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  1. Women's lib partially responsible for bad schools. on The Cyberlearning Technologies Transforming Education · · Score: 2

    Not that women's lib is a bad thing but before women could get any job they were qualified for many were limited and selected teaching. This means that millions of women that were smart enough to be doctors, lawyers, scientists, or engineers were teachers instead. Now it seems like most teachers are C students at best.

  2. Re:Sensors wrong on Planes Without Pilots · · Score: 1

    Not sure about that. Edge cases like this a pilot will trust instincts which can include what G forces you are feeling. Unfortunately that leads to error. A remote co-pilot whose life isn't on the line may make a more rational decision based on all data.

  3. Re:But But But It's the Handouts That Are Bankrupt on How the Pentagon Wasted $10 Billion On Military Projects · · Score: 2

    How are you isolated when you talk and trade with people? Isn't sanctions and war more isolating?

  4. Re:Objectivist utopia on The Dystopian Lake Filled By the World's Tech Sludge · · Score: 1

    I was thinking more about the US not England.

  5. Re:Objectivist utopia on The Dystopian Lake Filled By the World's Tech Sludge · · Score: 2

    Nope. They will never understand that. They also don't understand that it was the ignoring of private property (and damage to it via pollution) by government that led to the environmental destruction of the industrial revolution. If private property rights were enforced you couldn't dump your sludge or have it's runoff go onto someones property without compensating for the damage.Pollution was allowed because it was for the common good. Now where have we heard that before?

  6. Re:The solution to NASA's budget problem on Costs Soar on NASA Communications Upgrade Program · · Score: 1

    Typically during the last part of the year we get a bunch of PR's of various amounts ready to go. The money technically only has to be allocated to a PR not actually take delivery.

    Still a waste of money. It should just be allowed to roll over to next year to be used on the project.

  7. Re:What I really want to see on The Democratization of Medical Diagnosis and Discovery · · Score: 1

    It's out there. I wanted to start screening my LDL-P as I went on a keto diet. I have decent insurance so I went to my physician and had to pay the co-pay. Then I talked to him and he said I really didn't need that test but just a regular cholesterol test. I got the test and paid the co-pay. Then to get the results I had another appointment with him where I had to pay a co-pay and he wanted me to go on statins.

    Instead I went online and found some quack that for cheaper than my co-pays would write a script for whatever test you wanted and you went to a normal Labcorp office and got the test and they e-mailed you the results. I haven't been back to the doctors since. I'd rather manage my own care.

  8. Re:Other unintended side effects on The Democratization of Medical Diagnosis and Discovery · · Score: 1

    The real reason for most of this is for fear of lawsuits as well as drive business to doctors. If they actually told you the odds are 99 to 1 that what you have is a mole not cancer and don't worry the 1 person that had cancer would sue. Also by saying it might be cancer is like an advertisement to go to the doctor.

    Eventually technology will get rid of being diagnosed by a person. Will will still need medical researchers and possibly surgeons but most of the intellectual work will be automated.

  9. Or stop wearing energy stealing shoes on Ankle Exoskeleton Takes a Load Off Calf Muscles To Boost Walking Efficiency · · Score: 1

    The cushioning in modern shoes steals energy from your gait. If you go barefoot or wear shoes like flip flops or business shoes with no padding and your calves develop to the point where you have your own spring.

  10. Re:Cutting edge has unknowns! Who would have thoug on Costs Soar on NASA Communications Upgrade Program · · Score: 1

    I can't tell what you are trying to say because NASA funded SpaceX for several billion dollars.

  11. Re:The solution to NASA's budget problem on Costs Soar on NASA Communications Upgrade Program · · Score: 2

    I work at NASA and you would be surprised how accurate your statement is. The Center projects like repaving roads, tearing down old facilities, or doing something similar are always lauded for how well they were run since they are on time and on budget. Meanwhile when you are trying to do something nobody ever did before you are constantly getting threatened to have your budget cut. The real kick in the pants is when September comes and these same budget people are running around asking if anyone knows of a way to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in 2 days before purchase orders are cut off at the end of the year or we will lose the money.

    If the work wasn't so interesting I would have left a long time ago.

  12. I discriminate all of the time. on Apple's Tim Cook Calls Out "Religious Freedom" Laws As Discriminatory · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I choose who I do business with or have over my home all of the time. It's not based on religion I just don't do business with people I think are jerks.

