You're both right.

Of course people only go to the support forum to complain. That's what it's for.

On the other hand, the sheer number of people who complained should have told Google something.

You and the other earlier poster are missing the point. Or at the very least, a large part of it.

"Roundup-Ready" crops were supposed to REDUCE the use of pesticides. Instead, the practical effect is that it has ENABLED more use of glyphosate. As a real result, the use of glyphosate and the level of glyphosate in some food products has multiplied.

These are "perverse consequences". As another poster mentioned, there has been "voluntary" passing of the glyphosate-resistant gene to what are normally considered noxious weeds, meaning its widespread use is probably self-defeating, in exactly the same sense as over-use of antibiotics.

To say that GMO foods are "safe" therefore is naive at best.

While it may be true that this guy was "literally flying under the radar", that phrase gives a very misleading impression: the impression that he was trying to sneak up on them.

Quite the contrary. He sent them a message a full hour in advance, saying that they should expect him.

So while it might have been "literally" under the radar, it wasn't figuratively under the radar. The White House knew he was coming and expected him. That being the case, they don't get to say they were surprised by his arrival, or imply that he was any kind of serious threat. If they were surprised at all, it was nobody's fault but their own.

I think historically, a more influential book has been Darrell Huff's "How To Lie With Statistics", the second book in this list.

It was originally written in 1954. And while less rigorous, it is an entertaining read and probably gets its point across to a much wider audience.

I know for a fact that Huff's book is still used as a text in college statistics courses... but probably only the lower-level classes.

On the other hand, TFA is proposing to replace this with Bayesian probabilities, which are likely even less understood, even more abused, and it could open the door to subjectivism.

On the Google Maps support forum, there was a long ongoing discussion about the "new" maps.

People overwhelmingly hated it.

It is harder to use, some features don't work anymore (or at least not as well as they did), etc.

It seemed to faze them not at all. Google asked people details about just exactly they didn't like, and why... and changed none of it.

Or pee on it to loosen up that static friction.

Unless/until all connections (including power) are wireless, you'll never have a 1mm cube "computer". There's no way to fit all your I/O and power input, in that much space. Where do you plug in the keyboard?

It is language specific, and they intentionally disabled it. It used to work fine. Then they disabled it in one update for what amounted to "reasons" and when called out on it on social media basically just gave excuses and have made no attempt to reenable it. It's really annoying.

What makes it worse for Korean is that they removed the ability to change words. So if you're swyping along and you realize you entered a wrong word, well fuck you. You have to go back and delete the entire word and try again. No tapping the word and picking an alternate spelling. It used to have that functionality, they removed it, and can't seem to understand why that's a problem. If I wasn't such a long term user, I'd dump it, but it's hard to go back. Though, they keep pushing.

I've found accuracy to be abysmal lately. combined with the "we don't care about the user" attitude it might finally push me off the app. Too bad you can't get a refund at this point.

This proposal by NSA mirrors the Clipper Chip/Skipjack + Key Escrow system proposed back in the early 90s. People didn't trust the government with their keys THEN... why the hell should they do so NOW, given that government intrusion into our lives has only increased in the interim?

Unlike the 90s, by now they have proved they can't be trusted.

Don't be ridiculous. Asia has made good on cheap manufacturing, but the majority of design AND cutting-edge fab is done in U.S. and Europe.

Intel should not have been allowed in the first place; it is a surprise to me that they have only been blocked now. There is a thin but very definite line between simple international commerce and treason.

IBM and Thomas Watson crossed that line in WWII.

Are you for real? It is hard to tell whether this is sarcasm, but I suspect that it is.

There are no "betters", in America. Hell, I had a very hard time trying to teach my British manager that, way back when. He felt justified in taking credit for my work, because he was a manager and a "better".

Haha.

But again, that's sarcasm. Here's what I actually suggest: pretend to respect your "betters", because in fact that's all they require: the facade. Then when they're not looking, prove they're not "better".

I don't mean backstabbing. I mean frontstabbing. Make the truth plain to all.

Anybody. Just get a .sucks domain and create a .sucks.sucks subdomain. Hell, you don't even have to know how to build a website to use cPanel or similar.

I'm of divided mind. I think she might actually be sincere but misguided. It seems like it must be one of the two. I think that we can agree that either way, it won't result in overall advantage for the employees, women or not.

I wonder if she will also propose that from now on, all employees will get the same raises.