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  1. Re:We neec to get Chrome away from Google on Google Has Made YouTube Slower on Edge and Firefox, Mozilla Alleges (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    ShadowDOM is a W3C standard. Firefox and Edge have not implemented it yet.

    The complaint in the article is that Firefox is behind Chrome in implementing a W3C standard, and somehow that's Chrome's fault.

  2. Re:Why is there so much focus on Soy? on Impossible Burgers' Key, Bloody Ingredient Wins FDA Approval (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    There's not a lot of plant-based protein sources that are as easily grown and thus inexpensive.

  3. Busing legal voters to their polling place.

    The thing to remember about Project Veritas is they edit everything they release. Because lying to you sells very well.

  4. You do realize that people move to different states, right?

    I was born in a state on the West coast. I now live in another state on the East coast. A new copy of my birth certificate has to be issued by the county where I was born. Which is on the other side of the US. The state where I currently live will not issue me a copy of my birth certificate, because I was not born in this state.

  5. I don't have time to look up the name

    Translation: My google showed that he was transporting legal voters to the polls, so I need to keep it vague and sinister-sounding.

    is they know about the voter fraud yet even the Republican establishment works to hide Democratic voter fraud

    You realize that this statement is slightly less plausible than all the "crisis actor" claims anytime there is a shooting, right?

    Republicans are literally changing laws to manipulate the ballot in North Carolina to favor their Supreme Court candidates, but they'd totally pass at an incredibly easy opportunity to annihilate the Democratic party.

    You're getting played.

  6. That's not a problem, it's by design. It's specifically done that way to prevent populous states from taking the reins of the whole nation.

    Nope. That's the point of the Senate.

    Electoral College votes are 2 for Senators plus one for each member of the House. Since number of Representatives are based on population, the Electoral College does not protect small states. They get the 2 votes every state gets from Senators, and then the small states get far less votes from number of Representatives.

    There's two things skewing the Electoral College at the moment. #1 is the winner-take-all nature of most states mean only the states that are closely-divided are relevant. And, btw, those are not small states.

    The bigger issue is we stopped expanding the House of Representatives in the 1910s, and you can't go below one Representative. So currently small states are over-represented in the House even though it is not supposed to work that way. To get back to the ratio of population-to-Representative we had in the 1910s, we'd need more than 1000 Representatives instead of 435.

  7. but a very small number of votes have swung local elections.

    Very small numbers of votes have swung elections at all levels. But again, it is extremely rare that the election is actually that close and you won't know it is that close ahead of time.

    So you assemble a very large army of conspirators, and get caught because the more people, the more leaks.
    Or you assemble a very small number of conspirators, over and over again until the election is that close. But doing it over and over again makes it far more likely that you will get caught.
    Or you assemble a very small number of conspirators and affect one election....and don't change the result because 99% of the time the result isn't narrow enough.

    Or you take the money you would use to assemble your conspiracy, and donate it to the politicians. Thus getting the actual policy results you want no matter the election results. As and added bonus, it's legal.

  8. No, they don't. They verify that the name you gave them is a registered voter. And that's all they do

    Actually, they verify name and address, and that you have not voted yet.

    Btw, think voter ID is gonna fix it? Guess what you need to produce a fake id? Name and address.

    It's a well known open secret that liberals routinely bus "voters" around on election day

    If this was actually happening at a large scale, it would be easy to catch and result in a lot of convictions. Yet there have been 0 people caught transporting false voters.

    In-person voter fraud is extremely rare. Those that do it and are caught are not all members of one political party. In fact, there's been slightly more Republicans caught doing it in the last few years, largely because of false claims like the one you make here.

  9. All it would really take is a properly-bribed postman or two to collect a few spare ballots (and discard a few ballots from parts of his route that vote heavily for The Other Guy), a handful of pencils, a roll of stamps, and a few cohorts willing to help you 'vote'.

    All that, and you've change 0.02% of the vote.

    Yes, there rarely are elections which are that close, but you wouldn't know this is one of those situations beforehand.

    Intercepting vote-by-mail from the voter is hard because it's so distributed. You'd need a lot of people involved in your conspiracy. Instead, you'd alter the vote it in the election offices, where you need far fewer people....just the guy who patches the software on the tabulators. However, that's the same with traditional voting systems.

  10. It's not just the ID itself, but the supporting documentation.

    A new copy of my birth certificate costs $50, or I have the option of traveling 2000 miles to get a free copy at the county's offices.

  11. Re:Here's a thought: on The US is Facing a Serious Shortage of Airline Pilots (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The starting wage for a pilot at a major carrier

    Pilots do not start at a major carrier. They start at a regional carrier, where the starting salary is about $20-30k/year. The ones who stick it out at the regional carrier for years are the ones getting the "starting" wage you cite.

    That's why regional carriers exist: To be the dirt-cheap thing everyone wants to get out of. And not everyone gets out by moving up to the major airlines.

