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  1. Re: Connective Tissue on Meet the Interstitium, the Largest Organ We Never Knew We Had (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Organs are collections of tissues with a similar function. Skin is a collection of tissues which all perform a similar function.

    Explain how you do not know what an organ is. This is one of the first things that comes up in basic grade school biology.

  2. Re:Parasitic Western middleman goes obsolete on Foxconn Announces Purchase of Belkin, Wemo, and Linksys (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    No thanks, my wife provides more than I would ever need or want.

  3. Re: "ICOs, token sales and crypto-wallet services" on Twitter Moves To Ban Crypto Ads (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    That's assuming you ever get the cryptocurrency. Quite a few ICOs have turned out to be scams.

    You get the shares of stocks that you buy. Worst case, you get suckered into a buying a worthless stock, but you will actually own the worthless shares that you bought.

  4. Re: "ICOs, token sales and crypto-wallet services" on Twitter Moves To Ban Crypto Ads (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    For simplicity, we'll ignore the difference between common and preferred stock. In general, owning a share entitles you to a share of any dividend the company pays. If the share is not a non-voting series, it also entitles you to a vote on the appointment of people to the board of directors and any other company matters that the board decides to hold a vote on. Finally, if the company goes bankrupt, it entitles you to a share of what's left over, if anything, after creditors and bondholders have been paid (usually nothing is left since companies tend to dig themselves into deep debt before bankruptcy).

  5. Re:"ICOs, token sales and crypto-wallet services". on Twitter Moves To Ban Crypto Ads (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    A share of stock in a company actually gives you a tiny percentage of ownership in that company. It's not a vague promise to deliver a share of ownership at some later date, which is what an ICO is.

    When you buy into an ICO, all they have is a plan to eventually create a cryptocurrency. You get no coins... just a vague promise that they'll eventually give you some once they get around to creating them.

    To be fair, a few of them actually have created a cryptocurrency and delivered coins, but most have either vanished with investor money or turned out to be ponzi schemes.

  6. Re:Alternatively: on One Percent of Reddit Users Cause 75 Percent of the Drama (theoutline.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    99% spend all their time in pseudo-intellectual masturbation

    To be fair, at least half of them spend time in the NSFW subreddits engaging in non-intellectual masturbation.

  7. Re:Yes, yes they do qualify as trolls. on One Percent of Reddit Users Cause 75 Percent of the Drama (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    The study was done by a group at Stanford University, not by Reddit. Did you not even read the summary before posting?

  8. They used 40 months of data.

  9. Re:84? on Tumblr Takes Down 84 Russia-Linked Accounts (thehill.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Because the left _Must_ push the russia narrative. it's all they have.

    Well, that and 22 indictments with 5 guilty pleas so far. But keep telling yourself that there's nothing there.

  10. Re:Let's Give Him a Taste of His Own Medicine on Flat-Earther's Steam-Powered Rocket Lofts Him 1,875 Feet Up Into Mojave Desert (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I get the point that you're making, but here's the video. Even if he is a moron about the shape of the earth, he deserves a bit of credit for successfully building a steam powered rocket, launching it and landing it.

  11. And a parkway isn't where you park and a driveway isn't where you drive.

    Whining about how people use language won''t make them use it the way you want them to. It just makes them dislike you and listen to you less.

  12. Re:Religion? Google's Religion is Money on Sex Workers Say Porn On Google Drive Is Suddenly Disappearing (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Porn has nothing to worry about from the Right

    So how do you explain the 114 Republicans who voted for FOSTA?

    FOSTA makes websites responsible for misuse by users, so one set of nudes that turns out to be a prostitute advertising makes the website owners into felons. FOSTA does nothing to the people actually committing the crimes, either, as it's sole purpose is to take away the section 230 protections that website owners had up until now.

    The House passed FOSTA a few weeks ago and the Senate passed it four days ago. It's not a coincidence that Google started taking down anything that might be pornographic before Trump signs it and it becomes law.

    So tell us again why porn sites have nothing to fear from the right.

