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  1. Google, please get on board with this!!! on Every Major Advertising Group Is Blasting Apple for Blocking Cookies in the Safari Browser (adweek.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Unless Apple has a patent on it...

    I have to manage enough other stuff and generally ignore cookies.

    That said, cookies do show me what my wife is shopping for on Amazon, but I don't need to see that (it is funny to call her and implicitly talk about what's she's looking at, but that only worked a couple of times).

  2. This is interesting on Chatbot Lets You Sue Equifax For Up To $25,000 Without a Lawyer (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Per Equifax, my personal information may have been compromised.

    It's interesting, and probably with a though towards the legal system, that Equifax's message is "we believe that your personal information may have been impacted by this incident.

    Believe and May. Interesting choice of words.

    They won't say anything with certainty, so one is left with nothing better than wondering.

    In MO, small claims court can be up to $5,000. I think I might do this (my wife as well, depending on my experience).

  3. One Word: Swappa.com on Ask Slashdot: Is Leasing a Smartphone Better Than Buying One? (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I think that's one word. Just buy used. I've gotten about 10 phones there as my wife has a "phone breaking subscription". I had more Nexus 5's than the five, by far.

    I also buy cars used, 30K miles or so (Enterprise cars are very well maintained, , well priced; but potentially abused, just avoid the sports cars).

  4. Re:Seriously who cares about Disney? on Netflix Plans To Spend $7 Billion On Content In 2018 (streamingobserver.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm assuming you aren't a child.

    Every parent will buy most of their movies if they can. My wife loves the old ones, my kids the newer. They are freaky valuable.

    They have Star Wars, which sucks (sort of, they are working it and not poorly in my opinion).

    But my kids are over Phineas and Ferb (Disney), which is sad as I liked that a lot.

    Now we're into Teen Titans Go, which is not Disney, and is awesome for children and adults (they just did a 4 episode run based on the 1980s, a song, The Night Begins to Shine, basically for people my age, the kids liked it as well but didn't understand most of the references).

    Ebb and flow. But we won't be taking the Disney streaming river anytime (we have some through cable, but don't watch it much, Cartoon Network rules at this time).

    Netflix is kicking ass on original content. I prefer their expansion business model as opposed to the consolidation model existing companies use, Disney being the poster child for such.

  5. Re:Lesson Learned on Luxury Phone-maker Vertu Collapses (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't go for a punch in the face, but an "accident" whereby I knocked the phone to the ground.

    Pretentiousness broken. My tears they fall.

  6. Re:In the US, maybe on Amazon Is Getting Too Big and the Government Is Talking About It (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 2

    I was wondering why Walmart wasn't targeted while they decimated small companies in the 80s/90s/00s.

    There is actually a bit of free market going on here as far as I can tell.

    Disclosure: I had two Amazon packages by my front door when I got home today... I can't get replacement side mirror glass for my wife's car from Walmart.

    Full Disclosure: I bought a crapton of soda and snacks (for kids' lunches) at Walmart over lunch today.

    Take my disclosures as you will...

  7. Re:Did anyone think it would be otherwise? on Artificial Intelligence Has Race, Gender Biases (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Until we put a camera on the silver AI server and it starts ripping on the gray, beige, black, and white servers.

    True colors shining through...

    As for the article, obviously the bias is based on inputs.

  8. Re:Threadripper: The instruction mutilator on AMD Unveils Ryzen Threadripper 1950X 16-Core and 1920X 12-Core Specs and Pricing (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I read it as Threa Dripper. Wasn't sure what to think or expect.

  9. Re:My friend has one of these... on Amazon May Give Developers Your Private Alexa Transcripts (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    That's the new Fart language pack (EN-FRT).

    It's listening to your digestive communications, which until recently were like dolphin speak, unknown to us.

    But Amazon figured it out.

  10. Re:Almost as bad as the news section being all wap on Opinion: Google Unleashes Terrible New Update For Google News Upon the Net · · Score: 1

    It wasn't about putting wasps into one's vagina, it was about putting wasp's nests into such.

    Seriously, at least get the facts straight before you rail on quality of the news presented.

    We, my wife for sure, need to know what not to put into vaginas!

  11. Artificial insemination is perfectly reasonable, it's common for humans to do to other humans (my kids were actually produced this way due to some fertility issues we were having).

    You want something to make a stink about?

    What if we put portals into cow's bodies so we could just reach in to collect samples to analyze their digestion?

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...

    There are videos of this, it's rather gross (OK, very gross is more accurate).

    Full disclosure, as a child my family raised, butchered, and ate cows, pigs, chickens and rabbits. But we didn't put portals in our cows...

  12. I don't think the current implementation will work, too expensive to produce alternative content.

    Anyway, I have 7 year old twins, they are now FaceTiming with multiple friends of the same age. They text (good for spelling practice) and do video (generally terrible...).

