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  1. This isn't any different than how it works with Amazon, who also uses words like "buy" and "purchase" to represent their permanent rentals of books, music, and movies.

    That's the model now.

  2. Re: if still with aol, hotmail, yahoo, or bing on Is Your Email Address Holding You Back? (wsj.com) · · Score: 0

    If you still use the web-based interface to gmail, you aren't that technical.

  3. Old man yells at cloud.

  4. Re:There's only two reasons you'd patent this: on Facebook Patent Imagines Triggering Your Phone's Mic When a Hidden Signal Plays on TV (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    What, you think Google is any better? The war is over. Privacy lost.

  5. Re:Wait, all of us? on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Parental education is the amount of education parents have received. Not home schooling.

  6. Re: Wait, all of us? on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    For example when is the IQ test conducted?

    This study isn't all too different than other similar (but now historical) studies on US populations. True, large panel studies like the NLSY are more traditional panels, but they don't do a good job of tracking between-cohort change over time, like studies in the TFA are well suited to do (with caveats: e.g. no females in this case).

    This is just one case that bucks the trend, but it's a serious one.

  7. Re:The so-called Flynn Effect... on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    They're using population level data. You'd compare it to a similar population and make similar socioeconomic adjustments.

    For what it is worth, the previous findings were done more or less the same way. This one should have replicated the previous findings, and didn't. Thus the attention.

    For those that work in the area, this is something of a big deal.

  8. Re:Waluigi, the rightfully unloved Nintendo charac on 'Waluigi Was Robbed and Humiliated by Nintendo' (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Still, to this day, Waluigi remain to my eye the most unimportant character of the franchise.

    Worse than $random_toad_02 in New Super Mario Bros.? They simply made different color Toads because they couldn't be bothered to add a real fourth playable character.

  9. Just use different roads. You've got that fancy motor thing and the big round steery thing.

  10. Still no cure for Ubi's stupid design choices.

  11. Re:Ahh, sanded jeans. on Levi Strauss Replaces Human Sanding With Automated Lasers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    What? Someone who doesn't get fashion on Slashdot?

    The short short version: The US is a classless society, thus we are all bootstrappy working folk at heart. We want to relax in our well-worn worker clothing, even if we don't actually have the time or patience to wear in said clothing ourselves. Or if in fact said clothing is made with ultra light stretchy material instead of heavy cotton duck and wouldn't survive long enough to look right, anyway.

  12. Re:The video is cool on Levi Strauss Replaces Human Sanding With Automated Lasers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It blows my mind that people of this generation are so lazy that they won't go out and do things that get their jeans worn.

    We can thank the boomers for preworn denim. What the hell do you think stone and acid washes were?

  13. Re:Those numbers are all the same up there on Man, Seeking New Copy of Windows 7 After Forced Windows 10 Upgrade, Sues Microsoft (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Statistics? Oh you mean that thing where humans often take facts and feed them into a process that turns it into their favorite flavor of bullshit?

    Yeah, we understand how statistics "work",

    No, you don't.

  14. Re:feminists BTFO on Female Uber Drivers Get Paid Less Than Men, Says Study (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Parent doesn't do data science, I hope.

    Here is a pretty big hint, though: The only thing the population of Uber drivers is representative of is Uber drivers. Maybe also we could infer to Lyft drivers.

  15. Which is why he should have used spike strips instead of cones and a tank instead of a bicycle.

    Suck it, non tank-drivers.

  16. Re:Say "Check your ableism" on Should Apps Replace Title Bars with Header Bars? (gnome.org) · · Score: 2

    "Spastic? My aunt has cerebral palsy. Please check your ableism."

    That appeal to authority through familial disadvantage does nothing to refute the argument that without disability, one ought to be able to manage the windows as they are.

  17. Re:What is this new age waffle doing on slashdot? on Do Particles Have Consciousness? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    The beauty of emergence is that it isn't falsifiable.

    (So, total crap).

  18. Re:Binary or a spectrum? on Do Particles Have Consciousness? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Because we each know that we individually have consciousness.

    Know this, do we? What's the proof?

  19. Counterpoint on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The movie stands as an excellent counterpoint to the book. Anyone that can't handle that is obviously a bit more happy with the idea of managed democracy than they'd like to let on.

  20. Re:I'm shocked, shocked! on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Maybe it is because most in Hollywood find conservative messages to be dumb.

    Or: you completely forgot all the Action movies from the 80's and 90's. Possibly both are presently now true.

  21. I'd think you'd want an economist if you were interested in what might happen with the economy after an anti-trust intervention, not a lawyer.

  22. Re: So who advertises on Fox News Hannity? on Burger King Makes the Case For Net Neutrality (variety.com) · · Score: 2

    On a "number of restaurant per capita" basis it looks that way,

    Which is the only meaningful way to talk about where a chain has concentrated its business.

  23. Re:The funny thing is this was technically net + on High Sierra Root Login Bug Was Mentioned on Apple's Support Forums Two Weeks Ago (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    If they have physical access to the machine and the data isn't encrypted, it doesn't matter whether or not the patch was applied.

  24. More like "how likely you are to pay off a loan using an arbitrarily restricted set of predictors because that makes it easy for us".

    There are plenty of good predictors out there that have nothing to do with holding more credit cards, the big three are simply lazy.

  25. You can have tens of thousands in student loan debt and owe tens of thousands on an auto loan and still break 800. Sure, you can have a score higher than that, but I'm not sure what you'd need it for.