestling With Diversity Issues · · Score: 1

    Hiring 100 people and then firing 95 of them is hard on those fired, financially and emotionally. It gives your company a bad reputation and invites a class action lawsuit based on dealing in bad faith. Expect to pay for lost wages, moving expenses, damage to reputation.

  17. Re:eDiversity on Silicon Valley Still Wrestling With Diversity Issues · · Score: 1

    Are you ISO 9000 certified?

  18. Re:welcome to reality on Silicon Valley Still Wrestling With Diversity Issues · · Score: 1

    The grammar is straightforward. It cannot be made to mean exclusion of blacks or women.

  19. Re:This Social Justice fad ought to be over soon. on Silicon Valley Still Wrestling With Diversity Issues · · Score: 1

    "Social Justice" is a leftist program of long standing that will not go away. It is one of the primary frauds they push. For just a hint to its age, listen to Three Dog Night's Easy to be Hard (1969).

  20. No expert on A Note On Thursday's Downtime · · Score: 1

    I've negligible experience in this sort of failure and recovery, but...
    Shouldn't slashdot and sourceforge be entirely separate, so that the failure of one can't bring down the other?
    Shouldn't there be live redundant systems, so that when one fails, one of the redundant systems is switched online in minutes? I don't mean just redundant storage, but 3 or 4 systems running concurrently, taking the same input and monitoring to confirm that the output is the same.

    Is this too expensive or not technically feasible?

  21. Re:Suck it, Neil on Neil Young Says His Music Is Too Good For Streaming Services · · Score: 1

    The castanet sound is a standard test for compression systems, and it is notoriously difficult to encode well. Your comment about "modern encoders with correct settings" is valid.

  22. Re:Suck it, Neil on Neil Young Says His Music Is Too Good For Streaming Services · · Score: 1

    If you don't want Neil or his music, he's done you no injury.

    Wrong. He contributed to the destructive political culture circa 1970, the damage from which continues to this very day.

  23. Re:Worst? Heh on Neil Young Says His Music Is Too Good For Streaming Services · · Score: 1

    Wire coat hangers are iron based. There's a risk of the magnetic properties saturating, particularly at low frequencies and high current. The result can be significant distortion. The inductance caused by magnetic properties reduces high frequency response. Iron rusts easily, resulting in noise, distortion, and erratic losses at the connection between the coat hanger and other conductors.

  24. Re:Worst? Heh on Neil Young Says His Music Is Too Good For Streaming Services · · Score: 1

    The overwhelming majority of people, myself included, cannot discern between a high bitrate mp3 and CD-quality audio.

    But there are people who can.

  25. Re:Who? on Neil Young Says His Music Is Too Good For Streaming Services · · Score: 2

    If you've been listening to music at 130 dB, you've already lost the ability to distinguish good from average.