    Imagine a story with 2-3 threads that relate and support each other. Where even children around 7 could play.

    And only with friends. I trust my kids talking to their friends from school.

    Could be a cool cooperative situation, combining the story elements along with team support.

    Could be educational actually.

  13. Re:CEO as a Service on Facebook Built an AI System That Learned To Lie To Get What It Wants (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, that would be"
    CeoAss

  14. Re:to be an expert on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    I've read 10,000 hours to be a master on an instrument.

    That's about 5 years.

    IT is more complicated, there is more to know to be fully rounded.

    With regards to IT, using my MS focus:
    1. C#, 1 year
    2. .Net Framework, 2 years
    3. SQL/SQL Server, 2 years
    4. UI environment of preference, 1 year (optiional depending on):
    5. Specialty, service frameworks, ORM, ETL - 1 year at least per

    Assume 50% learning time while actually using the techs (learning and not using doesn't count), that's 12-14 years.

    I'm at 17 years of this, with 2-3 years of iSeries analysis and conversion experience.

    That's my 3 cents.

  15. Re: Clickbait is clickbait on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    I prefer to hone mastery for a specific set of tools. I could switch up, but the wideness of today's frameworks means it takes at least at couple of years to be an expert.

    I am learning iSeries at a very low level, to help people get off of them. Both interesting and frustrating (regarding DB design and ancient programming practices).

  16. Re:I love my 11 year old wrangler on Electric Vehicles Have Another Record Year, Reaching 2 Million Cars In 2016 (iea.org) · · Score: 1

    OK. He's driving down a gravel road on his way to a Jim Beckel concerto presentation.

    http://jimbeckelmusic.com/

    He's wearing Blenders sunglasses, might be jogging.

    https://www.blenderseyewear.co...

    I'm assuming "line-x" is mattress company.

    Makes sense to me.

  17. Re:the pitch that restores on Oldest Fossils of Homo Sapiens Found in Morocco, Altering History of Our Species (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    That movie is called "The Gods Must be Crazy".

    And it wasn't a "clam shell of rancor", it was just a Coke bottle that fell from an airplane.

    Impossible to watch as an adult, loved it when I was a kid.

  18. Pretty much anything by Kurt Vonnegut on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Books You Wish You Had Read Earlier? · · Score: 1

    Fun to read, great style.

    Science fiction combined with commentary on society and people combined with sarcastic comedy.

    I found his works around the age of 35.

    So it goes.

  19. These aren't major cable companies, small business on Cable TV 'Failing' As a Business, Cable Industry Lobbyist Says (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    750 cable providers with 7 million customers works out to 9,333 customers per cable company.

    These are small businesses trying to get by.

    They don't have the influence of the majors, even 7 million customers combined isn't anything compared to Charter, with over 30 million customers.

    I can certainly understand small players being crushed, it's the American way...

  20. Weekend at Bernie's on Videotapes Are Becoming Unwatchable As Archivists Work To Save Them (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Does this mean that Weekend at Bernie's gets to die forever (made in 1989, DVDs came out in 1995)? Oh shit, I've that on DVD!

    At least vinyl records from the 70's and prior continue on, my mom has both an original with Rocket Man by Elton John as well as a perfect Tommy by the Who. I got her a record player for Christmas last year and she's been busy cleaning all of her albums.

    I'm assuming cassette tapes have the same problem, so some of the 1980's craptastic "we have a keyboard!!!" stuff will rot. Good riddance.

    Now where is the CD-destrucinator, for all of the pop in the last 20 years??? If Doofenshmirtz made the inator, it would surely have such a setting (if the reference eludes you, check out Phineas and Ferb, a great cartoon for all ages).

     

  21. Re:EasyFlow from HavenTree on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Way To Write Working Code By Drawing Flow Charts? · · Score: 1

    I bet you pirated EasyFlow and have the missing hand from their attack shark to prove it....

  22. I would prefer a "clean" audio stream that just has the stadium announcer and the sound of the crowd. Except with hockey, where the play is so fast that all they can do is say who has the puck.

    The inanity of sports-talkers is just mental masturbation for their own gratification at this point.

    Of course now we have DVRs, which make American football and baseball watchable in well under an hour.

  23. They will have cameras on the passengers and know who did it.

    I was in Chicago recently and they have cameras in the cabs already (to dissuade unruly passengers), and they have a posted $50 fee for vomiting in the cab. The rates didn't address lower body activities.

  24. Kids don't pay attention to Rotten Tomatoes.

    There are some really good kid's movies though, Inside Out was incredible (barely a kids movie in my opinion).

  25. So it's actually a jobs programs, like Sarbanes Oxley and OFAC (both of which I'm more familiar with that I would like).

    Now we see the wisdom. All of the people in the travel industry can migrate to the travel security industry!