  13. Re:It's ever commercial app, not just fb on Facebook Scraped Call, Text Message Data For Years From Android Phones (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    it's too instantaneous to say "oh, just use targeted permissions after installation". Nope; it will suck down your contacts and sms history faster than you can switch over to lock it down.

    Where are you installing apps from? When you install an app from the Google Play store, it doesn't launch automatically and you can set the permissions before you launch it for the first time. There is no "faster than you can switch over."

  14. Re:Government shooting itself in the foot on Craigslist Personals, Some Subreddits Disappear After FOSTA Passage (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Informative
  15. Re:DNC Hacker on More Evidence Ties Alleged DNC Hacker Guccifer 2.0 To Russian Intelligence (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting
  16. Re:Modern humans on A Star Grazed Our Solar System 70,000 Years Ago, Early Humans Likely Saw It (space.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    It means they're talking about Homo sapiens (same species as all the idiots wandering around on the planet today) who were around 70,000 years ago along side Homo neanderthalensis (who were not modern humans and are no longer around, unless you count some DNA left over from our ancestors fucking anything that held still long enough).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  17. Re:The last few days have been strangely coordinat on Reddit Bans Subreddits Related To Selling Guns, Drugs, Sex, and More (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    You figured it out. It's those damned bow and arrow makers who are behind the conspiracy to get guns banned in order to drive up their sales!

  18. Re:One sided debate on YouTube Bans Firearms Demo Videos, Entering the Gun Control Debate (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    YouTube never made the claim that they would publish everything. Their community guidelines have always imposed limits on what can be posted.

  19. I don't think we're in Kansas any more, Toto on African Manufacturing Jobs Could be Threatened by US Based Robots, Report Says (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    A robot is gonna take your job away from you
    There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
    And now the jobs are lost in Africa
    Gonna take a miracle to keep the things we had

  20. Re:This is truly a nightmare. on IBM Unveils the 'World's Smallest Computer' (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    this... makes it impossible to keep existing in this world.

    Okay. Be sure to fill out your organ donor card before you stop existing in this world. That way you can help at least a few other people on your way out.

  21. Re:Slashdot loved Obama Campaigns data analytics on Facebook Hires Firm To Conduct Forensic Audit of Cambridge Analytica Data (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Slightly different situation. Facebook sold data to the Obama campaign. Cambridge Analytica harvested data that they didn't pay Facebook for. Facebook wants their cut.

  22. Re:Does Dear Leader on Trump Bans Venezuela's New National Cryptocurrency (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The embargo of trade with Cuba was initiated by an executive order, so there's strong precedence for it.

  23. Re:Nazis have lost their meaning on YouTube Is Full of Easy-To-Find Neo-Nazi Propaganda (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    "limited the clips to propaganda for established neo-Nazi and far-right terrorist organizations like Atomwaffen, rather than people in the so-called "alt-right."

    Newsflash: They literally excluded anyone who didn't self-identify as part of a neo-nazi organization. You'd have known that if you'd read the summary before venting your outrage at an imagined insult to Republicans.

  24. Re:Just a reminder: on Windows 10 Is Finally Adding Tabs To File Explorer (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    The WordVision DOS word processor for the IBM PC in 1982 was perhaps the first commercially available product with a tabbed interface.

    It's funny how you think a 36 year old interface element being implemented by Microsoft is bad despite the fact that every piece of software you named was also copying it from earlier software.

  25. Re:But it is ok for women. on Facebook Asks Users: Should We Allow Men To Ask Children For Sexual Images? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Not really. This is an example of a loaded question that's mean to get a specific response.

    To your point, people do tend to find adult women pursuing underage boys to be less offensive than adult men pursuing underage girls, so phrasing the question with the genders reversed would probably result in a fewer people saying it was offensive.

    The person who wrote the question most likely chose what they felt was the most offensive example in order to sway people toward giving the response that it is not acceptable. This does imply that it is okay for women to hit on underage boys any more than it implies that it would be okay for aliens to abduct and anally probe children.