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  1. Re:Does it matter? on Microplastics Found In 90 Percent of Table Salt (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    That was suspiciously left out of the article for some reason.

    There's nothing suspicious about it at all. There is actually not much research on the health implications of microplastics.

  2. Re: Bound for failure on Struggle With Statistics? Your 'Fixed Mindset' Might Be To Blame (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. So do you start by throwing the complete works of shakespere at them?

    Also we're not teaching people, we're disseminating information. Or maybe you intend to start every post where you wish to use a percentage symbol with a 2 page primer of mathematics. In which case I tip my hat to you. That's more effort than most people will put in. The rest of us just find appropriate methods of communication.

  3. Re:here is a better solution on GPU-Z Can Now Detect Fake NVIDIA Graphics Cards (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have been in hardware at all, you would know that almost all of the fake equipment comes out of China.

    I know that. Maybe try re-reading my post.

  4. Re: Wuddabout Apple? on Google To Charge Smartphone Makers For Google Play in Europe (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Oooh burn. Honestly I expected another round of silly arguments from you. I'm kind of upset you folded so easily. I mean predictable since you don't appear to have a clue what the words anti-competitive actually mean in an article about anti-competitive practices, but really man... I'm disappointed.

  5. Now that Trump is in power he can stop his own government departments spreading fake news about the global warming hoax started by Jhina

  6. You missed the point of S mode on this device. Being ARM architecture the S mode limiting you to the windows store and UWP you're guaranteed to be given software that is either compiled for or architecturally compatible with the emulator for the poor choice of platform running an OS not designed for it.

    With such a crippled device there's little point not running Windows S mode.

  7. Re:Tablets are SO Last Thursday on Apple To Announce New iPads on October 30 (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not that they are boring, it's just I have one. So does my sister, and my mother, and my father. They are well and truly competing with themselves and people are starting to realise that they aren't offering any new killer features.

  8. Re:There goes Aliexpress... on US Announces Plans To Withdraw From 144-Year-Old Postal Treaty (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    For this to be in your benefit you need to first have a product that people want to buy. Just like the trade wars all you're doing is again applying a tax on people who can't afford "Made in America".

  9. Re: Bound for failure on Struggle With Statistics? Your 'Fixed Mindset' Might Be To Blame (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Percentages are a way of applying consistent base units, but you argue against it?

    I'm struggling to understand what it is you don't get when I say: "The problem is always finding out what the easiest actually is." You persist in talking about absolutes showing a fundamental lack of understanding of how to communicate with people. I never dismissed percentages, I only argued that you should explain something in its simplest terms, quite often that isn't in percentages.

    If you can't move a decimal point, you are not worth explaining statistics to.

    How elitist of you. That's a fast track way to get yourself killed by anti-vaxxers, or by a superbug thanks to the thinking that the uneducated are not worth speaking to.

    Everyone is worth explaining statistics to.

  10. Re:here is a better solution on GPU-Z Can Now Detect Fake NVIDIA Graphics Cards (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    No I'm just calling out the absurdity of your idea that you're able to "filter" things by where they are made.

    I'm interested to know how you think you will be able to control the information you receive on the source of the cards from people who in this case are not only untrustworthy but have a vested interest to lie to keep their scam going.

  11. Re:F Google, use DuckDuckGo on Google's CEO Says Tests of Censored Chinese Search Engine Have Been Very Promising (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Comparing Altavista to the global monopoly that is Alphabet Inc which is being investigated for anti-competitive practices makes no sense.

    A far more fitting comparison would be 1999 talking about 2000 being the year of linux on desktop. Altavista had functional superiority. That can easily be replaced. Google on the other hand is (to excuse my french) a fucking monster.

  12. Re:Microsoft killed any hope by violating the stan on 'Do Not Track,' the Privacy Tool Used By Millions of People, Doesn't Do Anything (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh I agree it was weaselly and had no teeth. What I'm saying is the original principle was palatable for the advertisers. That changed when it became opt out instead of opt in.

    You said it yourself: "The ad industry knows full well that the majority of users don't have the information or knowledge to make this meaningful choice."

  13. Re: Wuddabout Apple? on Google To Charge Smartphone Makers For Google Play in Europe (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Is that the Kindle Fire sold first and foremost under the brand for reading Amazon content, marketed for use with Amazon content, actually locked down to Amazon content, doesn't have access to the Play Store or Google services, and effectively makes it about equal to Windows RT in terms of what consumers expect and what is delivered?

