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  1. Re:Interesting article on pros/cons.. on Open Source Contributions More Important Than Tabs Vs Spaces For Salary (opensource.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course the comments are more insightful :D
    Because that blog post is simply wrong and written by an idiot.

  2. Re:Quote from president Minsky Snapdragon on Elon Musk Warns Governors: Regulate AI Before It's 'Too Late' (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    I guess you can have it simpler by shooting the president and the vice president.
    Or don't you do reelections then?

  3. Tripple click ... on Ask Slashdot: What Software (Or Hardware) Glitch Makes You Angry? · · Score: 1

    Annoying is that many applications especially on windows don't support triple click (to select a whole line of text)
    Related to that: browser adressbar. The whole text gets selected, instead of just placing the curser where I clicked (and that is 99% of the time I click there what I want: position cursor to fix a typo) Even Safari does it now wrong on OS X.
    Windows text copy paste. Select a word and cut/copy it: in case of cut there is correctly one of the surrounding spaces removed (so that there are not 2 spaces between the remaining words). However, that space is in the clipboard (also why you do copy), which makes it impossible to simple copy paste initial passwords.
    Now if you paste that cut word at another place in the same document, the space from the clipboard is most of the time added wrongly, so you have to manually fix it by adding one space on the other side of the word and deleting the wrongly added space.
    Ribbons .... software with ribbons is IMHO unusable.
    Autoplay of videos. Browser/Computer crashed. On reboot it tries to load 100 youtube videos and tries to start them ....
    Related to text selection: on Mail.app it is impossible to fix a mistyped email address. After you have hit ',' or tab to go to the next line, the text of the recipient is converted into a "blue button", which you can drag around but can not edit anymore.
    Pointless UI changes, especially when they make the UI ugly. I like the gem stone like red orange green buttons on my old OS X, on OS X 10.10 it is simply super ugly.
    Windows file search not working ... pisses me off so big time that I mostly use the GitShell and find
    Without a good shell windows is completely unusable anyway ... outlook makes me vomit. /. being close to unusable since month. The thread of posts is wrong formatted, only covers about 2/3rd of the space from left to right. The ads in the upper right area are jumping up and down, so you can not zoom into the posts. After a while the ads stop jumping around, but meanwhile I basically close them all the time and give google the message: add covers content.

  4. Re: Apple does not lead in India on Apple's Pitch To Indian Developers: Think Local, Stay Up To Date, and Aim For Design Awards (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it does not default to 'iMessenger', the default is SMS.
    You have to activate internet usage aka iMessenger to useit.
    Hint: most iPhone users do not live in the USA.
    Hint, Nr. 2: every iPhone user has Android friends.
    So: guess what they use to chat with those?
    Hint Nr. 3: it is not iMessenger.

  5. Re:"cybersecurity software firm that bears his nam on US Government Crackdown Threatens Kaspersky's American Dream (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Yevgeny is the official spellingg of his name in roman letters.
    Eugen is not, and I forgot the retarded way how americans spell Eugen, or perhaps that is just a bad translitteration via the russian way of spelling Eugen?
    Anyway, why can we not just lay back and spell the names like they are spelled in the original language? And more important: pronounce it that way?
    No german would ever impose his german variant on your name. Why do you impose your variation (of pronounciation) on our names?

  6. Re:Souls must go for a shitload of money on Popular Chrome Extension Sold To New Dev Who Immediately Turns It Into Adware (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    So you are not selling your Apps under an 'artists name'?

  7. Re:Frost piss. on PC Shipments Hit the Lowest Level In a Decade (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, I actually wanted to try it.
    Forget about it, though.
    Thanx for the warning!

  8. Re:"cybersecurity software firm that bears his nam on US Government Crackdown Threatens Kaspersky's American Dream (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Well,
    his (ex) wife is the woman behind that show.
    He is 'only' the CEO.
    How they krganized their surnames I don't know, e.g. if he took her name, and why both still have the same name.

  9. Re:Apple does not lead in India on Apple's Pitch To Indian Developers: Think Local, Stay Up To Date, and Aim For Design Awards (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    Most people don't use iMessage.
    They use plain SMS, WhatsApp, Viber, KiK, Telegram, Skype, Threema etc. in no particular order.

  10. "cybersecurity software firm that bears his name" on US Government Crackdown Threatens Kaspersky's American Dream (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Hu?

    Kaspersky, the company was founded by Natalya Kaspersky and her ex husband Yevgeny Kaspersky.

    No idea how that Eugene Kaspersky comes in, is that the retarded american way how to spell Russian names and it is meant to be Yevgeny == Eugene?

  11. Re:most can't read on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Read Code? · · Score: 1

    I saw a few of them after I had hit sent :)
    This iPad/Safari has every few days problems to highlite typos, quite annoying.

  12. Re:Why not adults? on Vaccines May Soon Be Mandatory For Children In France (theverge.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    You seem not to know how vaccines work.
    Hint: they basically work exact the smae way in an adult as in a child.
    (Yes, I simplified as there are indeed variations between race, gender and age ... but not in the sense the parent implied)

  13. Re:Why not adults? on Vaccines May Soon Be Mandatory For Children In France (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You got it somewhat backward.
    The viruses spread fast, becuause people/children are densky packed.
    Not because they are children or not adults.

