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  1. That's fair, but I think the GP was referring to how most tourists take in the circles, and for that stonehenge isnt really worth it. And even just for getting an appreciation of the cultural landscape of the time there are other, less tourist-packed locales. Stonehenge can be impressive and still not worth the aggravation if you have limited time and would prefer more quiet and ability to get closer to the stones.

  2. By the way, you can drive to just about any part of the UK and find stone-circles. Not as impressive, I'll grant you.

    Agreed, just as an example on my last trip to the UK we were driving near Keswick and took a detour, paid a visit to the stone circle at Castlerigg. You can go right up to the stones, right into the circle, despite being well visited it's often quiet (for a whole 20 minutes or so we were the only ones there, incredibly peaceful to sit and take it all in), and it's absolutely beautiful on the hill where the stones are. And there's tons (I guess literally actually) of circles of similar appeal. Stonehenge has a road *right* next to it, is packed with tourists, and has restricted access, not worth it compared to alternatives.

  3. Correlation != causation on Police In Canada Are Tracking People's 'Negative' Behavior In a 'Risk' Database (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Correlation != causation, have some citations that Stop and Frisk was actually the driver of the reduction in crime and not other contemporaneous factors?

  4. They have some more family friendly stuff on Netflix is Testing Even More Expensive Subscription Prices (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    They have definitely been making more family friendly stuff too, including some true quality mixed in with the schlock that encompasses a lot of the "family friendly" grouping in general. Have you checked out The Dragon Prince (by Aaron Ehasz the head writer and director of Avatar: The Last Airbender) which incredibly good (though the animation, which is their attempt to bring in the feel of stop-motion can take some getting used to, it's less initially jarring in the second season and in both seasons so far after a few minutes you get used to it and enjoy it) or (I kid you not) the new She-Ra (which is surprisingly good and well done)?

  5. Some are used internally on How Many .com Domain Names Are Unused? (singaporedatacompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a domain name I just use for internal use on my network, but have the actual domain name so, among other things, I can issue real certs for it. I suspect there's a fair amount of use cases like that. Also probably plenty of domains just used for email, or internal gsuite type stuff.

  6. I think you're missing a sentence... on Nvidia CEO Trashes AMD's New GPU: 'The Performance Is Lousy' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    The GPU is the first one available to consumers based on the 7nm process. It's impressive technology, and Nvidia has touted it as the primary reason to upgrade from previous generation GPUs. AMD's GPUs, notably, do not support it.

    This makes no sense until you realize later in the summary that they're talking about ray tracing, not 7nm manufacturing

  7. Re: Black Mirror - Nosedive on Beijing To Judge Every Resident Based on Behavior by End of 2020 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Clearly you know wrong. He was a legal permanent resident, and in the middle of the citizenship process, his kids *are* US citizens, and he worked for a US newspaper.

  8. You missed a bit part of the GP in your haste on One of the World's Largest Organisms is Shrinking (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you actually read the post you're replying to you'd note they talk about something human predation doesnt help with: behavioral change.

    Reintroduction of wolves in a number of places, notably, as the GP mentioned, Yellowstone, changes the behavior of prey animals and other members of the ecosystem. Humans just culling deer during hunting season doesnt do that.

  9. Apple loved dongles *long* before Jobs passed away, he OKd tons of dongles, he also was responsible for deprecating tons of ports and such, which were met with the exact criticism you have now (âoeremoved a pro feature!!!???!!â). And as far as ergonomics goes, some of us remember the hockey puck mouse among other things... Iâ(TM)m a big Apple fan, and I like their products, but anyone who thinks those partixular things are new, or not something Jobs would have done needs to have their memory checked (I will say, however, that i doubt Jobâ(TM)s would have been ok with the port bifrication they have now where lightning headphones cant be used on macs)

  10. Bullshit. Vulkan is now available on over 40% of Android devices, which by itself makes it the second most widely distributed graphics API in the universe

    I don't know about *that*, maybe there's a massive galactic federation of aliens out there that have a single graphics standard :p

  11. Re:Unions savaged industry on More Than 60% of Tech Workers Feel They're Underpaid (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    You assume a zero sum economy, it doesnt work that way, more people also means more spending, more money flowing, a bigger economy. Capitalism relies on the velocity of money, and that means more people spending money, not concentrations at the top as we do see (and which we wouldn't if your premise was correct, the money simply wouldnt be there, the problem isn't that employment or money has moved out of the country, it's that the wage disparity between the top and the bottom has become so huge because of stagnant wages that money isn't moving in the way it really needs to to grow the economy for anyone but the very wealthy).

