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  1. Re:Consequences or Endless Loop on FCC Refuses Records For Investigation Into Fake Net Neutrality Comments (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems like this would encourage vertical integration, which I don't see as that much better. If the policy somehow addressed that issue and prevented the walled garden eventuality, I could get behind it.

  2. Re:The FCC needs to know on FCC Refuses Records For Investigation Into Fake Net Neutrality Comments (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    No doubt, but I really would love to have someone keeping an eye on state actors (especially our own) that are doing massive psy-ops campaigns. The NSA leaks show that even /. was on the radar. Perhaps the FCC isn't the right organization, but I would certainly appreciate a report on those activities to help color my view of the ideas shared on sites such as this. I notice (or think I do) that on certain types of stories, there are a barrage of comments meant to scatter meaningful discussion, particularly on stories that would be of interest to Russia.

  3. Conflating throughput with physical installation of lines(ie, the last mile and the crux of this debate) shows the exact same ignorance as the senator, except on your part.

  4. Re:He has been "researching"? on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Good Smartwatches Or Fitness Trackers? · · Score: 1

    If you RTFS, it says that it was submitted by a slashdot reader, and lo and be hold that he holds opinions on the matter, and wanted slashdot feedback. Do you have any, besides you extensive and poignant critique of his post?

    I have tried a few now but nothing has struck my fancy. I can't see myself ever 'popping my sim card' into a watch just to not carry a phone and lose the other features a phone provides(camera, large screen, headphone jack, etc.) The polar has decent battery life and sensors, but it really doesn't do it for me.

    I've been watching the misfit vapor but have been waiting for reviews as it's only been out a couple months.

  5. Do you suggest the same for electric? water? Should we have 8 redundant pipes of every type running to every single house, only one of which would be active at a given time? This seems insane.

  6. Re:Moderate confidence on Homeland Security Claims DJI Drones Are Spying For China (engadget.com) · · Score: 1
    I'm assuming your joking, but it's worth noting that there is a definition:

    Moderate confidence generally means credibly sourced and plausible information, but not of sufficient quality or corroboration to warrant a higher level of confidence

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  7. Re:"extremely sensitive concerning publicity" on Paradise Papers Leak Reveals Apple's Secret Tax Bolthole (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    If it were only paying a bill, you'd be correct. In practice, our complex tax system is riddled with judgement calls. There is a moral choice of whether to pay for your kid's ski lessons with child-care deductions, which is clearly not in the spirit of the deduction. It's easy to say 'well, I followed the rules' and absolve yourself of any moral responsibility, but your fellow citizens are paying (on average) ~30% income + ~8% consumption based taxes. If you're reasonably well off and still cutting every corner, you're greedy and that's a moral failing.

  8. Re:Goodbye forever /. on Many Junior Scientists Need To Take a Hard Look at Their Job Prospects (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, I did appreciate your last post, thanks for sharing.

  9. Re:We need to stop thinking of money as wealth on 'The Second Gilded Age Is Upon Us' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The concept you are trying to get rid of is rewarding those who take risks and creating the concept that we reward existence.

    I think ensuring 'existence' would result in more healthy risk from a lower class that currently fears what would happen if they did fail at going out on their own and starting a new business.

    simply increasing the income of the poor won't create those jobs

    Of course it will. Who is going to buy those new products the benevolent investor class has deigned to 'create'? If the poor have money to spend, are you saying folks won't dream up new widgets to sell them? Supply side economics has a flaw where it has to bootstrap its own demand.

    As for health care, hospitals routinely deal with the uninsured when they walk in the door.

    There's a lot more to health care than the emergency room, and we'd save money if we handled it more intelligently.

  10. Re:Wealth inequality is not a problem on 'The Second Gilded Age Is Upon Us' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Life is about a lot more than meeting basic needs, though that's certainly required. The social contract is predicated on a level of fairness, and there's only so much pay-to-win that the masses will put up with before they decide to flip the table. I'd argue the reason Trump won wasn't affording basic needs. It was the sentiment that everyday folks weren't getting their say in the government, and were ready to throw a grenade in it rather than put up with the status quo.

  11. Re: How much is "ISlamic" on The Geometry of Islamic Art Becomes a Treasure of a Game (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's true that any religious text or theology can be twisted and taken out of context, and that humans are violent creatures. However, when your religion is founded on the principles of a fanatical warlord, an honest interpretation of the text can and often does lead to harmful and destructive behavior. It's not fair to single out Islam here, but to put it on all fours with Buddhism betrays a lack of understanding of what's actually in the texts, or takes the position that theology does not significantly affect human behavior.

