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  1. Re:Furloughed workers on "War Room" Notes Describe IT Chaos At Healthcare.gov · · Score: 2

    The American people paid $88 million for what one can get done via CraigsList at about $50 an hour

    1) post personal medical information to Craigslist
    2) ???
    3) Affordable health insurance!

  2. Re:Furloughed workers on "War Room" Notes Describe IT Chaos At Healthcare.gov · · Score: 1

    But it's just as important to realize that as a percentage of GDP revenue is down. Those tax cuts mean the government is taking in a smaller percentage of economic output.

    Yes, reduction of revenue per point of GDP is what a tax cut is. Congratulations on discovering a tautology. What matters is whether GDP would be high enough with or without taxes (de)incentivizing growth to make the absolute value of revenue higher or lower. You don't spend "money in relation to GDP", you spend "money".

  3. Re:Why is the archive worth preserving? on Internet Archive's San Francisco Home Badly Damaged By Fire · · Score: 1

    I find personally useful info on IA about once a year. Two days ago I confirmed what software a group was using a few years ago (the project lead didn't remember, and the website has changed many times since that software list was displayed. Knowing that software 'a name was important for work.

  4. Re:almost could have been like 48 B.C. on Internet Archive's San Francisco Home Badly Damaged By Fire · · Score: 5, Funny

    It was in Egypt.

  5. Re:How hard can that possibly be? on A Math Test That's Rotten To the Common Core · · Score: 1

    Remind me again why that is necessarily anyone's problem but yours? Better yet just pontificate and call people who don't agree idiots...oh wait...

    The only reason it's obvious to you is because you know the purpose of the question from the summary. You know it's a math test. Put yourself in the place of a first grader who is learning many more things than just math. They're learning about concepts like measurements (length, area, volume, time), science, music, art, geography, reading/writing, etc.
    Now:
    .... ,,
    What is left?*

    And somehow mine didn't fail me like yours did. I wonder why?

    Because you were willing to use the totality of your personal experience in the thought experiment, whereas the GP was willing to limit himself to the state of a first grade version of himself? Best case scenario, if the students are being taught to deal with translating measured data into "pictogram problems" like these, they will have a hard time communicating with engineers like the GP when they get into the work force. GP and I learned math with the x - y = __ format when we were in kindergarten, and if kids didn't learn that notation by 1st grade, they were really dumb. Occasionally there were kids who were dyslexic, but they can't get into advanced placement physics with pennies and teacups, no matter how easy it makes simple arithmetic for them.



    *If you didn't answer "four periods" you're wrong. Two commas were right. But "two commas" was not the correct answer. One, two, three, or four periods (possibly even including the whitespace and one comma for four periods) are all acceptable answers that fit the nature of the question "what is on the left hand side?", but the test maker has decided that only one answer (the most commonly chosen one) is correct.

  6. Re: NOT posted as AC. on TSA Union Calls For Armed Guards At Every Checkpoint · · Score: 1

    FYI, machine guns and other automatic weapons can be lawfully owned by civilians.

  7. Re:Attn: Slashdot Socialists!! You Are Screwed. on How Kentucky Built the Country's Best ACA Exchange · · Score: 1

    "The congressman was not re-elected in 2010 mainly because of the anti-Obamacare anger. When the congressman was not re-elected, I also (along with the rest of our staff) lost my job.â When Klinkhamer lost her congressional job [in 2010], she had to buy an individual policy on the open market. Three years ago, it was $225 a month with a $2,500 deductible. Each year it went up a little to, as of Sept. 1, $291 with a $3,500 deductible. Then, a few weeks ago, she got a letter. âoeBlue Cross,â she said, âoestated my current coverage would expire on Dec. 31, and here are my options: I can have a plan with similar benefits for $647.12 [or] I can have a plan with similar [but higher] pricing for $322.32 but with a $6,500 deductible.â She went on, âoeBlue Cross also tells me that if I donâ(TM)t pick one of the options, they will just assume I want the one for $647. ... Someone please tell me why my premium in January will be $356 more than in December?â

    wait, you mean my employer was paying for 50%-75% of my health insurance this whole time, and the "monthly charge" I thought I was paying doesn't come close to buying the same thing privately?

    If your employer pays 50%-75% of your health insurance for three years after you're let go, that's a pretty sweet deal.

  8. Re:Coding is a niche, mechanical skill? on Telegraph Contributor Says Coding Is For Exceptionally Dull Weirdos · · Score: 1

    If schools looked at programing like a language, they might see more people choosing to code.

