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  1. Re:Fortress Australia on Japanese Passport Now World's Most Powerful (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    And there are so many other countries that charge us for nasty visas when they do not charge anyone else...

    It's called reciprocity, you get back what you dish out.

  2. Re:Meanwhile... on Japanese Passport Now World's Most Powerful (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    Also, this was in response to American nukes in Turkey, right on the Russian border.

    Russia doesn't have a border with Turkey.

  3. Re:Cue the 0.01% of users who "need" RSS on Firefox Removes Core Product Support For RSS/Atom Feeds (gijsk.com) · · Score: 1

    Honest question from one of the 0.01%: How do you people parse news across the web? Does everybody only read aggregators?

    Given that this site is basically an aggregator, you're probably going to see some bias in the answers to that one.

  4. Re:Oh, boy on Scientists Create Healthy Mice With Same-Sex Parents (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure this experiment was designed purely to troll internet forums.

  5. I think the clear solution was in the post before this one. Robots don't care about pay rises, stock options, bonuses or overtime rates.

  6. Re:Sounds like Liability issues on Walmart Patents Cart That Reads Your Pulse, Temperature (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Oh come on, stop pretending you believe the story that this is for the health and wellbeing of their customers. This is for one thing, and one thing only - tracking your subconscious reaction to the advertisements and promotions they have all over the store, in order to figure out how to entice you to spend more of your payday loans with Walmart.

  7. "Biometric" can also mean facial recognition, which they can generate from the photo you send when you apply for the passport. Some countries are collecting fingerprints at the border, but they are checking against their own databases, not against your passport.

  8. Re:"when daylight saving time" wait, what? on Some Apple Watch Series 4 Models Are Frequently Crashing and Rebooting Due to a Daylight Saving Time Bug (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently DST ends in Australia this past weekend.

    Ahem. It began this past weekend. On devices that support timezones properly, it will end in April next year. On other devices, it may end on Dec 31, or it may just have failed to begin, as date > dst.end_date == true already.

    And woe to you if you live further East in New Zealand, where the impossibility of being 13 hours ahead of GMT just began.

  9. Typical junior software developer response: change the world to make the programmer's life easier.

  10. Re:Still don't get it on Firefox To Support Google's WebP Image Format For a Faster Web (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    However the problem is, it is a Big library, with a lot of features, rarely having even most of them being utilized on a page.

    Which is why you should use a common CDN hosted copy of jquery, and not download and serve it from your own site. At least then, the same file is shared with other sites, and more likely to stay in the browser's cache.

  11. Re:systemd has logged your complaint on A Look at Facebook's Use of Systemd (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    $ man -k systemd | wc -l
    147

    You're not really helping your point there. Something as complex as systemd needs far more than 3 or 4 pages for its manual.

  12. Re: No it doesn't on Brain Scans Can Detect Who Has Better Skills, Research Says (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    From my reading of TFS, the headline is wrong, as usual. They measured brainwaves during a skill test, and found a pattern correlated with years of experience. The traditional method of actually checking the result of that skill test is not as good at predicting years of experience, since years of experience is not necessarily correlated to skill.

  13. Unless you're on a diplomatic passport, the laws of the country you visit are going to take priority over whatever agreement you have with your employer when the rubber gloves come out, unless you enjoy that sort of treatment.

  14. Re: Never had the rights on Richard Stallman Says Linux Code Contributions Can't Be Rescinded (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    This would be a decision by the project, for the protection of the project. An individual still can't decide to pull their code out without the consent of the rest of the project.

  15. Re:Does it even need to be? on Apple Watch ECG Feature Could Take Years To Be Approved In UK (macrumors.com) · · Score: 2

    ECG information is a health record, regardless of whether you declare the device as a medical device or not. The laws surrounding collection and storage of health records apply regardless of what stories Apple makes up to try to skirt the law. The sad thing though, is that Chinese companies will just ignore it and sell their devices anyway, so from the consumers' point of view, Apple looks like they are being overly cautious.

  16. Re:First class passengers... on Alaska Airlines Trials Virtual Reality On Some Flights (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm seriously considering piling my seat up with all the bags that other passengers inconsiderately leave on the top bunk, and claiming my economy class flatbed next time I fly longhaul.

  17. Re:And this is why I am for public transportation. on Most Drivers Don't Understand Limitations of Car Safety Systems, AAA Finds (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, stop treating the 'keep your lane' feature like a bang bang controller. Estimate a dead center path and keep it centered on that. You'd also probably subconsciously train the drivers to keep it in the middle of the road instead of bouncing from side to side.

    Or perhaps you'd just subconsciously train drivers to go other activities while the car drives itself smoothly instead of weaving without them at the wheel. Until the car really can drive itself, I'd prefer that the car act as an erratic backup to bad drivers rather than something that fools them into feeling safe taking their hands off the wheel.

  18. Pyst was a gag that was more fun to read about than to play.

    Sounds like they did a great job of copying Myst.

    The innovative thing about Myst was the mixed graphics and video content. The gameplay was definitely not its selling point.

  19. Windows 7 default setting does just that, so if you want Telnet you have to manually enable it.

    Yeah great solution, that'll stop people from using telnet to log into other peoples' wifi routers.

  20. Not just everything you search for, but they will send things you don't search for to Bing too. In order to unify the search experience, Microsoft has a vision of uploading the index of all your private files to the Azure cloud so it is available to Bing even when you search using Cortana from your Windows Phone. Nevermind that almost nobody has ever used any of those products outside of your Seattle echo chamber.

  21. Re:Still No Word on Japan Has Attempted To Land Two Tiny Rovers On a Distant Asteroid (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The communication rate from Hayabusa2 is currently 4kbps. They are probably still waiting for the first image to download so they can release it to the press.

  22. Competing.. on Humans Simply 'Hardwired' For Laziness, Study Says (studyfinds.org) · · Score: 1

    competing for sexual partners

    Because you find so many more sexual partners hanging on your couch at home than when you are at the gym.

  23. Re:Let me play devils advocate for a moment... on Box-Office Giant Ticketmaster Recruits Pros For Secret Scalper Program (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    A possibility of the artists getting more? You clearly don't understand entertainment industry accounting.

  24. My son bought a Nintendo Bait when it first came out. It was clear from the terms he had to agree to on first boot then that they were planning on pulling this Switch at some undisclosed time in the future.

  25. Re:Camera? Or Photoprocessing? on Which Company Makes the Best Camera Phone in 2018? Not Apple · · Score: 1

    I've seen some comparisons of Pixel 2 with various other high end phone cameras, and it does seem like the processing software of the Pixel 2 makes better decisions a lot of the time when you just leave them set to auto mode. But in side by side comparison photos taken in high light level conditions where post-processing contributes less of the end result, you can often see that competitors have sharper focus due to their better quality lenses (not specifically talking about Apple here), and by changing settings (many phones still have HDR off by default for example) you can usually get similar results in low or mixed light levels.

    The summary only mentions Google and Samsung as competitors to Apple, but Samsung are the last phone company I'd consider for cameras - Sony, and lately Huawei, are much better known for focusing on their camera performance.