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  1. Re:Good on France on Le Pen Concedes Defeat To Macron In France's Post-Hack Election (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    It's almost like other countries transliterate the Arabic word differently than you do. Curious. (FYI, even in English the spelling was "moslem" until quite recently, though many also just said "Mohammadian".)

  2. Not what I expected on Silicon Valley's $400 Juicer May Be Feeling the Squeeze (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Here I thought you would stick fruit containers in it, and it would pulp them up. But using bags of... juice? Did no one along the line wonder what the device was actually for?

  3. Re:But it's a very well known fact... on Trump To Overhaul H-1B Visa Program To Encourage Hiring Americans (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, it's been 18 years, so those "couple more of these types of losses" are taking their sweet ol' time.

  4. Re:But it's a very well known fact... on Trump To Overhaul H-1B Visa Program To Encourage Hiring Americans (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    My hand *is* small. Seriously hinders me on guitar. :(

  5. Re:But it's a very well known fact... on Trump To Overhaul H-1B Visa Program To Encourage Hiring Americans (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Because all the places that are non-metric are still intuitive to Americans. An inch is about the length of your thumb. A foot is about the length of your foot. A cup is about as much as a tea cup, and twice that you have what fits in pint glass. 0-100 degrees Fahrenheit covers the comfortable livable temperature of humans, and thus is very convenient for telling the weather (which is what 90% of what all non-cooking Americans use temperature for).

    Anything that requires precision is already metric. Chemistry, engineering, etc.

    Everything except screws, nuts, and bolts. We have a screwy double-measure system that drives me bonkers.

  6. Re:Literally Hitler on Hollywood Is Losing the Battle Against Online Trolls (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 2

    He's going to have a real problem on his hands when all the Kurdish Peshmerga in Iraq is finished with ISIS and has idle time on their hands. Erdogan will stop at nothing to prevent a unified Kurdistan, and it's likely to tear NATO apart.

  7. This summary is schizophrenic on Microsoft Says US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Requests More Than Doubled (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    First half: We are totes spying.
    Second half: Claims of spying are unsubstantiated.

  8. Re:Hackers? on Eric S. Raymond Unveils New List Of 'Hacker Archetypes' (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    The media and pop culture decided they liked the word "hacker" to mean bad guy who breaks into computer systems, and ran with it, and that's all she wrote.

    Well, that's cool, for them. Meanwhile, we coders still hack out code at our hackathons without being confused about what we're really doing.

  9. Re: More US warmongering on US Strikes Syrian Base With Over 50 Tomahawk Missiles (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    But not because of Germany or Japan.

  10. Re:More US warmongering on US Strikes Syrian Base With Over 50 Tomahawk Missiles (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Wasn't he supposed to be a Russian sleeper agent, or something? Slashdot has been telling me so for months, now.

  11. Re:59? no only 23 hit the tatget on US Strikes Syrian Base With Over 50 Tomahawk Missiles (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I find it interesting that you applied Occam's Razor to your "who benefits" question but not to your "false flag" conspiracy.

  12. Re:Mark Cuban had a point on this on Student Loan Debt Has Nearly Tripled (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    It's an interesting idea, but in the end I'd guess the lower income families would get hurt.

    Not if the cap was in-line with the kind of community commuter colleges that are most accessible to lower-income families (disclaimer: I went to such a college, and I did just fine).

  13. That's not a question, dumb ass. And you misspelled skeptical, dumb ass. Stop trying to be a smart ass when you're clearly a dumb ass, dumb ass.

    That's the British spelling. You know they invented the language, right?

  14. Rotten Tomatoes is getting self-important on Hollywood Producer Blames Rotten Tomatoes For Convincing People Not To See His Movie (vanityfair.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Their curated list of critics simply don't like the same movies I do. Therefore there is little to no correlation between my enjoyment of a film and its RT freshness. It's also setting expectations. People went into BvS expecting a terrible movie. If you look for a terrible movie, you will find it.

  15. Re:Universal Heat Death? on Cooling To Absolute Zero Mathematically Outlawed After a Century (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    "Heath death" is somewhat of a misnomer. Entropy does not go away; it's when the entropy of the universe can no longer increase, due to the universe being at perfect equilibrium under the Third Law. There will still be temperature, and mater; individual particles flying around and never touching (no protons, though; they have long since decayed). We consider this to be an extreme low-energy state, not a complete lack of energy.

    Disclaimer: I'm not a scientist. I just get bored and read stuff.

  16. I spent 5 minutes trying pronounce that name on Africa Gets Its Own Web Address (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Having done so, I can now conclude my reading of TFS with a proud sense of accomplishment, though I never finished it.

  17. Re:Follow the Russians... on How Wiretaps Actually Work (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The current narrative is that there was no wiretapping at all. You're ruining the narrative.

  18. Social media isn't making people lonelier on Social Media 'Increases Loneliness', Says Study (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    It's letting the lonely people tell you about it. Every day, filling up my feed with bleak stock art and Comic Sans overlay text.

  19. Re:This should surprise no one. on Apple Losing Out To Microsoft and Google in US Classrooms (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Maxis! Played Sim City and Sim Earth for the first time on a Mac LC II in the 6th grade.

    Oh, and Kid Pix! No clue who made it, though.

  20. Re: No, because it FUCKING FAKE NEWS AGAIN on Mike Pence Used His AOL Email For Indiana State Business -- and It Got Hacked (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    In addition to AC's comment above, another salient issue is data retention laws, which is why official use of a private email account is such a red flag. I only RTFS, but it seems the personal account in this case was is still archived by Yahoo! and therefore searchable.

  21. Re: Just like the last Administration on White House Supports Renewal of Spy Law Without Reforms (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the East German regime was based on being occupied by a way bigger, more powerful country.

  22. Re:Just like the last Administration on White House Supports Renewal of Spy Law Without Reforms (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's silly. Alright, I don't like where America is heading, but I grew up a couple miles from the Berlin Wall, and I can tell you that what I saw when I looked out over it looked nothing remotely like America. We do not know fear or hopelessness the way East Germans did. This kind of hysterical false equivalency does not help the cause because it makes pro-privacy look alarmist. We are on a bad trajectory, that's enough to argue from.

  23. Re:suggestions for the course on University Offers Course To Help Sniff Out and Refute 'Bullshit' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    7. Additional item that was slipped in by that one guy nobody likes, and now everyone is too embarrassed to notice.

  24. Re:Let's be clear on what we mean by election hack on Russian Cyberspies Blamed For US Election Hacks Are Now Targeting Macs (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing to stop someone registering with a party they dislike to try impact the primary of a rival

    Oh, for sure. But then you're giving up a voice in your own party, so it can go against enlightened self-interest.

  25. Re:Let's be clear on what we mean by election hack on Russian Cyberspies Blamed For US Election Hacks Are Now Targeting Macs (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know if it actually happened, but there was encouragement by some democratic activists to participate in open GOP primaries to ensure DT was the candidate due to his weakness as a candidate (IIRC, RMV, YMMV). I, personally don't have a problem with that, because open primaries are stupid to begin with.