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  1. Re:The NSA is becoming a new God for "True Believe on Snowden Used the Linux Distro Designed For Internet Anonymity · · Score: 1

    Sort of my first thought... he used this secure software to thwart the NSA, while the NSA supposedly 'owned' OpenSSL that the software likely used. Kind of ironic.

  2. Re:Simple problem, simple solution on San Francisco's Housing Crisis Explained · · Score: 1

    How about locate your fucking company somewhere other than San Francisco? Somewhere that has room to build more houses/apartments/condos and doesn't require a 3 hour commute to work. You know, there are other places. Even in California. Some of them even aren't on a major fault line too! Google's supposed to have so many smart people working there. Why can't they figure out a no brainer solution like this?

  3. Re:Hero ? on GM Names Names, Suspends Two Engineers Over Ignition-Switch Safety · · Score: 1, Interesting

    If you are a professional engineer you sign that you agree to a code of ethics. That includes putting your name on your work and being responsible for it. If you don't like it, don't go into the profession. If you do something wrong like obfuscate the trail of a life threatening defect, you own it. Also, fact the engineers didn't go public with the defect should also be owned by them and they should lose their professional accreditation and face jail time due to their not honouring their code of ethics in outing dangerous conditions. If this were done more often, engineers would do what they're supposed to. A few people in Ontario several years ago were killed in a mall collapse when an engineer didn't do what he was supposed to. He is facing jail time and loss of accreditation.

  4. Government Monopoly on FAA Shuts Down Search-and-Rescue Drones · · Score: 2

    The government/NSA doesn't want it's monopoly on aerial observation and spying infringed upon.

  5. Re:Just what we need... more Mazdas on Mazda Says Its Upcoming Gas-Powered Cars Will Emit Less CO2 Than Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    Who cares if they export there? They still take the money. That means all those places are their markets.

  6. Re:Just what we need... more Mazdas on Mazda Says Its Upcoming Gas-Powered Cars Will Emit Less CO2 Than Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    The population of those four combined is half of the population of North America. Heck, try 90 % of the world's population drives left hand drive vehicles. And in case you missed the memo, Mazda and all the other Japanese car makers have figured out how to send cars to other countries. A new a novel thing called 'the boat' helped with that. The international market dwarfs the Japanese market.

  7. Re:Just what we need... more Mazdas on Mazda Says Its Upcoming Gas-Powered Cars Will Emit Less CO2 Than Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    WTF are you talking about? Most of the world drives on the right side of the road using left hand drive cars.

  8. Re:Ignore Silicon Valley on Ask Slashdot: Will Older Programmers Always Have a Harder Time Getting a Job? · · Score: 1

    Maybe he watches too much Trailer Park Boys.

  9. Re:And the coughing is twice as bad! on New Stanford Institute To Target Bad Science · · Score: 2

    It's the dying that really gets you. One of my best friends died of complications due to measles when I was around 12.

  10. Re:Practical application is the only way on Ask Slashdot: Can an Old Programmer Learn New Tricks? · · Score: 1

    A good example of this is from back in the day, people trying to learn C++ after being a C programmer. It was very common to write bastardized C programs with C++ syntax. Mostly because C++ doesn't force you to write object oriented. I found it easier to learn Java first then go back and learn C++, because you had to understand OO better to write Java.

  11. Re:To Clarify on Flash Is Dead; Long Live OpenFL! · · Score: 1

    As a cushion then, while one comes up to speed on something else. Sounds fair enough.

  12. Can't Come Soon Enought on New Stanford Institute To Target Bad Science · · Score: 4, Insightful
  13. Re:To Clarify on Flash Is Dead; Long Live OpenFL! · · Score: 2

    OK, so they rely on a spin off project on it's own, and the rest of the world goes on with HTML5 which will continue to be improved and expanded. Which one will provide more use in the long run? So, OpenFL, is a way to avoid learning new technology. Hopefully it doesn't lead people down a one way street.

  14. Re:To Clarify on Flash Is Dead; Long Live OpenFL! · · Score: 1

    So it's a way not to learn a new language. Is there a danger of as the flash api is not updated possibly losing out where things like HTML5 while not perfect, gets perfected?

  15. Re:Also time to stop on Author Says It's Time To Stop Glorifying Hackers · · Score: 1

    But it takes 27 of them to think inside the car.

  16. Re:Not possible on Face Masks Provide Chinese With False Hope Against Pollution · · Score: 1

    Now look up ass hat.

