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  1. Speaking of delays... on NASA Delays First Flight of New SLS Rocket Until 2019 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    SpaceX is notorious for delays.

    The big and crucial difference between the two organizations is that SpaceX has been incrementing up to FH while simultaneously doing something commercially useful, as opposed to NASA's One Big Project approach (which it had to do for a variety of reasons.

  2. Re:Smart but dumb.... on Facebook and Google Were Victims of $100M Payment Scam · · Score: 1

    Are there any NATO countries that don't have bilateral extradition treaties?

  3. Checking your own accounting database. on Facebook and Google Were Victims of $100M Payment Scam · · Score: 1

    Isn't that SOP? It should be...

  4. Re:futurama covered this one... on Will the High-Tech Cities of the Future Be Utterly Lonely? (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Damn, you beat me to it!

  5. Re:If the headline is true... on The Cheap Energy Revolution Is Here, and Coal Won't Cut It (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If the problem with coal is pollution (which it is), then don't tie it to "cheap energy" like the article summary did.

  6. If the headline is true... on The Cheap Energy Revolution Is Here, and Coal Won't Cut It (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    and coal is going to die, why the worry and fret about coal deregulation (as opposed to subsidies)?

  7. Re: And the moral of the story is... on Oregon Fines Man For Writing a Complaint Email Stating 'I Am An Engineer' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    A /. first: I admit I was wrong.

  8. Re:Yeah... but no. on Oregon Fines Man For Writing a Complaint Email Stating 'I Am An Engineer' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not a medical opinion, but a complaint.

    It's both. (Except in this case the opinion is backed up with formulae that may or may not have been correctly applied.)

    Shooting the messenger is a bad policy.

    Andrew Wakefield (the UK didn't require certification of doctors until 2009) very much should be shot for the message he propounded.

  9. Re:And the moral of the story is... on Oregon Fines Man For Writing a Complaint Email Stating 'I Am An Engineer' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    but "engineer" holds a special meaning in the US and only the US.

    With lots of "industrial exceptions" (which is why programmers can call themselves software engineers even in Oregon without being fined).

  10. Re:Yeah... but no. on Oregon Fines Man For Writing a Complaint Email Stating 'I Am An Engineer' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Licensing was invented by professional guilds solely to lock in the profit

    You go on believing that until some incompetent fraud designs something that kills your loved ones. Then you will be the one whining about the government not protecting it's citizens.

  11. Re:Yeah... but no. on Oregon Fines Man For Writing a Complaint Email Stating 'I Am An Engineer' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it's not illegal to say "I'm a doctor" as long as you don't then go on to offer a medical opinion

    But he did claim to be a "doctor" offer a "medical" opinion.

  12. Re:And the moral of the story is... on Oregon Fines Man For Writing a Complaint Email Stating 'I Am An Engineer' (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    As if all other First World countries don't have similar professional boards.

  13. If he wins the suit, there's nothing to stop people from claiming to be medical doctors and doing all sorts of (more) harm to society.

    Just present the facts without claiming to be an engineer.

  14. Re:If you don't pay. on Unroll.me 'Heartbroken' After Being Caught Selling User Data To Uber (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Because hardware (whether direct purchase or rented AWS time) doesn't grow on trees that people can just go out and pick during the fall harvest, and neither do programmers (who like high salaries).

  15. Re:With all respect on America's Most-Hated ISP Is Now Hated By Fewer People (oregonlive.com) · · Score: 1

    If you did nothing but take me at my word, you wouldn't have explained the difference between peering and transit.

  16. Re:With all respect on America's Most-Hated ISP Is Now Hated By Fewer People (oregonlive.com) · · Score: 1

    Why yes, I have worked for a large ISP with millions of customers.

    Then you should know that there are more expenses in a business than just transit costs.

    because "transit" is what you meant.

    Thank you.

  17. Re:With all respect on America's Most-Hated ISP Is Now Hated By Fewer People (oregonlive.com) · · Score: 1

    It literally costs them about $9/mo to offer you your service

    For hardware and peering?

  18. Cox has low customer satisfaction? on America's Most-Hated ISP Is Now Hated By Fewer People (oregonlive.com) · · Score: 1

    Surprising. I've always been pleased with them. Few outages, and they regularly ratchet up their bandwidth and data caps.

  19. Re:Mistakes on Tiny Changes Can Cause An AI To Fail (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "denoising", where random noise is injected into the training data.

    But doesn't the "de-" prefix mean "remove from"?

  20. Is Daniel Lowd that naive? on Tiny Changes Can Cause An AI To Fail (bbc.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Does he really think there won't be 100,000 First World jackasses defacing stop signs for the lulz and religious terrorists hoping that defaced stop signs will cause school buses to crash into synagogues and girls' schools for every 1 political dissident fighting the good fight against repressive regimes?

  21. Re:Mistakes on Tiny Changes Can Cause An AI To Fail (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    But they can only learn if humans tech them a broad range of adulterated traffic signs.

  22. "What do you feel about it?" on Twitter Allegedly Deleting Negative Tweets About United Airlines' Passenger Abuse (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 2

    Are you an Oprah wannabe?

  23. Re:But those Snapchat users *aren't* coming back! on Facebook Has Reached Its Microsoft Bing Moment -- History Shows the Results Won't Be Pretty (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    In percentage and absolute terms, Google is more profitable than Microsoft, which "only" earned $17B net income on $85B sales.

    Facebook, though, kept 37% of it's $27.6B last year. If this is the future, then FB will be raking in the cash for decades to come.

  24. Re:Hey GM, how about that EV1? on Tesla Tops GM by Market Value as Investors See Musk as Future (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Why aren't they worried about Tesla's *abysmal* fundamentals?

  25. Re:Hey GM, how about that EV1? on Tesla Tops GM by Market Value as Investors See Musk as Future (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The valuation on Tesla is insane, just like all the 'unicorn' ones, investors obsessed with new and novel behaving irrationally.

    Exactly.

    Tesla's P/E ratio is... non-existent.
    GM's P/E ratio is 5.7 and their dividend yield is 4.46%. GM's If investors had *any* sense, GM's P/E ratio would be 16, which would make it's market cap $141.6B, and Tesla's market cap would be around $10B.

    Honestly, obsessing about market cap is *stupid*.