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  1. So by these principles of mediocrity is all civilised life also bipedal, with two eyes, two arms, and five digits on each extremity?

  2. Re:Amiga on A New Amiga Will Go On Sale In Late 2017 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It's not just whether they tell you or not. It's how they tell you, and whether or not they ever shut up about the damn thing.

  3. Seems perfectly valid to me on 'I'm a Teapot' Error Code Saved From Extinction By Public Outcry (gizmodo.com.au) · · Score: 1

    What else is your teapot supposed to reply with when sent a request that was meant to go to your fridge?

  4. And yet you're here comment on it. Get back to curing cancer, slacker.

  5. as many as 75

    So... 75, then?

    Someone had a word quota...

  6. It's GBP, not BP on Why Amazon's UK Tax Bill Has Dropped 50% (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The ISO code for British pounds is GBP, not BP.

  7. Re:I hope he sues... on Fired Google Engineer Says Company Execs Shamed and Smeared Him (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Wabbit season!

  8. Re:Apple will bow to pressure. on Apple Refuses To Enable iPhone Emergency Settings that Could Save Countless Lives (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    They can (and maybe do) just include a microUSB adapter. I'm not entirely clear if the directive (not law) is even about connectors, but rather just about charging specifications.

  9. Re:Now Tell Us What You Really securing? on Apple Refuses To Enable iPhone Emergency Settings that Could Save Countless Lives (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    You could say that about the intention of any service on the phone. Turning off GPS is supposed to turn off GPS. Does the implementation guarantee that's the case?

  10. Re: Good to see Apple stands for privacy on Apple Refuses To Enable iPhone Emergency Settings that Could Save Countless Lives (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    They have the ability to communicate en-route, but someone still needs to check for it, correlate it to a call

    Someone? Sounds like a perfect job for one of these new-fangled computers people are always going on about.

  11. Re:I'm okay with it on In Less Than Five Years, 45 Billion Cameras Will Be Watching Us (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe he is using other scale.

    Then there are 2 million cameras per person. So... no.

  12. Re:Math don't work... on In Less Than Five Years, 45 Billion Cameras Will Be Watching Us (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    He said 25 millionS, plural. He didn't say how many millions.

  13. Re:Good mind on Google May Be In Trouble For Firing James Damore (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    But didn't he also argue that an entire group of his coworkers had inherently less potential than other groups simply based on their gender?

    I don't know, did he?

  14. It only has stuff I don't want nor need to know

    Well, maybe they also looked at what other people who aren't you did.

  15. Re:Why such controversy? on Can Primordial Black Holes Alone Account For Dark Matter? · · Score: 1

    Some people just love to get in on the action, and if they can't do it by understanding the science, they'll do it by blindly dismissing the science. It's an easy route to giving yourself the impression that you're "in the know," putting yourself in the contrarian position (which is not always an incorrect thing to do if you've got the understanding back it up) and making yourself feel part of a more exclusive group. Eventually this all feeds back and you get people who think that being in the minority itself makes them more right than everyone else. c.f. Moon landing conspiracy theories.

    There seems to be such a stigma, particularly on the internet, about saying "I don't know" or "I don't understand."

    Lisa Simpson: It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
    Homer's Brain: . o O ( Uh-oh, what does that mean? Better say something or they'll think you're stupid!)

  16. Re:Or maybe, just maybe... on Can Primordial Black Holes Alone Account For Dark Matter? · · Score: 1

    Or maybe, just maybe, if you're not an astronomer or a physicist then there are other people who know more about this than you.

    Perhaps the idea that it's all a simplifying assumption is your simplifying assumption.

  17. Re:As an American driver on London is Using Optical Illusions To Make Cars Slow Down (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Most people just call them all lorries.

  18. Re:"And." Just use the word "and." on ESET Spreading FUD About Torrent Files, Clients (welivesecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Who says it's correct? Title case is utterly pointless. At best is does nothing, at worst it introduces ambiguity. Replacing "and" with a comma always makes a headline harder to read, if not also ambiguous in some cases.

    Just because an arbitrary rule is in one of many different style guides doesn't mean it's a good idea. Some papers used to write headlines all caps; why not go back to that?

    Write it like you'd say it; capitalise it like you'd write it.

  19. "And." Just use the word "and." on ESET Spreading FUD About Torrent Files, Clients (welivesecurity.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ESET Spreading FUD About Torrent Files, Clients

    Replacing "and" with a comma was a fairly dumb print media convention, but at least it served a practical purpose.

    Unless you're paying for bandwidth by the byte, just use the word "and."

    And stop using title case while you're at it...

  20. Re:Interesting question on Chinese Chatbots Apparently Re-educated After Political Faux Pas (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It almost hurts. Especially when it is intended to buttress a grammar/vocabulary complaint, no matter how mild.

    It's almost as if it was done deliberately for the purposes of irony.

  21. How was "not allowed to not answer" enforced? on Cable Giants Step Up Piracy Battle By Interrogating Montreal Software Developer (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    denied the right not to answer the questions

    I can see how they might physically deny him the right/ability to call a lawyer, but how was the above achieved?

  22. Re:Will be hard to prove on Font Maker Sues Universal Music Over 'Pirated' The Vamps Logo (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    ttf, not tiff.

    Maybe you need a clearer font!

  23. Re: Paywalled on Millennials Unearth an Amazing Hack to Get Free TV: the Antenna (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    You joke, but I have long-pressed words in physical magazines in the expectation of getting a pop-up definition.

  24. Re:Free TV? Who knew? on Millennials Unearth an Amazing Hack to Get Free TV: the Antenna (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    They also had to get a larger aerial plus signal amplifier.

    We didn't all have to.

  25. Re:Greg Bear called it, of course on In Breakthrough, Scientists Edit a Dangerous Mutation From Genes in Human Embryos (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Ugh. Could you not have summarised the 10,000+ word story just a bit?

    Even just a hint. Gene editing good? Gene editing bad?