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  1. The study author is confused. We've been broadcasting an RF beacon for about a century.

  2. Re:harass me and on Did You Vote? Now Your Friends May Know (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    Very few people voted for Trump, voting against Hillary _wasn't_ a mistake.

  3. Re:If you have to convince someone to vote . . . on Did You Vote? Now Your Friends May Know (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    Voting should be with a rifle at 200 yards. If you can't hit the square next to your candidates name, vote doesn't count. Iron sights.

  4. Re:Wrong Reasons on Did You Vote? Now Your Friends May Know (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If voting could change the system, it would be illegal!'

    Anybody who votes is insufficiently cynical. Don't hire them.

  5. Re: I voted on Did You Vote? Now Your Friends May Know (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If all you got was a unregistered letter, you weren't legally served anyhow. Safe to ignore (in CA anyhow).

  6. Re:Binary choices on Did You Vote? Now Your Friends May Know (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    Moore came from the 'church lady wing', morons who vote as they are told. Big problem in states like Alabama.

    The Ds have the same problem with their commie wing. Big problem in granola states. How the fuck did Willie Browns squeeze end up in the Senate?

  7. Re:I will vote on Did You Vote? Now Your Friends May Know (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Vote Gridlock!

    This year, that means Ds for the house. But only a few, so it can easily flip back.

  8. I didn't address their position at all, except to say it's a 'crazy edge definition'.

    Bottom line numbers on abortions support their position. But 'genocide' when the 'hoovering' is voluntary?

  9. Re:I have read a lot about this on Opinion: Artificial Intelligence Hits the Barrier of Meaning (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    But there is no denying we love boobies.

    About 140 billion neurons in human brain. Grossly oversimplifying 140 billion ^2 possible interconnects (actual number is lower). We can't even store state information for the synapses (input weights), much less model the chemistry in the synapse.

  10. Re:Healthcare is issue #1 for me on In These Eight Midterms Races, Health and Medicine Are Front and Center (statnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Write a smartphone app. That applies for health and car insurance if it detects high Gs.

  11. Re:Which regulations? on In These Eight Midterms Races, Health and Medicine Are Front and Center (statnews.com) · · Score: 2

    There have always been other manufacturers of ephedrine injectors. But they were different enough that the 'generic' equivalent laws didn't cover them.

    Doctors could just write a different script.

  12. Re: And I thought Obamacare FIXED healthcare?!?!? on In These Eight Midterms Races, Health and Medicine Are Front and Center (statnews.com) · · Score: 2

    The young subsidize the old in every company health pool and always have.

    Has anybody ever had 'company insurance' where the old pay a higher copay? I doubt it would be legal.

    When I was in my 20s, I led a small company wide young people's group defection. Our copay was actually higher than our individual rate, because the CFO's kid had a very expensive condition that we were all paying for. After we quit the group, their per person rate got really interesting. I moved on shortly after, place just sucked on many levels.

  13. Re:Everything gets harder with age on Ask Slashdot: Do Older IT Workers Doing End-User Support Find It Gets Harder With Age? · · Score: 1

    You're nuts. A HOA is far more of a hassle than a yard.

    Do you love your micromanaging idiot boss? Then buy into a HOA, so it never ends. I'll be over 'here', where the lots are big and neighbors know how to mind their own business.

  14. Re: I wish it got harder with age. on Ask Slashdot: Do Older IT Workers Doing End-User Support Find It Gets Harder With Age? · · Score: 1

    It's 2018. Put up some Youtube videos showing users how to do it at home.

  15. Re:Missing the Point of College on Ask Slashdot: How To Fix an Outdated College Tech Curriculum? · · Score: 1

    I'd be happy if kids knew one version of assembler. VAX would be fine, even with octal. 6502 would be fine.

    Just not original 8086...don't want to break their spirit.

  16. Re:Agile is like active methodology in teaching on Slashdot Asks: Are DevOps, Agile, and Lean IT the Same Thing? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Anybody who needs a meeting for daily status updates isn't doing his/her job. A daily standup is _not_ fast compared to each coder firing off an end of day progress update, then glancing at the project plan/issue DB at the next start of day.

    That's what email, project, issue tracking and source control is for (depending on what phase of development you're on).

    Who says it's a JR programmer wasting everyone's time? _Most_ teams are pretty damn dysfunctional and don't know how to promote.

    What % of your dailys require doing anything to the project plan? 1-2%? Those are the days a competent tech lead calls a meeting. Other days, you just update the tasks to reflect ongoing work.

  17. Re:200 to 250 km/h on Elon Musk Shows Off The Boring Company's LA Tunnel (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    All down to geology. Dirt and rocks are not a uniform thing.

    1.5 km/year isn't a fast boring machine. That's about 4 meters/day.

  18. Re: 200 to 250 km/h on Elon Musk Shows Off The Boring Company's LA Tunnel (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Tunnel boring machines are not a perfected technology.

    IMHO Musk thinks he will be living in a warren of tunnels on Mars.

  19. Re:Debt & Savings [Re:Couldn't resist] on Why Big Tech Pays Poor Kenyans To Teach Self-Driving Cars (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If I ever encounter an actual Keynesian, I expect it would be in some university setting.

    All I see are spenders with an excuse.

  20. Re:The way it should be, I suppose on Supreme Court Rejects Industry Challenge of 2015 Net Neutrality Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Only forbids traffic shaping on similar content.

    Net neutrality does not make QoS illegal, just puts QoS's definition in the hands of lawyers...What could go wrong?

  21. Re:Next stop.... on Elon Musk Shows Off The Boring Company's LA Tunnel (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Strapped to the back of a Tesla shell.

  22. Re:200 to 250 km/h on Elon Musk Shows Off The Boring Company's LA Tunnel (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Prototypes are never cheap. Costs will be 'arm wavey' projections, like solar roads. 99% self serving bullshit.

  23. Re:Elitst on Elon Musk Shows Off The Boring Company's LA Tunnel (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Why would we want to fuckup our freight rail (which is better than Europe's, basically for the reasons you say) in order to build passenger rail nobody will use?

    Hint: The USA has lower population density than Europe.

    The USA should just secure rights of way in the places where populations are growing rapidly. So when it makes sense, we won't go broke buying the land.

  24. Re:Couldn't resist on Why Big Tech Pays Poor Kenyans To Teach Self-Driving Cars (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Keynesians save during boom times.

    There are no Keynesians, only spenders with an excuse.

  25. Covered in nice bitter dark chocolate.