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  1. Re:Consider the source... on Top Cyber Attack Vectors For Critical SAP Systems · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well, to be honest, if you work with SAP everyday you can' t help but realize it sucks.

  2. Re:Laws that need to be made in secret on Extreme Secrecy Eroding Support For Trans-Pacific Partnership · · Score: 3, Interesting

    While this holds true for laws, international diplomacy is almost always made in secret. If you take secrecy away from diplomacy, everyone wants a voice, if you give everyone a voice, you end up with the UN. You can decide for yourself if that is more or less effective.

  3. Re:Enticing RSS on As Hubble Breaks a Distance Record, We Learn Its True Limits · · Score: 4, Funny

    Unfortunately for us, the God in question turns out to be Azathoth.

  4. Re:BIG ROUND NUMBERS!!! on The World's Most Wasteful Megacity · · Score: 1

    Fourth paragraph: "And just look at how much more waste New York creates, per capita, than any other leading megacity:", followed by a graph that is in absolute numbers, not per capita. This article is not starting out so well.

  5. Re:Poster sounds sympathetic, but sounds like thre on VA Tech Student Arrested For Posting Perceived Threat Via Yik Yak · · Score: 1

    The police are interested in anonymous tips insofar as they will keep your identity secret from others. If you call in warning about a bomb, they are damn sure going to want to find exactly what you know and why you know it. After they get that info, they very well might let you stay anonymous to the public.

  6. Re:SubjectsSuck on VA Tech Student Arrested For Posting Perceived Threat Via Yik Yak · · Score: 1

    I would say if you make a threat, which he did, and local law enforcement is forced to determine whether it is credible or not, you have already stepped outside of the bounds of free speech. Free speech most assuredly does not include threats.

  7. Re:Poster sounds sympathetic, but sounds like thre on VA Tech Student Arrested For Posting Perceived Threat Via Yik Yak · · Score: 2

    Are you, or the people you asked, from Virginia Tech or the Blacksburg area? Maybe that's why they don't know. At Virginia Tech, they would almost certainly know about it, seeing as how there is a yearly memorial service that was all of three weeks ago. Context matters. Let's say your mother was named Mrs. Ememisya If someone sent me a message with "Mrs. Ememisya is going to die tonight" it wouldn't mean jack shit to me, I don't know who they're talking about. To you it would rightfully be perceived as a threat.

  8. Re:Why would anyone start there? on How Silicon Valley Got That Way -- and Why It Will Continue To Rule · · Score: 1

    Clustering is a very real thing, especially when it comes to the very best workers. We are starting to see that in the DC area: For quite some time now, there have been a ton of tech workers for government and government contractors, but lately non-government related firms are starting to appear on the landscape, attracted to the amount of talent employed in the area. If you're building a tech startup, your number one priority isn't land, (you don't need it) it isn't taxes, (you aren't making money yet) it is top personnel, and it becomes much easier to go to them than have them come to you.

  9. Re:Remeber on How Silicon Valley Got That Way -- and Why It Will Continue To Rule · · Score: 1

    I think you are underestimating people's capacity to forget. Some of the same people who should remember "how things were" forget the salient details as they get older. A great example of this is the number of people who have forgotten how awful water and air quality was in America prior to intense government regulation, despite growing up with thick smog and polluted rivers.

  10. Re:I find it hilarious; Big Brother aspects less s on Microsoft's AI Judges Age From Snapshots, With Mixed Results · · Score: 1

    So we take something with the same success rate, and give it a veneer of science and technology?

  11. Re:Can he win? on Bernie Sanders, Presidential Candidate and H-1B Skeptic · · Score: 1

    What world are you living in where the bush presidency started in 2000? He took office in 2001.

  12. Re: Prefer support on Native Hawaiian Panel Withdraws Support For World's Largest Telescope · · Score: 1

    People keep saying this, but I can find no record of settlement previous to the Polynesians. So is there actually history behind this, or is this something you're making up to pretend like there's some kind of parity?

  13. Re:What about a bus? on New Study Suggests Flying Is Greener Than Driving · · Score: 1

    They do. They are saving the money they would need to purchase, house, insure, and maintain a separate fleet of vehicles, plus depreciation. They are also maintaining capacity in case of an unexpected surge, say a party or club letting out. Not to mention that the end of the route is not necessarily the bus depot, so switching to another vehicle involves more driving time where no fares are being collected. There are cases where using smaller vehicles makes sense, but on a more ad-hoc basis.

