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  1. Like the sort of people who would fly into a rage and violently protest the speech of a gay Jew? Like in Berkeley last week?

  2. New, super-high-tech paper, looks like on Scientists Have Invented Paper That You Can Print With Light, Erase With Heat, and Reuse 80 Times (qz.com) · · Score: 1
    mimeograph? Wow, the future is a blast from the past. As in grade school.

    And now y'all have an idea of how old I am.

  3. They've a better chance of getting results than on Microsoft Seeks Trump Order Exemption for Workers With Visas (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    protesters making a ruckus in airports and inconveniencing people who have nothing to do with it.

  4. I can think of at least one obvious situation where one's face would be shown to others by 2K. You're playing with them over the internet and they need to see your character.

    And with indefinite storage, you don't have to rescan your face when NBA 2K17 comes out.

    To me, it doesn't sound like some sketchy privacy infringement, it sounds like a functional necessity for a pretty cool feature.

  5. Re:Lots of misinformation in the comments section on FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses To Recall (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Get pissed off that I don't have authority over things that masquerade as medicine but somehow don't have to meet any of the standards for medicine or even do anything at all. Then I'd try to figure out how I could define them as food instead, and then regulate them out of existence.

  6. Tape some foil to the back? on LG's UltraFine 5K Display Becomes Useless When It's Within Two Meters of a Router (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    To make up for what I assume they forgot to put on the inside of the back cover? Or do people just need to wrap some around the cable? What obvious and standard part of a monitor or cable did they forget?

  7. Makes sense for my company, but on Microsoft Reports New Subscribers For Office 365 Plunged 62% (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I sure wouldn't subscribe if it was for personal use. Though the only time I ever did buy office for personal use I was a student, and got a hefty discount.

  8. Re:Doublethink? Try watching the interview before on George Orwell's '1984' Tops Amazon's Bestseller List (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm saying the statement was presented to you with the context entirely replaced by people with an interest in harming the speaker. As for your list, you could have gotten that from James Carville. That was his playbook when he was working for Bill Clinton. He was so effective that it became the dominant strategy for dealing with opposition to Democrats.

  9. Re:Doublethink? Try watching the interview before on George Orwell's '1984' Tops Amazon's Bestseller List (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1
    Opinions are perceptions of or judgements about information, so yes. Rational people can make differing judgements and hold differing views without having relied on anything other than reason to arrive at them. Were that not the case, politics wouldn't exist.

    I have heard many definitions of "fact" and/or "truth". That is not one of them.

  10. Re: Doublethink? Try watching the interview before on George Orwell's '1984' Tops Amazon's Bestseller List (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1
    You aren't speaking from a place of reason, but of pure emotion. Your use of language demonstrates this clearly. Rage and reason are incompatible - you cannot be rational when enraged and you are using the language of rage.

    Take a few deep breaths and calm down. Forget how much hate you have for Trump (hate blinds) and read a transcript of the interview. Pretend you're trying to wade through spaghetti code, it'll help keep activity in the rational regions of your brain and tone down emotional responses.

  11. Re:Doublethink? Try watching the interview before on George Orwell's '1984' Tops Amazon's Bestseller List (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1
    A. Well, he is a politician now...

    B. You're in no position to make that determination.

  12. Re:Doublethink? Try watching the interview before on George Orwell's '1984' Tops Amazon's Bestseller List (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Informative
    Except that she explained what she meant on the spot, and that's not what she said. She discussed the facts she was referring to while dealing with a very hostile Chuck Todd - who started his career working for elected Democrats on the Hill, and whose wife is a media consultant for the Party. You may be surprised by how many members of the Washington press corps started their careers working for the Democrats, continue to work with, and/or married ranking members. It is no longer a secret that they actively colluded with the Clinton campaign either.

    Yes, Trump exaggerates, but he isn't alone in doing so. The bulk of the press was in the bag for Hillary, despise Trump, and the reporting shows it. What they report as fact is just as often opinion and deceitful framing as Trump is braggadocious.

