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  1. Re:Oh, it's in the summary on DC Inauguration Protestors Are Being Hit With Facebook Data Searches (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    You picked a strange place to raise the issue of using "beg the question", AC.

  2. Re:Beg the question on DC Inauguration Protestors Are Being Hit With Facebook Data Searches (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not seeing a post that said beg the question. Is there some feature of Slashdot I am unaware of that is hiding it?

  3. What are his specific big issues?

  4. Re:Warranty Denied on Western Digital Unveils First-Ever 512Gb 64-Layer 3D NAND Chip (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, I don't know if the warranty is shorter than the industry norm, but my WD external drive that failed was replaced under warranty, and my laptop's internal WD drive got replaced under a non-Western Digital warranty. My laptop was purchased as a returned item from Best Buy.

  5. The answer before you start on Disney Thinks High Schools Should Let Kids Take Coding In Place of Foreign Languages · · Score: 1

    The answer before you start is going to be "I don't know". I must not have learned enough, not from lack of trying, but I have learning issues. The problem is that learning problems aren't identified and worked on. As I have aged, new problems have crept upon me and I have not been given adequate opportunity to resolve them to my best ability. This involves working with various doctors people with health issues do not get enough time with.

  6. Re:a job as a programmer on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Started With Programming? [2017 Edition] · · Score: 1

    All that means is that there is one programming job in Missouri.

  7. Lots of people use BASIC on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Started With Programming? [2017 Edition] · · Score: 1

    Lots of people use BASIC, just not VisualBASIC. Want the BASIC most compatible with most of the BASIC code out there? Go for QB64. There's also FreeBASIC, DarkBASIC, and many others.

  8. Re:Tools and toys on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Started With Programming? [2017 Edition] · · Score: 1

    All toys are tools. Not all tools are toys, but this may just be dependent more on the user than the tool. If you learn better with Community College go for it, but if money is an issue, you may want to go it alone.

  9. Re:Typing in programs from magazines on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Started With Programming? [2017 Edition] · · Score: 1

    https://archive.org/search.php...
    Download the PDFs here, and type the IBM PC listings into QB64. Most of them will work.
    http://www.qb64.net/forum/inde...

  10. Money is not the sole reason for doing anything. The pursuit of things that result in less socialization I find to be a problem. The myth that the lone wolf-person is the sole provider of culture and invention impairs development more than anything else.

  11. I took German for three high school years, and have spent oodles of time on my own learning Japanese, and while I like being able to better access material in those languages, I see no specific benefit from learning more language. That's right, all you are learning when you learn a foreign language is more language, essentially. You aren't learning some new function that your current grasp of language doesn't already provide you.

  12. Re:Why would they care? on Are Robots Coming To Take Investor Jobs on Wall Street? (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would they care? They already have the money to give the robots to make more money.

  13. Re:Real problems on Are Robots Coming To Take Investor Jobs on Wall Street? (nypost.com) · · Score: 2

    His solution may not be correct, but your response amounts to, "Problems, what problems? The system doesn't have any problems! Nothing to see here!"

  14. Re:Gary Johnson, Gary Johnson... on Anonymous Takes Down 10,613 Dark Web Portals (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 0

    Everything is Gary Johnson with you... There were other candidates that lost too, like, um a Green party candidate I can't be bothered to look up and I don't know whether the contrast between the effort put into making this joke and the sheer apathy involved in not looking up or remembering the candidate's name, Jill something? makes it funnier or lamer, and now I've gone completely meta, but then I like it when I go completely meta, and anyone who doesn't like it, tough. You can get over your bad self, or not. It's not like I care about that aspect of things. You be you. I'm here for the amusement of the joke. Thank you. Go to a place that has waiters and order something and tip them. Good night, Gracie.

  15. Re:You too? on Anonymous Takes Down 10,613 Dark Web Portals (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    The timing of our two posts is incredible, especially considering the time between when I first saw his comment and when the urge to make this sort of comment on it became irresistible.

  16. Re:For Science! on Anonymous Takes Down 10,613 Dark Web Portals (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    And of course you want to know this for Science!

  17. Re:Misidentification of "sexual" stimuli on Anonymous Takes Down 10,613 Dark Web Portals (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The problem is one of taxonomy. When certain impulses are usually triggered by sex, they are labeled sexual, no matter whether the fact remains that they can be triggered by other neurological pathways. A lot of the social arguments are ones of taxonomy. Whether or not someone is male or female, or the less appealing classification of neuter, or whether the bonding of two or more individuals should be classified under the term, "marriage". ]

  18. Re: Moles and trolls, work, work, work on Reporter Pans Open Source Laptop Kit TERES-I (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but many of us do not live for "work". Your dismissal of anything that is not work is shallow. There is plenty of action in the places you dismiss as the sidelines.

  19. Re:Failing to see the potential on Reporter Pans Open Source Laptop Kit TERES-I (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, great strides have been made in getting user interfaces usable to people who couldn't use earlier interfaces, but when it comes to imbuing interfaces with power, we have a long way to go. The computer doesn't keep track of much of anything I have done and not do stuff that makes stupid mistakes happen. I spend a lot of time in File Manager and its idea that it should put a check mark next to folders you return from, and uncheck everything when you are a little bit off the mark of checking a box has caused me untold grief. The file picker dialog boxes should have more of the features of the full-fledged File Manager as well. I don't know how many times I find an outdated file I want to delete when I download an update, but the process to do so is cumbersome. The file picker for no particular reason wants to replace the name of the file with the name of the selected file.

    For that matter, grouping of programs by tasks has a long way to go. Tabs are grouped by application. Windows should be application agnostic as to what tabs belong to them. Text is unselectable in many places and lack a context-menu in still others.

  20. Re:Making use of products you don't return on Reporter Pans Open Source Laptop Kit TERES-I (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I am poor, on disability and a bit of an idiot-savant. I would be interested in obtaining your unused technology. At the very least, I would learn a little bit. A bit of a reach, but if you don't ask, you don't get.

  21. Re: Its a KIT, not a product! on Reporter Pans Open Source Laptop Kit TERES-I (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    All toys are tools, but not all tools are toys. The purpose of a toy is whatever the user wants to do with it. This item is a toy.

  22. Re: Doesn't make it not recursion on Developer Argues For 'Forgotten Code Constructs' Like GOTO and Eval (techbeacon.com) · · Score: 1

    Using your own stack doesn't make it 'not recursion'.

  23. Internal company politics, probably.

  24. Re: Your own stack on Developer Argues For 'Forgotten Code Constructs' Like GOTO and Eval (techbeacon.com) · · Score: 1

    And what are you doing with that stack if still not recursion. You don't just magically make it 'not recursion' by implementing one element that you didn't even change the name of differently

  25. Recursion isn't what allocates the stack frames. Limited compiler translate the recrsive algorithm into code that allocates the stack frames. I'm not sure, but I suspect that there is plenty of room for compiler optimization compared to what they are doing now, but I am not certain that they are still doing as you say they are.