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  1. Re:The Llama... on What Happened To Winamp? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They love them in Hawai'i.

  2. Re:Better idea. on FBI Warns US Private Sector To Cut Ties With Kaspersky (cyberscoop.com) · · Score: 1

    Serious question: What smartphone available in the US isn't affiliated with Microsoft, Apple, or Google?

    Is there one made nowadays that has an OS from another company?

  3. Re:Because they've abandoned their claimed princip on Google Explains Why It Banned the App For Gab, a Right-Wing Twitter Rival (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    morons can stop hijacking the term now.

    If only they would.

  4. Re:Version Control = Good on Developer Accidentally Deletes Three-Month of Work With Visual Studio Code (bingj.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey! Lucky for you, I found about 90% of them.

  5. Re: I took the bus once on A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her To Work by 7 AM (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    From out-of-bed to out-the-door is what is being discussed. Any pre-prepping is to his advantage. After all, someone above said the lady in the article probably does things in her 2 hours that others would do after work. So time shifting is assumed.

  6. Re: I took the bus once on A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her To Work by 7 AM (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    At least he combines that time with pissing off trolls on slashdot with is iphone.

    I'm just surprised his bowels are that tuned into his schedule. Mine never make a problem until three minutes before I planned on walking out the door.

  7. Re: And she's one of the lucky ones on A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her To Work by 7 AM (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Sit in a clock and make hourly appearances?

  8. Re:But is it food. on Behind the Hype of 'Lab-Grown' Meat (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I like meat *and* veg, and enjoy both.

    Apparently, this is not permitted. In the current dietary climate, your choices are to be vegan or to be a 120% pure carnivore who washes down raw steak (torn by hand, no utensils allowed) with a warm glass of fresh blood.

    While saying "Bleh bleh bleh."

  9. Re:We need to get with the times. on Behind the Hype of 'Lab-Grown' Meat (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    The Japanese solved that issue. They eat animals that are still alive.

  10. Re: We need to get with the times. on Behind the Hype of 'Lab-Grown' Meat (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    You think we don't want meat just because we are full after a meal? When we are full after a meal we don't want vegan dishes either, so I'm not even sure what your point is.

  11. Re:Speaking just for me on Hollywood's Bad Summer Movies Are Driving a Decline in Movie Ticket Sales (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    The "leftists" in Hollywood are just the loud ones.

    That's pretty much what he said.

  12. The NYT never used the word "leak". They said they'd "obtained" it, which was true,

    Are you sure? Did you read the first version of the story that was posted, or just the updated version that admitted the report was available for six months?

  13. Re:By that standard, the New York Times is fake ne on First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role In Spreading Fake News (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    As for the often stated claim that no one wants a late term abortion, and no doctor performs one unless medically necessary, remember Dr Gosnell.

    When your counter-example is someone engaging in felonious behavior,

    My counter example is proof of hundreds of women who wanted late term abortions, not for medical purposes, and a doctor and numerous assistants who provided them for years before his practice was finally brought to light.

    Actually, his practice was brought to light repeatedly over three decades, but nothing was done to close him down. For all his illegal and unethical practices, he apparently filled a role that the pro-choice establishment wanted filled. They were willing to ignore serious issues and allow him to continue with minor penalties, or let him move to another area where no one knew his past.

    In total during the course of his career, 46 known lawsuits had been filed against Gosnell over some 32 years.[30] Observers claimed that there was a complete failure by Pennsylvania regulators who had overlooked other repeated concerns brought to their attention, including lack of trained staff, "barbaric" conditions, and a high level of illegal late-term abortions.

    Also, do you really think Dr Gosnell is the only practitioner providing late term abortions? He is simply the one that finally killed one too many adult women and was no longer able to be protected.

    you might as well be citing Orville Lynn Majors as an argument against Euthanasia.

    Possibly, except for the distinction that euthanasia is generally done to prevent pain and suffering in patients who have terminal diseases, whereas Majors

    murdered patients who were demanding, whiny, or disproportionately added to his work load.

    Hmmm. Ending suffering and pain vs ending whining and increased workload. So you really consider Majors' actions to be that similar to euthanasia, to compare them to Dr Gosnell's actions being exactly like late term abortions? Please note that I didn't make any comment on the infanticide aspect of Dr Gosnell, to compare Majors' serial killing to. I strictly mentioned late term abortions, which many pro-choice advocates insist don't happen, but who still attack anyone who opposes them.

    The most your argument supports is the desirability of a modifier such as "competent" or "reasonable" instead.

    That's really relying too much on pedantry.

    The most my argument supports is the acknowledgement that late term abortions happen, for non-medical reasons, and with the knowledge and support of staff, regulators, politicians, women's groups, and thousands of women who have had them.

    I hate repeatedly asking this type of question, but do you honestly believe Dr Gosnell was a singular case, or that he was shut down after just a few ill-advised procedures? Do you not realize there was a network of people needed to keep him in business in multiple locations for three decades?

    And again, this is just in regards to the late term abortions. The multiple cases that were pure murder of a newborn should elevate this above anything else you care to reply with. Unless you argument is that a few cases of newborn murder are just the price of doing business for non-medically necessary late term abortions, and that a relatively few non-medically necessary late term abortions are the price to pay for medically necessary late term abortions, which are of course not that common in themselves, so this is really not a very important branch of the abortion issue.

