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  1. Re:Theory without any empirical data to back it up on Engineers Explain Why the Galaxy Note 7 Caught Fire (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Be fair, the EIT and PE have nothing to do with those skills. PEs aren't any more likely to be 'well rounded individuals' than any other technical person.

    The hubris you mention isn't limited to techs, need I point out...Lawyers and politicians. 'We write the laws, let's see about changing the laws of physics.'

    What you describe sounds more like the business/systems analysts fell on their faces. It isn't the programmer's job to know the industry in detail.

  2. Re:Michael Flynn Jr believes it on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    LOL, no.

    Sanders only got that close because the Rs were supporting him, like the Ds supported Trump.

    America won't be electing any Castro loving commies any time soon. Trump was a once in a lifetime boob with the nomination, engineered to give the victory to the worst candidate ever to run for president.

    Sander is in a basket with 'what's his fuck' ('frothy mixture of shit and lube'). If you think he's a good candidate, it says more about you than anything. You are just as on the fringe as an evolution denying bible thumper, you just thump 'das kapital'.

  3. Re: Shocking on Engineers Explain Why the Galaxy Note 7 Caught Fire (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Show me the PEs at VW losing their tickets?

  4. Re:Theory without any empirical data to back it up on Engineers Explain Why the Galaxy Note 7 Caught Fire (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    You can get a PE in software engineering in the USA.

    Of course to take the test you have to be under the supervision of another PE for a number of years, and the software engineer PE is new. So some interdisciplinary work is required.

    Won't be a problem for those who will take it. They are all destined to work in aviation or power.

    Most 'software engineers' couldn't pass the EIT. (To start their training period prior to taking the PE.) Most 'software engineers' can't tie their shoes and wave by-by.

  5. Re:I.e. Samsung acted recklessly for profit on Engineers Explain Why the Galaxy Note 7 Caught Fire (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 2

    The people who's phone's caught fire are already lawyered up.

    How much do you think someone deserves for being put at risk? For a couple of weeks?

    Shareholders?

  6. Re:Shocking on Engineers Explain Why the Galaxy Note 7 Caught Fire (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    On the other hand, you have EEs like me.

    Engineering runs a spectrum. From near cookbook, long practiced, design processes owned by PEs to prototypes hacked up with three opamps, a FPGA, a breadboard and a coat hanger.

    Design of consumer product batteries is 'near cookbook long practiced'.

    Even I could do it. Samsung wouldn't have given me the authority to tell the PHB they _needed_ volume Y for X mWh. I guarantee there was an Engineer or ten that knew this was a bad idea, but couldn't penetrate the layers of management between him and the person dictating required features.

  7. Re:Michael Flynn Jr believes it on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The fact that lawyers have done such a fucked up job.

    We had no good choices. But another crooked lawyer was 'right out'.

  8. Re:Michael Flynn Jr believes it on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Here, though, where Bernie Sanders - who's a 120 leagues left of any other elected Democrat - smeared Hugo Chavez as a "dead communist dictator". Here, where Chavez is 360 leagues to the right of Castro....

    You're onto something. Castro is exactly in line with Chavez (as you say 360 degrees, one full turn).

    The only one that's off is '120 degrees to the left of any other elected democrat'. Which is, again, pretty much right on top of Castro, 'authoritarian asshole with a justification', going further left of that takes you back into right wing.

  9. Re:Michael Flynn Jr believes it on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The Shockley/Chomsky syndrome? Possible.

  10. Re: EU is not Democracy on EU Threatens Twitter And Facebook With Possible 'Hate Speech' Laws (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    Threatening to 'tear off the GPs head and shit down his neck' is so far over the top it's silly. Threats that involve 'hanging someone by their intestines' are similar. Internet tough guy trolling.

    Not remotely a 'true threat' unless the poster also knows the actual identity of the other, even then, really?

    Doxing someone then threatening them with a flash mob at their employers/home is a more typical 'realistic threat'. But since it doesn't rise to direct calls for actual violence is 'protected'.

  11. New testament.

    1st Timothy 2:12 {para (as they all are, unless in Greek/Aramaic/Hebrew)}

    Never have a man answer to a woman, she should shut up. (and make him a samwich)

    Also:

    If they will not work, they shall not eat.