    Industry didn't outsource because costs were too high alone, they did it because organized labor's power declined and they were able to get favorable laws passed to allow outsourcing, consolidation, and stashing money overseas to be much much easier.

    tl;dr you're wrong and your randian fantasy's about how organized labor and immigration destroyed livelihoods is wrong too and you should feel bad.

  12. Article says he was in Bluemix, which is IBM's offering to compete with AWS/App Engine/Azure, he wasn't selling old services.
    Disclaimer: I'm a former IBMer who worked in cloud

  13. "Nobody Maintains it" on Is Google's Promotion of HTTPS Misguided? (this.how) · · Score: 1

    You can walk into libraries all over the world, pull a book off the shelf, and read it. Nobody maintains it; it just sits there. Some things work that way.

    You know there's an entire *profession* dedicated to maintaining it, yeah?

  14. Er no. I just poked around a bit on the LLVM and Outreachy websites and as best I can tell:

    *This is about 1 internship slot, not the entire scholarship program (and not even that because it doesnt look like one happened with LLVM this year through Outreachy, period). Outreachy would provide funding for an intern in one of the underserved groups they cater to.

    *It doesnt mean there can't be other interns outside that program

    *This doesnt seem to effect the rest of LLVM's scholarship program

    I'm hard pressed to figure out what de Espindola's problem is with this, or with the code of conduct which really seems to boil down to "don't call someone out because of race, gender, ethnicity, etc, and don't get upset if they tell you to go shove it in return"

  15. Your post, and the post before, are fantastic examples of why I still come here for the comments. Thank you.

  16. Just the media? on Ask Slashdot: Do We Need a New Word For Hacking? · · Score: 1

    From your own post *Hijack = illegally seize (an aircraft, ship, or vehicle) in transit --> change the meaning of a word or term What you're demonstrating isn't something bad, it's just language evolving like it always does. Hell, even "computer" is a "hijacked" word.

  17. The outrageous part isn't really the ruling... on Project Gutenberg Blocks German Users After Outrageous Court Ruling (teleread.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The outrageous part isn't really the ruling... that's about access, and while it's problematic, the root outrage here should be the ridiculous length of copyright in the western world in general, companies still profiting or restricting access and it's decades after the author has passed

  18. Re:"Convinced" of bluetooth??? on Rejoice: Samsung's Next Flagship Smartphone Looks To Keep the Headphone Jack Alive (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    My BT over ear headphones (cheap-midrange MPOWs that work pretty well and are rather comfy) also have an analog mode, just like a most of the most expensive over the ear headphones, which is basically a jack that a provided 1/8"1/8" mini jack cable can plug into and drive them just like normal cans. Used them on my last flight for just that! That said, a lot of airlines are removing in flight entertainment from the seats and just providing in flight streaming from a on-plane server to the wifi (the streaming and entertainment are free, connecting to the wider internet costs money)

  19. He's a Russian citizen, it's likely that after the US imprisons him he'd be kicked back to Russia anyway for whatever they're going to jail him for, but if Russia does first there's a decent chance he can avoid the US part of the equation at least

  20. Actually that sounds like exactly what theyâ(TM)re doing, basically sounds like their âoeproductivity toolâ is their app portal for work, and also doubles as spyware

  21. Re:Mobile internet still sucks on The Mobile Internet Is the Internet (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    (And yes, there are a couple typos left in which I didnt catch in my haste to post, which goes to show it isnt perfect, but I’m not 100% perfect on a normal keyboard either)

  22. Re:Mobile internet still sucks on The Mobile Internet Is the Internet (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I basically touch type on my phone with my thunbs, the muscle memory of where the keys are stays with me and I, and I think most millenials, type on my phone enough to continually reinforce that. If I borrow someone elses phone and the keyboard is different then that’s a different story, and on my tablet, which I type much less on, I’m definitely hunt and peck, but on my phone? I typedthis whole thing on it without actually looking at the keyboard and had to fix exactly one typo. It’s not hunt and peck for those of used to it.

  23. Re:I blame Carly Fiorina on Hewlett-Packard Historical Archive Destroyed In California Fires (pressdemocrat.com) · · Score: 1

    According to the summary, let alone TFA, Agilent *did* have adequate storage, it's the second spinoff, Keysight, that screwed up here

  24. ESPN is mostly owned by disney, FWIW