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Comment Re:Hell No Hillary (Score 1) 676

Right.. Of all the shitty candidates this election, she's actually one of the worst.
Here's a starter for you.

Fired from the WaterGate investigation for unethical behavior
Benghazi coverup.
Email Scandal, she hosted her own server for government work (!) and then wiped the server before the emails could be retrieved... oopsy? Yah, right.
Claims her and Bill are "broke"..and claims to be in touch with the common citizen. Royalty complex.
Vince Foster
Whitewater
There's more I just haven't dredged up yet. She is clearly unfit for presidency. No more Bushs or Clintons, thank you.

Comment Re:Still cheating (Score 2) 114

Which AFAIK they also can't do.

He found a valid loophole in the law, the combination of different unrelated government actions. Firstly they created a transparency law (good!) which applies to certain government institutions. Also, they centralized the exams - when I wrote my Abitur many years ago, questions were made locally, by the school you took it, mostly by the teacher who had given the course, so it was based on the material that had actually been taught. There are advantages and disadvantages to that. For whatever reasons, some time between my Abitur and now they centralized everything, which brought the exam questions into one of the government institutions covered by the transparency law. Whoops.

Comment Re:Sensors wrong (Score 1) 460

On the contrary, I'm working with OpenCV right now in a project, I've read up on a couple very recent papers regarding foreground/background segmentation, and the results are quite astonishing if you compare them to a decade ago. And in some edge cases (especially low visibility, low contrast, slow movement), the computer can beat the human eye.

But in the vast majority of cases, especially when the machine was not prepared for this precise task, there's still way too much crazy shit happening to entrust human lives to it, and machines still make many mistakes that humans look at for a split second and say wtf?

Comment Re:Technology can indeed fail (Score 1) 460

I always thought it made sense from the perspective of "What if the one pilot in the cockpit suddenly keels over"

Yes, but not having the door locked makes even more sense form that perspective. Plus there's been at least one case (that I know of) where a passenger (who was also a commercial pilot) landed a plane after something happened to the pilot/s.

Comment Re:Disturbing. (Score 1) 106

If I put up a poster in my front yard (in the United States) defaming a Japanese doctor, a Japanese court has zero ability to make me take it down.

Because you can't see that poster from Japan. Both the writing and the reading happens in the USA, due to physical restrictions.

The Internet is not bound by these restrictions.

Here's the realistic options that Google has:

1.) file an appeal
2.) comply with the court decision
3.) stop doing business in Japan, effective immediately

For some rea$$$on, I'm pretty sure that contrary to the usual USA-supremecists big talk here, #3 will not even be seriously considered within the Google HQ.

Comment Re:Disturbing. (Score 1) 106

No, if a poster is found to be libel in Japan, it is not taken down elsewhere.

Because of a bad analogy. A poster put up in California is not visible from Japan.

I've never heard them accused of supporting Free Speech.

When you pull your head out of your ass, you can see the rest of the world more clearly. Try it.

Comment options (Score 1) 106

The decision is based on a defamation suit [...] Google is currently considering it's options including an appeal.

including? What are the other options? Simply ignoring a court decision? Of course, they're a big american company with a big american attitude including the "our laws are the laws of the world" approach (we can sue everyone everywhere for everything that's illegal in the USA, but we don't accept other countries laws as valid to us, even when we're doing our business there).

I'm split on the court decision, adding more information to something is generally the better approach over removing information, but other than some fanatics I don't think free speech trumps absolutely every other right and consideration on the planet, and when someone knowingly spreads false factual information about you, the line has been crossed.

Comment details (Score 4, Informative) 114

TFA (and many articles on the subject - disclaimer: I live in Germany and read local news sources, too) forgets to mention something important which is very likely the reason that he gets job offers:

He didn't just send a "here's my cute idea" letter. He actually studied the law in question, his letter is said to be full of legalese mentioning all the important paragraphs. The letter is so that the agency responsible for handling them is now looking if they can find an actual, valid reason to refuse his request, because they couldn't on purely formal reasons (which they usually use when refusing a request they don't like).

Comment Re: And it's not even an election year (Score 1) 407

The positions are out there.

My last hiring blitz I had to bring in 28 contractors. Mainframe coders, Java devs, analysts, project managers, ETL/BI, reporting...

Trying to find 4 qualified Java developers took multiple postings. Sure, I'd get 40-100 resumes for each posting, but the majority were complete trash.

Most recently I've been looking for C#/Python/GIS devs.

And just yesterday I saw that Camelot Unchained was looking for a C# developer with threading knowledge and it's almost enough to make me quit my management life, move to DC, and get back into software development.

Getting a job as a good coder in Madison, WI isn't hard. Finding good labor available on the market in Madison WI... good luck.

-Rick

Comment One of the ones my son uses (Score 3, Informative) 315

My kid loves this one: http://codecombat.com/

I got him started on it when he was 10, and he completed all of the free levels in two weeks with minimal help after I worked with him through the first few.

Lots of other great recommendations here: http://venturebeat.com/2014/06...

The board game one I've heard is good for younger kids, but once they have it down it's rather boring.

-Rick

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