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  1. Re:So, let me get this straight... on Developer Accidentally Deletes Three-Month of Work With Visual Studio Code (bingj.com) · · Score: 1

    This was the initial commit. ALL his code was a big pending change.

  2. Re:And this matters to me... on Bing is 'Bigger Than You Think', Says Microsoft (onmsft.com) · · Score: 1

    or "verbatim" won't come up with anything because of spacing or the literal order of words is incorrect.

    It's amazing that verbatim doesn't show up when you get the word order wrong...

    Search for "driver download" and you'll get some very shady websites, many of which don't actually provide driver downloads

    Yep, as link like 5+ after the vendor's website at the top.

    Same for "teamviewer"

    Just tried it and got:
    1. TeamViewer's website.
    2. TeamViewer on the google play store.
    3. TeamViewer on cnet's download.
    4. TeamViewer on Filehippo's download.
    5. TeamViewer's wikipedia entry
    6. TeamViewer on the iTunes store
    7. TeamViewer on the Windows store.
    and the next button.
    Literally the entire page was nothing but links to the official teamviewer download locations.

    And the rest of your post is just personal opinion.

  3. Re:Never should have been granted on E-Commerce To Evolve Next Month As Amazon Loses the 1-Click Patent (thirtybees.com) · · Score: 1

    are prevented from being permanent problems

    Define permanent problem. That a company rides this patent to become one of the worlds largest companies makes it a permanent problem. Who needs a patent now that Amazon could simply buy out a competitor. I wouldn't suggest that the problem will disappear next month.

  4. Re:+1 for removable batteries on Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Batteries Are Being Recalled For Overheating Risk (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    it's missing the labor involved

    You should check out a Chinese / Taiwanese factory before you think the labour quote is missing in the figure ;-)

    No seriously, the largest component cost of this would be the shipping from the USA back to the factory. Shipping from China / South Korea is subsidised so that cost is worn mostly by the USPS thanks to an ancient treaty.

  5. Re:You know what else works? on New Immunotherapy Trial Cures Kids of Peanut Allergy For Up To Four Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    actually providing some evidence of documented death from casual contact with peanuts

    There's this thing called Google. Use it. People don't need to die to invalidate the claim, and there are hundreds out there.

    e.g. http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...
    Just the first google result. I'm sure you can find more if you don't rely on people spoon feeding you common knowledge.

  6. Re:When I was in school on New Immunotherapy Trial Cures Kids of Peanut Allergy For Up To Four Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    My compiler just spat out an error at word 12. I think it was meant to be prescribed. :)

  7. Re:When I was in school on New Immunotherapy Trial Cures Kids of Peanut Allergy For Up To Four Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The extra vacuuming helps some, but not as much as you'd expect.

    We have several friends with actual allergies. The vacuuming buys them about an hour. We have antihistamines in the house anyway.

    That said the allergy is to saliva and not all cats trigger the allergy. My old cat was a Burman, and and can best be described as hypoallergenic. One of our friends who would scoff down antihistamines whenever around most cats could happily have him rubbed all over her face without so much as a blink.

  8. Re:You know what else works? on New Immunotherapy Trial Cures Kids of Peanut Allergy For Up To Four Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    there is no medical research that supports evasive therapy for allergies

    Really? Because people who have peanut allergies who aren't exposed to any peanuts have successfully not died from their peanut allergy 100% of the time. Using big words like "therapy" just shows you have no clue as to what doctors told you or the reasons behind it.

    BTW, if anyone tells you their kid will die at the slightest contact with something peanut, they're lying. Nobody is that allergic to peanuts. It's all in their heads.

    You're a fucking idiot.

  9. Re:When I was in school on New Immunotherapy Trial Cures Kids of Peanut Allergy For Up To Four Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    This is part of our pampered, bubble wrapped society. I ask when people stay over if they have an allergy to cats and if the answer is yes then I will typically spend 5min extra vacuuming the area where they will sleep and then let them know we have some antihistamines.

    Frankly half the time the people who really need to be subscribed with a cup of cement aren't the people suffering from a disease.

    We as a society have labeling fear. "That's GMO, it must be bad or they wouldn't label it so." "That says gluten free on it. Last time I had the one with gluten I had an upset stomach, I must be celiac!"

  10. Re:I'm pretty sure nuclear beats them all on The Health Benefits of Wind and Solar Exceed the Cost of All Subsidies (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I just heard on the radio today of the health effects of the sound made by windmills. I think they called it "infrasound", it's the low frequency hum made by windmills that cause headaches, hearing loss, and all kinds of crazy stuff. Maybe that's a bunch of pseudoscience, I don't know.

