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  1. Re:heads were removed from anuses on Time To Move on from DevOps and Continuous Delivery, Says Google Advocate (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Next will be when everyone moves their stuff to an "internal" cloud. Just like when people moved off of timeshare mainframes to computers on premise.

    Nah - caching/boost server on premises. So you can have a thin cloud server to go with your thin clients.

  2. Re:the rise of the eyecandy tards on If You Type 1+2+3 Into Your iPhone's Calculator on iOS 11, You Probably Won't Get 6 (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Haptic feedback tells you that you pressed *a* button (if you leave it turned on). iPhone users are more likely to look at their typing finger than at the number display to see which button they pressed.

    I know my main Android keyboard lights up the key in addition to the haptic feedback, and it has never prevented my continued typing.

  3. The app doesn't use the OS keyboard. The whole screen is a calculator and the buttons are there. And for some dumb reason it won't read those buttons while playing an animation. Despite this, I'm fairly sure that their OS keyboard animated in a non blocking way.

  4. Re:the rise of the eyecandy tards on If You Type 1+2+3 Into Your iPhone's Calculator on iOS 11, You Probably Won't Get 6 (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Would you prefer no feedback that the keypress registered? Physical keys give audible and tactile feedback. Just because they were doing it wrong doesn't mean it was the wrong thing to do.

  5. There's nothing wrong with animation. It gives feedback the same way as the click of a key on a physical keyboard. It's only the implementation that's at fault here.

  6. Re:insecure voting machines on US Voting Server At Heart of Russian Hack Probe Mysteriously Wiped (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    They're machines. They are fine with inclusive OR.

  7. Re:They always tell the truth so this is fine on US Voting Server At Heart of Russian Hack Probe Mysteriously Wiped (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    I really wonder if the Republican party will even back him for re-election or officially support a different candidate. It has happened before.

  8. Re:insecure voting machines on US Voting Server At Heart of Russian Hack Probe Mysteriously Wiped (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    they're (gender neutral) "pretty or handsome" (easily genderless, at least in combination) and they are both adjectives and complimentary. I'm not sure what they missed here.

  9. Re:Just like Lois Lerner's drives on US Voting Server At Heart of Russian Hack Probe Mysteriously Wiped (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So two groups of people did illegal things. That doesn't diminish this case one bit.

  10. Re:Reddit's biggest problem on Reddit Conducts Wide-Ranging Purge of Offensive Subreddits (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    upvote everyone in the thread

    Effectively accomplishing nothing.

  11. Re:Oh boo-hoo! on Reddit Conducts Wide-Ranging Purge of Offensive Subreddits (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They can make them whites only, blacks only, jews only, etc. There are no laws anywhere stating otherwise.

    Yeah, there are. Just like I can't open a restaurant and put a "No Blacks" sign on the door.

  12. It's how you create or acquire the pictures that are dangerous. See: child porn.

  13. Re:Good bye, old friend... on Reddit Conducts Wide-Ranging Purge of Offensive Subreddits (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    In what way is Six Apart a Russian company? It is a Japanese company that acquired Livejournal and then sold that to a Russian company (SUP Media). Six Apart is still not a Russian company.

  14. I won't buy a Samsung because I like plain Android and it's a lot of trouble to put everything back the way I like it. I still want a nice Android phone.

  15. Re:Inequality is meaningless on 'The Second Gilded Age Is Upon Us' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    those that cannot or will not remain on necessary medications after treatment should be institutionalized

    Which gives them somewhere to live and exactly what I meant.

  16. Re:Inequality is meaningless on 'The Second Gilded Age Is Upon Us' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    There are not economic solutions to mental problems.

    There is less mental illness in primitive societies. Living here literally helps you go crazy.

    But yes, there are economic solutions. Homeless are on the street because they can't get their medicines (either because of practical/money problems or their own mental state), and it's a self-repeating cycle. Residential institutions for the mentally ill are still needed today, but most have closed due to modern medicines and lack of funding - despite there still being a need. The economic solution would give them somewhere to live.

  17. Re:Guillotine time. on 'The Second Gilded Age Is Upon Us' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Said with the compassion of Darwin. If you're not the fittest, you don't even deserve to survive?

  18. Re:Inequality is meaningless on 'The Second Gilded Age Is Upon Us' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The homeless don't have mud huts or the means to move somewhere where mud is abundant.

  19. Re:Is there a problem? on Uber Faces Engineers' Lawsuit Alleging Gender, Race Bias (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    All observations show that they're indeed less capable here -- on the average.

    I don't disagree with that. But the vast majority of men don't choose to become engineers either. So overall, it's more a matter of choice.

  20. Re:Is there a problem? on Uber Faces Engineers' Lawsuit Alleging Gender, Race Bias (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    My point is that the only firms that approach gender equity are the ones that are big enough to attract and hire the best women developers out there.

    At smaller companies they may indeed be diversity hires, because the pool is not large. I don't believe that's because women are any less capable - but they're obviously fewer in number right from the introductory university course.

  21. In other words, we've narrowed the set of use cases affected by this restriction to where (i) only one person is watching (ii) a short video for which (iii) fine detail is important.

    Not really. You were actually saying this somehow encourages people to view video on a smaller device rather than a larger screen. I'm telling you why the size of the screen doesn't really determine what quality is desired - I mostly always want a sharp picture.

    Would you prefer that phone bills double to cover the purchase of additional land on which to erect more towers?

    Don't be disingenuous. Their rates are already high enough to cover that. They'd just rather engage in deceptive marketing and call it all profit.

  22. Re:Linux in Action! on Equifax Was Warned (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Apache Struts had plenty of quality control. The bugs in question were patched LONG before any breach. The fact that it's open source is what enabled a third-party security company to discover and report the security vulnerability so quickly.

    It's a double-edged sword, since not patching your systems means that vulnerabilities are published for all to see. But the patch was available.

  23. So watch 30 minute content. Or a Youtube video. It still doesn't validate why the restriction should vary.

  24. Re:Is there a problem? on Uber Faces Engineers' Lawsuit Alleging Gender, Race Bias (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    This is not to say that very highly skilled female/minority engineers don't exist

    Absolutely agree. And the reason why so many of them work at Google is because they can.

  25. Re:No One Wants a Roku Account on Roku Wants To Start Streaming To Third-Party Devices (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    This x 1000. This is primary the reason why I don't recommend a Fire Stick, Chromecast, or Apple TV to any of my customers - this is why it works with almost everything. The UI and remote is the other.