  14. Re:Why not adults? on Vaccines May Soon Be Mandatory For Children In France (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I was raised in a time when everyone of my age had all those deseases we have vaccines for now.
    However people around age 20 - 30'are much younger, I actually wonder, too, how they fare. Especially as some of those 'child hood deseases' can be extremely dangerous for pregnant women or their fruit.

  15. Re:Cash never fails. on Ask Slashdot: Why Do So Many of You Think Carrying Cash Is 'Dangerous'? · · Score: 1

    That would be illegal in europe, and I bet it is illegal in your country, too.
    Cash is legal tender!
    Every creditor is by law required to accept cash, unless that law changes.

  16. Re:Cash is untraceable after being stolen on Ask Slashdot: Why Do So Many of You Think Carrying Cash Is 'Dangerous'? · · Score: 2

    And how would a potential robber know if you carry cash and how much?

  17. Re:Frost piss. on PC Shipments Hit the Lowest Level In a Decade (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I dual box EvE on my 2014 13" Mac book Air just fine.

  18. Re:Coding is now VocTech. on Early 'Coding School' Dev Bootcamp Is Shutting Down (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm german.
    I still live in germany.

    The government has no connection to unions what so ever.

    That would probably completely spoil the 'idea of a union', would it not?

  19. Re:most can't read on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Read Code? · · Score: 1

    At the turn of the 20th century, we were barely at 50% literacy rate world wide.
    Hard to argue with that. However historians often have no clue in what language people write, how many can write or read etc.
    E.g. there is an incident that is even captured on early black and white film.

    Germany had some colonies in Africa around 1850 - 1890. With outragous abuse against the natives which lead to big debates in the parliament. Africans killed, raped etc.

    At some point an investgator was sent by the Emporer.

    That investigator meat the chief of one of the big tribes and asked him about those accusations.

    The chief hold a bundle of a few hundret chop stick like 'sticks' in his hands and started to call names and happenings: 'Ms. Awara Chungawa, raped and killed by german soldiers, 12.05.1875' throwing one of the sticks in front of the investigator.
    After two hours he had thrown all the sticks in front of the investigator, giving names, dares and summaries of the happenings.

    The investigator was impressed buy the memory if the Chief and asked how it is possible to memorize so many details about those topics.

    The chief looked ar him and pointed to the sticks: "What memorizing? It is clearly written on every stick I showed to you!"

    The german occupiers/colonial forces did not even know that those aboriginies had a written language that consisted out if marks on small sticks. Condensed and simple enough to write at least one sentence with marks on a small stick like piece of wood (aka chop stick, the sticks where longer but thinner than chop sticks).

    Tje atrocities the germans did in africa is one of the reasons why "politics at home" where eager to get rid of the colonies during/after WWI.

    Anyway, my point is: there are probably much more lost writing systems etc. than we have recorded evidence for existing ones.

    Scientists/historians simply underestimate how usefull and wide spread reading and writing was. Look at sea faring nations around the mediterranean, navigation instructions are usually written down. In what ever code. Shipping lists, people manifesrs, tax relevamt stuff etc. p.p.

    In old Egypt probably around 80% of the adult could read and write, the scrip looks complex but is bottom line super simple.

    It is hard to believe that the commoners around those areas where illiterates if you actually dig into the matter.

  20. Re:Too hard to find flaws? on iPhone Bugs Are Too Valuable To Report To Apple (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    iOS sandboxes each app.
    Consider it a glorified change root environment which is hardened against break outs.
    Basically every app is running with its own group and user id. They can not access each others data.

    https://www.apple.com/business...

    Yes, we need a new search engine, since google is 'tweaking' search results lots of stuff is hard to find.

  21. Re:Coding is now VocTech. on Early 'Coding School' Dev Bootcamp Is Shutting Down (axios.com) · · Score: 0

    Every evidence is evidence.
    I hope you never end up in court with such an idiotic attitude.

  22. Re:Coding is now VocTech. on Early 'Coding School' Dev Bootcamp Is Shutting Down (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The german part is complete nonsense.

  23. Re:Coding is now VocTech. on Early 'Coding School' Dev Bootcamp Is Shutting Down (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    In germany not many are in a union. Especially not in IT.
    And here 'workers are unionised' and not 'shops are unionised' (don't really understand what the later is meaning).

    Many people here don't agree with unions, they are the main reason for not having enough child care places, not having high quallified part time jobs etc. Bottom line they are even responsible for a unnecessary high unemployment rate.

    I never would join a union, regardless what profession I had.

  24. Re:Growing season [Re:Good for Russia] on Iceberg the Size of Delaware, Among Biggest Ever Recorded, Snaps Off Antarctica (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you should read the links you post.
    Spring thaw of 'snow' and 'ice' in mountains or far south of the arctic circle are completely irrelevant for what is going north of the arctic circle.
    Are you really such an idiot?
    None of you links has on the first glance ANYTHING to do with what we where talking about before.

    Who cars that land that already is farmland is thawing a week or two more early?

    You claimed that climate change would create new farmland in Russia, which it won't.

  25. No idea what you are talking about?
    'Friends' making screenshots and distributing tem to 'non friends'?

    My privacy settings make you not see anything from me, except that I have an account ... go figure.