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  1. Re:As long as people enjoy exchanging things on Can Star Trek's World With No Money Work In Real life? (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    If you use electronic payment to obtain physical goods, you are effectively exchanging information for something physical.

    No you aren't. The information itself is of no use to the vendor. Indeed, in some POS systems the vendor never even sees it - it's handled by an external processor.

    It's simply the old notes and coins scorekeeping system, but automated.

  2. Re:Yes on Can Star Trek's World With No Money Work In Real life? (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Please notice that lack of money doesn't mean lack of rules to access the resources, so if you abuse, you will still be punished.

    Those rules would be based on some criteria. Call them "critpoints" or "resalls", it's just money in a different form.

  3. Re:Scammers on The World of Luxury Bomb Shelters (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd go for bracelets. That way you can give them a warning shot and they can still keep working with the other one.

    I know, I'm a big softie.

  4. Re:Scammers on The World of Luxury Bomb Shelters (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Getting a job as the receptionist at an asshole ark is preparation.

  5. Re:Double every 4 years and it will take less than on Will You Ever Be Able To Upload Your Brain? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    you have made a very common error regarding the speed of change in exponential processes.

    I doubt he has, actually. But in any case your argument is circular by the very definition of an exponential function.

    And that is without anything radically new being discovered in that time period, so 20 to 30 years is actually possible.

    Right, because past performance is always an indicator of the future.

    https://xkcd.com/605/

  6. Re:Big Sister is watching on There Is No .bro In Brotli: Google/Mozilla Engineers Nix File Type As Offensive · · Score: 1

    From the linked article:

    women who actually take classes in computer science donâ(TM)t hold the same prejudices as women who get their ideas from pop culture

    So people who actually know about something know more about it than people who don't? Amazing!

  7. Frosty on Hundreds of Southwest Flights Delayed By Online Booking Problems · · Score: 3, Funny

    Odds on it's due to systemd.

  8. Re:Next article: Water is wet on 2016 Election Cycle Led By Billionaire Donors · · Score: 1

    Martinis are often dry. Of course we need a reasonable sample size. Ten should do it.

  9. He was on CNN today on 2016 Election Cycle Led By Billionaire Donors · · Score: 1

    Depends how you define "wet".

  10. Re:Big Sister is watching on There Is No .bro In Brotli: Google/Mozilla Engineers Nix File Type As Offensive · · Score: 1

    Argumentum ad absurdum.

    Wrong. There are actually people like that out there.

    There is a problem with brogrammers and "bro" culture in tech.

    You seem to like logical fallacies. That would be an argument from authority if you actually were one.

    The only people trying really hard to be offended by everything are people like you.

    You pulled that out of your arse. But thanks for admitting that you lied when you said such people don't exist.

    Truth is, I'm some mixture of amused, bemused and baffled (trending towards bored) by the whole crock of shit.

  11. Articles. on Cyberattacks: Do Motives and Attribution Matter? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Articles: should they have some actual content, or just a load of speculative waffle that two guys sipping beer could come up with?

  12. Re:Big Sister is watching on There Is No .bro In Brotli: Google/Mozilla Engineers Nix File Type As Offensive · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Picking a neutral name that doesn't have any negative connotations is just sensible.

    It's not just sensible, it's impossible. If your whole raison d'etre is being offended, you will find something to be offended about.

    Now excuse me, I need to go and turn off the ... ummm ... green cauliflower.

  13. Re:Documents and search on Ask Slashdot: Knowledge Management Systems? · · Score: 1

    Even if those worked perfectly (and they don't) that's sticking a bandaid on it.

    You don't run a business system with free text. You have defined fields, some of which have a limited set of inputs. In a word, structure. Otherwise somebody will type MRA when they mean RMA.

  14. Re:B* is bad says a guy named McM* on There Is No .bro In Brotli: Google/Mozilla Engineers Nix File Type As Offensive · · Score: 1

    Hasn't the plastic paddy twat got more important things to do? Like increasing the amount of memory firefox uses, removing options that people use and generally fucking up the UI?

  15. Re:And we believe Gartner? Why? on Replacement of Writers Leads Gartner's Predictions (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I vaguely remember another organisation that used to say the opposite to Gartner, and yet they usually managed to be wrong too.

  16. Re: Delicious pet on Chinese Company To Sell Genetically Modified Micro Pigs as Pets (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    Especially if they did it in that order.

  17. That's just oinkredible.

  18. Re:Political-correctness gone insane .. on There Is No .bro In Brotli: Google/Mozilla Engineers Nix File Type As Offensive · · Score: 1

    We have found a combromise

    FTFY.

  19. Re:Documents and search on Ask Slashdot: Knowledge Management Systems? · · Score: 2

    Free text search is great if everyone can spell. Good luck finding a bug about "leep years".

  20. Re:enterprise grade is weasel. on Ask Slashdot: Knowledge Management Systems? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If they're big enough to be worth suing, they're big enough to afford decent lawyers.

  21. Re: If that's how Pokemon Int'l treats its fans... on A Broke Fan Owes $5,400 For Pokemon-Themed Party Posters · · Score: 1

    Truth of a statement is a valid legal defense against libel accusations in the U.S. And many other Western countries, but not in the UK.

    (1)It is a defence to an action for defamation for the defendant to show that the imputation conveyed by the statement complained of is substantially true.

    You opened the door, you had a good look, and you still walked into it. Perhaps in future you could do some research (I asked for citations, did I not?) instead of repeating shit you heard the bigger kids saying.

  22. Re: It's OK - Android is open! on Samsung Decides Not To Patch Kernel Vulnerabilities In Some S4 Smartphones · · Score: 1

    In my day we used a magnetised needle and a microscope. And we had to grind our own lenses.

  23. Re:Bad idea on MIT Master's Program To Use MOOCs As 'Admissions Test' (chronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Fail. That was last month. It's like Weimar inflation.

  24. Re:Uh huh. on Volkswagen Boss Blames Software Engineers For Scandal (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    ... or simply blocking editing if there's already been a reply (should be easy) or if someone has a reply window open (more tricky, but still not difficult).

  25. I guess this works in the same way as the University of Woolamaloo's Rule 2?