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  1. Re:If I'm hiring the minimum you need to know... on How Much JavaScript Do You Need To Know For an Entry-Level Job? · · Score: 1

    Bingo. I'd add that what you create should be neither trivial nor Baroque.

  2. Re:This is a great example. on Mystery Company Blazes a Trail In Fusion Energy · · Score: 1

    Yet another thing governments are good for is pouring money down a sink hole for basically forever. Add political motivations and you multiply that problem.

  3. Yes to the first, no to the second unless you've already lined one up. They'll just find another wienie for the camp fire.

  4. Re:Not a discovery on Scientists Study Crime In Progress In a VR Simulated Environment · · Score: 1

    As I mentioned elsewhere, viewing security footage would be more relevant as it removes the knowledge that it's a virtual environ - and there's already an extensive collection of it.
    Why would new insights come later as they already can and do interview professional burglars now who explain *actual* techniques?

  5. Re:Not a discovery on Scientists Study Crime In Progress In a VR Simulated Environment · · Score: 1

    at a pace that non-systematic, anecdotal experience

    Running someone through a vr simulation is no faster as the recording needs to be analyzed and is *still* anecdotal vs watching them actually perform a crime without their knowing they are being watched. Just because it's machine recorded doesn't alter that. In fact, studying home and business security camera footage would be of greater value.

    Psychologists were amongst the law enforcement people interviewing burglars previously, making it just as valid as this, making this a rehash. That the burglars behaved exactly as they did in the vr simulations is no surprise as in both cases they were asked to explain/do what they did to burglarize. Like I said, nothing new was learned or even done other than inserting a machine in lieu of the notepad. That in itself is not only not a novel idea, it's been done many times before.

    The discovery here is that simulation may offer mechanisms that enable previously impossible areas of study, not the lessons about how burglars search homes.

    "May" is not a discovery, it's a supposition and again, not itself a new one. Had the experiment done something unique and new (other than just inserting a machine) you might have a point. But frankly, it still cannot mean anything outside of how a person behaves in a simulation, as the person taking part cannot by definition act as if it were a real environment and so alters their response to a new situation from what would happen in real life. For example, if the situation were lethal there would be no terror at the prospect of actually dying or having to kill. All suppositions to the contrary are delusional.

  6. Not a discovery on Scientists Study Crime In Progress In a VR Simulated Environment · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Burglars have been telling us this for decades. Nothing new has been learned simply by using a video game scenario. In this the psychologists are half a century behind law enforcement. But it probably makes for a good grant write up.

  7. Re:Until Google closes it... on Google Photos Launches With Unlimited Storage, Completely Separate From Google+ · · Score: 1

    It's of serious doubt that you would make a business decision in your own home to discontinue you own backup services without informing yourself.

  8. Re:Until Google closes it... on Google Photos Launches With Unlimited Storage, Completely Separate From Google+ · · Score: 1

    To mirror others, fuck self-appointed authoritarian self.

  9. Re:The rich and powerful on Ask Slashdot: What Happens If We Perfect Age Reversing? · · Score: 1

    It will be priced specifically for a certain percentage to afford.

    Please, we're on the verge of home gene manipulation now, much like 3D printing. Once the technique is known, it will be readily available for all.

  10. Re:Duh on Adblock Plus Victorious Again In Court · · Score: 2

    Problem with that argument is the site's code is shipped pristine to your browser which is on your machine. Once inside your domain, you are free to make footnotes, comment out, etc. Then the browser interprets what *you've* done. No infringement involved.

    You can do exactly the same thing with a book or movie you have acquired legally. You just can't redistribute, which the browser does not.

    Taken to it's logical conclusion, their view would prohibit you from using ctrl-scroll to enlarge the text for viewing, as that isn't the font size they specified.

  11. Re:Out of curiosity on Adblock Plus Victorious Again In Court · · Score: 1

    I agree with a lot of what you said, but these two are pretty lame:

    Who do you think puts the work in?

    Did no one teach you about volunteerism? Sharing? Community? Donation? Betterment of humanity?

    The context is business. None of your counter examples were.

    Do you get paid for doing YOUR job?

