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  1. The best way to state your case against censorship on Apple Reportedly Disables Its News App In China (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...Is to sell computers with the warning that "News is not supported in your region."

    Chinese users will figure out how to route around the problem.

  2. Re:Feynman sexist, what proof? on How Academia Still Struggles With Sexual Harassment (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    "I don't see any proof that Feynman was sexist."

    He was an out heterosexual. You young whippersnappers won't believe that this sort of thing went on at campuses everywhere in the Fifties and Sixties, before the Maoist committees cracked down.

  3. The challenge is keeping this issue gender-neutral on How Academia Still Struggles With Sexual Harassment (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because sexuality and talent in any given academic discipline are independent variables, academia has to deal with various kinds of harassment in exactly the same way as any other place of work. Unfortunately it is unable to, because campuses are increasingly being colonized by the sort of toxic misandrists who could not find a job anywhere else, and so are making academia their private fiefdom. So long as their definition of harassment is "anything that men like," the Feynmans of the future will have to find homes in private research institutes.

  4. Re:I have tried installing it on 5 computers so fa on Microsoft Claims 110M Devices Now Run Windows 10 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    If only I could convince more of my IT customers to go the Linux route on their PCs. Instead, any horrible experience with Windows tends to result in getting a new Mac, with the still perfectly good PC being given away to the thrift.

  5. Re: Who are these people? on EFF: the Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Not my point exactly, because I do know other people like you. But like climate, the gun issue is ideologically attached by most voters to a specific place in the spectrum. So when you're gathering enough supporters to win party primaries, that effect becomes crucial.

  6. Re:What they really need on In Midst of a Tech Boom, Seattle Tries To Keep Its Soul · · Score: 1

    The hate is strictly rooted in San Francisco politics, not for any reason that would affect other cities.

  7. Re:Who are these people? on EFF: the Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    But Sanders is also pro-Second Amendment. This will not sit well with people who approve of your list, and vice versa.

  8. Re:Role for Jury Nullification on EFF: the Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared (eff.org) · · Score: 0

    "You cannot convict anyone by jury nullification; only free someone."

    This is exactly what the OJ jury did.

  9. Re:Ha on EFF: the Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    The corporate influence problem could be attacked by increasing regulation. OR...it could be attacked by cutting back on the regulations that were put in place to serve corporations. Consider pyrimethamine (Daraprim), a cheap generic medication manufactured and used all over the world. But a sudden price increase in the US is now news, because one company bought out the only US supplier of the drug. If Americans were allowed to get their prescriptions filled on the world market, this would never have happened, because on that world market the drug is not "rarely used" and it's made by many suppliers.

  10. Re:Sooner they pop out sooner they can get to work on Study Finds Higher Rates of Premature Birth Near Fracking Sites (jhsph.edu) · · Score: 2

    Obviously Pennsylvanians and Oklahomans are dropping dead because their diets don't include enough iodine, leading to increased uptake-

    Oh wait. That was yesterday's crappy anti-energy 'study'. Next up: Wind turbines will make all birds go extinct.

  11. Re:I have tried installing it on 5 computers so fa on Microsoft Claims 110M Devices Now Run Windows 10 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, after spending the time restoring the installer from the recovery partition, setup from the "No Microsoft Account" pathway was routine. You just have to know beforehand that your email address will be one of the magic addresses that you cannot use to set up a Microsoft Account, and that you therefore have to use the strongly-discouraged "No Microsoft Account" option.

  12. Re:I have tried installing it on 5 computers so fa on Microsoft Claims 110M Devices Now Run Windows 10 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The failed upgrades were all auto-installs performed using Microsoft's published procedure, starting from that little System Tray icon in 7/8.1 that invites the user to try the new version out. What's happening is that the current, early-release version of 10 detects something in the hardware configuration it doesn't like, and fails without letting anyone know what the problem was, so that the user will just blame himself, rather than Microsoft. As time goes on, I'm sure the Windows 10 install will be updated to include more of the similar-like-snowflakes possible configurations of PC.

    And yes, the "Invalid domain" bug in the setup for Microsoft Account rejects so many perfectly good email addresses that Support actually recommends signing up for a new Gmail address a a workaround.

