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  1. Re: Science! on A Call To RICO Climate Change Science Deniers · · Score: 2

    You keep saying that. So you admit that global warming is political, rather than scientific? Science doesn't "vote" on anything. As soon as you feel the need to get a bunch of yeas and nays, then you've eliminated science from the situation. Science comes up with theories and tests them. They can be tested repeatedly, and thought to be correct for decades, and then something else comes along and invalidates them completely. This has happened repeatedly, and no vote can counteract the truth.

    No. He is right. Science today is very political. Do you honestly think that there's a ton of evidence that dinosaurs are 65 million years old or that they are birds. No, these opinions exist because of popularity and literal votes. Not because of any additional evidence. There is almost no additional evidence now than when they were first proposed. The ideas have just become popularized and repeated. When Jurassic Park 3 (2001 - only 14 years ago) came out, everyone thought the bird theory was cuckoo. But then everyone saw the movie and changed their minds and it became popular and they voted for it.

    Seriously, you need to watch Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed to see what happens when your honest scientific experiment ends up on the wrong side of the politics of science.

  2. One upper on Crash Chrome With 16 Characters · · Score: 1

    I can do it in 15. ftp:// works too!

  3. Re: Plea agreement = legalized extortion on Bitcoin Trader Agrees To Work For Police In Plea Agreement · · Score: 0

    Not even when Aaron Swartz gets life thrown at him for making public domain documents public domain? And then kills himself because of it?

  4. What he should have asked... on Microsoft's Satya Nadella Shown Up By Confused Cortana Assistant · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "How do we stop screwing up the Windows 10 release?!"

  5. Re:The Milk Was Most At Risk on Microsoft's Satya Nadella Shown Up By Confused Cortana Assistant · · Score: 1

    CEOs.

  6. Re:Prima facie ridiculous on APIs, Not Apps: What the Future Will Be Like When Everyone Can Code · · Score: 1

    Nintendo just took down all the previous hobbyist videos where they were making levels with an engine unrelated to Nintendo.

  7. Re:Prima facie ridiculous on APIs, Not Apps: What the Future Will Be Like When Everyone Can Code · · Score: 1

    And most Access applications turned into absolute nightmares for the company as they outgrew the toy database.

  8. Re:HP shouldn't lay off people on HP To Jettison Up To 30,000 Jobs As Part of Spinoff · · Score: 1

    They are rehiring them in "cheaper" countries.

  9. Re:NAS is a fad anyways on Backdoor Discovered Into Seagate NAS Drives · · Score: 1

    My Asus 9" netbook also uses less than 10W, once I turned off the WiFi and Bluetooth radios. I replaced the main drive with an SSD and connected a 3TB HDD to the USB port and I have a nice 24/7 "NAS" running Windows 10 file sharing.

  10. Re:Makes sense on 14-Year-Old Boy Placed On Police Register After Sending Naked Picture To Classmate · · Score: 2, Insightful

    He's male. She's female. Therefore he's a guilty perv and she's completely innocent.

  11. Re:Not really on The Long Reach of Windows 95 · · Score: 2

    Space Invaders was 1978

    Asteroids was 1979

    Pac-Man was 1980

    Donkey Kong was 1981

    Dig Dug was 1982

    Punch-Out!! was 1983

    etc.

    There were plenty of games beyond Pong even before 1995...

  12. Re:15? on The Long Reach of Windows 95 · · Score: 1

    If you weren't a business, maybe. But I spent a considerable amount of time beating memmaker in those days so that business person X could do task Y. It was very irritating and boring.

  13. Re:Garbage what? on Ocean Cleanup Project Completes Great Pacific Garbage Patch Research Expedition · · Score: 1

    I know your ravenous hatred blinds you, but churches have had the most success in making the world a better place. Most hospitals and universities were started by churches. Churches care about addicts, unwed mothers and many other people that the world throws away. Just because they are against the things YOU like to do (which are probably contributing to making the world a worse place) doesn't make them a waste of time.

  14. Re:What pisses me off as an older programmer on Do Old Programmers Need To Keep Leaping Through New Hoops? · · Score: 1

    Windows 8. Mic drop.

  15. Re:Old programmers for old systems on Do Old Programmers Need To Keep Leaping Through New Hoops? · · Score: 1

    I architected a new student registration system when I was 21 years old. It worked perfectly the first time and they used it every year for the next 20 years.

  16. Re:Stupid question. on Do Old Programmers Need To Keep Leaping Through New Hoops? · · Score: 1

    Bad news for you. Google is switching entirely to Go.

  17. Re:NSA probably intercepts routers in the US too on Bruce Schneier On Cisco ROMMON Firmware Exploit: "This Is Serious" · · Score: 1

    Presumably the Constitution... They do claim to still follow it by their own twisted interpretation.

  18. Re:BULL on Evidence That H-1B Holders Don't Replace US Workers · · Score: 1

    You program the computers to lay people off by automating their positions.

  19. Re:More bull! on Evidence That H-1B Holders Don't Replace US Workers · · Score: 1

    The Pareto principle says that in ANY population, 80% of the wealth will be in 20% of the population's hands and vice versa. There's no use getting upset about it, it's a universal fact. Even Bitcoin distribution quickly fell into this pattern with 2 years.

  20. Re:Nope... Wrong interpretation. on Evidence That H-1B Holders Don't Replace US Workers · · Score: 1

    A fact lost on Hollywood when they keep releasing kid-unfriendly movies...

  21. Re:Cost of labor is always a problem for companies on Evidence That H-1B Holders Don't Replace US Workers · · Score: 1

    In the past, we haven't hired Masters or PhD programmers because they only care about theoreticals and can't business program their way out of a paper bag. I had one ask me a question, after 8 hours of trying to add a single column to a CSV: "Should it be column quote or quote column?"

  22. Re:Nope... Wrong interpretation. on Evidence That H-1B Holders Don't Replace US Workers · · Score: 1

    But they CAN seek another job. Typically, they have 3-4 weeks to get employment before going home. In IT, this is not much of a problem. I had a friend who was H1B and he was very controlled in Texas but in both jobs in California was treated exactly like a normal employee.

  23. Re:We are stupid on Regionally Encoded Toner Cartridges 'to Serve Customers Better' · · Score: 1

    My HP NW 1520 doesn't do this. It tells you but prints anyway.

  24. Re:We are stupid on Regionally Encoded Toner Cartridges 'to Serve Customers Better' · · Score: 2

    Just in time. They've been on my 10-year ban list. HP just got off a 10-year ban also. Their color laser complains about non-genuine toner, but other than loud complaints from the driver it prints just fine.

  25. Re:Until now ... on Two Arrests In Denmark For Spreading Information About Popcorn Time · · Score: 1

    I had never heard of RojaDirecta until the US shut it down. Turns out it's the best source for beautiful HD sports streams with no BS. Thanks for the info, DOJ!