  17. Re:Parents will do stupid things on Girl's Facebook Post Costs Her Dad $80,000 · · Score: 2

    Especially your teenage daughter.

  18. Re:When I was working near asbestos on Face Masks Provide Chinese With False Hope Against Pollution · · Score: 2

    I was in charge of respiratory protection at one facility. These n95 masks should never be used for anything like asbestos. You need half (pictured with hepa stacked with organics filter) or full face silicone respirator masks with hepa filters. Those masks require you to be clean shaven and proper fitting. Any paper mask provides only rudimentary filtering. They should not be used when exposure to anything really hazardous is likely. In our case people were handling very large bulk shipments of quartz, with a lot of crystalline silica dust. Another good use of these is for welders to avoid welding fume... they make full face welding respirator masks too. You can even get them powered to make it easier to breathe with the added cooling benefit of the air flow.

    Same idea if you are using other materials, but you may need to attach other replaceable filter types to the mask, like filters for organic vapours (real meaning of organic in science) etc.

    For really hazardous conditions in other areas, we used supplied air on backpack for short duration, and with remote supplied air (racks of very large tanks of certified breathing air) for long duration... With full safety suits when required.

  19. Re:Not possible on Face Masks Provide Chinese With False Hope Against Pollution · · Score: 1

    It's called Google you lazy /&/&

    try 'coal heating china' if you need help with a suitable search term

  20. Re:Corporations are... on Tim Cook: If You Don't Like Our Energy Policies, Don't Buy Apple Stock · · Score: 1

    Soylent Goldman Sachs?

  21. Re:Why single out Whole Foods? on Whole Foods: America's Temple of Pseudoscience · · Score: 1
    • One... iodine does NOT come with sea salt OR mined salt. All salt has to be fortified with iodine if you want iodine in it.
    • Two... people NEED iodine in their food. It is ABSOLUTELY necessary in our diet to prevent goitre and more importantly to prevent cretinism. The human race took a HUGE jump in intelligence when salt began being iodized. It is easy to see families who buy into all the bullshit and decide iodine is not good for you. They are the stupid ones.
    • Three... ALL salt that we use is sea salt. The salt that is mined from under the ground comes from seas that evaporated a long fucking time ago. Table salt == sodium chloride... whether you get it as the residue of freshly evaporated sea water, or sea water that evaporated a long time ago.
    • Four... you don't get much if any benefit from the 'extra' minerals in 'sea salt'. It has the same sodium content as mined salt, and since the amount of these minerals are found in much higher quantities in the food the salt goes on, the amount in the salt is moot.
    • Five... the difference is usually more a matter of taste. But get iodized sea salt if you like it better.
  22. Re:Why single out Whole Foods? on Whole Foods: America's Temple of Pseudoscience · · Score: 1

    Iodine is added, and you need it. Most important to prevent cretinism... second to protect your thyroid from goitre.

  23. Pretty Phony... And There's This... on Tim Cook: If You Don't Like Our Energy Policies, Don't Buy Apple Stock · · Score: 2

    Cook responded that there are many things Apple does because they are right and just, and that a return on investment (ROI) was not the primary consideration on such issues. ... 'We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive, We want to leave the world better than we found it.'

    If they wanted to do something really good, they'd stop off shoring all the work going into making their devices (which they lock you into), and create jobs for people in the country that buys most of their goods, and whose whole cultural and economic system allowed the company to come into being. Of course their whole client base is more concerned about being 'cooler than the next person' which includes the latest cause de jour. In this case the environment. Who really gives a fuck about the unemployed when you can get your Chinese made bling? I don't like any company off shoring, but I really hate companies that make phony news stories in a spasmodic bowel like cynical spout espousing their so called pile of bullshit beneficence.

  24. Re:Unlimited personal liability? Insanity on Tim Cook: If You Don't Like Our Energy Policies, Don't Buy Apple Stock · · Score: 2

    Which is interesting if the stock holders vote to have the company do something risky and dangerous. Then they aren't held accountable for what they told the company to do. Hmmmmm....

  25. The Prefect by Alistair Reynolds on Ask Slashdot: What Essays and Short Stories Should Be In a Course On Futurism? · · Score: 1

    You should take excerpts from 'The Prefect' by Alistair Reynolds. It does a lot to explore augmented reality, people being interconnected to computer networks, instant voting, etc. as a cultural norm. It takes place in a distant future, but we are already encountering some of these things today.