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  1. Re:Heroes on Colin O'Brady Completes Historic Antarctic Crossing (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    teachers and scientists and doctors

    Your English teacher certainly doesn't deserve any respect.

  2. Re:Extra charges on Hospital Prices Are About To Go Public in the US (ajc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Healthcare is a certainty, so paying for it as an insurance product makes no sense. That'd be like having "food insurance" or "housing insurance" to pay for your groceries and rent/mortgage.

    I was with you right up until that. Healthcare is not a universal certainty. When my kid was brought into this world it popped out, cried a bit and we had it home no fuss a short while later.
    When my friend's came into this world it turned blue, straight into open heart surgery due to being born with transposition of the great arteries.

    Now five years later and my kid hasn't had much more than butterfly stitch at a doctor. That same friend of mine had his in the emergency room getting a custom metal plate inserted in her head to replace her shattered skull when she landed face first on a rock after dismounting a trampoline.

    My wife hasn't been to the doctor in 2 years. I have endless back problems and had a hernia done. Healthcare is a perfect example of how one person's life can be completely unburdened while another's can financially bankrupt them. The latter is definitely not a certainty.

    That said I live in a first world country which has socialised healthcare so the concept of using insurance to fix this problem just seems so dumb.

  3. Re: The idiots? on UK Now Has Systems To Combat Drones (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh whose jurisdiction? Sure you can leak something out onto the internet, but remember you're criminally liable. Do you trust the guys you leaked it to (illegally) to keep quiet about it since you own 100% of the liability?

    Now you may consider doing this for something incredibly important (to you), but the reality is the ban works just fine because no one is interested in being held criminally liable to publish names no one gives a shit about.

    However you're not wrong. Take the absurdity and really REALLY high profile case in Australia:
    In the Herald Sun we got: https://twitter.com/oliverdarc...
    In the rest of the world we got: http://www.hawaiicatholicheral...

  4. Re:Again demonstrates what I mean about IE being d on Microsoft's Emergency Internet Explorer Patch Renders Some Lenovo Laptops Unbootable (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Some do, some don't.

    My point exactly.

    Contrast a Firefox bug. That's going to affect Firefox. Never the operating system.

    That depends entirely on what privileges you use to run Firefox. You are also abusing the timeline. Firefox was by far the last browser to implement sandboxed environments which means prior to Firefox 55 every arbitrary code execution CVE could affect any part of the system with the privileges of the local user which almost universally means the system is now no longer yours.

    Don't get me wrong, integration is bad, but not integrating doesn't make it magically safe.

  5. Re:Windows architecture is problematic on Microsoft's Emergency Internet Explorer Patch Renders Some Lenovo Laptops Unbootable (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    When I patch IE, a reboot is required.

    How do you patch IE without a applying a cumulative update? The only way I know is WSUS and when you push IE specific patches out they install just fine and simply ask for a courtesy reboot at the end.

    If you're not managing an enterprise machine with WSUS then you're not applying an IE patch.

    So I ask again, what is wrong with the Windows architecture that requires reboots for app updates?

    I repeat: Your understanding of what is going on.

  6. However, it seems reasonable that Microsoft would try all updates with commonly-sold hardware before releasing the updates.

    Bahahhahahaha

    But I'm not one to not provide references to hysterical laughter:
    https://www.windowscentral.com...
    https://www.digitaltrends.com/...

    While I give MS a pass for not testing their updates on Lenovo devices, afterall there's a shitton of custom stuff out there, they deserve to rot in hell for not testing their own.

  7. http://www.loc.gov/law/foreign...

    Reference, read the first line. Your turn. Can you point to where the recommendations by the IRCP ICRU and IAEA were legally binding in Japan before the Fukushima incident?

  8. Not at all. Both radioactivity and radionuclides are referenced in the standard that Japan put out. But you didn't bother to google did you, you just got caught up on one word.

  9. Individual stupidity occurs even in the smartest of organisations.

  10. Re:"Tourism"? on Whale Shark Tourism Harms Coral Reefs (asianscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    An excuse and a reason are not the same thing. The GP didn't excuse the practice.

  11. You're comparing an interface to a form factor. Not all M2 form factor drives are NVMe

  12. Re:How is someone "abused" by a tweet? on A Woman on Twitter is Abused Every 30 Seconds (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Fuck you you worthless cunt.