    Out of university, 2 1/2 years of unpaid internships. Nuff said.

    You either considered those internships worthwhile for that foot in the door (making them a transaction not altruistic) or you were an idiot to work for free for 2.5 years. Pray tell, which?

  12. Re:females operate on emotion, not logic on Google's Diversity Chief: Mamas Don't Let Their Baby Girls Grow Up To Be Coders · · Score: 1

    That initiated is physical as well as mental. Please link to those studies instead of a promotional site. When the woman can hit her boyfriend/husband and he calls the police and *HE* is arrested for domestic violence even when witness support the events, all the stats are suspect.
    Don't be a useful tool.

  13. Re:If I had a daughter ... on Google's Diversity Chief: Mamas Don't Let Their Baby Girls Grow Up To Be Coders · · Score: 1

    "Personal experience" comments from AC's are worthless.

  14. Re:NO MORE GIRL-CODERS FUCKING STORIES... on Google's Diversity Chief: Mamas Don't Let Their Baby Girls Grow Up To Be Coders · · Score: 2

    There are female construction workers as well. Also male nurses. You're pedantically promoting the false assumption that it must be one hundred percent to be a masculine or feminine career which makes your discourse suspect.

  15. Stamped steel, not silver.

  16. Re:Funny, that spin... on What AI Experts Think About the Existential Risk of AI · · Score: 4, Informative

    Indeed, emphasis in reporting. To break it down:

    Extremely good - 24%
    On balance good - 28%
    Neutral - 17%
    On balance bad - 13%
    Extremely bad - 18%

    So, over half good, less than a third bad. Sure sounds different.

  17. Re:And? on Study: Science Still Seen As a Male Profession · · Score: 1

    Nice assertions. Now provide some links to real stats.

  18. Re:Poisoning fish? on California Votes To Ban Microbeads · · Score: 1

    Your second point seems a tad weak as before being stuck on the bead, said pollutants are floating freely in the water the organisms large and small breath.

  19. Not games on Video Games: Gateway To a Programming Career? · · Score: 1

    Business - and personal interest. Games don't do what I want, which is support other things I do in life. Business programming does by giving me money and personal programming by eliminating repetitive but complex stuff.

    Keep in mind this is about getting into programming. So, 70's.

  20. Re:Speaking as a former yearbook adviser on Student Photographer Threatened With Suspension For Sports Photos · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Get national recognition for his work

    In one sense (although they will ultimately lose to their own bosses) they have done him a huge favor and his work is now a national discussion and is being seen by someone who will snap this kid up. I wish him the best, he's a great talent.

  21. Re:Camer was owned by the school on Student Photographer Threatened With Suspension For Sports Photos · · Score: 1
    Nope - fta:

    In addition, the Districtâ(TM)s Board Policy Manual explicitly states âoea student shall retain all rights to work created as part of the instruction or using District technology resources.â

  22. Race to godhood on Marvel's Female Superheroes Are Gradually Becoming More Super · · Score: 1

    It has always been the case that comic superheros have escalated in power. From the first superman to now, their powers have increased in the manner of schoolboys yapping about who's better.

  23. Re:Careful betting on future technology on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Skills Do HS Students Need To Know Now? · · Score: 2

    Oh hell, that happens with keyboards too. I've posted before that while working on a time crunch problem, the manager of my manager was hanging around and keeping his nose in her business. She was trying to type up a synopsis of the current status to email to *his* boss and he was continually asking her questions and pressuring her to hurry the solution up. Fortunately for her I was standing there to answer questions for her memo because in the middle of a sentence she wrote "fuck you". I leaned way over to block his vision and pointed saying "I think you have a typo there ."

  24. Re:No need to learn to write? on Microsoft To Teachers: Using Pens and Paper Not Fair To Students · · Score: 1

    Better yet, write your will in cursive with multisyllabic (which the spell checker just flagged) words and stipulate that things be divided proportionately to those who can read it best.

  25. Re:Stupid on Microsoft To Teachers: Using Pens and Paper Not Fair To Students · · Score: 0

    "Computers are too structured to allow the free flow thinking needed to solve a problem."

    You're projecting, not stating a fact.