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  1. Re: So what does it do then? on DVD Player Found In Tesla Autopilot Crash, Says Florida Officials (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Talk about building a car no one wants. I'd think they'd throw in as many features as they can to get people to buy that piece of crap.

  2. Re: Why is it troubling? on Women Interviewing For Tech Jobs Actually Did Worse When Their Voices Were Masked As Men's (fusion.net) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The lack of tech skills can easily be explained by the way we as a society perpetually encourage boys to be mavericks and women typically stay inside the box. Women often outperform men in the sciences, but when it comes to engineering and tech it helps that many talented boys were blazing their own course with tech at age 14 despite not being as academically focused, while many talented girls are acing their biology and physics honors courses. The disparity starts at a young age.

    If you want to fix the disparity, find a way to offer descent tech and engineering to girls in high school. Trying to fix the problem when people are adults doesn't work that well.

  3. That's a thing?

  4. Re:Is it leaked or is it not yet leaked? on 2 Million-Person Terror Database Leaked Online (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    Other users may have a copy. It's leaked to anyone who payed the subscription fee.

  5. I feel like every few years the "scientific community" comes to a consensus on a new dino apocalypse theory. I am, so sick of unlearning all the shit that I learned in high school only to have to relearn it again.

    For example, dinosaurs were on their way out before the meteor hit.
    http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/19/...

    So was the asteroid really that bad? Honestly, I just don't care anymore. What I do care about is the pseudoscience passed off as facts as if the scientific community is doing more than trying to tell a consistent story based on a minuscule amount of evidence. The sad thing is scientists can't agree on theories when there is a preponderance of evidence. What hope do we have of knowing something that happened to living things millions of years ago. Quit sensationalizing this stuff.

  6. Because it's incredibly American to be loudly ignorant about these things.

  7. Re: "optional" as long as you fill it out... on US Customs Wants To Know Travelers' Social Media Account Names (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Anything can happen is Hillary's economic plan. 1+1=3 with anything can happen Hillary.

  8. Re: Why not just on Tour de France To Use Thermal Cameras To Spot Cheats (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Many tubed are sealed.

  9. Re: in before... on You Are Still Watching a Staggering Amount Of TV Every Day (recode.net) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Internet goes out and so does my TV. When I can pry the remote away it goes right to amazon and netflix. The shows remaining on cable suck. The demographic remaining on cable is clearly to blame, you guys watch some dumb shit.

  10. Re: most people already prefer listening to accele on Is The Future Of Television Watching on Fast-Forward? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. I love watching online educational videos in FFW. Makes an hour video into a 30 minute breeze.

  11. What you call underfunded, overworked and understaffed I call lazy and unskilled. Government workers aren't know for being the most productive and I seriously doubt government IT workers are an exception. Public sector employees often get payed more than their private sector counterparts if you add benefits and pensions. Also the chances they will down size and fire someone is so small you might as well assume employment is guaranteed for life regardless of how much an employees skills have rotted over the years. Pretty much all federal jobs are union jobs, so the chance of overworking someone is pretty low.

  12. Re: In other news... on Facebook Offers Political Bias Training In Wake Of Trending Controversy (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    There has been a steep rise on both sides where individuals on one side are completely disgusted by individuals with opposing views. Liberals are disgusted with conservatives and conservatives are disgusted with liberals. The bias doesn't disturb me. It's the intolerance of opposing views.

  13. Re: Dear Microsoft on Microsoft Says Edge Browser Is More Power-Efficient Than Chrome (windows.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Correct. It's a complete rewrite, which explains why nothing works. IE took decades to sorta work. Edge will take a while to be on feature parity with IE and will never catch up to chrome.

  14. Re: Vaporware Press Release on Fedora QA Lead Pans Canonical 'Propaganda' On Snap Apps (happyassassin.net) · · Score: 1

    It's not vaporware. It's just not what they said it was. ROS packages should work great with snap. It's just not portable to any other distrubution except Ubuntu.

    Catkin also does most of the work, so it's not fair to call this a win for snappy.

    This will most definitely be an Ubuntu first thing.

  15. Re: Cancer as a mechanism for Darwinism on Cancer Is An Evolutionary Mechanism To 'Autocorrect' Our Gene Pool, Suggests Paper (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This article isn't science. It's a bullshit excuse for wealthy folks to feel genetically superior. In the meantime we can show scientifically that poor communities get the short end of the stick when it comes to the environment they live in. We pollute the shit out of parts of this country and that's why people get cancer at an alarming rate. You buy cheap toys for children laden with toxic chemicals and that causes cancer. Don't even get me started about the shit in water. The fire retardants on whatever you are sitting on causes cancer. Cancer isn't a depopulation mechanism.

    I believe cancer is a result of humans drastically increasing the amount of entropy in our environment and that entropy finding its way into our bodies.

  16. Re: The takeover has started! on Robots In Amazon's Warehouses Are Already Making a Huge Difference (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Quick /. Enable unicode so we can defend ourselves.

    ðY"

    http://www.fileformat.info/inf...

  17. Re: For those who still want diesel on Volkswagen Bets Big On Electric Cars, Plans 30 Models By 2025 (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Just an absurd comments which brought me a minimal amount of amusement made way more amusing by the fact that someone clearly thought I was serious.

  18. Re: For those who still want diesel on Volkswagen Bets Big On Electric Cars, Plans 30 Models By 2025 (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Don't worry. They'll sneak little tiny diesel generators in all of them that pollute 10 times more than a regular diesel engine.

  19. Re:Dignity? on Online Loans Made In China Using Nude Pictures As Collateral · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking this would not work in the US. Who doesn't have a naked photo of themselves floating around?

  20. GTX 965M is not going to cut it. I agree. Screen size != game quality.

  21. I bet it has a 960m graphics card too, but I refuse to click on slashvertisments to find out. The future of gaming is VR. This machine has too small of a display for gaming and too weak of a GPU for VR. I used to play starcraft II on my 50 inch and it was awesome.

  22. Re: Slap on the wrist on Amazon Faces $350K Fine For Shipping 'Amazing Liquid Fire' (computerworld.com) · · Score: 0

    That's dumb. No way that's going through a plane. Most people don't take drain cleaner seriously. That stuff is sulfuric acid. Hydrofloric acid is way more dangerous, but usually people are more cautious around that. However I'd be most afraid of lipo batteries for all the drones people are buying.

  23. Or put it somewhere people often open their wallets.

  24. Re: This kills YM completely! on Legacy Yahoo Messenger App Being Retired (pcmag.com) · · Score: 2

    It's kinda nice that no one users YM to be social. Makes it easier to tell if an employee is just slacking off. I think slack is a much better option for businesses though.

  25. Re: Reason to be here... on New York Thieves Wearing Apple Store T-Shirts Steal $16,000 In iPhones (pix11.com) · · Score: 1

    This hasn't been news for nerds for quite a while. That disappeared a while ago. It's really tech news, which basically only has to mention a tech company or liberal news because the internet doesn't have enough of that. Basically, you can get the same news everywhere except here you get some amusing AC trolls.