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  1. Re: Science, Agendas and Lies on Black Hole Picture Captured For First Time in Space 'Breakthrough' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Lilith didn't morph into Adam's wife until the late common era (700AD or so). In older works, she's a night hag, a generic witch creature.

  2. Re: The world continues to surprise me on Across the US, Popular Video Doorbells Are Recording their Own Thefts (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you ever been to court for a traffic ticket and had the judge dismiss the ticket? A question of fact is a dispute over what happened. The judge here isn't disputing what happened, he is saying, "even if everything the prosecution claims to be fact is actually true, here is what the rules of the law allows me to do." A related topic is summary judgement.

  3. Re: They old people were asleep on Scientists Reverse Memory Decline Using Electrical Pulses (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Strictly speaking, those are grammatical errors. I meant to type it that way.

  4. Re:Tip of my tongue on Scientists Reverse Memory Decline Using Electrical Pulses (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Hello, you seem to be asleep. Do you need a shock to the brain to wake you up? Strictly speaking, it's non-invasive!

  5. They old people were asleep on Scientists Reverse Memory Decline Using Electrical Pulses (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    The shocks just woke them up.

  6. Re: The world continues to surprise me on Across the US, Popular Video Doorbells Are Recording their Own Thefts (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Lol I find your comment silly, but mostly it's pretty clear you don't understand law.

  7. Re: The world continues to surprise me on Across the US, Popular Video Doorbells Are Recording their Own Thefts (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    A finding of fact is not the same as throwing out a case.

  8. Re: The world continues to surprise me on Across the US, Popular Video Doorbells Are Recording their Own Thefts (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Courts? Judges do not decide guilt, so you must be talking about juries

    Judges frequently throw cases out of court. They're not deciding guilt, they're saying, "this case is silly, go home."

    There is a whole world of legal action you are unaware of. You might want to read a book about law and peek into that world. Real law, not Perry Mason.

  9. I happen to know that the US military uses VB.NET, though frankly, the whole .NET community can burn for all I care. The Javascript community is crazy, but at least they don't glorify ignorance the way the .NET community does.

  10. Re:The world continues to surprise me on Across the US, Popular Video Doorbells Are Recording their Own Thefts (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 2

    In California, if they don't steal more than ~$1000 worth of stuff, the courts won't convict them. So the police have responded by not even arresting them.

  11. Re: SystemD? RTFM? You're using THAT Desktop?? on Why Aren't People Abandoning Windows For Linux? (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about?

  12. Translation on To Stop Copycats, Snapchat Shares Itself (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Translation: Snapchat is about to fail.

  13. Re:SystemD? RTFM? You're using THAT Desktop?? on Why Aren't People Abandoning Windows For Linux? (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    They don't want to use a program that has no manuals

    That's ridiculous. Most users don't want manuals, and Linux has far more complete documentation than they would ever want to deal with.

    That's why nothing comes with a manual anymore.

  14. Can't this just be done with Javascript? on Several Major Browsers to Prevent Disabling of Click-Tracking 'Hyperlink Auditing' (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    Can't you just encase the link in Javascript and get the clicked link that way? Or do webpages not do that very often?

  15. Re:Not 'free' on Why Aren't People Abandoning Windows For Linux? (slashgear.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    60% of educational laptops come with Linux installed by default. Not sure what the Chromebook market is overall, but yeah, you're not going to get many people installing an aftermarket OS on their laptop. What is the point?

  16. Meanwhile... on Chinese HR Firms Have Leaked Over 590 Million Resumes Via Open Databases (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Meanwhile, Linkedin is known to have exposed employment information for millions of employees around the world. You can see this cache of employment information today, by going to the Linked-in search page.

  17. Re:Better list? on The World's Leading Cause of Death? A Bad Diet (nbc12.com) · · Score: 1

    Fruit can be a good part of a varied diet (if in moderation, and WHOLE, not processed, and certainly not juice) but that wouldn't even make my "most important" list. Nor would sodium.

    If your assumptions contradict research, you should seriously reconsider your assumptions.

  18. Re:Seems questionable .... on The World's Leading Cause of Death? A Bad Diet (nbc12.com) · · Score: 2

    One of the first things I hear from dieticians trying to solve obesity problems is to curb one's intake of fruit juices

    There's a dramatic difference between fruit and fruit juice.

    I'm sure the fruits themselves are better for you than drinking fruit juice

    They aren't even comparable.

  19. Re:I don't think so... on The World's Leading Cause of Death? A Bad Diet (nbc12.com) · · Score: 1
    No! Read the article, there's this quote:

    "We found that improvement of diet could potentially prevent one in every five deaths globally."

    All you need to do is change your diet and your death will be prevented! If you're one of the lucky five, I guess.

    (Seriously, it's hard to trust the statistics ability of a researcher who is that fuzzy with their language.)

  20. Re:About my sig and freedom on Ask Slashdot: What Would Your TED Talk Be About? (ted.com) · · Score: 1

    Where does the {~5} come from?

  21. Re:Getting old sucks on Ask Slashdot: What Would Your TED Talk Be About? (ted.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Check out Triplebyte (or similar), they hide your age from potential companies.

    Some companies discriminate based on age, but some don't. And some value the experience that comes with age. The key is to find companies in the last two categories and ignore the first.

  22. Re:A couple of ideas on Ask Slashdot: What Would Your TED Talk Be About? (ted.com) · · Score: 1

    2. The telephone is dying, and how can we hasten it's death.

    If only someone could figure out a way to allow robocalling, then everyone would hate their phone.

  23. Re: Translation on Ban Fortnite, Says Prince Harry (gamespot.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seriously, spend more time with your kids, stop neglecting them, play Fortnite with them.

  24. I don't know who taught you about Models incompleteness theorems, but you should not listen to them anymore because they led you far astray.

  25. Re: Something missing in the head on Measles Cases Top Last Year's Total · · Score: 1

    No, I think my analysis is correct. I've spent a lot of time working with Bayes' theorem, so I understand the principle. I do make mistakes sometimes so I would appreciate if you double-checked my work.