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  1. Re:Is this a good thing or a bad thing? on YouTube To Blame For Rise in Flat Earth Believers, Says Study (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    And for those who don't believe me, here's a photo of her.

  2. Re: skinflint tackdicks screwing public? on Major Games Publishers Are Feeling The Impact Of Peaking Attention (midiaresearch.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm Canadian, so you're assuming wrong. I also know different countries use different emergency numbers. I was expecting/hoping someone to reply the exact same thing as me but with a different number than 911 and 999.

    And by the way, the emergency number in the UK is not 999. It's 0118 999 881 999 119 725... 3.

  3. Re:Too much fucking entertainment on Major Games Publishers Are Feeling The Impact Of Peaking Attention (midiaresearch.com) · · Score: 2

    I think that screen is showing the main TV show in the middle and the rest is just ads, not other shows. It was kind of a joke that the future of TV was going to be like the web, which was full of pop-ads at the time.

  4. Re:occam razor principle on Major Games Publishers Are Feeling The Impact Of Peaking Attention (midiaresearch.com) · · Score: 1
  5. Re: skinflint tackdicks screwing public? on Major Games Publishers Are Feeling The Impact Of Peaking Attention (midiaresearch.com) · · Score: 0

    Are you having a stroke? Somebody call 999!

    Call 999, what? Are you having a stroke? Somebody call 911!

  6. Re:"Flat Earth conventions have begun popping up a on YouTube To Blame For Rise in Flat Earth Believers, Says Study (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    The Earth is not flat from the point of view of the 4th spatial dimension. It's still a mostly-sphere shape, without a 4th spatial dimension.

    You live in three spatial dimensions. Do you call two-dimensional squares "flat, one-dimensional lines"?

  7. Re:And speaking of pulling people's chains on YouTube To Blame For Rise in Flat Earth Believers, Says Study (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Is it? I may be Canadian, but I'll still celebrate anyway. Today instead of my usual grape-flavoured vitamin C, I'll take an orange-flavoured vitamin C.

  8. Re:Is this a good thing or a bad thing? on YouTube To Blame For Rise in Flat Earth Believers, Says Study (cnet.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    What would be funny is "around the world" cruises for flat-earthers.

  9. Re:Is this a good thing or a bad thing? on YouTube To Blame For Rise in Flat Earth Believers, Says Study (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I recommend watching the documentary "Behind The Curve" on Netflix.

    I was wondering if it was any good. Thank you.

    In the last few years, Flat Earthers have gone from being a joke to something that a lot of people take very, very seriously. These people go hand-in-hand with anti-vaxxers, climate change deniers and creationists as part of a new wave of "Anti-Intellectualism".

    Aren't all of these groups mostly a USA-only thing? Is it coming from a lack of education, or something else?

  10. Re:Is this a good thing or a bad thing? on YouTube To Blame For Rise in Flat Earth Believers, Says Study (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can easily explain this photograph:
    - the file format is JPEG, in 24-bit colours, which is the appropriate format considering the image
    - the DPI is set at 72 pixels per inch
    - its dimensions are 300 × 294 pixels
    - the file size is 27628 bytes

  11. Re:Is this a good thing or a bad thing? on YouTube To Blame For Rise in Flat Earth Believers, Says Study (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    And he has to be able to think of alternate third hypotheses to not fall into the false dilemma trap (e.g. there is not only Darwinism and Biblical Creationism, there is also the Flying Spaghetti Monster).

    Well, we all know that this third hypothesis is just complete nonsense. The only valid third hypothesis is, of course, the Invisible Pink Unicorn.

  12. And slashdot helpfully removed the non-breaking spaces that I wrote in the first "1-000-000" of my last sentence. <sigh>

  13. This fucker doesn't understand technology on House Bill Requires Pornography Filter on All Phones, Computers Purchased in Kansas (cjonline.com) · · Score: 1

    "What it would do is any X-rated pornography stuff would be filtered."

    Yes, of course. Why not pass a law so that guns don't work when being used by thieves and murderers, while we're wishing for fantasy magical stuff with no basis in reality.

    https://xkcd.com/1425/

  14. Re: Does not compute on Google Fixing Chrome API To Prevent Incognito Mode Detection (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, come on now. We're all adults here. We know this is just stories we tell children. Schnapps doesn't really exist.

  15. As a non-USAmerican, I'm just glad this isn't about Trump.

  16. You can test my router all day long if you want to. The I.P. address is 127.0.0.1
    Good luck!

  17. Option A: Something, something, dark side (of the page).
    Option B: Only black pages? What are you, racist?
    Option C: Did you tell your boss that your co-worker was wasting ink/toner?
    Option D: I am Groot.

  18. My algebra is a bit rusty... there's only one quark per atom?

  19. Re:Why are most humans so damned dumb? on Researcher Scans All IP Addresses of Austria, Finds a Ton of Things That Shouldn't Be Online (haschek.at) · · Score: 1

    Double bottom underline, why the hell does he need stamps? Does he need to mail something? Doesn't he know he can send electronic letters? It's called email.

  20. Both ways of writing numbers are totally flawed.

    1.000.000

    Did I just write "one million" or "one thousand as a float with a precision of three decimal points"?

    1,000,000

    Try using that format in parameters, coordinates, etc. It's going to be a mess.

    1000000 is just plain easier to read and no mistakes can be made. Of course, if you're programming it has to be 1000000, but still.

  21. Wait a minute... we can dance?

  22. Re:Totally not collusion on Visa, Mastercard Mull Increasing Fees For Processing Transactions: Report (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    At the 2017/2018 peak, I had two transactions with a low fee stuck for almost one month before they were finally accepted by the network.

    Also, proof-of-work coins such as Bitcoin are energy wasteful by design.

  23. Maybe your power cable is not properly grounded?

  24. Re: A reckoning is coming on Software Pirates Use Apple Tech To Put Hacked Apps on iPhones (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    That's only one direction of security. The certificates allow the devices to run the software from the enterprise. But it does not protect the software from in-house leaks or abuse such as in these cases.

  25. Re:A reckoning is coming on Software Pirates Use Apple Tech To Put Hacked Apps on iPhones (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Proper security is usually painful.