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  1. Re:Seriously? on How a Helium Leak Disabled Every iPhone In a Medical Facility (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    LOL well, it was more of edge case before this story than it will be after.

  2. Re:accurate time; NTP on How a Helium Leak Disabled Every iPhone In a Medical Facility (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, golly, Wilbur! My [other brand] device continues to work fine even when outside the service area.

    That said, what if a semi-accurate clock is required for the hardware, and it isn't even the same "clock" as the thing in the corner of the screen that tells you the time? What then?!

  3. Re:Sounds horrible to me on Google Launches reCAPTCHA v3 That Detects Bad Traffic Without User Interaction (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Meaning you'll be required to enable Google's tracking scripts on every website which uses this.

    If that turns out true, websites worth caring about will use something different.

    I'm not worried though, because they're committed to making it accessible to the AA standard, and if you read that standard it means there is no way to keep me from browsing the way I want. That's what the world has come to; wanting to control what is on your own screen is a disability, but they have to accommodate it.

  4. Re:Literate Programming on Why Jupyter is Data Scientists' Computational Notebook of Choice (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    Knuth tried to teach us to do this decades ago, but nobody listened.

    If that was true, we wouldn't be talking about this implementation!

    It took 30 years after Maxwell published his Equations that people realized he was right, because it implied relativity, which would contradict Newton.

    A few decades of pause in the face of a new idea is nothing to be concerned about.

    That said, IMO it is only useful for casual programming, mostly because the words used in English to describe what literate programming is supposed to be don't really prepare people for the mess of mixed source and documentation that it actually makes up.

  5. Re:Huge Notebook fan. on Why Jupyter is Data Scientists' Computational Notebook of Choice (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    LOL you almost got me, but I since I never believe anything anybody says I looked it up and found out you're wrong.

    YOU'RE ON THE INTERNET, AND YOU'RE WRONG! (That's worse than genocide, BTW)

  6. Is it illegal to use a false identity to post an ad. ... repercussions

    That's why it says they didn't actually post any fake ads. They just got approval for whatever ads they bought to be listed as being paid for by a Senator.

    I can haz literacy?!?!

  7. Know your customer.

  8. Re:Except article doesn't say that on Pentagon Wants To Predict Anti-Trump Protests Using Social Media Surveillance (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey new guy. Don't click the links. There be dragons.

  9. Re:Trump's the president on Pentagon Wants To Predict Anti-Trump Protests Using Social Media Surveillance (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Uhm, those were military actions taken in war zones.

    Hey asshole terrorist: Don't bring your family with you to the war zone! They might die!

    Does that help?

    How about this? Bringing human shields into the war zone doesn't mean you have superpowers and nobody is going to bomb your ass. It is just more deaths you're responsible for.

  10. Re:Trump's the president on Pentagon Wants To Predict Anti-Trump Protests Using Social Media Surveillance (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but it would only seem to apply narrowly to types of situations where responsibilities are being bucked. Why would it automatically extend to all other types of action?

    At this point, we don't even know if it is true. And if nobody ever even admits they're doing it, nobody will be trying to buck the responsibility up to their boss!

  11. Re:Crisis of capitalism on Pentagon Wants To Predict Anti-Trump Protests Using Social Media Surveillance (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    No, Capitalism, if you bother to read Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, is when the Government peers over the shoulders of business and regulate the market for the purpose of guaranteeing access and fair dealing. Without that you have exactly what existed before Capitalism; a Feudal system where the entrenched powers in every industry conspire to prevent competition. That's the natural state of things with private ownership! The whole point of Capitalism is to overcome the natural tendency to use power to cheat, so that markets have prices that move only based on money-related concerns.

  12. Re:If this were Obama Fox News would be losing the on Pentagon Wants To Predict Anti-Trump Protests Using Social Media Surveillance (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    FREEZE PEACH! PEW PEW PEW

  13. Re:Nobody's free of guilt on Pentagon Wants To Predict Anti-Trump Protests Using Social Media Surveillance (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Centrists aren't normally separate or neutral, instead we believe in compromise solutions that address all the major concerns that different people have, instead of just trying to pass by force with 50.00001% something that 49.999999% hate.

    Instead with compromise, you can get a policy that 45% of people like, and only 20% hate. The goal isn't to make a perfect world, just to make it suck less.

  14. There's a steaming pile of bullshit for you. ...

    I worked in that industry

    ...

    for the first 6 months they would review claims to look for a pre-existing condition

    Yeah, not surprised. Not surprised at all. This is exactly why the problem can only be solved by the government. People still tell these same lies, even after all the focus that was put on what was really happening during the original debate over passing Obamacare.

  15. Re: Executive order to amend the Constitution ? on Pentagon Wants To Predict Anti-Trump Protests Using Social Media Surveillance (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    Accusing someone of whataboutism is tantamount to accepting their accusations of hypocrisy.

    Uhm, OK dude, now you're just slinging poop.

    Bad monkey. No banana. BAD!

  16. Re: What's the term ... on Pentagon Wants To Predict Anti-Trump Protests Using Social Media Surveillance (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    SSSsssshh, loose lips sink ships.

  17. Re:Will IBM force them to up the kernel number? on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Released (lwn.net) · · Score: 1

    Most of IBM's current open source software seems to use Semantic Versioning, so probably not.

  18. Re:Questions: 1) SystemD? 2) Effect on IBM? on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Released (lwn.net) · · Score: 2

    People at IBM wear ties. To work.

    They don't even know neckbeards exist. They can't see them, even if their gaze accidentally passes over them.

    Also, they look at those whiny articles and wonder, "Why am I reading this thing by some guy who claims to want modularity but doesn't understand what a compilation unit is?" and they close it and go back to engineering something.

    After all, the complaints are universally only either ignorant, or pejorative. They will spend many hours listening to the needs of their clients, and it will never even come up. They will be listening to the community. However their community talks about other stuff.

  19. Re:New features include on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Released (lwn.net) · · Score: 0

    vi only exists to punish vim users for typos.

    Damn name squatters. LOL

  20. Re: Enjoy It While It Lasts on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Released (lwn.net) · · Score: 3, Informative

    IBM started adopting linux around the time they stopped advertising OS/2, and right before they started trying to phase out AIX.

    They also have been directly competing with RedHat to sell linux support for about that long. Not always the same type of support or the same customer base.

  21. Re:Seriously? on How a Helium Leak Disabled Every iPhone In a Medical Facility (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Right, right, why would anybody care if it can keep accurate time, or if it is reliable? It is just a toy, not a serious device.

  22. Re: FUCKING HOLDING IT WRONG! on How a Helium Leak Disabled Every iPhone In a Medical Facility (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    If you never say "Apple," they'll probably never even tell you which OS their phone runs.

  23. Re:FUCKING HOLDING IT WRONG! on How a Helium Leak Disabled Every iPhone In a Medical Facility (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    From the sounds of it, the amount needed even makes it a viable technique just for culling the herd at crowded nightclubs, or when you get to the restaurant and there is an hour + wait!

  24. Re: Wasted helium on How a Helium Leak Disabled Every iPhone In a Medical Facility (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    OK, cdsparrow is going to print out new labels for the nets before we leave. Thanks cdsparrow!

  25. Re:News for nerds... on Snap CEO Hired Chief Business Officer, Then Changed His Mind (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    What's that, the new geocities?