    If schools treated programming the same way they treat foreign languages, we'd get mandatory programming classes where students can choose from imperative, functional, logical, or machine language tracks (but everyone would take imperative languages, and machine languages would be treated like Latin).

  9. Coding is a niche, mechanical skill? on Telegraph Contributor Says Coding Is For Exceptionally Dull Weirdos · · Score: 1

    Coding is a creative process, closer to painting or writing.

  10. Re:aha on 87-Year-Old World War II Veteran Takes On the TSA · · Score: 1

    No. The only reason the line exists and can be slowed down is the TSA. Blame them fully, especially because he's following their slapdash rules.

  11. Re:Protip on The Boss Is Remotely Monitoring Blue-Collar Workers · · Score: 2

    But company property hooked up to company plumbing.

  12. Re:How safe? on How Safe Is Cycling? · · Score: 1

    I watch cyclists cut across red lights all the time, switching to the pedestrian crosswalks while they do it (as if "walking" on a don't walk sign is any better). On-the-road-off-the-road cycling is a real problem here. We even have cyclists riding against traffic in the middle of the wrong lanes on six lane streets marked for 40mph (because of blind curves). Never any helmets. There are sidewalks right nearby that no one walks on, and those sidewalks connect with woodland biking trails. Cyclists are just plain dumb most of the time.

  13. Re:The Cloud will save us all! on The Cloud: Convenient Until a Stranger Nukes Your Files · · Score: 1

    You read the summary, right? Box.com (a different company) did something worse than GP's example.

  14. Re:I would love 4K!!! on 4K Ultra HD Likely To Repeat the Failure of 3D Television · · Score: 1

    On the flip side, you can fit six of the new monitors in the space where your CRT used to sit. (Not useable in that setup though.)

  15. Re:Sounds ominous, but... on TSA Airport Screenings Now Start Before You Arrive At the Airport · · Score: 1

    The funny part is her boyfriend at the time had a very difficult, very long, very Polish name that I never did learn to spell right. And inevitably every desk clerk would ask how to spell it. I kept a card in my pocket with the name in big, bold letters that I would show them.

    I do that with my real name. Far easier than spelling it verbally three times.

  16. Michael Bay! on New York City To Get Manhole Covers That Wirelessly Charge Electric Vehicles · · Score: 3, Funny

    How much power will this add to manhole explosions? Will the explosions be triggered more often with live wires in the manholes (and the loose connectors that manholes would require)? Was Michael Bay involved in the design?

  17. Re:Why do SSNs persist? on Experian Sold Social Security Numbers To ID Theft Service · · Score: 2

    That's essentially what a SSN is, just using a weaker algorithm. Using sha1 won't make it any more secure since most people's birth details are public record. Then once the hash is created, it suffers from the same problem that SSNs have: being passed around in plain text as the same password for every company.

  18. Re:works fine for me on Facebook Isn't Accepting New Posts, Likes, Comments... · · Score: 1

    FB has regular problems like this, and since they've got thousands of servers, you might have connected to a borked one while GP connected to a working one.

  19. Re:Back to the lock-in! on Facebook Isn't Accepting New Posts, Likes, Comments... · · Score: 1

    This is what happens when you over-work people by forcing them to stay at work until a task is done. They "finish" it by sweeping the dust under the rug instead of out the door like they should.

  20. Re:Tin foil on How You Too Can Be Shut Down By the Feds For Flying Drones · · Score: 1

    Never happened. You don't have friend to use as a plant.

    Maybe he used a ficus.

  21. Tea Party and Science on Mark Shuttleworth Complains About the 'Open Source Tea Party' · · Score: 1

    I wonder if "open source tea party" members know more about computer science than non open source tea party members.

  22. Tea Party =/= Religious Right on A Ray of Hope For Americans and Scientific Literacy? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    News anchors and columnists still think anyone that isn't in the Democratic Party is a bible thumping, gun clinging, racist hillbilly. And their view is what gets spread to people in big cities who never experienced a tea party member for themselves. No surprise then that the researcher was surprised that tea party members have a large nerd contingent. We weren't surprised because we've seen them here on /. quite a bit.

  23. Re:One Down on Scientology's Fraud Conviction Upheld In France · · Score: 1

    He might think that just one of those actions is okay. Doesn't make the statement less heinous.

  24. Re:..everyone remember to post as AC ! on Scientology's Fraud Conviction Upheld In France · · Score: 2

    Which is worse? Unwilling servitude in sea org or dealing with selinux?

  25. "They went to far" on Books With "Questionable Content" Being Deleted From ebookstores In Sweeping Ban · · Score: 1

    Where exactly is far?