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  1. Re:Sounds like they succeeded on In Our Cynical Age, No One Fails Anymore -- Everybody 'Pivots' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Failure is a bad word. Failure isn't a bad thing. Fail, fail, fail again, and you'll end up finding something to succeed with. You just have to keep at it.

  2. Re:Fuck China. on China Orders Internet Comments Linked To Real Identities (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    a "preop" tranny in a dress is a man crossdressing,

    So you can't tell the difference between a man in a dress, and a man on estrogen and a boob job, with a medical history of pre-op counseling and treatments? That just means you are dumb, not that there's no difference.

    There is no tranny or other genders or other sexualities in the medical field.

    So XY and XX exist. XXY and other such conditions don't exist. Got it.

  3. Re:Fuck China. on China Orders Internet Comments Linked To Real Identities (engadget.com) · · Score: 1
    So everyone voting for Trump felt dirty after...

    Hmm, so what is he then?

    She's a pre-op transexual.

    The lie about predators slipping in a dress and raping girls in the woman's room doesn't hold any water. If you "catch" a man in a dress in the ladies room, cite them. When they come to court to protest, ask for the name of their therapist. Ask for the name of their doctor. The rapist in a dress will have nothing. The pre-op transexual will be able to prove a history of intent. Not exactly fair, but before all the noise about men in the ladies room, it was legal almost everywhere, and only places with Jim Crow laws still on the books had anything that required people use the "correct" room. The gay agenda would have made men in the ladies room illegal for the first time in many places.

    You don't have to like Trump to see that some of what he was saying had merit.

    But it was all lies. You don't have to hate Trump to see that.

  4. Re: A government the US lefties want on China Orders Internet Comments Linked To Real Identities (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Linking your comments to a real identity isn't the same as eliminating anonymity. Your screen name could be obfuscated, but the account behind it isn't, if someone comes in with a warrant. That's how it was for decades on USENET, but there wasn't ever a problem. Many trolled behind fake names, but those that posted kiddie porn were traced to an account (under a real name, with a real credit card, usually both stolen). That the comments sections on Slashdot and elsewhere have true anonymous posting doesn't change that most do not allow true anonymous now, and a court order could get your home address for Google (usually, even if you used a fake name and fake address).

  5. Re:Fuck China. on China Orders Internet Comments Linked To Real Identities (engadget.com) · · Score: 0

    Any but Somalia and the list will be shorter than the US. Lynchings of Blacks for dating whites have happened in your lifetime. Group attacks at gay bars, dragging suspected gays behind pickup trucks until dead have happened in your lifetime. Either you condemn those, and admit they are wrong, or you are a racist Nazi. The country of the accuser doesn't matter.

  6. Re:Fuck China. on China Orders Internet Comments Linked To Real Identities (engadget.com) · · Score: 2, Informative
    The exit polls had hillary winning some of those. Historically, when the exit polls don't match the results, there was fraud.

    And it's hard to think Trump won anything. Most places have almost no public support for him now.

    Democrat policies that have made my life a paradise, especially the idea of a law allowing grown men in dresses to loiter in my tween daughter's restroom,

    That was already legal almost everywhere. And a pre-op transexual isn't a man in a dress. The Democrat's preferred legislation would have made the man in the dress illegal, when he wasn't illegal before. But the racist/sexist lies get the votes. The truth is too nuanced for the Donnie John voter.

  7. I note, you didn't give a single example. It's not like Doom stops working on your local PC the moment the company goes out of business. And more companies have stopped support for something they own than have ever been abandoned by former owners.

  8. Re:And the Army is really buying these things? on DJI Spark Owners Must Update Firmware By September, Or Their Machines Will Be Bricked (suasnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Go Pros suck. I couldn't get mine to work. A hardware issue, that they fobbed me off about until it was out of warranty, then offered an insulting discount on the new version if I traded in my Hero 3+ Black that never worked right. I'll buy the Chinese knock off. Work no better worse than the expensive name brand, and I can get a new one every month for the price of the "real one".

