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Comment Re:May not help with the science deniers (Score 4, Interesting) 445

Based on the number of people I've seen recently still wearing masks outdoors, nowhere near someone else, I think I have to believe it. I mean come on, six feet indoors was being cautious, fifty feet outdoors is beyond germaphobe.

It turns out that there are lots of non-covid reasons to wear a facemask outside when nowhere near anyone else. For instance, wearing a mask outside has helped with my seasonal allergies, which I'm sure lots of other people have discovered as well.

Comment Re:That's OK (Score 1) 49

The slab design that imposes the requirement for a screen to ride against your keys all day in your pocket without getting scuffed is the problem.

Respectfully disagree. Putting a glass box in the same pocket with jagged metal screen-breakers is the real problem. I can't understand why people spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on something as fragile as a smartphone and then put it in the same pocket with keys, change, and assorted detritus, and then complain that their screens are scuffed, scraped, or broken.

You wouldn't carry around a laptop in a bag full of keys (okay, maybe you would, but I wouldn't), so why would you carry around a phone that's in a smaller bag (your pocket) full of keys that applies pressure any time you sit down?

Most mens' trousers have four pockets (or more if you decide to wear cargo pants) to pick from (we'll discount womens' pants for now, since they frequently have no functional pockets for whatever reason), so why does the pocket that has the highest percentage of damaging a phone become the default for carrying one? Are the other pockets worse? Do you carry gravel in them?

I don't want it to sound like I'm picking on you, specifically, but I manage cell phones at my workplace, and I see this a lot. It's never made sense to me.

Submission + - The Elephant in the /. Room? (theregister.co.uk)

bbsguru writes: So, after a couple of days deprived of my hourly /. news fix, I figured the very first story to appear would be an explanation of the outage... And this is how I find out? Come on, Slashdot: how much of this Register article is accurate, and does it account for the absence of our favorite news site?

Comment Re:BKSP = Back Button is INFURIATING (Score 1) 141

I'm not surprised they killed it. Only a small percentage of masochists actually like that functionality. For everyone who has ever been totally screwed while filling out forms and such, it was an infuriating nightmare.

Backspace means BACKSPACE. As in, move the cursor BACK one SPACE and delete what is there.

See also: the spacebar. It literally means to insert a space, but in web browsers it scrolls the page down by one screenful (equivalent to a PgDn), are we going to throw this out, too, since people can be entering data in a form, accidentally tab out of it, and then scroll down, losing their place, or accidentally tab over to a button and activate it by hitting the spacebar?

Backspace to navigate back has been in place for decades in lots of programs, and I'd be willing to bet it's used more than you seem to think.

Comment Re: Slashdot is not far behind... (Score 1) 264

Amen to that. On the old Slashdot, even the trolls were intelligent and were pretty cool when you talked to them in journals. The only big name in open source I've seen post here in a long time is Bruce Perens. It seems like so many of the good commenter have been replaced by rude buffoons. Sadly, I think you're right. I remember when my six digit uid (below 400,000) was a really high uid. If I could remember the password, it would be one of the lowest ones still posting.

I still consider my UID to be be really high.

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