    The problem with your opinion here is that you are still forcing some subset of women to carry a child to term, and insisting you have a right over the woman's body. To the hardcore feminists and their apologists, you are just

  14. Re:Stupidity on Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo On Gender Differences (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Dude, if she reads slashdot, she'll recognize herself. Where should I send the flowers?

  15. Re:And then Google says... on Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo On Gender Differences (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    > The memo has clearly impacted our co-workers, some of whom are hurting and feel judged based on their gender.

    This is particularly disturbing. EVERYONE is judged based on everything, down to subconscious eye movement.
    Words do not equate to violence and being offended is not something to avoid at the cost of others.
    What shockingly ignorant, backward thinking set of concepts.

    Thanks for trying to regress the culture. No less, from a company founded on the monetizing the populist search for knowledge.

    How would you like someone to say this about your wife or gf? Wouldn't you be offended?

    What if someone said what, exactly? That men and women are different? I wouldn't feel offended at all by that.

    Yes he has free speech but that only means free from prosecution. It is unacceptable to create a hostile work environment and open your employer to frivilous lawsuits and ruin morale for the employees who work there. Don't like it? Tough, go create your own company.

    You get paid to shut your mouth and give up liberteries 8 hours a day in exchange for a paycheck. That is capitalism my friend and life in the workforce.

  16. Re:By that standard, the New York Times is fake ne on First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role In Spreading Fake News (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 0

    This isn't against breitbart specifically, because they are just quoting another article, who is quoting a person but...

    "It's no surprise that Planned Parenthood would spend millions of dollars on Ralph Northam's behalf, given his extreme positions like supporting abortions in the eighth or ninth month or just because the unborn child is a girl."

    Emphasis mine. I don't think anyone who's pro choice supports either of these as portrayed. Maybe like.. the fringes of pro choice..

    Good catch of the limits of your own claim. There will certainly be some who choose abortion for such details.

    As for the often stated claim that no one wants a late term abortion, and no doctor performs one unless medically necessary, remember Dr Gosnell.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    but here in the US there isn't a big reason to prefer a boy to a girl. We might not be able to do anything about people having abortions for this reason, but that really is a whole other discussion. To address the earlier remark, I think you'd find that most people who are pro choice would only support an abortion in the 8th or 9th month if there was something seriously wrong with the viability of the baby. Eight or nine months is really late in the pregnancy to be getting an abortion all willy nilly considering that baby would be able to survive.

    The problem with your opinion here is that you are still forcing some subset of women to carry a child to term, and insisting you have a right over the woman's body. To the hardcore feminists and their apologists, you are just as wrong as any pro-lifer.

    Roe v Wade would seem to agree:
    In the third trimester, the interest of the state in "the potentiality of human life"—that is, the life of the fetus before birth—makes it possible to regulate and even prohibit abortions except when necessary to save the life or health of the mother. By this period, the fetus is determined to be viable—that is, capable of living outside the womb—and therefore entitled to protection by the state.

    This is why the pro-life groups ask if a woman should be allowed to have an abortion one day before her due date. Two days? One week? etc. The usual response is deflection rather than a yes or no answer.

    By the way, I have to point out that I am not pro-choice or pro-life. I am agnostic on this topic. I just get tired of the bad arguments and lack of logic I see on both sides.

  17. Re:Is Breitbart actually fake news? on First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role In Spreading Fake News (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Strange. I googled that phrase, and found numerous other sites saying the same thing. Maybe they know something you don't know.

  18. Re:By that standard, the New York Times is fake ne on First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role In Spreading Fake News (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 2

    They don't specify in the article where they get the $3million claim, but that doesn't make it fake news. Maybe they simply read about it at another site.

  19. Re:How can they live? on The No-GPS Road Trip (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    The summary even says the guy couldn't tell he started on a dead end street.

  20. Re:When? on The No-GPS Road Trip (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    From the summary, apparently with one block when the idiot didn't know he was on a dead-end road.

  21. Re:Uh.... on The No-GPS Road Trip (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    And that's how American Picker got started. Catch their next episode Tuesday at 7.

  22. Re: How about people ? on Cats and Dogs Contribute Significantly To Climate Change, Says UCLA Study (patch.com) · · Score: 1

    Too many apostrophes and esses flying around?

  23. Re: And so Facebook can push its own agenda on Facebook Fights Fake News With Links To Other Angles (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you drunk?

  24. The current person in the White House is President of the Electoral College.

    He did not win the popular vote.

    I know I'm an AC, but I've been an AC since 1999, and I miss the days when I came here to read technical discussions, half of which I didn't understand, and before slashdot became filled with alt-right trolls.

    You've been coming here for that long, and still don't believe in reality. That's sad.

    The Electoral College system is how the US president is chosen, and it is not based on popular vote of every adult citizen. Without the electoral college, the Constitution would not have been approved, and the Articles of Confederation would still be in effect, if the United States of America even still existed.

  25. Re: Free TV? Who knew? on Millennials Unearth an Amazing Hack to Get Free TV: the Antenna (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I bought a good long-range antennae, just under $100, has mounts for placing it in the attic, and could even go outside if the weather isn't horrible.

    It gave the exact same performance as the plastic square one you tape to the wall. Granted it was in the same general place as that plastic square one, but the performance shouldn't be just as bad, in just the same way, as all the others I tried.