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  1. Re:Ignore ratings on Hollywood Is Losing the Battle Against Online Trolls (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the critical question is--do you get those reviews you base your decisions on from well-known critics, or those aforementioned random people?

  2. Okay, who else? on Unpatched Magento Zero Day Leaves 200,000 Merchants Vulnerable (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Who else misread that as "Unpatched Magneto Zero Day"?

  3. Hoary Hedgehog and Warty Warthog were the first two releases and didn't follow the alphabetical pattern that came after, so they don't really count. I do find the AB idea very likely.

  4. I would assume the next one will be "Avid Aardvark".

  5. Sorry, don't buy this argument on Sorry America, Your Taxes Aren't High (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You can't excuse something bad by pointing out it's worse elsewhere. Tell me, would you buy excusing Jim Crow by saying it was better than slavery? Not to say that taxation is as bad as those things, but it's the same argument.

  6. Answer is simple on Why Do Airlines Overbook? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Airlines overbook because people cancel, and they make more money if they run their planes full.

  7. Why is this hard to believe? We got B-52 bombers that are still flying since the 1950's

    The base airframes, yes. The same engines? Nope. The same electronics? Hell, no, those have been replaced dozens of times. This is like insisting a data center is still using the same hardware because they're still in the same building.

  8. Re:I miss software that works. on Celebrating '21 Things We Miss About Old Computers' (denofgeek.com) · · Score: 1

    Any old 8 or 16-bit software from decades past, if we have any of that software around today, it still works. And all we'd need to run it was the appropriate hardware.

    Heck, if you've got a decent emulator, you don't even neeed that.

  9. Gabe and Tycho could not be reached for comment

  10. Re:God Dammit on Senate Confirms Neil Gorsuch To Supreme Court (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess we are in the throws of an election even now.

    "Throes". Unless people are now electioneering by hurling things, which certainly does seem possible these days...

  11. And where exactly do you think flying trains take off and land from?

    The Galaxy Express depot, of course!

  12. And this Microsoft's fault, how? on Microsoft Yanks Docs.com Search After Complaints of Exposed Sensitive Files (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Stuff you marked as world accessible is world accessible.

  13. It doesn't work because it uses sprites of a fixed size, rather than scaled ray-tracing on underlying models like almost all FPSes do. Attempting to run it at 4k would result in units too small to see.

    Starcraft I was locked in at 640x480. It didn't run at any other resolution; this was done both to accommodate the fixed-size sprites and so that people with better hardware wouldn't have an advantage (because then they'd see more of the battlefield on their screens).

  14. Re:Amber Rudd is dim on London Terrorist Used WhatsApp, UK Calls For Backdoors (yahoo.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    The shear stupidity is mind-boggling

    I believe you meant "sheer stupidity"

    "Shear stupidity" would be running with scissors.

  15. should listen to Samsung's advice about batteries!

  16. Re: Lots of links to articles, phfft on O'Reilly Site Lists 165 Things Every Programmer Should Know (oreilly.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, that code is a bug.

    Hey, that four was generated by a fair die roll and is guaranteed to be random!

  17. Presumably because company policy (they, after all, are paying for the seat) requires him to take cheapest seat available, and doesn't give him the option to pay for his own upgrade. That's usually how it works.

  18. If it actually worked, only the un-seatbelted people would die .... but that is not the case.

    That is so stupid and ignorant it simply takes my breath away.

  19. Re:Excellent on Proof Daylight Saving Time Is Dumb, Dangerous, and Costly (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not an analysis, that's just specifying a point in time. As long as you specify the time zone (explicitly or implicitly) it's not a problem. Trying to do an analysis (like calculating durations) on a set of times not specified in a consistent timezone (which you would be doing if some of the times were daylight savings and some weren't) is like trying to measure with a ruler whose length changes while you're measuring.

  20. Re:Correlation =! caustion on Proof Daylight Saving Time Is Dumb, Dangerous, and Costly (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If one hour change caused this much havoc then driving/flying between time zones should have the same effect yet oddly, it doesn't.

    Actually, yes, it does. Read up on the effects of jet lag some time.

  21. Re:Excellent on Proof Daylight Saving Time Is Dumb, Dangerous, and Costly (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You must have missed the part where OP says "most people want to view data in local time"

    Someone who wants to accurately analyze time-based data and insists on local time is an idiot. Such analysis should always be done with the data in a suitable form, such as GMT or Unix timestamps.

  22. Two options immediately suggest themselves: on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Best Protect Client Files From Wireless Hacking? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    1) Don't set up an access point. If you still need an access point, set up a encrypted one (which you should do anyways) and don't give the isolated PC the keys. WiFi isn't magic; if there's no place for it to go, it's not going to go anywhere.

    2) Put a Faraday cage around the antenna. This could be as simple as wrapping it in foil.

  23. Re:Why not mark it what it really is, fake. on Facebook Begins Marking 'Fake News' As 'Disputed' (wdrb.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And who gets to determine that a news item has "turned out to be true"?

  24. Re:Why not mark it what it really is, fake. on Facebook Begins Marking 'Fake News' As 'Disputed' (wdrb.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So basically all articles from Faux News will not say fake but will say disputed.

    Nope. I predict that the marking will be very quickly subverted and *all* articles will be marked disputed, regardless of source.