  12. Re:What about Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app on Microsoft Exec Says Windows 10 Mobile is No Longer a 'Focus' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I think xamlstandard +.net core will bridge that gap, but I haven't heard much on the xaml piece yet.

  13. Re:obesity also tied to poor diet on Poor Diet Is a Factor In One In Five Deaths, Global Disease Study Reveals (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    that mirrors up pretty well with the data. Note the obesity #'s specifically:

    https://stateofobesity.org/ima...

  14. Re:It's OK...... on The IRS Decides Who To Audit By Data Mining Social Media (typepad.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you know they were conservative, when engaging in political activity causes an organization to lose its favored tax status?

  15. Re:That can't be true! on Trump Adviser Steve Bannon is Leaving White House Post (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    That link is answering the wrong question. http://www.politico.com/story/... Are you saying House Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy was wrong or lying?

  16. Re:It cannot be!!! on Obama Authorized a Secret Cyber Operation Against Russia, Says Report (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, flats and tenants aren't really a thing in rural America either. Fails all around

  17. I like to call that progress. Empowered workers having an influence on work policy, what's not to like?

  18. Re:Languages are tools, not jobs. on The Working Dead: Which IT Jobs Are Bound For Extinction? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    'Decent' is a pretty low bar, and language is just the beginning of it. Compilers, tool chains/libraries, platforms, process handling, and application life-cycles all can have design breaking impacts on any reasonably complicated code, and you will have no way of knowing these things by reading a language reference manual. The glaring bugs in the English language application above makes me doubt your 17 language mastery claim.

  19. This is an into to CS course, so these people aren't experts. As such, you'd expect a wide variety of solutions to come up with the same answer. There are many ways to skin the programming cat anyway (especially given some of the attempts will be wrong).

    Also, if you multiple counters, what do you use? j? i2? Why not just name the counter what it represents to begin with so I don't have to look as hard to figure out what you screwed up when you confused your counters.

  20. Re:Wait a second... why did he turn off the camera on Cop Fakes Body Cam Footage, Prosecutors Drop Drug Charges (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Just in case the officer accidentally drops 10k in cash out of his pocket when searching the car, he doesn't want to have to prove that it wasn't his already.

  21. Perhaps it's not a walled garden,. but the gardeners walk around with uzis and firehoses of DDT. The fact that super scary permissions like manage documents require firmware signing or root means that we probably need a new metaphor to differentiate the freedom a program (and thus a user) has in a given OS.

  22. Unfortunately, massive unemployment and wealth disparity hasn't had such a great track record in society either. Bread and circuses are part of the cost of doing business.

  23. Re:Unrealistically limited view on Wired Founding Editor Now Challenges 'The Myth of A Superhuman AI' (backchannel.com) · · Score: 2

    All machine learning algorithms refine their predictions/responses with new data. it would be trivial to include a feature that mimics hormones, lunar cycles, anything that can be modeled and coded.

  24. Re:A comment from outside the slashdot sewer: on Report Shows Another Diversity Challenge: Retaining Employees (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 2

    If they were maximizing talent, they'd choose those most fitted for the role. However, those things are skewed for a variety of factors (some of them genetic) towards the very groups you are accusing of advantage. If you truly want to get past the "advantages don't exist" perspective, you'll have to actually come to terms with the fact that genetic advantages exist (with the important caveat that there is more inter-race disparity than intra-race disparity). If you are willing to "get it", we can begin to talk about ways to balance a society that can deal with these disparities in a way that isn't overtly racist.

    I would think this would include not trying to balance membership in specific types of labor with those for whom it is not as well suited. As such, we would expect the numbers in any given labor field to reflect a sampling of the groups of people for whom their talents and interests match up well with the labor division.

  25. Re:NK *is* a credible threat on North Korea Parades Hybrid 'Frankenmissile', Then Fails Yet Another Missile Launch Test (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not a good menu of choices to my mind. North Korea has been on a mission to develop nuclear technology and ICBMS for at least two decades now, and have lied and cheated every deal to try and dissuade them from going down the path. This will come to a head at some point, and allowing an unstable government to use or lose control of nuclear armament is not an option.