  9. What happens when the company goes out of business? We're basically banking our entire ownership of media on one thing. Either the owners of our current products will NEVER GO OUT OF BUSINESS (yeah, we're all using AOL--the last big tech company--right?)

    Nobody goes out of business. AOL is a failure, but Time is still alive, owning the remnants of AOL. AMC never went out of business. They are still trading, owned by Fiat. You can retire a brand, but nothing dies. Enron died because with the legal liability, there was nothing left of value, but AC, that was going down with them, changed names and still exists. Despite the felonies. Pets.com is still around, sort of, with the parts and pieces sold off. So when MCI Worldcom declares bankruptcy, the services people buy from them aren't interrupted.

  10. Re:Traveling salesman problem on MIT Team's School-Bus Algorithm Could Save $5M and 1M Bus Miles (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    You want to have high school students and kindergarten kids on the same bus?

    Nope. I said drop off the elementary kids at the elementary school, then in that empty bus, put on the high school students.

    And you completely defeat the advantage of delaying the high school start time if you make them get up early to spend an hour due to a two-stage bussing plan.

    So getting on a bus at 8 at the elementary school is just right, so long as there that bus hasn't been used by elementary students earlier in the day, but putting them on a bus at 8 that had previously been used by elementary students is too early?

    I agree that having the younger kids start earlier is an obvious choice, but optimizing the bussing can work regardless of the ordering.

    Optimizing can't work regardless of the ordering. At least where I grew up, high school students buses were more spread out, assuming that the students could travel further on their own. So the main pickup points for high school were the schools feeding that school. Springfield HS bus would start at Springfield Elementary, and drive to SHS. Contrastingly, no elementary bus picked up at the HS. So starting the HS bus at the elementary saves time. The reverse is not true. Never mix the students. Just re-schedule schools to get them in an order that simplifies bussing, as well as optimizing the routes themselves (which for an HS would likely include a pickup at the elementary, so if you have the traditional school schedules, you'll pass through the elementary school 2-3 times, and with the revised starts, only once is necessary).

  11. Re:You got fired... on James Damore Explains Why He Was Fired By Google (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I contrasted them. That you don't know the difference between compare and contrast isn't my problem.I didn't say "he's like them because..." I said "He's not like them because..." and only in response to someone else who explicitly compared his standing up to MLK.

  12. Re:You got fired... on James Damore Explains Why He Was Fired By Google (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    He claimed he had no idea it would become such an issue. That's the bad judgement. Rosa Parks knew she'd be arrested. MLK expected assassination attempts. This guy claims he had no idea there was the possibility of a backlash. That's the lack of judgement that proves him incompetent.

  13. Re:Biology is the programming of all living creatu on Google Cancels Town Hall To Discuss Diversity In Its Ranks (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The logical default position is to assume nothing is happening,

    That's never the default position. The only reason to look at the data is because someone, somewhere, suspects that something is happening, so you look for something.

    "It's morning, and it's bright outside. I assume the sun is not up because "nothing happening" is the logical default position."

    Also the "something" has already been proven to have happened. The only question is about the cause. Again, your dismissive assumptions are the opposite of reality and the opposite of useful.

  14. Re:Traveling salesman problem on MIT Team's School-Bus Algorithm Could Save $5M and 1M Bus Miles (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    it breaks down the problem to separate problems for each school

    Those assumptions are the problem.

    Drop off children at elementary schools earlier. Pick up at elementary schools for high schools. Use the same bus at the same stop, simplifying the problem. The science also supports starting older school later. Two problems, one stone.

  15. Re:Biology is the programming of all living creatu on Google Cancels Town Hall To Discuss Diversity In Its Ranks (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    women have had freedom of choice to select any professional, educational opportunity etc. that they have wanted for 40 years (give or take)

    No, they haven't been free to choose. That's the point. When you assume there is no discrimination, then the conclusion is there is no discrimination. When you assume nothing, there's an obvious gender gap. It could be discrimination, or something else.

