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  1. Re:Too bad, but on StumbleUpon Is Shutting Down After 16 Years of Service (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Surprisingly, it has zero according to Privacy Badger (though I also have uBlock origin, so if it's only ad trackers, I might not be getting them anyway.)

  2. Even if the driver was texting, they can't be expected to be paying that much attention. When you're the passenger in a car, how much time do you spend actually keeping attention as though you're driving? Very little, I'm sure. Being ostensibly in control, but having nothing to keep your intention engaged (like actual driving does) is almost necessarily going to lead you to missing things like this, and hence disaster.

  3. Re:What survived the test of time on Ask Slashdot: Were Developments In Technology More Exciting 30 Years Ago? · · Score: 1

    "What is dead cannot die bias" perhaps?

  4. Re:Dunning-Kruger on Ask Slashdot: Should You Tell Your Coworkers How Much You Make? · · Score: 1

    Basically, the Dunning-Kruger effect applies to many people who cite the Dunning-Kruger effect, regarding the Dunning-Kruger effect.

  5. Re: Just two weeks ago they said wait for Mar 1 on Ubuntu Linux 18.04 'Bionic Beaver' Beta 1 Now Available For Download (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    How can something that doesn't exist be "alpha quality"?

  6. Re:Mozilla and DuckDuckGo on Ask Slashdot: Which Tech Company Do You Respect Most? · · Score: 1

    I think it was hard to do with their old add-on model (the one that other people here are complaining about going away) making it hard to implement major design changes like this, and so hopefully they'll be doing the catchup quickly now.

  7. Re:New processor for everyone! on Microsoft Issues Windows Out-of-Band Update That Disables Spectre Mitigations (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no point exploiting the issue if you're already in a position to change the microcode. You're already on the wrong side of the airtight hatchway.

  8. Re:A problem that has no easy solution on Prepare for the New Paywall Era (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    I've been thinking the same. I just bought a nice tablet, and am looking for good larger form things to use with it. So far, I have a handful of newsy type sites bookmarked, and a subscription for The Guardian (€15/mo, which provides an OK app that mixes the linear newspaper flow with the advantages of being on digital) for breakfast reading. I've been wanting to add something like, I dunno, National Geographic or New Scientist or something to that, but I have to be choosy before it ends up costing more than I want to spend.

    I think the days of having a single newspaper and perhaps a magazine or so subscription should go away (now that there's not really quite the same concept of local), but the prices don't reflect that. I think if they were more like €3-5/mo I'd subscribe to a lot more. I already have a few things on Patreon etc, so it's not like I'm unwilling. But €15 feels big enough to not want to do it to many times over.

  9. Re:Consequence on An Unconscious Patient With a 'DO NOT RESUSCITATE' Tattoo (nejm.org) · · Score: 1

    Don't be so mercantile. It's ridiculous.

    Not really directed at you specifically, but the large amounts of "oh, it's all about the money" sentiment in this thread. Could it be that they'd like to not see someone die if they're at all in doubt? If you make the wrong choice in one direction, there's no going back.

  10. Re:Henna stencil. on An Unconscious Patient With a 'DO NOT RESUSCITATE' Tattoo (nejm.org) · · Score: 1

    This post is at +4 Insightful. It should really be -4 Ignorant.

  11. Paper maps -- maybe road maps aren't as common, but any hiker typically gets a paper maps of a park, and maps of buildings like museums are often given out.

    I live in a touristy city. I can confirm that paper maps are still alive and well.

  12. Re:suprised on Google+ Redesigned (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    Liked!

  13. Re:suprised on Google+ Redesigned (blogspot.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yeah, I use it a lot. I find it has a better signal-to-noise ratio than things like facebook.

  14. Re:Biggest improvement yet to come... on Google+ Redesigned (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    since they have yet to announce that they're completely removing the G+ tentacles from all of their other services.

    Pay attention.

    They have announced that, months ago.

  15. Re:Communities? on Google+ Redesigned (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    So don't join that community then, if it doesn't suit your tastes.

    You're extrapolating on your dislike of a single example to everything. Everyone is terrible at stats and they're not going to get better while they're all using a single anecdote to support their point!

  16. Re:Data data everywhere and not a drop to think on 737 'Tailstrike' Caused By Typo On a Tablet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone elsewhere commented that it's expensive in terms of maintenance, it costs fuel, it increases the chance of engine failure, things along those lines.

  17. Re:SDR Hardware on Getting Started With GNU Radio (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    going beyond that would have been tricky, because at the limit of 2.8 million samples per second of I and Q data @ 8 bit, it was pushing the limit of what the hardware could actually do: there were quite a few drop-outs. i'm sure the proprietary driver could handle that data rate, but the reverse-engineered gnu/linux one simply couldn't.

    2.8msps is a limit of the hardware in the mode that uses them as an SDR. In DVB-T mode, it works somewhat differently and so can do higher bandwidth, but as an SDR it's in a sort of debug mode, which has limitations.

    Really, if you need to go above that your next step is probably a hackrf.

  18. Re:"No Explosion" on US Will Clean Area In Spain Where Hydrogen Bombs Fell (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    You should read "Command and Control." It's a very good book, but you come away with the feeling that it was more good luck than good management that there were no accidental nuclear detonations. And then you consider that the Soviet side was probably at least as bad, if not worse, and you're surprised there's still a planet here at all.

  19. Re:Companies with stacked ranking don't do "remote on The Google Employee Who Opted For a Truck Over Bay Area Rents (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    What is OKR?

  20. Re:kids these days... on Ask Slashdot: Is it Practical To Replace C With Rust? · · Score: 1

    Attitudes like this is a large part of what causes us to need a security industry.

    You are part of the problem.

  21. Re:kids these days... on Ask Slashdot: Is it Practical To Replace C With Rust? · · Score: 2

    Rust is probably harder to get to grips with then C. The difference is that when you screw up in rust, it usually yells at you. When you screw up in C, it blithely goes on doing what it thinks you want.

  22. Re:kids these days... on Ask Slashdot: Is it Practical To Replace C With Rust? · · Score: 1

    "We can fix it later" is no excuse for delivering shit to start with.

  23. Re:FUCK OFF DICE on Getting More Women Coders Into Open Source · · Score: 1

    [citation needed]

  24. Re:FUCK OFF DICE on Getting More Women Coders Into Open Source · · Score: 1

    If you want to exclude people who aren't like you from your own community, that's your prerogative. What is happening is that people are saying that it is not a good way to have the optimal community.

    Also, your parasitism point is ... weird. It doesn't make sense. How does making it easier for more people to get involved make them parasites?

  25. Re:FUCK OFF DICE on Getting More Women Coders Into Open Source · · Score: 1

    Sure, some people are jerks. That happens. But what the result of using "SJW" and "political correctness gone mad!" is, is that it gets thrown the moment someone says "hey, how about we try to be a bit more nice to other people? you know, try it, see what happens." All of a sudden many people go "rah! you can't tell me what to do! You're such a SJW!"

    It's reactionary, stupid, and hinders having a good community.

    All these so-called SJW people are trying to do is give a voice to people who don't have much of their own to stop them being so excluded. Because being excluded causes them to have less of a voice. You see how there's a feedback loop there, right?