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  1. Re:Wrong units. Please correct the summary. on New Manufacturing Technology Enables Vertical 3D Transistors · · Score: 1

    Texas and Alaska are also acceptable units.

  2. Re:Good on Oil Exploration Ramps Up In US Arctic · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Bad.

    I provided 1 trillion times the evidence and supporting reasoning of the parent. My post is better.

  3. Re:Why not shoot yourself into the sun? on Ask Bas Lansdorp About Going to Mars, One Way · · Score: 1

    Mars is easier to get to than the sun. The energy difference between the Earth's velocity and Mars' are much less than between the Earth and the Sun.

  4. Re:You mean to tell me... on Reddit Cofounder Says Site Was Built By a Horde of Fake Accounts · · Score: 1

    There are real people behind those posts now?

    Close, there's redditors.

  5. Re:Thank you for participating. on Valve Unveils Steam For Schools, Portal In the Classroom · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bus.

    I think you mean multi-pupil relocation device

  6. Re:Like Microsoft Excel? on Bev Harris of Black Box Voting Releases Accenture's Voting Software · · Score: 3, Funny

    At my company we base all our data on powerpoint slides. That way managers are able to present the data to other managers with the ease of 2 hours of clicking "next slide". Truly you are behind the times.

  7. Re: O RLY? on Why Bad Jobs (or No Jobs) Happen To Good Workers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you'd read, it's not that either. It's that companies are only looking for perfect candidates for the particular thing they want done, as that saves them time and effort, and allows them to downsize as soon as the requirement is done. The removal of the concept of a "trainable" employee has been sabotaging their ability to find anyone, and since everyone else is engaged in poach-based hiring, the system is self-reinforcing.

    In particular, it also explains why unemployment among the recently graduated is so high.

  8. Re:What sort of radiation? on FCC Revisiting Mobile Device Radiation Standards · · Score: 1

    I could probably dig it up if I weren't at work.

  9. Re:What sort of radiation? on FCC Revisiting Mobile Device Radiation Standards · · Score: 1

    In fact, low grade EM radiation with a constant rate of delivery is used to treat cancers in lieu of chemotherapy now. Definitely has some effect on cell division.

  10. Re:Who better? on Pentagon Contractors Openly Post Job Listings For Offensive Hackers · · Score: 1

    Too bad the people who are going to be doing the attacks are hiring up all the possible defenders then.

  11. Re:Bonobo Chimpanzee on Bonobos Join Chimps As Closest Human Relatives · · Score: 4, Informative

    Irrelevant. Geographic separation is a direct cause of speciation. Gene pools stop mixing, genetic drift pushes two similar groups far enough apart that they are no longer compatible.

  12. Re:Bonobo Chimpanzee on Bonobos Join Chimps As Closest Human Relatives · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Assuming you're not trolling here:

    There's morphic phenotypes that are different, for one. Bonobos are actually a lot smaller than chimps as mature adults. They are also much less able to solve complex puzzles, a difference that persists even when raised in complete separation of others from their own species. There's also the biological definition of species that requires that they be able to interbreed, we have never seen that happen.

  13. Re:Because insurance pays for them on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Hearing Aids So Expensive? · · Score: 1

    It was kind of a joke about the state of healthcare in the United States. A prescription is a kind of announcement of a death sentence, you know, the other use of the world.

    It was a bit of a stretch, but it was a hard mistake to pun on.

  14. Re:Because insurance pays for them on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Hearing Aids So Expensive? · · Score: 1

    Yep, because one wrong vowel is going to ruin your day. Come on. And to be fair, a prescription is a kind of proscription.

  15. Re:Because insurance pays for them on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Hearing Aids So Expensive? · · Score: 1

    More generally, because everything medical in the United States is overpriced, because you can't go without them and there's functionally no competition.

    What competition there is, is in getting doctors to proscribe things, rather than for the end consumer. Price never really factors in.

  16. Re:This Can't Be Happening!!!!! on Will IBM's Watson Kill Your Career? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's not a fundamental problem with capitalism; it's a (very slowly) emerging consequence. Capitalism does not NEED to have this problem, as long as all participants are self-determining, self-interested, rational actors. It's just that all 3 of those points are, at best, approximately true or true for most participants. The introduction of AI into the equation just adds actors who aren't self-determining(the goals of their decisions are predefined) or self-interested(they are programmed/trained to be interested in their owner's success). That will eventually collapse the system, if prevalent enough.

    For the moment, though, there are enough tasks that humans are better at than computers that this does not need to be a concern. 50 years from now, being in a true capitalist economy will make your life hell.

  17. Re:It should be obvious... on Ask Slashdot: How Best To Teach Programming To Salespeople? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Reality: customer actually wanted DEF. Sales guy just didn't understand what customer said. Developer spends 50% of time developing and supporting unwanted feature.

  18. Re:What really scares me. on Ray Bradbury Has Died · · Score: 1

    Well, I don't think Bradbury was a luddite who liked old entertainment and hated new, if that's what you mean. I can't imagine the format of the book mattering that much.

  19. Re:His most famous work on Ray Bradbury Has Died · · Score: 1

    The reason's people became anti-intellectual was the intellectually vacant entertainment and lifestyle that had become normal. It's like Idiocracy without the implied support for eugenics. I didn't say it was causeless, that was an invention of your fevered imagination.

  20. No Electrophoreses? on World's Largest Biometric Database · · Score: 2

    What if you get severely burned and then have no irises, fingerprints, and your face looks different? They should be incorporating DNA too.

  21. Re:His most famous work on Ray Bradbury Has Died · · Score: 2

    Flip-side: it was the job of the main character, and therefor that character would be more likely to focus on it.

  22. Re:During the Cold War on Richard Feynman's FBI Files Released · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nah, they'd already know what you were up to from having taped all your phone calls first.

  23. Re:What really scares me. on Ray Bradbury Has Died · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The book burning is pointless. The anti-intellectualism is there. The apathy towards real knowledge with supporting context is gone. Censorship only matters to people who care about deep understanding of things. There aren't many of those.

  24. Re:It will be a pain in the ass to remember... on World IPv6 Launch Day Underway · · Score: 5, Funny

    Humans have different needs than computers. It's almost like we need a table of easy to remember names that can be used to look up IP addresses automatically by a computer. Then that table needs to be distributed automatically to all the ISPs in the world. That'll never happen. Sounds impossible.

  25. Re:What really scares me. on Ray Bradbury Has Died · · Score: 1

    It doesn't NEED to be there. Books are just things, and their presence doesn't really deflect the problem unless the appreciation for careful, organized thought is also there.

    If people aren't interested in reading, the biggest library in the world is pointless.