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  1. Re:oh, great on Google Responds On Skewed Holocaust Search Results (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Hitler ordered the death of millions. That is verifiably true regardless of precision or efficacy.

  2. Re:oh, great on Google Responds On Skewed Holocaust Search Results (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    History should be questioned, just as any science.

    But the chances that major events were recorded incorrectly diminishes to nearly zero as they are closer to the digital age. (The keyword is "major"... whether Trump ate Clinton's KFC bucket with silver utensils stolen from Taiwan by the Russians instead of fully gold forks lent from China doesn't qualify.) The most likely untruths from the last century lie in internal strategy, unrecorded thoughts, and secret locations. Not whether Hitler ordered genocide.

  3. Re:America hates Hillary Clinton on Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if the allocation were fully proportional, say only based on number of representatives, the election result would have been the same. Trump would have received 246 EC votes to Clinton's 190 (with the threshold in such a system being 218 instead of 270).

    The bigger issue with California is that it had so many wasted votes; over 3.4 million Democrats in the state could have stayed at home with no change to the winner of the state. Less than 3% of those extra voters could have moved to the Rust Belt prior to the election to give Clinton the overall victory.

  4. Re:Finland on Finland Will Give Some Unemployed Citizens a Basic Income (theoutline.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The ironic thing is that this is basic investing, that businesses should be glad to be doing. I don't get why this is not done more often.

    To a company, that's not investing. It's kickstarter for people... free money with no ownership stake in the outcome. It puts the company at a big disadvantage to competitors--who aren't required to participate in the investment--if the company spends its profits on people who could just go work for a competitor or not work at all.

    To a nation, it's more of an investment since there's a better chance that the people will stay in the country and keep their contributions within its borders.

    (I assume you are not talking about company-paid education with strings attached, since that already exists and is used in many industries.)

  5. Re:.NET why? seriously on Is Microsoft 'Reaping the Rewards' From Open-Sourcing Its .NET Core? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously I am bias against them

    That's your answer. If you think it won't work right or as well simply because of its association with Microsoft (which is looser now due to the .NET Foundation being an independent organization), and you took more time to make your comment than it would take to type "why .NET" into a search engine, then you don't care about facts and don't need us to tell you.

  6. Re: And? on U.S. Proposes Car-To-Car Data Sharing Standards (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Good job mobile site. And I can't even delete or edit the extra comment.

  7. Re: And? on U.S. Proposes Car-To-Car Data Sharing Standards (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You (when automated, your car) is responsible for driving based on the conditions that can be sensed directly. Any communication comes merely as warning.

    The information should only help you to be more cautious, never less... the worst a communications hack should do is to make your driving inefficient, not dangerous.

  8. Re: And? on U.S. Proposes Car-To-Car Data Sharing Standards (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You (or when automated, your car) is responsible for driving based on the conditions that can be sensed directly. Any communication comes merely as warning.

    The information should only help you to be more cautious, never less... the worst a hack should do is to make your driving inefficient, not dangerous.

  9. Not to mention that this happened before the one everyone thought was so bad.

  10. Re:Hmm on Android Chief Squashes Rumors of Android Merging With Chrome OS (pcworld.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    People here hate Microsoft and Windows for a host of reasons. I know. Many of them are very valid reasons.

    But we're talking UI here, specifically its hybrid capabilities. Please save the comments on telemetry and updates and how Satya Nadella personally ate all your puppies for another thread.

  11. Re:Hmm on Android Chief Squashes Rumors of Android Merging With Chrome OS (pcworld.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Windows 8 is yesterday's news and should never have been released for desktops. It was a tablet OS only, regardless of what MS marketing would have liked you to believe.

    Windows 10 has a much better hybrid UI. Not perfect obviously. It still has too much of a mix of old and new (reminds me of old OS X, some of the OS was brushed metal, some was smooth gradient, and some was skeuomorphic). But 10 has removed some of the strict (ugly) design guidelines of Metro that resulted in very uninspired UIs, and the adjustments between desktop vs. tablet modes make it much more useful on the desktop than Windows 8 ever was.

    It doesn't please everyone, but nobody else is even trying. (Well, Ubuntu was for a while, where did that ever go?)

  12. Re:Colour me suprised on Google Has Stopped Developing Its Own Self-Driving Car - Report (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Correction:

    iPhones have now existed as long as RIM sold Blackberry devices before them

  13. Re:Colour me suprised on Google Has Stopped Developing Its Own Self-Driving Car - Report (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The issue wasn't that a virtual keyboard was specifically unusable, but that people were used to physical keys. iPhones have now existed as long as RIM did before them, so it's safe to say that most people are now used to virtual keyboards.

