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  1. Re:This shouldn't be illegal... on Lawmakers Introduce Bill To Stop Bots From Ruining Holiday Shopping (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Dude or dudette, my ten year old daughter had restraint. Children much younger demonstrate restraint. Kinda the whole point of the marshmallow test.

  2. Re:This shouldn't be illegal... on Lawmakers Introduce Bill To Stop Bots From Ruining Holiday Shopping (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Having raised a kid to successful maturity, I can tell you it doesn't work that way. The kid doesn't become a pariah unless you let them run around with dipshits, in which case, it's good that they're now pariahs to those types.

    There *IS NO* socially required thing. Don't let your kid get brainwashed into thinking there is. Side benefit? You wind up with an adult child with whom you can carry on an intelligent relationship instead of dealing with incessant moaning complaints.

  3. Re:Yes and no on Does Switching Jobs Make You a Worse Programmer? (forrestbrazeal.com) · · Score: 1

    You got me confused here - JavaScript is an emerging language? Please define your use of emerging.

  4. Cite some, AC. Cite some.

  5. Re:Companies are Bad - Jobs are Bad on Does Switching Jobs Make You a Worse Programmer? (forrestbrazeal.com) · · Score: 1

    I find that to be especially true of ACs.

  6. Re:Companies are Bad - Jobs are Bad on Does Switching Jobs Make You a Worse Programmer? (forrestbrazeal.com) · · Score: 1

    Disclaimer: You're an AC. Nothing you say personally happened to you needs be considered.

  7. Amusing counterpoint to the number of experienced commenters here boasting about changing jobs "quite a bit".

  8. Re:Still above average in balance on Does Switching Jobs Make You a Worse Programmer? (forrestbrazeal.com) · · Score: 1

    Year three is a lot more projection than evidentiary, my bet.

  9. Re:Does asking questions in headlines make... on Does Switching Jobs Make You a Worse Programmer? (forrestbrazeal.com) · · Score: 1

    And who, exactly, are you to tell someone they should shut up?

  10. Re:A senseless question. on Does Switching Jobs Make You a Worse Programmer? (forrestbrazeal.com) · · Score: 1

    Also means dragging along bad ideas and techniques.

  11. Stupid, shallow question.

  12. Unless you can accurately predict the next impact, your arguments aren't very convincing. I believe poster was referring to detecting and diverting those killers, which we could do if we chose. Waiting until it's too late is exactly what many accuse 'deniers' of doing.

    So it's really about which catastrophe is the most damaging vs time to deal with it. Meteor damage wins hands down because of magnitude and the fact it occurs instantly.

    That being the case, it's something other than human survival that's driving the other causes to be more popular.

  13. Same as I always answer. on Ask Slashdot: What Kind of Keyboard Do You Use With Your Computer and Why? · · Score: 1

    Verbatim. Same keyboard even. I've worn the black plastic off the comma, period, l, semicolon, a, s and left shift keys and have worn a depression in the middle of the space bar. Usage still feels like new.

  14. Re:Would I allow an employer to do this? I think n on More Companies Plan To Implant Microchips Into Their Employees' Hands (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I live in the bible belt. Have all my life. You're not exaggerating, you're lying.

  15. cell phone number? Nope.
    wear a step tracker? Nope.
    give HR your username/password to any social networking sites? Nope.
    fingerprint? Only legal security was required..
    eye scanners? Nope (but would only consider for same).
    scanning your network drives? That would have to mean any at home as those at work belong to them, so, no.

    Perhaps you're being hyperbolic.

  16. Bad writing. on Inside the Messy, Dark Side of Nintendo Switch Piracy (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    who love the company but nonetheless illegally steal its games

    This is self-contradicting.

  17. Re: Can (so-called) 'AIs' create art? No, they can on Can AIs Create True Art? (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Define 'strong AI'.

  18. Re:Well that's a stupid argument on Can AIs Create True Art? (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    If you believe canvas, paints and a brush or two are machines, you clearly do not understand the word. You also display your ignorance of that it takes to say, paint a portrait. I can go down to the raw materials and personally hand-create every brush that I will use, every paint and even weave my own canvas and make the stretchers, etc. No machinery involved.

  19. Only in the most pedantic sense of 'create'. on Can AIs Create True Art? (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 2

    Like a mechanical cookie cutter creates a cookie. An AI (speaking of the currently moronic versions of such) can only 'create' what it is directed to. Otherwise, it will sit there forever like a paperweight.

  20. Re:Nietzsche had a similar idea on How Dad's Stresses Get Passed Along To Offspring (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Nietzsche was a guy, not a god. Read deeply into quotes of his statements to figure *him* out, not the world. Looks to me to be a statement attempting to blame parents for progeny's fuck ups. In other words, Nietzshe had issues he projected into his writings.

  21. Re:Explains All The US Austism on How Dad's Stresses Get Passed Along To Offspring (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Canadian.

  22. Re:Tough Competition on Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+, Launch Late 2019 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You forgot the qualifier "a little".

  23. Re:WILLIAM DaFoe? on Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+, Launch Late 2019 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What boat is that, blase to the point of willful ignorance?

  24. Re:Walking backwards into the future on Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+, Launch Late 2019 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That's just perception. Doesn't feel that way to me. The only video service I have left now is Prime. Netflix's experience nowadays is stark.

  25. theories->predictions