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  1. I'm surprised you aren't whining that someone gave you a funny look. How dare they!

  2. This is fucking rubbish. There's such a thing as black box testing. You don't need to see the source for a breathalyser, you can calibrate it with a dozen college students and a keg.

  3. But that air of 'rightness' will make it much harder for a defendant to challenge inappropriately harsh sentencing because people think the computer must know something.

    It also makes it harder to challenge inappropriately lenient sentencing (in jurisdictions where that's permitted).

  4. What do they do now? on When Sentencing Criminals, Should Judges Use Closed-Source Algorithms? (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Imagine a judge just picks a number out of the air based on his own experience, opinions and yes, prejudices.

    That's using a closed source algorithm, except it runs on a wet carbon platform rather than silicon.

  5. Re:Funny Fact: on ESR Shares A Forgotten 'Roots Of Open Source' Moment From 1984 (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 2

    The bastards! At least Lennart's leaving BSD alone (for the moment).

  6. Submitter is clearly 12 years old on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Way To Write Working Code By Drawing Flow Charts? · · Score: 1

    This stuff has been around since the 1990s if not before. I didn't use it but around that time some of the guys in my office used Excelerator. They didn't like it much.

    Clarification: are you asking if something does it, or if something does it better than a monkey could code it longhand?

  7. Re:Nothing new here on As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Fucking softy. I'd have given the little sadpacker an F.

  8. Re: Nothing new here on As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Fucking twaddle. How many highschools run classes in medicine, law, accounting, engineering...

  9. Re:Capitalism at its finest on Hundreds of Walmart Employees Say They've Been Punished For Taking Sick Days (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Everyone who wasn't in the owner's immediate family was treated like hired help [...] Type A insane entrepreneur catching a break [...] Company X has a retirement plan, but the owner is also a real estate investor and the only investment option is his land-buying scheme.

    You're not fooling anyone with this "Company X" malarkey. We can all see it's the USA.

  10. Sort of like the infinite hotel paradox.

    Take some blood from old git 3 (tell him it's to free up space or something) and give to old git 2 (without him being aware of the source). Take some from old git 2 and give to old git 1. And then, finally, give the young blood to old git 3. Clearly you could do this for any number of old gits while consuming only one portion of emo juice.

    What, you're saying that wouldn't have any clinical benefit?

  11. A reduction in wages without a reduction in income can only mean an increase in buying power.

    Wages are income. How can you reduce one without reducing the other?

  12. Will I use it? on LG Joins NFC Payment Party With LG Pay (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    NFC - No Fucking Chance.

  13. Re:Not "misunderstood" on Trump Misunderstood MIT Climate Research, University Officials Say (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    At least their one step above the average leftist cretin

    ... as you so amply demonstrate.

  14. Re:didn't you get the memo on Researchers Find Dozens of Genes Associated With Measures of Intelligence (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter if you're genetically predisposed to have a high IQ if you're never taught to read or write properly and thus keep failing in education.

    Also, height isn't genetic. No matter how tall your parents are, you'll be fairly short if someone cuts both your legs off.

  15. Do you remember this one? https://slashdot.org/comments....

  16. Re:The Republicans will never.... on Silicon Valley Continues To Explore Universal Basic Incomes (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    If you think the person who receives the cash is the actual beneficiary then I have several bridges you might be interested in buying.

  17. Re:It's never their fault, of course on Movie Studios Are Blaming Rotten Tomatoes For Killing Movies No One Wants To See (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Then be honest and give the movie a different name.

  18. If you're such an expert on words how come you don't know the difference between "it's" and "its"?

  19. Re: Most news is corrupt and sold out on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Choose a News Source? (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 2

    ... and then again on Thursday.

  20. covfefe(x) = sqrt ( 1 - vfefe(x)**2 )

  21. WTF? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Choose a News Source? (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    Where's the CowboyNeal option?

  22. Re: I would suggest... on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Choose a News Source? (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    For the benefit of our foreign readers, a quick overview of British newspapers.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  23. Re: Most news is corrupt and sold out on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Choose a News Source? (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't, I come here to talk about last week's news :)

    Last week's news hasn't got here yet.

  24. Admittedly I don't do much scanning, but when I do I use a digital camera.

    I do have a scanner/printer - it definitely doesn't work as a printer any more. No idea if it works as a scanner. Currently functioning as a dust gatherer.

  25. Re: Um, Ah.... on As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If you are copying code well, that would seem to be a POSITIVE feature for future productivity as a professional.

    Not on a college course.

    It's more like taking a driving test by hiring a chauffeur while you sit in the back.