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  1. Re:So much to like on Ask Slashdot: What Is the 'Special Appeal' of Apple Products? · · Score: 1

    Apple ... opposite sex.

    I see what you did there.

  2. Re:Yes there is... on 'There's No Good Way To Kill a Bad Idea' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have a bad idea and sway the waverers first, you're much more likely to get it accepted.

    Ever worked in a company where who shouts first and loudest is assumed to be right? Fun, isn't it?

  3. Re: Yep, LOTS of possibilities on Taser Will Use Police Body Camera Videos 'To Anticipate Criminal Activity' (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Or arrest you for resisting arrest.

  4. Re:Coincidence? Probably not. on Trump is Launching a New Tech Group To 'Transform and Modernize' the US Govt (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    You didn't vote for Trump? Is he too left wing for you?

  5. Re:We need to build a yuge fire on Trump is Launching a New Tech Group To 'Transform and Modernize' the US Govt (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Very long, thin garrisons.

    https://s-media-cache-ak0.pini...

    If you get a bad room it's a hell of a walk to the toilet.

  6. Can it tell which ones are feeling horny? Just asking.

  7. Re:thereÃ(TM)s simply no foolproof way to kil on 'There's No Good Way To Kill a Bad Idea' (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    ... use fewer symbols.

  8. Re:Humans only intelligent individually not in gro on 'There's No Good Way To Kill a Bad Idea' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    In groups the group intelligence defaults to the lowest of the members.

    That's optimistic. I'd add "divided by the number of members".

  9. Re:Don't think so on 'There's No Good Way To Kill a Bad Idea' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not how I interpret it. From TFA:

    If one person convinces a second, says Blackford, then a third person will be far more likely to agree with the majority view.

    The third person is outnumbered 2:1, the fourth 3:1 and so on.

    If it was a chain reaction of individuals going off evangelising the "victim" wouldn't even be aware that there was a majority view.

  10. Re:thereÃ(TM)s simply no foolproof way to kil on 'There's No Good Way To Kill a Bad Idea' (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    Wouldn't that make us all dizzy?

  11. Re:thereÃ(TM)s simply no foolproof way to kil on 'There's No Good Way To Kill a Bad Idea' (qz.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I would agree that languages using 7,000+ symbols are a bad idea

    There you go. Either use some transliteration system or learn a proper language.

    but ideograms might have some advantage (which I cannot see right now).

    Me neither. If you want pictures (for people who can't read, perhaps) there's png.

    Ovid didn't need unicode, and neither did Shakespeare.

  12. Re:Appald Trump wants apps that app other apps! on Trump is Launching a New Tech Group To 'Transform and Modernize' the US Govt (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    On Soviet Russia, rug sits on YOU!

  13. Perl is about as expressive as Helen Keller.

  14. Re:Idea on 'There's No Good Way To Kill a Bad Idea' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Eh? You can have (or not have) separate partitions for /, /boot, /root and even /toot with or without systemd, though no doubt he's working on it.

  15. Re:TLDR version on 'There's No Good Way To Kill a Bad Idea' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    The Springfield Monorail?

  16. Re:Examples of Bad Ideas on 'There's No Good Way To Kill a Bad Idea' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Replacing a perfectly good system for starting programs with something that does that and 97 other things (none of them properly).
    Cheese.
    Replacing something that can efficiently display anything worth reading with something that takes up 17 times as much disk space and memory. Because Klingon and emojis.

  17. Re:Maybe, Just Maybe... on 'There's No Good Way To Kill a Bad Idea' (qz.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This whole exercise presumes that he is the one in possession of the Truth and that all others are idiots.

    It doesn't. Not at all.

  18. As always, Yogi Berra has it covered on 'There's No Good Way To Kill a Bad Idea' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    âoeA lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.â
    C. H. Spurgeon

  19. Idea on 'There's No Good Way To Kill a Bad Idea' (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    We should make systemd produce logs in XML encoded with UTF-128!

  20. Don't think so on 'There's No Good Way To Kill a Bad Idea' (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    This effect exponentially increases with each person who agrees with the others.

    Y = 1/(X-1) doesn't look like an exponential to me.

  21. thereÃ(TM)s simply no foolproof way to kill a on 'There's No Good Way To Kill a Bad Idea' (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    thereÃ(TM)s simply no foolproof way to kill a terrible idea.

    Like, for example, unicode?

  22. I doubt it would work with memory mapped I/O. You need to set/read data at a specific address. The high level language is going to shove stuff wherever it likes.

    If modern systems don't use memory mapped I/O then didn't shoot me. It was 30 years ago that i last meddled with a device driver (in 8086 assembly - beurk!).

    Having said that you can do anything in a language like Sinclair Basic because it has PEEK and POKE, though some might say that's cheating.

  23. Clearly there's been a paradigm leap or a quantum shift and you missed it because you're a square old daddy-o. Something like that.

    I haven't read it in ages but I thought Scientific American was supposed to be OK. This is the kind of plop you expect from Betawireverge.

  24. Re:Guess they advocate Basic Income then? on VC Founder Predicts AI Will Take 50% Of All Human Jobs Within 10 Years (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    One, Ford paid his workers well by the standards of the day.

    Two, the Model T wasn't the first car.

    Three, what was revolutionary about the Model T was precisely its low price.

  25. Re:Like they do in most of the rest of the world on VC Founder Predicts AI Will Take 50% Of All Human Jobs Within 10 Years (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    How did you arrive at that figure?