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  1. Why would anyone expect anything else? on Half Of Americans Think Presidential Nominating System 'Rigged' (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Surely a party can support whomever they choose? Why wouldn't they pick someone "with close ties to their parties"?

    Do people also think they should have a say in whom the Green party supports for President?

  2. Re:Already have reusable pods.... on Keurig Spends 10 Years Developing A Recyclable Coffee Cup (boston.com) · · Score: 1

    surely that defeats the entire purpose of using k-cups in the first place.

  3. Re:Yes, but no. on Amazon Customers Sign Letter To Jeff Bezos To Dump Donald Trump (thestreet.com) · · Score: 1

    How does there money get funneled there? Do you think that Amazon makes a loss on those products and pays Trump's campaign more than they charge for the items funding the difference with the profits from selling "Hard Choices"?

  4. Depends.

    If he wins the nomination then certainly. If he doesn't win the nomination then it further depends on whether that triggers significant changes in the republican party.

  5. Re:a shot across the bow has been made on PayPal Pulls North Carolina Plan After Transgender Bathroom Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Because it appears to be binary. For most people every person they meet during their lives fits into one category or appears to fit into one category (since it's not something they ask about to find out anyway).

  6. So your argument boils down to that you think this person should be forced to use the female bathroom because they were "born female": https://metrouk2.files.wordpre...

  7. Re:Not just a bathroom law on PayPal Pulls North Carolina Plan After Transgender Bathroom Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    They are meaningless terms if you happen to be big enough to draw the ire of the Federal government. For example, http://www.usnews.com/news/art...

  8. Re:Nobody from the USA? on Panama Papers: Data Leak Exposes Massive Official Corruption (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Americans don't use the "fourth largest" provider or such services... It's not even in the top 3!

  9. Re:Oh Look! Amazon Basics Cables! on Amazon.com Now Bans USB Type-C Cables That Aren't Up To Spec (google.com) · · Score: 2

    If you are buying cables in order to review if they are to spec or not, then it would seem to me you would much rather be able to write the review "It set my computer on fire" than "It failed test 18".

  10. What exactly did they expect on Microsoft's 'Teen Girl' AI Experiment Becomes a 'Neo-Nazi Sex Robot' · · Score: 1

    When they ran a bot which has a "repeat after me" command so that anyone can make it say anything?

  11. Re:The guy was ripping off leftpad on How One Dev Broke Node and Thousands of Projects In 11 Lines of JavaScript (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Of course that's what abstraction layers are all about.

    I do not have to understand the mathematical details and theorems that make SSL work in order to use an SSL library.

    I do not have to understand how the letter T is displayed on a computer screen in order to use I/O libraries.

    I do not have to understand Z-buffering in order to use a high level graphics library.

    I do not have to understand how a modem encodes data for transmission in order to use a library that uses one.

  12. Re:And nothing of value was lost on How One Dev Broke Node and Thousands of Projects In 11 Lines of JavaScript (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The compact code is just as if not more readable in this case. Well assuming Array(n).join(c) is an idiomatic way to create a string of n c characters - I don't do javascript to know - if it isn't then replace it with what is, which I seriously hope isn't str='';i=-1;while(++i<n) {str = c + str;}

  13. 1. The new owner apparently asked them to, so that would be permission.

    2. They already have permission since the license the "software" was published under gave it to them.

  14. Re:The guy was ripping off leftpad on How One Dev Broke Node and Thousands of Projects In 11 Lines of JavaScript (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Bullshit.

    Dependencies and libraries are fine. If you want to use SSL encryption in your software you should try and re-implement it all, because while SSL libraries have been having security issues in the last few years there's almost zero chance you make something that doesn't have bigger ones. Multiply that by all the domain specific pieces of code you need.

    Not having to understand what's actually going on is a feature not a problem.

    What is retarded is using a dependency that exists out in the internet somewhere only, so that your code breaks if some random internet service disappears. As long as you have your own copy of the dependency it's fine. Some asshat can't yank them away since you have your own copy that doesn't magically stop working. Obviously you want the source code, or at the very least the source code escrowed somewhere that you obtain if the provider vanishes in the future.

  15. Re:Crossover in 2045! on Ashley Madison Says It Added 4 Million Members Since the Hack (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    1. The user number is not US only.
    2. The population counter factors in deaths, dead AM users and still AM users.

  16. Re:The worst humanity has to offer on Ashley Madison Says It Added 4 Million Members Since the Hack (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    "Serial marriage" isn't being counted as "staying married". It's a very simple concept, let's try and say it slower for you...

    1. 50% of marriages end in divorce.
    2. >50% of people marry do not get divorced.

    This is possible because there are people who marry, get divorced, and then marry again, then get divorced again.

    Take the trivial example of a set of 7 people. Two of then call them A and B get married. Two others call them C and D also get married. Two others call them E and F also get married. Then C and D divorce and then C marries the final person call them G. Then C and G divorce. In this world of 7 people 4 people married and never divorced while 3 people married and divorced (at least once). So 57% of people "stayed married". However there were 4 marriages and 2 divorces so 50% of marriages end in divorce.

    Whether that is the case in the actual world is another matter of course, I don't care enough to look up the stats.

  17. You have to go through US customs on the way back. It's a huge hassle and thus some people don't bother.

    Where did you read anything blaming Europe in that sentence? Or is that just your paranoia playing up?

  18. Re:This is getting tiresome on A Proposal For Dealing With Terrorist Videos On the Internet (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    Still doesn't make sense. First you say such videos should not be removed. Secondly you say they should not be allowed on Internet. Changing "Internet" to "news youtube channels" doesn't change the contradiction of not removing them while also not allowing them,

  19. Seems pretty obvious that blowing up planets on Economists Discuss the Financial Repercussions of the Destruction of the Death Stars (hackaday.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    for things as trivial as trying to get a prisoner to talk is going to have a larger impact on the galactic economy than the destruction of the death star.

  20. Re:Its always someone else's problem on Flint, Michigan Declares State of Emergency Over Lead In Children's Blood (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The river doesn't have those levels of lead. So obviously not.

    The lead comes from the pipes, which unsurprisingly the water still in the river hasn't gone through...

  21. I really hope he ends up President on Donald Trump: America Should Consider "Closing the Internet Up In Some Way" (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    At first it was just going to the hilarity of his finger on the nuclear button.

    But it just gets better every time it brings up an idea.

    Look it all has to end sometime, it might as well at least by humorous.

  22. Re:I liked it more before.... on The Story of the CEO Paying Everyone $70k Gets Complicated · · Score: 1

    So "acts in what they believe is in their self-interest" then, which I suspect is really what was being claimed anyway.

  23. Re:it was just too long on Now We Know Why the Hobbit Movies Were So Awful (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    LOTR is a 1000 page trilogy. The Hobbit is a 100 page children's story.

  24. Why not contrast it with eating a banana? Since it has more relevance to that than beating up refugees.

    None-childish asshole businesses withdraw there services in some way that impacts the politics they don't like. This is refusing service to all people with the name "Fred" because someone with the name "Alan" holds a different political view to himself.

  25. Re:Fairly trivial software? on Paper Retracted After Anti-Immigrant Scientist Bans Use of His Software (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Clearly you have not had to deal with software written by biologists. It doesn't matter how trivial it is, it is not going to be an afternoon...

    I've seen an awk script that did FASTA searches which, and I'm not making this up, used a subset of regular expressions for the searching and the bulk of the script converted those into strings to match with - completely ignoring that awk already does regular expressions better than they ever will... I'm so glad I don't have to deal with that particular collection of code anymore.