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  1. Re:Oh well... on Pregnancy Alters Woman's Brains 'For At Least Two Years' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The study is clearly flawed, as the men whose brains they studied were not pregnant.

  2. Re:Islam is anti-freedom on IBM Employees Protest Cooperation With Donald Trump (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    there are things in Islam - from death sentences for apostasy, stoning of adulterers, throwing gays from tall buildings, FGMs, et al that are incompatible w/ the US constitution.

    I trust you'll be applying the same principles to the Christian Bible.

  3. including merely because he is a democrat.

    Just curious, is this an example of a legitimate, or a non-legitimate reason?

  4. How is LinkedIn still going? on LinkedIn Warns 9.5 Million Lynda Users About Database Breach (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    This is what, the 5th major compromise of LinkedIn's data in the past 2 or 3 years? How are there still people that haven't dumped their accounts? Why is LinkedIn still considered the main business social network?

  5. Re:JavaScript on Oracle Begins Aggressively Pursuing Java Licensing Fees (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It's only a marginal advantage. I've seen plenty of bad Java code that rethrows exceptions from the Java API as RuntimeException (which acts like C# exceptions, in that it can be silently thrown from any method without warning) or has catch (Exception e) {} everywhere to avoid dealing with exceptions "until later".

  6. Re:Too many rich people on U.S. Proposes Car-To-Car Data Sharing Standards (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the problem with the summary's claim that this system will be able to tell cars when something is safe. I would argue that even when all cars on the road are fitted with this, it still won't be able to tell you when it is safe to change lanes or whatever. It will only be able to tell you some of the times when it is certainly unsafe.

  7. Re:What's to stop.. on Londoners Tests A Self-Driving Beer Tap And An AI-Assisted Brewery (gizmodo.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I don't think it even needs deliberate manipulation to fail. Without a constant taste, people who want a guaranteed beer that fits their palette will stick with known traditional brews. The only people in the feedback loop will be hipsters who know nothing about beer but want to pretend they are on the edge of the next revolution that the masses haven't picked up on yet. Positive feedback will be for anything that goes against the mainstream, and not necessarily have anything to do with quality.

  8. Re:Why won't they just show their proof? on White House Supports Claim Putin Directed US Election Hack (bbc.com) · · Score: 1
    1. 1. It's published on UK's biggest fake news site.
    2. 2. It's purportedly coming from a former ambassador to Uzbekistan who was sacked from his job for giving visas to attractive women in exchange for sex.

    So no, on its own it doesn't count as evidence for anything other than the Daily Mail's propensity for sensationalism, and Craig Murray's desire for attention.

  9. There are always nutcases that dispute facts. If your bar is that facts must be undisputed, then any story claiming that the earth is round will have to be flagged, as will anything dealing with evolution, climate change, vaccines etc...

  10. Re:Why the fuck... on Google May Prevent Samsung From Adding Viv AI Assistant To Galaxy S8 (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Would I want Samsung Viv, when I could have Google Assist?

    Because this one talks to you with a delicate blend of psychology and extreme violence.

  11. When you take jobs away from the coal miners, as an example

    You're blaming the EPA for that, and not the death of the steam engine at the hands of the oil industry?

  12. Re:Right to free speech on Twitter Reinstates White Nationalist Leader's Account (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    a highly incidiary phrase (allahu ackbar)

    Do we shoot Christians for proclaiming "Hallelujah"? "Allahu Akbar" is only highly incendiary if you ignore all the times that non-terrorist Muslims use it in everyday contexts.

  13. Re:Fuck Twitter appeasement on Twitter Reinstates White Nationalist Leader's Account (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The only thing new about alt-right is the politically correct terminology because the poor little snowflakes get butthurt when someone calls them what they are - white supremacist scum.

  14. Flappy birds clone on Nintendo Legend Miyamoto: Mario Needs To Evolve To Survive (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    So one of the world's oldest and biggest game companies has run out of ideas, and their very survival hinges on a clone of a simple game some Vietnamese guy wrote in a couple of hours. Good luck with that. It was nice knowing you Nintendo.

  15. Re:I'm ok with that on Google Cloud Print Is Turning Off Epson Printers (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a very small configuration change in the CUPS config to enable AirPrint. I've done it on a Linux server years ago, but I thought it came preconfigured that way on Macs (at least back then).

  16. It could be using the money that Apple pays in tax instead, and the debt would not be spiralling out of control so quickly.

  17. Re:Google, Motorola, Intel . . . on Every US Taxpayer Has Effectively Paid Apple At Least $6 in Recent Years (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Acting unethically but within the law is still a shity thing to do, and calling companies out for it is perfectly OK. When Apple is making money off the US national debt at the same time they are causing a shortfall in tax revenue, that is unethical, no matter how many loopholes the legislators have left open for them to do this.

  18. Re:Google, Motorola, Intel . . . on Every US Taxpayer Has Effectively Paid Apple At Least $6 in Recent Years (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Also my grandmother. She bought a lot of government bonds during WW2, so she was also "stealing" from taxpayers.

    Was she using money she had funnelled offshore to avoid paying US tax on to purchase those bonds? Probably not, because unlike corporations, the US holds private citizens liable for tax on foreign earnings regardless of whether they repatriate the funds or not.

    The salt in the wound here is that Apple is making money from the interest on government bonds, which are issued to cover the shortfall in tax revenue caused by Apple avoiding paying their income tax.

  19. Re:A gift for the stupid and uneducated on Vinyl Records Outsold Digital Downloads In the UK Last Week (adweek.com) · · Score: 1

    PJ Harvey's "Dry" also comes to mind (a number of indie albums from that era went against the mainstream trend with plenty of dynamic range and a clean, minimal post-production sound)

  20. Re:Looks like the loudness war is being fought on Vinyl Records Outsold Digital Downloads In the UK Last Week (adweek.com) · · Score: 1

    MQA has nothing to do with dynamic range. It's digital monster cable for your CDs.

  21. Re:A perfect Christmas gift... on Vinyl Records Outsold Digital Downloads In the UK Last Week (adweek.com) · · Score: 1

    As fun as it is following all the hipsters complaining about dynamic range of modern digital recordings compared to their vintage "vinyl player" and tube amp setup, I'm starting to run out of popcorn here, and my lungs are starting to hurt from all the laughter.

  22. Re:Spinning even now on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    but I've seen it in the media (mainstream and alt-right) as a serious story

    Perhaps your notion of mainstream is a little off there. Even Fox News don't seem to have covered this as anything other than a conspiracy theory.

  23. Re:Dangerous on BMW Traps A Car Thief By Remotely Locking His Doors (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I can only assume you've never seen a plane door. Hint: they don't open outwards like a car door.

    After some time of trying to recall how there are always staff on each side of the doorway greeting passengers when I board a plane, and no inward opening door getting in their way, I found that Google disagrees with your statement.

  24. Re:Dangerous on BMW Traps A Car Thief By Remotely Locking His Doors (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Its the same phenomena that prevents you from opening aeroplane doors mid flight.

    "Set doors to armed"? You do realise that the pressure gradient on a plane is reversed from what you get in a sinking car? If you could open the latch, the door would fly open by itself, and if you tried to stop it, you'd be going with it.

  25. There's a lesson here on BMW Traps A Car Thief By Remotely Locking His Doors (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're going to steal modern luxury cars, make sure your dealer is trustworthy enough not to swap your meth out for ketamine.