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  1. Re:Serial Experiments Lain on Why Is Anime Obsessed With Power Lines? (atlasobscura.com) · · Score: 1

    In SEL the idea of an interconnected and wired world is fundamental to the storyline. That doesn't explain why it is so prevalent in every other anime.

  2. Re:Does anyone have this and is it yet worth it? on Nintendo Switch Sales Hit 10 Million Units, Could Outdo the Wii (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I am 46 years old

    And most definitely not the target audience for that marketing campaign.

  3. Re:Stop calling it a console on Nintendo Switch Sales Hit 10 Million Units, Could Outdo the Wii (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a handheld.

    Huh? Handheld? Not sure what you're talking about. I never take mine out of the dock and if I did, how would the 4 of us play Mariokart?

  4. Re:Self Flagellation on The First Women in Tech Didn't Leave -- Men Pushed Them Out (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    hahahahahahahaha

    You're on fire today :-)

  5. Re:Credit to the Russians... on President Trump Is Sending NASA Back To The Moon (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    But cancelling it before we had a working replacement was a stupid in a special order of magnitude.

    Well, no one expected that we'd vote ourselves into a position where we would start another cold war. Clearly there is a replacement since USA astronauts are still travelling to and from.

  6. Re:This sexist drivel again on The First Women in Tech Didn't Leave -- Men Pushed Them Out (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Elementary? My partner (teacher surprise!) graduated with a degree in secondary education. There were maybe 20 males receiving their certificate in the packed ceremony hall.

    Teaching across the board is female dominated. Though it appears male dominated in some select schools but that's more due to discriminatory hiring practices than anything else.

  7. Re:so? on AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We're All Screwed (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Then came Photoshop

    Did you ever question how tools in Photoshop like, "cut" "paste" (literally cutting and pasting negatives) "dodge" "burn" (literally blanking out or intensifying light during exposure) got their name?

    We've been Photoshopping since the early 1900s. Have a picture of a man juggling his own head which predates the world war: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhi...

  8. Re:Incest Porn is Fake Sh!t on AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We're All Screwed (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It isn't fake incest, it is just incest-related tags on the website that have become popular.

    Actually I agree with the GP, there has been a huge rise in roleplaying incest of late for any video involving hotter older actors.

  9. Re:Incest Porn is Fake Sh!t on AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We're All Screwed (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    All of these are entirely fake.

    Actually you'll find all produced porn is fake. Most of it is based around what looks good on what camera angle and orgasms are often faked as the positions do nothing, typically for either actor (see how many videos require a cut before the money shot, often while the guy goes and beats himself off after the disappointing sex)

    These days I find more stuff I like from low ranking amateures on MyDirtyHobby rather than any actual production studio.

  10. Re:Self Flagellation on The First Women in Tech Didn't Leave -- Men Pushed Them Out (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Who modded this obvious funny insightful?

  11. Re:Not all downside on AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We're All Screwed (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Imagine if the day comes when you can insta-generate porn featuring a hotter version of yourself fucking your favorite pornstar.

    I think the biggest benefit here is not limiting yourself to pornstars.

  12. Re:Are we going to see... on Microsoft Releases Free Preview of Its Quantum Development Kit (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    When it stops replying to pings on the network it will be in a state of both crashed and not crashed until you look at the monitor.

  13. Re:What will the effects be? on Bitcoin Fees Are Skyrocketing (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The GP's point is that this is massively small fry in compared to what has happened in crashes that have had a serious impact on the world.

    $10000 credit card? That's cute. The housing crisis took down $50000000 housing complex investments and hit the average person who wasn't investing far more than $10000. To create a bubble and crash it in a way that affects the economy in a significant way you need more than a handful of low rollers making poor financial decisions with credit cards.

  14. Re:Why were they ever allowed? on France To Ban Mobile Phones In Schools (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Right from the start

    Whitelist vs blacklist. It surprises me that you're surprised that schools don't ban absolutely everything new. Did you go to school in a monastery?

  15. we will work together to take targeted action against bad actors

    So he just promised to turn himself in then and will prosecute himself if he doesn't?

  16. Re:Fake Video "Testimony" on AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We're All Screwed (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I could see that too.

    I can see that. My 8 year old camera has that feature: http://imaging.nikon.com/lineu...

    Unfortunately it was also cracked.

  17. On which demand? The only time this stops being a problem directly for Amazon is after the customer has signed it. The warehouse is only a very small part of the logistics chain.

