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  1. Re:I disagree on Maine Dairy Company Settles Lawsuit Over Oxford Comma (bostonmagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    They wouldn't have been mentioned if they weren't meant to be exempted.

    You missed the whole story: Who "they" is is disputed. Everybody agrees "they" were mentioned because "they" are exempt!

  2. Re:Only one way to settle this on Maine Dairy Company Settles Lawsuit Over Oxford Comma (bostonmagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Any word processor should be able to do it quickly. Just replace each space character with a comma followed by a space.

    Word processors are not suitable for that, as they rewrite and reformat text to fit your chosen style, grammar and layout.
    You want a text editor; never confuse the two.

    I just fired up LibreOffice Writer and processed your comment as I outlined above. Voila!

    Word, processors, are, not, suitable, for, that,, as, they, rewrite, and, reformat, text, to, fit, your, chosen, style,, grammar, and, layout.,
    You, want, a, text, editor;, never, confuse, the, two.,

    I used sed -re 's/[[:blank:]]+/, /g'

    I, just, fired, up, LibreOffice, Writer, and, processed, your, comment, as, I, outlined, above., Voila!

  3. Re:Oh come on! on Maine Dairy Company Settles Lawsuit Over Oxford Comma (bostonmagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    While broaching yourself with a brooch is sure to produce an exclamation, it might also be punctuated with a sigh, blood and a scream.

    This whole problem is predicated on the lack of frequent use of semicolons; if you only have one symbol for subdividing sentences, then lists of lists are guaranteed to be as confusing and ambiguous as Oprah's third hand.

    As an experienced Pedant I think it is important to remember that the English language is informal and therefore is totally immune to pedanticisms. If you want to be a language pedant you have to switch to a formalized language like Gualish, or whatever they call it these days.

  4. Re:Oh well... on Russian Nuclear Scientists Arrested For 'Bitcoin Mining Plot' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Brain scientists and rocket surgeons would know better.

  5. Re:For a certain definition of "offensive" on YouTube Will Remove Ads, Downgrade Discoverability of Channels Posting Offensive Videos (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Other people and companies can and do exercise the same rights.

    You should see what they show on xwhateveritscalled! And Jenny Cam.

  6. Re: It's more or less still all that on YouTube Will Remove Ads, Downgrade Discoverability of Channels Posting Offensive Videos (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    I've watched a lot of Cody's videos, and I've seen a few of his youtube rants.

    First of all, it isn't really "science" as much as "science class at home." He's just dorking around on video. Nerds should love it, but that doesn't make it science.

    Next, his rants are really weak. If you're making videos with home made explosives, it is perfectly normal that the company hosting your videos might "pause" some part of the service for a few days while they review the material. That's really to be expected. He was making his own black powder on a ranch, and doing some experiments with it. And also doing some small scale mining with blasting. Normal stuff to do on a ranch, but also vaguely similar to naughty things that extremist meanies also do on youtube. So you expect to undergo review. It is really basic and obvious, especially after the first time. The second time you shouldn't be making an even more exasperated rant, instead you should understand that different types of content require different types of review standards.

    It is great that he is demonstrating the falsehood of neckbeard idiocies like "you can't hear an explosion in space."

  7. Re:It's a Linux software package on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Could Come with Snap Apps Preinstalled (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Right, quality libraries like glibc don't have a problem, because they do the work to have a stable API and maintain backwards compatibility.

    Crapware that breaks from 1.0 to 1.0.1 is just crapware, finding the right crutch to make it easier to install crap is not guaranteed to solve the problems.

  8. What a load! You don't make $83,300 in ad revenue from just "spreading information about [banned service]." Sounds like maybe there would be other English words that would more accurately describe what he's accused of.

  9. Re:It's a Linux software package on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Could Come with Snap Apps Preinstalled (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    That's what we started with, with static linked libraries, so if that was the Hole Grail then dynamic libs should have never been invented.

    I'm not buying it. This is not a list of advantages from something new, this is an old tradeoff that usually goes the other way, but with only the pros listed. I guess some people are falling for it because they look at the nouns instead of at the semantics. And it does indeed have a nifty new name.

  10. Re:WTF is a snap app on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Could Come with Snap Apps Preinstalled (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    "And because they bundle their dependencies..."

    This makes it sound almost as if we didn't already have static libraries. Or as if they were a good choice for things provided by the distro. Sure, stuffing all the dependencies into an application is fine if you're distributing it directly to customers, but for distros to do that for "upstream" packages is just insane bloat.

    And it seems easy and convenient until something like heartbleed happens and each application has its own bundled security hole. I'd much rather forego software that wants to use new features of unstable APIs, and instead have stable APIs and be able to update libraries for security on a systemwide basis.

  11. Re:A Question on the Difference on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Could Come with Snap Apps Preinstalled (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    That's a silly claim. That isn't what it is for, obviously, because this expands the number of different packages that have to be maintained.

    Different distros use different packages for actual reasons.

    This is a new flavor for the debian family, which is already badly fragmented, and it expands their fragmentation. But don't expect RHEL to join them in that mess! That's a silly-sauce prediction.

    Upstream already doesn't provide the RHEL packages. That's what makes them "upstream."

  12. Re:Security concerns? on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Could Come with Snap Apps Preinstalled (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I'm just glad I always stuck with a boring, business-friendly distro from the RedHat family.

