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Comment Economics != English (Score 1) 358

[...] who was thinking of shifting to an economics major [...]. I told that student they are much better off being a B student in computer science than an A+ student in English

Except being a B student in economics is probably better than being an A+ student in English as well.
But is being a B student in economics better than being a B student in English?

Also, wanting to not be rigorous is apparently better than wanting to be rigorous, seeing as this student has gotten an internship.

Comment Re:Sunk Costs (Score 1) 288

That's the exact thought I had when I saw the video.
The "human-like" hand is dead in the middle of the uncanny valley.
In fact, the 3D printed hand had motion which looked far more "natural", despite looking nothing like a natural object.

IMHO, trying to make a prostethic look human is like saying "I'm ashamed of not having a hand".
Adults will stare uncomfortably at both. With the printed hand I think most people will just think "well, he doesn't have a problem with it, why should I?".
And children will be exclaiming "cool" because... well... it is cool. Guy doesn't have a hand but he's got a machine as a hand. What's not cool about that? You'd rather children be exclaiming "creepy"?

Comment Re:But is their criticism of Psychiatry wrong? (Score 3, Insightful) 186

Scientology's beliefs are idiotic, but not much more idiotic than believing in some guy walking up a hill and coming back down with slates with "commandments" apparently handed to him by some deity.

The problem with scientology is the frequent intimidation, their extremely litigious habits, the abusive behaviour towards members, the rampant commercialism, the indocrtination techniques and a bunch of other things that are decidedly evil and beyond the comprehension of any decent human being.

Scientology isn't a church, nor is it a cult. Scientology is a corporation. And whereas most corporations are just greedy and soulless, scientology doesn't stop at mere ruthless money grabbing; scientology seems to want to actively hurt it's victims as well.

Comment Re:This does not seem to be news (Score 1) 81

This.
Every single site that was vulnerable to heardbleed should be resetting all passwords.
There are a LOT sites that were vulnerable, but very few have done large scale password resets.
The only bad thing Healthcare.gov is doing, is letting people choose to change passwords; they should do like Yahoo did.

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