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  1. Re:Screen-minimalist parent on 'Beware Silicon Valley's Gifts To Our Schools' (nationalreview.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree with you except for one thing, just because you did it when you were young doesn't mean it will work now.
    Culture is different.
    Other than that you know your kids more than I so it might be a good idea.
    I was also brought up in the '90s and it seems weird that phones are everywhere.
    I even have a "dumb" phone only used for actual calls.

  2. Re:I even read TFA on Should Parents Shun Toys That Track Their Kids? (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    So you don't mind that a company is disrupting the privacy of your child?
    That they could sell the info to Facebook?
    Or did I read that wrong?

    The outcome is loss of privacy.
    In my case, it is not worth anything in particular, just "I want it."
    It has no monetary value or no security value.

  3. not interested broken on How YouTube's Algorithm Really Works (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is as good a place as any.
    For the last month or so when I clicked the "not interested" box the row collapsed but when I closed then re-opened YT it was there again.
    I don't like seeing the "live gaming" and other things but they keep coming back.

  4. Re:"lost patient revenues" on Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not just HC but all businesses in general.
    A company doesn't make money, it's lost revenue and the fault of the non-customer, not the company.
    Also it may be off-topic normally but just today, in America, it's election day so it is on-topic.

  5. P.S. I put swat in quotes because the games isn't sending a swat, the police are.
    How come the "swatter" isn't charged only for filing a false report?
    The police shouldn't just take any report, anon or not, and assume it is real.
    The police shouldn't SWAT unless it is needed.
    Using the lives are at stake answer doesn't help because the police don't know that, they assume that.
    The weird part is that the gamers can ruin 2 lives, the person killed by the police and the cop who killed him - through remorse.
    He may not even be caught.

  6. Oh joy, another cable channel.
    There are almost more streaming sites than actual channels on my TV.
    And it would cost like 10 times as much to get all of them.
    Well maybe only a few times for the same amount of content.

  7. Re:This not about security, because it does not he on Chrome 70's Upcoming Security Change Will Break Hundreds of Sites (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I did several searches on Google and couldn't find anything.
    What are good terms to use?

    As for a real answer, the burden of proof lies on the accuser, not just, "I'm right, you prove it."
    That wouldn't go to well in a court.
    You're the one who seems lazy.
    Ad hominem attacks don't help, I only used the lazy word because you did.

    P.S. I wasn't reading the comments too carefully and may agree with you , I just noticed your way of saying it.
    It's actually possible I was wrong but even if I am your comment still seems off.

  8. So what do they do in North Korea or China?
    The same thing?
    Besides NZ being 20k miles away by plane as a reason to to visit, I don't have anything on my non-smart phone but I still wouldn't go.
    Yes America can do this too but at least I can stay in the country and not have to deal with customs.

  9. Re:Not the first time this has been done on Y Combinator Plans To Start Doling Out $60 Million Next Year to Study Universal Basic Income (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    What counts as a "good" way to spend money?
    Yes there will always be people who, in someone's opinion, spend it on possibly useless things.
    That doesn't mean it doesn't work.

  10. First, I disagree with you and that you shouldn't have a right to say it.
    Well you should have a right I just noticed your sig, which I agree with.
    Second, you sound like the person who is hoping for a TV related story just so you can say, "I don't watch TV."
    I do agree with your comment about shows I like being canceled, d'oh.

  11. I'm going to get flamed but I didn't like the movie too much.
    Or rather it was filled with "space", both literally and figuratively.
    I know some people like just watching a guy jog around a circular station for 10 minutes but I find it annoying.
    That seems to be true for all Kubric's movies in my opinion.
    They are overlong and underplot.

    Do artists in general think that there is only one idea and I have to be psychic to get what they are thinking or I can make up my own mind?
    How does Kubric deal with that conundrum?

  12. I do agree but I only posted because no one ever mentions Rochester,NY.
    It's always Buffalo and Syracuse.
    As you guessed I live in greater Rochester.

