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  1. Re: It's a problemtunity on Robots Are Being Used To Shoo Away Homeless People In San Francisco (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    yes, that's true, and the female body can even spontaneously abort a fetus! (all the more reason one should deny them one's essence.)

    it would only be reasonable to medically detain any and all women after potential intercourse, in order to prevent their wicked bodies from murdering their unborn child.

  2. Re:BREAKING NEWS on Andy Rubin's Essential Phone Considered Anything But (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    the market is rational. disagreement with rationality is irrational.

  3. please help me i am confused on Cryptocurrencies Aren't 'Crypto' (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    I do not understand how a bunch of drinking glasses is capable of writing an article. This is so confusing! I think that the author is actually a person, but that doesn't make sense! The word "bicchierai" has always referred to plural drinking glasses, which is a slightly non-standard plural of "bicchiere" by the way. This person is not even a singular drinking glass, and as someone who has used drinking glasses for many years now, this is a problem! The author shouldn't even have the name "Bicchierai"!

  4. Re:Am i missing something here? on MacOS High Sierra Bug Allows Login As Root With No Password (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    technically it belongs to my employer.

  5. Re:All it requires... on MacOS High Sierra Bug Allows Login As Root With No Password (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    fwiw, the OS X spell-check was at some point the only major OS-native spell-check which recognized "misandry" as a word. (yeah, i know it's a joke, i just thought it was interesting.)

  6. Re:Am i missing something here? on MacOS High Sierra Bug Allows Login As Root With No Password (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    you're correct about the behavior of su; i tested it last night after hearing about this.

  7. Re:Marxism - Socialism - National Socialism on Hitler Quote Controversy In the BSD Community · · Score: 2, Informative

    Dinesh D'Souza wrote an entire book on this subject, called "The Big Lie".

    oh, you mean it's not about his extra-marital affairs?

  8. Re: They're bugs, unless they're not on Security Problems Are Primarily Just Bugs, Linus Torvalds Says (iu.edu) · · Score: 1

    yeah, but it probably isn't. there would be much smarter, more widely-deployed, and more cost-effective ways to do it.

    selinux is just easy for people to think of because it was designed by the NSA to scratch their particular bureaucratic itch. but, sure, anything is possible.

  9. Re:They're bugs, unless they're not on Security Problems Are Primarily Just Bugs, Linus Torvalds Says (iu.edu) · · Score: 1

    that works for open source too, it's just trickier.

  10. oh my fucking god who gives a shit? on Critics Debate Autism's Role in James Damore's Google Memo (themarysue.com) · · Score: 1

    why is anyone paying any attention to this? at all?

    i remember back when the whole point of so-called "nerd culture" was to, you know, avoid sensationalistic tabloid culture bullshit.

  11. Re:Wow IT sucks as a career now. on Silicon Valley Thinks It Invented Roommates. They Call It 'Co-living' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    yeah, doctors formed the only successful labor union in the united states, and republicans can't stop slobbering on their knobs (possibly just because they're rich?). go figure. the irony is killing people. literally.

  12. Re: Instills trust, no? on ESR Sees Three Viable Alternatives To C (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    "quite possibly," and yet not for any apparent or adequately-explained reason.

  13. Re:Clearly on Philippine Outsourcing Industry Braces For AI (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    "keeping business running"

    that sounds pretty close to socialism.

  14. uh, yeah, and now there's a robot doing your job. what's your point exactly?

  15. yeah but "good managers" cost even more than good workers. this way, you can save that money by hiring shitty managers to just keep an eye on the temps' Voight-Kampff retinal-engagement score and pass the savings on to the customers^W shareholders. it's a no-brainer, really.

  16. he probably dropped out because he thought it was jewish cultural marxist indoctrination.

  17. This treasonous fuck should be EXECUTED immediately, along with Shillary!!!

  18. Re:Now how about healthcare? on A Japanese Company Is Giving Nonsmokers Longer Vacations (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    this is because we irrationally assign human life a value much, much greater than its market value in most cases.

  19. you're not wrong, but more than that, Windows isn't an acceptable trademark even within the field of window-based operating systems. that's why Microsoft settled its cases against people violating the mark; they knew they stood a good chance of having the trademark invalidated if it went to court.

  20. yes, that's true but... on The Meaning of AMP (adactio.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    i'm willing to entertain the claims of this article, but seriously, if "working web developers" had any more input on standards, we'd all need 16-core CPUs and 64GB of RAM just to use a web browser.

  21. uh, he's trolling.

    but numerical methods are really fascinating. for example, one of the asymptotically-fast multiplication algorithms uses discrete fourier transforms to work in a modulo field both faster and with fewer intermediate rounding steps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  22. the priorities of the vast majority of smartphone users work like this:

    1: ux: it must be easy to use because stopping to think about a password causes "friction" with my obsessive-compulsive lifestyle. any cognitively perceivable delay between thinking about facebook and posting on facebook must be eliminated at all costs.
    2: material design (no, not the google shit): it sure would be nice to have one in gold, and with a huge fragile screen. thin too.
    3: security: i don't want my partner or kids picking it up and realizing that i'm fucking the babysitter.

    face recognition improves (1) and leaves (3) at least plausibly covered. we don't really know how secure it will end up since it hasn't, afaik, delivered yet.

  23. yeah, no one wants face id specifically, but people do want a log-in that doesn't require a gesture but still deters at least casual intrusion. that happens to be done by face id, and the face id process/api is probably also going to be used for advertising/content delivery purposes.

    apple's profit margins are already high enough to be the wet dream of every executive in the tech industry.

  24. Re: Alternative to advertising? on The Internet Is Ripe With In-Browser Miners and It's Getting Worse Each Day (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    sure, i guess, but the total degradation you take for using, say, DRMed web-streaming video rather than an optimized native encoding is still going to be orders of magnitude more significant than the total effect of mining unless you leave you have malware and/or your web browser is on shady sites 24/7.

    afaic, the content cartels should pay out a subsidy to upgrade our computers for this shit.

  25. Or that Tesla is "over-valued" and the "correction" is kicking in, possibly (just possibly...) having something to do with a changing political climate.