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  1. Re:We knew this going in on Weather Channel To Breitbart: Stop Citing Us To Spread Climate Skepticism (weather.com) · · Score: 1

    We don't want to make them determined to do so.

    They're determined to do so.

  2. Re:tail feathers from bird on First Dinosaur Tail Found Preserved in Amber (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    And, incidentally, the same people are quoted in that article, also about amber from Myanmar.

    Yeah, but no one reads the article :)

    I used to write +5 moderated comments over and over, merely by reading the article, and restating some interesting points here in the comments. Easy mod points, and the mods hadn't read the article.

  3. tail feathers from bird on First Dinosaur Tail Found Preserved in Amber (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting
  4. Re:We knew this going in on Weather Channel To Breitbart: Stop Citing Us To Spread Climate Skepticism (weather.com) · · Score: 1

    My read is that China is willing to let Taiwan continue to be de facto independent for now, and I'd hate to change their minds.

    They are not 'willing,' they have no choice. When they start making threats, the US sends a carrier into the straits to defend Taiwan.

  5. Re:Pratchett and Baxter already predicted this on Cesarean Births Could Be Affecting Human Evolution, Study Says (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    My wife says that childbirth (4 kids, so it`s a relatively good sample)

    A sample of one person is not very good. Some women have it easy, others have it hard. Those who have it easy tend to have it easy for all their kids, and their bragging about it annoys other people who didn't have it so easy.

  6. Re:Flawed conclusions on Cesarean Births Could Be Affecting Human Evolution, Study Says (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That is why they called it a hypothesis and not a conclusion. They don't have 'flawed conclusions because they don't have any conclusions."

  7. Re:Doctors and patients are more risk (& pain) on Cesarean Births Could Be Affecting Human Evolution, Study Says (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    All her friends said she was mad; plan the date with your Dr. for a C-section

    All her friends were jealous; they can't stand that kind if thing.

  8. Re:There's an obvious alternative explanation on Cesarean Births Could Be Affecting Human Evolution, Study Says (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    so long as the fecal runoff water from factory farms doesn't get into the fields where my veggies grow.

    If you eat organic veggies, then cow shit is put directly on the fields, on purpose, as fertilizer.

  9. Re:We knew this going in on Weather Channel To Breitbart: Stop Citing Us To Spread Climate Skepticism (weather.com) · · Score: 1

    Who said anything about letting China conquer Taiwan? Heck, is there a better way to get China interested in that than in favoring Taiwan?

    ......so says you and everyone who didn't know about Taiwan three weeks ago......

  10. Re: Stop calling it "skepticism". on Weather Channel To Breitbart: Stop Citing Us To Spread Climate Skepticism (weather.com) · · Score: 1

    Average professor salary: $114,000. Many climate scientists are professors, so you're probably wrong. Not that "six figures" == "rich"

  11. Re:Here's an idea on YouTube's $1 Billion Royalties Are Not Enough, Says Music Industry (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    So, we can actually talk about one concert pianist who did launch their career on youtube, Valentina Lisitsa. As you can see, she actually is quite talented. Somehow she did gain popularity there, which is good for her, but if you want to make big bucks in the classical music world, you need to hook in to the system, and she did that, going on the tour circuit. She was co-opted by the system, and now she's a typical musician.

  12. Re:Here's an idea on YouTube's $1 Billion Royalties Are Not Enough, Says Music Industry (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You aren't cool enough to understand the brilliance of the underground players I am talking about, so I won't bother.

    Too bad, I thought you might have some interesting music to listen to. Turns out you're just talking.

  13. Re:Here's an idea on YouTube's $1 Billion Royalties Are Not Enough, Says Music Industry (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Piano players who play better than professionals who sell out concert halls.

    I don't know about that, who in particular are you talking about?

  14. Re: Stop calling it "skepticism". on Weather Channel To Breitbart: Stop Citing Us To Spread Climate Skepticism (weather.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know how real this is, but I wouldn't be surprised if Richard Lindzen made six figures as a professor salary at MIT.

  15. Re:We knew this going in on Weather Channel To Breitbart: Stop Citing Us To Spread Climate Skepticism (weather.com) · · Score: 1

    Their answers exist

    Lies.

