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  1. Re:bad numbers on Reddit Users Are the Least Valuable of Any Social Network (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They have come out and said this.

    They actually love when people do not log in because not logged in users count as unique visitors each time. They also count un-logged in as a new unique user every time they change cell towers.

  2. Re:Just #LearnToCode on Windows Media Player Set To Lose a Feature on Windows 7 (onmsft.com) · · Score: 1

    #LearnToCode and write your own!

    Careful there, that'll get you banned for hate speech on twitter.

  3. Private companies still have shareholders. It's just an invite only affair.

  4. Was anything classified? on Democrats Intend To Probe Ivanka Trump's Use of Personal Email In Next Congress (go.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Everyone keeps comparing this to what Hillary did. Not sure why.

    She was using a non-government account for government business. Hillary set us her own email sever in an unoccupied house and transferred classified information on to it.

    These things are not comparable.

  5. This is basically the same concept as any other kinetic energy storage system. You could be compressing air, lifting water, lifting rocks, or spinning a flywheel, it's all the same idea.

    Personally I think pumped hydro is the best idea, as it can scale very large with the least risk of catastrophic indecent.

  6. Pumped hydro electric power is a similar concept but even simpler to setup, as it uses pumps and pipes instead of robotic cranes.

  7. Re:ha! that got their attention on Entire Broadband Industry Sues California To Stop Net Neutrality Law (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Bro, it's super clear.

    Were going to pass a law that we have no law about this and use that law to get rid of laws that regulate what we didn't make laws about.

  8. this will end up with manufacturers claiming every little thing they improve should increment the number, so they can sell new APs and routers.

  9. Basically, China already tries to segregate their Internet from everyone else's. The odds that they will sever every single tie to the US Internet is laughable, and if they don't do that, it's still one Internet.

  10. Re:Why do tech-bros love antisocial behavior? on The New Yorker on Linus Torvalds (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm kind of arrogant at work but I'm too good to be slapped down in my specialty. I've never thought I acted like an an Asshole and people generally tell me I'm a nice friendly guy.

    After leaving some work places and talking with people who still work there, it's pretty clear a lot of people (particularly ones I didn't interact with much at all) had decided I was an asshole. You can't judge your assholeishness, it's subjective and sometimes not even tied to reality.

  11. Re:I just don't know about this on John Hancock Will Include Fitness Tracking In All Life Insurance Policies (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    "The insurer will begin converting existing life insurance policies to Vitality in 2019, it said."

    Or if they just decided to unilaterally change the terms of your agreement.

  12. Re: So Clever! on Scientists Make a Touch Tablet That Rolls and Scrolls (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    This thing would probably appeal to the same people who bought the Magic Leap one.

  13. Re: tv show prediction on Videogame Developers Are Making It Harder To Stop Playing (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup, the one where a sentiant computer pulled them into the future to help two socially awkward gamers learn how to interact IRL after most of humanity had died off.

    Weird episode but very memorable.

  14. Re:Rebound due? on Bitcoin Sinks Below $6,000 as Almost Everything Crypto Tumbles (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If reporters are telling you it's dead, wait a bit and buy it. If reporters are telling you it's the future of the world, wait a bit and sell it.

    Tech reporters are manipulating the price of bitcoin by writing articles about it and laughing all the way to the bank.

  15. I was curious about this and read down into the CEOs explanation.

    Apparently the only basis he has for this claim is that the software has a high misidentification (false positive) rate among black females. I'm not sure why this makes the software "biased" instead of "broken" or "needing improvement".

  16. Is cutting them off necessary? on Hundreds of Thousands of Windows XP and Vista Users Won't Be Able To Use Steam Soon (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "This means that after that date the Steam Client will no longer run on those versions of Windows."

    I can understand the desire to not have to support the older operating systems. But, why completely stop in from running?

    Why not just say, "if it breaks too bad" and let people risk it if they want to?

  17. Re:They were going to target Slashdot users on US Congressmen Reveal Thousands of Facebook Ads Bought By Russian Trolls (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Like I'd listen someone who uses google+.

  18. Re:Yes. On Monday. on Trump Signs Law Weakening Shield For Online Services (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    This law gives THE GOVERNMENT the ability to go after sites for things that are most definitely not what Backpage did. Under the old law, if you contributed to sex trafficking though your own actions your immunity was revoked. Under the new law, if a user does something that the government decides you should have known about and stopped, your immunity is revoked. That's a huge difference, and includes a nice little bit where the government can dispense arbitrary justice by picking and choosing who should have know what.

  19. Re:BLOWJOBS $20.00!!! on Trump Signs Law Weakening Shield For Online Services (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Which would have been sufficient under the old system. Under the new rules they can be held responsible if the government thinks they should have know about it and stopped it.

  20. Re:Yes. On Monday. on Trump Signs Law Weakening Shield For Online Services (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Or that this law is completely unnecessary and Backpage was just a strawman to get this power grab passed.

  21. Re:Now we can go after Backpage on Trump Signs Law Weakening Shield For Online Services (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    But how would they do that without this law that they needed?

  22. Now we can go after Backpage on Trump Signs Law Weakening Shield For Online Services (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Since everyone in Congress told us this bill was necessary to take down Backpage.com, are they going to after them now?

  23. Re:Visa and Mastercard needs to be broken up on Cash Might Be King, but They Don't Care (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I was curious about this and tried looking it up. I couldn't find anything about them buying a bank.

    Their cards are issued by Citigroup and everything I found said that Citigroup was just massively aggressive in getting Costco to switch an gave them nearly fee processing as an incentive.

    Do you have anymore info about what you are talking about?

  24. The gear 3 does everything you ask for other than have a one week battery

    https://www.samsung.com/us/mob...

    they only rate it for about 3 days between charges, but have a wireless charger that you just set it down on when not in use.

  25. The amount held is not the issue. Not even with 40% being held by 1000 people. The real issue is confidence. If all of the world's billionaires started dumping dollars it would be seen as a lack of confidence in the dollar and everyone (not just the billionaires) would follow.