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  1. Re:What do you say now, Microsoft shills? on Windows 10 Now Showing Full Screen Ads On Lock Screen (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    Windows 10 is okay, all things told. The problem is when they sneak this shit in...

    You realize this is a contradiction, correct?

  2. Re:This is the price of "free" on Windows 10 Now Showing Full Screen Ads On Lock Screen (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    Better yet, turn updates off. Better to take a vague chance on a drive by than enable a known hijacker.

  3. Re:typical! blame someone else on Google, Yahoo Cry About Ad-Blocking (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You sir, have made a mistake. Google does not have a "lack of security/privacy awareness"... they do not care.

  4. Re:Exxon seems kind of even handed on Scientists Urge American Geophysical Union To Cut Ties With Exxon (insideclimatenews.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm an atheist and I have to ask - Why?

  5. Re:Bot how do you get one on Five-Dimensional Black Hole Could 'Break' General Relativity (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    You must Belieeeeeve! in the power of your math.

  6. Ignore both of them. They're just minors in the pantheon. The council vote is what counts and we voted long ago that you're essentially just a TV show.

  7. Re:"79 cents" ...but not "for the same job." on Even On eBay, Women Get Paid Less For Their Labor (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    So if someone decides to be a stay at home parent, most of the time, it will be the woman. Because it was set up to be that way from the start.

    No, women take the leave because *they* want to be with their children. Also, it was not "set up from the start". Read up. Maternity leave didn't exist prior to 1911 (National Insurance Act). It then evolved into its present form along about the 70's. During all of that time (and prior) women preferred to be at home with their children.

  8. Re:uhh maybe they're pricing their goods lower? on Even On eBay, Women Get Paid Less For Their Labor (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Not being wrong through inability is not the same as being right.

  9. Re:Want to buy a jump to conclusions mat, too? on Even On eBay, Women Get Paid Less For Their Labor (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    So you're going for the conclusion that the woman was too stupid to realize she would be reflected on the TV (or see it)?

  10. When it starts with a lie.... on Even On eBay, Women Get Paid Less For Their Labor (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Women in the United States are paid only 79 cents on the dollar compared with men doing the same job.

    ... you don't need to read the rest.

  11. Re:YAA (Yet Another Anomaly) on Last January Was the Hottest Global Temperature Anomaly In Recorded History · · Score: 1

    So you're willing to shoot someone casually strolling by? Or do you believe films like The Day After Tomorrow are reality based?

  12. Re:Well, at least they won't have far to walk on Brown CS Department Hiring Student Diversity, Inclusion Advocates · · Score: 1

    Yep. And for those of us from bigger areas: When I contracted there I was constantly overshooting an exit and finding myself in Mass or Conn. No biggie, as it only took five minutes to get back but.....

    Oh, and they don't have enough friggin' street signs either (unless that's changed).

  13. Re:The science is not settled on Australia Cuts 110 Climate Scientist Jobs: "The Science is Settled." · · Score: 1

    To rely on pedantry as an argument displays that you really don't have an argument.

    Oxford Dictionary:
    round: 2) shaped like or approximately like a sphere:

    So yes, the Earth is round. And if you look it up, you'll find that *none* of the adjective definitions are technical in nature.

    As for orbit, you yourself admit the pedantry.

    You're conflating common and technical usage of words simply so you can criticize.

  14. Re:Huh? on A Bot That Drives Robocallers Insane · · Score: 1

    I knew someone who panhandled for a living, following and trying to 'shame' those who didn't fork over money. Terry, in Kansas City. Try your argument now.

  15. Re:Huh? on A Bot That Drives Robocallers Insane · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Hating on the people making the calls is wrong..." Opinion. Not shared by all. Also, hating the others on your list is not a mutually exclusive activity.

    Absolutely no one is unaware that telecallers are a hated species. Don't take that job if you can't handle the hate.

  16. Re:Huh? on A Bot That Drives Robocallers Insane · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Neither can criminals. What's your point? They know full well they're lying to you.

  17. Re:Caller ID Blocker on A Bot That Drives Robocallers Insane · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have several games I play with them. One is to make myself sound very old with a feeble voice, forcing them to listen closer, then scream bloody murder. Another starts the same but I kite them along until they want an identification of some nature. Then I tell them "I can't remember, I'll get my credit card." This engenders the desire to wait. Then I quietly set the phone down and go about my business.

    There are others, but those two are the most fun.

  18. Re:Sounds like a pretty good argument... on K-12 CS Framework Draft: Kids Taught To 'Protect Original Ideas' In Early Grades · · Score: 1

    Let's decide what great education looks like, and fight to make sure EVERY child in this country has access. Let's not settle for letting a regressive state like Kansas hurt their kids with a bad education AND GET AWAY WITH IT.

    Interesting that sentiment starts with "Let's" and then immediately paints another view as regressive and bad, then shouts a call to arms. Reminds me of the guy in the movies waving the torch and urging on the mob.

  19. Re:Farewell to the soulskill and samzenpus on Windows 10 Now a 'Recommended Update' For Windows 7 and 8.1 Users (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Pot, meet kettle.

  20. Re:Number, please? on Windows 10 Now a 'Recommended Update' For Windows 7 and 8.1 Users (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    "And even then .." True that. Since they've lied about what's in updates before, I no longer trust them at all.

  21. Re:He's been trying for months now on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    How do the two religions stack up for say the last century, not the last millennia?

    Some people evolve, some don't.

  22. Re:Google sponsors Let's Encrypt on Google Will Soon Let You Know By Default When Websites Are Unencrypted (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Google, Chrome and trusted really shouldn't be used together in the same paragraph.

  23. Re:Open to Questions on Slashdot and SourceForge Sold, Now Under New Management (bizx.info) · · Score: 1

    Friggin' funny.

  24. Reducing a nuanced point of view down to a fatuous one-liner is generally a display of bigotry.

  25. Re:Bestridge on Are Some Things About the Universe Fundamentally Unknowable? (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    but the multiverse the chaos from which our universe differentiated though the function of life bound to our universe

    Multiverse - nice fantasy. Anything derived from that idea is itself a fantasy.

    We all have our fantasies. Mine I write about with words and others describe theirs with math. Both types remain fantasies.