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  1. Re: Giant problem on Declaring Code Is Not Code, Says Larry Page (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, do you have explicit permission for providing that particular copyright protected argument?

  2. Re: Giant problem on Declaring Code Is Not Code, Says Larry Page (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Protocol is, the data you sent over it isn't. After "http://", if you send "slashdot.org", do you have explicit permission for that?

  3. Re:Give the option on Google Chrome To Disallow Backspace As a 'Back' Button (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    They did not leave the Escape Key just sitting there - it is used to STOP the page from doing what backspace tries to do. In general, stop loading whatever is being loaded.

  4. Re:Strong enough for a man, made for a woman on Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sabotage, it is called constructive criticism.

  5. Re:Hmmm on Genetically Modified Crops Are Safe, Report Says (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Since they are subcategories of ad hominem arguments, of course they are all logical fallacies. The topic here is, that sometimes even the ad hominem is wrong e.g. "you're a shill", where there is no evidence of the other guy being a shill.

    Such a problem need not be in " you're a fanboi", because there are evidences a fanboi leaves in his wake, which I pointed out.

  6. Re:Better for Science, not politics. on Wikipedia Editor Says Site's Toxic Community Has Him Contemplating Suicide (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    If people within Wikipedia knew the truth, it wouldn't be "wiki" pedia, it would just have been another encyclopedia.

    Then adding information to a page would "lower" its integrity score. 100 trolls would line up to add wrong information to it, so next guy with correct information will take the information to his grave.

    Again, if any one in Wikipedia could "review", it would not be "Wik"ipedia.

    And if we assume a non jealous gatekeeper, there is no problem with Wikipedia as it is.

  7. Re:Hmmm on Genetically Modified Crops Are Safe, Report Says (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    So can the closely related fallacy argumentum ad pomum, that your oppoment is an unpaid but mind-made-up fanboi.

    No, these cannot be "used against any side in a debate". E.g. it can't be, if the person making these arguments is, in other instances, also known to vociferously arguing against the entity of which he is being accused of being shill/fanboi.

    So "Applhu Akbar" - yeah funny. Supported Apple once? Yes, Apple has been known to be good and correct. Never criticized Apple in N posts, and always strongly supported it? Very likely a shill / fanboi - with confidence values rising as N rises.

    More importantly, if even in a minority of cases, strongly honestly criticizes Apple - extremely highly unlikely to be a shill / fanboi.

  8. Re: Shill accusations? Nooooo! on Genetically Modified Crops Are Safe, Report Says (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    People are just ticked that we did it playing God in a lab this time, rather than playing God with controlling natural selection.

    No, people are ticked that this God demands payment. Not only for the seed, but for its progeny.

  9. Re:And this will change nobody's minds.. on Genetically Modified Crops Are Safe, Report Says (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    A very real problem is that genetically modified plants spread and outfight the existing varieties, leading to less diversity

    None of the crops humans plant for food are their original state

    Yes, but their progeny are free for anyone to use. As opposed to the progeny of many generically modified plants spreading and outfighting the existing varieties, which are not.

    Clearly, the diversity of owners is reducing - Monsanto is increasingly the only owner.

  10. Re:And this will change nobody's minds.. on Genetically Modified Crops Are Safe, Report Says (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    the data and conclusions remain robust

    Disingenuous? You are the one who removed the important part from the quote : "Supporters of golden rice" are saying that "the data and conclusions remain robust".

    A far cry from "the data and conclusions remain robust".

  11. Re:Better for Science, not politics. on Wikipedia Editor Says Site's Toxic Community Has Him Contemplating Suicide (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Troll editors are the only ones who have time to wait out and play the game of time-outs. So reduced frequency wikipedia could as well be renamed to trollpedia.

    If a troll got his version in, then he just needs to keep editing it at a frequency to keep any other edit out. Truly knowledgeable people wouldn't have time to wait out the time-out, so they are more likely to leave.

    Another problem with the integrity score is the difficulty to track "reverts" in an automatic fashion. If revert reduces the integrity, the troll wouldn't "revert", but make another change of less substance along with undoing the good change a different person made.

  12. Re:If Windows is so bad, why use it? on Microsoft Adding More Ads To Windows 10 Start Menu (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "I don't want to run an os that requires me to compile my own fucking device drivers" Case closed.

    Ok, enjoy the ads then.

