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  1. It IS the future of programming on Is Python the Future of Programming? (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Either Python or "Donald Trump", Google Trends says so. Either those 2 or "Anal Sex", right behind them.

  2. Re:Gorgeous Sunrise on The Internet Is Finally Going To Be Bigger Than TV Worldwide (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    You are so right! I felt so inspired by your post, that this morning I got up a little earlier. Brew a cup of organic fair trade dark roast double macchiato with gluten free almond milk, pulled up my MacBook pro (large Green Peace logo on the back, small "Feel The Bern" ones around it) and watched this: https://youtu.be/jswkS7895WY
    I posted 17 selfies on FB/Insta/Tweeter. Thanks for a great tip!

  3. $1.06 Billion a year is not enough on Seattle Repeals Tax That Upset Amazon (apnews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Seattle already spends more than a billion dollars on "solving the homeless crisis": https://www.bizjournals.com/se...
    This is on an estimated homeless population of roughly 12,000 individuals: https://www.seattletimes.com/s...
    This works out to around $88,000 a year per individual. Let that sink in for a second.
    Their government is ineffective and inept, giving them more money to waste is not a practical solution.

  4. BrainF*ck OpenGL on Programmer Unveils OpenGL Bindings for Bash (opensource.com) · · Score: 1
  5. Re:You and I will never know on More Evidence Ties Alleged DNC Hacker Guccifer 2.0 To Russian Intelligence (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    NONE of this BS matters. We *know* States spy on and hack other States all the time. WHAT MATTERS is what the Media chooses ignore: The content of the material that was hacked. How the DNC rigged the primaries to screw Sanders and progressive voters. THAT is what gave us Trump, running the most corrupt, least likable establishment candidate the Dem Party has run in years. They'd rather have a psycho pathological liar in the WH than a progressive who'll govern for The People, not for the mega corps that are paying the DNC and the Clinton Foundation.

  6. spez *is* a cuck on Reddit and the Struggle To Detoxify the Internet (newyorker.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "One commenter simply wrote "u/SPEZ IS A CUCK," in bold type, a hundred and ten times in a row."

    Just because the delivery is off, it does not mean the message is wrong.

  7. Not in our backyard, not in our oh-so-precious City. But the designing, coding for the robot AI is being done by companies around the Bay and Silicon Valley.
    Yes to the profits, but let the plebs elsewhere in the country take all the risks during the alpha stage.

  8. With great Apple(c) exclusives! on It's Official: Apple is Testing Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    -Sealed engine compartment
    -Non replaceable battery
    -Proprietary fuel tank (requires $2,000 adapter)
    -4" steering wheel (iCar PLUS features a 6" one for only $5,000 more)
    -No 3rd party accessories

    All the great features iUsers have come to expect and love!

  9. By definition, NO private ISP is good enough. on Americans Support Letting Cities Build Their Own Broadband Networks, Pew Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    All of them fail when it comes to respective the privacy of their users, and all of them are now empowered to collect and resale your browsing history.
    Municipal ISPs, however, won't happen either: Government has been captured at all levels by corporations.

  10. PETA does this routinely on Two Activists Who Secretly Recorded Planned Parenthood Face 15 Felony Charges (npr.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While I agree that the "activists" violated California's privacy laws, this is not much different from what PETA routinely does while secretly filming farmers. To my knowledge, this has never resulted in PETA being prosecuted. To the contrary, the video has been used as evidence in legal filings and lawsuits to stop cruelty and abuse against animals.

  11. Ancient tools on Ancient Tools May Shed Light On the Mysterious 'Hobbit' (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    They found what appears to be fossilized fragments of a single density 8 inch floppy disk containing previously unknown, unversioned copies of BDS-C and ZMAC.

  12. They do so much more! on Secret Service Agents Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet · · Score: 5, Informative

    SS agents are also versed in the arts of:

    Deflecting possible Colombian hooker attacks on the president.
    Drunk driving and crashing cars into WH's barriers and then destroying video evidence.
    Sexually harassing female staff.
    Committing arm burglary with their state issued 357 caliber guns.
    Being totally ineffective at stopping mentally disturbed individuals to fence jump into the WH's lawn.
    Letting armed ex felons ride the same elevator with the POTUS.

    But yeah, by all means, focus your efforts on Twitter.

  13. CopyCrime on Pirate Bay Founders Acquitted In Belgium · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So what should be a simple CIVIL case of COPYRIGHT *INFRINGEMENT* is a criminal case?
    Should We also have Two Minute Piracyhate be mandatory at schools to indoctrinate future generations and prevent these hideous copycrimes?

