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  1. Re:Cheaper Paid Email on 890 College Students Sue Google Over Email Scanning (santacruzsentinel.com) · · Score: 1

    WoT;dr

  2. Re:No grounds: no consideration on 890 College Students Sue Google Over Email Scanning (santacruzsentinel.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't sue someone for breach of contract who gave you something for free. There's no "consideration".

    FTFY.

    Over a tort, that wouldn't apply.

  3. If they didn't want people to do it, perhaps they should have written the rules better?

  4. no juries on civil cases (except slander/libel).

    And fraud and false imprisonment.

  5. Re:"that you never knew existed" on Microsoft Kills Its Game-Building Platform Spark (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Not quite right. Google would completely bugger up the UI, cause it to display content in foreign languages and then kill it.

  6. Re:I like how they survey a very small subset... on Privacy Fears Deterring Almost Half of American Households From Online Shopping (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    I don't see what you're getting at. A sample is just that, a sample. If you want the exact number, you have to do the whole lot.

  7. Re:I like how they survey a very small subset... on Privacy Fears Deterring Almost Half of American Households From Online Shopping (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What's that got to do with you being a mathematical ignoramus?

  8. Re:Western liberal democracy? on Hidden FBI Microphones Exposed In California (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    I suspect that plenty of people, if you told them that, would be like "Yay, we sure stuck it to them thar krauts! Number one!".

  9. Re: "Protecting us from real estate investors" on Hidden FBI Microphones Exposed In California (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 2

    And then you're supposed to pull capital out of your ass.

    Right, because the only possible way of raising it is by correctly choosing your parents.

    I mean imagine, back in the the late middle ages, a townload of merchants clubbing together to hire a ship to bring spices & silk & stuff from foreign lands and then dividing up the profit. Unthinkable!

  10. Re:Dear Microsoft on Microsoft Auto-Scheduling Windows 10 Updates (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    You sell at a loss and make it up on volume. Were you asleep all through the 90s?

  11. Re:Same thing as democracy on Oracle V. Google Being Decided By Clueless Judge and Jury (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. If you aren't running a restaurant, there's a lot of laws to do with food hygiene that you don't need to bother with. Likewise for pretty much any trade or profession.

    This "there are too many laws for everybody to know" meme is talk-radio twaddle.

  12. Re:Don't want HBO? Buy discs. on The Pirate Bay Now Blocked In Chrome, Firefox, And Safari (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I watched something called Hollow Crown on BBC last night. It's a straight rip-off of GoT, but without the magic. Lame.

  13. Re:Got a call from Microsoft recently on Privacy Fears Deterring Almost Half of American Households From Online Shopping (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I got a call from them not long after XP expired when there were precisely zero windows machines in the house.

    I'm pretty impressed that they're willing to help Linux users.

  14. Re:I like how they survey a very small subset... on Privacy Fears Deterring Almost Half of American Households From Online Shopping (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    He talked about biased samples. Learn to read.

    Also, if it's a 95% confidence interval it doesn't have a"a good chance" of being wrong. It has a 5% chance of being wrong, which for many purposes is acceptable.

  15. Re:I like how they survey a very small subset... on Privacy Fears Deterring Almost Half of American Households From Online Shopping (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    A binary variable (as opposed to, say, weight) doesn't really have a distribution.

  16. Re:1870s to 1970s on Ask Slashdot: What Was The Greatest Era Of Innovation? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless he grows up to be a hipster (in which case I'll disown him) he's pretty unlikely to ever hear a vinyl record, let alone own one.

    It's more about obsolescence than ignorance. Would you have recognised an Edison cylinder at that age?

  17. Re: Oh my god on Oracle V. Google Being Decided By Clueless Judge and Jury (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the restaurant menu sucks too. I would have gone for paper forms. They have different items depending on their purpose, each is laid out in a specific way so that the recipient can easily understand them rather than being free format etc.

    At least some of the jurors would remember filling out a purchase requisition or leave request, or a deposit slip at the bank.

    Failing that, something about plumbing. But definitely not dump trucks.

  18. Re: Oh my god on Oracle V. Google Being Decided By Clueless Judge and Jury (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I saw someone wearing a tee shirt that said :"I APIs".

    You should get one with "I an emoticon".

  19. Re: Never moving to El Capitan on Mac Users Reporting Widespread System Freezes With OS X El Capitan 10.11.4 Update (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    And it's usually a standard screw, not some heptalobal abomination.

  20. Re:Federal Law, Local Court ?!? on Judge Rodney Gilstrap Sees A Quarter Of The Nation's Patent Cases (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm going to assume you're a fat cunt.

  21. Plus you can be very well informed about X and know less than zero about Y.

    You might not have even heard of Z.

  22. Pay attention, here comes the science on Ontario Parents Refusing To Vaccinate Their Children Could Be Forced to Take Science Class (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    No, because if most other people are vaccinated they're extremely unlikely to encounter an active carrier, and even less likely to pass it on to another vulnerable person.

    It's called herd immunity.

  23. Re:WTF is open source hardware? on Brazilian Devs Launch Tiny $1 STEM-Oriented Microcontroller Board On Indiegogo (hackerboards.com) · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't. It means that between the engineer and customer, marketing got involved.

  24. Re:SAP is not the problem here on Attackers Targeting Critical SAP Flaw Since 2013 (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The idea of a upgrade or even a patch scares the crap out of them because if it fails, the business can stall waiting for it to be fixed.

    If they apply patches straight into production they don't deserve to be in business.

  25. Re: SAP? on Attackers Targeting Critical SAP Flaw Since 2013 (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    ABAP is effectively COBOL.

    If you write it badly it is.