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  1. Re:Easy to detect... on Uber Drivers In Lagos Are Using a Fake GPS App To Inflate Rider Fares (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Uber loses $0.20 cents for every $1 charged to customers.

    But they're making it up on volume.

  2. Re:The real message here is ... on Uber Drivers In Lagos Are Using a Fake GPS App To Inflate Rider Fares (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Uber has apparently failed to learn lessons that the rest of the industry has spent a century learning.

    That's because it's different, see. Uber's like got interwebs and an app and stuff!

  3. Re: Not every article need scrolling effects eithe on Not Every Article Needs a Picture (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    And someone interrupts or the phone rings and you miss the key bit you were interested in. And you go back but not far enough. So you go back some more but by too much. What do you do now - just keep watching? No that'll waste time. So you go forward, but it's too far. And so you go back ...

  4. BeauHD the H1-B on Uber Drivers In Lagos Are Using a Fake GPS App To Inflate Rider Fares (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    It's an uncountable noun. No plural. Lago.

  5. Or use something like ImageMagick to overlay the signature while you snooze or watch golf, or even both at the same time.

  6. Re:It's unfortunate truth about accessibility feat on Google To Kill a Bunch of Useful Android Apps That Rely On Accessibility Services (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    And, I'm diabetic, which is considered a disability, but I don't need any special technology for that.

    You don't need it yet. A common side effect is eye damage but you knew that, I hope.

    The point here is, there are many kinds of disability, and different people need different forms of assistance to work around them.

    And what's a necessity to the disabled can still be a great convenience for the able-bodied. Wheelchair ramps is great if you're carting a baby around.

  7. Re:What they're really doing... on Google To Kill a Bunch of Useful Android Apps That Rely On Accessibility Services (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    Android developers were using an API for purposes it was clearly never intended for.

    It makes me think, "If what it was doing was so useful to so many people, then why wasn't there an API that was intended for that purpose?"

    Then again, I have more intellectual curiosity than a slug.

  8. Re:Chrome & Safari are only browsers that matt on All Major Browsers Now Support WebAssembly (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Chrome is available on a smaller set of platforms. That's my excuse, anyway. But Chromium sucks anyway because it's not 100% compatible.

  9. It's a scam, a fad or both. on Bitcoin Gold, the Latest Bitcoin Fork, Explained (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a scam, a fad or both. Done. You can all get back to work now.

  10. Re:Microsoft hegemony on Munich Council: To Hell With Linux, We're Going Full Windows in 2020 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The Irish drink coffee and the English drink tea.

    Our survey said: "Eh-uhh!"

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  11. they're going full Windows? on Munich Council: To Hell With Linux, We're Going Full Windows in 2020 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Never go full Windows!

  12. Re:Social Democrats... on Munich Council: To Hell With Linux, We're Going Full Windows in 2020 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    So, are Social Democrats over there the same thing as what we could call "socialists"?

    They aren't further right than Ivan The Terrible.

    So that's a yes.

  13. Wurst joke Eva.

  14. Re:I am Asgardian on Asgardia Becomes the First Nation Deployed in Space (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the public are largely a bunch of fuckwits. With an indirect democracy at least there's an isolator - a circuit breaker if you like - that stops them burning the house down.

  15. Re:Alienware on Ask Slashdot: Which Laptop Has The Best Keyboard? · · Score: 2

    You can go mechanical in an Titan and drop 3k is you're only other open.

    If that's what you're using I don't want one.

  16. Re:water shortages are bullshit on Bill Gates Just Bought 25,000 Acres in the Arizona Desert (kgw.com) · · Score: 1

    It's to cold? What is it from?

  17. Re:ENERGY dependence? on Bill Gates Just Bought 25,000 Acres in the Arizona Desert (kgw.com) · · Score: 1

    Does your average New Yorker use 100 gallons of a petrol per day?

  18. Re:Is it time to Round Up the Muslims? on ESR Sees Three Viable Alternatives To C (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    If you lift the wheels off the ground, or interfere with their contact (say by putting oil or ice on top of the road) it tends not to move so well. So yes they are what converts rotation into propulsion. Stop lying.

  19. Re: Nothing is related to anything relevant on Your Visual Skills Are Not Correlated To Your IQ (vanderbilt.edu) · · Score: 1

    the "yellow" eyes know about boats too

    Since a regatta isn't a boat I don't see what your point is. You probably know what a horse is. I doubt you can even spell gymkhana.

    Not getting such a well known reference is rather like asking what ls does in a thread about Linux; it pretty much disqualifies you from the discussion.

    Hognxious indeed.

    Can't copy-paste properly indeed.

  20. Re: Nothing is related to anything relevant on Your Visual Skills Are Not Correlated To Your IQ (vanderbilt.edu) · · Score: 1

    You mean like how once Indians get into management they predominantly hire other Indians?

  21. Re: Nothing is related to anything relevant on Your Visual Skills Are Not Correlated To Your IQ (vanderbilt.edu) · · Score: 1

    Probably? If you think it's so then show us an actual example. A current one, not from before WW1.

  22. Re: Nothing is related to anything relevant on Your Visual Skills Are Not Correlated To Your IQ (vanderbilt.edu) · · Score: 1

    Performance at certain tasks that may or may not be biased towards one or more cultures, which require some degree of practice to reach full potential at?

    That doesn't sound like a general measure of human intelligence.

    By that logic the 100m sprint isn't a measure of who can run fastest.

    Cultural bias is a red herring, it's so old it stinks.

    And how do you explain the Flynn effect, which if you don't know

    I do. Patronising wanker.

    that IQ test scores have been rising by an average of 3 points per decade since the early 20th century.

    I doubt it's because people who did their first test in 1900 are now doing their 23,074th and by now have seen all the possible questions at least twice, and memorised them. let's see: better nutrition? Less pollution?

    That little fact also blows up the racial intelligence theory too.

    It says nothing about it one way or the other. Completely irrelevant.

  23. Re: Nothing is related to anything relevant on Your Visual Skills Are Not Correlated To Your IQ (vanderbilt.edu) · · Score: 1

    They aim to measure your actual intelligence level, and that's something that could be improved with practice and study.

    But by how much? Like any other kind of training, diminishing returns sets in. I could train an hour a week and run 5% faster. I could train two hours a week and maybe run 10% faster. If I train 100 hours a week I am totally not going to run faster than a cheetah with its arse on fire.

  24. Coming up later on WTF News on Your Visual Skills Are Not Correlated To Your IQ (vanderbilt.edu) · · Score: 1

    If you have perfect pitch hearing you might be good at tennis. But equally, you might be bad at it.

  25. Re: Nothing is related to anything relevant on Your Visual Skills Are Not Correlated To Your IQ (vanderbilt.edu) · · Score: 1

    even though white people aren't even the group with the highest average (Japan/Korea/China).

    This is what I find hilarious when SJWs start with this "IQ is racist" shit.

    White Guy1: Let's find some way to scientifically prove we're smarter than the bally darkies!

    White Guy2: Capital idea! How about a sort of quiz, with questions about regattas, cutlery and the like?

    WG1: Great! But just make sure that the slitty-eyed little yellow devils and the red sea pedestrians score higher than us!

    WG2: Why not!