    Infowars has a radio station now?

    What we really should do is put WiFi routers up there so the people who make up weird illnesses don't need to stretch their imagination too high.

  11. Ergo it was too high-brow for a killer robot audience.

    That's not a root cause. It could happily survive if it could get over it's budget. It was killed due to money. It still has a loyal following not to mention the name of a multi-million dollar franchise behind it.

  12. For example, my company often worked with data that didn't belong to us and was considered sensitive. We maintained a second network that never touched the public network, or computers that could connect to the public network. That was business critical.

    Nothing in the article said all of Maersk got taken down. Maybe it was just the business critical part that handled external data.

    The only other thing I know about it is that Maersk was the cause of the infection at the Port of Rotterdam. Though the Port had pretty damn good business continuity and kept processing ships on pen and paper.

  13. Re:Are we sure that it's a free spech issue? on WordPress Bans Fascist Website Linked To Charlottesville Killer (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I told you to look into it again, not flip flop illogically between statements.

    The opposite of "must serve everyone", is not "can deny anyone". You're missing a lot of scenarios in between which is also where the law applies.

  14. Guardian reporting is going downhill on New Immunotherapy Trial Cures Kids of Peanut Allergy For Up To Four Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Somehow a study that checked back on people 4 years after treatment get's converted to "works up to four years".

    Do these people even english?

  15. That was a very good reason to start the search, not a very good reason to spend as much as they have.

  16. Re:+1 for removable batteries on Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Batteries Are Being Recalled For Overheating Risk (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Why? When the majority cost is in the shipping back and forth then the cost is similar. In any case if the batteries were sealed in the Note 4 we wouldn't have this problem as users would not have counterfeit batteries in their phones.

  17. Re:Samsung should use this on Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Batteries Are Being Recalled For Overheating Risk (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Samsung did take note. By making batteries non user replaceable they control the supply chain and this scenario of counterfeit batteries is avoided.

    It's a shame the facts of this case doesn't fit the narrative you want to apply.

  18. Re: And with the UK's very limited health care... on Deadly Drug-Resistant Fungus Sparks Outbreaks In UK (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    I was in a motorcycle accident and no one asked for insurance info...

    This is where my story would have ended in my country. No "until" qualifier required.

  19. I'll make a reservation

    You could have just said "I have nothing to do with the target audience of this product" that would have been shorter to write.

  20. Re: Excellent rechargability? on Australian Scientists Figure Out How Zinc-Air Batteries Can Replace Lithium-Ion Batteries (gizmodo.com.au) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Aside from the "never actually get practically produced" bit, you've just described the media around every battery ever created since the dawn of electricity.

    I most certainly do expect something from it. I do often with promising research. If you want to feel silly start looking at Slashdot articles talking about revolutionary batteries like LiFePo4 from 15+ years ago, and then laugh at all the posts like yours claiming we'll never see them and it's just researchers wanting more funding.

    Because you know the best way of not getting something? Don't fund it.

  21. The "queue" is secondary to the real underlying discussion here. Ideally a restaurant in this case would have one free table. The article invokes my mental images of Apple stores but really the most appealing restaurants are busy yet can serve me.

    However that may not be it either. Especially in an outdoor setting I normally look at people's plates when passing and deciding on a restaurant. Will these people be given fake food as well?

  22. There is nothing body-positive on Why Does Hollywood Remain Out of Step With the Body-Positive Movement? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    about Danielle Macdonald.

  23. Re:So much for common carrier status on Cloudflare Stops Supporting Neo-Nazi Site The Daily Stormer (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    they are free to do business (or not) with whoever they choose.

    Almost. There are protected classes which you can not arbitrarily chose to do business with based on a specific set of reasons, e.g. a black person because they are black.

  24. Re:Yea but the gay wedding cake thing... on Cloudflare Stops Supporting Neo-Nazi Site The Daily Stormer (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you miss the part about "government" in the parent's post?

    Gender is a protected class, as is race. You're talking about something which has legal protection, the exact opposite of the post what you are reply to.

  25. Re:If you're cheering this on WordPress Bans Fascist Website Linked To Charlottesville Killer (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    You cannot define "hate" speech to just include white-supremacist or other speech you disagree with.

    No one is. None of these sites are being shut down because some isolated member posts hate speech. Isolated quotes being precisely what your entire argument is premised on.

    e.g. What a random person posts on BLM's website is irrelevant. What BLM's collective opinion is matters in this context, and they have never advocated violence against whites, even though one of their founding members has said so on a personal level.

    You need to learn the difference between "hate speech" and "hate group". No one is being banned for the former.