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  1. A lot of modern engineering involves programming on Should Programmers Be Called Engineers? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    In most energy and manufacturing systems, there is a control level, which is, to put it frankly: programming.

    I think the problem is that is it Professional Engineering?

    When 50 percent of Computer Engineering grads can't get a system up and running from scratch, that's a good question.

    However, we've also learned that all the credentials testing in programming tends to churn out people who can't code their way out of a paper bag, too.

    I'm wary of attempts to further restrict who is called a Computer Engineer, given that.

  2. Solution: dissolve Comcast on Comcast Expanding Data Cap Locations, Training Reps To Avoid Subject (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Revoke their charter.

    Problem solved.

  3. Re:Plastics tend to be toxic to fish on 3D Printed Objects Found Toxic To Fish Embryos (universityofcalifornia.edu) · · Score: 1

    I think we're running 18 pct for the first batch, but they are flexible and the entire grid won't die if just one cell goes. Economies of scale and cost/yield still being worked on. I got to hold one in my hand last week.

    Not sure how much the inputs for the compostable 3D bioprinter are, or for the surgical bioorgan printer are. We tend to use off the shelf things a lot, drops costs, makes parts easier to find.

  4. Plastics tend to be toxic to fish on 3D Printed Objects Found Toxic To Fish Embryos (universityofcalifornia.edu) · · Score: 1

    However, there are 3D printers working here at the UW which can bioprint solar cells on flexible film, and ones that can even bioprint compostable furniture NOT USING PLASTICS.

    Plastics are a transitory thing, in terms of what can be printed. Eventually, just as we can 3D print organs, we will do the same and move off plastics.

  5. Re:The TPP is Unconstitutional on the face of it on Full Text of Trans-Pacific Partnership Released (Officially, This Time) (mfat.govt.nz) · · Score: 1

    It's searchable online. I'm not going to do your work for you.

  6. Have to agree, same as HDMI1/2/3 on Google Engineer Warns Against Perils of Buying Cheap, Third-Party USB-C Cables (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    A long while back, when I was a systems integrator, we had problems with customers buying residential modems and low grade cables, and then getting voltage problems. Proper RFI grounded systems with commercial grade cables solved all of the issues.

    Don't cut costs on things that are going to be in use for a decade, it almost always backfires.

  7. Re:Personal experience says no headphones on Ask Slashdot: Smart Electronics For a Marathoner? · · Score: 1

    dead people don't post.

    your sample is biased towards people who haven't been killed while wearing headphones.

  8. Re:Remember Trump and Sanders (protectionism) on Full Text of Trans-Pacific Partnership Released (Officially, This Time) (mfat.govt.nz) · · Score: 1

    Not really. If the things being traded are Intellectual Property, and the deal is to extend drug patents, which expired quickly in most of the TPP area allowing cheap generics, then protectionism means 2000 percent drug price increases vaporize.

    net gain.

    And how much is my IP in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the US (where I have been published and sold services too) diminished when we all know half of the Japanese, South Korean, Australian, Kiwi, and Chinese markets are full of pirated IP anyway, none of which will change under this fake treaty?

  9. The TPP is Unconstitutional on the face of it on Full Text of Trans-Pacific Partnership Released (Officially, This Time) (mfat.govt.nz) · · Score: 1

    For example, it unconstitutionally signs away Rights guaranteed in the Canadian Constitution in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

    Which is not possible.

    No treaty or act of parliament can do that.

    Period.

    And it scr3ws US people too, but they're sheep.

  10. Re:Personal experience says no headphones on Ask Slashdot: Smart Electronics For a Marathoner? · · Score: 2

    Then you're made of weaker stuff than most successful marathoners are. Headphones == Death.

  11. Re:Hey runners! on Ask Slashdot: Smart Electronics For a Marathoner? · · Score: 1

    That's why it's a good idea to get a blinky light to hang on the headphones you hang around your neck, so the cyclists don't hit you when running.

    The bike path is softer than the too hard sidewalks, as any decent runner knows.

  12. Re:Pussy! on Ask Slashdot: Smart Electronics For a Marathoner? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I ran marathons back in the 80s and didn't have any iPod, fancy watch, etc. Just do it!

    And get off my lawn!!!

    You young whipper snapper! I started in the 70s, and we had to build our own electronics, which we didn't use, because real marathoners go electronics free!

  13. Personal experience says no headphones on Ask Slashdot: Smart Electronics For a Marathoner? · · Score: 1

    I actually preferred an old Timex watch with a stop/start button myself, since I already had measured the distances by car, and used to run along arterials and rural highways.

