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Every statistician, epidemiologist, and the like should be legally required to get a tattoo in a publicly visible place reading Correlation is NOT causation. The font size should be no smaller than 48 points.
That may eliminate some of the more stupid "studies" that are published (but I'm not optimistic).
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Yeah, Spurious Correlations[^] is becoming my favourite website to send to those folks.
Today's favourite: People who drowned after falling out of a fishing boat correlates with Marriage rate in Kentucky (R-value of > 95%). Don't go to a wedding in Kentucky 
TTFN - Kent
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Cheery robots may give people the creeps and serious robots may actually ease anxiety depending on how users perceive the robot''s role in their lives, according to an international team of researchers. "All the doors in this spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done."
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And once you've gone through the door, you can have some toast.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A team of researchers from universities across the US has identified different fingerprinting techniques that can track users when they use different browsers installed on the same machine. "I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together"
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Quote: different browsers on the same PC
Hmpf. The ads industry will surely be excited: there are some companies on the market claiming that they can identify users across different devices. Already since a few years. Well, this is university research...
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So that's why winio has suddenly started sending 20x as many packets "home".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Are you the Walrus?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Goo goo g'joob! 
TTFN - Kent
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A new highly effective phishing technique targeting Gmail and other services has been gaining popularity during the past year among attackers. "You tricked me like the others and now I don't belong. The simple smiles and good times seem all wrong."
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The Key Transparency project hopes to eliminate some of PGP's headaches. And I'm sure your secure messages will never be scanned to give you 'appropriate' advertisements
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The Internet Archive is making it easier for web users to access archived versions of dead web pages with a new official add-on for Google Chrome browser. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to 404 error codes
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Instead of assessing the impact of automation on specific jobs, the study went to a more granular level by looking at the activities involved in various jobs. Looking at the amount of work I actually do, I think I already am over half automated
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For the beginner, or if you’re coming from a different language, this series will walk you through getting the tools, writing code, debugging features, customizations and much more. For the experienced C# developer who wants to brush up on certain topics, each concept is explained in its own video so you can jump to a topic and focus on the information you want. File > New > Project
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I don't think it's Monopoly, it looks more like Risk!
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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How is it a monopoly?
I can't buy apps for windows or android there, so the only thing they're "monopolising" is access to software that is specifically designed to run on their specific hardware and OS.
That's not a monopoly; it's a specialist shop.
Did some idiot bring the suit because he wants to buy iOS apps from the google play store, or something?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Think of it as trying to buy a car, but there is only one worldwide dealer. No choice of dealers to find a better price.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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No, a monopoly would be if there were only one car manufacturer, or if all manufacturers/vendors were conspiring as one.
If you make a car (or any other product) and you sell it directly to the public (without paying any middlemen), you are simply selling your product, not creating a monopoly.
If people don't want your car (or other product), they have the choice to buy a different car (or other product).
That's kinda nothing whatsoever to do with a monopoly.
Besides, if you want apple apps, you can get them from just about anywhere on the planet. Why should you need other options?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Oh I see what you mean. I didn't think of it that way.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Evidently, since there are no other sanctioned outlets besides the app store to buy apps through, that app store is a monopoly.
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Yup, the only "sanctioned outlet" is one that is available globally to everyone with a device that requires it.
There are plenty of product vendors who only have one "sanctioned outlet", or who only sell through their own outlet. That does not constitute a monopoly.
We sure 'nuff need cowboy stores on top of apple's global outlet, and stores set up by hackers to infect machines, and stores that don't do enough to check that the apps they're distributing haven't been hacked.
Everything else (music, videos, etc.) is available elsewhere, and the app makers set the price for their apps, not apple, so the apps won't be cheaper elsewhere.
I don't like apple, but they're in the right, and are not even infringing any monopoly laws.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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PC shipments have now declined for 5 years in a row, with between 260 and 270 million machines shipped during 2016 according to Gartner and IDC. It's almost like a five year-old computer is good enough these days
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the only ones that want new ones are programmers and security researchers.
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