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  1. More Republicans voted against it than Democrats so you should blame us rather than them.

  2. Re:Why does onw degreee makes such a difference? on One-Degree Rise In Temperature Causes Ripple Effect In World's Largest High Arctic Lake (folio.ca) · · Score: 1

    1 degree C can be the difference between just being cold and getting frostbite that causes permanent damage. It's huge.

  3. Re:Given the sheer number of people sueing him on The FCC Is Refusing To Release Emails About Ajit Pai's 'Harlem Shake' Video (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Correct. Obama was forced to appoint him.

  4. Re:Given the sheer number of people sueing him on The FCC Is Refusing To Release Emails About Ajit Pai's 'Harlem Shake' Video (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    > kick the bum out that appoints him.

    Obama appointed him to the FCC, so that "bum" has already been kicked out.

  5. Re:If they can't spot a narrow divider... on There's Growing Evidence Tesla's Autopilot Handles Lane Dividers Poorly (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    LOL. But seriously, it was at about 6:45am so traffic wasn't completely stopped yet.

  6. Trump used their data... on UK, Australia Investigating Facebook Amid Cambridge Analytica Data Scandal (go.com) · · Score: -1

    to place a TV ad during the primary. That means he gained an advantage from their information.

  7. If they can't spot a narrow divider... on There's Growing Evidence Tesla's Autopilot Handles Lane Dividers Poorly (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    what about motorcycles? I know BMW's Traffic Jam Assistant doesn't do well with that since I had a BMW 750 rear-end me at about 10 MPH. The guy that hit me says it usually does a great job of going the correct speed in 0-30 MPH traffic here on I-5 in Seattle. I think it didn't see me, but instead saw the dump truck in front of me and then tried to drive through me.

  8. Re:My Mac Pro is faster than Apple's Mac Pro on Apple's Redesigned Mac Pro is Coming in 2019 (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    There's an easy solution for the fans. Connect the 12V fans to 5V.

    I've been using that trick for years since we have a bunch of Dell servers that after a BIOS update broke the software that based the fan speed on a reading from a temperature sensor. Also, I unplugged half of the fans since they run cool enough without them.

  9. Re:It's e-mail, it's never going to be 'secure' on Outgoing White House Emails Not Protected by Verification System (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    But Trump is stupid so there's no way he could use it. He can't even fix this simple damn email problem. He is incompetent and has never succeeded in a single damn thing in his life.

  10. Re:They use PHP... on Facebook Blames a 'Bug' For Not Deleting Your Seemingly Deleted Videos (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    > scaleability or security

    Never heard that and considering Wikipedia, Facebook (they gave away information freely, it wasn't a security problem), Slack, Tumblr, and many others had a problem with either since they use PHP. Netcraft claims it's the most popular by far web programming language. If we here on /. trust them to say BSD is dying, why shouldn't we trust them on PHP?

  11. Re:Might genuinely be a bug on Facebook Blames a 'Bug' For Not Deleting Your Seemingly Deleted Videos (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    > aren't even properly utilizing web sockets yet relying on $.post network storms to update information.

    We aren't either even with an app that is expected to update inventory less than every ten seconds. We can't because our main office is in a building with Microsoft so a lot of our customers still use MSIE = 9 that doesn't support WebSockets. I imagine Facebook has the same problem with their requirements to support older browser versions.

  12. They use PHP... on Facebook Blames a 'Bug' For Not Deleting Your Seemingly Deleted Videos (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    which is a great language for prototyping or programming if you know what you're doing and you're the only dev on the project, but junior devs or even senior ones that don't know the code they're working with, it's a disaster.

    For example, I was able to prototype a search feature with an Elasticsearch backend for our inventory system in only a long weekend. By long weekend I mean working from Friday night at 6pm straight through Monday early morning 2am, but still it was only one weekend. It took three senior Java developers nearly six months to get it basically working because we wanted it in Java. My boss got frustrated and put my PHP code into production and had those Java devs update it. With every "fix" they made, I think they almost always broke other things. They knew the specs well since they had worked with them for almost six months, but that didn't help. PHP is awesome, but unless you only have one dev that is good working on the project, then things like happened to Facebook are inevitable.

  13. Re:Good coverage ar Breitbart on Update: Possible Active Shooter Reported at YouTube HQ (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Breitbart would know since this is across the street from where a friend of mine is forced to work for Walmart eCommerce. Their kind is so violent and stupid that they probably wanted to do their thing at Walmart since that is the way of their kind.

  14. Re:Possible Motive? on Update: Possible Active Shooter Reported at YouTube HQ (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They already said it was a girlfriend wearing a hijab that was screaming allahu akbar. Why try to blame an employee? Do you hate YouTube more than you love facts? Also, you blame videos. Do you also blame violent games?

  15. Re:same argument used for experimentation on peopl on Suit To Let Researchers Break Website Rules Wins a Round (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the intent is different. The intent here is social justice so the law shouldn't be allowed to be used against that.

  16. Re:How about I go to Google and scan their offices on Chrome Is Scanning Files on Your Computer, and People Are Freaking Out (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Good analogy, but this is /., and we do car analogies here. This is like buying Michelin tires than having them rifle through your trunk.

  17. Re:Seamlessly work together without a touchscreen? on No More Intel Inside, Apple Plans To Use Its Own Custom-Built Chips in Mac (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Plus, who wants a dirty laptop screen?

  18. > leaks memory from the kernel

    That problem is made worse by the fact Apple hasn't increased the max available amount of memory in their laptops in six years!

    I'm doing pretty heavy duty Java development with IntelliJ (which just sucks memory) and Eclipse, and every developer also has to run three virtual machines running Windows. We're having to reboot more than once a month. It sucks.

  19. Re: They more than doubled our price... on MailChimp Bans Emails Promoting Cryptocurrency (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Spam using MailChimp and see how fast they ban you. Seriously, they're very good and fast at weeding out bad actors.

  20. Re:"AI..." on Non-Tech Businesses Are Beginning To Use AI at Scale (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    What's a computer?

  21. Re:OpenNIC and DNSCRYPT on Cloudflare Launches 1.1.1.1 Consumer DNS Service With a Focus On Privacy (betanews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Exactly. You must take a stand against freedom of speech in order to protect it.

  22. Re: They more than doubled our price... on MailChimp Bans Emails Promoting Cryptocurrency (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Chimp isn't that racist since it is somewhat positive. We all like to watch videos of chimps.

  23. They more than doubled our price... on MailChimp Bans Emails Promoting Cryptocurrency (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    a couple of years ago blaming a company named Mandrill that they merged with. We refused to honor that much higher price because we had a contract with them. They didn't honor that contract.

  24. "10+ hrs a day, 6-7 days a week" on 'Nature' Explores Why So Many Postgrads Have Bad Mental Health (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like they're just preparing them for the real world.

  25. When most of us only have the choice between... on Comcast Supports Ban On Paid Prioritization, Except For 'Specialized Services' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    1.5 Mbps DSL:

    http://imgur.com/WgSvnA5

    Or nothing of course we support 1.5 Mbps DSL. Comcast has the government-granted monopoly over most of Seattle, but the the city council doesn't require them to offer service for their entire monopoly area.