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  1. Re:We don't want to either on Microsoft Really Doesn't Want You To Buy Office 2019 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    What did you need that's included with 2019 but not 365? It's usually the other way around.

  2. Re:No so fast, dude... on Microsoft Really Doesn't Want You To Buy Office 2019 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Not to mention if you need plugins, you need Office. Legal, financial, biotech, and pharma are all industries that rely heavily on Office plugins.

  3. Re:Bad exam design ... on Rich Kids Are Cheating in School With Apple Watches (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Not just dates. Places. People. FACTS. There are a lot of FACTS required to understand and communicate the why. You cannot do one without the other.

  4. Re:Bad exam design ... on Rich Kids Are Cheating in School With Apple Watches (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    But you shouldn't force students to memorize facts like who, what, when where, per the OP's premise. My point is those facts are important to the bigger picture. History isn't physics. One size for teaching doesn't fit all subjects.

  5. Re:Bad exam design ... on Rich Kids Are Cheating in School With Apple Watches (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    OK, explain the start of WWI, without any of those pesky who, what, when, and where facts we burden students to remember. Please.

  6. Re:Bad exam design ... on Rich Kids Are Cheating in School With Apple Watches (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    OK, explain that, without a who, what, when, or where. Love to see it. After all, no memorizing facts!

  7. Re: Bad exam design ... on Rich Kids Are Cheating in School With Apple Watches (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, invading who? Russia is a "where" so try again, with no who, what, when, or where, just why.

  8. Re: Bad exam design ... on Rich Kids Are Cheating in School With Apple Watches (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    When, where, and who can be important factors in history though.

  9. Re:Bad exam design ... on Rich Kids Are Cheating in School With Apple Watches (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    What kind of equations did you use in History? There are plenty of subjects where that kind of test just isn't possible. Even in sciences (gross anatomy comes to mind, had lots of memorization in that one).

  10. Re:One-eyed among the blind. on Parents Who Don't Vaccinate Kids Tend To Be Affluent, Better Educated (go.com) · · Score: 2

    But why should you care if they don't vaccinate as long as you vaccinate? Isn't that what vaccines are for?

    Vaccines are not 100% effective across the population. For example, of the children who die from flu each year, around 20% were properly vaccinated. Additionally, there are populations who cannot, for valid medical reasons, be vaccinated. Thus, it's important that as many people who can be vaccinated are, to provide protection to those who cannot be vaccinated, or for whom a vaccine may not be effective.

  11. Re:It Was Far More Than A Torrent Streamer on Netflix, Amazon, and Hollywood Studios Shut Down Dragon Box (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Found the out of work Buzz Feed writer

  12. Re:Metal Fatigue? on Apple Is Making a 7th-Gen iPod Touch and New iPads, Says Report (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    I have. Had one snap off in the damn socket. Made for a fun time trying to get that out.

  13. Re:Maybe invest in US factories? on A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won't Be 'Assembled in USA' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe if the US doesn't have enough capacity, Apple could take some of the billions of dollars in cash, and ... invest it in US factories? I'm pretty sure if they invested that money in the US, then they'd be employing more US workers, who could... afford to buy an Apple device. I know it's cliche to suggest that investing in your home country actually benefits the country and your own company, but it's true.

    Yea, and maybe they could create a fund to do that. Maybe call it the "Advanced Manufacturing Fund".

  14. And I like how TFA shows a drone armed with missiles; those are useful for fighting a wildfire I suppose.

    What, you never heard the saying "Fight fire with Hellfire Missiles"?

  15. Re:I don't think this would work on Advocacy Groups Are Pushing The FTC To Break Up Facebook (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Easily solved. Just make it a felony eith monditory jail time to have accounts on the other service you are not assigned to. Problem solved.

  16. Re:IP Law - Home to Roost on Google Asks Supreme Court To Rule On When Code Can Be Copyrighted (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Pretty sure the BBC holds the copyright on those.

  17. Re:This is like... on We May Finally Know What Causes Alzheimer's -- and How To Stop It (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you respond to the wrong comment?

  18. This is about the fifth thing in the past year I've seen that has been called out as the cause of Alzheimer. I really wish the media would stop jumping on these initial papers before they have been fully validated and reproduced.

  19. China has seemingly made a policy of enforcing social shaming and isolation by using surveillance

    Seems expensive. They use just use Twitter and Facebook to do that, like we do in the west.

  20. Re:robots.txt on Google Considering Pulling News Service From Europe (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Oh but that's just it: They don't want to get delisted from google news, that would cost them tons of traffic that they need. They just want to force Google to pay them for indexing and linking to them.

  21. Re:Digital License plates are another tracking met on Digital License Plates Are Now Allowed in Michigan (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have yet to see a single coherent argument for digital license plates.

    Here's one: The implementation will probably be so shitty they will be hackable by the owner to display whatever you want. I'm sure a certain segment of society could find that useful.

  22. Re:Count me out! on Digital License Plates Are Now Allowed in Michigan (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm keeping my license plate analog. If my license plate were to have discrete letters and digits, that would just make it easier for cops to identify me.

    Did you get vanity plate 88BB8B8 or O0O00O0?

    https://xkcd.com/1105/

  23. Re:Errrr SIs only? on Intel Core i9-9990XE: Up To 5.0 GHz, Auction Only (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    I did. My 7980xe system (7980xe, 64GB RAM, 1TB nvme, 2x1080ti) came from Alienware. Of course this was mainly because I saved over $2,000 thanks to cryptomining screwing up GPU prices, but still, it does happen. And plenty of people buy high end systems from SI's like iBuyPower, Cyberpower, Maingear, etc.

  24. Re:Why not go with a Xeon? on Intel Core i9-9990XE: Up To 5.0 GHz, Auction Only (anandtech.com) · · Score: 2

    You mean besides the 2x+ price premium and slower per-core clock speeds for the Xeons?

  25. Re:Correlation is NOT causation on There's No Such Thing as a Safe Tan (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it's not.