    And let's not forget that rational, intelligent people can disagree on matters of import, the significance of facts, and so forth without ceasing to be rational.

  13. Take a statement out of context and on Ask Slashdot: Can US Citizens Trust Government Data? (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    run wild speculating about its savage implications. Thanks mainstream media for making sure to ram your bias down our throats whenever you can make the GOP look bad.

  14. Doublethink? Try watching the interview before on George Orwell's '1984' Tops Amazon's Bestseller List (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    making such inflammatory claims. Even here in the article it's being misrepresented with falsely framing the context. Conway was talking about facts that weren't being reported (i.e., other things Spicer said), not promoting some form of doublethink. But of course, those two words were all anybody seemed to have taken away from the interview, and whazzerface at CNN was just too ready to take advantage of an excuse to call the administration "Orwellian" to bother with context.

    But that's what you get when the bulk of the media is little more than a mouthpiece for the Democrat party.

  15. If you look at the questions and breakdown, Republicans support expanding development of all sources of energy, Democrats only want to expand renewables. Except nuclear, about which both sides are tepid.

  16. Well, now that he has said he is coming when she gets released, I guess the topic is moot.

  17. What about Heather from Account Services? on FTC Dismantles Two Huge Robocall Organizations (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    Cuz that lying bitch won't stop calling me.

  18. Was this in question? on Humans, Not Climate Change, Wiped Out Australian Megafauna (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Maybe the headline should read, "Researchers confirm tradition theory of megafauna extinction - "We ate them.""?

  19. Interesting timing. on Labor Department Sues Oracle For Paying White Men More (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    A big case right before the administration changes?

  20. He should say that he'll come when she's been released. And do it.

  21. Re:This is one type; others have less decline on US Puts Bumblebee On the Endangered Species List For First Time (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Dozens is more than nozens!

  22. Re:Four years without updates? Does Apple hate us? on AT&T Shuts Down 2G Network, Ends Cellular Connectivity For Original iPhone (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    There's nothing preventing Apple from patching more than one version of iOS. The security fixes in iOS 4 could have been added to an iOS 3.1.4 for 1st gen iPhone users. But no, they released version 4 and gave the finger to anyone with the unmitigated gall to still own a two year old cellphone.

  23. Re:Washing & reusing Ziploc baggies on AT&T Shuts Down 2G Network, Ends Cellular Connectivity For Original iPhone (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1
    Every few months there's a story here about some dastardly thing that can be done with a "specially crafted SMS message", so security patches are always necessary, no matter how limited the feature set.

    My first smartphone of any sort was a company issued iPhone 4. I remember that the first version of iOS I couldn't install was chock full of important security patches. I had a 1st Gen iPad, same situation. Apple only updates the latest version of iOS, and everyone else can go fuck themselves. [profanity added to imply honesty and sincerity]

  24. Re:Sounds familiar on Blockchain Technology Could Save Banks $12 Billion a Year (silicon.co.uk) · · Score: 1
    It'll be something. That $12b in savings might also cost them the ability to manipulate transactions in order to generate billions in fees.

    Not that they bear the burden of that $12b. We get to do that for them (where do you think those ATM fees came from?), plus a little extra, because banks treat us like shit and there's nothing we can do about it. They inflate their costs and pass them directly onto us - so saving money might actually lower profits. If something cost them $12b, they were probably charging us $13b for it.

  25. Re:Washing & reusing Ziploc baggies on AT&T Shuts Down 2G Network, Ends Cellular Connectivity For Original iPhone (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    And completely insecure since 2009. That's not thrift, that's risk. It might also be the worst thing Apple does - leaving users vulnerable to and ever expanding set of threats because they can't be bothered to patch their software. Why? Is it apathy? Is it greed - forcing people to spend $700 for support they're already entitled to rather than spending money to patch the holes? Whatever the reason, it's shitty behavior.