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  1. Re:Linux is fractious on Why Aren't People Abandoning Windows For Linux? (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    Your view on choice is the problem because choice also applies to Apple and Wintel platforms allowing you to use applications that are not default yet an improvement regarding your personal preferences.
    The main huge advantage Linux has over all the others is that it's without doubt #1 ensuring me to have the same choices in the future.

  2. Re:also even better at gettng people to start smok on E-Cigarettes Are Effective At Helping Smokers Quit, a Study Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, no. Vaping is not smoking. Would you rather the teens vape or smoke? I ask because history has long proven that your preferred option of neither one just doesn't happen in the real world.

    But it's neither a XOR and history also shows it's far more difficult to rid of addictions than to introduce them and a percentage of the population simply doesn't stand a chance against addictive substances.

    Because really, the same point has been made about weed in het past just to find out addictive substances tend to get stronger to meet customers demands.

  3. Re:Does anyone have the most important information on Dutch Surgeon Wins Landmark 'Right To Be Forgotten' Case (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    OK, got it. All this Dutch is killing me! According to this Dutch website, the doctor's name is Rita Kappel and the black list in question is here.

    You missed something very important about this Dutch website,

    According to this article the judge himself is on a blacklist of this site due to previous ruling in favor of plastic surgeons, there is a conflict of interest here.

    The (online) blacklist itself is tested by law and allowed.

  4. Re:Not just the rain forest on Insect Collapse: 'We Are Destroying Our Life Support Systems' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    In the UK nsect abundance has fallen by 75% over the last 27 years. I notice in woods where I used to constantly hear bird noise it is now mostly silent

    I commented above with a similar statement.
    GW is an issue but not the reason, due to the increased temp, soft winters many native birds are capable and do breed 2 times a year now yet population plummets.
    There really is no safe pesticide when used on such a massively industrial scale.

  5. Re:More than a rainforest without rain on Insect Collapse: 'We Are Destroying Our Life Support Systems' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Glyphosate is a herbicide, not a pesticide.

    Word play, a herbicide is just a form of pesticide.
    Wherever it's used liberally, bird population drops more effectively than shooting and more invasively than we (=bird watchers/foresters) would expect if we account for habitat loss.
    There's lots of ditches interconnecting patches of small forests, essential ecosystem supplying water and food.
    Approx 20 years ago I patrolled the woods greeted by bird warning calls, I saw the population/foilage moving away from the edges of farmlands/ditches until now there is pretty much nothing left.
    So, we can lecture it's safe because only plants do EPSP synthase, but it's the trees that live and the animals, even crows, that are fucking decimated.

  6. Re:More than a rainforest without rain on Insect Collapse: 'We Are Destroying Our Life Support Systems' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Who the fuck knows.

    Don't know about the rainforest, but here in Europe it's pesticides in agriculture and villages (e.g. removing weed from paved paths).
    Easy to spot, sudden drop of native insectivorous bird population.

    Glyphosate.

  7. something entirely different on 'Mona Lisa Effect' Is Real But Doesn't Apply To Leonardo's Painting (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
  8. Re:what percentage of plastic on Giant Plastic Trap Breaks, Gets Towed Back To Land (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    It's perfect.
    Politicians have wet dreams associating themselves with ideals because there's really no way to fail and be held accountable.
    What other alternative do you think is available to match economy?

  9. Re:Why not put this at river exits? on Giant Plastic Trap Breaks, Gets Towed Back To Land (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    ... (the oceans are full of feces from fish).

    Thanks, rest assured it's not the plastics spoiling the planned family trip to the beach.

  10. Re:I for one on Amazon Says 100 Million Alexa Devices Have Been Sold (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They took our jobs!

  11. Re:Hey, it's my state on Vermont Will Give You $10K If You Move There and Work Remotely (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    ... of fresh, high-quality produce and meat if you like to cook (or even if you don't, the better restaurants will use the local farms. Some BnB's even have their own gardens). People really care about the environment here... organic farming, trees, conservation, recycling, renewable energy, etc.

    Promote an alternative kind of breeding stock.

    Trying to help here.

