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  1. ATC and the TSA are under completely separate agencies. What makes you think that a change in the way the FAA does business will change anything about Homeland Security?

  2. Re:Seems reasonable. on Harvard Pulls Student Offers Over Online Comments (go.com) · · Score: 1

    It isn't like they've ever been diverse. The best way to get into any ivy league school is to have parents donate a building project.

  3. Re: Avoid travel or leave laptop at home on What To Do If the Laptop Ban Goes Global (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    If the Muslim ban in place, then the reason for the laptop ban goes away entirely.

  4. Re:Avoid travel or leave laptop at home on What To Do If the Laptop Ban Goes Global (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Already doing that. I find it interesting that nobody has addressed the real reason for the laptop ban to begin with- the fact that it is drop dead easy to rewire a lithium-ion battery to become an IED.

  5. Re:Begging the question on The US Is the Biggest Carbon Polluter in History (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I own a prius:
    1. That's carbon monoxide, not carbon dioxide
    2. My prius doesn't emit any. You can suck on it's tailpipe all day and all you'll get is a little water vapor.

  6. Re:Climate Politics on The US Is the Biggest Carbon Polluter in History (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    First, prove that mankind isn't a part of nature.

  7. Re:Climate Politics on The US Is the Biggest Carbon Polluter in History (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Climate science is neither credible nor relevant. If the predictions of the 1990s were true, then we're 20 years too late to do anything about it. If the predictions of the 1990s are false (and most of them turned out to be quite false- New York City isn't underwater yet) then global warming is turning out to be a bit less of a disaster than proposed.

    Either way you slice it, climate science became irrelevant the second the pundits got a hold of it. And the failed predictions make it less credible every year.

  8. Re:Climate Politics on The US Is the Biggest Carbon Polluter in History (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's worse than that. Peer review itself is an appeal to authority.

  9. Re:Climate Politics on The US Is the Biggest Carbon Polluter in History (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I think a panzer used a lot more fuel than a Sherman Zippo Lighter.

  10. Re:CENSORED: US DoD World's Greatest Carbon Pollut on The US Is the Biggest Carbon Polluter in History (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    One of these things is not like the others- and you can only do two out of the three. Without the Navy or the Air Force, what are you going to use to evict the USA?

  11. Re:CENSORED: US DoD World's Greatest Carbon Pollut on The US Is the Biggest Carbon Polluter in History (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like Trump has his way out then. All he has to do is follow through on his campaign promise to withdraw the military back within US borders and reduce headcount by 95%.

  12. Re:Begging the question on The US Is the Biggest Carbon Polluter in History (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it isn't. Water Vapor and Methane are both MUCH more powerful than CO2 when it comes to global warming.

    Human beings excel at existential problems. It's what we're good at and what put us on top of the food chain to begin with.

  13. Re:Begging the question on The US Is the Biggest Carbon Polluter in History (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, if your ancestors had not evolved to deal with extreme conditions, you would not be here.

    Mankind's technological abilities are all about living in extreme conditions.

  14. Re:Begging the question on The US Is the Biggest Carbon Polluter in History (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    This, yes. Without carbon dioxide and nitrogen in the atmosphere, you'd die.

  15. Re:This story and the Climate change story precedi on A NASA Spacecraft Will Head Straight For the Sun -- Farther Than Any Probe Before It (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    If the synopsis is right (1400C/300=4C) then any astronaut who can make it through the corona to land on the sun is going to need a parka!

  16. And yet, in my history of an incredibly unstable career, I'd have to say at least 85% of managers consider their resources to be potential adversaries.

  17. Re:"depraved indifference" on More Than Half of US Workers Didn't Use Up Their Time Off Last Year (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    That problem, I suspect, is in most people's employment relationships, especially if they work for a company with more than three employees.

  18. Re: no on Are There More Developers Than We Think? (redmonk.com) · · Score: 1

    And thus, you can implement a linked list in COBOL, can't you?

    Reminds me of the Advanced C class I took with the following problem:

    Const char[] strIn="Find the comma, and change it to a period please";

    My methodology- grab the pointer to strIn, increment it until I found the comma, and change it to a period (I leave it as an exercise for the reader to implement).

    Everybody else used a strcpy first, because after all, it was a constant.

    My score? -5, scribbled out, and a note "I tried it, it worked".

    What I knew and nobody else did: Borland C had no memory protection.

  19. Re:no on Are There More Developers Than We Think? (redmonk.com) · · Score: 1

    You can implement linked lists in arrays. You don't NEED pointers.

  20. Re:no on Are There More Developers Than We Think? (redmonk.com) · · Score: 1

    Agile only works for projects that have less than an 18 month lifespan. Beyond that, it suffers from Mythical Man Month Syndrome.

  21. Re:no on Are There More Developers Than We Think? (redmonk.com) · · Score: 1

    I use Agile, and I tend to agree. Continuous integration leads to continuous bugs, and customer-driven development is constantly suffering from the iceberg problem.

  22. Re:no on Are There More Developers Than We Think? (redmonk.com) · · Score: 1

    Which one? MS-DOS Basic, Applesoft PowerDOS basic, Atari DOS Basic, TI DOS Basic, or some other flavor?

    I can't call Commodore's Basic a DOS Basic. DOS on the Commodore was a hardware chip in the 1541 floppy drive, which was a computer in and of itself.

    Of the above, I've implemented linked lists in 3 out of the 4 by using multi-dimensional arrays. I tried in Atari DOS Basic, but the limitation to single dimension arrays made the math just too strange.

  23. Re:no on Are There More Developers Than We Think? (redmonk.com) · · Score: 1

    I went to school for six years to gain that ridiculous, overcompensating title.

  24. Re:no on Are There More Developers Than We Think? (redmonk.com) · · Score: 1

    Directories?!!?!? My version control in the early 1980s was a set of numbered cassette tapes. Directories were for the rich people who could afford floppy drives.

  25. Re:Going Galt just got easier! on Mark Zuckerberg Calls for Universal Basic Income in His Harvard Commencement Speech (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Or we can just tax internet advertising at 95%- to provide a whopping $120 yearly income to every man, woman, and child in the United States.

    Liberty is stupid. Libertarian, Liberal, Libertine, it's all based on too much marijuana.