  13. Re:Suck it Millenials on Millennial Tech Workers Losing Ground In US · · Score: 1

    Tic tac toe and hunt the wumpus?

  14. Re:Suck it Millenials on Millennial Tech Workers Losing Ground In US · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Anyone else remember typing games into their computer from a magazine? The would provide the printed source code and you would type it in. I had an Atari 400 which had a membrane keyboard. So many terrible memories.

  15. Unintended consequences? on Win Or Lose, Discrimination Suit Is Having an Effect On Silicon Valley · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This also makes it more risky for companies to hire women. They need to increase the HR budget to make sure there is plenty of data to back up promotions. This is a very subjective area. Especially for a company like this one where I seriously doubt anyone is a slacker. It's like trying to judge between all 4.0 students. You have to look at things that are impossible to measure.

    I'm not saying if she is right or wrong.

  16. Elon Musk has the last laugh. on Jeremy Clarkson Dismissed From Top Gear · · Score: 2

    Probably laughing about this.

  17. Re:This is interesting.... on Greenpeace Co-Founder Declares Himself a Climate Change Skeptic · · Score: 1

    You are forgetting the very important store energy as chemical energy.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...

  18. Re:ESRB was created by Game companies on Why Is the Grand Theft Auto CEO Also Chairman of the ESRB? · · Score: 1

    This has nothing to do with policing. Industries create standards all of the time to help the industry as a whole to appeal to their customers.

    For example there are standards for threaded fasteners. The reason is because it it makes the whole concept of interchangeable threaded fasteners more appealing to customers. If I had to stick to one vendor who made their own size for everything I might just use some other technology. Because they got together and came up with a system that allows for a few sizes that meet almost all needs makes it almost trivial to select them.

    The same with rating agencies. There was a public outcry for a while where parents (who actually pay for the games for kids) to provide a way to determine what content games contained. It is in the industries advantage to make a clear system for these parents. They can spend more freely knowing that a quick glance at the box will tell them what the games content is. If they make mistakes and mislabel content parents would be less likely to spend money and might take the time to look up reviews which would hurt sales.

  19. Re:Wait to see what Nintendo does. Again. on Valve's SteamVR: Solves Big Problems, Raises Bigger Questions · · Score: 1

    Those games are first person which didn't require anything special in terms of gameplay. You were the camera.
    Descent had horrible controls. It was very difficult to figure out where you were going. What made the games I mentioned exceptional was how they coordinated the camera and control for you providing an intuitive gameplay.

  20. Re:Apple does not obfuscate transaction info on Fraud Rampant In Apple Pay · · Score: 1

    Well Miami is pretty bad for scams.

  21. Wait to see what Nintendo does. Again. on Valve's SteamVR: Solves Big Problems, Raises Bigger Questions · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Remember how crappy controls in 3D games were? Then Nintendo came out with Super Mario 64 and everyone went "oh yeah this is how it should work". But what about fighting in 3D? Ocarina of Time and z-targeting pretty much established that. Now I admit that story wise Nintendo doesnt always excell. But I don't think anyone can make controls more intuitive then they can. Hell even Mario Galaxy with its insane physics is easy to pick up and figure out how to move when you are jumping from one floating asteroid to another.

  22. Re:Please stop. Just stop on How To Execute People In the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    What is almost never mentioned is that true justice would require restoring the victim as fully as possible. Common law came up with some equivalent costs of various crimes but that would be left to a jury to decide. If the focus was on the victim things would improve drastically especially because all victimless crimes would no longer include a prison.

    In addition prisons should be privatized but not in the way they are today.
    The prisoners should choose which prison they go to and use the money they earn working in that prison to pay for their incarceration as well as restoring the victim.

  23. Re:End copyright and all kinds of IP protection to on $7.4 Million Blurred Lines Verdict Likely To Alter Music Business · · Score: 1

    If you want to have a consistent theory of property rights then intellectual monopoly has no place in it. What something costs to produce has zero to do with what price you can sell it for. That is basic economics. If it costs you millions of dollars to make something that I can do for $10 and customers determine they would rather have my product then you should lose business because you are wasting resources.

  24. Re:Imagine the burn... on Powdered Alcohol Approved By Feds, Banned By States · · Score: 2

    Only those of us over 40 will get that.

  25. Re:Marketing Hype. on Powdered Alcohol Approved By Feds, Banned By States · · Score: 1

    Mix with Tang to make a Powdered Screwdriver