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  1. This has more comments that any story on slashdot recently. Nerds clearly care and are arguing about nonsense. It's brilliant. But it doesn't matter.

    Call yourself a nerd, 6 digit? Hand in your card and shave your neck.

  2. Re:Isn't the "art" market on Banksy Artwork Self-Destructs At Auction Right After Being Sold For $1.3 Million (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Financial incentive is not the only incentive, for a start.

    But moreover, what he's saying (I assume) is that everyone who inherits a fortune, makes a fortune through a lucky break or exploits the hard work of thousands of others ought to be prepared to give a bit back.

    Nobody 'earns' a billion dollars. The hardest working people earn the least.

    Look at world around you without a 90% tax rate. Does it look fair to you? Are resources fairly distributed?

  3. Re:No surprise on It's 2018 and USB Type-C Is Still a Mess (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 1

    You can, but USB 3 doesn't (use signal differentiation to get gigabit speeds down USB 1/2 cables).

    Learn how to speak English, nerd ;)

  4. Re:You WANT to eat where they don't accept Cash on What Happens When Restaurants Go Cashless (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    No, once they refuse your cash, you have no food.

    You are free to walk out, hungry.

  5. Re: Lower prices right? on What Happens When Restaurants Go Cashless (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, you can walk out. But you won't get any food in the process. You have to pay first- no debt.

  6. Re: Lower prices right? on What Happens When Restaurants Go Cashless (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    No pay, no get food, no debt. Keep up.

  7. Re:If you believe in lies, then you become extremi on Fake News Sharing In US Is a Rightwing Thing, Says Oxford Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Haha, very good.

    This is not an academic paper of course, just my opinion. But since you asked.... Yes, do. Just a couple of links I found pretty easily while in the train:

    http://roofindustryalliance.co...

    https://info.lse.ac.uk/current... :p

  8. Re: If you believe in lies, then you become extre on Fake News Sharing In US Is a Rightwing Thing, Says Oxford Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The thing with academic studies is that they are repeatable.

    They strive to eliminate basis by there very nature.

    That's something you learn at university.

  9. Re:If you believe in lies, then you become extremi on Fake News Sharing In US Is a Rightwing Thing, Says Oxford Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    GP didn't say less smart. You did, because of your inability to think critically.

  10. Re:If you believe in lies, then you become extremi on Fake News Sharing In US Is a Rightwing Thing, Says Oxford Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    No one is saying you need a university education to be roofer.

    The augment is that designing, implementing and analysing studies (particularly those which investigate the veracity of political news, and credibility of various sources) in a way which can be peer reviewed and have their methodology and sources clearly embedded in them - which enables repeatability and denies accusations of bias - is the domain of academics.

    The roofer may well have more real world intelligence, and definitely has like domain specific knowledge. But they are not trained and experienced in critical thinking, which forms the basis of academic life. That doesn't make them dumb - and the GP didn't say it did, you mentioned that first.

  11. Facts are not subjective. Fake news is generally very simple to identify, objectively.

    See anything Trump says about TV ratings, for example.

  12. Re:Windows is the overhead here on Munich Plans New Vote on Dumping Linux For Windows 10 (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 2

    > Nobody will pay for Office when open source office suites are free.

    That just hasn't happened though has it?

    The deal here is that if they 'need' to keep 4000 windows PCs around, they are as easy to manage as 20000 PCs. The license cost is negligible next to the setup, the admins and the tin.

    So the don't 'need' the Linux PCs at all. If we could get rid of the last 4000 windows boxes, things would be different - that's where the problem lies, in the long tail, not the bulk.

  13. Re:Cheaper to license, costlier to support on Munich Plans New Vote on Dumping Linux For Windows 10 (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Dude, it's 2017. Even Windows admin is done with PowerShell.

    Have you ever had to look after more than 5 servers?

    Scripting is faster, easier, more repeatable, version control-able, better in virtually every way except perhaps during discovery, when you don't know what you are doing and click around blindly or follow a wizard. Even then, that should be guiding the creation of your script or helping you write an answer file.

    Tell me, how do you record those mouse clicks? Can you play them back if you need to rebuild an identical server?

  14. Re:So is this called Terrorism? on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    1,516 mass shootings in 1,735 days
    https://www.theguardian.com/us...

    Learn something.

  15. Thank you, for the only bit of info about WHY they are doing this!

  16. Re: Intentionally poor headline on The iPhone Is Guaranteed To Last Only One Year, Apple Argues In Court (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The EU guarantees 2 year warranties on everything.

    What a socialist hell-hole this place is.

  17. Re:Also on the list on Supreme Court Asked To Nullify the Google Trademark (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Because google is not googol

  18. Re:Vehicle Ban? on France Set To Ban Sale of Petrol and Diesel Vehicles By 2040 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, you have faith in the market.

    I can safely ignore you then.

  19. Re:Is the production of new vehicles accounted for on France Set To Ban Sale of Petrol and Diesel Vehicles By 2040 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You're still missing the point. Forcing people to buy new cars earlier than they would naturally means MORE new cars have to be produced.

    The effect this has on overall emissions depends on the mileage improvements and number of miles driven.

    Small improvements and low miles = more emissions overall.

  20. Re:oh lord it leads to a twitter page on The New iPad Pro Review (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    A 13 inch laptop.
    "Pro".

    How cute!

  21. Re:nearly impossible to anticipate? on Chess.com Has Stopped Working On 32bit iPads After the Site Hit 2^31 Game Sessions (chess.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing to do with 64 bit hardware... Except that it worked on 64 bit hardware and didn't work on 32 bit hardware.

    They could have used long long... But they didn't, so the hardware mattered.

  22. The median is an average. Were you thinking he was thinking of the mean? Ambiguous declarations cause all sorts of unexpected problems...

  23. Except people wouldn't be so desperate for jobs. So their reward would be more in line with how necessary they are, not how easy they are to fill. Some of the shittiest jobs (literally) might go up.

  24. Re:Why have a port open and listening all the time on Network Time Protocol Hardened To Protect Users From Spying, Increase Privacy (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Check your protocols.

    Actually, establishing (and tearing down) an encrypted TCP channel is far less simple than UDP based ntp.

    The open port isn't a requirement, but it is how ntp does the important (and complicated) part - establishing what the real time actually is, without blind faith in just one other server.

  25. Re: Even the correction is wrong! Holy shit! on Slashdot Asks: Do You Still Use RSS? · · Score: 2

    You're right, it's not a big deal.

    So why is it so hard for the editors to get right?