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  1. Re:Misunderstood? on Virtual Boss Keeps Workers On a Short Leash · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't know what world you live in where Japan has a healthy work culture. Abuse of psychology for net harm of workers is considered normal.

  2. Re:I think I have to say... on Virtual Boss Keeps Workers On a Short Leash · · Score: 1

    treat people like adults.

    Well, sure, they will, but those that work for a living aren't really people, are they?

  3. Re:But Kansas! on Kansas To Nix Expansion of Google Fiber and Municipal Broadband · · Score: 1

    but since a point isn't really being debated here

    There was, and I don't know why you're pretending there wasn't. Someone pretended a statement was equally a description of two parties. I suggested it wasn't. You disagreed with the most tangential argument I've ever heard. Then you pretended you didn't. Please don't do that, then act all morally superior about it. It's obnoxious.

  4. Re:But Kansas! on Kansas To Nix Expansion of Google Fiber and Municipal Broadband · · Score: 1

    for no regulation

    Regardless of the level of cynicism you have invented for yourself to make yourself feel better about the wretched state of US politics, the above quote does not apply to both parties identically.

  5. Marketing department on Engineers Invent Acoustic Equivalent of One-Way Glass · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can we put one between us and marketing. We don't have to hear their bad ideas to tell them they won't work for practical reasons.

  6. Re:Adobe Air on The Schizophrenic State of Software In 2014 · · Score: 0

    I'm thinking about how flash "solved" the dynamic web page problem. Or how acrobat "solved" the persistent document problem.

  7. Re:Adobe Air on The Schizophrenic State of Software In 2014 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Adobe products are an interesting case of trying to solve systemic problems, and inevitably creating new, worse ones. Except photoshop. Photoshop is software that is just useful and nothing else.

  8. Re:But Kansas! on Kansas To Nix Expansion of Google Fiber and Municipal Broadband · · Score: 1

    I'd find that a more tolerable comparison, yes.

  9. Re:At Least ... on Half of US Nuclear Missile Wing Implicated In Cheating · · Score: 1

    Sunlamps, water recycling, underground nuclear power plants. The thousands of people that could sustain is all you need to "win".

  10. Re:Great plan Nintendo on Nintendo Could Base Comeback On Improving Peoples' Health · · Score: 1

    They were clearly arguing it was a past fad, I'm not sure why you asked.

  11. Re:But Kansas! on Kansas To Nix Expansion of Google Fiber and Municipal Broadband · · Score: 1

    No, they didn't. You can disagree, but there's nothing intrinsically incorrect about the accusation they've leveled.

  12. Re:They don't deserve it anyway. on Kansas To Nix Expansion of Google Fiber and Municipal Broadband · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you've isolated what bigotry does wrong here: judging individuals from a group, while judging that group from different individuals.

    And that's all well and good except gang-bangers don't run the local government, in a way that suggests a persistent cultural problem. There's something wrong with the state as a whole, even if you can say it's only because of a scant majority of those that happen to vote.

  13. Re:Self-solving problem on Tesla's Having Issues Charging In the Cold · · Score: 1

    So, my idea works! Yay!

  14. Re:The hurdles are imaginary on Red Team, Blue Team: the Only Woman On the Team · · Score: 1

    I guess all these self-taught programmers don't actually know basic logical principles.

    I mean, I taught myself a lot of what I know(only one language out of dozens through formal education), but there's no substitute for a lot of the academic knowledge I've gained through schooling(how to build thread safe constructs, big O notation, core common data structures, application of design patterns, engineering process principles, heuristic algorithms like a*, and those are just big categorical things off the top of my head).

  15. Re:The hurdles are imaginary on Red Team, Blue Team: the Only Woman On the Team · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A universal claim backed by absolutely zero evidence? Why, I never.

  16. Re:Good, looks good on 30 Minutes Inside Valve's Prototype Virtual Reality Headset · · Score: 1

    We'll never be satisfied. We're freaking technophiles who always want more neat technology crammed into everything. You're just in denial about it.

  17. Re:Buy stock in anti nausea drugs on 30 Minutes Inside Valve's Prototype Virtual Reality Headset · · Score: 1, Funny

    Or: how involuntary bulimia solved the nation's obesity epidemic. Valve's CEO awarded Nobel prize in medicine. Quoted as saying "bluuuuuuuuuuarg *pant* *pant* blaeearrargh"

  18. Re:So basically... on 30 Minutes Inside Valve's Prototype Virtual Reality Headset · · Score: 4, Funny

    Patch notes:
    *To improve immersion, the headset turns into a headcrab and turns you into a zombie when your heath reaches zero

  19. Good, looks good on 30 Minutes Inside Valve's Prototype Virtual Reality Headset · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I got a rift dev kit, and this sounds like a good leap forward on its design. Hopefully the consumer rift and this are both compatible with some sort of core software principals. The last thing the emergent VR economy needs is splintering.

  20. Re:hero on Edward Snowden and the Death of Nuance · · Score: 1

    You forgot "Mortal nemesis of Cold Fjord"

  21. Re:Think of the children on Why Does Facebook Need To Read My Text Messages? · · Score: 1

    NOT installing the Facebook app

    You think that's a choice?

  22. Re:Think of the children on Why Does Facebook Need To Read My Text Messages? · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Because they're useful tools of modern society, you damn luddite.

  23. Re:Every utopian prediction on Device Mines Precious Phosphorus From Sewage · · Score: 1

    If our previous 20,000 years of history is any indication, there is mostly no Internet or cars.

    Such ideas are clearly silly, and limited only to nincompoops.

  24. Re:Now if we can get this device onto storm drains on Device Mines Precious Phosphorus From Sewage · · Score: 5, Informative

    It varies from municipality to municipality. Some directly drain into local streams, others go into sewer systems, and some have separate systems.

  25. Re:Every utopian prediction on Device Mines Precious Phosphorus From Sewage · · Score: 2

    I might just be cynical, but I never really saw that as fundamentally different that burning people, tossing their ashes into the ocean, and eating the fish that eat the algae that eat their body. It's all just matter at that point.

    Eating people is only wrong on two factors.
    #1 obvious human pathogen risk
    #2 disrespect to those that cared about the deceased.

    In the world of Soylent Green, no one cared about those that elected suicide, and they got processed by algae that ate their corpses, limiting the pathogen risk.