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  1. In the original tale the kettle is shiny and the pot is seeing its own refection, so there's a big difference of whether you're the pot or kettle.

  2. Re:Well, sounds like it'll be solved next year on Intel CPU Shortages To Worsen in Q2 2019: Research (digitimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The next gen (Zen2) is supposed to be spectre-proof too

  3. F3 is usually search/find now

  4. Re:More M$ chicanery... on Microsoft Asks Users To Call Windows 10 Devs About ALT+TAB Feature (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    win-key+# does that, where # is the order on the task bar (including pinned programs)

  5. Re:Plenty of idiots who don't get diff patches on Ubisoft's Day-One Patch For 'The Division 2' on PS4 is 90 Gigabytes (eurogamer.net) · · Score: 1

    I think WoW does this, it lets you play with just assets for the starting areas, then downloads the rest while you're grinding away

  6. Re:Closing gender gaps selectively on A 60 Minutes Story on Gender Equality Accidentally Proved the Persistence of Patriarchy (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Whataboutism. Sure that's an issue but we're talking about the tech sector here. Why change the subject?

  7. Re:Never own anything, rent everything on Microsoft Will Launch Disc-Less, 'All Digital' Xbox One S Next Month, Report Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    There's no stipulation that a game on Steam has to use Valve's DRM scheme, it's up to the dev. EA was probably more upset with Valve's 30% take for operating the storefront.

  8. Re:Book recommendations on the history of chemistr on Periodic Table Turns 150 Years Old (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    The Disappearing Spoon is a good read

  9. Re:Um. . . . ok on US Bars Lithium-ion Batteries From Passenger Aircraft Cargo (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know if it's realistic in your scenario but could you ship the gear to your destination ahead of time?

  10. Re:Senate = non representative corrupt dictators on Senate Confirms Former Coal Lobbyist Andrew Wheeler To Lead EPA (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I do think the senate is broken as is, but wouldn't that just make it easier for the lobbyists to select favorable senators? They would only have to convince(or bribe) the state legislators, not the whole populace.

  11. Re:Anti-vax sells! on Anti-Vaccination Conspiracy Theories Thrive on Amazon (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    >How many people write and buy pro-vaccination books?

    Just about everyone that writes or reads Medical and History books. It's still the default stance for the vast majority of people.
    To put it another way; How many people write and buy pro-breathing books?

  12. USB3.x A (usually denoted by being blue) is backwards compatible, but is not the same as older A-ports, it has extra contacts that don't touch when a USB1/2 is plugged in.

  13. Movie reviews shouldn't be taken as an aggregate because everyone has a different experience. The nice thing about critics is you can find ones you agree with most of the time and trust their judgement of a movie, that's impossible if just get a meta-critic style rating or popular average.

  14. Re:Apparently paleontologists never took economics on US Paleontologists Call For a Worldwide Halt To the Sale of Vertebrate Dinosaur Fossils (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    yes, but those digs would just sell straight to the collectors and the scientists see neither bones nor dollars

  15. seconds (second division of an hour) are also Babylonian, and a meter(French) is just as arbitrary as a mile(Roman?).

  16. Re:So is there a corollary policy? on Vox Lawyers Briefly Censored YouTubers Who Mocked the Verge's Bad PC Build Video (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    YouTube circumvents the DMCA by having their own internal take-down/copy-strike system.

  17. Re:Interesting on Montana Legislator Introduces Bills To Give His State His Own Science (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    >Is undeserved blind confidence a trait that's required to go into the field?

    yes, because people will mostly vote for the person that gives a confident answer (even if wrong) over the one that says they don't know or aren't sure.

  18. But that was for America's vanity, not just the president's. Kennedy's deadline was the end of the decade, not the end of his term.

  19. you can't separate the statue out as if it wasn't a monument to white supremacy. Those protesters weren't "pro-statue" they were pro-racism

  20. if you type the "http://" part it won't do a search (YMMV, only tested in Chrome 71)

  21. Re:Global economy must be doing well ... on Fortnite Star Ninja Says He Raked in Millions of Dollars Last Year (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    The money isn't coming from his viewers (who, for the most part, are younger than millennials), it's coming from advertisers.

  22. Re:From playing outside to watching button presses on Fortnite Star Ninja Says He Raked in Millions of Dollars Last Year (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They aren't watching just to see buttons getting pressed. They're watching for the host's commentary and the social interaction with other viewers through chat.

  23. yet another reason to use ISO 8601 date formats, no one is confused if you say 2001-09-11

  24. Re:Call me when they roll it back on Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Build 18290 With Start Menu Improvements (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    They systematically removed useful items like rapid access to the control panel and "my computer" or "this pc", which in turn was your rapid access to system properties. Oh and how about "Run."

    Have you tried right clicking on the start menu? It gives quick access to those things. It's one change I can get behind.

  25. Re:Of course it's not a new low on Trump Says He Doesn't Believe Government Climate Report Finding in a New Low (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Is there such a thing as "Justice Republicans" akin to the Justice Democrats that don't take corporate money?