  14. Or just stop dodging BILLIONS in WA State taxes on Microsoft Offers Washington a Bargain: More State Taxes, For More Education · · Score: 2

    Microsoft has been dodging WA State taxes at least since 1997 by redirecting ALL of its profits to a shell company in Nevada.
    This petition here has a good analysis here showing running totals between $2.1 BILLION to $8.4 BILLION in dodged taxes.

    Microsoft has effectively corrupted and captured the WA State's government, which routinely passes legislation to forgive Microsoft's back taxes, some as large as $100M a year, at times where the state is running deep into deficits.

    Offering to "voluntarily" "contribute" 28M annually is like robbing a bank and then "offering" to return a few cents on the dollar.

  15. Are those the guys who made the movie? on Lawsuit Filed Over Domain Name Registered 16 Years Before Plaintiff's Use · · Score: 1

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt01... I find their use of "Office Space" "virtually identical to, and/or confusingly similar" to the name of the movie, which was distinctive at the time that the Office Space Solutions, Inc. renewed and/or updated their business license.

  16. Not "civilization", Natural Selection on Ancient Skulls Show Civilization Rose As Testosterone Fell · · Score: 0

    Could it be instead that civilization caused a general lowering of testosterone..?

    It *doesn't* work that way. Natural selection causes traits beneficial to survival/reproduction to become dominant. "Civilzation" cannot "cause" anything.

    The conclusion reached by the researches is also nothing but a romanticized opinion, as we don't see lower levels of aggression in current humans.

    The most likely (and brutal) cause-effect relationship is that tool makers, who were smarter and at least as aggressive despite their testosterone leves, dispatched the less intelligent high testosterone rivals and/or outbred them.

  17. A koan for LG on Overkill? LG Phone Has 2560x1440 Display, Laser Focusing · · Score: 1

    When I am tired, I sleep.
    When I am hungry, I eat with a scalpel and a caliper.
    Your cup is overful, You insensitive clod!

  18. College enrollment ratios already favor females on Girls Take All In $50 Million Google Learn-to-Code Initiative · · Score: 1

    "No, it's more like "why is ~50% of the country not pursuing IT?"... it seems like an issue that should be researched."

    I think the appropriate answer to your "concerned" question should be along the lines of "screw you, misandrist pig".

    Why is there absolutely no concern to research why 50% of the population (males) accounts for less than 40% of all college students (and continue to trend downwards)?

    Given that education is ever more important in the information economy, shouldn't THAT be also an issue that should be researched?

    Are boys not worth the same level of concern? Should companies like Google be skewing these ratios even more against male students?

  19. ~45yrs of buffer overflows... on GnuTLS Flaw Leaves Many Linux Users Open To Attacks · · Score: 1


    ...at least since C was initially created (and perhaps even before that).

    When do We accept that this is a failure intrinsic to the programming languages themselves and move on to correct it?

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

  20. Two words... on Ask Slashdot: Can Digital Music Replace Most Instrumental Musicians? · · Score: 1

    Carlos Santana.

  21. Learn from history? on Employee Morale Is Suffering At the NSA · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they could check with colleagues from older agencies that used to do the same kind of work.

    I wonder what the Stasi and the Gestapo did to bolster employee morale.

  22. Confirmation bias???, nah... on Art Makes Students Smart · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "Researchers" were contacted by.. uh.. well.. the Museum... developed a "methodology" for the "experiment" after the fact, then based their definitions and metrics on an assessment program developed in conjunction with ... another museum.

    Solid!. No way this is just another case of confirmation bias.

  23. Re:Maximum Penalty???? on Image Lifted From Twitter Leads to $1.2M Payout For Haitian Photog · · Score: 1

    The maximum penalty of 150k goes cleanly into 1.2m eight times. It would be safe to assume that nothing strange is going on and there was eight infringed works.

    There were 24 works. 24 * 80k = 1.92m.

  24. Maximum Penalty???? on Image Lifted From Twitter Leads to $1.2M Payout For Haitian Photog · · Score: 1

    How is $1.2m the maximum penalty available under the law for this case, when back in 2009, Capitol vs Thomas, a jury awarded $1.92m to Capitol?

    Even at $1.92m, that was NOT the highest they could have gone either, the judge established that each infringement would be penalized at $80k, down from a maximum of $150k per instance!

    That would have worked out to $3.6m.

    Why weren't AFP et al penalized per infraction, vs having a cap for the whole incident?

  25. Apple apologists in 3, 2, 1 on CCC Says Apple iPhone 5S TouchID Broken · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Their "new", great iPhone has been out for less than a month, with their latest super high tech, hyper hyped "secure" technology and a relatively trivial hack has already been published. We'll have teens with chewing gum hacking TouchID next, and yet, Apple fan bois will still continue to hype and buy Apple substandard, over priced technology.