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  1. Agile What Now? on Playing Politics With Agile Projects (cio.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you're doing "Agile Projects" or have "Agile Project Managers" you're not doing agile. Agile is a set of PRODUCT methodologies. If you assemble a project, identify scope, get seed funding, kick off, and then decide to delivery you're project "Agile", you've missed the key point of agile: adjust priorities in response to change.

    I get why people hate "agile", it's because most people haven't done the real thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  2. Re:No, no problem. on HP Unveils 'The Machine,' a New Computer Architecture · · Score: 1

    You're trying to say that this press release from HP is full of shit? That's shocking! SHOCKING!

    well, not that shocking.

  3. Perfect Question on Ask Nathan Myhrvold What You Will, Live Q&A April 3 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why are you such an asshole?

    How do you justify the burden you've placed on North American innovation, and the harm that's caused? Can we move past your typical defense of IV based on the ridiculous and yet-to-be-realized anti-mosquito laser system, and discuss the actual harm and actual benefits (if any) provided by IV?

    How does it feel to be a pariah?

  4. Re:WTF was that? on A Truckload of OAuth Issues That Would Make Any Author Quit · · Score: 1

    Actually two-legged OAuth is pretty straightforward and works just fine for me

  5. Re:Idle speculation on Manga Girls Beware: Extra Large Eyes Caused Neanderthal's Demise · · Score: 1

    Eye size here refers to eyeball size, not size of the opening around the eye. A white adult and an east-asian adult have the same (or nearly) eye size, even if the size of the eye opening is different.

  6. Re:Killing leftists prevents more killings. on Islamists In Bangladesh Demand Murder of More Bloggers · · Score: 1

    Yeah, look how fast that happened in Canada...

  7. Re:Internet Control on Security Firm Mandiant Says China's Army Runs Hacking Group APT1 · · Score: 1

    I agree. It's such a refreshing change from bad domestic policy being enacted without cause!

  8. Re:In the words of Someone Else on Finnish Anti-Piracy Site Pirates Thepiratebay Content · · Score: 1

    Above the law? They are the law!

  9. Re:Doubtful on Earth May Have Been Hit By a Gamma-Ray Burst In 775 AD · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That's a bit of a backward way to approach it.

    Normally, when we make observations that don't line up with our current understanding (e.g. "Where did all this carbon-14 come from?") we look for explanations. The most likely known sources of carbon-14 spike are GRB's and solar flares. Discounting those because the overall event is unlikely, in spite of the evidence, is what scientist dub "stupid".

  10. Re:All power comes at a price on How Yucca Mountain Was Killed · · Score: 1

    Won't someone please think of the empty lots?!?!

  11. Re:Profits will suffer on Climate Contrarians Seek Leadership of House Science Committee · · Score: 1

    And we were all thinking it was the oil companies funding the astro-turf, but I think you're onto something. Those sneaky fucking canucks...

  12. Re:Profits will suffer on Climate Contrarians Seek Leadership of House Science Committee · · Score: 1

    Or like the time the gov't stopped me from using Agent Orange in my backyard. I had to go buy roundup instead and that shit is expensive. So what if some little shitheaded brats get cancer in twenty years, not my fucking problem!!!! My quality of life took a serious dip there.

  13. Great sports??? on GM Brings IT Dev Back In House; Self-Driving Caddy In the Works · · Score: 0

    The tigers got swept

  14. Re:great! on Fusion Power Breakthrough Near At Sandia Labs? · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's the same way God planted Dinosaur bones to test our faith...

  15. Re:Questionable on Activision Blizzard Secretly Watermarking World of Warcraft Users · · Score: 1
  16. Jack Vance on Ask Slashdot: Most Underappreciated Sci-Fi Writer? · · Score: 1

    Ok, so I know he's fairly well known, but good god y'all Jack Vance is awesome and is underappreciated imo.

    I also have to agree with those above who say Cordwainer Smith.

  17. Red Crucifix In the Sky Can Mean Only One Thing... on Has a Biochem Undergrad Solved a Cosmic Radiation Mystery? · · Score: 2

    Dragons!!!

  18. Re:Yar on The Avengers: Why Pirates Failed To Prevent a Box Office Record · · Score: 1

    Aye, the buttery topin' in Tortuga be runnin' low, argh. Soon I'll only have me grog to put on me popcorn while watching a cam of the back'o some landlubber's seat! A pirate's life for me!

  19. Nibiru to the rescue! on Nearby Star May Have More Planets Than Our Solar System · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah but when nibiru comes back around, we'll be up a planet and then who'll be laughing?

  20. Re:Darn that dirty hydrogen on Self-Sustaining Solar Reactor Creates Clean Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    Um, you were looking for an example of a hydrogen explosion and you picked Fukushima?

  21. Re:Darn that dirty hydrogen on Self-Sustaining Solar Reactor Creates Clean Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    The thing about producing H2 from water is there's nothing to ship. A power facility only needs a source of clean water, and some reclamation of that might be possible. Certainly running H2 around in pipes under pressure when there's water EVERYWHERE is unnecessary, or at least less efficient than deploying sufficient amounts of these reactors, or just transmitting power.

  22. Has no one read At the Mountains of Madness? on Self-Sculpting "Sand" Can Allow Spontaneous Formation of Tools · · Score: 1

    The Shoggoths wipes out the Elder Things

  23. Re:Let's settle the argument... on What To Do About an Asteroid That Has a 1 In 625 Chance of Hitting Us In 2040? · · Score: 1

    It was Adam and Eve not Adam and Nemo!

  24. Re:In perspective on Robert Boisjoly Dies At 73, the Engineer Who Tried To Stop the Challenger Launch · · Score: 1

    Your confusing the micro and macro views.

    Your post can be reduction ad absurdum'd to "Well, our murder count for the year is low, so let's let this murderer go free".

    From a marco view, I agree. 17 lives lost for 50 years of space exploration is not too bad. Comparing it with pioneering days is a bit apples and oranges, but overall I would say NASA is decidedly more risk-averse than the English Gov't was wrt their explorers in the 1500's.

    From a micro view, i.e. viewing the Challenger disaster in a vacuum, it was the result of mismanagement and arrogance. It had avoidable errors and the mgmt mentality that led to this should be guarded against.

  25. Re:President of the Moon . . . ? on Candidate Gingrich Pushes a Moon Base, Other Space Initiatives · · Score: 1

    Newt's President of the Moon,
    He carries a harpoon.
    But there ain't no whales
    so he tells tall tales
    and sings his colonizin' tune