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  1. When you hold all the cards you don't have to suffer fools, nor do you have to attack them. Simply ignoring them is always an option.

  2. Re:"Nanosecond precision" - Sort Of, Maybe on Google and Nasdaq Pursuing Nano-Second Precision In Network Time Protocol (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    MS performance counters typically use 100NS timer tick.

  3. Re: These days I don't trust ANY company on polit on Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Political Views (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    "YOU have to show WHY it's immoral"

    Really? You need to be told why enacting a policy of child abuse as a bargaining tool to extract money from congress is immoral?

  4. Re: Yes, The World Is Returning To Normal on Antarctica Is Melting Three Times As Fast As a Decade Ago (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    "Science has no room for belief or denial." - Says the AC who's using pseudoscientific talking points to deny the results of a decade long scientific study published in Nature.

  5. Re: Not just machine learning on Meet Norman, the Psychopathic AI (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Program = Algorithm + Data. ~ Niklaus Wirth 1976.

  6. Re:Not just machine learning on Meet Norman, the Psychopathic AI (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    What AI lacks is imagination, not intelligence.

  7. Aussie here - Local media are reporting that South Australia's mega battery has reduced the state's grid maintenance costs by 90%

  8. Re:I'd give them an A on Scottish Students Used Spellchecker Glitch To Cheat In Literacy Test (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "innocent before proven guilty" is a British concept.

  9. Re: Who's coordinating this? on NYT: Lynchings Around the World are Linked To Facebook Posts (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nazi Germany was socialist in the same way the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" is democratic.

  10. Re: This why we shouldn't live together ... on Your Next Job Interview Could Be With a Racist Bot (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Pro Tip : Read the summary.

  11. Re: The world is not a static system on One-Degree Rise In Temperature Causes Ripple Effect In World's Largest High Arctic Lake (folio.ca) · · Score: 2

    What part is science denial?

    "a decade of missing temp rises".

  12. Re: The world is not a static system on One-Degree Rise In Temperature Causes Ripple Effect In World's Largest High Arctic Lake (folio.ca) · · Score: 2

    "Ecology... Nature is only model we have that has survived climate change with sheer, total, utter neglect..."

    "The planet is fine, the people are fucked" ~ George Carlin.

  13. Cart before horse? on Are Research Papers Less Accurate and Truthful Than in the Past? (economist.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The summary seems to suggest that results should be reproduced before a paper is published?

  14. Re:Repeal the 2nd amendment on President Trump: 'We Have To Do Something' About Violent Video Games, Movies (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Guns are not the problem, culture is the problem. Every western nation defines health care as a right and gun ownership as a privilege, except the US who have it backwards. This is why the US is at then top of the list for gun violence and the bottom of the list for health care affordability and outcomes.

  15. Re: This is 2018. on Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps On My PC Without Asking (howtogeek.com) · · Score: 1

    You're wasting your breath, losers will always tear others down to build themselves up, it's a defence mechanism that protects their ego.

  16. Re:4.5 Billion? With a B?!? on Uber CEO: We Could Be Profitable -- We Just Don't Want To Be (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Where do people get this idea that company directors are bound by law to make as much profit as possible? "Fiduciary responsibly" simply means telling the truth about company finances in a timely manner, it has nothing to do with the desire or otherwise to make a profit. The law is that the directors must do what the majority of shareholders want to do, if the shareholders vote to spend more money than they earn then that's what the directors are bound to do.

  17. Re:Regulation protects, does not foster anything on France's Telecom Regulator Thinks Net Neutrality Should Also Apply To Devices · · Score: 4, Informative

    # - Name one case where that is true.
    Property law.

  18. Re:More regulation on France's Telecom Regulator Thinks Net Neutrality Should Also Apply To Devices · · Score: 1

    Capitalism cannot exist without property laws.

  19. Re:still that guys fault? on Silicon Valley 'Divided Society and Made Everyone Raging Mad', Argues Newsweek (newsweek.com) · · Score: 2

    The only people who can't see that left and right extremist are cut from the same cloth are left and right extremists.

  20. Re:Incentives are skewed everywhere on China's Scientists Set New International Record -- For Faked Peer Reviews (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Glad you cleared that up. I would have thought the fact that they have a large number of retractions indicates their peer-review system is working, not failing. For comparison, how long did it take before Andrew Wakefield's "research" was retracted?

  21. Re:good grief on Apple's Tim Cook Shares What He Learned From Steve Jobs (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Did he teach him that by providing an example of what not to do?

    Came here to say the same thing. Job's shunned the medical profession in favour of new age mumbo-jumbo, he basically killed himself with his own arrogance and hubris.

  22. Came here to say the same thing. Anyone who thinks knowing a bit of math gives them the ability to become an instant expert on every technical subject is an arrogant fool.

  23. Re:how - foreign contractors == different standard on US Weapons Data Stolen During Raid of Australian Defense Contractor's Computers (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I hate to dampen anyone's outrage but it wasn't a secret, none of the data stolen was classified.

  24. Summary tells half the story on US Weapons Data Stolen During Raid of Australian Defense Contractor's Computers (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    The most important detail is AWOL in this discussion - none of the data stolen was classified information.

  25. Re:Commercial Speech? Free Speech? on Ask Slashdot: Is Deliberately Misleading People On the Internet Free Speech? · · Score: 1

    Agree, lying to authorities and/or lying to consumers is a crime in the developed world, it has nothing to do with "free speech".