  12. Re:Languages are not that important on Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize For Numerical Software (mit.edu) · · Score: 1

    Libraries are. On the other hand, every real expert can learn a programming language in a week or two, so special-purpose languages have merit.

    intermediate lang/ffi pretty much solves the library issue. It's the language that allows you to glue and model your job. In a week you get the syntax, takes longer to understand the language implementation quirks and adopt a style that works and looks native to the language.

  13. Re:And they will respond ... on France Will Tax Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon In New Year (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    It was before the last recession-- Starting in the 70s markets were deregulated (Reagan/Thatcher) rightwing, romanticizing immigration cultures left wing. It is sweeping through the EU.

  14. Re:Who to believe? on Qualcomm Says Apple Is $7 Billion Behind In Royalty Payments (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't know about the wireless but the rounded corners is invented by your mommy!

  15. The reason Fairchild and Intel fought so hard was in essence because *at best* Gil Hyatt invented the second MCU instruction set to ever exist, but fairchilds was the third and Intel was the forth.

    Your words sound plausible yet your typo unconsciously triggers me to reread and check the dictionary.

  16. Re:Now this is the /. I remember! on Doug Grindstaff, 'Star Trek' Sound Effects Maestro, Dies At 87 (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    I know Indianna Jones' whipcrack is a bit of a trade secret but recently -snip-

    It's from Harrison's personal media collection...

  17. Re:Another step in our understanding of Everything on The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 1

    You must be joking, it only proves die-hard mathematicians have not one step progressed towards women.

  18. Re:Math is hard on MoviePass Having Outage Issues Because It Couldn't Pay Its Bills (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They charge people 10 bucks a month, then buy those people as many movie tickets as they want. How can this possibly lead to financial problems?

    And which idiot funds the kind of business that god forbid doesn't want to have too many customers...

  19. Nothing to see here on IBM Wins $83 Million From Groupon In E-Commerce Patents Case (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Weak defence, though admittedly I'm biased and think Groupon to be a shady business. Fscking hard to find which patents are actually compromised.

  20. Re:Take it one step further on 'The Cashless Society is a Con -- and Big Finance is Behind It' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course there is A transaction. Depending on the jurisdiction, there could actually be several transactions there. There is a verbal contract with performance and counter-performance. The only difference between what AC is doing and you buying coffee is that the counter-performance was labor as opposed to legal tender. .. There is probably some clause that allows a certain amount of undeclared labor per year, but beyond that, AC should either be paying taxes or spending time in prison.

    Oh please, get a grip before we all do need to report our children's chores as house cleaning services. It's the same as getting your neighbours help and returning the favor later if both of you are not self-employed businesses; social contract.

  21. Re:Switch fields entirely on Ask Slashdot: Should I Ditch PHP? · · Score: 1

    The thing is, with PHP it's the blind leading the blind. Nobody has a clue, and starts with Rasmus (by his own admission). No skilled programmer would put up with PHP for any significant amount of time, life is too short for that aggravation. The corollary is, PHP crap never gets fixed because nobody with the skill is willing to go sewer diving to the extent that would be necessary.

    Fine by me, because the challenge usually is not making something perfect, but dealing with imperfections.

    This is pretty much the same war as MySQL vs. real DMBS's debate, recognizing strengths and weaknesses and finding methods how to deal with them the best way.

  22. Re: Samples are not for production on Bing Now Provides Exact Snippets of Code for Developers' Queries (searchenginejournal.com) · · Score: 1

    Knuth wants his books back.

  23. Re: Code in which language on Bing Now Provides Exact Snippets of Code for Developers' Queries (searchenginejournal.com) · · Score: 1

    Languages without static typing are slutty, fast and fun with unexpected side effects.

  24. Re: They do it to adults as well on The Tech Industry's War On Kids (curry.com) · · Score: 1

    So there never been babies or pacifists at war?

  25. Once upon a time the US was an ally many nations wanted to have (discounting the relationships fostered by the CIA). Today, the image of the US is one of isolationism and paranoia, very much in the frame of the leader.

    A bit grotesque to hold Trump accountable for the demise of US as world police agent and favourite cheerleader.