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  1. Google introduces a quasi-ad-blocker. . Shocking that they want all other ad blockers to die by breaking compatibility. Then, figure that 90% of users never seek out another blocker, and Google's ads get back through.

  2. Re:And will pass that cost on MasterCard Fined $648 Million for High EU Card Fees (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Huh, we're in agreement. I was asking GGP, because he said "now they have to raise prices". Which just reveals an failure to even understand Econ 101.

  3. Re:And will pass that cost on MasterCard Fined $648 Million for High EU Card Fees (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you think they would have waited until they got a fine to raise prices if they could?

  4. Re:Cooperation on MasterCard Fined $648 Million for High EU Card Fees (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm glad the EU has measures in place to encourage cooperation without giving away the store. The US frequently settles for pennies on the dollar (on already low fines.) There's no incentive not to commit the bad acts in that case.

    Heck, that could be the baseline, and it would be trivial for the EU to add enough interest to the fine to make the four years delay for delay's sake not worth it.

  5. And the alternative? on MasterCard Fined $648 Million for High EU Card Fees (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    So, you'd rather MC just keep the money? Cause that's the alternative. This sounds a lot like you're complaining about a half-solution instead of celebrating a half-solution.

  6. Re:Not going to happen on Android Q Will Include More Ways For Carriers To SIM Lock Your Phone (9to5google.com) · · Score: 1

    Please don't say "they" like that's how the nation decided. Something like 38% of people vote for that shit (also, about 38% of people voted for Brexit). Almost an identical number vote against it (and in the US, more than half of voters.)

    But yes, there is a huge group in America that think that government is never the solution.

  7. Re:Property is dead on Android Q Will Include More Ways For Carriers To SIM Lock Your Phone (9to5google.com) · · Score: 2

    Is it subsidized by the French government? Because how does that work? Seems like the US companies wouldn't like it. Also, do they sell SIMs in the US?

  8. Re:Not hard to do... on How Companies Secretly Boost Their Glassdoor Ratings (wsj.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Can we get away from using SMS for anything. I'm tired of companies trying to link to one of the more persistent offline identifiers I have. No, I'm creating an account with a throwaway for a reason.

  9. Re:This could be a lot of fun for Chinese intel on A Large Number of Top Free VPN Apps Either Have Chinese Ownership or Are Based in China (hackernoon.com) · · Score: 1

    Foreigners? First, they want to log what the domestic users are doing. Foreigners are a second-tier priority.

  10. Re:Streaming services on Netflix Says It's More Scared of Fortnite and YouTube Than Disney and Amazon (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They're not scared of Disney/Amazon because they are all all-you-can-watch buffets. Doesn't matter whether you watch 33%-33%-33% or 25%-25%-50%. You can have all three without much trouble (and not even that much money.) And you can certainly pay for all three if each have some serieses you like. But Fortnight will take all your money if you're not careful, and YouTube will condition you not to pay for videos (with cash, just with ads.)

  11. Re:2019 The year of Linux on chromebooks on Pixelbook and 'Nami' Chromebooks the First To Get Linux GPU Acceleration in Project Crostini (aboutchromebooks.com) · · Score: 1

    About Microsoft Development Environments, there's not much lock-in anymore. Their most advanced dev environment is now Windows/Mac There are compatible tools for Linux. And, it' is a pretty good dev. environment.. Their most popular one is Windows/Mac/Linux.

  12. Re:The garden wall provides no safety. on Google Play Malware Used Phones' Motion Sensors To Conceal Itself (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Android isn't a walled garden - as an OS it's open (albeit needing to have each source whitelisted). Google as a curator of application sis a failure (and there is no reason to expect Amazon others are better.). However, the OS is pretty open.

    Apple seems to have their walled garden in order, and their OS is more locked down..

    Of course, the "walled garden" on phones before, without allowing random third party devs, worked fine on the older phones. I mean, you don't have many apps, but it was safe.

  13. I would have competed if I could have gotten an S...

  14. Re:Trump's Taj Mahal on US Now Says All Online Gambling Illegal, Not Just Sports Bets (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump has a current interest in casinos in Nevada. He lost his interest in NJ casinos. The SC judgement that came down (and lead to this ruling) allowed non-Nevada casinos (like NJ casinos) to compete online.

    It's more sour grapes than anything, since it's just killing the online market because his share is decreasing.

