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  1. Re: The world is not a static system on One-Degree Rise In Temperature Causes Ripple Effect In World's Largest High Arctic Lake (folio.ca) · · Score: 1

    Weird, the climate scientists I know, and all the literature I've read indicates that satellite data is in line with predictions.

    Raw data or the 'cleaned up' data? I'm guessing the latter, not the former.

  2. Re: So the minority has been converted to renewabl on All Apple Operations Now Run Off 100 Percent Renewable Energy (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple has enough money to power their factories with unicorn pelts if they chose to, but they instead rely on off shore factories that run on coal...

  3. Re: No they don't. on All Apple Operations Now Run Off 100 Percent Renewable Energy (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    They buy offsets, or as the Catholic Church used to call them, indulgences.

  4. Re: Yeah right. on All Apple Operations Now Run Off 100 Percent Renewable Energy (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    They buy offsets and use power generated locally by conventional means.

  5. Re: Come join me in the Swamp on All Apple Operations Now Run Off 100 Percent Renewable Energy (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow, did you notice that the warrant was for something unrelated to, but uncovered during, Mueller's investigation.

    Still no evidence of collusion with Russia, or are we to believe Mueller has evidence of collusion, but none of the Hillary donors working on the investigation has leaked it?

    This seems to be an investigation into trump's personal attorney giving $130K to a stripper to keep quiet - you know, kinda like how Terry McCaullif gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to Andrew McCabe's wife's campaign when she ran for office while McCabe was investigating HRC's private email server - pure coincidence, nothing more.

  6. Re: Student knows best on Ask Slashdot: Should Coding Exams Be Given on Paper? · · Score: 2

    Learned orofessional coding technique using coding forms handed to keypunch operators and getting three compiles a day - morning, afternoon and overnight.

  7. Re: Comp Sci on Ask Slashdot: Should Coding Exams Be Given on Paper? · · Score: 1

    Curious about this logic of allowing/using pseudo code in exams - does English department allow 'pseudo-english'? Is punctuation not important in coding anymore? (it was when I coded on mainframes in the 90's.)

  8. Re: Comp Sci on Ask Slashdot: Should Coding Exams Be Given on Paper? · · Score: 2

    How does English department administer exams, on word processors or paper and pen/cil?

    Does English department expect students to properly punctuate their twisting, or are they allowed to answer questions in pseudo-English?

    Making the test-taking process 'easier' isn't the issue, measuring a student's grasp of the material is.

    When I took programming classes in high school, our exams were on paper and pencil, but were open book - my instructor felt that since you would have access to manuals if working as a programmer, it was non-sensical to not allow access during the exam.

  9. Re: Comp Sci on Ask Slashdot: Should Coding Exams Be Given on Paper? · · Score: 1

    You have, what we used to call, a disability, one which can be accommodated in any number of ways. The average student does not have a disability, and is able to do their exam work in any number of subjects on paper and pen/cil.

    The comp sci teacher should offer you the same accommodations your Psych 101, English Lit 101, and other teachers offer - nothing more.

  10. It's, like, 2018 - come on! on Ask Slashdot: Should Coding Exams Be Given on Paper? · · Score: 1

    Why not head over to their departments in your university and see how those degree candidates write up their exams:

    English Litrrature - paper
    Physics - paper
    Chemistry - paper
    Math - paper
    Psychology - paper
    Astronomy - paper
    Biology - paper
    Etc.

    Why is Comp Sci different?

  11. Re: Amazingly bad publicity? on Three Execs Get Prison Time For Pirating Oracle Firmware & Solaris OS Update (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Your littlr story is cute, but has nothing to do with the crime comitted.

    The company in question took Sun/Oracle updates that require customers to pay Sun/Oracle for and SOLD them to hundreds of clients as if they were selling legal copies bought from Sun/oracle.

    Kinda like walking into a record store and buying records pressed while-you-wait from bootlegs.

    I can't wait to hear what Oracle does to all the company's clients without support contracts.

  12. Re:I wish Obama hadn't approved him on The FCC Is Refusing To Release Emails About Ajit Pai's 'Harlem Shake' Video (vice.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Obama made him part of the commission but it took a Trump to make him chairman.

    Don't be so modest, without Hillary as his opponent, we wouldn't have gotten Trump as President.

  13. Re:I wish Obama hadn't approved him on The FCC Is Refusing To Release Emails About Ajit Pai's 'Harlem Shake' Video (vice.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You excuse his approval of Pai because Obama had no choice? He could have refused and told Republicans to nominate another candidate - he chose not to, so he chose to accept Pai.

  14. The actual letter on The FCC Is Refusing To Release Emails About Ajit Pai's 'Harlem Shake' Video (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Did MuckRake file a similar FOIA request to find out who thought it was a good idea for the President to take time out of his schedule and make a video of his March Madness bracket? Or who thought it was a good idea to dress up a group of hospital administrators in lab costs for a presidential press conference about PPACA?

    I'm sure they did - since the issue is government waste, not petty party politics, right?

