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  1. Re:Can this be prevented? on Google Search Now Uses Service Worker For Repeated Searches (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Is there any good reason not to do this? If I disable Service Workers, will some legitimate websites not work properly?

  2. We are already starting to see programs that will code for you. I could imagine in the not too distant future, there will be no need to know code.

    PowerBuilder, anyone?

  3. "A government of laws and not of men" on Justice Department Warns It Might Not Be Able To Prosecute Voting Machine Hackers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    This is about the rule of law.

    The government is not supposed to prosecute someone just because it seems to be the right thing to do. If the relevant law(s) define the crime(s) too narrowlly, that is a problem. But in general, we want laws to be as narrow as possible, so people can know what is "against the law".

  4. Re:What Would a Fascist Dictator State? on Trump Accuses Google of Rigging Search Results To Favor 'Bad' News About Him (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Guys in uniforms kicking in your door?

  5. In this case, having the "presidents internal monologue " is good, because it makes it obvious that he is a lying sack of shit.

  6. Re:Correlation vs causality on Air Pollution Causes 'Huge' Reduction in Intelligence, Study Reveals (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    "What? Wall candy? I used to love that suff" - Penny Arcade

  7. Can we finally admit that video games do, in fact, mess with young people's minds and make them more violent?

    Fuck, no!

    The US has about a third of a billion people. A tiny proportion of them are dangerously nuts. So... horrible stuff happens sometimes.

    You can blame the violence on video games. With the same logic, you can blame the violence on the chairs they were sitting in, or the snacks they ate.

  8. I think any private business (as opposed to government agency) should be able to refuse to do business with anyone for any reason.

    Fuck "protected classes".

  9. Re:1-D or 2-D on Nanotubes Can Shape Water Molecules Into 'Two-Dimensional Ice' (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    A point is 1D. A line is 2D. Fail basic geometry?

    You are wrong and this really is basic geometry.

    A point has no extent and no dimensions.

    A line is, obviously, one dimensional. It may exist in a 2-D space or 3-D space or more if you want to get fancy.

    If you get down to where all the atoms are, it is, of course 3-D.

    I fail to see why they call it 2-D.

  10. I am pretty sure this is one-dimentional, rather than "Two-Dimensional Ice". Or, at a finer scale, maybe 3-dimensional.... where do they get two?

  11. Re:Remember the Puritans! on Chinese President Xi Jinping Says Internet Must Be 'Clean and Righteous' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I actually feel bad for the average Chinese citizen.

    No kidding. It isn't the citizens that make China a totalitarian state.

  12. Re:Unlimited does not preclude throttling on Verizon Throttled Fire Department's 'Unlimited' Data During Calif. Wildfire (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    You will get Unlimited Firefighting.... by one person with a watering can.

  13. Re:RPN on 'Calculators Killed the Standard Statistical Table' (sas.com) · · Score: 1

    I used my HP 21 calculator in high school.

    I have my (Linux) gcalculator set to RPN now.

  14. Re:First. World. Problems: Paper isn't wasted on 'Calculators Killed the Standard Statistical Table' (sas.com) · · Score: 1

    ...or a TI Silent 700 terminal. I saw one that came in a suitcase sort of thing with two cassete recorders for storing programs and data and such. ...The good old days.

  15. Re:First. World. Problems: Paper isn't wasted on 'Calculators Killed the Standard Statistical Table' (sas.com) · · Score: 1

    'course, that was using BASIC on a teletype terminal or FORTRAN on punched cards.

  16. Re:First. World. Problems: Paper isn't wasted on 'Calculators Killed the Standard Statistical Table' (sas.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyone that belongs on this website should be able to produce those tables with a bit of code.

    When I first learned to code in a high school computer club, making a table of temperature conversions or table of squares or something was a typical thing a person would screw around with the first day they caught on to how programming works.

  17. Re:So what? on 'Calculators Killed the Standard Statistical Table' (sas.com) · · Score: 1

    When I was in junior high, calculators had become cheap enough that some/many of the students had one, but they were not allowed to use them in math, physics, etc. classes.

    I had a slide rule and was allowed to use it in those classes. It was quite amusing at the time.

  18. So why hasn't another big player moved into ride-sharing. Uber's 25% cut would seem to provide a lot of room for competitors to offer a better price.

  19. Re:Alex Jones = Totally Corrupt on After Employee Revolt, Google Says It's 'Not Close' To Launching Search In China (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    When the doctor says "Every Day", he means it. You start skipping days, and.... you get your post.

    I am not commenting about whether Alex Jones should be banned from social media sites provided by corporations, or as your insane comment suggests, from "the public square".

    I am just saying that the lying sack of shit is not "conservative".

  20. Alex Jones = Totally Corrupt on After Employee Revolt, Google Says It's 'Not Close' To Launching Search In China (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Alex Jones is not "conservative" - he has made a profession out of being a fucking liar.

  21. Re:Exactly..... on OpenAI Is Beating Humans At 'Dota 2' Because It's Basically Cheating (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    So.... why is this on Slashdot again?

  22. Fuck No

    The standard answer to a lot of Slashdot stories lately.

  23. Re:Permissions on Banks and Retailers Are Tracking How You Type, Swipe and Tap (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1
    I was on Bloomberg's website a couple of hours ago. I had opened a story in a new window and then got distracted by something else. When I closed the story later, the main page had turned to...

    You Have Violated Our Terms of Service

    and I had to do a couple Captchas- clicking the squares with vehicles in them.

  24. Re:Made up names on US Warns on Russia's New Space Weapons (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It looks like an anagram.

  25. "more dangerous" in the sense that if Trump is impeached or quits, Pence becomes POTUS.