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  1. Re:Market Saturation on Ask Slashdot: Why So Hard Landing Interviews In Seattle Versus SoCal? · · Score: 1

    Or it could just be numbers, as in population.

    Seattle: 650k

    Los Angeles: 3.9M

    Good point. Maybe he's trying to get away from the very long commutes they have in Southern California?

  2. Re:We don't need you - go away on Ask Slashdot: Why So Hard Landing Interviews In Seattle Versus SoCal? · · Score: 2

    he was asking about Seattle. I was trying to be informative - overdressing for interviews here is a no-no

  3. Re:They will, without a doubt, die... on Thieves Who Stole Cobalt-60 Will Soon Be Dead · · Score: 1

    or gain superpowers.

    someone has to fight the giant mutant seagulls

  4. that was what they said about the seagulls on Thieves Who Stole Cobalt-60 Will Soon Be Dead · · Score: 1

    but recently there have been lots of Giant Mutant Seagulls cropping up in all the traffic video cameras in Seattle recently. ... maybe they're hungry?

  5. Re:It's you. on Ask Slashdot: Why So Hard Landing Interviews In Seattle Versus SoCal? · · Score: 2

    You're from California. That's the problem.

    He's right.

  6. We don't need you - go away on Ask Slashdot: Why So Hard Landing Interviews In Seattle Versus SoCal? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but we have lots of highly-educated people here already.

    Stay where you are.

    Oh, and stop overdressing - you just look awkward.

  7. As someone going for a PhD in CEE on Why Engineers Must Consider the Ethical Implications of Their Work · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As someone going for a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering, my basic response to Mr. El-Zein is ...

    Sod off.

    Now stop thinking that the world needs to fix the Middle East or care about your "problems".

    Oil is over. Nobody cares about you anymore.

  8. Welcome to Stasi Amerikkka on Gov't Puts Witness On No Fly List, Then Denies Having Done So · · Score: 1

    All your rights are free, but you're not permitted to have either Rights or Freedoms.

  9. There is no such thing as security on In Letter To 20 Automakers, Senator Demands Answers On Cybersecurity · · Score: 1

    Now, here's a spoon.

  10. This is really stupid MSM reaction on Fearing Government Surveillance, US Journalists Are Self-Censoring · · Score: 1

    We were spying on you since at least the early 80s.

    We just never told you.

    Nothing changed.

  11. Re:Pros vs Cons - chases not cost effective on RF Safe-Stop Shuts Down Car Engines With Radio Pulse · · Score: 1

    Depends on the state or "district" and the legal structure.

    In Washington State, yes, but you can't track GPS or other info without a warrant anyway, so if you don't have one, you're not going to do this.

    If a terrorist or near a border there are other exceptions, and a lot of the "dark" networks they say are turned off get turned on when needed.

    You must live in a crowded part of the country - here there are only so many exits people can take - fairly easy to not chase people without risk.

  12. Re:Pros vs Cons - chases not cost effective on RF Safe-Stop Shuts Down Car Engines With Radio Pulse · · Score: 1

    So total bullshit. Got it. Cites or go home.

    See one of the other responses which did have access to such catalogs.

    Get a job.

  13. Re:Median or Mean is not the Individual on The Brains of Men and Women Are 'Wired Differently' · · Score: 1

    You can disagree all you want but my statement is correct. It's also correct in regards to the meaningless noise characteristics you call "race".

    The difference between two unique individual humans who are not siblings or parent/child is greater than the difference between the statistical median or mean of women and the statistical median or mean of men.

    It doesn't matter if you don't like it, it's a fact.

  14. Re:Pros vs Cons - chases not cost effective on RF Safe-Stop Shuts Down Car Engines With Radio Pulse · · Score: 1

    That was under good conditions. It is a good idea but not very practical.

    Didn't say they weren't without flaws. The best GPS tags are placed, not shot. Shooting them is not needed when it's a recent model car - those have tracking in them already. Also license plate trackers and other ident software on most major urban arterials and most freeways.

  15. Re:Median or Mean is not the Individual on The Brains of Men and Women Are 'Wired Differently' · · Score: 1

    You're confusing many things - training, better helmets, better equipment - with biology.

    I stand by my correct statement.

  16. Re:Median or Mean is not the Individual on The Brains of Men and Women Are 'Wired Differently' · · Score: 1

    sorry, but I actually do know that. I used to work in Biochem as a research assistant and am a data manager in alzheimer's disease research in the department of medicine.

    Facts are facts.

  17. Re:The problem is overuse of antibiotics on Crowdsourcing the Discovery of New Antibiotics · · Score: 1

    No, that's what we said with malaria. With malaria we had no drugs for 40 years AND no effective programs. Some of us worked on malarial drugs, some of us worked on the other parts.

    With antibiotics the MAIN problem is overuse of antibiotics. This creates the resistant strains and makes any drug discovery mostly a waste of time.

  18. Re:Women in STEM on The Brains of Men and Women Are 'Wired Differently' · · Score: 1

    I did not say that. I'm just saying what I'm saying.

    Stop trying to turn my words into something that backs up your personal choices.

  19. Re:Women in STEM on The Brains of Men and Women Are 'Wired Differently' · · Score: 1

    Yes it's gone up quite a bit - the last two years have seen a sharp jump in undergrad female engineers. Just look at pics from our last two engineering days. They should still be online.

  20. Re:Pros vs Cons - chases not cost effective on RF Safe-Stop Shuts Down Car Engines With Radio Pulse · · Score: 1

    I can't help that you're not supposed to be able to browse things only government LEO forces are supposed to browse.

  21. Re:Women in STEM on The Brains of Men and Women Are 'Wired Differently' · · Score: 1

    Actually, I think some of the "sterotypically male" STEM fields here at the UW have more women than men in them - both at the undergrad and graduate level.

    2014 is coming whether 2000 wants it to come or not. Adapt or die.

  22. Re:Women in STEM on The Brains of Men and Women Are 'Wired Differently' · · Score: 1

    Which is why we have so many top ranked women going into STEM fields here at the UW. People who want to become engineers or work in genetics want to do that.

    Putting artificial barriers in their way by saying "women should not be engineers or do science" is the wrong message.

  23. Median or Mean is not the Individual on The Brains of Men and Women Are 'Wired Differently' · · Score: 4, Informative

    The problem when discussing gender differences is that there is no stereotypical male or stereotypical female.

    The difference in genetic makeup between the average male and the average female is LESS than the difference between one individual and another individual.

    Trying to create more "gender ghettos" is the wrong response. Here at the UW there are many women engineers and scientists, and not in the fields old fogies think they "should" be in.

    We are all individuals. How we use what we have differs, but that doesn't make it "better".

    It's like a study on Mergers and Aquisitions reported today saying boards with only one female member were less likely to do a merger than boards with all male members - the problem is that mergers are usually a bad idea for shareholder value in the first place.

  24. Re:Pros vs Cons - chases not cost effective on RF Safe-Stop Shuts Down Car Engines With Radio Pulse · · Score: 1

    there are launch devices. you can find them in any LEO product catalog.

  25. Re:Pros vs Cons - chases not cost effective on RF Safe-Stop Shuts Down Car Engines With Radio Pulse · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Why bother chasing when it's easier to trace them (a limpet GPS tracker works fine) and set up roadblocks?