    Still, iPhones aren't great for business. The integration between normal apps is still pretty awful today, and it's made worse for business apps because many companies require enhanced containerization which make it even more difficult for their apps to integrate with the OS. I think there is a market for some really well-designed business phones, and I doubt Apple will ever provide it. (But Android, so far, hasn't given me much hope either.)

  14. Nah, that's Vermin Supreme's campaign promise. It's easy to confuse the two, I know... one is a satirical candidate wearing something ridiculous on his head who wants to dismantle the government, and the other is Vermin Supreme.

  15. Re:Good for bad internet connection on Netflix Finally Gets Download Option (netflix.com) · · Score: 1

    If you are at home you will have a network connection.

    Not if your Internet connection drops, in which case caching as much of the episode or movie as possible may prevent disruption.

    And not if your connection is too slow to adequately stream high def content, in which case pre-downloading the next episode or even a selection of titles could make it a better value than DVD.

  16. Re: Desktop Windows has more users than X11/Linux on Microsoft Exec Urges Linux Developers To Try Windows 10 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Haha don't let the door hit ya...

    Meanwhile I will use the best OS for the job, without rebooting or a VM penalty.

  17. Re:Desktop Windows has more users than X11/Linux on Microsoft Exec Urges Linux Developers To Try Windows 10 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    The article was not written by Microsoft. And Microsoft has made it ubuntantly clear (couldn't help myself) that they are providing a native Ubuntu image that runs on top of the Windows Subsystem for Linux.

    A Canonical representative was present at the announcement and said the following:

    it's the exact same root filesystem, the same root tarball, identical--bit for bit, checksum for checksum--as Ubuntu in Azure, or any other public cloud, on a bear metal machine or virtual machine if you install Ubuntu, or if you are running Ubuntu in a Docker container or LXD container or any other container

    It's identical to what you would download off Canonical's site except:
    - WSL translates user mode system calls to the NT kernel instead of using a real Linux kernel
    - requisite init tweaks from the default (since it isn't actually booting the machine)

  18. I disagree. It is a good thing to improve all areas.

  19. Because having fake aloe vera in aloe vera lotion is a really big deal.

    This is the relative privation fallacy. There are always more important problems in the world, but that doesn't mean that the value of the smaller problem is zero.

  20. Re: Woha... on Slashdot Asks: Which Windows Laptop Could Replace a MacBook Pro? · · Score: 1

    Terseness depends on how you utilize aliases, and on what you want out of it. Powershell really shines in areas where you would do awkward string manipulation in other shells.

  21. Re:Caution, but optimism on Microsoft Joins the Linux Foundation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Not really. Unless they figure out a way to own https://github.com/torvalds/linux, or to convert most people and companies to using Microsoft's fork of Linux (the existence of which is still just speculation on your part), then it will remain as it is.

  22. Re:No fear of conservative backlash on Facebook's Fight Against Fake News Was Undercut by Fear of Conservative Backlash (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    People voted for Trump because they hated the idea of President Hillary. People voted for Hillary because they hated the idea of President Trump.

    Our voting system produces this result. People don't care so much about finding the perfect leader, but they do want to make sure the wrong person doesn't get elected. They want an anti-vote, and it comes in the form of the most popular candidate who isn't the worst. Eventually two parties rise up with opposing viewpoints on most issues, and most people choose sides in order to prevent the most hated alternative viewpoints from gaining support.

    Fixing this problem requires fixing our voting system. We must be able to simultaneously vote for the candidate we admire most, while giving a secondary vote to the other less evil candidates.

    http://www.cgpgrey.com/politic...

  23. Re:Can you cross-compile with it? on Microsoft is Bringing Visual Studio To Mac (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    That's the whole point of Xamarin.

  24. Re: Serious he missed the 2 biggest problems I've on 'Here Be Dragons': The Seven Most Vexing Problems In Programming (infoworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Write the code, but for the love, make it readable. Make it so readable to the point that you can show an implemented business rule to the guy who will be using it, and he should be able to make out what's going on even with no programming experience. (Not lower level database access, UI code, etc.)

  25. Re: Keep the candidates away on Slashdot Asks: Should The US Abolish The Electoral College? · · Score: 1

    It is less about us learning about them, but them learning about us.