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  1. Re:Well, they didn't lie... on Microsoft Edge's Private Browsing Mode Isn't Actually Private (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Something is flammable if it can burn easily.

    Something is inflammable if it can ignite easily.

    Obviously lots of materials are both but they are different meanings.

  2. not a bug.

    This is Microsoft we're talking about. Misrepresentation about their products is what they do.

  3. Sounds like someone hasn't set up systemd to their liking.

    Blaming the victim. Unless the purpose of systemd is to elevate system configuration to an art form whose purpose is aesthetics and critique, then that is a problem with systemd.

    You know, like every critic of systemd has been saying all along.

  4. Re:Why was this allowed? on A Legal Name Change Puts 'None of the Above' On Canadian Ballot (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Gaming the ballot and gaining an unfair advantage.

    If you think it's an exercise of freedom of speech then you've taken freedom of speech so much for granted that you don't remember what it really means.

  5. Re:Why was this allowed? on A Legal Name Change Puts 'None of the Above' On Canadian Ballot (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Canadian judges will do anything - legal or not, constitutional or not - if it benefits someone who claims they're a victim.

  6. Re:The firewall is next to useless .. on Air Force Firewall Now Designated a Weapons System (gazette.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe 'firewall' is a metaphor and it really is something different.

    (I doubt it, but it is possible.)

  7. Re:Gee learn to read on Europe Now Has Its Own "Most Wanted Fugitives" Web Page (eumostwanted.eu) · · Score: 1

    Twelve kelvin-euro, now we're talking about some serious crime.

  8. Re:Fire the bad teachers first on Obama Calls For $4B 'Computer Science For All' Program For K-12 Schools (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I've prepared taxes for teachers. They earned double what any of the other clients earned.

    Very few could possibly be genuinely worth what they earn. Some are, of course, but very few.

  9. Re:And what good will it do? on Obama Calls For $4B 'Computer Science For All' Program For K-12 Schools (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, everyone can understand that the creation story in Genesis is metaphorical.

    Oh, wait...

  10. Re: It was the first standard for video? on In Memoriam: VGA (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know if it's fair to blame the people who just took over

    Yes it is. That's what taking over is - it means responsibility.

  11. Careful what you wish for on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't be sure that if Donald Trump speech were sanitized, that there wouldn't be even more people supporting him. Filtering Trump won't magically make him any more enlightened.

  12. Unveiling plans and unveiling an actual spacecraft are two very different things.

  13. Re:Not 12 euros... on Europe Now Has Its Own "Most Wanted Fugitives" Web Page (eumostwanted.eu) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Some European countries use "." instead of ",".

    The UK and Ireland - where they speak English - do not. The website is wrong.

    Though Slashdot should do better than blindly copying an obvious error.

  14. Re:Wanted for crimes against decimal points on Europe Now Has Its Own "Most Wanted Fugitives" Web Page (eumostwanted.eu) · · Score: 1

    The decimal marker is a more significant separation than the thousands marker, therefore it uses the bigger symbol.

  15. Re: Justin Trudeau on Canadian Government Lobbies Europe To Pass CETA (freezenet.ca) · · Score: 1

    "Liberal" is their brand-name, not their ideology. They just don't bother correcting people who mix the two up, because only misinformed voters are the ones who vote for them.

    Sadly the same strategy as every other political party in Canada.

  16. Re:Carefully balanced? on Consciousness May Be the Product of Carefully Balanced Chaos (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    And wouldn't carelessly balanced chaos work just as well? It's still balanced...

  17. Re:This is how Skynet wins on High-Speed Firms Now Oversee Almost All Stocks At NYSE Floor (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    sentience, it will be our economic

    I can't figure out how those two words ended up in the same sentence.

  18. Re:BMI is a poor tool on Why the Calorie Is Broken (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    BMI is pretty useless for many people.

    BMI is very limited in its applicability, and most people over-estimate its usefulness.

    But it is better than nothing.

  19. Re:More than five centuries on Flat-Earth Argument Results in Rap Battle (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Anyone who sailed on the Mediterranean (or similar or larger body of water) knew first-hand that the world was round, as did anyone with a minimum of education.

    The person with no education who never went more than 10 km from where they were born - their world was flat. But certainly not everyone was misinformed.

  20. Re:Sometimes.... on Flat-Earth Argument Results in Rap Battle (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    But that's the whole point. The conspiracy isn't messing up, they succeed at everything they do. Except... that one time they underestimated our hero, who figured out what no-one else could (no-one else 'figured' anything because it was that blindingly obvious). Conspiracy theories are fantasies about self-importance, and about being smarter than an organization with unlimited material, financial, and intellectual resources.

  21. Re:Probably not really a big deal at all on Russia Forming Space Alliance With Iran, May Fly Iranian Astronaut (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a lot of euphemisms for 'oil'.

  22. Obviously prime posts start with the second one.

  23. Re:several sci-fi stories start sorta like this on Sensors Slip Into the Brain, Then Dissolve When Their Job Is Done (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    I don't want to be negative about what may well be an awesome scientific advance, but I have to wonder how safe a partially dissolved electrical device would be.

  24. Re:Esperanto, Sindarin, Drow on Interviews: Ask David Peterson About Inventing Languages · · Score: 1

    The biggest obstacle to Esperanto is way that zealots over-sell it. It is easier to learn than natural languages, but not effortless the way some would have you think.

  25. Re:"Robust" artificial Languages on Interviews: Ask David Peterson About Inventing Languages · · Score: 1

    Linguists record people talking and count the mistakes - people almost never make mistakes of grammar.