    "but the question is: how much?" = huge unknown.
    "We should spend trillions of dollars" = political question, not a science question.

  16. Re:We knew this going in on Weather Channel To Breitbart: Stop Citing Us To Spread Climate Skepticism (weather.com) · · Score: 2
    No, you are wrong. It's been planned for months. Here are some quotes:

    Some of the GOP’s most ardent Taiwan proponents are playing active roles in Trump’s transition team.......Several leading members of Trump’s transition team are considered hawkish on China and friendly toward Taiwan, including incoming chief of staff Reince Priebus.

    It was planned weeks ahead by staffers and Taiwan specialists on both sides, according to people familiar with the plans.

    At the Republican National Convention in July, Trump’s allies inserted a little-noticed phrase into the party’s platform reaffirming support for six key assurances to Taiwan

    Trump did the right thing. China should not be allowed to conquer Taiwan. Why would you think allowing that's a good idea?

  17. Re:Here's an idea on YouTube's $1 Billion Royalties Are Not Enough, Says Music Industry (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Cut out the greedy RIAA pigs and give the money straight to the artist.

    There's a reason that won't happen: the RIAA's skills are more important than thee artists' skills.

    There are plenty of really good musicians all over the place. The reason you haven't heard of them is because of poor marketing. The artists you do hear about have good marketing. If the RIAA dies, another marketing agent will replace them (or, a cluster of marketers).

    To make $1 million as a musician, you don't even need to sing in tune. But you do need marketing.

  18. Re:I'm sure that'll work on Facebook Begins Asking Users To Rate Articles' Use of 'Misleading Language' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah,I thought about that too (I'm sure most of us did), but the existence of this button by itself is a good thing, because it will get people to start thinking about fake news.

    Anything that gets people to start considering that things might be fake news will give them slightly better critical thinking skills, even if only slightly.

  19. Re:See??? on BMW Traps A Car Thief By Remotely Locking His Doors (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If the first compilers were linked to some company we'd all be praising the all-mighty punch card sorry I meant "freedom card" as the only viable way to run a computer.

    The first compiler was made with used, and was delivered on punch-cards, and it was linked to IBM.

  20. Re:Any engineers at Microsoft reading this? on How Microsoft Lost In Court Over Windows 10 Upgrades (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 2

    The beauty of a bureaucracy is that you can always find someone else to blame for any decision. You never have to take responsibility for hurting people.
    This is true of government bureaucracy too, as Kafka pointed out.

  21. Re:If you want to write a book, just do it on Ask Slashdot: Have You Read 'The Art of Computer Programming'? (wikipedia.org) · · Score: 1

    With all possible respect to all the CS experts of the world, that's not what they teach. Finding a good organization of your application that makes structures easy to break down, processes easy to follow and changes easy to implement doesn't involve deep, abstract mathematical formulations with optimal answers. It's about creating functional units (objects, layers, modules, services) with clear responsibilities that abstract away internal details,

    I'm not sure about your university, but my professors tried to teach that in addition to the math stuff.

  22. Re:Amateur Sys-admin deserves the time on Sysadmin Gets Two Years In Prison For Sabotaging ISP (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Fooling with computer systems ranks up there with murder.

    Um, seems reasonable.

  23. Re:Amateur Sys-admin deserves the time on Sysadmin Gets Two Years In Prison For Sabotaging ISP (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    As making a living out of being all things 'admin' (sys/network/engineering, ect.), he totally deserves this. This guy is total amateur-hour and quite simply deserves what he got.

    It's a non-violent crime. He wasn't even trying to hurt anyone, that was an accident. Prison doesn't seem excessive to you? He should be forced to pay damages and be done with it.

  24. Re:Init alternatives on Devuan's Systemd-Free Linux Hits Beta 2 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Just for you I started up my systemd configuration GUI

    Wow, thanks. Why would you do that for me? How does it at all relate to my post?

  25. Re: Init alternatives on Devuan's Systemd-Free Linux Hits Beta 2 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I've addressed your point here (and I'll ignore that you just attacked a strawman instead of my main point, except for mentioning: please learn to read before commenting).