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  1. Military ships work off of separate encrypted GPS signals. So yes, one could spoof just the commercial signals, just the military signals, or both to create the collision conditions.

  2. His Australian cousin also uses 5 to 10 times as many bricks per sq foot of wall.

  3. Except in California. Where Google has their headquarters.

  4. Re:"to verify that you are an adult." on PlayStation 4 Update 5.0 Officially Revealed (gamespot.com) · · Score: 2

    Vendor s can tell if it's a prepaid card and Sony is unlikely to accept them as valid for purposes if the verification transaction.

  5. . The definition is conceptual, and comes from Socrates.

    Rather amusing given that social justice killed Socrates.

  6. Given the disparity in the number of people doing it in the entire field, which in programming is about 80/20 currently, the only way that should significantly differ by +-5% points either way in a large company is either astronomical chance or a quota system, assuming that both populations are equally good at a task.

  7. Re:DNW on The 2017 Hugo Awards (thehugoawards.org) · · Score: 1

    Do you have any evidence that apart from the Puppy surge there is a change in the average age of the non-attending members from the attending?

  8. Re:DNW on The 2017 Hugo Awards (thehugoawards.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The stated purpose of the Hugo awards is an award meant to reflect what the majority of sci-fi fans thought was good. The SMOFinati decided to play gatekeepers which means their award is now nothing more then a bunch of sad old people(Average WorldCon attendance age has to be pushing what, 50 years old now?) telling others to get off their lawn.

  9. Re:proof we are all not the same ! on James Damore Explains Why He Was Fired By Google (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    If by died you mean will end up getting a multi-million dollar payout/settlement from Google alone and probably several others from media outlets which have clearly acted with libelous malice if he plays his cards right, sure. Google is fucked, especially since between the tone of the memo, it's actual content which at worst can be said to have read too much into certain area of evo-psych, the fact that he doesn't recommend shutting down any of the programs but opening them up to everyone, the fact that it was posted to a workgroup that explicitly encouraged discussing Google's diversity initiatives, that he wasn't the one to leak the memo, that various information leaks after his firing will be virtually guaranteed to grant him full discovery, and that the reason for his firing is inherently bullshit(the idea that men an women have different interests is about as harmful as a pair of warm woolen socks[Cotton kills]).

  10. Re:You got fired... on James Damore Explains Why He Was Fired By Google (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, he has actions in both the federal and state courts and if he is smart will sue in all of them. At minimum he's getting a 7 figure payday out of this, possibly 8 if he can swing things just right.

  11. Re:... for not toeing the ideological party line. on James Damore Explains Why He Was Fired By Google (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, do I work in a company where one of the primary functions of the business in question is raping people?

  12. Re:Too Many White Males on Hollywood's Bad Summer Movies Are Driving a Decline in Movie Ticket Sales (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    They didn't just flip the genders around. They also made their motivations entirely different, made the secondary characters utterly irrelevant, and turned it into an action/slapstick comedy instead of horror/comedy.

  13. Re:Speaking just for me on Hollywood's Bad Summer Movies Are Driving a Decline in Movie Ticket Sales (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't get me started on The Dark Tower. First of all, PG-13? Sorry, but Steven King movies don't work at PG-13. Secondly, Christopher Heyerdhal would have been VASTLY superior to Matthew McConaughey at his best as The Man in Black. The performance that the neophyte director got out of him was decidedly not his best and whoever did character design needs to be shot. There's a reason Hollywood has makeup artists and he should have been much more disturbing to look at. It would have needed to be over two, two and a half hours to even begin to properly flesh out. Jackie Earle Haley was criminally underutilized. The kid's friend literally had no reason to be in the film. All in all The Dark Tower ended up being a disappointing shitshow.

  14. Re:Speaking just for me on Hollywood's Bad Summer Movies Are Driving a Decline in Movie Ticket Sales (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    There was a lot more wrong with Rogue One than the ending.

