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  1. Re:You're pressing it wrong on Apple Still Hasn't Fixed Its MacBook Keyboard Problem (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I prefer Windows' 3-button keyboard:

    https://vignette.wikia.nocooki...

  2. Re:well, then on Is Believing In Meritocracy Bad For You? (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Applying the maxim: when you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything.

  3. Less jobs, more tax burden on France Considers Raising Taxes on Internet Giants (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I am sorry to say this, but France is a champion of tax burden. Those gilets jaunes are a symptom this failure. I'll blame this lack of income on the rigid job creation/destruction over-regulation.

  4. Re:What about the other units? on The Future of the Kilo: a Weighty Matter (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    * Kelvin depends on the definition of kg

    How is the triple point of water affected by mass?

    These units should be ORTHOGONAL; not dependent on one another.

    But that would mean we'd have 2.54 Amp per kilogram, how is that useful?

  5. 3 in 7 or 7 in 20... on Struggle With Statistics? Your 'Fixed Mindset' Might Be To Blame (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    ... which is better?

    I think that's enough to show that we need to normalize fractions into a common unit.
    Lets use "ppm" for very low amount, and "percent" for higher quantities.

  6. Hacker who organized... did what? on An Ex-NSA Hacker Who Has Organized the First-Ever Mac Security Conference (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone spoke to hacker who organized...

    Could someone shoot that hanging title?

  7. Re:Obvious troll is obvious... on EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Aaaand 5 times.

    You clearly cannot admit you are wrong.

  8. Re:Yeah I'm sure this will work. on EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You are the one who is trying to make up some other alternative explanation anyway. Why aren't you explaining it?

    Right... Maybe you remember reading my initial comment?

    Ok, so I have single 1000 movies catalog shared in all European countries. 30% German means 300 of them, another 300 French, another 300 Spanish. If they are all in the same catalog, that leaves 100 non-German/French/Spanish movies. I can't even add a 4th country.

    Still under the belief that 30% German - 70% Others can somehow result is something different?
    Will you somehow manage in your 4th try to come up with a example?
    Did the trolls leave you so sore that you cannot state facts anymore?

  9. Re:Yeah I'm sure this will work. on EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I will note that it is the second time you reply without making any effort to explain what alternate interpretation allows to have a single pan-enropean catalog with 30% "made in each EU country" of Germany/France/Spain where there's more than 10% left to be made in another country.

    Can't you pound the facts or the laws? Because pounding the table ad hominem won't save your victim narrative.

  10. Re:Yeah I'm sure this will work. on EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You must be new here, since when does anybody RTFA?

    The proposals will require that streaming services give over at least 30% of their on-demand catalogues to original productions made in each EU country where a service is provided (individual EU Member States could choose to set the content bar even higher, at 40%).

    Maybe you understand "each" differently, how it is supposed to be interpreted then? Will 30% German content cover for France/Spain streaming?

  11. Re:Yeah I'm sure this will work. on EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, well...

    Ok, so I have single 1000 movies catalog shared in all European countries. 30% German means 300 of them, another 300 French, another 300 Spanish. If they are all in the same catalog, that leaves 100 non-German/French/Spanish movies. I can't even add a 4th country.

    What does this mean? Spanish/French movies will not be accessible in Germany, because it's mathematically impossible have 300 of 1000 for each European culture. It's the opposite of spreading culture, nothing but a way to spread money.

    No, the only way to force cultural variety is to limit each country to 30% of the catalog. With 30% Hollywood and 30% British, you have at least 40% left for other European cultures.

    Or if it's really about money, force a certain fraction of collected local income to be spent on local productions.

  12. Re:Unhappy Investors? on Short-Sellers Sue Tesla After Musk's 'Going Private' Tweets (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    "Pump and dump": all the money is upfront, you lose nothing more than what you invested. You might gain 10x what you invested.
    Short-selling: you can lose 2-3 times what you invested.

    One carries more risk than the other, which is why they're not equally illegal.