    ^^^ Clearly not abusive language since I'm not pulling your hair or choking you.

  13. Re:Lies, damn lies, and statistics. on A Woman on Twitter is Abused Every 30 Seconds (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Why pose that question when you're obviously not interested in the answer. I mean it's not like TFA has a big information bubble that you can click on with the heading "What is an Abusive Tweet?" Oh wait, yes it has.

  14. Re:Lies, damn lies, and statistics. on A Woman on Twitter is Abused Every 30 Seconds (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Typical "intersectional" reporting. What is the base rate of abuse?

    That IS the base rate of abuse. The study looked at variances in women, like women of colour, left vs right leaning posts by women, etc.

    Stop being such a self important male.

  15. Re:Men? on A Woman on Twitter is Abused Every 30 Seconds (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would that be, exactly? Is it because women are the weaker sex, and hence need to be protected from this sort of thing, whereas men are stronger and hence don't need such protection?

    Because the study was about the variance in women and in a study about women studying men serves no purpose.

  16. Until Fukushima Japan had no limits on radioactivity of foods. After Fukushima they quickly introduced some which are similar to those standards set in other countries.

    People were critical of the level since (just like you) people can't seem to fathom how a nuclear disaster didn't irradiate the oceans, and they continue to be critical despite the fact that lowing the limit any further would effectively ban Japan from eating any bananas from anywhere in the world.

    Yeah that's right, if you worry about radiation, eat Fukushima fish and not USA grown bananas.

  17. Re:Disappointing and difficult to understand. on Japan Announces Withdrawal From International Whaling Commission, To Resume Commercial Whaling (straitstimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Huh? The Japanese are people. I don't know what you think makes them immune from arsehole wasteful industries that bribe politicians to keep their dying business afloat.

  18. What about it? For canned tuna it's mostly wild. In Japan for sashimi and other prepared meals Bluefin is ranched tuna.

  19. Well yes, wouldn't want to waste the meat unnecessarily while carrying out the very real research of how many whales we can pointlessly kill before people care.

  20. "They can do what they want in their own country unless it's something very specific I care about. "

    Does that kind of sum up your post?

  21. Re:Tim Cook MUST STEP DOWN !!!! on iPhone Owners Irate After iOS Update Bricks Cellular Data (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, how long are stockholders and the Apple Board going to allow this to go on ?

    Huh? They must be loving it. Look at Microsoft, can't release the October patch without deleting user files and suddenly their stocks shoot past Apple. Based on this if Apple released a patch that caused all devices to suddenly explode I expect shortly after their company value to be worth more than that of the VoC at peak. Share holders are just that stupid.

    And worst case they can just rename themselves Apple Blockchain Computers (nicely short for ABC and a direct competitor to Alphabet) and the stock junkies would go crazy for that kind of forward thinking.

  22. Re:No, it wasn't. on Fortnite Was 2018's Most Important Social Network (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    In a years time some other game will be popular with the streamers.

    That depends on the publisher's ability to keep things fresh. Team Fortress is now 11 years old. Last weekend had 110k players online. Weekly average 60k players. That has been quite steady since Steam started tracking these stats in late 2012. 2018 has seen an "all time low" of Team Fortress 2, of 50k players on average midweek, only 20k players less than in 2013.

    Now it's true that Fortnite dwarfs that puny little effort, but the point is if they play it right they can expect a following for a long time to come.

  23. Re:Microsoft: No one is managing well? on Microsoft's Emergency Internet Explorer Patch Renders Some Lenovo Laptops Unbootable (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Why? Because Lenovo firmware is a shitshow that broke with the November security update which would also be installed by the cumulative update in this emergency release for IE?

  24. Typical Slashdot user. Quick to comment, doesn't bother to understand.

  25. Re:Windows architecture is problematic on Microsoft's Emergency Internet Explorer Patch Renders Some Lenovo Laptops Unbootable (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    No, just people's understating of it is problematic. None of anything related to IE requires a reboot or causes this problem. However Windows patches are cumulative, so if you haven't updated in a while this "IE Patch" will give you the Nov 18 security update which includes OS level changes, kernel level changes (requiring reboot), and also happens to be the patch that cause this problem.