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  1. Most of the rest of the "democartic" world doesn't have a bipartisan hegemony (well, most if you ignore the China). As a 3rd party gains traction election after election, more people will believe that a 3rd option is possible.
    If you're not a drama queen that thinks that Trump will be the last US president, then voting for a 3rd party was the smartest choice as a long term strategy.

  2. Re:I need to see more on Leaked NASA Paper Suggests The 'Impossible' EM Drive Really Does Work (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    I read so mumbo jumbo that efficiency might reduce with speed. In that case the critical velocity might not be reached.

  3. If this is paper is released it'd be the 3rd independent experiment that concludes that thrust is actually produced beyond the measurement error.

  4. You forgot people hiring a hitman

  5. Re:African-American sounding names? on It's Harder To Get an Uber or Lyft If You're Black, Study Says (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Is Jamal a low class black name, or just a black name ?

  6. Re:African-American sounding names? on It's Harder To Get an Uber or Lyft If You're Black, Study Says (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Just try google images for "Jamal" vs "Christopher", then come back saying there's no strong correlation.

  7. Re:It's the rational decision on It's Harder To Get an Uber or Lyft If You're Black, Study Says (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Could you point to some data backing that? It's the first time I heard about that.

  8. Re:Not Like There's a Law Against It! on It's Harder To Get an Uber or Lyft If You're Black, Study Says (time.com) · · Score: 1

    That's easy to test, repeat the experiment with 2 variables: black vs white, "bad" source/destination vs "good" source/destination.

  9. Re:Not Like There's a Law Against It! on It's Harder To Get an Uber or Lyft If You're Black, Study Says (time.com) · · Score: 1

    even 50% in a country with 10% black population seems pretty black to me.

  10. What Training Helps Older Programmers Most? on Ask Slashdot: What Training Helps Older Programmers Most? · · Score: 2

    What Training Helps Older Programmers Most?

    Physical one. Running or even walking would be a grate start.

    Disclaimer: didn't RTFS

  11. Re: GPL on Wordpress Founder Accuses Wix Of Stealing Code (ma.tt) · · Score: 1

    Never thought about it but you're right, it's nonsense.

    If APIs can't be copyrighted, and your code is not GPL, but you don't bundle the required library together with the application you should be clear.

    But if you make an installer that downloads the required libraries, prompts the user for confirmation and shows the GPL license, technically you're not bundling the DLL and common sense says it should be legal.

    On the other hand, common sense says that torrents and youtube download link generators should be legal, but judges don't think the same about it.

  12. Re: Charge Apple with contributory neglegence? Mor on Teenager Accidentally Launches DDoS Attack On 911 Systems (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know, after Operation Sundevil I think it was made clear that you don't fuck with the 911.

  13. Re: Charge Apple with contributory neglegence? Mor on Teenager Accidentally Launches DDoS Attack On 911 Systems (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    So he's responsible enough to go to jail for negligence doing a job (or go to war) , but he's not responsible enough to buy a beer.

  14. Re:"Legitimate" URL Shortening in email is stupid on How Hackers Broke Into John Podesta and Colin Powell's Gmail Accounts (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    This, I use them on (probably printed) documents like CVs

  15. Re:OMFG HE HAD A SERVER IN AMERICA?!!? on KickassTorrents Lawyer: 'Torrent Sites Do Not Violate Criminal Copyright Laws' (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    That's a slippery slope, if an American agency is ever caught hacking via remote infrastructure, it may be treated as sovereignty violation and thus an act of War.

    Of course nobody would do anything against the Big Bully, until you get a government crazy enough to do. We had a Chavez, we have a Kim, we may even have a Trump, so I'd rather not have that sort of jurisprudence.

  16. Re:Choose HTML5 or CLI over DE's? on KDE Turns 20, Happy Birthday! (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Hasn't anybody thought about a HTML5 type gui for Linux running under a stripped(limit attacks) down apache server?

    Firefox did. Firefox OS was recently cancelled.

    gimp, libreoffice and inkscape can be run headless for batch processing tasks, if that's what you mean.

  17. Re:What about autocorrect? on Baidu's Voice Recognition Software Is More Accurate Than Typing (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    The issue with auto correct is that it takes damn long to prevent it from correcting not recognized words.

  18. Re:Texting isn't typing on Baidu's Voice Recognition Software Is More Accurate Than Typing (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    As far as I know, live activities use stenotypers. Maybe they started using speech recognition for live captioning because it's cheaper, but it's the first time I've heard about it.

  19. Re: I will never install such a device in my home: on Google, Lagging Amazon, Races Across the Threshold Into the Home (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    There is another instance. When google suggest something and you correct it (or don't), you're collaborating with it's supervised learning.

  20. There are 2 pictures on TFA and I couldn't find a difference to LXDE besides the bar being on top.
    They probably made something else in those 2 years, but It's not mentioned on the resume and I'm too lazy to read the article.

  21. and ubiquitous platform were SMS is not free

  22. I've heard about that, but does anybody know about the time / money required to contami^b^b^b^b^b heat Mars enough to sustain plants?

  23. Re:Why is Windows 10 the benchmark? on SolidRun x86 Braswell MicroSoM Runs Linux and Full Windows 10, Destroys Raspberry Pi (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Today's 16 and even 32 bits are at the same price than 8 bits for the same type of target and have more support,

    You can only justify 8bits if you have an already tested and production ready product. And even then, if you need incremental development over that product, restarting at 32 might be cheaper.

  24. Re:The U.S. ain't perfect, but... on Trump Opposes Plan For US To Hand Over Internet Oversight To a Global Governance (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Free Speech Zones, don't forget about those.

  25. Re:Dolphins are arseholes on Dolphins Recorded Having a Conversation For The First Time (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Not dolphins, orcas... And I've seen dogs kill lots of stuff for fun.