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  1. Re:Virtue signaling douche bags on Tech Leaders Speak Out Against Trump Ban on Transgender Troops (axios.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "The Generals have declared that is a danger."

    The generals have very much NOT declared that it a danger.

    The study from 2016 said it was no problem. The current study is not complete yet.

    Meanwhile, the military is prohibited from selecting who it sees fit.

  2. Re:Pre-check is worth it on Travelers' Electronics At US Airports To Get Enhanced Screening, TSA Says (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "It sucks that in the US that you have to get the government's permission to travel. I've been denied a passport"

    The US does not have exit controls. Strictly speaking, you do not need the US governments permission to leave.

  3. Why to you want to limit the military's ability to deploy the most effective forces it can assemble? This is a constraint imposed from outside of the military that prohibits the military from assessing fitness of potential soldiers.

  4. Re:Obviously, on Apple Sued By State Farm Over Alleged iPhone Fire (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The best rebuttal to the "holding it wrong" herp-derp crowd: http://dontholditwrong.tumblr....

  5. Re:don't worry on The Proton Is Lighter Than We Thought (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    Observed mass would have increase by an order of magnitude to eliminate the calculated "missing mass". This change is 13.5 orders of magnitude smaller than that.

  6. "how can you trust that stuff is accurate and not a fabricated lie to spite you"

    By having a trial.

  7. Re:Don't tell me what to do on Public Service Announcement: You Should Not Force Quit Apps on iOS (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    The list is ordered based on how recently you have used the app. If you don't use an app much, then the apps you use more often move to the front of the list automatically.

  8. Re:It's all good in theory, but... on Public Service Announcement: You Should Not Force Quit Apps on iOS (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    And that misbehavior has nothing to do with the RAM usage. Th epost is about the claim that you need to manually kill apps to manage RAM usage.

  9. 'if you want an app to have performance RAM (and everyone writes their "mobile" bloatstains to waste plenty) you'll need to close recent apps. Not older ones, since iOS will silently kill those sessions (the slot in Recent becomes a placebo) as it desires. '

    If the foreground app needs more RAM, iOS will suspend more and more old apps anyway. The different is that if you do it manually you also kill the running state of the app so when you reopen it you have the restart the app from the beginning.

  10. Re:Distinctly untrue, despite the hype on Public Service Announcement: You Should Not Force Quit Apps on iOS (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    Turns out location sensing has nothing to do with RAM usage, so your comment is a non sequitur.

  11. Re:'trolley' ? on Michigan Will Build 25 Self-Driving Trolleys In 2017 (observer.com) · · Score: 1

    The vehicle in question has rubber tires and no track.

  12. Re:'trolley' ? on Michigan Will Build 25 Self-Driving Trolleys In 2017 (observer.com) · · Score: 1

    This thing isn't a trolley by American usage, either.

  13. Many Commenters Are 'AI Washing' Claims on Many Firms Are 'AI Washing' Claims of Intelligent Products (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    If it exists, then it's not AI.
    If it doesn't exist, it's vaporware and thus not AI.

  14. "I'd bet that's the rare exception"

    In 2013, 59% of all mortgages were sold to third parties. See Chart 2: http://bipartisanpolicy.org/wp...

  15. Re:Hiding UI functionality on Ask Slashdot: What Software (Or Hardware) Glitch Makes You Angry? · · Score: 1

    The location where things are in a ribbon UI do not change any more than the locations in a menu UI. The difference is that you can see everything in the ribbon instead of having to drill down into the submenu hierarchy.

  16. Re:Marginal or Average cost? on WSJ Op-Ed: The Post Office Is Delivering Amazon's Packages Below Cost (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 1

    The gripping hand is that USPS can't change prices without Congressional approval anyway.

  17. Can APK make a host file so strong that not even APK can spam through it?

  18. Re:Dear Netflix, a bit of advice on Netflix Shows Are All Worldwide Hits -- Until They're Not (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, Babylon 5 is one of the best refutations of the Babylon 5 model.

    “No operation extends with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the main body of the enemy.” This holds true for television as well. Actors leave the show, either though illness (Michael O'Hare) or contract (Claudia Christian, Andrea Thompson) and renewals are not certain (season 4 to 5).

  19. Re:Netflix doesn't have to worry about syndication on Netflix Shows Are All Worldwide Hits -- Until They're Not (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    "For the networks, there's an incentive to keep plodding on with a show until it hits 100 episodes, which is the magic number required for syndication. That's why Star Trek: Enterprise was allowed to stagger through its crummy fourth season."

    OT, but the magic number for syndication is 65: weekdays for 1 quarter (5 days per week * 13 weeks)

    Enterprise only had 98 episodes.

  20. Re:Amazon Prime can go DiaF on Amazon Prime Will Soon Be More Popular Than Cable TV (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Costs went up. Price stayed the same.

    The difference between prices and costs is pretty basic microeconomics.

  21. Re:I have Prime and the selection sucks on Amazon Prime Will Soon Be More Popular Than Cable TV (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    It's a struggle to sift out Prime content from rental content from digital purchase content.

    Have you tried the "Included with Prime" section of Amazon Video?

  22. Re:Wait, what? on Would You Buy the iPhone 8 If It Cost $1,200? (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    "If Apple wanted to add some more exotic technology, they could simply lower their industry leading profit margin"

    A part that goes into a regular iPhone needs to be sourced at around a million units per day at release. There may be no amount of money that could get a part up to those volumes. If they are supply constrained the high price will bring down the demand to a matching level.

  23. Re:It's tied to the version? on Google Guillotine Falls on Certificate Authorities WoSign, StartCom (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    How would you securely download the a list of CAs to trust without a list of CAs to trust?

  24. Re:Embrace, Extend, Extinguish on OneDrive Has Stopped Working On Non-NTFS Drives (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "It doesn't run on the local OS"

    If you took the drive out and mounted it on an unnetworked computer that never had OneDrive installed, all of the files would be present in a regular directory and have all of the regular filesystem metadata.

  25. Provably false on OneDrive Has Stopped Working On Non-NTFS Drives (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    OneDrive is working just fine on HPS+ and APFS.