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Judge in US v. Google trial didn’t know if Firefox is a browser or search engine::Google accused DOJ of aiming to force people to use “inferior” search products.

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[–] ZeroCool@feddit.ch 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The judge in question is 51 years old. He’s not old enough to be this clueless about basics like the difference between a search engine and a web browser and popular examples of each.

[–] clif@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I teach a programming class to young adults (18-25, usually) and was flabbergasted last semester when I realized that a couple of them didn't know what a directory hierarchy/file system was.

My suspicion is that the ease of use angle of "just tell me what you want and I'll find it" led to this. Not saying ease of use is bad, but I expected more from people wanting to learn programming.

And I'm over here meticulously organizing my music library into folders by band, album, year, etc...o the humanity.

[–] sping@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kids often don't know the difference between "wifi" and the Internet. It's not an age thing these days.

[–] schmidtster@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Kids often aren’t explained the difference and if they have been they just don’t understand, wifi IS the internet to them.

A 51 year old Judge has a vastly different brain and should be able to retain the difference when explained.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You'd think they'd notice they can use the internet from their phones when there's no wifi.

[–] clgoh@lemmy.ca -2 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure they call cellular data “wifi”.