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  1. The law specifies DNA, but DNA doesn't specify sex. That part where the Bible says male and female he created them... turns out, wrong again Bible.
    http://www.ted.com/talks/alice...

  2. Re:Actual numbers, please? on Windows 10 Now Runs On 270 Million Monthly Active Devices · · Score: 1

    You also have to take into account that the titles states that "Windows 10 now runs..." I have a Lenovo laptop in my house on which Windows 10 update was installed, but to say it runs would be an exaggeration.

  3. This is total B.S. With that facility in Utah and who knows where else... there is an info orgy and they are loving it.

    Trouble is, they made an orgy and expect to get married.

    Not a problem, they're in Utah.

  4. Re:Don't overreact on That Awkward Moment When 'Apple Mocked Good Hardware and Poor People' (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    It was a dumb comment for sure, but turning this into a matter of class warfare or social justice is orders of magnitude dumber.

    What's dumb is ignoring class warfare as the elite drop bombs on your head, and decrying social justice when you're having injustice inflicted upon you every day.

    But maybe you're more comfortable in the role of useful idiot. You wouldn't be the first.

    Why exactly should I fight class war or social justice wars, to no benefit to myself but all the benefit to the wealthy politicians and other demagogues that profit off of it? Sounds like you're the useful idiot.

    Really?? That's the only option you see available? Guess what, some of us aren't as myopic.

  5. Re:The Great Equalization Begins on Laid-Off Abbott IT Workers Won't Have To Train Their Replacements (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    If it were only a national issue, there wouldn't be an international source of lower waged workers. The mere fact that this is available makes it a global issue.

    Unfortunately, the Trump solution of isolationist trade and immigration policy has been tried more than once in the past, always with disastrous results. But when we don't know what does work, humans always resort to the solution experience has proven will fail, because hey, at least it's a "solution".

  6. You need to purchase a whole new PC"

    The move to cloud and virtualization means that more and more often this is going to be the cheapest solution.

  7. Re:Suzie can vote. Suzie can get a pitchfork. on Fast-Food CEO Invests In Machines Because Regulation Makes Them Cheaper Than Employees (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    You have failed to understand the entire argument as presented. Running a business with no employees inevitably results in a business with no customers (because people without incomes won't be customers). There may be a businesses where this is the optimal choice, but restaurant isn't one of them.

  8. Re:We need to kill nafta 2.0 on The Case Against Ratifying the Trans Pacific Partnership (michaelgeist.ca) · · Score: 1

    Or, after two seconds of google searching:

    Alternatively the purchase of non-residential property can be achieved through a Mexican corporation which, under certain conditions, can be 100% foreign-owned.

  9. Re:We need to kill nafta 2.0 on The Case Against Ratifying the Trans Pacific Partnership (michaelgeist.ca) · · Score: 1

    The devil is in the details. For instance, were Mexican cornfields previously run as family owned farms, and those former farm owners are now picking mangos for a multinational agribusiness?

    I already know that's false without even having to look it up. You can't own land (or any other real property for that matter) in Mexico unless you're a Mexican citizen.

    And a multinational agribusiness can't be owned by a Mexican citizen?

  10. Re:We need to kill nafta 2.0 on The Case Against Ratifying the Trans Pacific Partnership (michaelgeist.ca) · · Score: 1

    The devil is in the details. For instance, were Mexican cornfields previously run as family owned farms, and those former farm owners are now picking mangos for a multinational agribusiness? That might result in a higher GDP, but without any gains for the farmers/workers. This is the sort of economic mobility that a lot of people are noticing. I don't know if the data supports this view, but it is certainly the perception.

  11. Re:We need to kill nafta 2.0 on The Case Against Ratifying the Trans Pacific Partnership (michaelgeist.ca) · · Score: 2

    There are a lot of good reasons to be against NAFTA and TPP, but making statements of opinion as if they were fact does more for the opposing argument than it does to support your own. The fact is, NAFTA created some US jobs and killed some others. Whether the balance was a net gain or a net loss is widely debated by economists, with no conclusive evidence from either side.

    TFA does a pretty good job of summarizing why TPP favors and protects corporate interests over the interests of everyone else though. Even if it creates more jobs than it destroys, there has to be a better way.

  12. wrong direction on Obama: Government Can't Let Smartphones Be 'Black Boxes' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a reasonable sounding argument, and it is true that it "does not strike the kind of balance we have lived with for 200, 300 years". But we don't live in the world we lived in 200 and 300 years ago. Arc of history and all that.

