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  1. Re:What About AI? on A New Bill Would Force Companies To Check Their Algorithms For Bias (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    How did you determine that 50% male, 50% female is the correct answer?

    Seems arbitrary.

  2. Re:$31 million in pocket change on Apple Dealt Legal Blow as Jury Awards Qualcomm $31 Million (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It's my understanding that large companies may have in-house lawyers providing support, but bring in outside firms to represent them in court.

    So this likely did cost Apple something.

  3. I still use FireFox at home. Mostly because I've never found a mouse gestures extension that I like as much as the one I have in FireFox, but also because Chromium doesn't do the sidebar like FireFox does.

    Speed is not an issue. Both are plenty fast.

    All the claims about FireFox being a memory hog seem strange to me. My experience is that Chomium (on Linux) and Chrome (on Windows 10) blow through memory faster than FireFox on either.

  4. Re: What is that, like 9 iPhones? on Apple Says It Could Miss $9 Billion In iPhone Sales Due To Weak Demand (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    you can replace the battery on the Samsung. Replacement parts are available on-line and there are videos on how to do it. The original battery is glued in, but it's pretty easy to break the glue bonds. Then connecting the new battery is trivial.

  5. Re:They know what they are doing is wrong... on 'Microsoft' Scam Callers Arrested After Years of Terrorising the Technically Challenged (gizmodo.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Hold on while I boot my computer. I'm glad you called because it's been slow lately."

    Then I mute my phone, set it down, and continue on with my day. Eventually they hang up.

  6. Is there anything wrong with Apache License 2.0? on After 20 Years, OpenSSL Will Change To Apache License 2.0, Seeks Past Contributors (openssl.org) · · Score: 1

    If the devs were okay with the previous licenses, what are they likely to object to in the proposed license?

    I don't think I've ever heard anyone rant against Apache 2.0.

  7. Re:Based Gentoo on Devuan's Systemd-Free Linux Hits Beta 2 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Gentoo lets you use systemD if you want to, hence the availability of systemD packages for Gentoo.

    However, OpenRC is the default.

  8. Re:Achievement *UNLOCKED*: You are now an IDIOT! on FBI Director Says Unlocking Method Won't Work On Newer iPhones (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Is that true of the new iPhones that have dedicated hardware for holding the encryption key?

  9. Re:High end... on Peter Jackson and JJ Abrams 'Back' Sean Parker's Screening Room (variety.com) · · Score: 2

    So if you have a group of 6 or more, this would be a good deal in your case.

    In my case, this is a good deal for 3 or more.

  10. Re:Why...???? on Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Moving To Per-Core Licensing (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Exchange and the surrounding ecosystem.

  11. Re:A long time coming... on China's Stock Crash: $3.5 Trillion Wiped Out, $2.6 Trillion Frozen · · Score: 1

    I think the results of this action would be a fascinating subject for discussion.

  12. Re:Lead Acid on Tesla's Household Battery: Costs, Prices, and Tradeoffs · · Score: 1

    So if this product has any amount of success we should expect to see cheaper competitors that use lead acid cells, right?

    That hardly seems like a bad thing.

  13. Re:I agree with TFA (Zug) on My High School CS Homework Is the Centerfold · · Score: 1

    But that's not what the image is. Have you actually bothered to look at the image?

  14. Gentoo works for me on Greg KH Favors Rolling Release Distros · · Score: 2

    I've been using Gentoo on all my personal machines for the last decade or so.

    Works fine as long as you pay attention.

    --dost

  15. arc supplies more commonly available? on Staples To Buy Office Depot For $6.3 Billion · · Score: 1

    Hopefully this means I won't have to drive as far to get my Arc refills.

  16. Re:So what are people moving to ? on Systemd Getting UEFI Boot Loader · · Score: 1

    Gentoo cotinues to work fine for me. If there's a systemd transition coming, I haven't seen any indications of it.

  17. Re:Science by democracy doesn't work? on Science By Democracy Doesn't Work · · Score: 1

    The weak decline in the last decade does not make up for the total increase over the last 2 decades.

    I've updated your URL to show the trend for the last 20 years. It shows a very different picture than the link you posted.

    http://www.woodfortrees.org/pl...

  18. Re:No the code just sucks on 2014: The Year We Learned How Vulnerable Third-Party Code Libraries Are · · Score: 1

    So now that someone has identified ugliness in the Bash code, is an effort being made to clean things up?

  19. Re:GP is an attempt to censor and bias on How Our Botched Understanding of "Science" Ruins Everything · · Score: 1

    Anyone that dares to challenge the status quo is attacked and ostracized. If they have arguments that are really good, they are ignored and black listed from media. Society has gone through many phases just like this one previously, as a true Philosophy I study everything including History.

    Can you give any examples of the bolded statement?

  20. Re:So there's 100 or so unimmunized? on California Whooping Cough Cases "an Epidemic" · · Score: 1

    So get a booster.

  21. Re:YAY for BSD on OpenBSD 5.5 Released · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression that OpenBSD did not enable heartbeats by default and, as such, was not vulnerable to Heartbleed by default.

    Am I wrong?

  22. Re:Does this law really ground PETA drones? on Illinois Law Grounds PETA Drones Meant To Harass Hunters · · Score: 1

    Scaring the prey away from the hunters is interferring with the hunt.

  23. Re:Predictable on FSF Responds To Microsoft's Privacy and Encryption Announcement · · Score: 1

    How do they know the code they've been given is the actual code used to generate the shipped binaries?

    Can those Enterprise partners compile the code they've been given in order to compare the binaries with the binaries that MS ships?

  24. Re:Predictable on FSF Responds To Microsoft's Privacy and Encryption Announcement · · Score: 1

    I pay my taxes because I benefit from things like roads and schools and fire departments and such.

    Do you get zero benefit from the things your taxes pay for?

  25. Re:Security fix backports on Linux 3.13 Kernel To Bring Major Feature Improvements · · Score: 1

    Some Linux distributors, instead of providing a new kernel that may break old applications or devices, instead backport security fixes to an old kernel.

    Why does Linus allow kernel updates that break applications and drivers?

    Because he has decided that those updates improve the kernel somehow. That's his job: to improve the kernel.

    If some applications get broken when the kernel is improved, it's the application developer's job to fix them.

    This is as it should be. Any other model ties the hands of the kernel developers and then they can't do their job.