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  1. Re:What's the problem here? on Apple's New iPhones May Miss Out On Higher-Speed Data Links (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Comcast sent me an email 6 weeks ago informing me that they are increasing my speeds.

    Ah, now I can hit the 1TB cap even faster!

    Fortunately got in on their $109 uncapped gigabit this week.

  2. Wait, Mark Cuban uses slashdot?

  3. Re: Give up, Linux losers on Ubuntu Works With GNOME To Improve HiDPI Support On Linux Desktop (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I don't know, last time i tried running 4k on windows (9mo ago?) EVERYTHING looked like ass. Especially control panel, for some odd reason. It was super blurry.

    OSX is about 20x better.

  4. Re:OK, what's the problem? on Why Women Devs Are Hard To Recruit and Even Harder To Keep (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    Precisely the argument I always make. I have less than zero sympathy for women in this particular case.

    If you actually fucking do nothing but think about computers, you will find a way to involve yourself with them. Women are in a unique position in that they can be terrible at software and still find great jobs. Scarcity and bullshit arguments like "more diverse companies are more successful" (correlation/causation) work that way. Do women think that men who work in a literal cockfest for some mysterious reason DONT want more women working with them? Do what all of the rest of us do: forego all social stigma, sit in front of computers for unhealthy amounts of hours, and get good at it. There is no conspiracy.

    Can I start a social movement for socially retarded and borderline autistic software developers that want Makefiles IRL?

  5. Re:Of course it was Trump on Trump Misunderstood MIT Climate Research, University Officials Say (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, which is retarded. I'd argue that this is probably an effort to pander (standard shillary spiel), but you certainly will not find anyone defending Hillary with the most ridiculous arguments like "maybe she misunderstood it", or "maybe she literally has no agency other than taking advice from people".

    Every other politician is held to the standard of knowing how to do their job, and being personally responsible for literally everything that happens in the entire country, regardless of whether they have a conceivable amount of control over it. A goon was voted in, and now it's his turn to be held to the same standard, irrespective of his rookie status.

  6. Re:Of course it was Trump on Trump Misunderstood MIT Climate Research, University Officials Say (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Holding the president accountable for decisions that his brand, and whoever is associated with it, makes?

    Is there any president who we give a pass for making retarded world-scope decisions because of "jargon, confusing verbiage, and passive voice"? Maybe if the president of the united states and his advisors can't reason with jargon, confusing verbiage, and passive voice, they should look into alternate career paths.

    Maybe Obama just misunderstood the TPP.

  7. You don't think its at all disingenuous to assert that all of the people out there who dropped big bucks in university and are in the shitter financially and career-wise are somehow drastically different than the decades of people who seemingly had a much easier time out of college?

  8. Re:the parents' rights expire when she does on Parents Have No Right To Dead Child's Facebook Account, German Court Rules (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If the parent's feel entitled to their daughter's half of her entire facebook messaging history (which I don't necessary believe), how about this: ask the other party involved if they're willing to share the conversations.

    If the other party wouldn't feel comfortable with it being released, why should facebook or the court?

  9. seems to be working reasonably well though, seeing as the brakes are completely shot on the AAPL train

  10. design and engineering on Apple Co-founder Thinks Apple Is Now Too Big a Company To Come Up With the Next Big Thing (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I don't buy it. Apple is just in another "run by suits" lull that they will transition out of or be rudely awoken out of. Tim Cook just happens to wear very peculiar suits.

    Renaissance Apple is Apple run by design and engineering. Current Apple is "how can we sell more iPhones this quarter" Apple, which is going to bite them in the ass if this next round of Macs doesn't please the people writing screengames for them.

  11. Is Steve Wozniak really "Apple co-founder" now? Steve Wozniak is like a household name.

  12. It's attractive. Galaxy S8's look nice, even though TouchWiz is crap.

    Look at an Apple Watch. Does it evoke the same feeling as an LG Gear, for instance? No, because it's sculpted and looks like actual jewelry. We've been running out of performance runway within our current paradigm for about 5 years now, and this is only going to become more and more significant as everything is offloaded to cloud services. It only makes sense that software/hardware guys, especially ones with money to spend like Apple, are focusing intensely on UX, form factor, and serious paradigm shifts (the best one will be when macOS and iOS fully converge). Apple was doing this LONG before the performance runway ran out, and continue to be leading the trend.

  13. Re:At least it's disposable on Apple Receives Patents For Bezel-Free Display, Touch ID Button Embedded In Screen (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Oooh, that's interesting point. Cases are going to be a pretty tough game.

