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Comment Re:Closed source software and assets are a bitch. (Score 0) 81

I think it's a complaint about how to spell "kerning", but I don't understand the funny moderation.

But kerning is not an issue for most of the Japanese characters. However if you want to get beyond kaisho, then the situation quickly becomes intractable. Gyosho is hard and I don't think I've ever seen a computer version--but sosho is much worse. The flowing script is often much too pretty to read. Even if you have the kaisho side-by-side it is often hard to find matching features.

Comment Re:Fuck that (Score 1) 134

Hell no. In fact California ought to sue the FDA for not banning these dangerous foods. And residents should sue the state of California for not suing the NDA sooner. Then the FDA can sue universities for not doing timely research on this, and the universities can sue the food manufacturers. It's lawsuits all the way down.

Comment Re:Ya don't say? (Score 1) 82

Gee thanks CAPTAIN OBVIOUS!
At least in the states, kids under 16 shouldn't be allowed to have anything but a dumb phone that can only call say 911 and, their parents.
We see it all the time, young teenagers all sitting around NOT talking to each other but with their heads down in their phones.

Quoted against the censor trolls.

My take is that young impressionable people are especially good at learning to think like machines. I even think that is not a good thing, no matter what the generative AI tells me.

Comment More stupidity is not the solution to stupidity (Score 1) 109

Why are you propagating the vacuous Subject? Also masks your point, though I can't really figure out what it is.

Did remind me of a twisted joke. The US basically started on a negative foot. The focus was on rejecting the king. It actually took a while to start developing positive philosophies. I think the best effort was Lincoln's "government of the people, by the people, and for the people".

There was a transitional period when it became government of the corporations, by the lawyers, for the richest 0.1%, but now we are moving to government of a few giant corporate cancers with AIs, by the Donald, for the (mostly shadowy) puppeteers. Or maybe the first and third are reversed? Too soon to figure out what sort of mess we've gotten ourselves into.

Comment The YOB keeps shooting himself in the foot (Score 1) 56

It's like the YOB can't stop shooting himself in the foot. Then he blames the shoe company and takes ownership! Even though he never wore that brand of shoe. "The light was better over here!"

To make it a proper joke for Slashdot I have to note that the YOB shot himself in the foot using his preferred programming language. But then I'm stumped because I cannot imagine the YOB writing a program of any sort. Which language is best for shooting senile self in foot?

(I say YOB because I reject the brand as poison. Like Exxon and Amazon. How many guesses do you need for YUGE Orange Buffoon?)

Comment Re:79% of Adults in South Korea (Score 1) 2

Kind of sad that so little interest was aroused. I'd add a comment related to the local police and their concerns with PI, but the story is at the bottom of the top page now, so effectively about to expire.

NIMBY so no one cares? (I'm in Japan, so I can sort of regard South Korea as close to my back yard? (But this is not the joke I was looking for.))

Comment Re:They are objectively wrong (Score 1) 194

Not a bad FP branch, but no explicit mention of "moral education", which I think is a that crux of it. It's not just that they want them (= the masses?) to obey orders. It's not even that they want them to obey illegal orders. It's more that they want them too naive to know the difference between good and bad.

Poorly trained monkeys with nuclear weapons and rockets. What could possibly go wrong?

Comment For anyone from the UK who likes this stuff... (Score 3, Insightful) 17

...consider listening to One Person Found This Helpful", a BBC radio comedy show about absurd reviews for often even more absurd products. Surprisingly good show.

For anyone not from the UK...not sure if you can access it, but even if you can you're going to need to make your way through a full-on Birmingham accent. Godspeed, you brave intrepid souls.

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