  15. A lot of it is morality laws, but there is also a very important reason - regulation and cheating. If the stat wasn't behind the scratch tickets (or auditing them), it would be very easy for them to lie about the odds. And that matters, because although gambling is a bad investment, your expected loss determines how expensive it is as a hobby/fun activity. I mean, if you piss away $50 at a blackjack table, that may be a fun evening for you. If only 1/2 the aces were being dealt, you were cheated. That's why Nevada has a strict gambling oversight body

  16. Re:Doesn't remove the bottleneck on First 5G Remote Surgery Completed In China (ubergizmo.com) · · Score: 1

    The limiting factor is kinda surgeons, and kinda ORs. There are different surgeons who take over for different parts of an operation (at least for very complex ones), as well as anesthisa, etc. You can imagine this would let a world-class surgeon pop in to do the most difficult part, and hand over the initial/sewing up to a lesser surgeon (since it's handing over the robot controls to someone in another spot.) This might let the world-class surgeon work on 3x as many people, but only for the difficult 1/3. That doesn't work if they have to be in the hospital moving between ORs, etc. Because hospitals have limited OR space, the cost to physical move and rescrub, etc..

  17. Re:Because Republicans are Bad!!! on Ajit Pai Gives Carriers Free Pass on Privacy Violations During FCC Shutdown (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Of course that's how it works. 80% of the US government isn't shut down. The military, HHS, VA, Education Department, etc. are all full funded. So is the USPS, Social Security and Medicare (although that's because of alternate funding.)

    There's no "pass a budget" item. It's a "fund X bill". Sometimes X is the whole governments. Sometimes, it's a special allotment to establish a specific bridge or project.

  18. Re:Because Republicans are Bad!!! on Ajit Pai Gives Carriers Free Pass on Privacy Violations During FCC Shutdown (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Day one, they passed a set of micro-budgets. 7 of them. So the Senate could start turning on some parts of the federal government while still letting a shutdown affect one department (for face saving). The Senate never voted on them.

  19. Re:Apparently over a markerboard gag on DerbyCon Will Hold Its Last InfoSec Conference in September This Year (derbycon.com) · · Score: 1

    Free advertising this deep in a nested conversation with ACs every other reply (and thus auto-hidden??) Unfortunately, "video game conference" produces too many results to comb through them all. Or, if you want to be oblique, try just stating a city and month. That seems sufficiently obfuscated to not give them free press, yet able to determine a unique conference.

    Otherwise,my guess is you are dramatically overstating both their numbers and the quantity and type of new talks, and don't want to be checked.

  20. Re:Apparently over a markerboard gag on DerbyCon Will Hold Its Last InfoSec Conference in September This Year (derbycon.com) · · Score: 1

    Anonymous conference means I assume it is made up. Name?

  21. In the hypothetical, there are no copyright laws, so no profits to get a cut of. It's just made and then released.

  22. Re:I expect things to sort themselves out on Streaming TV May Never Again Be as Simple, or as Affordable, as It is Now (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Disney isn't just things branded Disney. It's ABC, FOX, Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars, and on and on.

  23. There would be a million Avengers movies without copyright. Most, but not all, would suck. The stories would probably be more interesting, but the graphics not (although look at what Star Trek fans do for no profit.) I imagine a world without copyright would have a lot of Kickstarted blockbusters (although not through Kickstarter, cause no one is going to pay $5MM to raise the cash.) I would pay $10 now for the next Marvel movie if that's what it took to get it made.

  24. Re:Advantages in common connectors on USB Type-C Headphones Were Nowhere in Sight at CES 2019 (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 1

    Personally I like having the I/O ports be universal

    You mean how USB3.1-B+ ports were "universal" but pins 9/10 could carry 3-40V? So sure the cord and port matched but you had to check the supply? Or you mean how for Rasp.Pi / Fast Charging you couldn't tell from the plug and had to look at the supply to know if it was 1amp or 2.5? Or how every iPhone had one of two omni-connenctors and your needed adapters (which fail over time) to get video out? To say nothing of the chain of adapters to get video off most Android devices, esp. those that multiplex the miniUSB as HDMI out..

    I say, many well defined ports. If it fits, it's correct.

  25. Yes, Ryan allowed the House to vote for a different bill, after all leaders (including Trump) agreed to support the first one. Because the TV called Trump a pussy, so he backed out.