  15. Re:Because we don't want a hostile foreign power on More Evidence Ties Alleged DNC Hacker Guccifer 2.0 To Russian Intelligence (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Hilary was already investigated. For years, and nothing.

    Then-FBI Director Comey didn't say Hillary had committed no crimes, he said "no prosecutor would likely bring charges" - that's not quite the exoneration you pretend it is, and it is subject to change when you get a new set of prosecutors.

  16. Re:Because we don't want a hostile foreign power on More Evidence Ties Alleged DNC Hacker Guccifer 2.0 To Russian Intelligence (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Yet for some reason, they aren't able to indict this person that is apparently the biggest criminal of the last 50 years?

    Hillary isn't "free" until the statute of limitations runs out.

    The Justice Department Inspector General is currently reviewing the previous investigation, and if irregularities are found, the investigation will be re-opened - the report should be out this spring.

    As a reminder, these things take time - how long has Mueller been investigating "collusion" between Trump campaign and Russians? Despite one prominent CA Congressman reporting he has seen "more than circumstantial" evidence of collusion for over a year, none has come forward yet...

  17. Generate Verge Cryptocurrency Out of Thin Air on Hacker Uses Exploit To Generate Verge Cryptocurrency Out of Thin Air (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Which cryptocurrency isn't generated out of "Thin Air"?

  18. Re: They do start fights, and they create despots on Google Workers Urge CEO To Pull Out of Pentagon AI Project (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Japan was already willing to make peace, as their cities had already been reduced to rubble by conventional bombing.

    The U.S. Demanded something more than "make peace", we sought, and secured, unconditional surrender of Japan - Japan wanted a time-out to re-arm.

    At the end of WW2, before their unconditional surrender, Japan resorted to arming grandmothers with pitchforks, and using pilots in suicide missions, and soldiers in the field were blowing themselves up to avoid surrendering to US forces. The Japanese were not willing to surrender, they were willing to stop being killed.

    Where was the Japanese offer of unconditional surrender before hiroshima?

  19. Re: Here's an idea... on Google Workers Urge CEO To Pull Out of Pentagon AI Project (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Except they won't resign. The reason they signed the letter is to take the place of them actually resigning.

    They arrogantly simultaneously believe that Google can't function without them and that only Google can do the work requested by the military, therefore if they can prevent goog or from doing the work they can save the world from more accurate bombs AND keep their six-figure paychevks, win-win!

  20. Re: Killing is evil. on Google Workers Urge CEO To Pull Out of Pentagon AI Project (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Like norway, where a mass murderer gets 15 years for killing dozens of children at a summer camp?

  21. Re: Business as usual on Google Workers Urge CEO To Pull Out of Pentagon AI Project (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The googl E employees are 'good people's if and only if they actually resign their jobs if Google doesn't capitulate to their demands, otherwise they are toothless SJW who put the appearance of seeming virtuous ahead of actually being virtuous.

  22. Re: Business as usual on Google Workers Urge CEO To Pull Out of Pentagon AI Project (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The USA is not involved in any defensive wars right now

    Points to the southern border of the US...

    there is no reason to support an active military during what should be a time of peace.

    not

    Right, because we can spin-up any appropriate size military response in a moment's notice when under attack, right? That's like saying there's no need to invest and maintain a backup datacenter to support your corporation when there's no emergency - just keep a Sunguard brochure in your top desk drawer and when disaster strikes, just call them up and order up a backup datacenter solution when you need it.

    SMH

  23. Re: Business as usual on Google Workers Urge CEO To Pull Out of Pentagon AI Project (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Please, stop with the "Russians threw the election" meme.

    Can't you admit that:

    A) Hillary tried a new kind of campaign
    B) Hillary already lost one presidential campaign
    C) Hillary was a horrible 'retail' candidate
    D) Hillary prioritized fundraising over visiting several states in general campaign
    E) Hillary was under active investigation personally during campaign for previous bad choices
    F) Hillary faced a strong anti-Hillary headwind from her 30 years in the public eye

    But instead you discount all that and argue that a few thousand dollars in Facebook ads and some make-up social media stories gave trump the Presidency?

    Honestly, if that's all it took to beat her billion dollar campaign, she was a lousy candidate and deserved to lose.

  24. Re: Ahem, Swiss Neutrality on Google Workers Urge CEO To Pull Out of Pentagon AI Project (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Seemed to work for Switzerland during the World Wars, you seem to be ignorant of them "not playing".

    Until they are forced to play - do you imagine, for even a second, if Germany had won WW2 that the concluding Nazis would have respected Switzerland's neutrality and been content with controlling nearly all of europe? To the Nazis, I imagine, leaving Switzerland alone was a calculated decision to save them for last, since they posed no threat to the nazis, why waste energy engaging them early in the battle?

  25. The engineers have a choice on Google Workers Urge CEO To Pull Out of Pentagon AI Project (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If the prospect of working for a company engaged in some activity that they find offensive, then they can leave that employer.