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  1. Re:Sounds like they need to break it out by gender on Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    No, I am not a premium member. You click on the number of votes below the score to get to it.

  2. Re:Remember where the responsibility is on A Third Of Cash Is Held By 5 US Tech Companies (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The responsibility it to the shareholder, no the government.

    Here I thought the responsibility of the tax code was to the voters.

  3. Re:Sounds like they need to break it out by gender on Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    They already do. You can also filter for age and other things.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt01...

  4. Re:Strong enough for a man, made for a woman on Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 2

    If you don't like those shows why not just communicate that to your partner? If she cares about you she won't force you to do things you hate doing, and will find something mutually enjoyable for "quality time". If she doesn't care and insists on torturing you, maybe it's time to reconsider your relationship.

    Sex in the city still rated around 6 among men, so they did like it, just not as much as women. Yet still the headline was that men sabotaged the votes.

  5. Re:"The G part stands for GNU?" on Oracle V. Google Being Decided By Clueless Judge and Jury (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    No. It's just math and Americans have been conditioned to be afraid of math. At most, something like GNU is just silly and nothing really to get terribly excited about.

    No at worst it is stupid (and it basically is, if you are naturally inclined to lazy evaluation). Image if the underpants businesplan in South Park had gone:

    1. Collect underpants
    2. Step two
    3. Profit

    And the joke being that step two is step two...

      That is not very funny. Or even that clever unless you already know what a recursion is and recognize it, for everyone else, it is just stupid.

  6. Because being vegan doesn't threaten your life, much less the lives of everyone around you?

    Yes it does. On average vegans lives much shorter lives than non-vegans, and this gets worse the earlier they start. Putting a small child on a vegan diet is already illegal as it is manslaughter. A child that is off milk can survive a vegan diet, but is extremely difficult to balance, and they have less reserves to make up for short-falls in essential vitamins and nutrients.

  7. So did that thing just accidentally pass the Turing test?

    IBM has Invested thousands of man-years into the technology -- no, this is no accident that Watson can pass the Turing test.

    It can't. The real turing test is a test by an expert, deliberately trying to determine if it is an AI or human.

  8. France becomes the first nation to declare it's only going to do business in one timezone.

    It is not after work if you are working.

    After work is when you are not doing business, and not getting paid.

  9. Re:AMD just crapped themselves on NVIDIA Unveils GeForce GTX 1080, GTX 1070, Faster Than Titan X For a Lot Less (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    My guess based on their chart (using the Titan X as a baseline) is that the 1080 is about 30% faster than a reference 980 Ti and 15-20% faster than any of the dozens of non-reference designs out there now priced around $600-$700. (There are dozens more non-reference 980 Ti models priced higher and higher than that, if you've got money to burn.)

    Anyone on a current generation card really should wait for the presumed 1080 Ti and AMD's Vega.

    Yep. Except if you need VR or other multi-viewport rendering which seems to be the real trick in this card. Otherwise it is "just" a 20% increment on 980ti one year later.

  10. Re:"Forgot" or "don't bother to remember"? on Scientists Reveal How We Can Forget On Purpose · · Score: 1

    To me, "deliberately forgetting" and "not bothering to remember" are two slightly different things.

    No that would seem to be the most efficient way of forgetting. If you don't forget things you are interested in, so the only way of forgetting is by deliberately not bothering to remember.

  11. Re:The Missing Post on Bitcoin 'Creator' Reneges On Promise To Provide More Proof, Says He's Sorry (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What is the scam?

    Scamming yourself to pay more tax and putting your life in danger?

  12. Wrong definition then on Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion (iflscience.com) · · Score: 1

    Subject is wrong: If you make a definition of something everybody knows what is, and based on that definition comes to the conclusion it doesn't exist. It means your definition is wrong. Free will means choice, it doesn't mean random or unpredictable.

    But on an another topic: The actual story. Yes we are often make up explaination after the fact, and by often I mean most of the time. The human brain is a parallel machine, most of it is just guessing what the rest is doing and usually after it has done it.

  13. Re:How about getting wireless cans working first? on Intel Wants To Eliminate The Headphone Jack And Replace It With USB-C (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you tried buying better products?

    I have two BT headsets, one has constant drop-outs, the other keeps working for minutes if I forget my phone in another room.

  14. Re: Rule of law on Anders Behring Breivik, Norway Murderer, Wins Human Rights Case · · Score: 1

    What?

