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  1. Re:Tremendous medical costs! on Donald Trump Says US Military Will Not Allow Transgender People To Serve (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    How in the fuck do you consider elective medical treatment on the same level?

  2. Re:no one would HIRE them, either on Michael Bloomberg: You Can't Teach a Coal Miner To Code · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Stop sending resumes with more than 2 pages of resume experience....Just send the last 3-4 jobs. Hardly anyone cares about anything older than 15 years anyway. Tailor your resume for the job you are applying for. Besides that, resumes that are too long make you look like you are either a job hopper or a bullshit artist, or both.

  3. Re:Just finish the one in Texas on Physicists Plan to Build a Bigger LHC · · Score: 1

    Um, NASA?

  4. Re:Dinosaur couldn't fly on Dinosaur Brains Flight-Ready Long Before They Took To the Air · · Score: 2

    I seem to remember being taught there weren't any flying dinosaurs. Pterodactyl, Pteranodon, etc, weren't dinosaurs, they were reptiles.

    Never studied it intensely, so it could be a matter of details though.

    There were flying dinosaurs. In fact, there still are flying dinosaurs. The ones that still exist are commonly referred to as "birds". They are theropods.

  5. Right. on 3-D Printable Food Gets Funding From NASA · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Because today's food made from powder sucks because of the method of reconstitution, and not the fact that it was made into a fucking powder in the first place.

  6. Re:US women prefer circumcised penises on US Doctors Back Circumcision · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_effects_of_circumcision Read down to the female preference and response section. 79% to 89% prefer circumcised based on the research quoted. So yes, they actually do.

  7. Re:I call BS on US Doctors Back Circumcision · · Score: 0, Troll

    We were made this way for very good reasons, even if we don't understand them. Imagine if somebody proposed the same thing for female infants. What would be the reaction? Leave all minors alone. Let them decide when they turn 18.

    Except maybe there isn't a very good reason to have one. At least one that's better than the reason to remove it. There is likely a very good reason ancient cultures with a huge emphasis on cleanliness adopted the practice and codified it into their religions...probably much of the same reasons these doctors are touting.

  8. US women prefer circumcised penises on US Doctors Back Circumcision · · Score: 0

    US women greatly prefer circumcised penises over non circumcised penises. That's reason enough for me!

  9. Re: O RLY? on Why Bad Jobs (or No Jobs) Happen To Good Workers · · Score: 4, Informative

    Leave the valley. Seriously. You will make a bit less money elsewhere, but the cost of living will be much, much lower, which is a net gain. You'll also have recruiters banging down your door trying to get you to interview. You might not have the chance to work at the next hot Silicon Valley startup, but I'm guessing that at over 50, that's probably not too high on your priority list.

  10. Re:A much more likely application on Google Now Searches JavaScript · · Score: 2

    This is already being done, but in reverse. Google doesn't like it much either. Get caught, and you are de-listed.

  11. Re:Dear orthodox *WHATEVER*s... on Ultra-Orthodox Jews Rally For a More Kosher Internet · · Score: 1, Troll

    Did you not even read what you quoted? They are selling filtering software to Orthodox Jews. Not you, even though I'm sure they would sell it to you if you wanted it. You don't want it? Fine. Don't buy it. Got watch porn and masturbate your life away.

  12. Re:Dawkins Said It... on Geeks In the Public Forum? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, you tell 'em Anonymous Coward.

  13. Re:Football? on Growing Evidence of Football Causing Brain Damage · · Score: 2

    Turns out it's that weird wrestling / handball game they play in the US.

    Well, that's about the creepiest description of American Football I've ever seen...ewww.

  14. Porn? on Behind the Cogent-Sprint Depeering · · Score: 1

    Without dirt cheap Cogent bandwidth, how will we get our porn?

  15. Re:IFL? Haha, what a joke. on Mainframe OpenSolaris Now Available · · Score: 1

    Exactly.

  16. Re:IFL? Haha, what a joke. on Mainframe OpenSolaris Now Available · · Score: 1

    It's not the hardware fails, it's the third party software that fails.

  17. Re:IFL? Haha, what a joke. on Mainframe OpenSolaris Now Available · · Score: 1

    No, they purchased an IFL. Not with the intention of me playing with it, but with the intention of running DB2. Sales people convinced them this was a good idea. From our testing, it's completely unacceptable.

  18. Re:IFL? Haha, what a joke. on Mainframe OpenSolaris Now Available · · Score: 1

    That's a distinct possibility. It's something I have believed for quite a while...

  19. Re:IFL? Haha, what a joke. on Mainframe OpenSolaris Now Available · · Score: 1

    Yes, even the IO performance which was surprising to me. It's running on an older Mainframe, i.e. not a new Z10, but still. Granted, I'm totally at the mercy of the Mainframe admins that control DASD access. It doesn't matter though, even if I had faster IO, you still have to have the CPU to process the data once it's been retrieved. My tests showed that the CPU spent less time in IO wait, but they were so slow to do anything else, it didn't matter.

  20. Re:IFL? Haha, what a joke. on Mainframe OpenSolaris Now Available · · Score: 1

    Stability. That's what everyone always comes back with, but it seems like the Mainframe side of my company has as many unplanned outages as the distributed side. Not to mention we run circles around them in terms of data processing.

  21. IFL? Haha, what a joke. on Mainframe OpenSolaris Now Available · · Score: 1

    Seriously, I've run Suse 10 on an IFL engine. It's so slow, I don't know how anyone could run anything serious on it. I have an old laptop that matches or exceeds the performance in about every measurable way. Mainframe Linux and now Mainframe Solaris is a joke.

  22. Re:7.3% Technical Violations... on Report Indicates Widespread H-1B Visa Fraud · · Score: 1

    Especially with those transitioning from student visas to work visas. It can be a bit tricky working as an intern while finishing school and coming on full time after graduation.

  23. It's crap like this... on University Tries "One iPhone Per Student" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...that keeps pushing up the cost of a college education.

  24. Re:Burn the heretic! on Royal Society and Creationism In Science Classes · · Score: 1

    Just think if he questioned humans' contribution to global warming.

  25. Light sabers? on Tying Knots With Light · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please tell me this is getting me closer to owning a light saber. PLEASE!!!