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  1. Re:"Their" inital impressions? on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Like the New Gmail UI? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    It would be even weirder to use *his* for Lauren than *their* - unless you know something I don't.

  2. People like you who obsess about race and gender are the problem.

    Yeah, all you rich white guys examining your privilege are really becoming a problem. Why, there's dozens of you at this point!

  3. Re:"Directions to Whole Foods" on Google Assistant Is Smarter Than Alexa, Study Finds (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Whole Foods is Amazon now, that's Apple's bitter rival. So no wonder she tries to send you to Texas.

  4. there's a _REASON_ every socialist leaning nation on earth is bankrupt, and that no nation in human history has successfully been socialist.

    Huh? They're mostly doing great! Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Canada, Sweden, Norway... These are the non-shithole countries.

  5. I'm pretty sure Texas would exist without subsidies. But go on...

  6. False: in 1776 Virginia had roughly 447,000 people and Georgia had roughly 23,000

    Jeez, why no go back a bit further when VA had 100% of the population. That was a temporary situation and you are being intentionally spurious.

  7. Re:Ha! hah ah hahahahahhahahaha ha ha ha on Trump Proposes Rejoining Trans-Pacific Partnership (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not disputing that... but that's still "chicken feed" he chose to not accept...

    No, it's chicken feed he said he wouldn't accept. Of course he'll take it, dummy.

  8. doctors didn't find any immediate problems with h on Eating World's Hottest Pepper Sparks Brain Disorder, Thunderclap Headaches (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like it was all in his head. Ba-dum-dum.

  9. I'm sure they would have given anything for a device like this to warn them.

    So they were aware of the risk? Damn.

  10. Yes, they said that pools are more dangerous to kids than a gun in the house which isn't quite the same as what you said but close.

  11. Now we just need one to tell us when they're near an active shooter and they'll be 100% safe.

  12. Most hardcore AI experts (and Musk is not one of them)

    Doesn't producing documentaries on something kind of make you an expert on that thing?
    At the very least we know that Musk is a smart guy who has personally interviewed every big name in the field.

    don't see AGI happening any time soon.

    Kurzweil is probably the biggest name in AI and he says the singularity is near.

  13. Re:Survive? Likely. Thrive? Likely Not on Can Ruby Survive Another 25 Years? (techradar.com) · · Score: 1

    Honestly, it feels like Python is behind both Node and Ruby in terms of development (though not popularity). Where are new Python features? Why do current Linux distros still ship with Python 2.7? And why can I still in 2018 not shift() a goddamn array?

  14. Re: Event-driven I/O doesn't require Node on Can Ruby Survive Another 25 Years? (techradar.com) · · Score: 1

    but in actually node.js developers develop their own OS with threading and end up with call back after call back loop spaghetti.

    It kind of sounds like you're not aware of the language features introduced in ES6 (3 major node versions ago).

    It makes more sense to use threads and let the OS deal with assigning them to CPU's and ultilizing which set of code to execute next.

    OK so you're saying that threads are a better concurrency model than promises on certain OSes? Let's hear why you think that.

  15. Re:A NEW THEORY! on New Theory Suggests Dinosaurs Were Already Dying When Asteroid Hit (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Now you're getting somewhere.

  16. Re:A NEW THEORY! on New Theory Suggests Dinosaurs Were Already Dying When Asteroid Hit (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    If they are tasteless, they will not prevent consumption by herbivores, and will have no adaptive benefit.

    Their survival demonstrates their fittest-ness - whether it's apparent to you or not.

    It is possible that the toxin was directed at a different predator,

    This is a common mistake. There is no intelligence directing evolution, it's all random.

  17. Re:A NEW THEORY! on New Theory Suggests Dinosaurs Were Already Dying When Asteroid Hit (phys.org) · · Score: 0

    Plants would have no reason to evolve tasteless toxins

    That's not how it works.
    Random mutations happen, some stick around, and a new equilibrium is established.
    There's no "reason" for any of it.

  18. Re:That's not really how passwords are cracked on T-Mobile Stores Part of Customers' Passwords In Plaintext, Says It Has 'Amazingly Good' Security (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that it doesn't do that in most scenarios. It only does it if the data has been leaked and someone wants your password specifically out of the millions that were leaked.

  19. Re:That's not really how passwords are cracked on T-Mobile Stores Part of Customers' Passwords In Plaintext, Says It Has 'Amazingly Good' Security (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    Let's assume the passwords get cracked all at once. Against a dictionary or brute force, the easy ones will get cracked right away. The medium ones will take longer. The good ones will take forever. The first 4 being saved in plaintext doesn't really change that.

  20. That's not really how passwords are cracked on T-Mobile Stores Part of Customers' Passwords In Plaintext, Says It Has 'Amazingly Good' Security (vice.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    knowing the first 4 characters of your password can make it DEAD EASY for an attacker to figure out the rest.

    Assuming the password database is leaked and someone wants to crack *just yours* I suppose they'll get it faster.
    But if you used a good password it won't happen for a long time and by then hopefully you will have been alerted to the leak.

  21. Re: Funny on Canada Has Pulled Off a Brain Heist (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The Dow was hurt by the subprime mortgage fiasco which could have been prevented with regulation (a dirty word to the GOP). You're thinking of the dot-bomb which affected mainly tech stocks (Nasdaq).

  22. Re:Funny on Canada Has Pulled Off a Brain Heist (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The Dow actually went down during Dubya's 8 years, which is unheard of. He also got the US into a big expensive war for no good reason so that's a tough act to follow for sure. On the other hand, it's hard to imagine future historians praising Trump for ignoring those pesky climate alarmists.

  23. Re: Or take away her gun on YouTube Will Increase Security At All Offices Worldwide Following Shooting (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, but we all know that the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
    My point was that if the only thing that could stop a bad homicidal driver were a good homicidal driver I think we would see les driving regulation.

  24. Re: Or take away her gun on YouTube Will Increase Security At All Offices Worldwide Following Shooting (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    You need a license to drive a car. You need to show that you know the rules to abide by when driving

    Yes because somehow car accidents can't be solved by more car accidents they same way gun violence can.

  25. Otherwise she wouldn't have been able to take out the shooter.