  13. Re:I think we could make electronic voting secure on Georgia Defends Electronic Voting Machines Despite 243-Percent Turnout In One Precinct (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    *lessen

    Nice typo, but it's also true that the lesson of Democracy is to disenfranchise the 'wrong' type of voter.

  14. Re:Don't dumb down programming, make people smarte on 'The Problem With Programming and How To Fix It' (alarmingdevelopment.org) · · Score: 1

    The average internet user has trouble expressing his ideas, even after years of schooling. Considering they can't master the English language, I'd be surprised if they get any result out of the more formal computer languages.

  15. Re:What's wrong with pascal on Is C++ a 'Really Terrible Language'? (gamesindustry.biz) · · Score: 1

    Well, Macintosh were initially programmed in Pascal. At least is was "once popular" even if there's no legacy left.

  16. Re:Hey, Moron. on 'Plugspreading' is an Abomination (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    plugging 12 things into a single outlet and burning your house down.

    How about a smallish 15A breakers?
    That can handle 15 incandescent 100 W light bulb, or a 1500 W portable heater.
    If you have enough garbage plugged in to heat a small room, you have a real problem and it's not burning your house down.

  17. Re:No. Absolutely not. on Ask Slashdot: Could Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics Ensure Safe AI? (wikipedia.org) · · Score: 1

    Meh, Earthers don't count. Only Spacers are human.

  18. Re:Oh NOES!!! Trump is EVUL!!! on Tech Conferences Moving North as Trump Policies Turn Off Attendees (financialpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Summer, what summer?

    Canada has 4 seasons: winter, before-winter, after-winter, and between-winters.

  19. it's not likely they will have capacities in the giga-joule hour range.

    A giga-joule/hour is 277 kW. A single modern wind turbine generates ten times that much.

    That answer has nothing to do with "Someday we will have flow batteries".

    At least you weren't alone to miss the point.

  20. Go to the source on Google Seeks To Limit 'Right To Be Forgotten' By Claiming It's Journalistic (cjr.org) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I don't like this lazy way of getting forgotten.

    Ask the state to get your conviction stricken from the public records.
    Get newspapers to respect your privacy by hiding newspaper articles about it.
    Get those "forgotten" records hidden from spiders if you still want explicit searches to work.
    THEN, go to Google to clean up what's left.

    If the state believe in the "right to be forgotten" enough to handle the first steps, there should only be low ranking stuff left behind.

  21. Re: It's just easier to have a 2nd device on Ask Slashdot: Why Are There No True Dual-System Laptops Or Tablet Computers? · · Score: 1

    Now I realise that technically speaking that's only one flaw but I thought that it was such a big one that it was worth mentioning twice.

  22. Re: He is sorely missed on Steve Jobs Tried To Warn Mark Zuckerberg About Privacy In 2010 (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Folders are an absolute way to reference data/content. Labels, filters, searches etc. are fuzzy.

    What's the difference between tagging a file as "/doc/social/facebook/photo/cat" and putting it in the /doc/social/facebook/photo/cat folder?

    A folder is just a unique, hierarchical, required tag.

  23. Re:And does it matter? on Ask Slashdot: Is Beaming Down In Star Trek a Death Sentence? · · Score: 1

    Oblig. : https://what-if.xkcd.com/74/

    tl;dr
    No, but you breathed dinosaur farts.

  24. Winter on Automated Cars Are Not Able To Use the Automated Car Wash (thetruthaboutcars.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    they use rubbing alcohol, water, or glass cleaner to manually wash the sensors, before carefully finishing the job with a microfiber cloth.

    Those people have never met snow or the salty sludge thrown around by passing cars.

  25. Programming languages too? on France's Telecom Regulator Thinks Net Neutrality Should Also Apply To Devices · · Score: 1

    Wait until he learns about programming languages...

    In the mean time, all client/server communication should accept all standards: xmlrpc, json, rest, and whatever competing standard I forgot.