Comment Portfolio (Score 1) 45
Treat is a developer's portfolio, collect things you have done and present them as documentations of your skills (or skillz depending on how hacky they are).
Comment Re:And how many were terrorists? Oh, right, zero. (Score 3, Insightful) 276
If someone had a gun on September 11, 2001 perhaps the history would be different. In Soviet Russia all pilots were armed, and rightly so.
I travel and every day I see pocket knifes, souvenir knifes being stolen at the checkpoints. The other day my credit card size stainless steel multi-tool (ruler, screwdriver, wrench and a 2 centimeter cutting edge) has been confiscated because it had a less than one inch "blade". Yikes.
Every single day passengers bring bottles of whiskey and other alcohol in the glass bottles, which is essentially a ceramic blade/knife, if the bottle is broken. Heck, you can buy alcohol in the airplane.
I have interviewed several airport security directors and directors supplying security solutions. All of them, in private, agreed that this is a security theater.
No it wouldn't. It wasn't a problem to fight against the hobby knives unarmed either, no one expected the hijackers to be suicide terrorist, and the only thing that would make a difference is hind-sight.
Comment Re:Copenhagen interpretation != less complicated (Score 1) 197
I know what exponential means. Why would you defend his nonsense statement is beyond me.
I didn't. I attacked your nonsense
Dish Pulls Fox News, Fox Business Network As Talks Break Down 275
An anonymous reader writes Fox News and Fox Business were pulled by Dish Network over the weekend, as both continue to argue over a fee agreement. From the article: "Dish said in a statement early Sunday morning that 21st Century Fox had blocked access to the two networks after Dish balked when rates for other networks owned by the media conglomerate were made a part of the negotiations. Tim Carry, executive vice president of distribution at Fox News Channel, countered in a statement that "Dish prematurely ceased distribution of Fox News in an attempt to intimidate and sway our negotiations. It is unfortunate that the millions of Fox News viewers on Dish were used as pawns by their provider. Hopefully they will vote with their hard earned money and seek another one of our other valued distributors immediately."
Comment Re:Copenhagen interpretation != less complicated (Score 1) 197
requires exponential resources to simulate
WTF is an exponential resource?
Exponential refers to the amount of resources, not the type. It basically means it takes e^n resources to simulate. While the GP left n unspecified, lets assume it is either particles or wave functions.
FBI Confirms Open Investigation Into Gamergate 556
v3rgEz writes In a terse form letter responding to a FOIA request, the FBI has confirmed it has an open investigation into Gamergate, the loose but controversial coalition of gamers calling for ethics in gaming journalism — even as some members have harassed and sent death threats to female gaming developers and critics.
Comment Re:a riveting diplomatic exchange no doubt.. (Score 1) 435
Hey thanks for not making a huge deal out of castros death
I think I'm missing part of this joke, because Castro isn't dead...
Castro died several years back but got replaced by another Castro, though this new one isn't the Castro people refer to when they refer to Castro.
Comment Re:Does Denmark... (Score 1) 191
Oh, so Denmark is going to pull a Putin and cut off whatever sections of Greenland it wants for itself?
??? There is no plans for anything. Besides Greenland already is Danish and under Danish military rule, someone would need to invade it for there to be any conflict.
The North-West of Greenland was almost lost in the 70s because no one lived there and there was no military presence, as uninhabitet land Norway tried to lay claim to it, that was only stopped by adding a miltary presence there, so the only reason North-West Greenland is still considered part of the policial entity Greenland is because Danish military is there, if it wasn't it would be part of another country.
Comment Re:Does Denmark... (Score 1) 191
... honestly think that they can keep Greenland under their thumb for that long? Greenland already doesn't want to be part of Denmark - 75% voted for independence in a nonbinding referrendum in 2008 with a 72% turnout. The wealthier they become and the greater the percentage of the wealth that Denmark siphons away, the more they're going to want it. If Greenland and its EEZ start raking in trillions of dollars annually (which is the sort of mineral wealth up for grabs), how low in the single-digits do you think the popularity of remaining part of Denmark will be? For every trillion of GDP that'd be nearly $17M per capita, at Greenland's current population.
Is Denmark going to force Greenland to stay with them by the gun?
The part of Greenland inhabited by greenlanders can secede all they want. It is the large uninhabitet area that has all the resources, and the only ones living there are Danish scientists and military.
Eric Schmidt: To Avoid NSA Spying, Keep Your Data In Google's Services 281
jfruh writes Google Chairman Eric Schmidt told a conference on surveillance at the Cato Institute that Edward Snowden's revelations on NSA spying shocked the company's engineers — who then immediately started working on making the company's servers and services more secure. Now, after a year and a half of work, Schmidt says that Google's services are the safest place to store your sensitive data.
Comment Re:It's about who's doing the coercion (Score 0) 266
Libertarian philosophy as I understand it is about coercion.
No, it is about mental illness. A "libertarian" is an American, who doesn't know what liberal means, and thinks he is not one because he is right leaning. Also he is mentally insane and thinks gold has a more fixed price than dollars.
Comment Re:Blockade Euro Disney (Score 2) 295
I believe a blockade of Euro Disney is the standard French response to any turmoil in the country.
You could remove 'Euro Disney' (in general or from your sentence) and it would still be true. The blocades are part of the French charm, possibly the part that makes you not want to live there.
Comment Re:Why are taxi drivers all so horrible? (Score 1) 295
NYC, , Paris, Berlin, , LA, , Rome, , Chicago, San Francisco.
I narrowed your list down but in most of the cities you list, English isn't actually the official language
Actually, English is not the official language in ANY of the cities listed.
For the unaware, the USA has no official language.
HEH!.. Well, NO, that would be stupid. The USA has a mandate for laws being written in English.
Comment Re:Sounds like they should ban the cabbies (Score 5, Informative) 295
That shouldn't be hard -- obstructing traffic is against the law. They can just arrest the cabbies after they refuse to move when requested and have their cabs towed.
It is like you don't even know France..
I suspect you don't. Obstructing traffic is against the law, but also a thing that happens routinely as a part of demonstations. Usually it is farmers though.
French Cabbies Say They'll Block Paris Roads On Monday Over Uber 295
mrspoonsi writes Parisian taxi drivers have vowed to block roads leading into the French capital on Monday to protest a court's refusal to ban urban ridesharing service UberPOP. Like their counterparts in large cities across the globe, Parisian taxi drivers are fed up with what they see as unfair competition from Uber's popular smartphone taxi service. UberPOP, which uses non-professional drivers using their own cars to take on passengers at budget rates, has 160,000 users in France, according to the company. A commercial court in Paris ruled on Friday that a new law making it harder for Uber drivers to solicit business could not be enforced until the government had published full details of the restrictions. "It's the straw that breaks the camel's back," said Ibrahima Sylla, president of France Taxis, whose organisation has joined several others in calling for the early morning protest on Monday. They have urged taxi drivers to gather at the northern Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport and the southern Orly airport at 05:00 am before slowly converging on the city in a bid to block arterial highways. "This is a fight against Uber. We're fed up. Allowing UberPOP means leaving 57,000 French taxis high and dry, and thus 57,000 families. And that is out of the question," said Sylla.
