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  1. Re:problems on How To Better Verify Scientific Research · · Score: 1

    Actually, I think that would be good. I'm pretty sure the majority of papers would drop as well because shoddy work would get you the wrong kinds of headlines and those submissions would dwindle. You can ensure that by providing in synopsis form the papers that you rejected and the reasons.

  2. Re:Scientists == Always Right on How To Better Verify Scientific Research · · Score: 1

    psychological and sociological studes

    These are not fields of science other than as repositories of anecdotal evidence. The vast bulk of each discipline's studies and experiments cannot be reproduced. You venture correctly.

  3. Re:Scientists == Always Right on How To Better Verify Scientific Research · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Took 29 minutes to get from the story being posted to "CLIMATE SCIENTIST ARE LIREZ!!11!!1"

    He neither said that nor implied it. What he said was that any criticism of AGW is met with a defense akin to a religious fervor. This is a true statement.

    As demonstrated.

  4. Re:I smell troll on File-Sharing Site Was Actually an Anti-Piracy Honeypot · · Score: 2

    Did you even * notice * the irony in your last sentence?

  5. Re: "all for AN game" on Star Citizen's Crowdfunding-Driven Grey Market · · Score: 1

    Yep. English doesn't really do glottal stops.

  6. Re:Trainwreck waiting to happen on Microsoft Makes It Harder To Avoid Azure · · Score: 1

    Let me try to explain this in simple terms for you. People do not blame Linux for Knight's trading losses because *they do not believe* the error had nothing to do with Linux. People do blame Microsoft for the LSE outage because *they believe* it had everything to do with Microsoft.

    Emphasis added. You reversed the negative on your first phrase (should have be anything), but it's still a religious argument.

  7. Re:Options are good but... on Microsoft Makes It Harder To Avoid Azure · · Score: 1

    "Once the data goes in, it never comes out again. 'Out' being to a non Microsoft platform."

    So all those "export as" selections are fakes?

  8. Re:How safe? on How Safe Is Cycling? · · Score: 1

    "Cayenne gave a specific example about stupid cyclists being on the road in poor visibility conditions. That's what this is about. And yes, pedestrians doing the same are equally stupid and equally likely to get hit."

    And if you hit them, you will be the one in the wrong. You are the one driving the lethal object. That is why the laws skew against the automobile driver. It's a lethal weapon and your responsibility to control.

  9. Re:hire me on The Cybersecurity Industry Is Hiring, But Young People Aren't Interested · · Score: 1

    It may take that long now, but when I worked on Roscoe, my clearance only took about a month. More correctly, most gov contracts requiring clearance won't allow a contractee to work on the project until the clearance is granted. I didn't have it when my company contracted me, it was just dependent upon my gaining the clearance.

    But yes, neither I nor my contractor paid for it.

  10. Good... but 3 years worth? on 5-Year Mission Continues After 45-Year Hiatus · · Score: 1

    I was expecting camp and I got camp. Mind you, it wasn't intended. But camp can be good and this was excellent. Even the actors were chosen to imply the origins and everything else was spot on.

    All that praise aside, this was very much worth one shot. A three year series to match the "6 year voyage"? Not so much. .

  11. Re:They do have the ability to release code silent on Call Yourself a Hacker, Lose Your 4th Amendment Rights · · Score: 1

    No, self-identification of being a hacker showed he could, his advocacy for open sourcing the suspect application implied the intent.

  12. Re:Stallman would have something to say about this on Call Yourself a Hacker, Lose Your 4th Amendment Rights · · Score: 1

    Hackers come in three shades, one of which is called crackers. Unfortunately, the bulk of visible actions hackers take are from these guys and so give the general view of the group. I tend to call the good guys White Hats to avoid confusion. Hell, here on /. you can find posters who easily fall into the gray category, quite dark.

    In the 70's it basically meant anyone who knew how to code (Urban DIctionary) and that's where script kiddies came from, the derogatory nuance provided by their activities.

  13. Re:Stallman would have something to say about this on Call Yourself a Hacker, Lose Your 4th Amendment Rights · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    As an AC, your anecdote is not verifiable and so worthless. Perhaps you could link?

  14. Re:Stallman would have something to say about this on Call Yourself a Hacker, Lose Your 4th Amendment Rights · · Score: 1

    So you put scare quotes around legal why? Perhaps to have an out when your statement is shown to be abysmally wrong?

  15. Re:According to this test.. on Physicist Unveils a 'Turing Test' For Free Will · · Score: 0

    "Humans don't have free will."

    Opinion is not fact.

    Of course there's a good reason 4 may be no - you may believe you will understand your emotional state beforehand but you will be executing your decisions while *in* that state. Two very different things. Hormones exert influence and you can't gauge for them.

  16. Re:And Fire qualifies for many definitions of Life on Physicist Unveils a 'Turing Test' For Free Will · · Score: 1

    How fortunate there's a very clear rebuff of this idiotic view only a few posts up at the mo'.

  17. Re:Presence of self-awareness on Physicist Unveils a 'Turing Test' For Free Will · · Score: 1

    The first question in the test is "Am I a decider?"

    Please explain (without someone programming it) how an iPhone can even "hear" much less respond to that query?

    Actually, I think the far more interesting question is "How the hell can someone think a test valid that he himself believes would yield a positive on a damned iPhone?"

  18. Re:Presence of self-awareness on Physicist Unveils a 'Turing Test' For Free Will · · Score: 1

    Webster's Unabridged:
    aware:
    1. archaic : on guard : watchful, vigilant
    2. a) : marked by realization, perception, or knowledge : conscious, sensible, cognizant
    b) : showing heightened perception and ready comprehension and appreciation :

    Which of those does that machine awareness fall under?

  19. Re: Presence of self-awareness on Physicist Unveils a 'Turing Test' For Free Will · · Score: 1

    How does that follow? Could you explain please?

  20. Re: As someone who runs an IT company on Most IT Workers Don't Have STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Math) Degrees · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Interesting. Hopefully the IRS won't subpoena /. for your id. What you did was illegal. Hopefully, your future employer won't know that.

  21. Re:Government Thinking on DHHS Preparing 'Tech Surge' To Fix Remaining Healthcare.gov Issues · · Score: 2

    "I've worked for years in healthcare IT (insurance AND healthcare provision, government AND private)"

    I've worked with government IT for decades and this has everyearmark of the same thing that the IRS has been going through since the 70's. It's a train wreck now and will continue to be so.

    Our educated opinions cancel each other.

  22. Re: How about they just scrap it entirely? on DHHS Preparing 'Tech Surge' To Fix Remaining Healthcare.gov Issues · · Score: 1

    Republicans want us to believe we can't afford it and the poor are rolling in the dough

    Bullshit. Bullshit made by feeding the bull straw.

  23. Re:What's this obession with EOL. on Forrester Research Shows Steep Decline in Free Office Suite Stats · · Score: 1

    And the great bulk of businesses in the US are run by Joe Sixpacks and do *not* have IT departments. His argument holds.

  24. Re:Peope use what works on Forrester Research Shows Steep Decline in Free Office Suite Stats · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Pull your panties out of your ass crack. It's unusable for him. 2003 does whatever he needs and he has no reason to "upgrade" just for the ribbon.

    Jeesus, people take such offense about personal preferences here. It's lame.

  25. Re:Office 365 on Forrester Research Shows Steep Decline in Free Office Suite Stats · · Score: 2

    On the cloud, it doesn't *have* to leave on flash drives, it's already out there.

    In no way can you guarantee security of your data when it is on the premises of someone else.