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  1. Re:If number of lines of code really counted... on Can Reactive Programming Handle Complexity? · · Score: 1

    or better yet, how about APL?

    One of my favorite exchanges of all time:

    Programmer: We wrote our entire application in one line of APL!

    Tester: But it doesn't work!

    Programmer: That's okay, I know exactly which line of code is broken!

  2. Re:The usual consulting snake oil on Can Reactive Programming Handle Complexity? · · Score: 1

    Sprinkling database updates around in Java (which for most Java programmers means Hibernate) is almost always a terrible idea. Use the appropriate tool to implement your business logic; often that tool is SQL.

  3. Re:Won't happen anytime soon. on DARPA Training Cadets and Midshipmen As Cyber Warriors · · Score: 1

    However, it appears that the NSA (and presumably other three-letter agencies) are pretty good at it.

  4. Re: The day before Fukashima happened on Why Improbable Things Really Aren't · · Score: 1

    Any type of working aux generator would have protected it. Although I think a better design would be to have one a few miles inland. That would provide better protection from other natural disasters, accidents, or intentional attacks.

  5. Re:warriors or experts? on DARPA Training Cadets and Midshipmen As Cyber Warriors · · Score: 1

    Those are not mutually exclusive, if that's what you're asking.

  6. Re:Better way to spend money... on Astronomers Make the Science Case For a Mission To Neptune and Uranus · · Score: 1

    lesser gravity well.

    I'm always confused by that statement. Maybe, if you could mine and manufacture what was needed for a mission you could save something. But that would take a massive infrastructure on the Moon. Without it you're stuck launching from Earth, landing on the Moon, then launching from the Moon.

    Manned space exploration is no longer necessary. An unmanned mission can do anything a manned mission can do.

  7. Like astrology vs. astronomy on US Plunges To 46th In World Press Freedom Index · · Score: 1

    Questionnaire respondents are probably confusing Freedom of the Press with whatever headline is hot the week of the survey.

  8. Re:No hopes: It is made in the US on The Ultimate Hopes For the New Cosmos Series · · Score: 1

    If you watch them without commercials, they look like they were made by retards for retards! :-/

    Are you saying they're better or worse without commercials?

  9. Re:It's a 1 billion dollar slush fund. on Obama To Ask For $1 Billion Climate Change Fund · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A billion dollar slush fund in time for the 2016 elections. He's not fooling anyone.

    But it has no chance of getting through Congress, just something he will point fingers at the Ebil Tea Party Owned Republicans for blocking.

  10. Plugging up the tubes on German Chancellor Proposes European Communications Network · · Score: 1

    Even Merkel's cell phone was reportedly monitored by American spies.

    Merkel said in her weekly podcast that she disapproved of companies such as Google and Facebook basing their operations in countries with low levels of data protection while being active in countries such as Germany with high data protection.

    Those two statements don't go together.

  11. Re:American poor on Your 60-Hour Work Week Is Not a Badge of Honor · · Score: 1

    It proves more than the hypothetical GP about three jobs and 60 hour week. Let's see your statistics showing which is more common.

  12. Re:Prepare the industry stonewalling. on Putting the Next Generation of Brains In Danger · · Score: 1

    You missed the point entirely. Do not assume the government will protect you - protect yourself. Whether it's smoking or avoiding fish that contain mercury or not using toluene to remove fingernail polish, those are all known hazards and have been for years. Be aware of what's out there.

    Yes, there is a place for regulation. Lead, PCBs, mercury are all banned for good reason. That's nice but it doesn't reduce personal responsibility.

  13. Recursive solution on RoboBeast: A Toughened 3D Printer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Kudos to him for his work. Better for someone to just get this done instead of waiting for governments/UN/etc to finally get around to talking about it

  14. Re:Prepare the industry stonewalling. on Putting the Next Generation of Brains In Danger · · Score: 1
    FTFA:

    In 2006, they published data identifying five chemicals as neurotoxicants -- substances that impact brain development and can cause a number of neurodevelopmental disabilities including attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, dyslexia and other cognitive damage, they said.

    Those five are lead, methylmercury, arsenic, polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, and toluene.

    Pregnant women are responsible for the baby they're carrying. Obviously they should not expose themselves to these elements/chemicals, or a long list of others known to be harmful. Yet how many babies are born every year to mothers who smoke, consume alcohol, use cocaine or other recreational drugs, etc, etc?

    The EPA can make regulations all day long. But the primary responsibility is and will always lie with the individual. Do not expect The Government to protect you 24/7, cradle to grave. It won't happen.

  15. Re:Go back .... on NSF Report Flawed; Americans Do Not Believe Astrology Is Scientific · · Score: 1

    Aside from your too politically correct attitude, I'm sure you would find similar numbers anywhere else in the world. Miss Teen South Carolina said it better than I can if you want a more complete explanation.

  16. Re:I think you meant Yang Tze. on China's Jade Rabbit Fights To Come Back From the Dead · · Score: 1

    Yea. But I really want to be a lumberjack anyway.

  17. Re:Aki Ross on Game Developers' Quest To Cross the Uncanny Valley · · Score: 1

    Mori “hypothesized that a person’s response to a humanlike robot would abruptly shift from empathy to revulsion as it approached, but failed to attain, a lifelike appearance,”

    Obviously Maxim fails to even approach a lifelike appearance with their models.

  18. Re:they exist but do not have titles? on Good Engineering Managers Just "Don't Exist" · · Score: 1

    It's not clear what you base that on. I suspect what we see today has always been true. And CEO's have been very well paid for far longer than 40 years.

  19. Keylogger, not sharing on NSA: Others Implicated in Making Snowden Data Leaks Possible · · Score: 5, Informative
    FTFA

    “At Snowden’s request,” the civilian NSA employee, who is not identified by name, entered his password onto Snowden’s computer terminal, the memo states.

    “Unbeknownst to the civilian, Mr. Snowden was able to capture the password, allowing him even greater access to classified information,” the memo states.

    Snowden lied to the other employee in order to steal classified information.

  20. Re:Obligatory on China's Jade Rabbit Fights To Come Back From the Dead · · Score: 1

    It wasn't dead, it was just pining for the Ganges

  21. Re:It's not the same on Massive Storm Buries US East Coast In Snow and Ice · · Score: 1

    A friend of mine said something similar about Kansas, where he was from. The wind is always blowing there, so limbs break off as soon as they get weak instead of building up for years and all coming down in one storm. Of course in Kansas they don't have many trees anyway.

  22. Re:"Open Source" is not enough for patents on Open Source — the Last Patent Defense? · · Score: 1

    I thought they addressed copyright, not patent protection? Can you explain how a GPLv3 license protects me from a patent troll.

  23. Re:This is the part where Open Source takes over on Open Source — the Last Patent Defense? · · Score: 1

    Open Source and patents are entirely different subjects.

  24. Science versus noise on Majority of Young American Adults Think Astrology Is a Science · · Score: 1

    People are exposed to all kinds of "science" today: animal rights, anti-GMO, organic food, vegan diet, astrology, political science, economics...

    What's science? Maybe all of the above, maybe none of the above.

  25. Re:milk thistle cure is not new on The Death Cap Mushroom Is Spreading Across the US · · Score: 1
    FTFA:

    “When we present to FDA, it will be a slam dunk for approval,” he told Slate. “The drug has virtually no side effects, it’s very well tolerated, and if used correctly it’s awesomely effective.”

    The doctor doing the research doesn't seem to share your concern.