  18. Re:THis is why Unions were invented. on Exhausted Amazon Drivers Are Working 11-Hour Shifts For Less Than Minimum Wage (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    I am in no way saying that unions are pure and benevolent organizations. Often they're corrupt, and as greedy as the people running the corporations. They have their place, and there are a lot of instances in the 2010s that they should come back.

    That's very grey thinking in the black vs white, red vs blue Slashdot of now. Careful before the new folk come and lynch you.

  19. Re:You get what you measure on After Automating Order-Taking, Fast Food Chains Had to Hire More Workers (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 2

    No difference to the customers

    Yeah except the DIY being faster and letting employees focus on preparing food. Of course they will entice you to using it. That doesn't mean the end result is worse. It is only worse for those stubborn people who insist on lining up* when there's 5 empty self-serve kiosks behind them.

    The only time I ever line up at a McDonalds nowadays is when there is no self serve kiosk.

    No difference to customers, other than having eliminated queues, put the full menu on display right in front of them, showed complete confirmed orders to you so you're sure the nobhead behind the counter didn't get it wrong, and in the process removed cash payments eliminating the painful process of standing behind someone who insists on counting out coins rather than tapping a piece of plastic and moving along.

  20. Re:binary logging is just so awful because... on Does Systemd Make Linux Complex, Error-Prone, and Unstable? (ungleich.ch) · · Score: 1

    The problems mentioned with systemd are not "I couldn't find a line that dovecot was saying" but services literally not starting up, boots not completing

    And yet half of the comments on this very page are bitching about logging mostly by people who don't know how it works and refuse to RTFM, which to be honest is really a theme when it comes to any systemd discussion.

  21. Re: Ah yes the secret to simplicity on Does Systemd Make Linux Complex, Error-Prone, and Unstable? (ungleich.ch) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yeah it's so complicated being able to read logs without grepping awking sedding and generally learning half a programming language to filter out what you're looking for.

    It's even more complicated to not add a single line of text to a single configuration file (you like config files right?) that causes the journal to keep spitting out the text log you hold so dear.

    Mind you given that you don't even know that the journalctl will if piped to any other program spit out the same text as catting a syslog file only with the early boot also represented, I feel like you're not actually qualified at all to have an opinion on systemd.

  22. Re: Ah yes the secret to simplicity on Does Systemd Make Linux Complex, Error-Prone, and Unstable? (ungleich.ch) · · Score: 1

    For instance, often systemctl reports a daemon as failed while it's not, or suddenly decides that it didn't start because of some mysterious arbitrary timeout while the daemon just needs some time to run a maintenance tasks at startup time.

    So you didn't RTFM or your distro maintainer didn't set the option in the unit file correctly?

  23. Re: Ah yes the secret to simplicity on Does Systemd Make Linux Complex, Error-Prone, and Unstable? (ungleich.ch) · · Score: 1

    My init.d was about 13 scripts big which were readable and editable.

    So you weren't running any modern Linux distro then. Thanks for pointing out how irrelevant your opinion is so early on.

  24. Re:Do you think they care? on Intel's ME May Be Massively Infringing on Minix3's Free Software License (ipwatchdog.com) · · Score: 1

    How can you say "usually" when it's never actually happened?

    You just assume it's never actually happened where the reality is that it has happened before indirectly and has had an impact big enough to be felt even when a company limps along on lifesupport.

    You don't need to go in swinging with an axe to kill a company, and you don't need to make sure that it has no pulse in order to achieve the effects described above.

    Sounds like yet more libertarian theology, gospel explaining why it's a mortal sin to hold corporations to account for their actions.

    Nope, just a simple observation combined with a shitload of very logical causal relationships. Its like the people on Friday calling out Germany for not giving VW the corporate death penalty or even severe fines. Given that VW stake of state, German private, and German institutional investors makes up nearly half of the entire investment in the company, killing them will have even more of a negative impact on Germany and German people than the saga already has.

    Same with all those calling for the dead of that British company during the gulf spill, despite the fact that this British company has a largest stake of holdings by Americans, in America, supporting predominantly jobs in America, and while they are actually recovering quite well, the drop in shareprice had more of an affect on American people's 401k than the people responsible for the spill.

    But by all means you may be right. The world may be better off with a single AMD monopoly. I'm sure THIS monopoly will be different.

  25. Re:Fitness trackers offer no weight-loss benefit on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Good Smartwatches Or Fitness Trackers? · · Score: 1, Troll

    If you're a fool then you'd ignore it. Anecdotal evidence should be taken as a data point in your set.