    I thought wishing for a return to a mythical past that was better than today was a conservative value.

  13. Obvious troll is obvious on How Donald Trump Uses Twitter As a Weapon of Fear · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's been my theory all along that Trump is trolling the Republican party. I am also not much surprised that this has been an effective method for gaining support from some of their followers.

  14. Re:The way to fight this on Even With Telemetry Disabled, Windows 10 Talks To Dozens of Microsoft Servers (voat.co) · · Score: 1

    It also makes installing any Office365 application from behind a proxy a fun and interesting challenge. I've been wondering why Microsoft thinks it is ok for them to dictate how their customers connect to the internet for a while now.

  15. Re:Summaries, how do they work? on Docker Images To Be Based On Alpine Linux (brianchristner.io) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've been running linux as my main OS on my personal computers for about a dozen years. I browse through Slashdot nearly every day. I have never heard of Docker. I work in a Windows world and don't do application development. I'm not sure why you think this would be on the radar of every single reader of Slashdot.

    This failure to explain, or even link to an explanation, of the core concept of a summary is probably one of the biggest recurring editorial failures on Slashdot. (And yeah, that's saying something.) Technology has a lot of specialized branches. I know plenty of application developers who don't know anything about networking, or network admins who don't know anything about databases or writing code, etc. etc.

  16. Re:Too Bad on The Pirate Bay Now Let You Stream Movies and TV, Not Just Download · · Score: 1

    I watch some NBA/NFL and the rest is on the Smithsonian channel. The last really good movie I watched was A Clockwork Orange about 30 years ago.

    If I were ranking Kubrick's movies in order of how much I enjoyed them, Clockwork would be near the bottom of the list. I guess this is why Baskin Robbins has more than one flavor. And why there are zero good reason for anyone to think their personal opinion should dictate the course of the world.

  17. Re:Well then... on The Pirate Bay Now Let You Stream Movies and TV, Not Just Download · · Score: 1

    Honest question -- who wants to stream media?? Why?

    Probably nobody at all. That'd explain why Netflix is such a dismal failure.

  18. Re:Trend towards illegibility on Amazon's Thin Helvetica Syndrome: Font Anorexia vs. Kindle Readability (teleread.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree with every point the site makes. But I don't think the glorious rebellion will be won by tweeting at our oppressors.

  19. Re:"weapons... get cash from Congress" on Air Force Firewall Now Designated a Weapons System (gazette.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    That won't help at all. The Republican party does a decent job of creating veterans. Helping them, not so much.

  20. Re: What a load of BS on US Gov't Confirms Clinton Emails Contained Top-Secret Information (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 2

    Apparently, at least one of the emails was about a NY Times article about the US classified drone program. Hard to imagine why an email about an article in a public newspaper would be classified.

    If the person who sent the article from the public newspaper has classified knowledge and that person makes comments about the public newspaper article, then the e-mail has classified information.

    The comments made by a person with classified knowledge could contain classified information. But the person with classified knowledge also presumably knows some things which aren't classified. Whether the comments they made are classified or not would need to be determined on a case by case basis.
    (Personally, I think using a personal email server for official emails which even had the potential possibility of containing classified info is batshit stupid. But that doesn't justify jumping to conclusions.)

  21. Re:How is that legal without a warrant? on EFF: License Plate Scanner Deal Turns Texas Cops Into Debt Collectors (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Why not just say, "Yeah, that debt might be valid. Now, what charge is it you're arresting me on?"
    AFIK, owing a debt isn't a criminal offence.

  22. Re:wikipedia fail see british empire article on Wikipedia Editors Revolt, Vote "No Confidence" In Newest Board Member (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean this? Or this?

  23. Re:The Hipster Comparison Misdirection Fallacy. on Wikipedia Editors Revolt, Vote "No Confidence" In Newest Board Member (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    I think you maybe miss the point this type of comparison is intended to raise. That is, there are no perfect things of any type in this world. Defining and understanding the limits imposed by those imperfections makes it possible to recognize in what ways the flawed tools available may still be useful. IOW, if we throw away all imperfect tools, we would be left with none.

  24. Re:What would they expect him to do? on Wikipedia Editors Revolt, Vote "No Confidence" In Newest Board Member (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    I can't begin to imagine any problem that could be "solved" by this solution.

  25. Re: I am sure on FBI "Took Over World's Biggest Child Porn Website" (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Except, the porn has to be produced somewhere, and actors have to be acquired or abducted to perform in it.