    Wearing a headphone for music can get you killed. I used to opt for hanging light headphones around my neck during training, but during an actual marathon I would go electronics free. If you're at all a decent runner, you may not be in a pack, and a car can ruin your day (and your life).

  14. Seems to work fairly well on Firefox 42 Arrives With Tracking Protection, Tab Audio Indicators · · Score: 1

    Surprisingly fairly easy to use the new No Tracking windows.

    That given, I should warn you that your actual keyboard, mouse controller, and CPU GPU are all directly accessible by the NSA GCHQ CSES and all the other p3rvs.

  15. Re:About time they manned up on SXSW Reinstates Panels On Harassment, Adds All-Day Harassment Summit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, this:

    those of us who created the whole gaming industry in the first place

    is the most hilarious thing I've read on here all day. You did no such thing. Get over yourself.

    Try reading some of the historical posts at EFF sometime, and realize I'm one of the guys from the first WorldCon gaming panels, if you haven't edited your Wiki to ignore that basic fact.

    You're playing in my sandbox. And that includes the Internet, before we let you children in.

  16. Re:Let me follow the logic on SXSW Reinstates Panels On Harassment, Adds All-Day Harassment Summit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Appealing to laws lobbied for by SJWs is circular reasoning. Also, just because it's the law does not make it a fact.

    Aww is baby upset that terrorism is called just that?

    Maybe post as a non-AC sometime.

    I'll be over here watching you cowering in the closet, railing against the mean nasty SJWs who are p0wning you.

  17. Re:What happened to SXSW on SXSW Reinstates Panels On Harassment, Adds All-Day Harassment Summit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    The cash money from actually selling music is way way down, because you make most of your money from music by selling actual CDs and band merch at actual music events, not from having millions of people download it for free.

    And one of the best ways to sell music is in games, where it is used for soundtracks and episodic transition clips.

    Puking is just a side benefit.

    The problem is that online harassment, while illegal in the EU and Canada, and by extension of the Data Treaties the US signed for all citizens of those countries resident in the US, or playing US games, or selling their games to US customers, is a negative for the majority of gamers, who actually happen to be women (current metrics).

    A friend of mine in Mountain View CA has to use voice mods so other players don't realize she's an attractive young woman who is a gamer, for example. When she's let that be known, people stalk and harass her. Unfortunately for her, she's just an American, so she doesn't have those treaty rights.

  18. Re:Let me follow the logic on SXSW Reinstates Panels On Harassment, Adds All-Day Harassment Summit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Actually, criticism online in certain ways is in fact a Chargeable Offense in Canada and the EU, and if used against any EU or Canadian citizens in the US is a violation of their rights.

    Hey, the US didn't have to sign those Data Treaties.

    But they did.

  19. Re:Let me follow the logic (SJW) on SXSW Reinstates Panels On Harassment, Adds All-Day Harassment Summit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Ding, I just leveled up as a SJW when you gave me that acheivement.

    (character dances on leveling)

  20. About time they manned up on SXSW Reinstates Panels On Harassment, Adds All-Day Harassment Summit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    But this makes me sad I used my 5 mod points today on other threads.

    That said, it's frustrating for those of us who created the whole gaming industry in the first place, to see all the qualified women gamers and game designers still struggling with this kind of thing. I can't tell you how many young women have to deal with this, when they shouldn't have to.

    It matter not Why, only that it is still happening.

  21. CBC has a video on how to turn off FB history on UK Plans To Allow Warrantless Searches of Internet History (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Apparently, at year end, Facebook will be automatically sharing all of your old posts to anyone using a search engine, no matter how they were posted, unless you go into FB options for security and change Privacy for all old posts to Friends Only instead of Public. You might also want to look at what FB thinks your history is and delete things like pics you don't want shared.

  22. This will end very badly on China Ends One-Child Policy · · Score: 1

    Guess the aging party leaders wanted more child brides

  23. Just like the Russian and Chinese subs lurking off the data cables.

    Totally.

    That said, it's not like the US complies either.

  24. Why people don't play MMORPGs on SXSW Cancels Panels On Harassment Due To Harassment (sxsw.com) · · Score: 1

    All the griefers, trash talkers, and gamer gaters out there.

    Very sad, since I helped create this industry in the first place.

    SXSW needs to man up and hold the panel anyway.

  25. Sheep. You're all Sheep. (yes I know) on US Senate Passes the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act 74-21 (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Baaaa!

    Seriously, I know there's that guy who posts that on every thread, but today it's true.

    You're all sheep.

    And you don't live in a Democracy.

    You don't even live in a Democratic Republic.

    In a Democratic Republic you have Rights.

    You only have serfdom.

    And no privacy.