    You spoke to my point perfectly. You just described the "success" of a product that would absolutely fail being marketed as an Android Phone, ... Or an Android device in general.

    You may notice that on Amazon's website they don't even mention the term "Android" anywhere.

  14. Are they authorizing the police to search on their behalf- or literally giving them the right to search their property?

    They are requiring the accused to let the legal team in the presence of court staff in to look for and take only the specific piece of listed evidence that the plaintiff must first prove you already have and prove that you're likely to destroy.

    You can turn them down if contempt of court is a better option for you.

    The bar for these requests are insanely high so these orders are rarely given. They are called "Anton Piller Orders".

  15. I was astonished to hear that, too. Looks like an immoral deficiency of the Australian system to me, one that could be abused in many ways.

    It would look like that if you don't research.

    a) you don't need to let these people in (though you would be in contempt of court if you do).
    b) this isn't some random person going through your shit, it is the plaintiffs legal team in the presence of court staff taking only specific listed evidence that they first must prove that you have and provide reasonable suspicion that you will destroy.

    There's been very few cases in the past century where "Anton Piller Orders" have been issued in Australia beacuse the bar of issuing them are really incredibly high.

  16. No. A private company can never be given the right to search somebody's home in Australia.

    What this is is a court based requirement for you to let the discovery legal team of a private company in, under the supervision and presence of court staff. You have the right to refuse the search which will result in automatically being in contempt of court.

    The bar for such "Anton Piller Orders" is incredibly high, and only a couple of hundred have ever been issued. In civil matters the plaintiff basically needs to prove to the court that:

    a) the accused have the documents/evidence
    b) the accused don't intend to hand over the documents or intend to destroy the documents/evidence if made aware of the reqeust by to hand them over
    c) you stand to be signficantlly impacted by the loss of these documents/evidence

  17. but when that EULA in front of a judge what will happen??

    EULAs have a tendency not to carry much weight in Australia. It becomes more of a legal / law based issue than an EULA based one.

  18. I would prefer Leia but hey whatever does it for you.

    Maybe I'll meet you half way and we can have Leia feature in a furries film.

  19. Problem with E-mail isn't in the "getting one running".

    Said like someone whose never had to read the sendmail manual. I still sometimes wake up randomly with cold sweats.

  20. Re:here is a better solution on GPU-Z Can Now Detect Fake NVIDIA Graphics Cards (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    If board comes from CHina, then it is fake.

    Issue solved.

    Oh I didn't realise only the Chinese were scam artists. I guess I should be answering those helpful "Your computer has a virus" phone calls that originate from USA numbers then.

    Actual reailty: Place of manufacturer and checking where a product is coming from has zero to do with solving fraud.

  21. Re:What about the impact on stargazing? on Chinese City 'Plans To Launch Artificial Moon To Replace Streetlights' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Stargazing. .... Are we talking about a different China here? The people in Chengdu should be lucky enough to see to the end of the street to say nothing on the few days where they could look up they couldn't see squat anyway.

    Signed: A hobby astronomer who put his hobby on hold while living in China.

  22. Re:The answer is "yes" on Ask Slashdot: Should Open-Source Developer Teams Hire Professional UI/UX Designers? · · Score: 1

    But look at the amount of terrible UX in closed source software.

    Don't try to prove a negative or build up strawmen. There's a big difference between "universally terrible" and "look over there, I see something nasty"!

  23. No you don't understand UX designers. You see, these are arts school dropouts. That makes them the perfect person to understand the mentality of a "stupid user" and therefore the absolute authority on how to design user interfaces for software not targetted at engineers or programmers. :-)

  24. Re:Looking for more Native American DNA on Former Top Waymo Engineer Altered Code To Go on 'Forbidden Routes', Report Says (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The things that voters are told to care about...

    FTFY.

  25. Re: How Not To Write A Headline on Former Top Waymo Engineer Altered Code To Go on 'Forbidden Routes', Report Says (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Motorway speeds, ... gap large enough to fit a car.

    Some would consider trying to merge inbetween such horribly tailgating idiots "suicide".

    Also why would you slam on your brakes? Highway onramps give you plenty of time to think and chose your position to merge. If this is a scenario that you would encounter then that highway onramp needs to be rebuilt as it is a safety hazard, and I say that as the owner of someone who happily merges onto the German autobahn frequently with a shittly little 1.2L engine.