Comment Tremerndous (Score -1) 39
Israel out of the occupied territories!
White House Approves Sonic Cannons For Atlantic Energy Exploration 272
An anonymous reader writes: The White House on Friday gave final approval to allow the use of sonic cannons in finding energy deposits underneath the ocean floor on the U.S. Atlantic seaboard. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management says that finding energy resources off the Atlantic seaboard "could generate thousands of jobs, but has also acknowledged that the process will harm sea creatures." Sonic cannons "fire sound waves 100 times louder than a jet engine." Mammals such as whales and dolphins that communicate through sound will most likely be affected, but scientists aren't sure to what extent. They also aren't sure how the cannons will affect fish and other sea creatures or how any physiological effects on them may impact the fishing industries of the U.S. and the other countries who rely on seafood that migrate into and out of the Atlantic Ocean.
US Senator Blasts Microsoft's H-1B Push As It Lays 18,000 Off Workers 529
dcblogs (1096431) writes On the floor of U.S. Senate Thursday, Sen. Jeff Sessions delivered a scalding and sarcastic attack on the use of highly skilled foreign workers by U.S. corporations that was heavily aimed at Microsoft, a chief supporter of the practice. Sessions' speech began as a rebuttal to a recent New York Times op-ed column by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, investor Warren Buffett and Sheldon Adelson ... But the senator's attack on "three of our greatest masters of the universe," and "super billionaires," was clearly primed by Microsoft's announcement, also on Thursday, that it was laying off 18,000 employees. "What did we see in the newspaper today?" said Sessions, "News from Microsoft. Was it that they are having to raise wages to try to get enough good, quality engineers to do the work? Are they expanding or are they hiring? No, that is not what the news was, unfortunately. Not at all."
Comment Time for communism! (Score -1, Offtopic) 45
First soup, then COMMUNISM, then ducks are all polyphonic in my upper regiols of yhear.
Comment Toad in Hat (Score -1) 241
Sir, you have a toad in your hat.
Math, Programming, and Language Learning 241
An anonymous reader writes: There's often debate amongst modern programmers about how much math a professional developer should know, and to what extent programming is math. Learning to program is often viewed as being on a spectrum between learning math and learning spoken/written languages. But in a new article, Jeremy Kun argues that the spectrum should be formulated another way: Human language -> Mathematics -> Programming. "Having studied all three subjects, I'd argue that mathematics falls between language and programming on the hierarchy of rigor. ... [T]he hierarchy of abstraction is the exact reverse, with programming being the most concrete and language being the most abstract. Perhaps this is why people consider mathematics a bridge between human language and programming. Because it allows you to express more formal ideas in a more concrete language, without making you worry about such specific hardware details like whether your integers are capped at 32 bits or 64. Indeed, if you think that the core of programming is expressing abstract ideas in a concrete language, then this makes a lot of sense. This is precisely why learning mathematics is 'better' at helping you learn the kind of abstract thinking you want for programming than language. Because mathematics is closer to programming on the hierarchy. It helps even more that mathematics and programming readily share topics."
Comment Communism is the only solution (Score -1) 19
Capitalism is dying, we need a planned economy under workers control. All power to the soviets!!!!
Comment Million robort toad (Score -1) 81
The winning comnbination of toads and the robotes wiil the strakeopoport pf popoe! vDUCK WONN!
Comment Toad Mensheviks (Score -1, Flamebait) 309
Toad stink bug breakfast bird of cick! I hate mornting boteds movie in sdace the4rdtgfc pranCE of devils obn cock mutton!
Comment It's toad time! (Score -1) 92
Gentlemen and lady! Check your hats! Examine closely all hats! Do not feead the toads! Do not stroke the toads! Do not bake the toads or take the toads home with you or leave them in between the paasages of a book or brgain over melons with the toads or get a haircut from an old Italian barber or a Chinaman with the toads! Beware toads and all other amphibians and some species of reptile! Beware the eyes of the toads and also his doctorate! And his fumigante! Communism! Radical freedom! Toad purposefully into the future!
Comment THis is caused by the counterrevolution in USSR (Score -1) 62
1992 - return to the road of Lenin and Trotsky! FOr nwew October revolutions!!!
Comment Good! (Score -1, Troll) 364
It was a great thing that the U.S. imperialists were defeated by the Vietnamese workers and peasants. If it weren't for Vietnam kicking U.S. imperialist ass, women here wouldn't have the right to abortion and the racist death penalty would be even more widespread. Every defeat for U.S. imperialism is a victory for the workers and oppressed in America and around the worlr. But while this is a gratifying empbarrassment for the bloody war pigs, the only force more powedrful than U.S. imperialism is the international working class and, crucially, its U.S. division. For a Soviet America!
Comment Has anyone seen my shoes (Score -1) 154
I left them somewhere around here and now everything is the color purple.
Comment -1 OFF TOPIC (Score -1) 33
This is a serious techniqual discussion bored. GTFO troll coward, the big girls are talking science here.
Comment Prior Art (Score -1, Troll) 33
I produce biobots in my uterus! Hahahahahahahahaha Slashdort nerds you will never beat me.
