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  1. From that same poll, 83% of Republicans "totally agree" that "Freedom of the press is essential for American democracy."

    However, as you state, 43% "totally agree" that "The president should have the authority to close news outlets engaged in bad behavior."

    Clearly, the Republicans don't believe, as you try to imply, that news outlets should be censored. The general consensus is that the Republicans that agreed with the second statement were inferring that "bad behavior" could include something like criminal or even treasonous behavior. Which seems quite reasonable, don't you agree?

  2. Nah. Conservatives are the ones who crave fascism. The police state is their comfort zone. They advocate never questioning authority, support the state crushing any form of protest, violently if necessary.

    Citation needed. In general, it is absolutely clear that conservatives favor less powerful central government and support the rights of individuals to protect themselves from overbearing government.

  3. Re: Conflicted on Qualcomm Says Apple Is $7 Billion Behind In Royalty Payments (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure. This falls under the category of "If I had made a different point, then your rebuttal would be wrong." Also, look at Moving the Goalposts Fallacy.

  4. Re: Conflicted on Qualcomm Says Apple Is $7 Billion Behind In Royalty Payments (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Or just Washington. Oh, wait ...

  5. Re:I don't know why... on Native Support For Windows File Sharing Coming To Chrome OS (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow! No question from me, but I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for all of your work on Samba!

  6. commas on Mozilla Enables WebRender By Default On Firefox Nightly · · Score: 2

    Lin Clark provides an excellent overview of WebRender and, states, "with WebRender...."

    I have no idea why I typed all of those commas.

  7. 'You Can See Almost Everything.' on 'You Can See Almost Everything.' Antarctica Just Became the Best-Mapped Continent on Earth (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Patrick Stewart has already seen everything - https://imgur.com/r/hqrg/zqVBn...

  8. Need a mod for "funny, but macabre".

  9. Re:Really bad on Hackers Can Falsify Patient Vitals (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    "But McKee also devised another method of feeding central monitoring stations without needing to disconnect the patient monitoring client.
    A variation of the attack requires the attacker to be on the same network as the patient monitoring client in order to ARP spoof the central monitoring station.
    The attacker can pose as the central monitoring station, capture data sent by the actual patient monitoring equipment, and then send falsified patient data to the real central monitoring station."

  10. Re:Not a mystery on Scientists Claim To Have Solved the Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Recursively speaking, "Scientist claims to have solved the mystery of the Slashdot typo."

  11. This reminds me of the joy (not!) we had when USB replaced RS232.

    ...

    You remember RS232 a LOT more fondly than MOST people.

    ...

    Yeah, I was having a hard time deciding whether he was being sarcastic or not.

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  13. Re:They all have the same name on Should Calls From Google's 'Duplex' System Include Initial Warning Announcements? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    "Greetings, this is Calculon."
    or
    "Hi, this is Emotibot, Jr.!"

  14. Re:Exactly? Umm, no. on Digital and Analog Audio's Curious Coexistence (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Discrete levels (0-65535), but not a square wave (0-1).

  15. Re:Widescreen laptops rule for one simple reason on Are Widescreen Laptops Dumb? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Numeric keypad on a laptop means that the rest position of your hands is not as well-centered relative to the screen. This is very disturbing to me. I suspect it bothers most people.

  16. Re:This could get messy... on Netflix Pulls Out of Cannes Following Rule Change (variety.com) · · Score: 2

    I can almost hear Chevy Chase reporting "a frustrated Cannes could not be reached for comment."

  17. Re:Have they fixed Meltdown and Spectre? on Intel Unveils New Coffee Lake 8th Gen Core Line-Up With First Core i9 Mobile CPU (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    My understanding was that Intel's version of branch-prediction applies an access-rights check too late (allowing Meltdown snooping). That doesn't sound like it couldn't be fixed, especially since AMD doesn't have that same problem.

  18. Re:~Re:Steam's Real Problem Will Be Different on Valve Removes Steam Machines From Its Home Page (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    That was clearly not bashing. The poster used "who's" twice, so I thought that he/she might want to know about "whose". I think that I was polite enough. You might want to consider your own posting, though.

  19. Re:Steam's Real Problem Will Be Different on Valve Removes Steam Machines From Its Home Page (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    For future reference, "who's" should be "whose", in this case.

  20. Do you really believe that?

  21. If I was creating a new system, I'd definitely avoid having both a lowercase L and a 1 valid at the same positions.

  22. The movie The Prestige ruined the idea of the Star Trek transporter for me.

  23. Re:My thoughts exactly. on 2M Americans Lost Power After 'Bomb Cyclone' (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    For 2015, it goes like this:

    1. Health and Human Services: 28%
    2. Welfare: 25%
    3. Defense and Homeland Security:16%
    4. Veterans:4%
    5. Transportation:4%
    6. Food and Agriculture:4%

    Given that defense of the country is the one of the few responsibilities of the federal government specified in the U.S. Constitution, it seems like 16% isn't enough. Also, it's interesting that people ignore the states and pretend that the American population isn't taxed or spending on other programs just because it is not in the federal budget.

  24. Re:Pangalactic! on Firefox 59 Will Stop Websites Snooping on Where You've Just Been (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Thank you! I was wondering what was meant.

  25. This bill isn't about a fetus, dolt.