  14. Re:Oh great, fake buttons so much better on Apple Receives Patents For Bezel-Free Display, Touch ID Button Embedded In Screen (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Ordinarily I'd agree (I still was a physical keyboard zealot long for a good while after owning an iPhone 3G), but Apple knows what they're doing with this particular concept. The haptic feedback on recent macbook trackpads is 10/10. You'd genuinely have to have someone tell you it's not a button. The iPhone 7 home button is so-so, but I imagine once it's a whole display type of thing you wont have the same expectations for how it should feel.

  15. Re:Commercial use on Inside Germany's Plan To Kill Online Registrations (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Most measures of political ideology include a individualism/statism axis as well as a conservative/progressive social axis.

    It is as valid to equate what the western world considers "leftist" ideology to the third reich as it is to say that american democrats really actually want the same thing as christian conservatives. Both advocate statism, one advocates it as a vehicle for a taxation/wellfare scheme similar to the rest of the western world, the other advocates it as a vehicle for systematically enforcing religious beliefs.

    I don't agree with any sort of hiring practices that artificially enforce demographics, for instance, but to suggest that statism can't go both ways makes no sense. Are you seriously suggesting that the political group that is often hyperbolically associated with sexual deviation isn't an advocate for the "weird/apostate/cantankerous"?

  16. Re:Commercial use on Inside Germany's Plan To Kill Online Registrations (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    aka: no XD YOU'RE the real racist

    great news everyone: political ideology is now measurable exclusively along the axis of individualism/statism. the american left also apparently immensely admires christian fundamentalism and the statism that comes with it.

  17. Re:Its because of the diversity efforts on Facebook Rejects Female Engineers' Code More Often Than Male Counterparts, Analysis Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    find me any other world where you hire people who are grossly unqualified and figure it out later.

    there's a difference between training someone for a specific job and literally taking someone back to school.

  18. Re:Its because of the diversity efforts on Facebook Rejects Female Engineers' Code More Often Than Male Counterparts, Analysis Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    >In which case the best solution is additional training for the people who need it of either gender; and culling those that can't be trained.. of either gender.

    ah, so I understand. the answer is still giving women opportunities that men wouldn't get.

    thanks for clearing it up.

  19. so... what you're saying is the burden of proof is on the disputing party? I don't think that's how it works.

    can we all unanimously agree that poor or nonperformant code is the single most common reason why it would be rejected? with that in mind, any time someone says code is rejected, the foremost and most likely reasoning should be that the code is shit.

    if someone comes along and suggest that a new and disparate causal link exists, it is their job to provide evidence, not our job to prove that causal links we all already agree on exist.

  20. If I wanted to hold myself to a standard of sodium consumption, east asia is the last place I'd look to set my benchmark.

    Perhaps there's other confounding variables and you can't just draw a conclusion that salt isn't bad for you because certain countries both consume lots of salt, and have a few years higher life expectancy. Obesity rate? Trans-fat/processed food consumption?

    As I understand it, diabetes (as well as inflammation-induced heart disease) is caused specifically by the type of blood sugar spikes SIMPLE carbohydrates produce, whereas complex carbohydrates are much more likely to provide a steady stream of energy throughout a period of time. Please show me if i'm wrong.

  21. >too little salt kills you

    find me which pockets of the US are having an epidemic of sodium-deprived children. i'll wait here until hell freezes over. on the other hand, 90% of the US overconsumes sodium, and all evidence points towards sodium (along with trans fat and simple carbs) being the leading cause of heart disease.

    it's insane i can find posts on slashdot where people are suggesting that whole grains "make you fat" and blood pressure is a myth. the jews are out to get us, amirite?

  22. Re:What good is healthy? on Trump Administration Rolls Back Obama-Era Nutrition Standards For School Lunches (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    this sounds incredibly like "my kids will only eat mcdonalds".

    this is beyond retarded. if you want kids to eat a certain way, lead them to water. at the VERY LEAST it doesn't set in their minds that it's perfectly normal to eat fucking sugar-fruit, sugar-milk, and frozen food every day. that's the bare minimum net effect that I can think of. at best, a good portion of the kids in the united states will eat the lunch and wont die from a malnourishment coma.

  23. low-sodium is a fad diet?

    low fat definitely is, but a diet low in sodium and high in whole grains is objectively a good idea based on all current evidence.

  24. simple on Ask Slashdot: What Is the 'Special Appeal' of Apple Products? · · Score: 1

    kawaii in the streets, eunichs in the sheets.

    I have yet to find a linux distro/DE that actually goes head to head. Budgie is nice, Elementary is okay, neither are quite there, and you still have to put up with standard linux-on-desktop hassle.

  25. Re:I mean I got this article through RSS on Slashdot Asks: Do You Still Use RSS? · · Score: 1

    >back in MY day, hurdy durdy doo