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  1. Re:Battle of the bored on A Third of Wikipedia Discussions Are Stuck in Forever Beefs (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Recently. I was editing a page on some car. I added some content to a section, and was going to add the references as they want, but before I got to the next section, I got some eager beaver who reverted my edit, and also edited out some pre-existing material, and then sent me a nasty-gram about not providing proper references! Then when I tried to explain, he threatened to ban be for "abusing" him.

            It's a complete waste of time, don't even bother. Accuracy is random because there are so many nitwits who sit on the system and automatically revert everything and anything, even in progress as you are doing it.

  2. They don't really grasp the concept of "technology" outside of computer crap.

  3. Re:If Trump did his thing on United Nations Says Earth's Ozone Layer Is Repairing (bbc.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    These agreements are about the redistribution of wealth, effectively, reparations.

  4. In other words... on Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    They hate them for the same reasons ALL corporate and centrally-controlled system users hate them - the dump changes on the user, then run away, and leave everyone else to just figure it out on their own.

  5. Re:Become an educator on Ask Slashdot: How To Fix an Outdated College Tech Curriculum? · · Score: 1

    "Educators" are what fucked up the system in the first place. The very last place you go for education.

  6. Re:Berkeley, eh? on Is Data Science For All the New Computer Science For All? (berkeley.edu) · · Score: 1

    Or identify speakers to run off campus with a riot, in the cause of "free speech"?

  7. Re:How are they claiming to show that? on Alaska's Universal Basic Income Doesn't Increase Unemployment (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    And additionally:

        "People who advocate manipulating the job market find that their policies do not reduce job opportunitys - during the biggest labor boom in 50 years!"

  8. Re:How are they claiming to show that? on Alaska's Universal Basic Income Doesn't Increase Unemployment (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    "People trying to manipulate the job market find that manipulating the job market is good!" The full story at 11.

  9. Authentic Frontier Gibberish on Faraday Future's Last Founding Executive Resigns, Plans Emergency Fund For Employees (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Looks like the shorts of the Wall street misremembered the motor pioneer and shorted the wrong one.
    There are TWO battery car companies named after these inventors. Short the DC motor inventor, not the AC motor inventor.

    It is easy to remember: AC and DC duked it out at the turn of the 20th century. DC promoted by Edison and Genelec lost and AC promoted by Westinghouse won. Remember that to know which one to short and which one to long. ok?

              Now who can argue with that? I think we're all indebted to 140Mandak262Jamuna for clearly stating what needed to be said. I'm particulary glad that these lovely children were here today to hear that speech. Not only was it authentic frontier gibberish, it expressed a courage little seen in this day and age.

  10. Re:if only on With Fuel Exhausted, NASA Retires Kepler Telescope (space.com) · · Score: 1

    The shuttle couldn't come close to reaching this, it would take an Apollo-level manned mission to even get there.

  11. Re:Fill 'er up? on With Fuel Exhausted, NASA Retires Kepler Telescope (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, by several orders of magnitude.

  12. Re:They were lucky people didn't asphixiate on How a Helium Leak Disabled Every iPhone In a Medical Facility (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It takes only *tiny* amounts of helium to have a measurable effect, far, far below the levels that you would need to cause any consequential change in oxygenation. A few PPM can do it, depending on the device.

  13. Re:Seems to be a flaw with all proof of work syste on Bitcoin Mining Alone Could Raise Global Temperatures Above Critical Limit By 2033 (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Use a cryptocurrency system that (a) doesn't require proof of work

          I hereby declare the existence of Twitcoin, for which I hold the entire stock, and is worth 17 trillion of your now obsolete US dollars!

  14. Bueno! Excellente' on Bitcoin Mining Alone Could Raise Global Temperatures Above Critical Limit By 2033 (vice.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    One absurd fantasy pitted against another!