    1. The intro was way too goddamned long and would have been screentime spent much better elsewhere.

    2. The whole mindbreaking alien bit should have been scrapped altogether and the pilot just made either a coward or someone with massive amounts of PTSD, or it should have been properly fleshed out and the pilot been truly crazy.

    3. The one Vader joke was way too goddamned forced and OOC.

    4. The romance subplot was pathetic.

    5. The ending scene on the planet was way too long and drawn out, primarily because they wanted to extend the idiotic romance subplot.

    6. Leia's ship being at the battle made no sense since there would have been sensor readings of her ship there which would have removed entirely any pretense of her ship being a diplomatic one. Canon would dictate by necessity that her ship not be there and instead gets handed the intel by another ship fleeing the battle in a rendezvous system.

    All that said, it was still a pretty good movie. Arguably better than TFA.

  15. Re:Right to be fired on Google May Be In Trouble For Firing James Damore (inc.com) · · Score: 0

    So you think that even though his 10 page document explicitly lays out the science behind his thinking and multiple ways to improve working conditions for all that he wasn't really trying and that Google has the stronger position? REALLY?

  16. Re:Enlightenment values on Google May Be In Trouble For Firing James Damore (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    "Campaigned" Pretty specific word usage there, care to give a fucking citation?

  17. Re:he's not a whistleblower on Google May Be In Trouble For Firing James Damore (inc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It became a man's job because the entire nature of the job changed. When working first with punch cards and later with mainframes coding was much more social. It was once personal terminals became the norm and the idea of the code monkey was born that women started to move away from the field.

  18. Re:They wont get in trouble on Google May Be In Trouble For Firing James Damore (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't accept less than 7 figures. Google has significantly more than that to lose if they don't settle.

  19. Re:Just like FDIV on AMD Confirms Linux 'Performance Marginality Problem' On Ryzen (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Except it doesn't apply to Threadripper, Epyc, or Ryzen Pro. And it doesn't affect all of normal Ryzen either. So the entirety of the market they're handing to Intel is those buying personal systems who run large amounts of parallel compilation workloads and who don't feel like RMAing till they get a chip without the defect.

  20. Re:Does anyone argue with the Zunger? He's spot on on Google Engineer's Leaked 'Gender Diversity' Essay Draws Massive Response (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. Empathy doesn't fucking enter into it. You know what's good for cooperation and collaboration? Effective leadership. You know what Valve doesn't have and why we'll never see Half Life 3? Effective leadership.

  21. Re:They are almost as fast as... on AMD Unveils Radeon RX Vega Series Consumer Graphics Cards Starting At $399 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Vega 56 is in the same spot regarding the 1070 if not a bit ahead, with the same narrow frameband. It's true that the MSRPs for the base 1070s are lower by 20 bucks, but the memory bandwidth makes it good for currency mining and thus actual prices are 100 dollars higher.

  22. Re:They are almost as fast as... on AMD Unveils Radeon RX Vega Series Consumer Graphics Cards Starting At $399 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2

    Navi, so Q3/4 2018 at the earliest, might slip to Q1/2 2019 depending on 7nm process. That being said, for gamers who don't play twitch FPS's competitively or are rocking higher refresh rate 4k monitors, Vega looks to be a very good solution as the framerate band is narrower than the GTX 1080.

  23. Re:also $550 THREADRIPPER quad ram and 64 pci-e on AMD Unveils Radeon RX Vega Series Consumer Graphics Cards Starting At $399 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    2 of the dies are dummies/dead dies. They're there for structural integrity and possibly Infinity Fabric routing for the half of the PCI-E lanes that would normally be used by the other chips.

  24. Re:Don't worry about burglars- toddlers will kill on Hacker Cracks Smart Gun Security To Shoot It Without Approval (cnn.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    What? Columbine was a straw buy. Moreover the presence of guns arguably made things less lethal. Had they concentrated more on their bombs they might not have been duds and would have been able to kill significantly more people and possibly burn the entire school down.

  25. Re:He is risen... on AMD Launches Ryzen 3 Series Low Cost Processors Starting At $109 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope, no bribes by Intel, none at all.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...