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  1. Would you rather be rained on by birdshot or bullets?

    That isn't a trick question. Competent hunters, shooting into the air don't fire bullets or buckshot.

  2. Re:Sure, Net gun should do the trick on The Trump Administration Wants To Be Able To Track and Hack Your Drone (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Weaponizing anthrax isn't easy or cheap.

  3. On what planet does mother nature not allow min/maxing or mono-cultures? Hippies rant about them, but still get their calories from mono-cultured grains.

  4. Just try and fly a drone anywhere near someone with secret service protection. Watch what happens.

    Don't actually do this, you will end the day in jail.

  5. Re: Crime is wrong, trolling is not on Imzy, the Kinder and Gentler Reddit By Ex Employee, Is Shutting Down (imzy.com) · · Score: 1

    But it's now months later and you're calling the cops to formally trespass warn the thief, months after the video of them stealing was overwritten.

    Do it all immediately. That requires the cops show up, so have them charged as well.

  6. Re: So is life on 'Coding Is Not Fun, It's Technically and Ethically Complex' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    We're done giving it 'another chance.' It's broken from the start and can't be fixed. Marx was wrong about everything important.

  7. Re:Perfect Tomato? on Scientists Are Using Gene Editing To Create the Perfect Tomato For Your Salad (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Commercial tomatoes are no better in Europe. In both places, the only ripe commercial tomatoes are in cans or roadside stands.

  8. Re:Perfect Tomato? on Scientists Are Using Gene Editing To Create the Perfect Tomato For Your Salad (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    AC doesn't garden...obviously.

  9. Re: So is life on 'Coding Is Not Fun, It's Technically and Ethically Complex' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Right to 'no true scottsman', do not pass go, do not collect 200 rubles.

    Every marxist regime in history has been more entitled than their citizens.

    The problem isn't the implementation of marxism, it's marxism. It concentrates power too much, which then corrupts the leadership. Stick a fork in it, it's dead.

  10. Visits (page views), not visitors. What % were moderators? Half?

  11. Re: Crime is wrong, trolling is not on Imzy, the Kinder and Gentler Reddit By Ex Employee, Is Shutting Down (imzy.com) · · Score: 1

    You need the cops to 'trespass warn' someone. They should have had her charged for shoplifting (they eventually add up) AND 'trespassed'.

    Just trespass warning her, leaves them vulnerable to charges of racism, which I'll grant carries a lot less weight than it did 20 years ago.

  12. Re:Bad reason on JSON Feed Announced As Alternative To RSS (jsonfeed.org) · · Score: 1

    Java is the one true language...apparently. Some people never learn.

  13. Re: I like XML better on JSON Feed Announced As Alternative To RSS (jsonfeed.org) · · Score: 1

    They're all tourist traps. The beer is cheaper, further away from the castles. Storm a beer garden instead.

    Stay away from Oktoberfest. It's just an insane ripoff in the tents.

  14. Re:Name it J-a-SON Bateman and you'll have my vote on JSON Feed Announced As Alternative To RSS (jsonfeed.org) · · Score: 1

    You don't own a real Rolex?

  15. Re:Not suprised on Imzy, the Kinder and Gentler Reddit By Ex Employee, Is Shutting Down (imzy.com) · · Score: 1

    Ford makes good tractors...

  16. Re:A Community Without Trolls on Imzy, the Kinder and Gentler Reddit By Ex Employee, Is Shutting Down (imzy.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    SJW circle jerks could be a viable business model and would improve the average IQ of the rest of the web.

    Other sites could look for a 'Imzy' cookie (yes I know, shouldn't be able to see it) and just shadow ban those dweebs immediately. e.g. /. would have them post with initial moderation of (-1, troll).

  17. Re:To build relationships and form healthy habits. on Mark Zuckerberg Is Working On a Way To Connect You To People You 'Should' Know (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Grammar is for clarity _only_. Ungrammatical, but clear is perfectly fine.

    As I said to sib, having time to think doesn't force you to think. For example you had time to think about your post...

  18. Re:Bad reason on JSON Feed Announced As Alternative To RSS (jsonfeed.org) · · Score: 2

    Bullshit. XML with properties is just as tight. Not every property needs to be a subentity. There are decent Wiki articles that lay them out, side by side.

    JSON more readable...no comments allowed. No, just no. WRONG.

    They are feature for feature compatible, but one is Jave ghetto only, the other is 'everything else'. They should have never have _started_ on JSON, in hindsight it was clearly a mistake.

    "is this a property of the tag, or data inside the tag"...I see your mistake. Use a library to parse XML, don't roll your own.

  19. Re:Oh FFS on JSON Feed Announced As Alternative To RSS (jsonfeed.org) · · Score: 1

    XML was never really new...It was intended to be the last time anybody had to implement flat file hierarchical data stores.

    We see how well that worked. If it had worked, JSON would have never been invented. But they neglected coders need to piss all over standards before using them. JSON is XML, with all the deck chairs rearranged.

  20. Re:Harder to malform the JSON on JSON Feed Announced As Alternative To RSS (jsonfeed.org) · · Score: -1, Troll

    The only coders using JSON now are java coders. They made a mistake selecting their flat file, hierarchical data format. Should have just build a good XML library in java to start.

    There was _no_reason_ for java to use it's own standard, except the java devs arrogance and stupidity.

    Put a shim under the Java json libraries to read and write XML and this whole stupid issue goes away.

  21. Re:Bad reason on JSON Feed Announced As Alternative To RSS (jsonfeed.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    JSON is just XML from the Java ecosystem. Feature for feature...

    Whoever made the decision to 'do it yet again' needs to be taken out and kicked square in the balls by every coder that has to waste time on this bullshit.

  22. Why would you want Facebookers on the general net? Leave them in their ghetto.

    The problem is the facebook users. They will turn anyplace they congregate into facebook. They are fine where they are.

    You can't tell me the demise of AOL has made the net better...you can still recognize AOLers by their complete cluelessness. Walled garden people belong in walled gardens. The only thing missing is a _lock_ to hold them in the garden.

  23. Re:because it is fun on 'Coding Is Not Fun, It's Technically and Ethically Complex' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    The only part of the Agile manifesto that matters is 'hire competent enthusiastic individuals'...of course the only part that managers read is 'talk to the client, all the time' and 'plans are made for changing' (all quotes para).

    When faced with claims of agility, I go straight into 'bullshit or not'...Starts by evaluating the team, if they aren't all 'enthusiastic and competent', then I know the claimed agility amounts to 'off hand fapping' at best.

    At this point I usually write off the job and go into 'have fun, fucking with the interviewer' to make the time not completely wasted.

  24. Re:lol wat on 'Coding Is Not Fun, It's Technically and Ethically Complex' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    This whole FA was written by a non-coder. It's like a stupid screen writer attempting to write a smart character. What you get is just incoherent.

  25. Re:"Verboten"? on 'Coding Is Not Fun, It's Technically and Ethically Complex' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Verboten in english is nuanced. It implies forbidden, along with _MANY_ other things.

    Still done by everyone, except 'good Germans', when noone is looking.

    e.g. Voting for Trump was verboten in CA.