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  1. "California Space Force"

  2. Re:Something worth keeping in mind! on Research Proving People Don't RTFM, Resent 'Over-Featured' Products, Wins Ig Nobel Prize (improbable.com) · · Score: 1

    [Cleaned up version] was about 1/4 of the original. People still didn't read it.

    Amen! I've had the same experience. Next I'll try pop-up manuals with bears and Power Rangers.

  3. Blamenomics on Quantum Experiment Confirms Causality Is Fuzzy (physicsworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Politicians will use this to blame recessions on their successors instead of predecessors.

  4. Vous floppez et rebondissez comme un poisson attrapé.

  5. We have jokes about killing lawyers going back to Shakespeare.

    T's jokes were not about killing persons of a profession, it was about killing Hillary, an individual, egging on a cheering crowd (of nuts of your caliber).

    You are really stretching; and this should be obvious to readers (if any left).

  6. what is left?

    Multiple kinds of evidence: witnesses, forensics, detective work. It's not cheap, but it never has been.

  7. So you are claiming murder is a less serious crime than pedophilia? Where's your scoring chart?

    Are the Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts of America Republican? Oh, they aren't. Do republicans defend pedophilia within those institutions? Oh, they don't.

    They lean conservative. Similarly, while "Hollywood" may lean progressive, they are not a direct progressive institution. I'm using your own logic against your argument.

    I'm sorry you're too stupid to read beyond a 5th grade level.

    You write poorly, Foxtard.

    It's not "PC" to be against fucking kids, phony "jokes" or otherwise.

    Are jokes about murdering your political opponent acceptable "non PC"? Where's your scoring chart?

  8. Trump did amounts to "joking", over and over again, about how he likes to rape kids.

    Why only consider ONE sin? He joked about shooting Hillary twice. Are murder jokes less sinful than pedo jokes? Fox Sin Math?

    Oh, speaking of Hastert. Guess who he was friends with? The Podestas. Guess what kind of art Tony Podesta likes to keep in his home?

    Then I'll bring up Catholic Church and Boy Scouts of America. Is this a "your pedos out-pedo my pedos" contest??? Get a real hobby.

    Your last sentence makes no sense. Have you been getting smashed with Yoda at the bar again?

  9. Same as it ever was on US Lawmakers Say AI Deepfakes 'Have the Potential To Disrupt Every Facet of Our Society' (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Photos use to be considered "strong evidence", then Photoshop etc. came along to make doctoring cheap and common, and people stopped trusting photos. The same will happen to audio and video once they see enough fudged examples.

  10. Why don't you don't write them down side-by-side for comparison, then?

    If one pits the entirety of T's shameful statements against him, not just about his daughters, seems about EVEN to me. They both say very offensive crap.

    People like James Gunn don't occur in a vacuum. There's a culture in Pedowood.

    Dennis Hastert and his GOP Hush Buddies must be part of that.

    You're equating being against the normalization of pedophilia and not buying the "just jokes!" when a man repeatedly "jokes" about how he likes to rape kids in Pedowood as "PC"? Looks like you're a scumbag to me.

    I didn't say he wasn't a scumbag. You are putting words in my mouth. (Both he and T are scumbags.) I'm only saying you are a hypocrite about PC. That's a diff subject than how evil Gunn is.

  11. Trump thinks

    That's your first lie here. You are inventing mind-reading transcripts. Fake News.

    And that's not the only thing he's said and done regarding his daughters.

  12. I personally find T's statements about his daughters similarly disturbing. Perhaps you judge it differently, so be it.

    Further, there's no evidence Disney knew about Gunn's worse tweets. You can fault Disney for not vetting well, but that's a different "sin". You don't appear to be thinking this through.

    Further, I thought T's big thing was anti-PC, whereby people can say what they are thinking and joke around without being punished or shunned because of it. So now PC is back? Looks like hypocrisy to me.

  13. #2 is cheaper on Slashdot Asks: What Book(s) Are You Reading This Month? · · Score: 1

    I'm considering "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" by Michael Wolff. It's discounted now that the Bob Woodward book is out. Wolff is the "poor man's Woodward".

    And I just finished "Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist" by Roger Lowenstein. It's a decade old, so also a bargain. (Get the "new afterward" edition.)

    What I found fascinating is that the investment business has just as much Dilbertian bullsh8t and wasteful fads as software engineering. We are not alone: the grass ain't greener over there. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but reading about specific examples on the investment side gave it legs. Buffet got rich mostly be ignoring bullsh8t and sticking to long-proven principles and logic.

    Although his keen memory is an admitted advantage, he insists that "regular people" can do almost as well as he did with some basic business education, common sense, patience, and a little discipline. Academics mostly ignore him because his process is too simple: you can't sell expensive books and courses on too simple a formula. So they often claim he cheats by using insider knowledge; an unproven allegation.