    Only when you are a sexist bigot and assume no sexism is it obviously not sexism. I don't make that assumption, so I don't come to the same conclusion as you.

    are you stumping around for women in those professions to change their behavior? To make those professions more 'inviting' to men? If not why not?

    Yes. There's sexism on both sides. And, ironically, the sexism in nursing is from men. I have man-nurse friends. They are made fun of by other men. It's societal pressure, not just professional pressure, to keep men out of nursing. But you've lived in a little bubble all your life, with your eyes closed, you don't know how the real world works.

  16. Re: Biology is the programming of all living creat on Google Cancels Town Hall To Discuss Diversity In Its Ranks (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I worked with plenty of female rockstars. The computer club in high school was half male, half female. Then, as progressing through the years, the women had to spend more time with CYA and such. But the ability to do the job never seemed to correlate with gender.

    The experienced rock stars are generally men because the women have been excluded from the industry by that time.

  17. Re:Biology is the programming of all living creatu on Google Cancels Town Hall To Discuss Diversity In Its Ranks (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, another way the abusive keep the abuse a standard thing is accuse anyone trying to stop it as perpetuating it. You'd explain it, but nobody but you can understand your logic. That's proof it's not logic.

  18. Re:Biology is the programming of all living creatu on Google Cancels Town Hall To Discuss Diversity In Its Ranks (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 0

    Yes. And women were thought be be incapable of being nurses or teachers. Now, those are women's jobs. These are facts that cannot be denied by any non-retarded person.

    The only reason woman are unsuitable to IT work is the men in IT, same as all other "men's" professions women have entered.

  19. Re:public domain games on Disney Ditching Netflix Keeps Piracy Relevant (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Copyright in the name of a person is good for 14 years (photos, books, etc.) Copyright in the name of a corporation is good for 1 year, with infinite renewals at $100k per year (cumulitive), indexed to inflation. So, year one costs $100k. Year 10 of copyright costs $1M. Year 100 of copyright costs $10M. If they want to pay $10M a year, then Disney can keep little Mickey under copyright. They just have to pay it for every work of Mickey that was released publicly (including "limited" theater releases).

  20. The best possible result is that DPRK makes a nuke that can reach Florida. They launch at Florida, and detonate over Kansas in low outer space. The EMP will take out NYC and Chicago, crashing the US financial markets. Chaos, and not a single life directly lost (though some plane and car crashes may kill indirectly).

    It'd be like a guy shining a flashlight in your face. Annoying, but not directly damaging. You can't shoot him for that. So what would the US response be to an EMP?

  21. Re:Still Play, Not a Gamer on Blizzard and DeepMind Turn StarCraft II Into An AI Research Lab (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The neckbeards in the EBG near me are my age. They don't presume anything of anyone. Unless you are female. There's no such thing as female gamers. Sims is over there, next to the mice and keyboards.

  22. Re: Working backwards on Blizzard and DeepMind Turn StarCraft II Into An AI Research Lab (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah, we'll do what they do today. Make a stupidly dumb AI, and have no fog of war for the AI, infinite resources for that AI, and higher health for the AI units. Difficulty levels will set those parameters, but under no circumstances will the AI be reasonable.

  23. Re:Working backwards on Blizzard and DeepMind Turn StarCraft II Into An AI Research Lab (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, get the perfect AI, then use it to play 1B games per day, and tweak the results based on which race/team/character wins, until the stats are almost even.

    But that presumes the gameplay between a perfect AI and a human is anywhere near similar. The "too good" AIs that run into range, shoot once, then run out of range before your defenses activate can twitch at that point until the lowest unit in the game has defeated the best. Those types of gameplay "hacks" might be found and eliminated, but those types of reflexes and tactics may be inhuman.

  24. Re:Only 86%? on Lovers Share Colonies of Skin Microbes, Study Finds (metro.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    There are lots of cheaters? Some people spend more time at work than home?

  25. Re:How does this apply to nerds? on Lovers Share Colonies of Skin Microbes, Study Finds (metro.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Mom...