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  1. Re:could be fems average better at groups, men one on Why Some Teams Are Smarter Than Others · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Man here (from birth)... I don't see how selfishness is an inherently male trait. I would never think taking someone else's food was OK as long as I replaced it. Obviously, at the moment there's a problem, and fixing problems you created is clearly inferior to not causing them in the first place. I would not want someone who wasted time and professional reputation, by constantly fixing the problems they caused, on my team.

    What I see with men-- including myself, of course-- is that we DO want to fix problems, and save the discussion for later. "Lessons learned", "post-mortem meeting", etc. Women don't seem to like that. For some reason, they want to address the collateral issues at the same time, or even defer the solution in order to perform in-depth problem analysis. This seeming lack or urgency is frustrating to me, personally.

  2. Re:What's the graduation rate for women? on Fighting Tech's Diversity Issues Without Burning Down the System · · Score: 1

    It is hilarious that one day, we can have an article lamenting the lack of women in IT-related undergraduate majors, then the next have an article wondering why there aren't more women working in IT.

    Maybe we should stop frickin' worrying about how many women are in IT... unless we want to start worrying about the lack of men in nursing, veterinary, and grade school education.

  3. Re:Entitled much? on Fighting Tech's Diversity Issues Without Burning Down the System · · Score: 1

    Apparently, companies are supposed to hire women based only on their resumes now.

  4. Deja vu on Steam For Linux Bug Wipes Out All of a User's Files · · Score: 1

    This reminds me of a game from something like 10 years ago that would delete everything from Program Files if you uninstalled it. I can't remember which one that was.

  5. Re:One mile? on Parents Investigated For Neglect For Letting Kids Walk Home Alone · · Score: 1

    No, we mean American football, which originally had play started by kicking (or "snapping") the ball with the foot, the field goals and tries were worth more than the touchdown, and the forward pass was illegal so the ball was rounder. Perhaps if Walter Camp had anticipated that ignoramuses would make stupid jokes, he would have proposed renaming the game.

  6. Re:I did way more than that when I was 5 on Parents Investigated For Neglect For Letting Kids Walk Home Alone · · Score: 1

    How the heck were you wiring up receptacles at 3? I can't get my 5 year old niece to tie her shoelaces.

  7. Re:nanny state on Parents Investigated For Neglect For Letting Kids Walk Home Alone · · Score: 1

    To be fair, we can't really lump net neutrality, a consumer protection issue, in with those others. But things like telling adults between 18 and 21 they can't drink alcohol and making single parents pay child support until their adult children are 25 are stupidly extending childhood and ultimately giving governments unreasonable power over the people.

  8. Re:Que calls for net neutrality... on Ad Company Using Verizon Tracking Header To Recreate Deleted Cookies · · Score: 1

    Your assertion is based on... what?

  9. Re:smarter than many people I know on Carnivorous Pitcher Plant "Out-Thinks" Insects · · Score: 1

    This logic has escaped my in-laws, who have not had ONE child-- not ONE-- while in a marriage or even anything resembling a stable relationship. I really hope the idea of having a trusting, stable relationship and the ability to support one's own family is not a quaint one.

  10. Re:ps - I dumb, impatient things often on Carnivorous Pitcher Plant "Out-Thinks" Insects · · Score: 1

    Logic says we're more likely to be alive tomorrow than dead.

    If some of your thoughtful choices include not participating in needlessly dangerous activities or unhealthy behavior, the odds move even more in your favor.

  11. Re:Pope Francis - fuck your mother on Pope Francis: There Are Limits To Freedom of Expression · · Score: 5, Insightful

    stop using the stupid, "Love the sinner, hate the sin"

    What's stupid about it? You can demand tolerance, but not acceptance.

  12. No fool like an old fool on Pope Francis: There Are Limits To Freedom of Expression · · Score: 1

    The Pope, like most leaders, thinks his wisdom is boundless and intelligence such that he had insights no one else has had. The fact is, the champions of freedom of expression realize that it's perilous to label any speech as forbidden, as the slide into tyranny is inevitable. The problem is, any zealot can decide your words are worse than insulting his mother. And any zealot can decide that killing people is a reasonable response. Perhaps it's because this pope is not as learned as his predecessor. I find it hard to believe that Benedict XVI would not realize that several core beliefs of Christianity are mother-slandering to Muslims. For example, the divinity of Jesus and the Holy Trinity. The Qur'an says, "There is no god but Allah" and that he has no son. The Qur'an also denies that Jesus dies on the cross. Any of these beliefs are blasphemy to Islam. So, Your Eminence, shall we deny the Bible's mission to spread the Gospel, so as not to offend?

