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  1. Re: Why even have elections? on Latest WikiLeaks Reveal Suggests Facebook Is Too Close For Comfort With Clinton (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Given the devils we now know quite well, it's just about guaranteed that the devils we don't know can't be worse.

    I'm voting Gary Johnson, even if he can't be bothered to pretend he has a chance and comes across as something of an idiot since he doesn't prepare for interviews.

  2. Look, just because you can't tell the difference between gray text and the grey background doesn't mean there isn't one!

  3. Re:Creating interactive fiction to learn programmi on New Text Adventures Compete In 22nd 'Interactive Fiction Competition' (ifcomp.org) · · Score: 1

    MULTIPLY COBOL BY FICTION GIVING READ-ONLY-CODE

    Don't use caps, it's like programming on mainframes that did not have lower case letters!

  4. Re:Easy Work-Around on Governor Cuomo Bans Airbnb From Listing Short-Term Rentals In New York (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    prove that was your intent

    I think it'd be pretty easy to prove once Air BnB's records show that you had already rented the room in advance to another person for the second week, and to a third person on the third week and so on... it looks almost like you intended them to stay only a week, doesn't it?

  5. Re:DNS Replication Service Suggestions? on Amid Major Internet Outages, Affected Websites Have Lessons To Learn (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2
  6. Now that you're done analyzing the post he made where he decides to support Trump, break down the ones he made where he decided to support the other candidates too.

  7. Re:I learned something today on Amazon Japan's Manga-Ready Kindle Has 8 Times the Storage (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    There's been one for a long time. The last time I saw it though, I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be Sasami from the Tenchi series.

  8. but then no one will need to work at all, will they?

    As the cost of labor approaches zero, the cost of goods approach the cost of raw materials plus profit. In "some distant future" everyone must work or starve, or some new system for allocating resources must be found.

    Factories are already full of robots (in the US).

    I'm wondering how many of those factories are in places where they got a property tax exemption years ago because they were "creating jobs". How much leverage does a facility with 0 jobs have in negotiating property tax exemptions?

  9. then it will be time to discuss the basic income

    What is the saying? You are nine meals away from anarchy? That's not much time to discuss basic income. I propose we discuss it now, then have a solid plan to act on when we get down to 6 or 7 meals away from anarchy.

  10. guess they can't find a job scraping gum off of sidewalks.

    That job was taken by a roomba with a putty knife taped on.

  11. They own the trucks and equipment now

    How did they get the money to buy the trucks and equipment?

    sjames makes a huge deal over the "million dollar daddy" but for everyone who starts a company who doesn't have rich parents to mooch from, the answer is that the founder had a previous job from which they saved money before starting their company. If the master plumber automates their work, then they no longer need to hire apprentice plumbers, and the next generation of plumbers will no longer have a job from which they can save up money to start their own shop.

    Personally, though, I don't see this will become a permanent problem without a major libertarian takeover of the country. Reason: your factory full of robots has a nonzero property value, and therefore is subject to property tax. At some point, hiring a human will cost less than the property tax on your robot, especially as the monetary value of the robots' output falls. Of course, that supposes that the robots don't start assembling themselves causing their own cost to drop. In that case, with a major libertarian takeover of the country, people could sell a blowjob or two to raise the capital to buy a robot (unless someone invents a robot that gives killer blowjobs).

  12. Re:because everyone carries a bag of 100 gift card on It's Entirely Reasonable For Police To Swipe a Suspicious Gift Card, Says Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    (receipt) that you bought those branded gift cards from a website

    Because whenever I buy stuff online, my laptop's built in receipt printer prints one out to prove to cops I actually own what I have bought.

  13. Re:More accurate headline? on English Man Spends 11 Hours Trying To Make Cup of Tea With Wi-Fi Kettle (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    And the articles used to explain how they did what they did with particularly clever code snippets highlighted for our amusement/education, and we used to think they were awesome for figuring it out and sharing.

  14. Re:So lemme see if I understand this... on Dozens of Suspicious Court Cases Aim At Getting Web Pages Taken Down Or Deindexed (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm curious how this could be challenged anyway? Would the real poster just show up to the proceedings and shout "No! I'm Spartacus!" from the gallery floor? Seems like a quick way to get hauled out by a bailiff. Neither the plaintiff nor the defendant would call you as a witness since that would blow their cover.

