Man, if they are spreading PFAS everywhere, we just need to stop drinking Cranberry juice.
It just isn't worth it.
/s

Are they talking about separating the concepts of Siri and Voice control of my phone, with Siri being something that Google was trying to do, calling places to make appointments? Because I use Siri for voice control several times per day.
For example:

• Hey Siri, remind me to take my medications when I get home
• Hey Siri, remind me to buy milk when I go to the store
• Hey Siri, create an Appointment to see my doctor next Thursday at 9:00 AM
• Hey Siri, how many tablespoons are in a cup?
• Hey Siri, play playlist cooking on shuffle on speaker Kitchen

Not to mention using voice control during exercise or driving to control music, podcasts, audiobooks, etc.
Now I don't personally use voice controls on my PC, but I'm sure that others do as much as I use them on my phone.

I just think that getting rid of Siri is a silly concept.

I see a lot of similar posts here, but since I have no mod points, I'll add a "me too" post....
I think it would be a disservice to allow Computer Science to apply to math requirements.

As a separate issue, I think that all students, whether proceeding to college or going straight to a career post high school, would benefit greatly from a required statistics class... more so than calculus. While I personally loved calculus and the greater understanding of all math leading up to calculus, I just think that algebraic statistics is more useful in the short term. On the other other hand, calculus based statistics, once again, lends to a much deeper understanding of statics concepts, but few are going to take enough math to learn enough calculus to make a difference, and then take a statistics course on top of that foundation.

I don't get why it is difficult to use a person's preferred pronouns, especially when online.
The Stack Exchange moderators in question could have respond with: "I'll use a user or moderator's preferred pronouns any time I use a gendered pronoun".
Everyone would have been happy.

But no. Apparently (from the links in article), people are claiming it is religious persecution if anyone (Stack Exchange, in this case) requires their users and moderators to use preferred pronouns.

Well.... It isn't. And I'm just fine with Stack Exchange removing moderator status from anyone who can't, for any reason, use someone's preferred pronouns.

Was Moon underappreciated? I and everyone I know loved that movie.
I started watching it while I was in a Hotel, and was blown away, so I turned it off and rented it later.
Absolutely fantastic movie.

One of many movies that are good despite the presence of Andie MacDowell.
A great action comedy that was marketed as an action movie.
The Director's commentary is just various people saying "The movie did really well in Europe" over and over again.
I LOVE this movie.

1.1E6 m/s
Or .0037c

What could possibly go wrong?
All it really needs is a sticker saying "Do not look at laser with remaining eye"

I never thought of it that way.
You are right, I'm sure. Never any damage caused to the environment in Alaska due to an oil spill.

Came here for the lectures on how Nuclear Energy is the safest and cleanest.
How it is so much more reliable and green than solar, wind, or hydro
Left disappointed, will check back later.

Flashbangs can indeed injure people, and they are regularly used against protesters.
I'm guessing the protesters called them concussion grenades because that is a good description, though it means something else.
The video from the snopes article on the subject shows flashbangs being used against the crowd at about 1:13.
http://www.snopes.com/2016/11/...

(The article doesn't indicate whether or not the accusations or rebuttals are true)

I'm disappointed as well. Like many others, I switched to a Macbook Pro after running Linux for years, with something not quite working, whether wireless or hibernation.

But I looked at System76 15" laptops... 1080p screens, and a numpad. I wouldn't care about numpads, except it means that the trackpad and keyboard are offset from center. Won't ever do it.

I looked. A Dell XPS 15 is the most likely replacement, but for now I'll stay on my 15" 2012 MBP Retina, hoping that Apple will update the older form factor with Kaby Lake, DDR4 with at least 32GB Ram. Would update in a heartbeat.

Please tell me this is satire.

There were exactly 3 emails that had sections marked with (c) indicating classified, though it was meaningless without the related headers.

Additionally, zero of those 3 emails actually contained classified information.

Thought you were serious at first with just the one line summary displaying.
Clicked reply just to say "802.1x".... but instead I'll only chuckle.