  14. Re:Here _I_ come? on US Successfully Tests Self-Steering Bullets · · Score: 1

    This is a ridiculous supposition. Criminals don't just magically get things due to their disdain for the law. If you choose not to follow the law, drugs and military contraband don't just appear in your presence, there has to be a supply. That supply is either bought or stolen or a mixture of the two. With no legal civilian supply of these bullets, anyone who wanted them illegally would be forced to steal them from the government, which is possible but difficult. This is why grenades aren't commonly used in street crime in the US, despite being relatively common worldwide - there is no civilian supply chain to siphon them off of, unlike handguns.

  15. Entirely disingenuous on Valve Pulls the Plug On Paid Mods For Skyrim · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm sorry, but the mental gymnastics to find a rationale of why this is bad are just a smokescreen to cover up the truth: People don't want to pay for things that they could once get for free. Nobody cares about mod developers, or the mod community, they just want free stuff. If I was a modder I'd remember this as the day that the rightsholders said "hey you deserve to make money off your work", and my alleged fans said "No."

  16. Re:Google Streams on Google Insiders Talk About Why Google+ Failed · · Score: 1

    This is pretty much what I was thinking (well not the piss part) - That Google has shown that they have no commitment to anything. Facebook is committed to Facebook because it's pretty much all they have, Google is a bored dilettante in comparison. The one demographic that has seen adoption to Google+ is businesses, and now Google is leaving them out to dry. It's getting very hard to put faith in any of their new projects, if they don't realize some grandiose version of "success" they just drop them.

  17. Covering sensitive, emotional topics is hard. on Africa E-Waste Dump Continues Hyperbole War · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Good thing we learned so much about the obligations of ethical reporting from the Rolling Stone debacle.

  18. Re:I guess he crossed the wrong people on Columbia University Doctors Ask For Dr. Mehmet Oz's Dismissal · · Score: 1

    Yes. but it's one reference that has literally no relevance to any other part. Every other thing mentioned has to do with medicine, and then one random point relating to agricultural science? It's like they threw in a bit relating to his views on the Keystone XL pipeline, why would you bring that up? It certainly has no bearing on his appointment, and it makes them look as though they have an another unspoken agenda.

    If it wasn't important to their argument, it shouldn't have been brought up.

  19. Re:...Wikipedia has "atrophied" since 2007... on How Many Hoaxes Are On Wikipedia? No One Knows · · Score: 1

    I guess nothing is reliable then, because we've pretty much had politics wrapped up in everything we've done since we left caves.

  20. Re:hillary haters are sad... on Hillary Clinton Declares 2016 Democratic Presidential Bid · · Score: 1

    Yes, you can see that in how nobody takes Germany seriously. /s

  21. Re:Hooray! on Hillary Clinton Declares 2016 Democratic Presidential Bid · · Score: 1

    You are really trying to pretend that there are no racists in the country who hate Obama for his skin tone? What part of the country do you live in, I'm excited to hear about this utopia. It's certainly not where I'm from.

  22. Re:Hell No Hillary on Hillary Clinton Declares 2016 Democratic Presidential Bid · · Score: 1

    The statistics you use are a little suspect, as the first ambassador killed in the line of duty was in 1950. Given that, using the founding as the total time for your average isn't really sensible.

    Your major point still stands, however, that embassy attacks are not unusual - since 1971 there has been on average a little less than one a year, it's just usually the casualties are absorbed by civilians and the security of the host nation so we don't pay as much attention.

  23. Re:Negotiation on Reddit CEO Ellen Pao Bans Salary Negotiations To Equalize Pay For Men, Women · · Score: 1

    I think you are confusing process and outcome. Just because you can negotiate doesn't mean that you are going to get what you want.

  24. Re:These days... on Reddit CEO Ellen Pao Bans Salary Negotiations To Equalize Pay For Men, Women · · Score: 0

    Someone mod this up

  25. This seems accurate. In my own personal experience, I've never actually negotiated after a formal offer, but prior to the offer there was a period of mutual discussion that generated the number on that offer. I wonder if in practice this is what they are talking about.