  15. Re:What's your point? on Dozens of Suspicious Court Cases Aim At Getting Web Pages Taken Down Or Deindexed (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It has nothing to do with whether or not the content is defamatory, or even if the content is defamatory. It looks like this movie script runs like this:

    Plaintiff: "Your honor! I accuse 'Bob' here of defaming me by posting scandalous slurs on his website www.microsoft.com!"

    "Defendant": "I admit I run www.microsoft.com and posted horrible things on it, but I refuse to shut down www.microsoft.com!"

    Judge: "I hereby order you to shut down www.microsoft.com"

    Plaintiff: "Hey google, I have here a court order demanding that www.microsoft.com be shut down. Please kindly stop people from finding this site"

    Google: "Well, if it's a court order I don't have to think about it. Request complete."

  16. Re:"Now available to download" link on Google Releases An Open Source Font That Supports 800 Languages (googleblog.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't find any indication of what makes those fonts different than the alternatives

    The CJK Unified Ideographs block has 20950 assigned code points most of which are significantly more complicated than Latin script. Add to that katakana, hiragana, hangul, radicals, and so on and there are a lot of characters, making the font significantly larger than fonts for latin-1.

  17. Re:"Now available to download" link on Google Releases An Open Source Font That Supports 800 Languages (googleblog.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Way back when Unicode decided to unify all the CJK glyphs they made several screwups in unifiying characters that were not actually the same in each of the languages. Aside from the character looking wrong in Chinese or Japanese (whichever language you don't have installed as default) they may sort differently in different languages so collation is wrong too. More information (note that you'll need a full CJK font and a browser supporting language selection to see the differences).

    Noto's solution was to create a font with every possible glyph, then for systems which can't support identifying the correct glyph based on language, they made versions of the fonts where the default characters are the Japanese versions or the Chinese versions or so on, then for embedded stuff they made versions of the fonts with just one language's characters. Noto's explanation of their CJK fonts. In other words, you only need one of the 110MB font files.

  18. Re: The new line for the Johnnie Cochran's out the on FBI Looks Into Unlocking Minnesota Mall Stabber's iPhone (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There also has to be a limit to how much work the government can compel people to do for free to help them uncover evidence. Creating, testing and pushing an OS update is pushing it in my mind.

    Otherwise, why bother paying for infrastructure projects? Just start pressing people into evidence-discovering gangs: "You, you and you. We think there's a corpse buried somewhere under here, start digging. You brought your own shovel, right?"

  19. The last time I went to a big chain movie theater was the first JJ Trek. Before the ads even started the speakers were humming loudly, once the movie started the smallest sounds were like small grenades and the loudest caused the speakers to pop, I half expected to see sparks flying out of them.

    Now I go to the alamo drafthouse. The rooms smell a bit funny thanks to all the spilled food, but at least the sound system is decent. The carnivore pizza is pretty damn good though.

  20. Re:Errr on Unity 8 Desktop Session Arrives in Ubuntu 16.10 (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    'member when we used window managers and had a choice of how our system looked and worked, where we could pick the best window manager, the best file browser, the best music player and so on? This was back before "desktop environments" became all the rage and we were given the One True terminal/editor/browser/etc that the desktop environment "worked with".

    You can still have those days back, all you have to do is give up on KDE and Gnome.

  21. Clearly everyone needs this arm to brush their teeth for them. Add in shaving and combing and flying cars and we can live like the Jetsons!

  22. No no no, you're supposed to jump off a building while screaming for tech support.

  23. Re:Define "work" on There's Even More Evidence That Fitness Trackers Don't Work (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I wish someone was selling a continuous blood pressure meter.

    Someone was working on it last year but who knows if they actually got anywhere.

  24. Re:A company pays $100/hour to a contracting compa on Federal Prosecutors Actually Prosecute H1-B Fraud (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    The fact that he was paid in Rupees? So what? As long as the relevant taxes are paid

    As long as the relevant taxes were paid, then the employee would be able to prove that they were employed in the US.

    I'm guessing the IRS didn't get a single Rupee from this employee, nor the employer's contribution in payroll taxes.

  25. I'm sure there's a third "security best practice" that's not being followed.

    I bet one of the accounts on there is a test account for the developer to test with in production, and the username/password is the same as the password to the FTP server or to the DNS registry or some other important service.