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  1. Re:Don't you mean... on HP Is Now Two Companies. How Did It Get Here? (cio.com) · · Score: 2

    I have a hypothesis that goes for any president and "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" backs me up.

  2. Re: Basic income on Finland Begins To Shape Basic Income Proposal (yle.fi) · · Score: 1

    Do you also believe that the government shouldn't use force against counterfeiters?

  3. Re:Slavery? on When Does School Life Begin? Zuckerberg's New School To Admit Fetuses · · Score: 1

    A few people have essentially called me a slave, but they never come up with convincing reasons for me to escape my "slavery".

  4. You mention people who wait til the last moment to merge, but what about the people who don't give enough space to merge.

  5. Re:Eliminating traffic problems on New Algorithm Provides Huge Speedups For Optimization Problems (mit.edu) · · Score: 1

    Replace all intersections with roundabouts. Problem solved. No, not really, somebody will still find a way to mess things up.

  6. You sound like a person who might not have heard the notion that yellow means "clear the intersection" but even if you aren't, I'm posting this here on the off-chance it might help someone who encounters this later.

  7. Re: Try again, looks gold to me on Engineers Create the Blackest Material Yet (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    But are these cups purple or pink?https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=cup+purple+pink

  8. Many editors have a view whitespace option. This usually makes spaces render as dots and tabs as arrows pointing right.

  9. Susan Wojcicki on Google, Facebook, Microsoft Deliver K-12 CS Demands To Congress (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with Susan Wojcicki? Surely she can afford enough computing devices for everyone in her family. What a case of messed up priorities.

  10. Re: Remove casing from a Wallmart clock - get invi on 'Clock Kid' Ahmed Mohamed and His Family To Leave US, Move To Qatar · · Score: 1

    There was no mention of Muslims in that trickle of words.

  11. Re:"OK Google, install botnet software" on Radio Waves Can Be Used To Hijack Androids and iPhones Via Siri and Google Now · · Score: 1

    Omnidirectional isn't important. What's important is that the RF be pretty close to some multiple of the length of the headset cord.

  12. Re: Bad headline on Radio Waves Can Be Used To Hijack Androids and iPhones Via Siri and Google Now · · Score: 1

    Also, I did not attempt to determine nor indicate the source of the headline. just that it was bad.

  13. A good headline? easy. on Radio Waves Can Be Used To Hijack Androids and iPhones Via Siri and Google Now · · Score: 1

    RF pickup by wired headsets can be used to compromise smartphones.

    Mentioning the brands of phone and AI assistant is superfluous, as those specifics can easily be swapped out for other smartphones as long as they can download any sort of command AI. It's the pickup approach that's novel. Put "that accept voice commands" if you wish to elaborate further.

  14. Re: Bad headline on Radio Waves Can Be Used To Hijack Androids and iPhones Via Siri and Google Now · · Score: 1

    No, it's a bad headline because if fails to distinguish the attack mechanism from what I said.

  15. You know the stuff that makes a cell phone a cell phone and not, say a landline phone? Yeah, that stuff. It can be used to manipulate the phone.

  16. Re:What's for cows on Browser Tests Show Edge Fastest, But Weak On Standards (hothardware.com) · · Score: 0

    Given that the standards seem to result in browsers that don't handle increasing the font size very well, maybe it's standards that are for cows?

  17. I'm not sure about the extent of China's population density situation, but I keep hearing bits about India's population density being a problem.

  18. I guess Derick Zoolander was onto something when he talked about a school for ants.

    https://www.bing.com/search?q=...

  19. Re: A family of devices that can autostart an app on Ask Slashdot: Local Navigation Assistance For the Elderly? · · Score: 1

    The thing is, a person can have trouble integrating into long term memory the things that have recently happened to him but still learn new tasks without remembering the events that happened during that learning. That doesn't mean that's always the case, but it might be worth pursuing.

  20. Re: Font in every app on Ask Slashdot: Local Navigation Assistance For the Elderly? · · Score: 1

    The standards committees for possibly HTML 5, javascript, and CSS, have some bearing on the situation as well.

  21. Re: Font in every app on Ask Slashdot: Local Navigation Assistance For the Elderly? · · Score: 1

    I have to use a large font for things to view them comfortably and the browser makers seem to want to blame the sites for why the page gets rendered wrong at large font sizes. I suppose they think that overlapping text is a desirable outcome.

  22. Re: A family of devices that can autostart an app on Ask Slashdot: Local Navigation Assistance For the Elderly? · · Score: 1

    Memory can't really be simply broken down into short and long term memory. There's memory of events, memory of how to do certain tasks, memory of people and a few other distinctions.
    I have a memory problem where sometimes I forget what it was I set out to do for a little while, but if I wait and do nothing for a little while, it will come back to me.

  23. Sites that should be banned due to paywall on IBM Permits China To Review Source Code (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I would have flagged the submission "notthebest", but I can't comb /. 24/7.
    WSJ and the NYT makes it hard to see full stories and should be banned.

    Also, we should see more from sites like the Guardian and the Atlantic, the latter of which still has Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think" available.

    It appears that most all of the articles about this is linking to the WSJ article, but at least they are not the WSJ site. Here's a Reuters post.

  24. Neither all privatized, nor all public is really the best option for society. Consumer co-ops like credit unions have had pretty good records where they've been tried, but I doubt they're always the solution, either.

  25. Re: amazing mistakes on Windows 10 Upgrades Are Being Forced On Some Users (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You may think that no one has used it long enough to determine whether it is better or worse than what ran before, but it started out with no other multi tab program's tabs except the most recently used one showing except for Microsoft's own, and the first version I had installed was the typical home one and since then I set it up to download insider builds and it still isn't fixed, though I'm installing the latest build now, so that may have changed, but they didn't mention it on the blog, which if I remember correctly is a little light on what they fix, instead focusing on new features. This last build crashed whenever torrent tracking software was used including Microsoft's own variation for downloading updates from peers. I mentioned the thing about the tabs, but independent windows from the same application shows up alright. The last operating system to give me this much problems was Vista. There are problems I'm forgetting though. Oh yeah, Edge has many features missing that most browsers have, but they seem focused on giving it features that no other browser has which would work better if they worked on the missing features first. Oh, yeah, the volume control has been disappearing. And despite having closed lid set to do nothing, it still responds sluggishly when I open it back up. There's also some problem with Chrome not getting the position of the mouse right sometimes, most notably with the YouTube timeline, but all the other video controls work fine.