    P.S. Isn't the 'dw' pair odd? How many words pronounce that like in 'dwelling'

  13. I just went to BitChute but most of the stuff seemed like news as opposed to original.
    For some people news might be good or for BitChute to break into mainstream but I don't like it as much.
    How do I see original stuff?
    I personally like stuff like math and science.
    Do I have to make an account?

  14. Re:You can make synthetic diamonds more like the r on De Beers To Sell Diamonds Made In a Lab (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    P.S. I read your other sig, it isn't hilarious at all. hehe

    Can someone mod you up multiple times.
    I would but I can't mod anymore.
    Your comment is completely true, more so.

  15. Re:Freedom to Suffer [Re:That only applies if the on Supreme Court Upholds Workplace Arbitration Contracts Barring Class Actions (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Can I double-friend you?
    You make many insightful points that can't be argued against.
    Or at least aren't argued against.
    Oddly enough I agree with them.

  16. You may have beefcoins but you now have to worry about a chort attacking you.
    FYI that is a Witcher 3 reference.

  17. Re:typical deflection and redirection on FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Criticizes Companies That Oppose His Efforts To Repeal Net Neutrality Rules (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    I'm not disagreeing but that would mean journalists for newspapers, what are they, and even TV news would count as contractors.
    They actually would just read stories from paper.

  18. differentiation on Human Mini-Brains Growing Inside Rat Bodies Are Starting To Integrate (inverse.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Any brain can integrate; wake me up when they can find derivatives.

  19. which linux distro on Ask Slashdot: Whatever Happened To the 'Year of Linux on Desktop'? · · Score: 1

    If I install Windows there is one version of it, Win 10; same with Apple. If I install Linux which distro, or even non-gnu. Until all the Linuxers come together and agree, "I think this distro is horrible but one Linux on a desktop is better than a good Linux" it won't happen.
    Similar things need to happen with stuff like Vi vs Emacs.
    There's too much infighting.
    Controls need to be changed to match Windows or Apple.
    As does appearence. Of course it can still be changable.
    Being open/free might actually make it harder to be desktopable.

  20. Re:My attention span for ADVERTISING.... on Millennials Only Have a 5 To 6 Second Attention Span For Ads (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Just for interesting's sake are you related to the Munchkin guy?
    Regardless, you have a great last name (mine is Jackson too).

    I "almost" agree with you.
    I have a span of 0.1 seconds; I have to know an ad first.
    Well exactly 5 seconds on Youtube.
    "Rushes to click ignore ad."

    Is WIX the "you need a website" company?
    I especially ignore what I call clickbait ads.
    I don't need a website; using WIX or anything else.

  21. Re:Everyone knows this is bunk. on Forced Arbitration Isn't 'Forced' Because No One Has To Buy Service, Says AT&T (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    First, I don't disagree.
    The problem is that no one is going to be the first person to use the "fourth option".
    Their, which includes mine, life is just good enough.
    If "Breads and Circuses" worked for Rome then it's good enough for me. :D
    Unfortunately people have families to take care of to put their John Hancocks, in the original sense, anywhere.

    Did any of the signers of the Doi have children who disowned their fathers because of that but the parents/signers said liberty is better than family?

  22. Re:What? on Who's Liable For Decisions AI and Robotics Make? (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    You sir get my imaginary mod point.

  23. Re:Hexadecimal on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Things That Every Hacker Once Knew? (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    And on 2014, Thanksgiving(USA), Nov 27
    2025 As well.
    Thst's only every 7 years on average.

  24. I was almost going to foe you because of your post but then, whenever I might block someone, I look at their journals and other posts.
    The first journal, 10 - decade - years ago was about Apple fanbois buying anything with the apple logo.
    So I decided not to.
    As you can tell I am anti-apple.

  25. Re:Blatant evidence-oriented bias! on The US Government is Finally Telling People that Homeopathy is a Sham (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Offtopic:
    "Evidence, shmevidence"
    You can't go wrong with shma-reduplication!

    Since this is to you, what is a "cajun riot"?
    When spices run out in New Orleans? :D