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  1. Re:Does that include on Bad Bots Now Make Up 20 Percent of Web Traffic (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Technically humans who mindlessly click on Facebook "content" aren't bots.

  2. Re:I don't understand on Microsoft Loses Control Over Windows Tiles Subdomain (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Security. By using a separate domain you create different contexts for cookies, HSTS configuration, etc.

  3. I think that overall the time saved by Intellisense getting it right is less than the time wasted by it autocompleting the wrong thing. Lambdas are a particular problem: I type the variable name for the parameter and Intellisense wants to replace it with a variable that's already in scope.

  4. Re:"Shanghai" Bill is a known liar many times over on Dubstep Music Found To Protect Against Mosquito Bites, Says Study (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't feed the trolls.

  5. Re:The Equality of Misrepresentation on Tinder Announces New 'Height Verification' Feature. But They May Be Lying (gotinder.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure a push-up bra folded up and placed under a wig could add an inch...

  6. J2ME's UI options and system services were terrible for mobile.

    Careful. You may be committing the common and understandable error of thinking that J2ME = J2ME CLDC. There was a less stripped down framework called CDC which had a couple of profiles with UI based on AWT. IBM had an implementation for PocketPC. It would have been a suitable basis for something which went beyond feature phones if a company with the right vision had taken it on in about 2003.

  7. Re:So, you're saying Scotland is fine, then on Britain Could Run Short of Water by 2050, Official Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Lesser Britain already exists. It's the département of Brittany in France.

  8. Re:The US will support its friends on Trump Blockade of Huawei Fizzles In European 5G Rollout (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    But in tit for tat, if the UK kicks the US off its soil then it's going to need a new carrier group to replace the Diego GarcÃa base. If the whole of the EU kicks it out, that's probably a long-term saving for the US Army because of the reduction in maintenance costs, but it's a bit short-term cost to restructure. It's a lose-lose scenario.

  9. Re:Powerful? on Is Adobe's Creative Cloud Too Powerful for Its Own Good? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not even true. There are plenty of image editors which can handle animated gifs. What there might not be many of is photo editors which handle animated gifs, but there's an obvious reason for that: no-one with half a brain would consider animated gif to be a photo format.

  10. Re:Bad News for Snowden!!! on The Intercept Shuts Down Access To Snowden Trove (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    What does citizenship have to do with it? With the exception of requirements to hold some public offices, can you find any article in the US Constitution which discriminates between citizens and non-citizens?

  11. Leave echelon aside for a minute. Spanish police are saying that the CIA was involved in an assault in February where they took everyone in the North Korean embassy in Madrid prisoner, interrogated them for two hours, and then stole documents, computers, and two cars.

  12. Re:My computer restarts randomly at night on New Study Shows Windows 10 Home Edition Users Are Baffled By Updates (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I've had it reboot a few days into a big calculation. I now have a scheduled task which updates my "active hours" every hour so that automatic rebooting is disabled, but that really shouldn't be necessary.

  13. Re:Microsoft demos on Microsoft Announces HoloLens 2 Mixed Reality Headset For $3,500 (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Ssssh! We won't be able to persuade our boss to buy any if he thinks that...

  14. It's part of the time, which is actually date and time.

  15. Is there a story here, and if so what is it? That all you need to apply for a credit card is an email address?

  16. Re:Tips for passwords on Hackers Are Passing Around a Megaleak of 2.2 Billion Records (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    What do you mean, "Alternatively"? It sounds like your first approach just uses your e-mail account as the password manager and single point of failure.

  17. Re:Only removed when "discovered" on The Mystery Tracks Being 'Forced' on Spotify Users (musicbusinessworldwide.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Sounds rather similar to the "Rueda" scam run by the SGAE in Spain. It's the royalty administration organisation, and a small group teamed up to play non-tracks all night when no-one was listening, "earning" themselves a large cut of the royalties and of the votes in the organisation.

  18. Re:I don't think this would work on Advocacy Groups Are Pushing The FTC To Break Up Facebook (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    WhatsApp literally will not work until you give it your phone number. Your phone number is your username. If you have the Facebook app on your phone then the company can probably link it to your WhatsApp account by IMEI, and failing that they can definitely correlate IP addresses. This is precisely the problem with big data: it's not that you link your accounts but that you can't prevent them linking your accounts.

  19. Re:Not even half? on Nearly Half of Game Developers Want To Unionize (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    If you read until the end of the summary, it says that fewer than half are working more than 40 hours a week. The stereotype is a stereotype, not a universally true statement.

  20. Re:Somebody already resurrected the only worthy ga on Emulator Project Aims To Resurrect Classic Mac Apps, Games Without the OS (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I remember an old Mac game (although I'm not sure whether it was on OS 6, 7, or 8) where you controlled a line which rotated around points on a grid. The controls allowed you to change the direction of rotation and grab onto the point that your free end was about to swing past. If anyone else remembers it and can tell me what it was called, I would be grateful.

  21. What's the difference between an automated space factory and an automated ground factory? Cost, and you can't use rubber seals (which is non-trivial).

    There's also the minor difference of being either in freefall or on a body with different acceleration due to gravity than Earth.

  22. Re:Again women's contribution is being minimized. on Blue Gems In Teeth Illuminate Women's Hidden Role In Medieval Manuscripts (abc.net.au) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sorry to spoil your chronology, but she postdates Harald Bluetooth.

  23. Re: It should also be blue. on Super Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse Is Coming Later This Month (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you saying that the man in the moon isn't an aristocrat?

  24. If you want to include modern miles and Roman miles under the same heading then you're talking relative errors of 9%. That's not exactly suited for engineering. Whereas the error from the original definition of the kilometre (one forty-thousandth of the circumference of the Earth) to the modern one is 0.08%.

    But if you want to ditch the historical perspective and just think about the modern units, a /. reader should be able to convert between miles and kilometres really easily. The conversion factor of 1.609 is very close to the golden ratio, so you can use consecutive Fibonacci numbers for conversion.

  25. Re:permanent bottle on Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled a Drinks Boom, Now Threaten a Crisis (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    If you are willing to pay $1.00 (minimum - by far) to get a bottle of water

    That's supply and demand. Where I live the tap water is technically potable but unpleasant, and bottled water costs about 10 cents per litre.