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  1. Re:How convenient on No More Paperwork: Estonia Edges Toward Digital Government (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Why bother with Estonia? Just go to Belgium. At least the code of the ID reader and the whole security is out in the open. Somebody even put it on Github and anybody can see if an ID is valid.

    So much easier to hack if you know the source, No need to try to figure it out.

  2. Re: I think it will come back, ... eventually on 'Two Years Later, I Still Miss the Headphone Port' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    No 40$ late fee where I live. I pay 8Eur late fee if I am late. Had to look it up, as payment happens automagically, like many other bills.

  3. Re: What does problematic mean? on A Woman on Twitter is Abused Every 30 Seconds (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    With research there are no sides. Just look at flat eartheers, just because they claim to have a side does not mean their opinion is as valuable as tjose who know.

    The data that was given was notresearch. It is an opinion. So screw them.

  4. Re: Yes, sometimes you get this form Amazon on The Painful, Costly Journey of Returned Goods -- and How You End Up Purchasing Some of Them Again (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. Especially if the package is torn. It becomes a display item and should be branded and sold as such.

    And people who do this without OK from the store are basically breaking stuff, so they should pay for the damage, without access to the item. (If I scratch a car, I do not own it when I pay for the damage.)

  5. Re:My experience on 'Amazon Prime is Getting Worse' (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    From what I understood earlier, I would not get thing much faster with Prime (I am in Europe) and would not get it cheaper.
    There is a minimal delivery fee of around 30 EUR. After that delivery is free for many things.

    What Prime is for is that you will start order more, because you have Prime already. Instead of waiting that I have 30 EUR to buy, people will start ordering things that are cheaper, more often and that will entice them to use it for other things they never would have bought,

    In no way will the customer make money when a company offers some sort of discount. It is their calculation and you can bet they will make more from it, no matter how you say "But look at my calculations", because all you see is the prices on their website, not what their profits are. So a real comparison is not possible.

    I just do not use Prime. At this moment I have sevreal items worth 28 EUR in my basket. When I need something else I will ordewr it. If it is something I absolutely need, I will look elsewhere.

  6. Re:Lies, damn lies, and statistics. on A Woman on Twitter is Abused Every 30 Seconds (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    They gave an example. "What a dumb bitch." is abuse. Should have gone for "Stupid cunt." and explain that it is the Australian meaning, where it is gender neutral.

  7. Re:What does problematic mean? on A Woman on Twitter is Abused Every 30 Seconds (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They are not studying everything at the same time. They study something very specific. They study "Abuse on twitter". This is not so different to "Xmas messages on twitter".

    So you first see how many messages are send. That you compare to the total amount send. This both in total and per individual. You will see that some get none and some get a lot.
    You can even analyze from how many people it is from. You will see some will send nothing and some will send a lot. Some will even send something to themselves.

    Once you have that information, you can look at different factors. e.g. country of where the message comes from and is send to. You can also loom at age, gender, activity in general per account and a lot more things.

    The focus could be a conclusion of a genral research. You should not START with a focus group, because that will skew the results.

    As you stated,the best social studies tend to take big trends and parse then into pieces. If you start with only women, you start with peices already.

    They should have gone with "Abuse on Twitter" instead they went with "Abuse on women that use twitter". This is just as horrible as looking for "Criminal behaviour among black males" or "Greed among the Jewish population" or "Patriachial behaviour among fat bold white males". Because you are clearly steering the investigation.

    And let us look a bit closer. From the website: "778 women politicians and journalists". So not only are these women, these are women in jobs that are in aprofession that will get controversial reactions, no matter what.

    e.g. if they have an opinions on e.g. birth control, no matter their side, somebody will be against their opinion. And that is what people will tweet. So that number of one every 30 seconds suddenly sounds very low. It is ONLY one every 30 second? That's it?

