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  1. Re:See below on Google's Sentiment Analyzer Thinks Being Gay Is Bad (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You've got some derp on your chin.

    Oh, and BTW, many people can understand it just fine, and therefore know if it is "justifying" something, or serving some other function. Since you already admitted you don't understand, you're clearly not qualified to determine what function their words serve.

  2. Re:See below on Google's Sentiment Analyzer Thinks Being Gay Is Bad (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    That's rarely true. Most racists bellyache all day about being forced[sic] to use "PC" language, even though nobody ever asked them to lie about their views. What they were actually told was, "you can't talk that way in this establishment, I'm going to have to ask you to leave," and also, "You're just a racist asshole, shut up."

    Nobody ever asked them to lie. And their bellyaching is complete bullshit. You'll meet at least 1000 of them for every 1 person who is actually honest.

  3. Re:See below on Google's Sentiment Analyzer Thinks Being Gay Is Bad (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Lets take a poll on the value of pi while we're at it.

  4. Re:See below on Google's Sentiment Analyzer Thinks Being Gay Is Bad (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I just don't understand why Google should apologize

    Obviously public relations is outside your wheelhouse, maybe just stop at not understanding? And wait until you understand before forming opinions?

  5. Re:The Antivirus War is On on McAfee Says It No Longer Will Permit Government Source Code Reviews (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Even an unpopular offering will likely experience increased sales when one of their biggest competitors is burning down and everybody is jumping ship.

    For example, there are probably lots of people who dislike Symantec and don't want to install their product, and those people might not know which other companies have a good product. They might only know that McAfee has been around for a long time, and try it.

    McAfee at least is easier to uninstall.

  6. Re:Think of the Children on China Shuts Down Tens Of Thousands Of Factories In Widespread Pollution Crackdown (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    You might want to actually check numbers before you make bold statements about the Chinese having less "active people" in the Chinese market.

    Don't just guess and spew when it comes to numbers, look them up. When you're getting greater than/less than wrong, you need some sort of remedial work, that is for sure.

    Not everything that was true 20 years ago is still true today. 20 years ago China wasn't even the world's 2nd largest economy.

  7. Waving your hands and asserting a fact only proves you're not capable of conversation, it doesn't add anything.

    You state things that are the opposite of the known facts, and would need to be proven before being stated as facts. That isn't just an incorrect, it is totally moronic.

    Performance reviews don't even happen at most jobs in the world, don't be a complete idiot. It is not a meaningful detail.

  8. Re:The Assumption on Ask Slashdot: Where Do Old Programmers Go? · · Score: 1

    I've seen a lot of people who feel burn-out sneaking up and them and switch to being Sales Engineers, too; they only have to learn a little bit of the sales stuff, the pay is good, and it is all really low-pressure.

  9. Re:Not a surprise Tesla is winding down SolarCity on Tesla's Mass Firings Spread To SolarCity as Employees Say They Were Blindsided (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Horse shit, there is no US state where everybody gets unemployment benefits after being fired for cause. I guarantee half your words are weasel words, because they'd have to be to make it vaguely close to being truthy.

    So my slam dunk take-down of your comment is: What State is that?

    Pretty easy to spew horseshit about your red state utopia as long as we don't know what State it is.

  10. Re:A hot wire isn't necessarily the *best* efficie on Could Cryptocurrency Mining Kill Online Advertising? (linkedin.com) · · Score: 1

    I didn't read your comment past the first sentence because you start out with arrogant bullshit where you outright state that you don't give me the respect to even give me the benefit of the doubt that I know the basics. I'm not going to read your screed, I saw the first line that you're so stupid you can't comprehend from my comments that I understand the engineering. That guarantees you didn't say anything interesting.

  11. Re:Losses upstream of the heater on Could Cryptocurrency Mining Kill Online Advertising? (linkedin.com) · · Score: 1

    But its efficiency is still greater than that of the generation and transmission of electric power.

    It is still off topic, and it is still just horse shit.

    Like I said, you're not saying those words because they are relevant, you're saying them because of your politics.

  12. Re:Old Programmers Buy the Farm on Ask Slashdot: Where Do Old Programmers Go? · · Score: 1

    No, not "like that" at all! The reason the whole room snickers is that it is legal and taxed now.

    In the old days nobody would have known about it, and if they did, they still wouldn't have known about it or snickered.

  13. The sentence that had the words "in the world" wasn't talking about legal jurisdictions, so no I wouldn't have any reason to add it.

