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  1. Re:Attack Software on Should International Travelers Leave Their Phones At Home? (freecodecamp.com) · · Score: 1

    1. Indeed.
    2. Yes, you could, but the meter-long porcelain or glass isolator you would need may be a bit conspicuous....

    Incidentally, it is kV, not "KV", case does matter very much in SI. "KV" is Kelvin-Volt and that does not make sense, except in very special circumstances.

  2. Re:Attack Software on Should International Travelers Leave Their Phones At Home? (freecodecamp.com) · · Score: 1

    Have fun staying in solitary while waiting to be deported. Or maybe spending, say, 20 years in prison before being deported. While I understand the sentiment, it does not get much more stupid than this.

  3. I gather you are unable to recognize sarcasm...

  4. Re:One ass to kick on No CEO: The Swedish Company Where Nobody Is In Charge (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I disagree. I see a lot of things going terribly wrong (including clear existential threats) at our customers, and the CEOs are all asleep at the wheel or make things worse.

  5. Re:Good luck with that on No CEO: The Swedish Company Where Nobody Is In Charge (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    One one: Greed. Apart from that, none at all and growing is actually the number one thing that can kill a successful enterprise.

  6. Re:Good luck with that on No CEO: The Swedish Company Where Nobody Is In Charge (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    If you look at companies with very high experience and skill levels, you often find that indeed they do not grow, often far below this size. They do not need to. They are at the top of their game and they know it. Only those in the mediocre and below class need to grow.

  7. Re:ads on youtube on YouTube Will Kill Unskippable 30-Second Ads Next Year (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. I just recently found out as well. Now I am disabling the ad-blocker for YouTubers I want to support, but only if they chose to go with low-annoyance ads.

  8. Re:TANSTAAFL on YouTube Will Kill Unskippable 30-Second Ads Next Year (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I disagree. Micropayments work well if done right and greed is kept in check. Just look at Patreon, for example.

  9. Re:Oh joy on YouTube Will Kill Unskippable 30-Second Ads Next Year (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Not a problem. Just put those YouTubers that think they can to it to you on a "Do now watch, ever" list.

  10. Re:It's all wasted time and money for almost every on YouTube Will Kill Unskippable 30-Second Ads Next Year (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I have to disagree on "force us to watch". If they try to force me to watch 30 seconds of advertising, they lose me as a viewer at around 5 seconds, likely permanently. As I believe it is the YouTubers decision what ADs to allow, this is as it should work.

  11. Re:Block on YouTube Will Kill Unskippable 30-Second Ads Next Year (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Very likely this. Overdo it with advertising - lose it completely. Greed is not a good strategy when people do not need your product. (It is not a good one when they do either.)

  12. That is a loss on YouTube Will Kill Unskippable 30-Second Ads Next Year (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    These were pretty good to weed out part of the crappy content. Have one of these in front of your video? Do _not_ get my view let alone subscription, ever!

  13. Re:Legal isn't even an option we have on 70 Percent of Young Swedish Men Are Video Pirates, Study Says (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. This whole thing is a giant supplier-failure. Suppliers have zero standing complaining that a product they are not even offering gets copied without compensation. They are basically doing it to themselves and then are crying out for laws to fix the effects of their own stupidity and greed. That will never work.

  14. As it turns out, quality content does not have that problem. An artist that can not survive on what people are willing to give does not deserve to be able to live of his art. It has always been like that, except when in modern times Big Content has hijacked and perverted the system. Incidentally, copyright was introduced to prevent big publishers ripping off artists by printing their texts without permission and with zero compensation for the artists. As such, it is completely perverted today.

  15. At the stage where you have a working Democracy that does not bow to US interests. The Swiss have made downloading for personal use legally tolerated, because if it ever came to a vote, a law criminalizing it would stand no chance. Of course, every new law in Switzerland has to be signed off by the population and that is what Democracy looks like. Not always smart, but usually keeping self-interest of the citizens in view.

  16. Aehm, are these not called "ALTERNATE FACTS" now? Or is that only when they cam from the ruling Junta?

  17. These are not called "terrorists"... on Zuckerberg Shares Facebook's Plan to Bring Community Together, Edits Out a Questionable Sentence Minutes Later (mashable.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The ones "planning" terrorist attacks using a Facebook channel are called "pathetic losers without a clue". Chances are they only think about doing something terroristic because some FBI provocateur suggested it to them and will be providing fake explosives and the like.

  18. Re:Arrow of time on Autism Starts Months Before Symptoms Appear, Study Shows (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Wrong question. The right question is whether a tree _can_ fall when nobody is around...

  19. Re:Layman's Terms on JavaScript Attack Breaks ASLR On 22 CPU Architectures (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Not at all. I was referring to "laymen" in the discussion at hand, not to the acronym. But it takes 2 braincells to rub together to see that. You are obviously lacking them.

  20. Re:No, Autism starts before symptoms are OBVIOUS. on Autism Starts Months Before Symptoms Appear, Study Shows (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    80% ain't great, though.

    It is something else you can use to get the reliability of the diagnosis up when you have a suspicion. And it helps understanding the process better, because it means you can study it earlier because there is a way to identify children that are reasonably likely to develop the condition. All in all a pretty good and helpful scientific result.

  21. Re:Not likely to help diagnosis on Autism Starts Months Before Symptoms Appear, Study Shows (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    And that was no the point, at least not directly. It is just one more piece of the puzzle, and it means you can start firming up a diagnosis way earlier. Of course you cannot use a single test that has a high probability of error, but it helps as part of a set of tests. Statistics 101.

  22. Re:Arrow of time on Autism Starts Months Before Symptoms Appear, Study Shows (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    The best explanation we have is that the observer makes this happen. Hence without observer, both possible directions for time are valid. It is unclear how sophisticated the observer has to be, but a machine will not do.

  23. Re:Can't Be True! on Autism Starts Months Before Symptoms Appear, Study Shows (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Excellent! And think of all the other good this could do!

  24. Re:Can't Be True! on Autism Starts Months Before Symptoms Appear, Study Shows (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you sure about that? I call "Fake News"! (Or is it "Alternate Facts"? I get confused by these modern terms for "lying blatantly"...) If you dig deep enough, you will find people that were divorced because of clerical error that never were married! That completely disproves your claim! Obviously your claims have no link to reality!

  25. Re: Can't Be True! on Autism Starts Months Before Symptoms Appear, Study Shows (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 2

    And it is even more: He was only "proving" that for one specific vaccine, because he wanted to promote another one without the risk that was to come out shortly (and earn him a pretty penny). So even the "original" faked study did not show what these morons think it did.