    If you're wallowing in a toxic cesspool of malware, it is probably because you used the same distro as the Cool Kids(TM). And Cool Kids(TM) need a lot of code thrash. Security is that boring stuff that some killjoy adds right before the brogrammers get fed up and switch to New Black 0.1.

  13. Re:New direction for Uber on Uber and Lyft Want You Banned From Using Your Own Self-Driving Car in Urban Areas (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Look kid, if that is as close as you came to comprehending my comment, why reply?

    It takes about 2 brain cells to realize that I meant that their supporters tend to be people who are anti-regulation and that's why they support a company that ignores regulations.

    This isn't hard stuff. Seriously.

  14. Re:New direction for Uber on Uber and Lyft Want You Banned From Using Your Own Self-Driving Car in Urban Areas (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Also, the complete opposite of their normal attitude about regulations.

    It is disgusting, and this is going to really cut the legs out from under a lot of their supporters, because this is a lot of double-speak to ask of people!

  15. Re:Ask about the model ALS injured... on Cloudflare Is Liable For Pirate Sites and Has No Safe Harbor, Publisher Says (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 0

    I doubt people really fap with milk, I think it just a video production-value thing.
    But knowing nothing about the industry wouldn't really cause you to fap with milk.

  16. This might be a subtle troll, but Ms Pacman was a big deal because it was one of the first video games with a random number generator.

    Regular Pacman you could memorize patterns for most of the levels. If you repeat those exact joystick and button movements, the ghosts move in the same way in response every time. When I was I was a kid playing Oregon Trail on the Apple ][, my dad could play Pacman with patterns memorized until past the "apple" level. My dad was using patterns with visual cues, but you could also learn to do it off of a clock and then do it blindfolded.

    Ms Pacman there were no patterns of that sort. Somebody playing with a blindfold is cheating.

  17. Re:Cutting off their nose to spite their face on Cloudflare Is Liable For Pirate Sites and Has No Safe Harbor, Publisher Says (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    No, if there is some adverse ruling instead of just randomly raising prices it is more likely that CDNs will alter their practices to comply with the law.

    It may just mean that they get less business. That will lead to increased competition, and that could have prices go down, potentially even below the cost of providing the service, while the companies fight over which ones will survive in the smaller market.

    You didn't do any analysis, you just did a knee-jerk that rehashed your biases.

  18. Re:Interesting implication on Cloudflare Is Liable For Pirate Sites and Has No Safe Harbor, Publisher Says (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not what a summary judgement is for. It isn't a tool for when the judge thinks it is as easy call. In a civil case, you allege a bunch of facts, and an injury, and make claims about why the injury violates the law. The defendant is required to "answer" the complaint as their first step. In that answer they have to either agree to, or dispute, all the facts you alleged. If there are facts in dispute, then you need a Jury to decide the facts by trial. Before, during, and after the trial the Judge makes a bunch of determinations of Law. Sometimes the facts are not in dispute, but instead the dispute is over the law and if there is legal liability for the injury. In that case, the Judge does the same thing and determines what the Law is, but then there is no trial needed because there are no disputed facts. So then the Judge issues a Summary Judgment.

    Summary Judgment doesn't mean it was easy, it means the dispute was about what the law is, rather than about what happened. That is all it means.

    Most of the time there are disputed facts, and then you might have a Partial Summary Judgment if some of the issues of law do not rest on the facts. But the summary judgment will only address the undisputed parts, generally leaving the parts with disputed facts for a trial. This can help the Jury to focus on just their part.

  19. Re:Ask about the model ALS injured... on Cloudflare Is Liable For Pirate Sites and Has No Safe Harbor, Publisher Says (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    The year is 2018.

    Claiming not to masturbate just means you're at increased risk for prostate cancer, it doesn't imply Virtue.

  20. DMCA doesn't cover restrictions on Romulan Ale, so that is also irrelevant.

    Oh, and they're not accused of littering, so littering law is also irrelevant.

    I'm curious though, what country are you from where you mangle an English colloquialism and end up with "full period?" It is "full stop" in British English, and also in American English. You don't translate all instances of the word "stop" to "period." Just leave the colloquialisms aside, you're not supposed to intentionally try to use them.

    I'm guessing France or Italy.

  21. There is a gigantic difference between monitoring for performance compared to monitoring content

    Your words would either help cloudflare, or totally sink their argument, depending on if they're actually monitoring content.

    What if they are?

  22. The point is they have to have an additional policy for dealing with repeat offenders.

  23. Hey Nimrod, this is an American site and we speak American English, and we use a symbol which we sometimes call a "pound symbol" after some numbers to indicate that the units are in Pounds. It is pretty ignorant to get confused and think a "pound symbol" would talk about money, since money is counted using the units "dollars" and "cents."

    What you want would have to be called a "British Pound symbol," not a "pound symbol."

  24. Re:"Publisher Says" ... nuff said on Cloudflare Is Liable For Pirate Sites and Has No Safe Harbor, Publisher Says (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    if the parties were reversed, the GOP would be crying fowl right now too.

    The GOP cries fowl every day, just turn on cable TV or AM radio and its all, "quack quack quack HONK quack quack!"

    You have to get lucky just to get a "Gobble gobble" or a "cluckcluck" out of them, but they do still do a lot of Cockadoodledo on the side.

  25. Re:"Publisher Says" ... nuff said on Cloudflare Is Liable For Pirate Sites and Has No Safe Harbor, Publisher Says (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that neither one of you comprehend the difference between disputing evidence and disputing the law, and so your attempts at "sarcasm" are destined to be mere pedestrian ignorance.