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  1. Re:Who even uses this on Windows Media Player Set To Lose a Feature on Windows 7 (onmsft.com) · · Score: 1

    There were updates at the end of life for XP that would make files disappear from explorer (they were still there most of the time, as they would be visible via another machine browsing that machine over the network - but the opposite happened as well,) there were also instances of search functionality stopping outright, computers with all the patches going at about 25-50% of the speed vs a fresh install (with search indexer and such shut off on each,) different nomenclatures required for logins (e.g. DOMAIN\user vs user vs clicking through some buttons on the login screen to get to a domain selection to type a user,) printers which would fail to locate - basically a whole class of "standard user issues" that happened on all machines daily instead of that one incompetent guy's machine every week.

  2. Re:Who even uses this on Windows Media Player Set To Lose a Feature on Windows 7 (onmsft.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's not about using it, it's about getting people used to the concept of "retiring features" such that they accept it instead of talking about how Microsoft is conspiring to cripple the OS like they did with XP and the associated malicious updates that broke critical features at the end. They start with stupid things nobody uses so that when they get to the real stuff they can go "retiring features has been going on publicly for awhile and nobody cared." Call it what it is: "crippling things you don't own which customers paid for in order to force them to pay you again."

  3. This is like a car manufacturer saying "since your car is 10 years old we're going to retire the taillights."

  4. Re:Do You Have Such A Printer Already? on New 3D Printing Technique Is 100 Times Faster Than Standard 3D Printers (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    This tech is over a decade old (in fact, it's so old the patent expired half a decade ago.)

  5. Re:What about fake positive reviews? on Supreme Court Won't Hear a Lawsuit Over Defamatory Yelp Reviews (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You are advocating that we hold workers at a company - probably the corporate officers in the C-suite - personally liable for the company's bad behavior. That is not an unreasonable position, and definitely one that I wish prosecutors availed themselves to more often. However, sending members of a company off to prison is hardly the same thing as imprisoning the actual prison, which is the the GP suggested. Even if you throw all the employees into prison, the company still exists as an entity.

    Companies decay naturally without any of the people in them working toward them.

  6. Brain sand has been known for over a decade to be the primary cause of Alzheimers, which itself is most commonly caused by exposure to Fluoride. Makes sense someone would gum disease would be exposed to shitloads of Fluoride (every dentist's first move when encountering a patient with issues of any kind: squirt some Fluoride on the tooth, prescribe special high-Fluoride rinse, recommend some Fluoride-ladden toothpaste, etc.)

  7. Re:What about fake positive reviews? on Supreme Court Won't Hear a Lawsuit Over Defamatory Yelp Reviews (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you propose to send Yelp, for instance, to prison "in its entirety"? Not to be too pedantic, but you can't send an incorporeal entity like "a company" to prison.

    Bad companies are made of bad people.

  8. Actually, it's about a blacklist site attempting to muscle people into paying to get out, and a blacklist site attempting to muscle people into paying to get out.

  9. The point was that while the article talks about some no-name blacklist site that was damaging the career of the person, Yelp is a major site who's entire business is using negative reviews to muscle businesses into paying for good reviews in their place.

  10. Yelp on Dutch Surgeon Wins Landmark 'Right To Be Forgotten' Case (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So Yelp is allowed to keep going but medical professionals who impact lives instead of serving food are allowed to "be forgotten?"

  11. Here's a Thought on Facebook's Plans For Space Lasers Revealed (ieee.org) · · Score: 0

    With Facebook being as provably evil as they are, why not just forbid them from ever doing anything other than Facebook? No reason to get their taint on anything else.

  12. Re:$50,000 on Demand and Salaries For Data Scientists Continue To Climb (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    That's kind of the point, all scientists are data scientists - "data scientist" isn't actually something anyone hires for. "Business analyst," "statistician," "business intelligence developer," etc are - but if any of those people tried to claim "sorry, I can't write code because I'm a data scientist" they'd get shitcanned within a day.

  13. Re:$50,000 on Demand and Salaries For Data Scientists Continue To Climb (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    "Data scientist" isn't a real position, so no.

  14. Re:Work = Infinity, Personal = Zero on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Manage Your Inbox? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I find people with your attitude are nearly always completely unorganized and shitty workers.

    Efficient workers are overwhelmingly unorganized, especially as engineers.

    You realize you can search ACROSS folders, right ?

    Have you seen the shitshow that is Outlook these days? Half the time it doesn't even search a single folder and God help you if you accidentally enable experimental features.

  15. Re: Work = Infinity, Personal = Zero on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Manage Your Inbox? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Millennials. They not only won't they understand your reference, but think run-on sentences (and their equivalent of "leet speek") are proper. I never thought I'd say it, but the world now needs more English majors (legitimate, competent ones). (And all that, coming from an engineering major).

    Have you considered you're just a douche?

  16. Re:Journalism Was Disinformation on Mark Zuckerberg's Mentor 'Shocked and Disappointed' -- But He Has a Plan (time.com) · · Score: 1

    no central authority dictating how to spin things? Russia seems like a pretty large central authority that was spinning things. Have you tried therapy?

    You guys just can't accept that over half the country you live in doesn't like your beliefs, huh?

  17. They haven't accepted it's literally impossible to imagine anything that is itself impossible.

  18. Journalism Was Disinformation on Mark Zuckerberg's Mentor 'Shocked and Disappointed' -- But He Has a Plan (time.com) · · Score: -1

    Facebook is terrible, but "disinformation" is hardly the reason why. In truth, Facebook is more honest than any mainstream media simply because there is no central authority dictating how to spin things - it's actual free press.

  19. Re:What if the same person submitted DNA twice on Identical Twins Test 5 DNA Ancestry Kits, Get Different Results On Each (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    They aren't so incompetent as to not cache their fake results. The errors are added by name to facilitate creating strife between family members, most of the matching is too for that matter.

  20. Work = Infinity, Personal = Zero on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Manage Your Inbox? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I like to be organized, but when it's for a work thing you never know when you will need to cover your ass so 1 easily searchable inbox has a lot more utility than good organization or zero clutter and potentially losing requisite emails.

  21. Re:The Tesla power tower on Wireless Tech Company Finds Way To Charge Drones In Flight · · Score: 1

    A Tesla coil alone (as in a real one, not some flashy sparking abomination) can get a range of hundreds of miles easily. If you had a network of them acting in unison (e.g. Tesla's Wardenclyffe project) you could use the resonant cavity between the Earth and ionosphere to power every terrestrial device remotely.

    The issue is entirely due to the fact you can't monetize such formats of power distribution.

  22. Re:The Tesla power tower on Wireless Tech Company Finds Way To Charge Drones In Flight · · Score: 1

    No they aren't. The coupling only happens when there is a load, driving it without something actively pulling power requires practically nothing.

  23. 1) All digital banking.
    2) Shady algorithms to maximize bank fees.
    3) All digital receipts.
    4) Shady algorithms to round up to target profit margins when banks and merchant account providers (other banks, basically) start colluding.
    5) Years/decades/forever of people being perpetually poor as the algorithms decide how much they need of their own money before they would otherwise sue.

  24. Camera Safe? on Man Says CES Lidar's Laser Was So Powerful It Wrecked His Camera (arstechnica.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    If they aren't camera safe they certainly aren't eye-safe either, cameras can take a fuckload more abuse than Human eyes.

  25. The shutdown could hurt the reputation of the government as a good place to work, she said.

    Since when has it had that reputation?