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  1. Re:Testing should never be transparent on Facebook is Rating Users Based On Their 'Trustworthiness' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    If you *don't* tell what the proxy is, *you're* doing the gaming.

  2. Re:Facebook on Facebook is Rating Users Based On Their 'Trustworthiness' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You're conflating two kinds of "trustworthiness". The corporations rate them on whether they receive enough data that is useful from them. The public rates them on whether they lie and engage in dishonest (at least) behavior.

  3. Re:Zuckerbook == China? on Facebook is Rating Users Based On Their 'Trustworthiness' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    "One is a government action, the other informs readers of the opinions of the platform owners."

  4. Right? It's like younger people can't think past their own "youth". I was around before them too. I built my first from a kit.

  5. "you non-sequiter, immaterial, does not matter cum splat!"

    "You shouldn't swear, makes you look less intelligent"

    Avoiding swearing doesn't seem to do that much in the way of avoidance.

    "FUCK YOU!"

    Which you apparently can't accomplish yourself anyway.

  6. If all is automated there will be lot of unnecessary meatballs.

    You being amongst them. Now what?

  7. Bland assertion w/out backup. Please provide a decent raft of cites we can peruse. And please provide some that compare VR against non-typical (typical=state school) classrooms like home schooling, charter and private.

    While it may not be your goal, what your saying strikes me as just another way to provide a mass-processed learning environment.

    The biggest argument against VR learning in my opinion is it would be even harder than today to determine exactly *what* your child is being taught. Take for example teachers taking students to political rallies to participate, not just observe. I sure's shit don't want a kid "immersed" in a contrived and agendas political rally at the teacher's whim.

    And, though appreciate your appeal to yourself as authority, it's a non-starter for discussion.

  8. You mean that home schooled kids consistently outperforming state schooled kids isn't due to their home schooling?

  9. As such, *always* look for the politics in what he's saying not any empathy or altruism.

  10. Re:one strike should have been out on Avast Pulls the Latest Version of CCleaner Following Privacy Controversy (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I dropped CCleaner the first time I noticed that, despite flagging "Not on startup" the friggin' thing still puts itself there. AND, if you remove it manually, it will reinsert itself. Fuck any software that lies to me.

  11. Re:Heh on Do Businesses Really Need to Hire CS Majors? (cio.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    no-one in their right mind would buy what they ended up with.

    So, Frank Lloyd Wright?

  12. Re: Heh on Do Businesses Really Need to Hire CS Majors? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    That perked up a funny memory for me. When I was hiring programmers for J County Court in KCMo, I actually had some CS major kid promote that he could write a compiler for us. IBM shop. We had a compiler. He was very disappointed.

  13. Re:Google is a big issue on Front-End Developer Decries 'Garbage' Design Choices on 'The Bullshit Web' (pxlnv.com) · · Score: 1

    Me either. It's an AC rant at Google, no more. Analytics and their ad services have a complete ban by me and don't affect anything I'm interested in.

  14. Re:Larger files aren't a problem on Front-End Developer Decries 'Garbage' Design Choices on 'The Bullshit Web' (pxlnv.com) · · Score: 2

    Oh bull. Any jump from 100Ks to 1Ms in volume impacts load even at higher speeds. It's a factor of ten, minimum. And you seem to forget that not everyone has the higher bandwidth you apparently do. You're exhibiting bias against 'flyover country'.

  15. You now have the code for both. on Google Maps Now Zooms Out To a Globe Instead of a Flat Earth (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Let me pick the one I want.

  16. Being poor may exclude some from college but certainly not all. There are full scholarships just for that. And being ignorant won't keep you out of college, there are plenty of people who graduated who are both poor and ignorant.

  17. Plumbers, welders, truck drivers, etc should all be educated.

    They already are.

    they should also be equipped with historical context and a background in the hard sciences

    Conservative people (those tradesman you just derided) tend to outperform liberal people at exactly history and hard sciences. So again, they already are.

    host of other things required to keep them from getting duped by fake news and other fucking liars

    Here we start to see your agenda. Fake news and fucking liars occur outside and inside academia. Do you somehow believe academics are all honest people?

    Deciding that someone else does not need that knowledge is inhumane.

    Deciding what they must know and study (and enforcing it) sounds quite totalitarian. Also quite susceptible to abuse once established. I presume you'd like to be on the committee? More of that agenda.

    a bunch of robots easily programmable by FOX/CNN

    Bingo. It is not knowledge you wish upon them but an erasure of their conservative views.

  18. Could you look up the occupations of Einstein, Edison and Tesla for me please? And even these guys weren't living in the Dark Ages. In short, you're quite pompous without warrant.

  19. Re:We don't have a usable desktop operating system on With DaaS Windows Coming, Say Goodbye To Your PC As You Know It (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh hell, it's worse. I've actually been told "You can look at the code." Of course I can. I just don't want to invest half a friggin' year to figure out how to use the software.

  20. Re:Two Times I Quit: My boss was a hard ass (self- on Ask Slashdot: Why Did You Quit Your Last Job? · · Score: 1

    I won't utilize github either since Microsoft bought them.. not that I was using them before that due to other actions the company took.

    So... virtue signalling then?

  21. Personal reasons on Ask Slashdot: Why Did You Quit Your Last Job? · · Score: 1

    I don't discuss professional issues with the public at large. Only fools who think they're untraceable do.

  22. Re:Not a new problem on Slashdot Asks: Which is Better, a Basic Income or a Guaranteed Job? (timharford.com) · · Score: 1

    Oddly enough, none of your examples were forced situations. You know, like taxing someone else for your basic income is. So your examples argue against UBI.

  23. Ignoring the other houses he burglarized?

  24. "they entered my home without permission"

    "they were looming over my and my wife's sleeping bodies in the dark without our knowing they were there"

    Wonder why you didn't frame it that way?

  25. Re:Playing God on Scientists Take Step Toward Creating Artificial Embryos (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    there is not a chance that these cells will be attempted to be developed into a foetus

    Bad, bad assertion.

    There'll simply be no evidence to support the "realness" of these lumps of cells that happen to look like early embryos

    If you purposefully suppress (you hope) the evidence that would convince you, of course you'll never find it. By the way, those embryos didn't "happen" to look like. It was on purpose and they *are* early embryos.

    A "real" embryo would be those created through an egg and a sperm.

    Stated as fact, but still an opinion. My opinion differs, so at this point it's a push.