  13. Re:What they really need on In Midst of a Tech Boom, Seattle Tries To Keep Its Soul · · Score: 1

    These experiences tell you that a private subscription model is a winning transit idea. Now it just has to be implemented in a city that is not ruled by resentful thugs.

  14. Re:What they really need on In Midst of a Tech Boom, Seattle Tries To Keep Its Soul · · Score: 1

    "Perhaps there is a market for a privately funded transit system then."

    The easiest way to do this would be a private bus system that is clean and timely, and takes subscription riders only. This eliminates the predator problem that keeps people off public buses. The attraction of "Ride with the people we know" could be the tipping factor for middle-class riders.

  15. Re:My brother had his car stolen there two weeks a on In Midst of a Tech Boom, Seattle Tries To Keep Its Soul · · Score: 1

    "Why would anyone want to live there?"

    Because every year, Seattle hipsters gather on the slopes of Mount Rainier for an art bacchanal called Smoldering Man.

  16. Re:My brother had his car stolen there two weeks a on In Midst of a Tech Boom, Seattle Tries To Keep Its Soul · · Score: 1

    How can there be a tech boom in a place with only dialup Internet? Are they doing IP over cockroaches?

  17. Re:I for one on Complex Living Brain Simulation Replicates Sensory Rat Behaviour (cell.com) · · Score: 1

    " the results of more than 10 years work in reconstructing a cellular model of a piece of the somatosensory cortex of a juvenile rat."

    Although we can't rush such new tech into production, we might already try having it plead cases in municipal and county courts. Then we will see if it can represent a patent troll in East Texas.

  18. Re:Coming soon: Alienware SANs on Dell, EMC Said To Be In Merger Talks (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    ...Which by 2025 will be able to run Windows 10.

  19. Re:Oceans were lost due to the lost.. on What Happened To the Martian Ocean and Magnetic Field? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, any oceans were lost because Mars is not massive enough to keep them.

  20. "data transmission methods are likely to make no sense to non-human entities. "

    An example of one such is calling my own cat. With more distant species, it will be more difficult.

  21. Isn't 4chan the social site for school shooters? You can send out co-conspirator requests to other people, and invite folks to 'bullet' your 'rage page' on the site.

  22. I think these are all the same people who years ago were quoted as not wanting to see Apollo 13 because "I don't like science fiction."

  23. I have tried installing it on 5 computers so far on Microsoft Claims 110M Devices Now Run Windows 10 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Three were Windows 7 and 8.1 systems. Win 10 went through all the installation motions, with the multiple reboots and auto-downloading a long series of Windows Updates. After all that, the final boot...came back into the old version of Windows without any indication of what Windows 10 objected to in the user's configuration.

    The fourth was a new-in-box Dell Inspiron that came with 10 installed. The setup screens went by routinely until I got to the "Set up a Microsoft Account" step. It required the user's email as the ID, and this user had only one, which he has used for years, but the installer rejected that address on grounds of "Invalid domain" whatever that means. Support told me "That happens all the time" and advised getting a new Gmail address to use, but the user didn't want to complicate his life by doing that. So I backed up to the preceding install screen so I could opt for "Set up without a Microsoft Account." Doing this caused the Windows installer to crash hard, requiring that I restore the entire thing from the recovery partition and start over.

    The fifth Windows 10 install was into a fresh VMWare Fusion image on my own iMac under OS X 10.11. It worked first time. Now I'm advising everyone who really wants Windows 10 to either wait a year as usual until it becomes usable, or get a Mac, install VMWare, and set up a Windows image.

  24. Re:So, what does all of this mean... on The Mutant Genes Behind the Black Death · · Score: 1

    The technology to produce bacterial weapons is the same technology we need to produce fast defenses against such things. A society that recuses itself from genetic engineering actually attracts GM terrorists, in the same way that those gun-free school zones attract killers.

  25. Re:DEA declares running illegal on Endocannabinoids Contribute To Runner's High · · Score: 1

    And a $10 million reward for bringing in Usain Bolt.