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  1. I think almost every attack he made was something he himself was guilty of. Lying Ted. Crooked Hillary

    He treated his much more qualified opponents like children by calling them childish names,

    And now...

    now that we have Don the Con as president.

    While I kinda like that nickname, you should refrain from using childish names if you're blaming someone for doing the same thing....

  2. In other words: They have found a combustion process that produces one stream of almost pure CO2. So it's not removing any CO2, but splitting it.

  3. Make your mind up. on How Fonts Are Fueling the Culture Wars (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Why don’t we use blackletter anymore? The answer is literally “Hitler.” Nazi leadership used the Fraktur, an archetypal variety of blackletter, as their official typeface.

    or

    The Nazis played a part in this. In 1941, the regime re-characterized Fraktur as Judenletter, “Jewish letters,” and systematically banned it from use.

    So the Nazis banned their official typeface? No wonder they lost the war....

    If you haven't read the TFA: These two statements aren't even a paragraph apart!

  4. Now try to get this out of your head....

  5. Re:And a labor pool too! on Amazon To Build Homeless Shelter In Its New Seattle Headquarters (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Now, why would not Amazon suggest to and outright push those people into jobs at Amazon? Warehouse workers make about $13/hour?

    I'm assuming they have all the workers they need already hired.

  6. Re:Portland Oregon on Amazon To Build Homeless Shelter In Its New Seattle Headquarters (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Same for San Francisco. But that probably could be handled by a company out of the valley...

  7. Yes, there is profit to be made with modernizing medicaid

    But no, that profit won't be earned by the poor people on medicaid. It's not the dependants of a system that can profit from rebuilding it. They can't even shape it.

    If you want to give those people a say, go ahead, but that won't bring VC money to medicaid.

  8. Re:obligatory xkcd on Inside Germany's Plan To Kill Online Registrations (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Along with the same password on each website?

    That's the point where SSO comes into play.

  9. Re:When foreign keys are actually foreign on Inside Germany's Plan To Kill Online Registrations (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    They need to become e-residents:

    https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

  10. Re:Great idea... on Inside Germany's Plan To Kill Online Registrations (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Conversely, my credit-card provider will happily hand out ephemeral "ids", good only for a single use.

    Intresting enough, anonymous or pseudonymous IDs are already features of the new electronic ID card (along with verified ID and anonymous age verification) and if for the sake of the argument we could assume the German beurocrazy as a trustworthy root, they did lots of things right from design perspective and could probably put OAuth to shame.

    But still, no one is using it

    And I'm not expecting anyone to use the next me-too product (both users and services) if even mandatory ownership of a secure access card isn't enough to get people to use it. (and don't tell me the problem is a 19$ Card reader)

  11. I have noticed that since shortly before the election, all of the message boards I participate in have been swarmed with right-wing trolls. And I do mean all of them. The vast majority are just like you; hurling stupid insults and trying to get under people's skin and provoke an emotional response. Either Trump's supporters just all decided to get active online at the same time, or there is a coordinated effort going on. Knowing what I do about social manipulation, I suspect the latter

    Yes, but the coordinated social media activity was a false flag operation by the democrats to make right-wing trolls appear as stupid and insulting hoping that would rub off on the public image of Republicans in general.

    Heck, considering that this was the first election that was decided on which was less hated, both candidates could have been slipped into the opposing party as "poison pill" without any difference whatsoever.

  12. Re:Human faces are for Cows on Computer Scientists Have Created the Most Accurate Digital Model of a Human Face (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Yes, I think there is a snapchat filter for that.

    For the first time ever, this comment is insightful.

  13. Re:Targeting teens to sell healthy living services on Facebook Lets Advertisers Target Insecure Teens, Says Report (cnet.com) · · Score: 1
  14. of course! on Slashdot Asks: Do You Still Use RSS? · · Score: 1

    I fount this story in my rss reader. it's the only way to have my news synced on my phone when coverage becomes flaky. And besides that, now that everyone is building APIs to everything, this is one of the simples things to connect two services. Anyone remembers Yahoo pipes?

  15. Re:This is why we can't have nice things on Plastc Swiped $9 Million From Backers, Now It Plans To File For Bankruptcy and Shut Down (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    As much as I understood crowdfunding, you are not ORDERING anything but INVESTING. If your investment is doing well, you'll get a product as profit.

  16. Why should I buy Benneton based on any pictures?

    "Oh look at that high fructose syrup filled cereal. It has nice pictures, so I trust it to be healthy" Really?

    Ads lie! Sorry I have to break that to you, but putting ANY trust in ads is naive. Advertisers have their own agenda. Ever had and ever will.

    No idea who is the zombie now...

  17. Well I usually can trust people around me, but advertising has never had anything remotely trustworthy to it.

  18. Re:Make America Great on Trump To Overhaul H-1B Visa Program To Encourage Hiring Americans (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    "He fired missiles for personal gain..." Are you kidding?! That has to be the dumbest possible point you could make.

    Do you want to discuss about the chocolate cake instead?

  19. Re:Make America Great on Trump To Overhaul H-1B Visa Program To Encourage Hiring Americans (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump is working towards, well, none of those.

    I'm sure, the US would survive one out of forty-something presidents not working towards that kind of greatness. I can't put my finger on when it started, but the downward spiral is turning since a while.

  20. People have blind trust into technology on The Woman Whose Phone 'Misdiagnosed HIV' (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    "They think, because it was on a smartphone, it seems real and credible."

    This is no different from "but I have seen it on TV, so it must be true.

    Or any media that has been invented. The most memorizeable instance is probably the panic during "War of the Worlds"

  21. Re:Everyone has AIDS! on The Woman Whose Phone 'Misdiagnosed HIV' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for wrapping up the story of "Rent"

  22. Trusting someone not to do something just because you don't want to is a bit.. naive.

    I don't want to be robbed either, but I never would trust a criminal not to rob me just because I don't want to be robbed. And likewise an advertiser wants your money. There is no base for trust in that.

  23. Re:/. won't either on Should Burger King Be Prosecuted For Their Google Home-Triggering Ads? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But it would be really simple here: That activation phrase is already annoying enough. ("Hey Siry" rolls like something you'd normaly say to someone, but chanting some company name to get results back sounds more like arcane magic summoning a demon from mammon's hell..)

    Why not use individualized activation phrases?

    Give your "personal assistant" some personality! A name of it's own, randomly modulate the speech synthesis parameters a bit for each device, and BK would need to go "OK John, OK Helen, OK Majel, OK Eliza, OK HAL..." and the spot would be over without triggering any device

  24. Re:/. won't either on Should Burger King Be Prosecuted For Their Google Home-Triggering Ads? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Shocked, ok. but how did they "abuse the trust"? What trust du you have (or do you need) to buy a plain sweater withthe only difference from other china produced mass market ware is a certain word?

    And for the return to obscurity.. That's what's happening to all mass market fashon brands. They start with an exclusive price tag and everyone wants a genuine "Foobar" shirt. Then profits are increased by becomming more and more "available" (both in number of stores and price) until everyone will buy them. And when the early adopters give the first pieces to welfare, the brand folds.

  25. Re:Common Sense calling - Women have babies on Google Schools US Government About Gender Pay Gap (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh you want something for free! why haven't you said that.. but sorry, free lunches are out.

    Yes, additional people in the team isn't free. But it is cheaper than ending up with untrained people added to the team in a panic a few days after someone left (with enough of a heads up)