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  1. Re:Bats existed prior to 1910 on Court Rules Batmobile Is Entitled To Copyright Protection · · Score: 1

    anything published prior to 1910

    Batman was first published in 1939.

  2. Re:It should... but what about Ecto-1 on Court Rules Batmobile Is Entitled To Copyright Protection · · Score: 1

    "because you can use it for profit" should be "when you use it for profit".

  3. Re:Not all signees are climate "scientists", exact on A Call To RICO Climate Change Science Deniers · · Score: 1

    That the AC cannot is exactly why the post was AC.

  4. Re:Whoa! Consider the Law on A Call To RICO Climate Change Science Deniers · · Score: 2

    Climatologists are not statisticians and when one points out the flaws in their stats they just claim that they're "not climatologists". Not all scientists who can poke holes in a hypothesis are (or need be) in that field.

  5. Re:So anyone can just submit their github project on UrlHosted Experiment: Host Content Within the URL · · Score: 1

    What they do and what they *tell you* they do can be two entirely different things. This is after all, SlashDot, home of "don't give a shit about the users". You know, Beta, serial posts by favored buddies, etc.

  6. Re: Question on UrlHosted Experiment: Host Content Within the URL · · Score: 1

    Link or lie, AC.

  7. Re:Question on UrlHosted Experiment: Host Content Within the URL · · Score: 1

    ..the only field I can think of where practitioners delight in ridiculing people outside of their specialty for not knowing everything that they do.

    It's a pan-field nerdish thing. Just watch The Big Bang Theory.

    medical doctors or lawyers or pharmacists or physicists

    Oh yeah they do and with some frequency.

  8. Re:Blue Screen of Death on Microsoft Has Built a Linux Distro · · Score: 1

    Maybe they just wanted to get the most out of the driver they finally found that works correctly with their peripherals.

  9. Re:Cant see why this is a problem. on Microsoft's Satya Nadella Shown Up By Confused Cortana Assistant · · Score: 0

    Show me my most at-risk opportunities.

    That's hardly nonsense. I understood it with no problem and I'll bet you did too really, so it's not far fetched to expect an actual AI to understand it. If not understood, an intelligent response would have been "What kind of opportunities?" or perhaps "Show how?", seeking clarification. Instead, it simply went wandering down its search paths until it couldn't continue and then spat out whatever.

  10. Re:How is this paid for? on The Campaign To Get Every American Free Money, Every Year · · Score: 1

    No, it isn't. Your wanting it so doesn't make it fact.

  11. Re:Don't we (the US) already have that... on The Campaign To Get Every American Free Money, Every Year · · Score: 1

    And moving somewhere else with better job prospects and taking two buses would have worked for him as well but he chose not to do it. He didn't start the story destitute.

  12. Re:I wonder if they're going to use this as "proof on Obama Invites Texas Teen To White House After "Bomb" Clock Incident At School · · Score: 0

    It may not be war on the scale of Bosnia but a number of assassinations doesn't support your view. Assassination is a fuck of a lot more than "accountable".

  13. Re:How about a real challenge? on Researcher Trying To Teach Computer What Women He's Attracted To · · Score: 1

    That's what I was thinking. Probably be a relationship killer when she finds out he did it.
    Someone... Quickly write a filter and post it free for female use. It simply filters out "Harm de Vries".

  14. Re:bullshit, guys don't get dates on Researcher Trying To Teach Computer What Women He's Attracted To · · Score: 2

    I love the trolling. AC posts comments then an AC accuses AC of being a GamerGater with no substance. What would be the odds it's the same person?

  15. Re:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on Advanced Civilizations Probably Don't Exist In Our Galactic Neighborhood · · Score: 1

    Started out dry enough (though error laden) to take your post seriously. Good job.

  16. Re:Shouldn't it mean "Didn't Exists"? on Advanced Civilizations Probably Don't Exist In Our Galactic Neighborhood · · Score: 1

    Why, so we can interpret anything we see as evidence pro/con? Something that will be so long gone that the information will *at best* be "we think there was one there"? Not worth spending money on.

  17. Re:Nonsense on APIs, Not Apps: What the Future Will Be Like When Everyone Can Code · · Score: 1

    Wonderful example of why this won't work. You point out a trivial typo, yet you understood what was meant. An API won't.

  18. Re:APIs and business models on APIs, Not Apps: What the Future Will Be Like When Everyone Can Code · · Score: 1

    Nice ambiguous word, that "data". Very IT-centric. Now please describe how Amazon or JC Penny say, divides their products (their data) up a hundred ways and sells each item multiple times. Your definition of "data" is a very small subset of what 'everyone who can code' wants access to I do believe.

  19. Re:Lock-in and dependence on APIs, Not Apps: What the Future Will Be Like When Everyone Can Code · · Score: 1

    Unless it's an open source service, then five more will spring up in it's place. If that text-to-speech service is widely desired, an open source version is guaranteed to spring up eventually.

    Which will then have their own twists to the API - and the service will still be down and gone (and probably discarded) in that "eventually" you mention. You didn't solve the problem, you just created an never ending series of speed bumps.

  20. A presumption in search of an article on APIs, Not Apps: What the Future Will Be Like When Everyone Can Code · · Score: 1

    But when coding becomes universal, so will the expectation that websites become accessible to more than just browsers.

    Now tell me why, as a designer/owner of a website, I should give a shit if someone wants me to provide something other than the web page I've provided already. No one shopping on Amazon - or reading one of my fables - has any need (and probably much less desire to code) accesses to the data otherwise. Make the argument something more substantial than "Information wants to be free, man."

  21. Re:Train Your Replacement Day on It Is Programmer Day - Why So Apathetic? · · Score: 1

    Maybe there's a huge labor shortage in programming...

    Massive layoffs followed by massive hires of newer and cheaper people belie that.

  22. Re:Your attitude is why... on It Is Programmer Day - Why So Apathetic? · · Score: 1

    Your instructors didn't teach you hex? They sucked. That was Programming 101 back in the day.

    Point is, he wasn't wrong.

  23. Re:Give a raise to overworked programmers on It Is Programmer Day - Why So Apathetic? · · Score: 1

    They should. Many do more work than your average programmer.

  24. Re:This is so wrong on Chinese Tech Companies Hire 'Cheerleaders' To Motivate Programmers · · Score: 1

    Actually, it's a scenario where *you* would feel awkward and think of certain stereotypes. Don't project your insecurities upon the rest of us.

  25. Re:Meh - I don't see a problem on Chinese Tech Companies Hire 'Cheerleaders' To Motivate Programmers · · Score: 1

    Tolerant means we strive to not offend anyone

    No.
    tol.er.ant
    Showing willingness to allow the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with: