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  1. What an odd thing to conclude. Once can believe in asteroid impacts, yet not believe that Nibiru is about to cause a planetary catastrophe.

  2. Re:Gotta Love 4chan on One Boston Marathon Bomb Suspect Dead, Other At Large After Shootout With Police · · Score: 1

    If you don't understand what difference it could possibly make to wrongly identify a specific individual as the perpetrator of a terrorist attack, I'm not sure that there is any hope for you.

  3. Re:bruce schneier was right. on One Boston Marathon Bomb Suspect Dead, Other At Large After Shootout With Police · · Score: 2

    I'd argue that telling people to stay indoors when there's a man armed with a gun and bombs running around the neighbourhood is actually quite rational. It's not like we're talking about security theatre's hypothetical, invisible attacker, here.

  4. Re:Gotta Love 4chan on One Boston Marathon Bomb Suspect Dead, Other At Large After Shootout With Police · · Score: 1

    That was in response to "Why don't you complain about the news reporters that "were hoping the perpetrators were white"?" The point is that special criticism must be placed upon the Post's actions.

  5. Re:Anti sexist policies are almost always sexist on Changing the Ratio of Women In Tech: How Etsy Did It · · Score: 4, Informative

    I shouldn't have to dig up an uncontroversial result from a decade and a half ago, but the classic study would be:

    http://advance.cornell.edu/documents/ImpactofGender.pdf

    Which of course is the first Google result for "study gender cv name". The remainder of the results will point you to several modern replications. Enjoy.

  6. It's not necessary to "make fun of" false flag conspiracy theories, they're riotously amusing in and of themselves.

  7. Re:Anti sexist policies are almost always sexist on Changing the Ratio of Women In Tech: How Etsy Did It · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, your argument is that because the discrimination occurs at all social levels, that means it's okay?

  8. Re:Anti sexist policies are almost always sexist on Changing the Ratio of Women In Tech: How Etsy Did It · · Score: 1

    As in, if you give the same selection of CVs to two different hiring panels, the only difference between the two sets of CVs lies in the names, the CVs from ostensibly female applicants are consistently rated lower. This is research that has been repeated over and over.

  9. Martians! Ha! Everyone knows that the martians were wiped out and replaced by lizard simulants from Draco.

  10. Re:Gotta Love 4chan on One Boston Marathon Bomb Suspect Dead, Other At Large After Shootout With Police · · Score: 4, Insightful

    None of those news reports were front-page stories on a physically distributed newspaper identifying specific, vulnerable individuals, you ass.

  11. Re:infowars.com on One Boston Marathon Bomb Suspect Dead, Other At Large After Shootout With Police · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It's only escalated from site security staff to Navy Seals? I would've thought Infowars would have a comprehensive thesis for them being Imperial Stormtroopers wearing illuminati sigils by now. I'm disappointed.

  12. Re:Anti sexist policies are almost always sexist on Changing the Ratio of Women In Tech: How Etsy Did It · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And if we lived in a universe where there wasn't an empirically demonstrated bias against women and ethnic minorities (having the same level of suitability) in hiring decisions across almost all fields, you'd have a point. Unfortunately the problem is very real and very well documented, and it's preventing us from hiring optimally, much less fairly.

    Affirmative action supposes that the first step to eliminating that bias is to ensure that the individuals making these decisions are representative of the population as a whole.

  13. Re:if only it had had a network socket on Former Sega Employee Reveals Sega Pluto Prototype Console · · Score: 1

    They stopped making the Dreamcast in 2001. If you assume that the console was still "alive" at that point - which is pretty goddamn generous - that means that it was out of the race far too early to enjoy widespread broadband adoption.

  14. Re:Vigilante Justice or Secondary Terrorism? on FBI Releases Boston Bombing Suspect Images/Videos · · Score: 1

    Secondary terrorism is terrorism which is secondary to the original action, counter terrorism is an action which acts contrary to (counter to) terrorism?

    Were you under the impression that the adjective "counter" meant something else?

  15. Re:I'll trade in... on Iron Man 3 To Debut As a 4DX Film In Japan · · Score: 1

    "two cheap 2K projectors for 4K material" is actually the spec for doing IMAX Digital. Thanks, IMAX.

  16. Re:Hmmm ... on Twitter Launches the World's Umpteenth Online Music Site · · Score: 1

    Given that it's a social network, its interrelationships (or lack thereof) with existing social networks were an issue. Now, as someone who doesn't use social networks, you can argue that it doesn't apply to you, but you can hardly say that it's a positive, any more than creating inedible cheese is a perk for the lactose intolerant.

  17. Re:Gambler? on Prof. Stephen Hawking: Great Scientist, Bad Gambler · · Score: 2

    That would explain his popularity with the general public but it hardly accounts for the huge esteem with which his work is held in cosmology. You can bullshit your fans but you can't bullshit your colleagues.

  18. Re:This is bound to fail on Twitter Launches the World's Umpteenth Online Music Site · · Score: 3, Funny

    Isn't that about the length of a normal pop song anyway?

  19. Re:Anonymous BS? on Google Forbids Advertising On Glass · · Score: 1

    It's in the developer guidelines if you'd take five minutes to look at them.

  20. Re:Wait, wait, wait. LEND? on Google Forbids Advertising On Glass · · Score: 1

    Yes. It's early hardware being given out to developers, it's normal that people aren't allowed to (say) loan their company's PS4 out to their mate's stag do. At least not if they like having kneecaps.

  21. Re:Leap Motion+Kinet=Minority Report style control on HP To Package Leap Motion Sensor Into — Not Just With — Some Devices · · Score: 1

    Leap Motion works a lot like Kinect, but scaled down. It works over a smaller volume, so it can track smaller objects more accurately. On the downside, your hands have to be inside that small volume.

  22. Re:He does it on purpose on Prof. Stephen Hawking: Great Scientist, Bad Gambler · · Score: 1

    Maybe I have a later edition (or I'm thinking of a different book) but I recall him writing about Kip Thorne's wife's reaction to the payment of the bet.

  23. Re:I still like my mouse on HP To Package Leap Motion Sensor Into — Not Just With — Some Devices · · Score: 1

    It's assumed that it's going to be a supplimentary input device, and not the main one. There are times I wish I had a more intuitive way of rotating 3D objects, for example.

  24. Re:The Controversial Side on Prof. Stephen Hawking: Great Scientist, Bad Gambler · · Score: 2

    I recall that at least one of his bets was an insurance policy against the possibility that his favourite theory was false. If it was disproven, at least he'd have the consolation of (IIRC) a year's supply of Playboy magazine.

  25. Re:FTA on Prof. Stephen Hawking: Great Scientist, Bad Gambler · · Score: 1

    It's not a circular argument, inasmuch as the fields that fluctuate to allow a big bang to happen are not the fields that exist after the bang. They've moved the issue back one stage further in time, and in doing so created an intellectual space in which one might begin to address the validity of various models.