  15. Yes, and I wonder what "fixed" means in this context - fixed to load worse malware, faster and/or more invisibly?

  16. Re:Can't they use the stars to determine rotation? on NASA Revives Hubble Space Telescope After Three-Week Mechanical Failure (nasa.gov) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Effectively, the Fine Guidance sensor does this already. When they were on 2 gyros, it probably use the Fine Guidance sensor outputs directly. Normally, you don't want to do that, because its relatively noisy compared to the gyros, so you don't get full performance. Normally it integrates the gyro data to get an estimated position, then filters in the Fine Guidance sensor data as a correction to the estimate.

    BTW, the post above about "position gyros" (which are actually called reaction wheels - any gyroscopic effects are generally undesirable side effects, and they certainly aren't control moment gyros (gimballed reaction wheels)) is just wrong, the failure was certainly in the conventional gyro/IRU system.

  17. Re:This isn't a measurement gyro on NASA Revives Hubble Space Telescope After Three-Week Mechanical Failure (nasa.gov) · · Score: 2

    Do you have a cite for that this is due to reaction wheel instead of a gyroscope? Because every single reference I find and everyone who I have talked through via industry connections thinks it's a gyro, not a reaction wheel. Most of the guys I knew who worked Hubble operations long since retired, so I can't ask them any more. We did design it, of course...

  18. Any parent to tried to teach a child to "code" should have their kids taken away. Coding is a more-or-less trivial vocational skill that you can learn in a week if you know other things first - like basic problem-solving skills.

          Kids need to be kids, play games, get in competition/conflicts/fights (that are not moderated by adults) and learn basic language, mathematics, history, and civics Not learn a niche manual skill.

  19. Re: Thank you Facebook! on Facebook Removes 82 Accounts Linked To Iranian Disinformation Campaign (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Obama consistently used the constitution as toilet paper, attempted to rule by executive fiat, and publically lamented that we didn't have a dictatorship to permit him to act. Perversion and debauchery are the rule of the day. You are the worst kind of imbecile.

  20. Re:Thank you Facebook! on Facebook Removes 82 Accounts Linked To Iranian Disinformation Campaign (usatoday.com) · · Score: 0

    No it isn't! Where do you get this stuff? The divide has been growing since the 60's, specifically, because the left has become more and more radical, and ever more willing to toss the constitution, or at least only use it when it suits their purposes, and ignore it when it doesn't. The rule of law is the latest casualty, with US Congresspeople explicitly calling for harassment of anyone that disagrees with them, and the desire for completely unlimited and uncontrolled illegal immigration.

  21. Re:I fully agree on Popular Mechanics Defends Elon Musk -- While He Tweets About Fortnite (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    So, we are supposed to overlook the fact that he committed securities fraud, just because you like him? Did you have the same opinion of the people at Enron? Would you have the same opinion if you found out tomorrow Trump did it?

            The entire point of the law is that is applies equally to everyone, no matter how cool their cars are. You can't just overlook violations depending how you happen to feel about them, and neither do you want that to happen if you are under the gun, either.

  22. Re:So many underlying presumptions on Sentimental Humans Launch A Movement to Save (Human) Driving (freep.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Right. The parent summary is a typical smug fanboi screed mocking anyone who doesn't see it his way. I am virtually certain that he has *no experience whatsoever" about AI or autonomous systems (which have been around a lot longer than the last few years in some fields of endeavor - like maybe 40 years before it became a cause célÃbre - in more life-critical situations that driving on the public roads). If he did, he would know that what he assumed was utter nonsense.

  23. Re:Audio distortion on Winamp 5.8, the First Update In 4 Years, Is Released (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Why not just make it louder, but still 100%?

  24. They are going to do this about the time of the Chinese mission to teleport to the Sun (at night, of course). Absurd, technically.

            In any case, street lights are far more practical, and even a moonlight tower is perfectly practical for mostly the same effect - but less so than street lights.

  25. Re:First Desponders on Amazon Worker Pushes Bezos To Stop Selling Facial Recognition Tech To Police (thehill.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    What kind of a psychopath are we raising in this country, who sits on his dead ass making computer posts, in nearly perfect safety and security, and calling the people in the front lines making it that way a "bad cop"?