    I'd only add that sort of caveat if it was either part of my point, or needed to make the statement true.

    My words simply have more meaning than you noticed.

  14. Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
    --Ayn Rand

    If you're giving yourself the experience of a slave, and you're actually a willing employee, then that is your own damn fault and you have yourself to blame.

    Better?

  15. Right, I used the word meanings that make sense in the context; the meaning of "specialist" as it relates to job listings.

    You're using a definition that is from a different context, apparently because you find that other context to be more important. The reality though is that the words doesn't have meaning outside of a context.

    The important thing is what type of work they're doing, are they using an API or creating one? That is what tells you which definition to use.

  16. Re:Old Programmers Buy the Farm on Ask Slashdot: Where Do Old Programmers Go? · · Score: 2

    That's really common here in Oregon too, although usually the whole room snickers whenever they say "farming" or call themselves a "farmer."

  17. Re:Left on Ask Slashdot: Where Do Old Programmers Go? · · Score: 1

    Only if he's still there. He only said where he went when he left, not where he is now.

    Old programmers are generally better at languages than that.

  18. Re:The Assumption on Ask Slashdot: Where Do Old Programmers Go? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Old programmers become ascended masters like St. Germain and live forever in the shadows, controlling the world. Or, they become greeters at Wal-Mart. Sometimes both.

    Well they sure as fuck aren't going to be writing Java in a cube farm like the idiot asking the question. They're either working on something more interesting, or they burned out and switched to something simple. He can't imagine that they're just working the crap coding jobs anymore because they switched jobs, he only looked at the promotions available to him and quit looking around. But being promoted at a crap job is not actually the usual way the programmers move upwards in the industry.

  19. Generally in computers it is best to go from "only 1 device" directly to "n devices" and not to waste time special-casing 2 devices, 3 devices, 4 devices.

  20. Re:Free at last, free at last on Amazon Key Puts Deliveries -- And Delivery People -- In Your Home (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    If you jump out the window, $20 says Scotland Yard catches you before you hit the sidewalk! Don't be scared, you can do it!

  21. Re:I feel that this is a colossally bad idea on Amazon Key Puts Deliveries -- And Delivery People -- In Your Home (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    You live in an apartment. They don't care if you react with anger or jealously.

    The customers of this service mostly live in houses, or at least fancy condos. People who live in fancy houses are often already accustomed to having workers inside their house while they are away; it is just a fact of life if you're getting some part of the house remodeled every couple years. Or if you have a housekeeper.

    Keep in mind, their valuables are insured, they have security cameras, and the important stuff is in a safe. You rob them, it is a minor hassle for them, and prison for you. The judge throws the book at you because the victim was somebody important. They're no more worried about this than they are about the housekeeper stealing change from the bedside table; they'll be deeply offended if it happens, and they'll monitor the situation carefully, but it doesn't actually threaten their way of life in any way.

    Your concerns about liability are cute; surely that is something the lawyers at Amazon and your insurance company will hash out between then, right? They're not going to ask you about it, or worry you about it.

  22. Re:New house style? on Amazon Key Puts Deliveries -- And Delivery People -- In Your Home (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    or an isolated room with its own door, with a fridge/freezer

    Just like an attached garage.

    In my country we call it a porch or entry-way, depending on the style.

  23. Re:Fuuuuuuuuuuck that. on Amazon Key Puts Deliveries -- And Delivery People -- In Your Home (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    A lot of people have a locked porch or entryway, and they could use this to let the delivery people into that area, with the actual front door still locked.

    I think every house in San Francisco has that sort of gated porch.

    If this becomes a regular thing, I'd expect nice houses all over the country to start adding it as a standard feature.

  24. Re:Beleivable on Kaspersky Admits To Reaping Hacking Tools From NSA Employee PC (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why security conferences need to move out of the US.

    Or, why they will continue to prefer having them here. ;)

  25. Re:Beleivable on Kaspersky Admits To Reaping Hacking Tools From NSA Employee PC (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait, your thesis is that Russian companies who do lots of business outside of Russia should be scared of the USA based on the way that political prosecutions happen in Russia? So they should just be basically stupid idiots who can't do a business analysis, because they're so damaged by their national civics?

    It doesn't seem like a very good argument. It seems that the businesses who do a lot of business in the rest of the world would be the most aware of how the world works, not the most absurdly fearful.

    And if they were that fearful of government, there goes all the arguments their fanbois are making about how why they should be trusted. ;)