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  1. Re: A problem with an easy solution on Uber Driver Kills His Passenger (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    A couple months ago I took a cab in the US. It gave me that old, but common feeling in cabs that the driver is taking the long way so he can charge you extra.

  2. Re:I'm a bit of an Emacs fan. on Emacs 26.1 Released With New Features (lwn.net) · · Score: 2, Informative

    not learn all the commands to do things that are just a mouse click on other development environments.

    This is a troll, but in case anyone else is wondering, all the basic commands are available in a regular menu in modern emacs. You can learn the basic hot keys as you go, just like any environment. And if you want to, you can learn the more advanced commands. But you don't have to.

  3. Re:inetd on Emacs 26.1 Released With New Features (lwn.net) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Now, with the socket based activation and handoff, you can implement the service in emacs.

    I like emacs, I used it today. I just don't trust to be that secure as a server for the world. It wasn't the design spec.

  4. inetd on Emacs 26.1 Released With New Features (lwn.net) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Once upon a time, there was a service called inet.d. With inetd it was super easy to write internet activated programs, with almost no extra effort. Service after service got added to inetd, because it was so easy.

    Then one day, someone realized that inetd was a security risk. Not that it was inherently insecure, but that it was in fact harder than you would expect to write an inetd service that was secure, so there were a lot of security holes. As the knowledge of this spread, service after service got removed from inetd, and now on most Unix systems, it's not running at all.

    There's a George Santayana quote in here somewhere. But what is it?

  5. Re:The ***ABSURDITY*** of claiming to be atheist on Is Pluto Actually a Mash-Up of a Billion Comets? (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey, for that, who's your travel agent? What website do you use?

  6. Re:Dwarf planet on Is Pluto Actually a Mash-Up of a Billion Comets? (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Why is it called Pluto anyway? Who names a planet after a cartoon dog?

    To get revenge on the *elite* astronomers I'm going to change its name and unofficially call the the Planet Spongebob.

  7. Re: They have no idea how Pluto formed on Is Pluto Actually a Mash-Up of a Billion Comets? (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Ok, so why do qyou believe in God then? It seems reasonable that Pluto was formed by some kind of natural process, even if we can't figure it out yet. After all, we've figured out many natural processes that were mysteries before.

  8. Re:Dwarf planet on Is Pluto Actually a Mash-Up of a Billion Comets? (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    I think most Americans have forgotten the political aspects of Pluto, but I kind of wonder if European astronomers have not, and were annoyed at the political process from nearly a hundred years ago. To enhance your point:

    As long as we're making up definitions, we could easily say, "Planets are a body of certain size orbiting a star.......and as a special case, Pluto." Definitions being entirely arbitrary, such a definition would help remind future generations that definitions in fact are.......entirely arbitrary. Of course we can define things in ways that are useful to us, but there are two types of people in the world: those who divide everything into two groups and those who don't.

  9. Re:The ***ABSURDITY*** of claiming to be atheist on Is Pluto Actually a Mash-Up of a Billion Comets? (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    You proved the existence of God in a single Slashdot post! Why didn't we ever think of this??? Somehow you are greater than Socrates, Descartes, Hegel, and LeBron combined! I bow to your intellect.

    Now can you give me a pony?

  10. Re:Dwarf planet on Is Pluto Actually a Mash-Up of a Billion Comets? (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Call it a Giant Comet, this is more fun.

    I see. Like this?
    "In 2006, Pluto, the giant dwarf comet planet, entered the Milky Way portion of the sky. This caused much consternation among lactose advocates."

  11. Dwarf planet on Is Pluto Actually a Mash-Up of a Billion Comets? (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    You might as well just call it a planet. Because why not?

  12. Re:52-dimensional chess on Trump Orders a Lifeline For Struggling Coal and Nuclear Plants (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Scott Adams, whom I haven't followed for a long time, deserves credit on his own for predicting Trump successes.

    I want to point out that he also predicted Trumps failure. However he didn't fall for political derangement syndrome, which put him ahead of the pundits.

  13. Re: Yawn. on Apple May Introduce a Triple-Camera iPhone This Year (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple is obsessed with AR. Having two cameras on the back will give depth perception, making AR easier.

  14. Re: No matter how good AI .... on Apple May Introduce a Triple-Camera iPhone This Year (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    The AI is for post processing. For example, the latest phoje from Google has one of the top phones right now, but a lot of that is just being really good at setting white balance and brightness.

  15. Re: Youtube started hiding Secular Talk videos fro on YouTube's Top Creators Are Burning Out and Breaking Down En Masse (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    I think youtubes search functionality just sucks, which is ironic. I have trouble finding videos, even when I know the creator. Search engine can't search.

  16. Re:They are on Intel Wants PCs To Be More Than Just 'Personal Computers' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    ok, so Intel is a small part of that.....just in a way that their customers wish they weren't.

  17. PCs are more than just 'Personal Computers.' They are phones and all kinds of devices....it's just that Intel isn't part of that.

  18. To extend your comment......

    Think of the children. Peaceful robots doing daycare. In fields of flowers on sunny days. Blue skies. Won't you think of the children?

  19. Re: Any version of 10 is a dead end for enterprise on Windows 10 Pro Is a Dead End For the Enterprise, Gartner Says (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Turn them off. Hint: Google store and app suggestion settings.

    Oh I did. I reformatted the disk.

  20. Re:There are real issues [Re:Heil Hillary as manda on Google Listed 'Nazism' as the Ideology of the California Republican Party (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup. Get rid of Mexicans. They're rapists, according to Trump. That was the basis of his first campaign speech

    The only way you could think that is if you misunderstood what he said. Political derangement syndrome.

  21. Not Thailand? Or Vietnam? Or Indonesia? There are so many possibilities.

  22. Re:There are real issues [Re:Heil Hillary as manda on Google Listed 'Nazism' as the Ideology of the California Republican Party (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    He wants to round up ethnic minorities and get rid of them. That's what you think he said, eh?

  23. Re: You know, just once on Ticketfly Temporarily Shuts Down To Investigate 'Cyber Incident' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    They most likely don't have anyone on their team who knows how to write secure software, and probably couldn't hire someone even if they wanted to. "Write secure software" is probably the rarest software skill there is. There aren't many people like DJB, although there are a few.

  24. Re: Monkey see, monkey do on DeepMind Used YouTube Videos To Train Game-Beating Atari Bot (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Apparently it needs to be reprogrammed if a new level is added to the same game.

  25. Re: Xi Jining is all about centeralized control on Chinese President Xi Jinping Calls Blockchain a 'Breakthrough' Technology (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The only use of block chain is to decentralize it. If it is centralized, then it's better in every way to just use a database.