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  1. Re:Am I missing something? on Linux Community To Adopt New Code of Conduct (kernel.org) · · Score: 1

    There's also things like androgen insensitive XY where the Y exists in the genotype but is suppressed from expressing in the phenotype.

  2. Why would it be over in a few years? on Game Streaming's Latency Problems Will Be Over in a Few Years, CEO Says (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Even if there's a technical solution to the problem, given the general lack of competition in the broadband internet market, what makes the author think that technology will be available to most consumers within a few years?

    e.g. In my area Verizon won't upgrade beyond 2Mpbs DSL. What makes you think they care about latency?

  3. The reason it took so long... on NASA Releases Thousands of Hours of Apollo 11 Mission Audio (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Negotiating the rights with the Kubrick estate was a giant legal mess... (j/k)

  4. ...does the Dropbox App even care about the low level details of the file system? Shouldn't they all look the same to it from an API perspective?

  5. This CIO's Attitude on Do Businesses Really Need to Hire CS Majors? (cio.com) · · Score: 2

    Is why so many companies have data breaches. They hire people who don't know what they're doing, but can jury rig a bunch of crap together so it looks like its working from the outside.

  6. Re:The real problem? on Teen Allegedly Broke Into a Couple's Home To Ask For Their WiFi Password, Police Say (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, home invasion is generally a form of aggravated burglary instead of an entirely separate offense, but they're not the same crime.

    Again, to take Pennsylvania as an example (18 PA Cons Stat 3502), burglarizing an unoccupied building is a felony of the second degree (maximum sentence 10 years), burglarizing an occupied building is a felony of the first degree (maximum sentence 20 years).

  7. Re:The real problem? on Teen Allegedly Broke Into a Couple's Home To Ask For Their WiFi Password, Police Say (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The fact that the house was or was not occupied shouldn't be a mitigating circumstance.

    Breaking into an unoccupied building is burglary, breaking into an occupied building is home invasion. The latter is a much more severely punished crime than the former.

  8. Breaking into an occupied dwelling under cover of darkness generally IS considered a violent offense.

  9. Depends on the jursidiction. In some states, forcible entry into an occupied dwelling alone is considered enough to create a reasonable belief that deadly force is immediately necessary for the occupants. In Pennsylvania for example:

    (2.1) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (2.2), an actor is presumed to have a reasonable belief that deadly force is immediately necessary to protect himself against death, serious bodily injury, kidnapping or sexual intercourse compelled by force or threat if both of the following conditions exist:

    (i) The person against whom the force is used is in the process of unlawfully and forcefully entering, or has unlawfully and forcefully entered and is present within, a dwelling, residence or occupied vehicle; or the person against whom the force is used is or is attempting to unlawfully and forcefully remove another against that other's will from the dwelling, residence or occupied vehicle.

    (ii) The actor knows or has reason to believe that the unlawful and forceful entry or act is occurring or has occurred.

    (2.2) The presumption set forth in paragraph (2.1) does not apply if:

    (i) the person against whom the force is used has the right to be in or is a lawful resident of the dwelling, residence or vehicle, such as an owner or lessee;

    (ii) the person sought to be removed is a child or grandchild or is otherwise in the lawful custody or under the lawful guardianship of the person against whom the protective force is used;

    (iii) the actor is engaged in a criminal activity or is using the dwelling, residence or occupied vehicle to further a criminal activity; or

    (iv) the person against whom the force is used is a peace officer acting in the performance of his official duties and the actor using force knew or reasonably should have known that the person was a peace officer.

  10. Welcome to the Future on Senate Wants Netflix, Spotify To Send Out Federal Emergency Alerts (techcrunch.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "Require active alerts issued by the President or FEMA to be repeated."

    Now when Trump is twitter ranting at 3am, he can be sure everyone's cellphones are waking them up multiple times to bathe in the brilliance of his thoughts. /sarc

  11. This time, they've gone too far! on Red Meat Allergies Caused By Tick Bites Are On The Rise (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Tick bites can cause all sorts of nasty afflictions. And if you're bitten by a Lone Star tick, here's one more to add to the list: a red meat allergy.

    Burn down nature! It's a luxury we can no longer afford!

  12. Re:Beer and soda I understand on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Given how animals evolved CO2 sensors, it's doubtful anyone would try a CO2 controlled atmosphere more than once.

    You can google "controlled atmosphere stunning" and see plenty of places are doing it with CO2, so clearly it's not doubtful anyone would try a CO2 controlled atmosphere more than once.

  13. The argument seems to be... on Stonehenge Builders Used Pythagoras' Theorem 2,000 Years Before He Was Born (techtimes.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Stonehenge contains right triangles; the right triangles obey the Pythagorean theorem; therefore whoever built Stonehenge must have known the Pythagorean theorem.

    But ALL right triangles obey the Pythagorean theorem (which is the whole point of the theorem), so this would be true whether the people who built them knew about the theorem or not.

  14. Re:Beer and soda I understand on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not an expert on the subject, but the articles I can find suggest that if it is properly calibrated CO2 doesn't cause respiratory panic, although there are other articles critical of the method because it often isn't properly calibrated.

  15. Re:Beer and soda I understand on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Modern slaughterhouses use CO2 for "controlled atmosphere stunning" to render the animals unconscious before slaughter.

  16. Re:What kills me... on Most Organizations Are Not Fully Embracing DevOps (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    If the defective system still passed all the "regular" testcases, then the new one isn't unnecessary, as your existing coverage isn't sufficient to detect the defect.

  17. Re:What kills me... on Most Organizations Are Not Fully Embracing DevOps (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    If changing one part of your system breaks 99 others, that's because your company sucks at software and doesn't know how to properly encapsulate.

  18. Re:What kills me... on Most Organizations Are Not Fully Embracing DevOps (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Agile doesn't dictate the size of a sprint. You should pick a sprint size that works for your particular organization.

  19. Re:What kills me... on Most Organizations Are Not Fully Embracing DevOps (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    We call it Agilefall, as it combines the worse features of both systems with none of the benefits of either.

  20. Re:What kills me... on Most Organizations Are Not Fully Embracing DevOps (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    You can always beak it down into something that can be fixed, tested, and demoed in one sprint:

    1. Pick one part of the system that not behaving properly, even if changing that one part's behavior doesn't fully solve the bug.
    2. Write test case for the part the fails due to the incorrect behavior
    3. Develop a change for that one part's behavior so it now passes the test case.
    4. Test that the part now passes the test case.
    5. Demo to the product managers that the part used to fail the test case and now passes the test case.

    Next sprint you repeat the process for the next part of the system that is not behaving properly. Eventually all the part changes will combine to fix the bug, allowing you to close the feature.

  21. Re:What kills me... on Most Organizations Are Not Fully Embracing DevOps (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    In that case, you make the issue a feature instead of a story and then break it down into several one sprint stories.

  22. What kills me... on Most Organizations Are Not Fully Embracing DevOps (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Is the ones who decree a switch to an agile development process, but still want waterfall style year+ schedules.

  23. ...should all our lunar gopher complaints be addressed to now?

  24. Re:There are lots of ways to play that game. on Ask Slashdot: Did Baby Boomers Break America? (time.com) · · Score: 1

    The funny thing is all the accomplishments you named for the boomers were actually done by pre-boomer generations. I realize that boomers are narcissists, but just because you saw something happen on TV when you were a kid doesn't mean you were personally responsible for making it happen.

  25. "manufacturers such as ZTE" on Some Low-Cost Android Phones Shipped With Malware Built In (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Crap, now they're going to have to give Trump another $500 million bribe.