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  1. Re:It's about *permanency*, not publicness. on Google Wins Dismissal of Suit Over Facial Recognition Software (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Who called the law "the right to be forgotten"? Nobody with an IQ of more than 0.5 expects to be able to erase people's memories.
    It's the right to stop any old Tom, Dick, or Harry broadcasting your personal data for ever and a day.

  2. I consider only two add-ons to be essential. The first one deals with the winmail.dat bug in mails received from Outlook users, and the second deletes attachments as I have no reason to preserve the sometimes huge volumes inside an e-mail archive.

    If the overhauled Thunderbird breaks these, it gets removed from my machine. But those aren't the only changes that might make me do that.

  3. Because the wires run all the way back to the the record factory. Riiiight.

  4. Re: Learn Lojban today! on Words with Multiple Meanings Pose a Special Challenge To Algorithms (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Replying to myself: sorry five possible inflections with the 3rd person singular (drinks).

  5. Re: Learn Lojban today! on Words with Multiple Meanings Pose a Special Challenge To Algorithms (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree that all conjugations are pointless but you're picking on the wrong guy. You cherry-picked the verb "to be". All other English verbs have at most 4 possible inflections (drink, drinking, drank, drunk). And "to be" still has only seven inflections compared with 10^100 in Spanish.

  6. Re:Learn Lojban today! on Words with Multiple Meanings Pose a Special Challenge To Algorithms (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    The Latin use of possessive pronouns provides less information than the Germanic use. Nobody in his right mind questions the gender of the daughter (or cares about the gender of a spoon), but they might be very interested in the gender of the person who says it. The only time gender is of any use is when two identical words have different meanings according to the gender ("le tour" and "la tour"), and those represent what? 0.05% of all nouns?

  7. As a translator, I used to eliminate all but one exclamation mark if the author got carried away.
    Then I thought, Why should I save people from self-inflictedly looking-like-a-prick? So now I square the number of interrogation marks.

  8. Re:Punctuation that should be outlawed on How Many Exclamation Points Do You Need To Seem Genuinely Enthusiastic? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    No, no, not an irony mark. Never.
    Let people work it out for themselves and be embarrassingly wrong.

  9. Tw!ce what he sa!d !!!!

  10. Re:Fermi Paradox is useless on We May Be All Alone In the Known Universe, a New Oxford Study Suggests (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. The only reliable data we have is that the probability of intelligent life in the Universe is exactly 1.
    Now compare that with "the probability of intelligent life in the Universe is zero (uh ... except for ... y'know)."
    I know Occam's razor is only a rule of thumb, but I have far more confidence in it than in Fermi's paradox.

  11. Re:Why legislation? on French School Students To Be Banned From Using Mobile Phones (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    French governments believe there need to be laws framing every single aspect of human existence. It's just a Gallic tradition, like blocking roads and making boring TV shows.

  12. Would controlling just ammunition go against the second amendment?

  13. Re:THIS is science on German Test Reveals That Magnetic Fields Are Pushing the EM Drive (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    A toughness of one is infinity times tougher than a toughness of nought and half as much not tough again as a toughness of two..

  14. Re:THIS is science on German Test Reveals That Magnetic Fields Are Pushing the EM Drive (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You've only talked about vegetables there. They might not be a defined botanical category, but surely fruit is.
    And if I understand the law correctly, it distinguishes between fruit and vegetables. So how does it get to un-fruit a fruit?

  15. Why does it especially have to come from outside to be "captured" by Jupiter?

  16. Re:"10 billion times colder"?!? Who writes such sh on NASA's Atomic Fridge Will Make the ISS the Coldest Known Place in the Universe (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems the whole world is getting more and more tolerant of sloppy expression.
    "One million times colder" is absolute semantic drivel. If it's logically valid, then what on earth does "one time(s) colder" mean?
    It's on the same level as "this beer tastes five times lousier". Anyone who uses it ought to be totally ashamed at their lack of expression skills and take up speaking Inuktitut or something.

  17. Re:MODERATION IS CENSORSHIP on Fedora-Based Linux Distro Korora Halts Development (betanews.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It's not censorship; it's telling you they think your post sucks horse.
    Serious Slashdot readers always browse at -1 anyway. That's exactly how I'm able to reply to your post.

  18. Re:Lotta projection going on. on Edge Computing: Explained (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Here's a survey I did with a sample size of one:

    Dropbox - "(c) not to my knowledge" [x]
    GMail - "(b) yes, but not as my safe account" [x]
    Office 365 - "(d) No. Way." [x]
    Slack - "(e) uh, dunno. What is it?" [x]

  19. Re:2040! Do they plan to sell the same Prius in 20 on UK Car Industry On Alert Over Reports Some Hybrids Face a Ban (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "What if by 2025 Nikola Motors' fuel cell technology gets adopted by the industry?"

    Then there will be more electric cars. I didn't see anything stipulating the source of the electricity.

  20. Re:It all comes down to one thing on New Hyperloop Cargo Company Promises Deliveries at 600 MPH (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    If it is "over five-times cheaper than air freight", that means they pay you.*
    Where do I sign up?

    *One time cheaper is free.

  21. Re:hilarious on New Hyperloop Cargo Company Promises Deliveries at 600 MPH (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not using any parcel service ever again unless they deliver directly from the source to my house with no stops or transfers and have plastic bottles to piss in.

  22. Re:Pot, meet kettle... on The Rise of the Pointless Job (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is why he is ideally qualified to speak on the matter.

  23. Re:real estate agents on The Rise of the Pointless Job (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The answer to online competition is not to lower prices but to offer more added value than a website can.
    If they don't add any value, then bye bye, society doesn't need them.

  24. Re:There is no straight path on The Longest Straight Path You Could Travel On Water Without Hitting Land (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I do the flat earth on-land version all the time in Transport Tycoon, and I don't cheat by ignoring small bodies of water!

  25. Re:Tesla isn't 0 MPG. It just shifts where emissio on California Leads States In Suing the EPA For Attacking Vehicle Emissions Standards (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If that reply was to me I think you're missing the point.

    1 MPG is pretty poor, right?

    So how good is 0 MPG?