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  1. Re:Moderate drinking? on Moderate Drinking Can Damage the Brain, Claim Researchers (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1
    Ask an American substance-abuse counselor. They'll tell you that drinking every day means you have a problem.

    Don't forget, we banned alcohol entirely for years and still have dry counties and municipalities, as well as States where you can't sell alcohol on Sundays. Hell, Jack Daniels is distilled in a town where it's illegal to sell it.

    There are social standards involved. And by UK standards, we are sheltered lightweights.

  2. Re:How much is a unit? on Moderate Drinking Can Damage the Brain, Claim Researchers (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh no, no we don't. On average, Brits out-drink Americans. By our standards, like half of the UK is alcoholics. By their standards, we're prudes and lightweights. (I'm exaggerating, but not by much)

  3. Re:And only 10 major versions late! on Apple's New iOS File Manager Coming This Fall As Part of iOS 11 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
    Ah, that's Apple for you. Some people struggle with file managers, so don't have one at all. Forget the people who expect one (and wouldn't struggle), provide only features for the lowest common denominator.

    When I first got an iPhone, I went nuts looking for the file manager. The idea that there wouldn't be one never crossed my mind. When I found out that I'd have to jailbreak it to get one I was dumbfounded. It was like I was dealing with a car with forward and back buttons instead of pedals and a shifter.

    But thank you. At least now I know why they did what they did. Maybe next they'll add the other thing I naturally expected and went nuts trying to find - xterm.

  4. Re:And only 10 major versions late! on Apple's New iOS File Manager Coming This Fall As Part of iOS 11 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, that's even better!

  5. Re:OMG Not Competition??? on Cable TV 'Failing' As a Business, Cable Industry Lobbyist Says (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean "should have been treated as a utility"? They are monopolies. A cartel really, as they collude to avoid competition.

  6. "It is very, very difficult for a cable operator in many cases to even break even on the cable side of the business"

    I wonder how many is "many cases". Four?

  7. And only 10 major versions late! on Apple's New iOS File Manager Coming This Fall As Part of iOS 11 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
    Seriously, they only thought to do this now?

    Apple is ridiculous. Who else would introduce basic functionality ten years late and call it innovation?

  8. Oh hooray, a new Flash implementation to break on Chrome To Deprecate PNaCl, Embrace New WebAssembly Standard (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    The PNaCL version didn't work right for a year, providing me with a number of support headaches. Not excited about doing that again.

  9. Re:lets just not stop there... on Congressman Proposes Organizations Should Be Allowed To 'Hack Back' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1
    Well, in California (of all places) you're allowed to do all sorts of things to recover stolen property. Including breaking into the thieve's house to take it back, and if necessary, shooting them in the process.

    Why not extend that to digital theft?

  10. Re:Alice Bob etc. on Congressman Proposes Organizations Should Be Allowed To 'Hack Back' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    What a strange name. I've never heard of a "Carol Sue", and I live in the South.

  11. Re:Not the top search result on Google's Top Search Result For 'Target' Was A Tech Support Scam (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1
    For one, these results (happened with walmart and amazon as well) appear to be ads from the companies themselves. As for blockers, I use AdBlock and still ended up seeing and clicking a fake Walmart link.

    I was very annoyed by this and reported it to google in less than polite terms.

  12. Weeks ago I googled "walmart", and the top result was a support scam. I reported this to google, using the term "dumbass".

  13. Re:At least FB doesn't have a motto on How Facebook Praises and Pressures a Country's Leader To Get Exactly What It Wants (qz.com) · · Score: 1
    I'd say the limits are little different than ethical limits in general. I don't see a problem with weighing in on who should be regulating your business, having input on government decisions that directly affect you is essential to democracy.

    If facebook was offering bribes, that would be a different matter entirely.

  14. I'm not, I just have too much to do. And my company is actually pretty serious about us not leaving vacation days on the table, so I often have to scramble to take a few days off towards the end of the year.

    I'm taking off Thursday and Friday though. It's my birthday tomorrow.

  15. Re:At least FB doesn't have a motto on How Facebook Praises and Pressures a Country's Leader To Get Exactly What It Wants (qz.com) · · Score: 1
    Since when is trying to influence a politician evil? Sure, you can try and influence them to do something evil, but encouraging a favorable regulatory landscape isn't that.

    This is something that professors teaching MBA classes might find interesting enough to use in the classroom, but it's nothing new or unusual. If anything, it's old and usual.

  16. Well, yeah, but that's really just Irish for PM. Not literally, but the role is that of a PM. Given how few people speak Irish, I don't see a problem.

  17. Isn't that why we still have copper? on Experts Call For Preserving Copper, Pneumatic Systems As Hedge For Cyber Risk (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought the DoD insisted that we keep the copper infrastructure in place as a fallback. Is that imperilled? Is that why they wanted MITRE (who work for them) to publish this?

  18. Hundreds of settings? on Security Analyst Concludes Windows 10 Enterprise 'Tracks Too Much' (xato.net) · · Score: 1

    That can't be right. Dozens, sure, but not hundreds.

  19. They're a counterterrorism "hammer" on Leaked 'Standing Rock' Documents Reveal Invasive Counterterrorism Measures (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    so every problem looks like a terrorist "nail". Why would they take a different approach?

  20. Re:Large and irregular on Could Giant Alien Structures Be Dimming a Far Away Star? (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    I was thinking of celestial bodies with enough gravity to make things move strangely, but now that I think of it, we don't know how fat aliens can get, so why not?

  21. Re:Confidentially Agreements on Baking Soda Shortage Has Hospitals Frantic, Delaying Treatments and Surgeries (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't see how an NDA with Pfizer's supplier means there isn't a free market. Secret agreements between ostensible competitors, collusion, would be one thing but this is one market player having a supply problem.

  22. Re:How is Arm & Hammer not in on this game? on Baking Soda Shortage Has Hospitals Frantic, Delaying Treatments and Surgeries (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
    Exactly! How long could it take them to start producing pharma grade baking soda? Would it be a matter of weeks, months or years? It sounds like there's a big opportunity here, maybe they should be investing in competing with Pfizer instead of developing new condoms (they own Trojan).

    Unless of course they already are, and they're the undisclosed supplier having unspecified problems.

  23. But does it compile? on Microsoft Wants To Use DNA For Cloud Data Storage (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    If yes, what does it do?

  24. Large and irregular on Could Giant Alien Structures Be Dimming a Far Away Star? (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    like a big 'ol dust cloud or asteroid field, of varying density, possibly perturbed by other bodies?

  25. I can't believe this weird trick actually works! on Facebook Now Battles Clickbait On a Post-by-Post Basis (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    To reduce clickbait on Facebook.