  13. Re:This could be fun.... on Man Saves Wife's Sight By 3D Printing Her Tumor · · Score: 2

    May you always roll a natural 20 on your saving throw.

  14. Re:My guess on PC Shipments Are Slowly Recovering · · Score: 1

    Those are stupid, penny-pinching companies. A 7 year old computer indeed, does not, do what you need it to due to increasing requirements of new software and security patches. After 5 years, a computer is completely depreciated for tax purposes. While this doesn't make the new computer free, it now can be written off. Companies run by bean counters, instead, look at the costs of the new hardware and staff needed to deploy them and decide to give the CxOs a bonus instead.

  15. Re:Not a problem on Is 'SimCity' Homelessness a Bug Or a Feature? · · Score: 2

    What you have said is a flat out lie. The ACA came out of a Senate finance committee that was all Democrats and liberal Republicans-- mostly Democrats-- and was passed without a single vote from a Republican in a Democrat-controlled congress.

    Did something resembling it appear from the Heritage Foundation? Yes, and it was a bad idea then. But a sketchy proposal from a "Republican think-tank" is not the same as legislation from elected representatives.

  16. Re:Not a problem on Is 'SimCity' Homelessness a Bug Or a Feature? · · Score: 1

    Romney explained that he felt his plan only worked on the state level. In other words, if every state did what he did, administered it within in each state, and tailored it for its citizens, he would be OK with it. You can decide he lied, but the fact is that he never once claimed it would work on a federal level. There are also several parts of the Massachusetts health care law that he vetoed, but the Democrats unilaterally (because they controlled the legislature) reinstated.

    FWIW, I'm not even fond of this on the state level. But at least, when states do it by definition it is limited in scope and subject to greater influence by the people subjected to it.

  17. Re:Mmm... on Authors Alarmed As Oxford Junior Dictionary Drops Nature Words · · Score: 1

    Really? When I was a kid, I caught minnows (and tadpoles-- are those in there?) and collected acorns. We had a blackberry bush. Seriously, these are rather everyday words in the Western world.

  18. Flawed methodology on Human Language May Have Evolved To Help Our Ancestors Make Tools · · Score: 1

    The results from this experiment are misleading, but to be fair it's a hypothesis that might be flat out untestable. I think we'd need a number of deaf-mutes to perform this study, because language is itself a tool, so asking a person who relies on this tool to work without it is like asking a craftsman to create something without his.

  19. Re:1980s? on The Legacy of CPU Features Since 1980s · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Everything the author wrote was accurate, although misleading. He wrote, "In the 80s, you might have used an 8-bit CPU." You also might have used a 16, 24, 32, or 36 bit CPU.

    He wrote, "introduced to x86 since the early 80s include paging / virtual memory, pipelining, and floating point." We know that some platforms had some of these features earlier than x86, but he was speaking to those who had been programming on the x86 platform. Of course, this ignores the x87 math coprocessor, but I digress.

  20. Re:Yep, the government _is_ the terrorist ! on UK Prime Minister Says Gov't Should Be Capable of Reading Any Communications · · Score: 1

    We criticize Obama for deciding not to enforce laws, but in reality even if Lincoln had simply decided not to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act, that would have been better.

  21. Re:But on Microsoft Ends Mainstream Support For Windows 7 · · Score: 2

    All I can figure is that the greybeard who designed the wonderful Windows 1.0 UI has blackmail on Satya Nadella.

  22. Re:Makes sense. on Google Throws Microsoft Under Bus, Then Won't Patch Android Flaw · · Score: 1

    Actually, 13 years previous to Windows XP, the state of the art on a PC was either OS/2 1.1 or DOS 4.0. Could you imagine still using DOS (maybe with Windows 2.0) or 16-bit OS/2 in 2001?

  23. Re:Paying taxes over internet is normal. on US Lawmakers Push For a Permanent Ban On Internet Access Taxes · · Score: 1

    Assuming high taxes result in fast internet is like assuming German cars are the fastest in the world because the Autobahn has no speed limit.

  24. Re:Ebay is a viper nest of shady buyers on Rare Recalled NES Game Stadium Events On Ebay For $99,000 · · Score: 1

    There's a reason I limit my auctions to specific countries. I live in the USA and, by default, only sell to the USA and Canada. I did open to the UK for one auction, but no UK bidder won.

  25. Re:Restrictive Gun laws on In Paris, Terrorists Kill 2 More, Take At Least 7 Hostages · · Score: 2

    Doesn't matter, does it? Every time there is some mass shooting in the US, someone says it's because the gun laws aren't strict enough even though they rarely obtained the weapon legally.