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  1. I use it at least once a week. To fix things that should have been fixed, by date or by contract. Either way, the code going to my CPU is my call to make.

    SoftIce anyone?

  2. Re:I don't think so... on The World's Leading Cause of Death? A Bad Diet (nbc12.com) · · Score: 1

    "prevent one in every five deaths" meaning eat well and be immortal?

    So many issues with this...

  3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    There is a verified compiler, if they made their language compiler with that then your argument falls apart. Care to detail your knowledge outside of this particular article?

  4. Re:Paywall on Improved Estimates of the Distance To the Large Magellanic Cloud · · Score: 1

    Thanks, but the numbers are no good. It's moved since then!

  5. Re:Legal is relative to jurisdiction on Ask Slashdot: How Is It Even Legal For Websites To Gather And Sell Users' Data? · · Score: 1

    In America it would be illegal for an individual to do so if the subject legally objected (restraining order). That's because your interest is assumed to be personal.

    A business entity has an assumed interest of revenue. So it is legal as long as there's no law against it, such as the European privacy laws.

    You can't equate individual actions and business actions, because individual actions do not have a business plan, charter, nor governance to claim a particular interest. Not that they have to be truthful, but they exist.

  6. Re:Go for it transhumanists! on Nanotechnology Makes It Possible For Mice To See In Infrared (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    You wouldn't be seeing *in* infrared. That would require a whole new color to differentiate. At best refinement would mean shifting the colors to the left or right, or condensing the spectrum so it could be expanded into any range. Recording in standard RGB +UV +IR at the same time, and separable.

  7. Re:She didn't destroy anything on Congresswoman Destroys Equifax CEO Mark Begor About Privacy (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    The context was a question about actual harm. Giving out your private information raises the potential for actual harm. A breach likewise does not mean actual harm. Until you can point to specific people who suffered identity theft, there is no actual harm.

    And sadly after so many breaches it gets harder to say that it was this particular breach that caused injury.

    The difference between potential and actual is important.

  8. Re:Dumbed down Mac OS apps? on Apple To Target Combining iPhone, iPad and Mac Apps by 2021: Report (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They will be brave, removing the keyboard and having to type on an iPhone over Bluetooth. Because she wants to learn touch typing when your thumbs Just Work?

  9. Re: Set in Stone on How Badly is Google Books Search Broken, and Why? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you know it's an incorrect database when the only way you know the results are wrong is by looking at results of a search done in the same engine?

    A bug in handling the year parameter is much more likely than having the dataset change between searches.

  10. Re:Set in Stone on How Badly is Google Books Search Broken, and Why? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    It's that thing where instead of reporting a bug you write a blog post and send it out to news aggregators.

  11. Not exactly. The profit seekers can choose not to invest in research for a cure. But most of the basic research is University or other public funded stuff. So a competitor with less funding may just be slower at putting together the pieces and doing the relevant trials.

    That buys you more time to sell treatments.

  12. Re:A good teacher/instructor is superior to any SW on Bill and Melinda Gates: Textbooks Are Becoming Obsolete · · Score: 1

    A good teacher is still going to have to figure out the order to introduce concepts, when to introduce. They will have to generate problems to solve. This is currently handled by textbook writers. So the same process has to be done, regardless of how or where it's taught.

    If I never handed students a book and gave them printouts with homework on them, I've essentially written a textbook. If everything is online, same.

    The physical textbook needs to go. But the work to produce textbooks will still remain.

    Once we realize that we can store and provide the textbook in any fashion, printed and bound or online or lectures.

  13. Re:god bless the microbiome on What Can We Learn From The Retraction of the Mediterranean Diet Study? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed. And I'm already dead.

  14. Re:Right solution for the problem, what's wrong he on Should All Government IT Systems Be Using Open Source Software? (linuxjournal.com) · · Score: 1

    I've not had this problem. But I have not used anything other than Windows for most of 26 years. Every attempt, no library issues.

    Of course I gave up each time so it was not long lived. So what are these libraries?

  15. Re:All IT systems should be using open source soft on Should All Government IT Systems Be Using Open Source Software? (linuxjournal.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Nope, Windows is not open source, but users and developers are cheaper. I'd rather not pay the taxes needed to support all OSS.

    In an ideal world where faries get you off daily? Sure. But in reality, no.

  16. Re:And if they don't make enough tips on Where Does a Tip To an Amazon Driver Go? In Some Cases, Toward the Driver's Base Pay (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes they will supplement. That's literally law regarding tips. Will they fire? Separate question.

  17. Re:humans too on Attacking a Pay Wall That Hides Public Court Filings (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but FLAT SCREEN TVs. They are living a life of luxury while I am relegated to buying curved screen tv's or ones that can roll up. I wish I could get a flat screen TV. That has to be in the WIC aisle next to lobster, steak, and refrigerators.

  18. Re:Don't care on Bees Can Solve Math Problems With Addition and Subtraction · · Score: 1

    In my Osh Kosh BeeGosh pocket of course, my dungarbees. Right next to my pistil.

  19. Re:Corporate America's way... on The World's Biggest Spice Company is Using AI To Find New Flavors (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Ideas, and probably pants.

  20. Re:Sounds like effective ad blocking is the answer on Google Tests 'Never-Slow Mode' for Speedier Browsing (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, I can't count the number of times I've seen a fully rendered page for an instant followed by "aw snap" - with JavaScript disabled. So not quite the whole answer.

  21. This is why JavaScript remains off on Microsoft's Moving Xbox Ad Was the Best Thing About the Super Bowl (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is not correct, highlights a very minority opinion, and belongs on the toilet paper of some insufferable blogger's tackily decorated rental mobile home.

  22. Thank you for your valuable contribution. My understanding has been enhanced by someone with measurably zero interest in the topic, a notion that I posted from my HTC Evo 3D.

  23. Re:I doubt we can predict it on Ask Slashdot: What Could Go Wrong In Tech That Hasn't Already Gone Wrong? · · Score: 1

    We would also be able to write the novel instead of just giving the author a solid idea.

    I'm not writing your book for you numbnuts.

  24. The only thing it's missing now is a decent web browser.

  25. Re:Are you kidding me? on LSD Changes Something About the Way People Perceive Time, Even At Microdoses (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. In part because people like me are subject to randomized drug tests. People like you are more likely to be able to join this sort of experiment. We need to understand how this affects you and me, and if there is a difference. Without me losing my lucrative career. This is a step in that direction.