  13. Re:Wow, they really are stuck in the past on Al-Qaeda Calls For the Execution Of Bill Gates and Others To 'Damage the US Economy' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    more vibrant leaders willing to take more risks. In short, it may actually stimulate the economy

    More risks? What is your definition of risk? I haven't seen any sane person defining anything essentially other than "endeavour with low probability of success". Now you are saying more risks means high probability of succcess?

  14. Re:I'm on oracle's side on this on Oracle V. Google Being Decided By Clueless Judge and Jury (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you understand the difference between API documentation (e.g. javadoc in this case) and the API itself ?

  15. Re:may might predicts on Will Self-Driving Cars Clog Our Highways? (go.com) · · Score: 1

    The company with the best prediction algorithm will have the highest vehicle utilization rate and the highest profits.

    Ha, you are kidding yourself. The company that takes "passengers" to the place most profitable for the company (note, not the passenger) will have the highest profits. Passengers are powerless against companies, remember ?

    Some passengers might be able to hack their cars to take them to their own preferred destination - until they are jailed for violating the grand-daddy of DMCA.

  16. Re:Nuked my local game store's POS software on Microsoft Auto-Scheduling Windows 10 Updates (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    That is ok, some people are too unfortunate / stupid to be locked into bad software. Some of them do deserve some sympathy - e.g. someone hiding under a rock for last 25 years, and then emerging and using Photoshop for "a few days" can get hit by this issue for no fault of their own.

  17. Re:Confirmed on Microsoft Auto-Scheduling Windows 10 Updates (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I said Windows 10 doesn't insert or change passwords, and it doesn't

    Please show the source code.

  18. Re:Confirmed on Microsoft Auto-Scheduling Windows 10 Updates (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    No, no one knows the value of backups due to *this* event.

    Data on that partition can be accessed from the Linux Mint partition anyway, so there is no data loss.

    Now, the problem of Microsoft doing things on the computer without the "owner's" permission - cannot be resolved with restoring from backup. And no backup of Microsoft itself can be restored to make them not shitty - because they have always been shitty.

    So at best, you restore from backups and apply some workarounds for them to not do things without the "owner's" permission in this particular manner. But next time they do similarly bad things in another manner - and usage of the computer becomes a fight against the OS. Clearly not worth it in itself - so definitely not worth it *AND* a dinner for two.

  19. Re:Time to sue on Microsoft Auto-Scheduling Windows 10 Updates (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    It is just an update to Win 7. Do people agree to the EULA of each and every update to Win 7 ?

  20. Re: How about replacing the CEO with a machine on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 1

    So the answer is no, you can't show me any research that says that 1+1=2.

  21. Re: How about replacing the CEO with a machine on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you show me any research that says 1+1=2 ?

  22. Re:So what happens on Drones Could Replace $127 Billion Worth Of Human Labor (businessinsider.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Human brain has no magic to solve undecidable problems. There exist ways to "solve" undecidable problems , many of which involve approximation, to better and better match the "solution" until for all practical purposes, the approximation is the solution.

    Human brain uses approximation even for problems for which solution exists though it is difficult : e.g. filling a glass of water from a jug by tilting, swinging a baseball bat to an incoming ball etc.

    Self-awareness adds nothing to an AI in solving most problems, not sure why you brought it in.

  23. Re:Name these magic immune careers on Drones Could Replace $127 Billion Worth Of Human Labor (businessinsider.com.au) · · Score: 1

    There can easily come a time when robots will speak more convincingly, program computers better, understand more languages and accents. Plumbing can be done better by mosquito sized drones programmed to fix all plumbing problems, current and near future.

  24. Re:Just another CEO mouthing off... on Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks (investors.com) · · Score: 1

    was going to bring the sky crashing down on their empires

    This guy is not saying the sky is going to crash down - he is just saying he will replace some humans with machines. His choice.

    To tell us how much a raise in minimum wage will impact the actual cost of doing business - and the cost of the product - they need to open up about two things in particular that they skilfully danced around in this article:

    Why do you deserve to know? Are you a significant shareholder in the company?

    Now you admittedly don't know - the president may or may not know but at least he can inform himself about these things if he wants. You just don't know.

  25. For $0.10 more you get served by a human being and the food is better

    Humans can only make fast food worse - so either you can have $0.10 more due to humans, or you can have better food, but never both.