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  1. Re:what? This feels created on To Solve the Diversity Drought in Software Engineering, Look to Community Colleges (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Why focus on diversity in the industry when you should instead focus on diversity in the education needed to get into the industry? Bring more diversity into IT by creating more applicants who are diverse.

    Did you even read the summary? That's what the article is all about.

  2. Re:digital pokemon? on People Have Spent Over $1M Buying Virtual Cats on the Ethereum Blockchain (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Perhaps we could call them Digi-mon?

  3. Re:Maybe... on Tumblr Is Tumbling (medium.com) · · Score: 4, Informative
    Tumblr, Flickr, del.icio.us, MusicMatch, Geocities, Inkatomi, Summly, Broadcast.com ...

    There isn't webservice that Yahoo can't destroy it.

  4. People who live in glass houses... on Mobile Homes Are So Expensive Now, Hurricane Victims Can't Afford Them (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you live on the gulf coast or tornado alley, maybe a mobile home isn't your best bet. The main reason the price or new units is so high is because the supply of used units suddenly dropped, forcing people who would have bought a used unit to buy a new one.

  5. What about real world blind boxing? on Belgium Denounces Loot Boxes as Gambling; Hawaiian Legislator Calls Them 'Predatory' (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    While I tend to agree, where do you draw the line? What about real world items that are sold with random distribution? Things like blind-boxed collectable figures or even trading cards? "Sorry kid, you have to be at least 18 to buy baseball cards. It's gambling."

  6. wrong audience on Justin Trudeau Is 'Very Concerned' With FCC's Plan to Roll Back Net Neutrality (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He means well, but this is a US problem and he's the Canadian Prime Minister ... no jurisdiction. As with many other issues, there is no substance to Trudeau's pronouncements in this case. At most, he has a bully pulpit, but not one that the US administration is likely to listen to.

    The US administration or even the US general public is not the intended audience here. Trudeau is trying to reassure Canadian consumers (and warn Canadian ISPs) that Canada's CRTC will not follow in the FCC's footsteps.

  7. Re: Unconvincing Tantrum on Cloudflare Might Be Exploring a Way To Slow Down FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Home Internet Speeds (twitter.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What they add to the "conversation" is how many people support one view versus another. By your logic, Trump and Hillary tied the election with one vote each, since all of the duplicate votes were irrelevant.

  8. If Google abuses their dominant position in web search to promote (or hide) certain sites, that's definitely a problem and the FTC should look into it; but at least I have the option of using Bing or DuckDuckGo. Google's dominance is not a true monopoly. If I live in area were Comcast is the only option and they are promoting or blocking certain sites, I have not recourse because they are a physical monopoly and need to be regulated as such.

  9. Re:Add CBC, BBC, Al Jazeera and CNN to the list on Eric Schmidt Says Google News Will 'Engineer' Russian Propaganda Out of the Feed (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The OP said state-owned, not state-owning.

  10. Re:Add CBC, BBC, Al Jazeera and CNN to the list on Eric Schmidt Says Google News Will 'Engineer' Russian Propaganda Out of the Feed (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    Since when is Time-Warner a state?

  11. Not limited to music on Stock Music Artists Aren't Always Happy About How Their Music Is Used (wired.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Stock photographs also get used for things the photographer (or model) didn't anticipate and may not approve of. Are you a programmer? Guess what, a neo-nazi may be using your software to organize their mailing list. If your are an architect or builder, you may find that building you created is now a porno store, or an abortion clinic, or an NRA office. If you create something, you have little to no control over who uses it and for what once you sell it.

  12. Paper is amazingly versatile and is not vulnerable to viruses or power failures. Apollo 13 used the cover of their flight manual (along with duct tape, socks and a few other odds and ends) to construct a CO2 scrubber that saved the lives of three crew members. I'd like to see a tablet computer do that.

  13. Re:provoked angry Americans to take to the streets on Facebook, Twitter and Google Berated by Senators on Russia (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The voter turnout for the 2016 election was a 20-year low. The problem was not how many people voted, but that they were A) intentionally misinformed and B) given a poor choice of candidates.

  14. Re:Reporting the news is biased??? on Jimmy Wales' WikiTribune is Already Biased (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    I just checked Wikitribune and the Manafort inditement story is already pushed down to the 11th spot on the page (way "below the fold" in newspaper speak). I guess the Trumpbots have been hard at work pushing unrelated stories up.

  15. Re:There are too many apps to setup on Windows 10's 'Controlled Folder Access' Anti-Ransomware Feature Is Now Live (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Presumably, the OS would be smart enough to whitelist it's own executables automatically, so you'd only be setting up third-party apps that need to access your protected directories (My_Docs or whatever; if you try and protect your whole hard-drive then all that extra setup is on you.)

  16. Restaurants in the civilized world have wireless chip card readers that they bring to your table. It will even calculate your tip for you, or you can enter a specific amount.

    Always enter the tip manually. Every one I've ever used calculates the percentage tip on the after-tax total rather than the pre-tax total (which is the accepted standard).

  17. Courage! on "Maybe It's a Piece of Dust" (theoutline.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Only Apple has the courage to remove the dust filters.

  18. Yes but Millennials have never had a landline so it's "revolutionary" to be able to make a call from a fixed device without carrying around a smartphone. By the way, have you heard about the new free, wireless music streaming service that doesn't need data called "FM radio"? It's revolutionary!

  19. Re: It's the same tool my identity theft plan uses on 'Google Just Made Gmail the Most Secure Email Provider on the Planet' (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    The most secure system is to host it yourself, and encrypt the contents with a key you only have access to.

    "Is that you Hillary?"

    Sorry, my jokes are 6 months behind, I meant,"Is that you Jared?"

  20. With friends like this, who needs enemies on Israeli Spies 'Watched Russian Agents Breach Kaspersky Software' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Hi Neighbor. As I was breaking into your house to "borrow" a few beers, I noticed someone had already broken in. You might wanna get that lock fixed. You're welcome.

  21. Kinda funny, but not relevant.

    Thanks, that's my goal. They don't give mod points for relevance.

  22. Actually if Google has to pay out billions just to keep Apple from going to Bing, I'd say it's pretty decisive evidence AGAINST market dominance. Market dominating companies don't have to bribe retailers for shelf space.

  23. Race to the bottom on 'Staying Longer At Home' Was Key To Stone Age Technology Change 60,000 Years Ago (phys.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The beautiful Howiesons Poort industry with its long, thin blades is replaced at 58,000 years ago by a simple technology that could be rapidly produced.

    Skilled craftsmen replaced by cheap labor. Who knew it was a tradition 58,000 years old.

  24. WARNING! This universe is copy-protected with Q-Lock(TM) Digital Rights Management. Any attempt to create a copy of the universe without quantum Hall effect will not boot.

  25. When I hear someone complain about Ikea furniture being too hard to put together, it tells me immediately that they are an idiot (just like back in the 80s if their VCR flashed "12:00AM" continuously).