  14. And his "jokes" amounted to, "Hey guys, I like to fuck kids!" over and over again. Strange that Disney would give him a premium job after that. It's almost like pedo signaling is considered a virtue in Hollywood....Why is creepy Joe Biden

    T has made similar statements and gestures regarding his own daughters. You you are being a cherry-picking hypocrite. I caught you. Cure your bias and shape up.

  15. Get off my simulated lawn! on How the Weather Channel Made That Insane Hurricane Florence Storm Surge Animation (wired.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You have to hand it to the people who made similar analog effects back in the "old days". Scissors, mirrors, paints, and lots of late nights in the dark-room.

  16. Not "innovation" on New iPhones, new Galaxies: Who's the Bigger Copycat? (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    "Innovation" is too strong a word for many of these features. "Market testing" may be a better word: who market-tested them in practice first. For example, "slow motion" existed on analog cameras and projectors before electronic computers even existed. (And on dedicated digital cameras.) Implementing it in a smart-phone may be a lot of detail-oriented programming to get the necessary processing efficiency, but it doesn't take a breakthrough: any competent programmer with sufficient time can implement it.

    The issue is it's hard to know what will resonate with consumers. The article lists some "failed" features as examples. A daft company will happily let competitors make their costumers be the guinea pigs if either the implementation is expensive or if their own market specialists estimate the demand for the feature is too weak or too hard to gauge.

    Smart businesses dump marketing risk and cost onto others. Microsoft was a master of that, not just by "stealing", but often by purchasing small companies with a trending product. It's why Gates is one of the richest persons in the world.

  17. corrections, and biz [Re:I don't get it] on Leaked Video Shows Google Executives' Candid Reaction To Trump Victory (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Corrections:

    1. "is own agenda" should be "his own agenda".

    2. "representatives of all the of the right" should be "representatives of all of the right".

    I'd like to also point out GOP in general is in favor of illegal immigration because businesses want cheaper labor, and business donates campaign funds to the GOP in order to keep it flowing. GOP gives the issue lip service in front of its non-business base, but otherwise has demurred when it had a chance to change it multiple times. Reducing illegals correctly* would probably also require inspecting business payrolls, which businesses don't want. Most businesses want an "easy supply" of workers and lobby with deep pockets to get such.

    You sound like a one-issue voter such that illegal immigration trumps Trump's many other downsides in your mind, including his rudeness to our long-time allies.

    * A wall is not enough even if it worked (or was more cost effective than spending the money instead on more border guards, which Democrats have usually been in favor of.)

  18. Re:But Americans have the best lawyers on China Now the Most Prolific Contributor To Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Math (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The culture is different in China such that they use lawsuits less often to solve disputes. Debate about whether that's good or bad is rather involved.

  19. They didn't address illegal immigration in that video, nor balkanization. T is "solving" illegal immigration wrong anyhow, but that's another long discussion. He's too incompetent to implement is own agenda.

    and the normalization of pedophilia.

    You are full of stuff. Fox and Rush take a few loonies and paint them as representatives. It would be like NBC claiming that the KKK are representatives of all the of the right.

  20. Re: "Waste" versus "experiment" on Is Apple's 3D Touch a 'Huge Waste' of Engineering Talent? · · Score: 1

    just Marketing strategy to push ppl to buy the XS instead of XR.

    There are some potentially interesting uses for it shown in this video.

    Apparently not enough people actually used 3DT, perhaps because as the video hints, it's not intuitive. You have to see videos pretty much to know when and where to use it.

  21. Re: "Waste" versus "experiment" on Is Apple's 3D Touch a 'Huge Waste' of Engineering Talent? · · Score: 1

    T is one hell of an experiment

  22. "Waste" versus "experiment" on Is Apple's 3D Touch a 'Huge Waste' of Engineering Talent? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sometimes you just have to try an idea to see if it's practical, and see what software developers do it with. Being on the cutting edge means the idea may just flub out.

  23. Re:what about when the south park writers shit the on Leaked Video Shows Google Executives' Candid Reaction To Trump Victory (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    what a gold mine a Trump presidency means for the comedy industry.

    MALA!

  24. I don't get it on Leaked Video Shows Google Executives' Candid Reaction To Trump Victory (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    T is a rude arrogant narcissist (among other things) to a degree that overwhelms his party affiliation. Why the hell should anyone expect people to be happy about such as a President?

  25. Re:Power corrupts on Replace 'Tech' With 'Banks,' and We've Seen a Big Comeuppance Before (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Power doesn't always corrupt

    I had agreed there were rare exceptions.

    Who ensures that the folks at the top of the power chain properly adhere to the checks and balances? Who defines the proper balance?

    Hopefully voters. Democracies can crash on themselves when one large party or group is okay with destroying checks-and-balances in order to get more power NOW, downplaying the future side-effects. It's sort of collective anarchy.

    China did away with their limited C&B by making Xi the supreme ruler. I'll bet someday they'll regret it. There was a reasons they had it that way.