    Too lazy to look up that chapter and verse. Both would get a SJW's panties into a bunch.

  12. Re: Will this apply to slashdot as well? on EU Threatens Twitter And Facebook With Possible 'Hate Speech' Laws (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The EU clearly needs a ministry to decide what is true.

  13. Leeching bandwidth. on Embedding Isn't Copyright Infringement, Says Italian Court (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Unless the web site allows it, it is leeching bandwidth. Admins are well within their rights to configure their servers to not serve the expected graphic file. Even if it did work when the web site author tested it.

  14. Re: GOP [Re: Immigration policy is not hate speech on Twitters Says It Will Ban Trump If He Breaks Hate-Speech Rules (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    The job is done and all money is taken by rent seekers.

  15. I owned a palm and continued to use a paper day planner, the office I worked in at the time never bought into palm, so the benefits didn't outweigh the hassle.

    Who's to say how it would have worked out if they had gotten a ubiquitous cell/data module instead of their old crawling wireless network and made use of touch better.

    The technology was there, palm just didn't put it together. At the time even with full palm buyin, you were carrying a phone and a palm.

    The cell addon was buggy, late, huge and worked on one network at edge speeds IIRC.

    Making it work would have been ninja, but it was just possible IMHO. Palm blew it.

  16. Re:GOP [Re: Immigration policy is not hate speech] on Twitters Says It Will Ban Trump If He Breaks Hate-Speech Rules (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Simple solution: Free passports for citizens. Cost: About 300,000,000 x $140 42 billion (thousand million) at no discount and assuming 300 million citizens, (who being Americans haven't left the country...joke). ref: https://travel.state.gov/conte...

    Use for voting and getting a job. Permanent residents use green cards for jobs. Complicated remains complicated.

    No jobs without a passport/green card. No wall required, it would just get in the way of Mexicans going home.

    Passport lasts 10 years now (???IIRC), so 4.2 billion/year. Find a few obsolete money holes in the federal budget and we're there. Rural electrification program? Hasn't electrified anybody in 50 years IIRC $800 million/year. Rural power install is full price...10k$/pole (more years ago than I want to think about).

  17. Re:Immigration policy is not hate speech on Twitters Says It Will Ban Trump If He Breaks Hate-Speech Rules (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Young cop displayed excellent gun control.

    Put the mad dog down, no casualties from stray rounds.

  18. Re: Here come the science deniers on New Study Shows Marijuana Users Have Low Blood Flow To the Brain (eurekalert.org) · · Score: 1

    Excepting the parolee who went back up for 'pissing off a cop'.

  19. Re: Here come the science deniers on New Study Shows Marijuana Users Have Low Blood Flow To the Brain (eurekalert.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm willing to bet that 13,999 were arrested for 'pissing off a cop' and nobody got sentenced to jail.

    They 'fell down'.

  20. Last I heard Benny was to un PC for the English.

    Even the torrents were week. Haven't looked lately...

  21. Re:Why is this news? Obama has the power now... on Trump Will Get Power To Send Unblockable Mass Text Messages To All Americans (nymag.com) · · Score: 0

    Trump's success was in part due to black racism. They didn't come out and vote for a corrupt white woman like they did for a corrupt black man.

  22. Re:Lets not worry about this yet on Trump Will Get Power To Send Unblockable Mass Text Messages To All Americans (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    How's his law licence doing?

  23. Re:Lets not worry about this yet on Trump Will Get Power To Send Unblockable Mass Text Messages To All Americans (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    He was disbarred for 'misleading the courts'. Which is just BS doublespeak for perjury.

  24. AOL isn't even dead yet.

    Zombie reddit will live on. Shambling from butthurt circle jerk to butthurt circle jerk, seeking brains, but finding none.

  25. Re:employee improvement plan on Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After Email Note (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Large teams mean the project will scale? No. Good architectures mean products scale. Team size has _nothing_ to do with it.

    If you are doing it right, the good people seek out your team. So do the bad ones, you have to be able to tell the difference.

    I prefer to continue doing things I'm good at rather than do things I'm not good at. I don't manage large groups well, I remain on technical point.