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  1. Re:Observed data on Amazon's Home Security Company Is Turning Everyone Into Cops (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, neckbeards combust when they admit to making a category error. That's also why they get frustrated by words that have more than one meaning; dangerous. So dangerous. Sad.

  2. Re:Maybe black people should stop robbing on Amazon's Home Security Company Is Turning Everyone Into Cops (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    What he REALLY meant was "It's a scary time for WHITE males who might actually have to suffer the same kind of injustices that we've put minorities through for all of our history. MAGA!!!!!"

    Well, you were doing great up until this point, but why would "white males" "have to suffer... injustices?"

    And why do you presume that whatever injustices were committed in "all of... history" were also committed by all white males alive now?

    You seem to completely reject the idea of the individual. I was raised to believe that the problem in the first place was the belief that the differences are substantive, and the solution is simply to treat people as individuals.

  3. Re:Maybe black people should stop robbing on Amazon's Home Security Company Is Turning Everyone Into Cops (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    When did /. turn into 4chan?

    After 4chan threw a few deplorables out?

  4. GDPR requires informed consent, so it may be that if the "do not track" is sent, that you can't receive consent because you already have the answer.

    Time will tell, we don't really know the implications of GDPR until we have experience with the enforcement decisions, and the various Courts in Europe have ruled on all sorts of issues like this.

  5. 1/500th sounds like a huge amount to me.

    Seems obvious if you've ever watched ice melt; once voids appear, melting accelerates rapidly.

    Like poking holes in a potato before baking; 1/500th is plenty to create air flow in a way that significantly alters the results.

    When I saw somebody making scale arguments, I figured it was going to be something small like 1/50,000th, not something catastrophically huge like 1/500th!

  6. I took the DOL list and added up the populations; those 7 states make up 19.3% of the US population.

    Apparently, on the West Coast waiters are respected as regular workers, and on the East Coast they're treated as some sort of servant class. And the red states in between they'd rather pay even less, but are stuck with the Federal minimum.

  7. Re:Alphabet Pays Taxes? on Google Now Pays More Money in EU Fines Than it Pays in Taxes (computing.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    The lawyers promised everything was legal, even though they weren't doing any of it the way that the governments involved had written the regulations, and then later the governments had their own lawyers look at it, and those lawyers pointed out it was never legal, and they'd know if it was legal because google would be following the regulations as written.

    Loopholes are something that doesn't exist, that your lawyer promises will continue to not exist. The government might look the other way, but they also might just throw the book at you. Does google have the institutional intelligence to observe their results, and alter their formula?

    Time will tell! I'm guessing not, and they're going to pay a lot more than this in the future.

  8. In some really backwards places, sure.

    In my State, that would be felony wage theft.

  9. Re:Google photos on Flickr Starts Culling Users' Photos (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait, wait, are you sure the two companies cooked and ate each other?

    They might have only gotten married, agreed to live as one, combined their accounts, and one of them changed their name.

  10. Re:OK, you lost me... on 'The World Might Actually Run Out of People' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Waving your hands and engaging in hate speech based on politics doesn't change that Palestinians are Semites.

  11. Re:OK, you lost me... on 'The World Might Actually Run Out of People' (wired.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Somebody forgot that the Palestinians are also Semites. That is, literally, anti-Semitic.

  12. Re:OK, you lost me... on 'The World Might Actually Run Out of People' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. The UN the lowest common denominator of world governments, and so is well-positioned to run certain things that have been agreed to manage collectively.

    But that doesn't make then some sort of trusted source of data science.

    It is important to make attempts to understand challenges facing the world at that level, but they can't reasonably be expected to be leading sources of analysis.

  13. Why do you hate toilets so much? Do you need some stronger medicine?

  14. Re:what to make some money? on Rich Kids Are Cheating in School With Apple Watches (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    You might mean jammers, rather than blockers.

