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  1. Re:This happens in Sweden too, and they don't lie. on Mobile Carriers Impose Handicaps On Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Even the 'basic' cable packages I have used have easily done 100-200 kilobytes/second downloading, so you are rounding off a Martian or something with that 1/100.

  2. Re:All it takes on Was This the Phishing E-mail That Took Down RSA? · · Score: 1

    In the context of this story, it is basically hilarious that Excel was configured to execute the flash object.

  3. Re:Sometimes linking should be illegal ... on RealNetworks Sues Dutch Webmaster Over Hyperlink To Freeware · · Score: 1

    Websites are not places.

    And it isn't confusing to talk about a website as information stored on a computer, retrievable over a network using certain protocols.

  4. Re:Devs can now be more lazy on Java 7: What's In It For Developers · · Score: 1

    ecode gives you arbitrary indentation:

    blah
        blah
            blah

    code also falls through the filters:

    blah
        blah
            blah

    (this is with the tags dropped into "Plain Old Text", not sure what the other formatting options would do)

  5. Re:obviously on When Schools Are the Police · · Score: 1

    What does virtually identical mean? Nearly 85% of Canadians are some sort of white European, while the number for the U.S. is more like 75% (with far more Latin Americans than the Canadian percentage). I guess that's only 10% more of the population being of a non white race, but that percentage (10%) of the U.S. population is merely directly comparable to the entire population of Canada.

    If you look at Germany (the biggest member of the EU), 81% of the population is directly German.

    Please explain how those easily verifiable facts mesh with what you are claiming.

  6. Re:obviously on When Schools Are the Police · · Score: 1

    "some of the most peaceful countries are MORE ethnicaly diverse than the USA." is a horrible way to say that, what with the U.S. having such a high percentage of minority races and large numbers of people that identify under most/all of the major religions.

  7. Re:obviously on When Schools Are the Police · · Score: 1

    I don't follow your definition. You don't want to use an average, but ethnicities per square kilometer is going to vary wildly (in Canada, the typical number would be 0...).

  8. Re:USA! WE ARE THE NUMBER #1!!! on When Schools Are the Police · · Score: 1

    You conveniently did not bother to respond to the part where I point out that disease (and just the disease that spread on it's own, you can keep infected blankets and such as part of your genocidal explanation) killed lots more people than all the genocidal acts committed by European invaders. The U.S. was barely invaded, it was mostly resettled, and so on.

  9. Re:Bad design choice on The GIMP Now Has a Working Single-Window Mode · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't be surprised if it works well. I also wouldn't be surprised if it is a mess, the conflation of specialization and expertise is a frequent event.

  10. Re:USA! WE ARE THE NUMBER #1!!! on When Schools Are the Police · · Score: 1

    Whatever. Few people alive in the U.S. have participated in anything like genocide, and the accident of Europeans traveling to America killed far more people than any combination of intentional acts (the diseases brought by the early Europeans traveled far faster than they did...).

  11. Re:obviously on When Schools Are the Police · · Score: 1

    By what measure of diversity?

    Really, go ahead and name a country and a metric.

  12. Re:So on Teacher Cannot Be Sued For Denying Creationism · · Score: 2

    The occurrence of evolution in nature is incontrovertible fact. You can watch simple evolutionary events happen in real time.

    There are theories describing the various mechanisms of evolution, these are up for revision.

  13. Re:Computer Fraud and Abuse Act on Microsoft Drops Use of 'Supercookies' On MSN · · Score: 1

    If you squint more and think of the persistent part as the cookie, then the browser cookie api is just being used to facilitate access.

  14. Re:Computer Fraud and Abuse Act on Microsoft Drops Use of 'Supercookies' On MSN · · Score: 1

    Nothing restores itself. Code on a visited page checks for other information stored on the computer and then creates a cookie with the same content as the deleted cookie.

  15. Re:Pretty dumb idea on DARPA To Sponsor R&D For Interstellar Travel · · Score: 1

    It's fantastic thing-a versus fantastic thing-b. It's fantastic hair splitting.

  16. Re:Pretty dumb idea on DARPA To Sponsor R&D For Interstellar Travel · · Score: 1

    Right, all you need for that is a mystery-meat g-thruster.

  17. Re:This will no longer work on New Twitter-Based Hedge Fund Beats the Stock Market · · Score: 1

    I imagine competitive utilization of the information would have a bigger impact on the profitability of the scheme than data poisoning (because the information can be utilized with partial understanding of the system, whereas poisoning may not be effective without total understanding).

  18. Re:What nonsense. on Super Scrabble Players Have Unusual Brains · · Score: 1

    So you are upset by the throwaway "in a good way" in the summary?

    I think it at least partially means "in a way that aids the playing of Scrabble" as opposed to "in a way that makes it difficult for them to function in society".

    The existence of the correlation is certainly interesting, if they can demonstrate that it is a training effect and figure out how it happens, it might be possible to apply that understanding to training for other tasks (there are shades of the focused from "A Deepness in the Sky" here, but there are plenty of people that would choose to undergo such training).

  19. Re:cable companies drive them on Can Google Fix the Cable Box? · · Score: 1

    The cable company really can't subsidize a cable box. I suppose they could, but the only way they would actually subsidize a box is if the government forced them to; otherwise, they are, on some level, building the costs to provide it into their package prices.

  20. Re:Cable is dying already on Can Google Fix the Cable Box? · · Score: 1

    Syfy is (owned by) a division of Comcast. It isn't that shocking that they would make the subscription distribution more attractive.

  21. Re:How he got caught. on Fired Techie Created Virtual Chaos At Pharma Co. · · Score: 1

    Right, because when shit goes sideways, the first thing the guards will do is come unlock the doors.

  22. Re:Oh, Linux, how you've forsaken us on How Linux Mastered Wall Street · · Score: 1

    The fun part here is that it is implicit to your statement that you understand how the market 'should' behave.

    This is laughable.

    Maybe someone should make Wall St. have a slow-tick day, so people could talk about what actually happened, rather than assuming it would make a big difference.

  23. Re:Genius. on Right-Wing German Extremists Tricked By Trojan Shirts · · Score: 1

    Right, because you say so, it is obvious that the BLS uses terms like 'manufacturing processes' and 'produce' to describe the importation of material.

  24. Re:Genius. on Right-Wing German Extremists Tricked By Trojan Shirts · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Genius. on Right-Wing German Extremists Tricked By Trojan Shirts · · Score: 1

    Stupid facts and their stupid existence.

    My mistaken assertion that the industry may have grown was not my main point, my main point was that automation has very actively reduced the number of people employed in that industry, while maintaining significant levels of production.