  12. I think it states: "Maybe we should be less concerned with what may or may not have happened 13.8 billion years ago and start focusing on what's immediately around us. Like going back to the moon and performing experiments there before playing around with sending people on a one-way trip to Mars."

    Do you realize that going to the moon at this point requires exactly zero astronomy or astrophysics research? It is entirely a financial and engineering problem.

    That's why you are getting asked what exactly is your point. Because you give no reason why astronomers or astrophysicists should be involved in building a moon base.

  13. And I'm sure our Republican overlords will get right around to enforcing that very soon.

  14. Re:A simpler explanation on Amazon's Curious Case of the $2,630.52 Used Paperback (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Because then someone else might buy it, and now you have to deliver whatever it is you "sold".

  15. Re:Yeah, no shit. on Amazon Admits Prime Day Deals Not Necessarily the Cheapest (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    How long does it take for you eat 10 boxes of oat bran?

    Depends on how badly you want to shit.

  16. At Home Depot, we printed out yellow price tags to put on the shelf for items that are "on sale". Regular price tags are white.

    99.99999999% of the time, the yellow price tags had the same price as the white tags we removed from the shelf. They'd just raised the "regular" price in the computer so that they could put it "on sale" for the same price.

    The unfortunate part is it worked very well. A lot more of the items would be bought when we put it "on sale".

  17. These are switches for datacenters, not your house. It is unlikely that Amazon is interested in getting you to buy one.

  18. Amazon already has a certification program around AWS. It's not going to be very hard for them to add an "Amazon Certified" program.

    Assuming the hardware is not shit, getting some people to get that certification and getting some company to install that hardware is not going to be hard for a massive cloud behemoth. Start with their own staff and datacenters. "We run AWS on these" should sell well enough to start making inroads.

    At that point the market will pick a winner.

  19. speculation has it that it was Seth Rich.

    The problem with this speculation is Seth Rich was not an administrator of the DNC's email system, so he would not have access to the emails in order to leak them. And he definitely was not the administrator of Podesta's GMail account.

    But he does serve a useful distraction when building "cognitive dissonance"....

  20. If Occam's razor can provide a better way to interpret these facts, please share.

    Ok:

    FBI announces in late 2016 that they have an active investigation into the Trump campaign working with Russia to affect the election.

    That would toss the election to Clinton, since it was pretty close. And it would be really, really easy for the FBI to do if they actually were out to sabotage Trump. Just a press release, like the multiple press releases they sent out for their investigation into Clinton.

    Instead, the FBI announced the investigation into Clinton's emails, including a big announcement reviving it in October. The FBI didn't talk about the investigation into the Trump campaign, and actively turned the press away from it by claiming the investigation didn't involve the Trump campaign.

    That would be a really bad idea if they were actually out to get Trump.....but it doesn't fit the narrative so the imbalance in press releases somehow doesn't get included when you talk about including all facts.

  21. Re:Questions and observations on Python Language Founder Steps Down (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Python has a Global Interpreter Lock problem that slows down multiprocessing significantly and it hasn't been solved.

    Hasn't been solved....except in every implementation that isn't CPython. If your code really needs to not have the GIL, run it in IronPython or Jython or any of the others.

    Also, if your code is that performance-critical, an interpreted language is not a good idea.

  22. Re:So wait a second... on No, the FCC is Not Forcing Consumers To Pay $225 To File Complaints (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    It's only a misunderstanding if you stop at the headline and don't manage to read the summary.

  23. No it's access control based on the contents of the document.

    It has nothing to do with Clippy, other than the author of the article wanted people to read it.

  24. Re:Here's A Bright Idea ... on Hackers Stole 600 Gallons of Gas From Detroit Gas Station, Report Says (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Then at some point an Out of Order sign should have been wrapped around the pump handle.

    Actually, the attendant shut down all the pumps after they discovered they could not get the free pump to stop. See, they were smarter than you and realized that if one pump was malfunctioning so badly, the other pumps may be affected too.

    Low-wages don't enter into it. When I entered the workforce at age 16 (when the minimum wage was $3.00-ish), I'd've done it. Never mind that I had other things going on, I'd've said to customers, "You're going to have to hang on a sec, I need to put an Out of Order sign on a pump."

    Well grandpa, if you'd thought about it for a minute you'd realize the attendant is not watching every person fill up their car, so it may take a while to notice the issue.

    That was the entirety of the point that sailed over your head.

    Also sailing over your head was that the comment about getting what you pay for was for the service workers in general that you are deriding. Btw, you got paid $12-15ish in 2018 dollars when you take into account inflation and changes in productivity. Service workers are not doing as good a job because we're not paying enough for them to do a good job.

  25. Re:Pay before You Pump on Hackers Stole 600 Gallons of Gas From Detroit Gas Station, Report Says (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Virtually everywhere is pay before you pump.

    And virtually everywhere has pay at the pump. Which will look exactly like pumping free gas unless you happen to watch the few seconds where they'd normally swipe a card.