  15. Re:Social Justice Warriors on Rich Kids Are Cheating in School With Apple Watches (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    In China to be rich you need two (2) apple watches for your dog.

  16. Re:Block It on Is It Time To Ditch Google Analytics? (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but slashdot readers know that if they host their own (free) analytics software, then they'll get unblocked results.

    The only reasonable use case for Google Analytics is for sites that also run Google ads. In that case, it is basically a feature to leave out the adblocking visitors. :)

  17. Re:An app that's always on the web on Google Play Store Now Open For Progressive Web Apps (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    That's some smart code
    deep learning you on your phone
    always for the web

  18. Re:Dear Slashdot on Google Play Store Now Open For Progressive Web Apps (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    My goodness, thanks but no thanks. Now that I know it is just the latest attempt at "push" apps, I'd like the 10 seconds I spent at wikipedia back.

    Ridiculing it without knowing what it was turns out to have been a good idea.

  19. Re:Dear Slashdot on Google Play Store Now Open For Progressive Web Apps (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm hoping they were talking about Free Software or something.

    I get my apps from fdroid.

  20. Re: One-eyed among the blind. on Parents Who Don't Vaccinate Kids Tend To Be Affluent, Better Educated (go.com) · · Score: 1

    It isn't herd immunity, you're just repeating the words because you know they're persuasive words. Not because they actually apply in the case of the flu shot.

    This is exactly what I mean, why should the average idiot be able to tell the difference between real herd immunity from a smallpox vaccine, and the limited protection offered by a flu shot? Even researchers will try to lie to them to manipulate them into making the preferred choices in both cases, so it is natural and unsurprising that lots of people end up thinking that the smallpox vaccine is like the flu shot.

  21. Re:Going by Mr. Musk's other fancy projects.... on Elon Musk Explains Why He's Building 'Starship' Out of Stainless Steel (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    You do seem a bit confused, Confused.

    Hyperloop isn't a project, it is an idea that was proposed in general terms.

    The BBQ "flame thrower" was a huge success.

  22. And care.

    If it comes up, they'll simply ask the Kremlin if they double-checked the evidence, and they can verify that it wasn't altered, and that will be that.

    It is kinda funny the things people presume to be relevant in places that don't have western freedoms and rule-based civics.

    They're usually too busy fighting over Freedom Fries to notice their freedoms!

  23. Re:Remember when it was just the Religous Right? on Parents Who Don't Vaccinate Kids Tend To Be Affluent, Better Educated (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember when people were so dumb and racist that they presumed Neandertals were stupid, just because they were shown a chart that said they were "different" than "modern" humans? ROFLCOPTER

    A certain percentage of people will just believe whatever they are told. Especially if you add an ethnicity, religion, or economic status to the people discussed. Looking back, wasn't that always the case?

    --Signed, Prominent Occipital Bun

  24. Re:Study must be deeply flawed on Parents Who Don't Vaccinate Kids Tend To Be Affluent, Better Educated (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Stop trying to leave yourself behind, everybody can receive a college education if they work at it long and hard enough.

    What that means is, being educated doesn't imply increased intelligence. It implies increased time spent as a student. That and only that.

  25. They might be perfectly good at their specialty, and still be complete idiots on other topics.

    The implied mistake that you made is that you too are excessively credulous of the word "education," so when some average idiot is also highly educated, you want to do a No True Scotsman on their education so that you can protect the word education from the idiots.

    But education might simply not imply much value when used as a label on the past. We know that they had lots of learning opportunities, and we know that they completed a lot of school work, but that is generally all we know. If they received an MA, they at least were required (one time) to write an essay that attempts to prove that they did learn something, but YMMV. If they got a PhD then they supposedly even came up with a new idea about their field, or at least wrote a long essay that was confusing enough that people think they might have. That is all "being educated" actually means, in both the best case and the worst. People such as yourself, however, want to inflate the value in some cases, and then you have to try to tear it down in other cases to protect the cases where you inflated it.