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  1. Re: #1 thing they need to do on Chinese President Vows To Boost Intellectual Property Protection (afr.com) · · Score: 1

    Intellectual property was not protected anywhere in the world 100 years ago

    The oldest known trademark was Bass Brewery, in 1876. Copyright in England started in the reign of Queen Anne, in 1710. And (I admit I had to look this one up) the first patent was granted in 1449.

  2. Fuck everything on Samsung Will Put Notches On Its Future Phones (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    We're doing five notches!

  3. Re: A thought experiment, Postulate C) on Facebook's GraphQL Gets Its Own Open-Source Foundation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I think his host file app is supposed to fill them in.

  4. Re:"Where's the ON button?" on Ask Slashdot: Do Older IT Workers Doing End-User Support Find It Gets Harder With Age? · · Score: 1

    The hard bit is reading #EEEEFF text on a #F9F9F9 background.

  5. Re:sounds like the voice of reason on Three European Countries Block Tax On Tech Giants (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    By raising taxing the most successful companies, you effectively force them to go elsewhere.

    Let me get this right ... before they were making X and now they'll be making 0.97 X. But they'd rather have 0 X?

  6. the war in Vietnames starting with the French involvement was very much a civil war quite similar to the one in Korea. Communists in the north vs a democratic republic in the south, with Russia and China supporting their commie brothers while France (and, later, America) tried to prop up the democraric south.

    The French were in Vietnam before Marx was even born. They did not go in to prop up any form of democratic government; they were already there running the place through a puppet monarchy.

    Do you think history only began in 1955?

  7. Re:Reality Check on Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    I suspect that if the scribe has skills and training sufficient to literally know an arse from an elbow they'll be expensive.

    Will it be one scribe per doctor, or one between three? What if two docs want one at the same time?

  8. Re:EHRs are terrible on Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    It's funny how Australia, Britain, France and pretty much all other developed countries manage to have government run healthcare and do it considerably more efficiently than your system.

    I'm surprised you can type while you're rocking backwards and forwards frothing like that.

  9. for (int i = 2020 ; ; i += 4 ) { trump(i); } on Did You Vote? Now Your Friends May Know (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Whom Americans vote for is private for now.

    FTFY

  10. Re:There'a a very simple reason for the trend... on Childhood Obesity Linked To Air Pollution From Vehicles (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    nope, historically people did NOT eat a high carb diet, look it up. agriculture with grains are a recent thing.

    Agriculture with grains has been there for all of history.

  11. Not for long on Childhood Obesity Linked To Air Pollution From Vehicles (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Nitrogen dioxide pollution is at illegal levels in most urban areas in the UK

    Not for long, thanks to that lovely Mr Farage. He's always so nicely turned out, isn't he?

    We'll breathe whatever we want! Hydrogen chloride, benzene, ozone. That'll stick it to the barmy bureau belgocrats!

  12. Maybe it was enough to finish off the really fat bastards who were already out of breath?

  13. My first wish is for you to get back in that bottle. My second is for you to stay there.

    Doesn't matter what the third one is - it's as likely to come true as the others.

  14. Re: data science on Is Data Science For All the New Computer Science For All? (berkeley.edu) · · Score: 1

    The general rule is that any subject with 'science' in its name will not have much science in it, computer science is an exception

    I used to take some courses in the CS department. Never once saw a single test tube, microscope or Bunsen burner.

  15. Re:If it's a trendy major it's already too late on Is Data Science For All the New Computer Science For All? (berkeley.edu) · · Score: 1

    Is that mathematical exponentially or journalistic exponentially?

  16. You seem to be confused about who is suffering the discomfort.

  17. Coffee + milk = coffee. Ice cream + toppings = ice cream.

    So is gin and tonic gin? Or is it tonic? Is it which named first that counts, or the one present in the greatest quantity?

  18. Physics are getting infected, too.

    With what, the incorrect plural virus?

  19. Do they have criemer too?

  20. That is an arbitrary definition of noon.

    He wrote solar noon. It's the exact and only definition of that.

  21. which as far as I can see with my remaining eye is worth every damn penny.

    FTFY

    Anyone else surprised it isn't Musk selling these?

  22. If it's a trendy major it's already too late on Is Data Science For All the New Computer Science For All? (berkeley.edu) · · Score: 2

    Four years from now the alumni of these courses will be able to take data about the number of college courses, the number of graduates emerging therefrom, the number of jobs available and the salaries offered and spot some really interesting patterns.

    Because one thing's for sure - they'll have the time.

  23. Re:Not entirely on English Has the Scientific Edge -- For Now (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Which language hasn't changed for centuries and still is useful today?

    Is that a necessary condition for something to be a language?

    By your "logic" if I sit down with the kids tomorrow and we invent a new language then it's not a language.

  24. Re:SERENITY NOW! on How New, Polite Linus Torvalds Points Out Bad Kernel Code (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    linux is still a jerk, with less curse words but still a jerk.

    You've got me convinced. So convinced in fact that I'm going to switch to the OS you wrote immediately.

  25. Re:And yet.... on English Has the Scientific Edge -- For Now (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    the overwhelming majority of the native English speakers

    Eat shit, then. After all flies overwhelmingly outnumber humans or any other mammal.