Comment Re:Pft (Score 1) 962
I often get sexual fanfic and photoshops of myself and the other developer on my team.
Huh......pics or it didn't happen
Comment Re:let me correct that for you. (Score 1) 619
Communism is a version of Socialism. The USSR was run by the Communist Party, which was communist in name (although it wasn't what Marx imagined).
This comment makes it seem like you don't understand the difference between communism and socialism. If you don't know it, I suggest you at least read up on the topic on Wikipedia. If you do know it, and understand why the USSR didn't consider themselves to be communist, then I suggest you write more clearly.
Comment Re:Free market economy (Score 1) 529
We can have a civilized discussion about government debt without jumping to BS numbers* for total debt can't we?
Well sure, let me know why you think Great Britain is going to be the first to go, I'm still not clear why you think that, other than something vague about having a lot of debt (which many countries do).
Also: Citation needed for the total debt number.
That number doesn't include citizens/business, it includes things the government has committed to paying but hasn't funded. If you do a search for "us total liability," there are plenty of different estimates. I chose $150trillion because it's somewhere in the middle of the estimates.
Comment Re:This has nothing to do with sexism (Score 2) 962
Which is going to mean getting cussed out by people that will LAUGH at you when you cry. People that will show you ZERO pity when you break down. People that will if anything hold you in contempt for being so weak.
I think the goal is to not treat anyone like that.
Comment Re:Limited perspective (Score 1) 962
Getting criticized harshly? Shoot, I deal with that often.
My first boss said, "I don't think I would respect a programmer if he couldn't insult my code." Insulting each other is part of being a programmer.........
Comment Re:Pft (Score 5, Informative) 962
And just to make clear, the problem of insulting people isn't along the lines of "ching chong chow chee" or whatnot. The problem case is along the lines of: Scenario 1: Man: "What does that do? Sorry, I don't know perl." Crowd: "You don't know perl? Geez, you're stupid." Scenario 2: Woman: "What does that do? Sorry, I don't know perl." Crowd: "Geez, women are stupid."
No, you're wrong, you didn't even read the article (should I say you are stupid?). Specific examples from the article, if you'd like to read it:
"Only 1 out of 5 is hot, and that is Jessica. The rest need to be in the kitchen."
"I have a guy who’s writing fan fiction starring me and him. It’s a pornographic fanfic, and he's on chapter 6. He anonymously submits chapters through my website"
"Rape fantasies and pictures of dead children were coming faster than I could block individual users."
That is the kind of thing we are dealing with.
Comment Re:call them (Score 2) 354
I think you have that backward. M-Th is when you go to work then come home and want to just watch TV for the night. F/S/S is when you go out and do something because you don't have to be home early.
Comment Re:Grow up under Socialist system (Score 1) 619
That's a fascinating story. What part of Russia was that? Not Moscow, I guess.
Comment Re:let me correct that for you. (Score 1) 619
Soviet communism was communistic in name only.
It wasn't communist in name. They were socialist, look at what USSR stands for. They knew they hadn't reached the communist stage yet, although they had the goal to get there.
Comment Re:let me correct that for you. (Score 1) 619
The Soviets never claimed to be communist, FWIW. They were socialist, and they knew it. Their goal was to make it to communism, but they never succeeded.
Submission + - Open-Source Blu-Ray Library Now Supports BD-J Java (phoronix.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Updates to the open-source libbluray, libaacs, and libbdplus libraries have improved the open-source Blu-ray disc support to now enable the Blu-ray Java interactivity layer (BD-J). The Blu-ray Java code is in turn executed by OpenJDK or the Oracle JDK and is working well enough to play a Blu-ray disc on the Raspberry Pi when paired with the VLC media player.
MIT Combines Carbon Foam and Graphite Flakes For Efficient Solar Steam Generati 110
rtoz (2530056) writes Researchers at MIT have developed a new spongelike material structure which can use 85% of incoming solar energy for converting water into steam. This spongelike structure has a layer of graphite flakes and an underlying carbon foam. This structure has many small pores. It can float on the water, and it will act as an insulator for preventing heat from escaping to the underlying liquid. As sunlight hits the structure, it creates a hotspot in the graphite layer, generating a pressure gradient that draws water up through the carbon foam. As water seeps into the graphite layer, the heat concentrated in the graphite turns the water into steam. This structure works much like a sponge. It is a significant improvement over recent approaches to solar-powered steam generation. And, this setup loses very little heat in the process, and can produce steam at relatively low solar intensity. If scaled up, this setup will not require complex, costly systems to highly concentrate sunlight.
Comment Re:Maybe (Score 1) 454
Postol has a long history opposing any form of missile defense. While his assessment may well be correct, it should be viewed with considerable skepticism until data from opposing viewpoints is examined against his.
I don't care about that, because someone opposed to missile defense can still have a good argument. I read his post with interest.
Unfortunately, his data isn't very good. He starts with a hypothesis on how the missile defense system works, then proceeds to show that if his hypothesis is correct, it is unlikely that the Iron dome is effective, based on data he analyzed in 2012 and photographs he's seen since then. I shouldn't need to explain why I see that as unconvincing.
There's always room to doubt official figures, but I'd like to see something a little more convincing than that from a story with this kind of headline. It was just a longer explanation of what he said previously, he didn't produce any more data, unfortunately.
Comment Re:...The hell? (Score 1) 291
Because his stories get a lot of comments. I'd really like it if someone else tried
Comment Re:The end of reading as culturally relevant... (Score 1) 192
If you find some, let me know.