    When I was in high school, the teacher tried to say that Christians didn't take Genesis as truth and only a story for centuries. I disagreed and at the time, my research said the biggest shift of literal vs fiction belief happened in the 1950's, a mere 50 years before. Even 15 years ago, the literal belief in Genesis was double digits.

    You should research harder. No major branch of Christianity has ever considered the bible to be the literal truth. Only some sects that were prosecuted for their heracy and later fled from Europe to the US did.

    Note for instance that one of the key points of the New Testament is that Jesus corrects the Old Testament, literally contradicts it. And then ofcourse there are the two contradicting genisis stories, and the two contradiction stories of Jesus birth. No one who has actually read the Bible could possible believe it was the literal truth.

  15. How does the author take a statement such as "Apple recycled $40 million worth of gold from phones last year" and basically end up with "that's not true because it wasn't $40 million in profits"?

    Not, he said it wasn't true because Apple didn't do it, and it wasn't gold and it wasn't worth $40 million dollars. In other words: Almost none of it was true.

  16. Re:Rule of law on Anders Behring Breivik, Norway Murderer, Wins Human Rights Case · · Score: 1

    dude most of the people around you can commit the same crime he did. they are just not motivated to or are afraid of getting caught.

    People in general are horrible evil animals. keep that in mind.

    No, psychopaths only make up 5% of the population. Though psychopaths themselves until they selfidentify think they make up 100%.. Maybe you should see a psychiatrist or just die?

  17. Re: Rule of law on Anders Behring Breivik, Norway Murderer, Wins Human Rights Case · · Score: 1

    And the vast majority of Christians I know would agree.

    Vast majority? No.

    http://www.gallup.com/poll/150...

    A majority of Christians still support the death penalty, although the number is falling. I applaud your convictions, though.

    Not in Europe, and European Christians wouldn't consider anyone reading the bible literally a true Christian, more a Muslim Christian if anything, because what separates Christians from Muslims is that they read their holy book literally.

  18. This is nasty shit left over from the US' nuclear bomb program, not civilian nuclear waste. It's completely different stuff; civilian nuclear plants don't produce this sort of waste.

    Because obviously military plutonium degrades to different elements than merely civilian plutonium. They even operate using completely different physics.

  19. Re:Proof? on Utah Governor: 'Porn Is a Public Health Crisis' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    since when does feminism require proof? to them only feelings matter...

    Sounds more like conservatism to me.

  20. >> The system is designed to pay authors out of a single pool of money based on how many pages of their books are actually read

    Seriously? I guess I'll have to start writing wordier and larger then.

    I have been told that is how American educational books are already paid. Which explains why they are always 10x longer and has smaller topics than equivalent local books.

  21. Re:a vital protein known as the 'Sonic hedgehog ge on Human Limbs Evolved From Shark Fins Thanks To Sonic Hedgehog Gene (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Funny

    FFS. Just no. NO.

    At least this discovery wasn't made aboard the research vessel Boaty McBoatFace.

  22. Aren't customers required to pay a subscription fee to be able to read the large collection of books in the first place?

    Yes, I think ignoring anyone reading more pages than they are paying for (based on what Amazon pays writers compared to what the reader pays Amazon). Or better yet, scale their weight in the pay structure, so Amazon never pays authors more per customer than the customer pays them. It would also mean serious large scale readers would get counted less but it should make it possible to prevent this fraud.

  23. Re:Nope... on EU Approves Strict New Privacy Rules · · Score: 1

    Except it wasn't.

    Not under "these rules", but under a putative "right to be forgotten".

    There wasn't any old rules. They NEVER EXISTED. All you have been told about the "old rules" are lies. They never existed!!!!

    What did exist was national laws, and a human right court decision that said national laws that put time limits on certain information also applied on the internet. Being on the internet does not raise you about existing laws, no matter how silly they may seem.

  24. Re:Download vs Indexing on Slashdot Asks: What's Your View On Speed Reading? · · Score: 1

    Speed reading is like downloading data but not indexing it. You get the general gist, but it is NOT the same as reading for comprehensive.

    The first is correct, the second isn't. Real speed-reading does give comprehension. The only thing it doesn't give is immersion.

    Of course if you increase if the speed-reading rate, you move into skimming territory and then you lose details and comprehension too.

  25. What's next, iTunes?

    Oh please, oh please, oh pleeeeease.....

    They are more aggresive with iTunes. Instead of just not updating it, they are updating it to make it worse. You are still supposed to get the hint though.