  8. Re: Most of world open to other brands on Huawei Exceeds 200 Million Smartphone Shipments, Setting Company Record (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    I am inEurope typing this on a Huawei that can e bought everywhere.

  9. Rrst of the world? That apparently not Europe. I would think that it might just be the US.

  10. Re: Rich person not guilty on JD.com's Billionaire CEO Will Not Be Charged With Sexual Assault (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    As the US gives put names of people who are acused, the stick prices went down. This coyld be a nuce way to make sime money.

  11. Re: Total pricks, very frustrating. on Australian Court Orders ISPs To Block 181 'Pirate' Domains, Including Subtitle Sites (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    If they do not own the copyrights, and they don't, it is illegal for them to distribute it.

  12. Re: Public Service Annoucement: on Australian Court Orders ISPs To Block 181 'Pirate' Domains, Including Subtitle Sites (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    The fact that it is usefull does not make it legal.

  13. Re: Public Service Annoucement: on Australian Court Orders ISPs To Block 181 'Pirate' Domains, Including Subtitle Sites (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the subtitles are copyrighted. If you ever wrote down a song and send the text to a young love, you will be arrested at one point ad well.

  14. Where is the DNS server for the single windows user. I would think it sgould not be too hard to make DNS server that only lustens to localhost. Install it on your PC and you are done. No configuration, no nothing.

    Should be good enough for most. If you need something that you need to configure, other things are available.

  15. Re: I am sure there is a TAX deduction angle... on Facebook Donates $1 Million To Support Wikipedia (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    The tax deductions for this exist so companies would DO these kind of donations.

    So it is used as intended.

  16. Re: Suport the Internet Archive on Facebook Donates $1 Million To Support Wikipedia (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I hate them. Not possible to delete some of my old sites. I hate the idea that "everything must be remembererd" because most of it will be used to shame or bathmouth you.

    Just listen to any best-man speech.

  17. Re: So. Now Wiki is beholden on Facebook Donates $1 Million To Support Wikipedia (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    A donation is not a sponsorship. They also need the monies and where unable to get it from users, something they would have referred.

    So you and I (as a matter of speech) did not do enough. According to Wikipedia, 99% of the users gave nothing.

  18. So where would the word boob be offensive? The worst that could happen is that it makes a 12 year old giggle the first time he hears it.

  19. The nerds thought they where making fun of their male boobs.

  20. So when can we see yors? Going to the moon is not that hard, all you need is a big rocket.

  21. Re: Trust in Ability vs. Trust in Ethics. on Ex-Uber Engineer Claims a Self-Driving Car Drove Him Coast-To-Coast (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Prove it.

  22. Re: Color me skeptical on Ex-Uber Engineer Claims a Self-Driving Car Drove Him Coast-To-Coast (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure how you do it in the US, but here in Europe, we refuel outside if the car. It does nit sound impossible to have people at the pump who do the fuelling and take care of payment and cleaning of the sensors.

    Yet if that would be accepted, some other excuse would be found to not make it legit. "A human told it to drive there, so the car did it not by irself".

    Does not mean what he claims did or did not happen.

    And if I drivre that distance and my passanger does all the fueling, dies that mean I did not drove it the whole trip?

  23. Re: Of course it'll work SOMETIMES. on Ex-Uber Engineer Claims a Self-Driving Car Drove Him Coast-To-Coast (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    No, but it is brothers Wright territory. And Lewis and Clark had some help as well. It was mot just the two of them.

  24. No problems for ethical reasons on Emergence of Lab-Grown Meat Poses New Questions for Religious Leaders (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    People who do nott eat whatever for ethical reasons, can take the decission themselves, like they always have.

    Religion will be skomething else. Will it be Haram, kosher or seen as a vegetable. It will be interesting what theycome upwith.
    It will have no influence on what I do, yet interestingnontheless.

  25. Re: Waste of time on Emergence of Lab-Grown Meat Poses New Questions for Religious Leaders (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    So vi or rmacs?