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  1. Re:Wow, someone gets it on Why UK's Government Digital Service Decided To Ditch Apps (govinsider.asia) · · Score: 1

    Do you really not get this? People want apps because they don't want to lug around a desktop or laptop just to perform the basic functions of life. For many, many things, an app makes things simpler and easier.

  2. Re:Man, this has to be a hoax on RSA Keys Can Be Harvested With Microphones (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    (The LEDs on the modem. Dammit!)

  3. Re:Man, this has to be a hoax on RSA Keys Can Be Harvested With Microphones (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It belongs in the bin with the "you can spy on someone's internet by recording the LEDs!" Nonsense.

  4. Re:Pricing for Abusers, or Abusive Pricing on Frontier Has No Plans For Data Caps As They're Not Necessary, Says CEO (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure I do, yeah.

  5. Re:Pricing for Abusers, or Abusive Pricing on Frontier Has No Plans For Data Caps As They're Not Necessary, Says CEO (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think you understand how things work.

  6. Re: Time on Universe Is Expanding Faster Than We Thought (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    I've had weekends like that...

  7. Re:First Ammendment on Yahoo Becomes First Company To Disclose FBI National Security Letters (tumblr.com) · · Score: 1

    Where in the Illinois law does it say you aren't allowed to slander someone? All it does is codify what slander is. I can slander all I want and the government can't (legally) do anything about it.

  8. Re:Look at all that global warming! on NASA Satellite Finds 39 Unreported Sources of Toxic Air Pollution (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Eat a bag of dicks. Be more funny!

  9. Re:Please post on your website that yo have never. on Yahoo Becomes First Company To Disclose FBI National Security Letters (tumblr.com) · · Score: 1

    That will not stand up to much scrutiny. Logically and legally, that counts as a disclosure.

  10. Re:First Ammendment on Yahoo Becomes First Company To Disclose FBI National Security Letters (tumblr.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no law against slander in the US. It's a civil matter.

  11. Re:What's wrong with using COBOL? on Department of Homeland Security Still Uses COBOL (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    They probably inherited it from one of the agencies they absorbed.

  12. Re: What's wrong with using COBOL? on Department of Homeland Security Still Uses COBOL (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    Exactly! That's why you buy IBM. They do a lot of shitty things, but keeping business (and government) in business is what they do.

  13. Re:Educational first, then engaging on American Schools Teaching Kids To Code All Wrong (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Everything needs to have a payoff. We do our work because we enjoy it, or at least because it allows us to remain employed. Students have no such motivation. So, you make it fun for them to practice fundamentals. Rigor and difficulty do nothing but turn off the non-devoted students. I'd rather a dumb kid have fun with math and learn something, rather than the only other likely alternative, which is that he checks out and doesn't learn anything past second grade.

  14. No, not at all.

  15. Agreed. However, what about the situation of the "license"? People pay less for digital copies of media without understanding that they weren't buying a property right, only a usage right. Kinda like a refundable versus non-refundable airline ticket.

  16. Re:Why does this matter? on Twitter To Stop Counting Photos And Links In 140-Character Limit (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the whole point of twitter was that brevity is a restriction that forces creativity. And also it used to be SMS only and that's the limit on SMS.

  17. Re:And this will change nobody's minds.. on Genetically Modified Crops Are Safe, Report Says (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    You are actually trying to say that existing crop foods are diverse and natural? That shit happens all the time, and GMO is what they use to stop it.

  18. Re:And this will change nobody's minds.. on Genetically Modified Crops Are Safe, Report Says (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Boy, have I got news for them.

  19. Shifting modes should never happen without operator intervention. Airbus planes are inherently dangerous.

  20. It's not being sold that way. All they are saying is that you can drive it from outside the car.

  21. If it activated summon mode without being asked, then that's a problem. But if you have a vehicle that can be remote controlled, it's your job to make sure you aren't accidentally remote controlling it. Like the gun analogy above, if you don't want to shoot anyone accidentally, you make sure the gun doesn't have a bullet in the chamber.

  22. No. He told the car to drive and it did.

  23. He told the car to drive. A car that didn't do that would be way more broken.

  24. Nearly every car on the road will do that. Enter vehicle, put it into gear, exit vehicle.

  25. Re:Why not stop checking? on France's After Work Email Ban Is 1 Step Closer To Reality (huffingtonpost.ca) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's the whole point of the law.