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Comment Re:Ah, the Planet Pluto (Score 2) 138

Don't forget, they also redefined the term Astronomer when they started letting Tyson call himself an Astronomer. The man is a shameless self-promoter and a director of a planetarium, not an observatory. A planetarium where they do laser light shows for stoners to Grateful Dead or Pink Floyd music. Unlike some true astronomers who actually discovered a planet, Tyson's planet discovery count is negative one. That's why I prefer to call him a "dwarf astronomer".

Tyson's profiles at the Hayden Planetarium and the Planetary Society (where he is a board member) refer to him as an astrophysicist and astrophysics is a branch of astronomy. If other people refer to him as an astronomer, dwarf or otherwise, that's their mistake but he clearly identifies himself as an astrophysicist.

And yes he does do a lot of media appearances but so did Carl Sagan in his day.

Comment Re:Snowden = Traitor (Score 1) 335

I think Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, etc. already knew or suspected the capabilities that Snowden has exposed. In fact, I'm sure they also have or are working on those very same capabilities. The only difference is that the public (i.e. the ones being tracked) now know as well.

And exposing those capabilities is not why Putin is going into Crimea. Putin is going in to Crimea to prevent what he sees as a shift in the Ukraine away from Russia and towards Europe putting Russia at a perceived disadvantage politically, militarily and more imporatntly economically. Well, that and he's batsh*t crazy.

Comment Re:So? (Score 1) 359

Angel? He certainly is no angel. But when I weigh good vs. bad, he's still pretty much on the good side.

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one.

That saying is meant to describe sacrificing a few in a noble cause for the greater good not to excuse predatory behaviour.

Although I'm sure that's how the Catholic church sees it.

Comment Re:They are all paid too much (Score 1) 712

I've heard about this idea, but I think there are some major flaws. Basing the CEOs pay on the pay of their lowest paid employees doesn't work out. Microsoft probably has very few low paid employees by virtue of business sector they are in. They design software, so the majority of their employees are going to be paid quite well

Microsoft may design software but not everyone in the company designs software. There are secretaries, mail room and other support staff. And it doesn't matter what the majority of their employees get paid, the solution suggested was a multiple of the lowest paid employee. There is only one lowest. Of course it would suck to be that person.

Comment Re:they exist but do not have titles? (Score 1) 312

I agree a manager doesn't need to do the job of his/her staff but for highly technical professions like IT and engineering a manager who is able to do the job or was able to do the job at one time is a better manager than one who has no understanding what his/her staff actually does.

I've had over 20 managers in my career and by far the best managers are ones that did my job for a large part of their career before they moved into management. The worst managers I've had are ones that either fast-tracked their way to management or were "professional" managers.

Comment Re:Common sense? In MY judiciary? (Score 1) 457

So don't use your high-beams, just quickly turn the low beams on and off.

Everyone whose car has daytime running lights is out of luck.

Even if you have daytime running lights an approaching car will still be able to see you flash your low beams on and off. Daytime running lights are not the same as low beams.

Comment Re:why do we need generic top level domains anyway (Score 1) 198

So they had ".com" = corporations/companies, ".org" = non-profit organisation, and ".edu" for the educational research groups, ".mil" for the military", and ".net" for the companies that managed the continent wide networks built from fibre-optics and satellite communications.

.com is derived from the word "commerical" which includes but is not limited to corporations and companies.

Back in 1985 when .net was created I don't think there was "continent wide networks built from fibre-optics". .net was intended for network technology companies, ISPs (local, national and international) and infrastructure companies. Although, no restrictions were put on it's use so it has become a general purpose name.

Comment Re:the moral of the story (Score 1) 448

Time to enable 2-factor on all my registrar accounts.

No, time to use a registrar that does not use untrained idiots for customer support.

Or do what I do. I host my own sites (not on GoDaddy) and I have a registrar reseller account so I am my own registrar. I like to think that if someone calls me up to get access to my registrar account that I would catch it.

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