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  1. Hello I am eight years old and what is a secondary email address?

  2. Re:But .. Rewind truly sucked.... on YouTube Struggles To Fight Mobs Weaponizing Their 'Dislike' Button (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the "for awhile" aspect I'm disrespecting. I can't comment in an informed manner about the rest.

  3. No, or at least, some water hit the ground, which was disappointing. But at least none hit a three year old.

  4. I tried doing this. It took some lateral thinking, but I figured it would be smart to throw the water away from myself and others, and not straight up. I already knew it was unwise to throw it against the wind due to a preceding incident involving having to go to the bathroom while camping.

  5. Re:What about the other way on YouTube Struggles To Fight Mobs Weaponizing Their 'Dislike' Button (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a real problem, yes, but more for sellers. Amazon, Steam, and others have struggled for years with fake reviews. Steam in particular has to deal with both ends of the stupid, as games are can be both review bombed and flooded with fake positive reviews. Thus their splitting off of "All reviews" and "Recent reviews."

    Anyway, fake dislikes are a bigger problem for all voting systems than fake likes. Fake dislikes ruin momentum and can render posts invisible, usually permanently. E.g trolls using automated dislikes to render a target's posts invisible. Fake likes tend to self correct after a period of time.

    Is removing the dislike button the only choice or even the best choice? Of course not, but it's the simplest thing to do, gives back user interface space, and is the least computer intensive.

  6. Re:But .. Rewind truly sucked.... on YouTube Struggles To Fight Mobs Weaponizing Their 'Dislike' Button (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Enough dislikes can make it pretty hard to even see the next episode of something without manually searching for it. E.g. some episodes of Nostalgia Critic after half the internet got their panties in a twist. "Wait, why does 'up next' skip four episodes?"

  7. Re: Better than 90% on Online Videos Shame Two Sleeping Tesla Drivers (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 1

    Alternately, the liability may be negated, since a good enough autopilot will avoid all accidents that can be avoided. This might be implausible, but It'd be nice to move away from a culture that considers negligence criminal only when combined with bad luck.

  8. You misspelled fecal.

  9. Cooperation on MasterCard Fined $648 Million for High EU Card Fees (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Ten percent penalty reduction for cooperating? Sounds to me like never cooperating is a good gamble. Heck, delay something for four years and inflation will pay you money all by itself.

  10. Re:Most people can't tell the difference in A/B te on Why High-Fidelity Streaming is the Audio Revolution Your Ears Have Been Waiting For (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. That's the joke.

  11. Re:Most people can't tell the difference in A/B te on Why High-Fidelity Streaming is the Audio Revolution Your Ears Have Been Waiting For (forbes.com) · · Score: 2

    This is a sack of baldfaced lies and really cheeses me off. I'm going to grab my coat hanger and hook up my audio system. That'll calm me down.

  12. That's the joke.

  13. This kind of thing happens to me constantly. Google accuses me of being a robot on a regular basis.

  14. Re: "dark pattern" on Firefox To Remove UI Dark Pattern From Screenshot Tool After Months of Complaints (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Informative
  15. Oh wait, they DID use quotes.

  16. Maybe they should've put the term in quotes, but then they could be accused of using "scare quotes". A term I imagine you also hate. Along with things like "fast follow" and "disk drive".

  17. Re:"dark pattern" on Firefox To Remove UI Dark Pattern From Screenshot Tool After Months of Complaints (zdnet.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dark pattern is the accepted term for deceptive user interfaces and has been for a around a decade. It exists as a bucket term because of the large number of methods used.

  18. Re: Not cheese, but on American Cheese Surplus Reaches Record High · · Score: 1

    Tried that. Curdle central from the acid.

  19. Not cheese, but on American Cheese Surplus Reaches Record High · · Score: 1

    I'd buy yogurt daily, but my supermarket stopped carrying key-lime flavored whole milk yogurt. And every single other whole milk yogurt that isn't plain or in a three dollar glass jar. Damn lowfat poseur wannabe fake yogurt eaters.

  20. yeah on Ask Slashdot: Which Laptop Should I Buy For My First Employee? · · Score: 1

    If you need a browser computer, Chromebook is a pretty reasonable choice. Fewer security problems, no spindle drive to break, and low overhead. They support plenty of printers via cloudprint as well. And if the OS does somehow get borked, it's downloadable.

    HP has the stream line if you do need Windows. They're fine for what they are. Certainly better than the crapo celeron spindle drive computers some companies poop out and call "budget"

  21. Re:Free pass over privacy on Apple Took Out a CES Ad To Troll Its Competitors Over Privacy (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    I care, and I'd pay an extra fifty to have great privacy on my phone. I won't pay an extra five hundred though. Or put up with a screen with a wedge sliced out of it. Or no headphone jack. Or no microsd support. Or virtually no customization. Or...

  22. Re:Did something change? on Stop Adding Cancer-Causing Chemicals To Bacon, Experts Tell Meat Industry (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe I'm wrong, but I think virtually everything we do to make food taste good was originally used for preservation or to hide off flavors. Pickling, salting, smoking, drying, cooking, sweetening, fermenting, culturing? whatever yogurt/cheese making is, and spicing all have preservative benefits or control how the food ages. About the only common practices that hurt shelf life are those that reduce food to smaller pieces, e.g. milling.

    As I said earlier, we can keep meat red with carbon monoxide, although I'm not well informed on how well it works.

  23. Re:As an Islamic country... on Stop Adding Cancer-Causing Chemicals To Bacon, Experts Tell Meat Industry (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not disparaging turkey bacon, but the reason I mentioned beef and lamb is because the cut of meat used is equivalent and can be treated almost identically.

  24. Re:Did something change? on Stop Adding Cancer-Causing Chemicals To Bacon, Experts Tell Meat Industry (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    I know that this is a factor historically; Alton Brown talked about it on his corned beef episode. That said, I thought they were using carbon monoxide for redness these days.

  25. Re:As an Islamic country... on Stop Adding Cancer-Causing Chemicals To Bacon, Experts Tell Meat Industry (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't normally reply to AC trolls, but it's worth mentioning that beef and lamb "bacon" exist for cultures that don't like pork. They are delicious.