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  1. Facebook Intellectual Property Farce on Leaked Documents Show Facebook's 'Threshold' For Deleting Pages, Groups (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Their media ownership system does not work properly, it can be hacked with false ownership and normally kicks users off on the basis of US ownership, EVEN IF YOU HAVE THE ORIGINAL CREATOR / OWNERS PERMISSION IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY. The system's easy to fool too.

  2. Inequality of income is never a problem, it is the lowest level of purchasing capability given to, say, someone on social income. If this robotization idea brings in more tax, so be it, it can fund more social income, so let the head honcho have multiple helicopters, it's just not a problem. You can even cut his rate if the robots are any use as an incentive to build wealth. But whatever ...

  3. Marissa on Verizon To Submit Bid For Yahoo (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Marissa used to work for Google Maps. Hmmm ...

  4. Re:The End of Thin Computing? on Microsoft Edge Will Start Automatically Pausing Less Important Flash Content (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Fascinating! That scandal would destroy Intel and NVIDIA overnight! :-)

  5. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is funded by US on Putin Says Panama Papers Part of US Plot to Weaken Russia (go.com) · · Score: 1

    RFE RL is a 501c 3 corporation that receives U.S. government funding and is supervised by the Broadcasting Board of Governors, an agency overseeing all U.S. federal government international broadcasting services. The Russian Federation is subject to sanctions by the US government over the legitimacy of the people of Crimea's vote to declare themselves as a the Russian Autonomous Region of Crimea. Who do you trust, what can you verify with your own eyes, and who has an agenda here?

  6. Re:The End of Thin Computing? on Microsoft Edge Will Start Automatically Pausing Less Important Flash Content (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Hi! To quickly explain my position, I've heard this before, but notice that flash movie content plays on these new thin machines with âoeclicky soundâ and unreliably as if they are underpowered in a way that is hidden. I have tried a few different makes and software platforms. New gaming platforms blow them off the face of the planet earth and are perfectly smooth. The screens are nice big ones and they are ergonomic and comfortable to use. I can afford both. So naturally I ask the question as there is a visible mismatch to me and I have been struck with disbelief.

  7. Censorship on Facebook Users Are Sharing Less and It's a Big Problem (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    They have A.I. that hides comments that people make on News Vendors and the like, but hides this fact from these people's accounts, on the basis of arbitrary content criteria. People encounter it, eventually note that their posts are deleted from the usership's view, but they are still visible to them and declare Zuck a commie. This happens on G+ too, another good example of randomly ascribed censorship, also in a cheeky hidden way. The vast majority of people want freedom of speech instead this situation, so they are left with a very bad taste in their mouth. They think they have found a monster! What does it take to sell and what does it take to win?

  8. The End of Thin Computing? on Microsoft Edge Will Start Automatically Pausing Less Important Flash Content (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Those thin new computers are too slow?

  9. Re:Amazon Genius on Jeff Bezos: AWS Will Break $10 Billion This Year (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    If the "fire" is $50, then consumers still have enough money to spare to buy a solid desktop. Also it psychologically decays the consumer item's value as it gets cheaper, like it did with the calculator market and digital watches in the 1980s. Eventually it's "the chintz" that's free with cornflakes packets. Then as mass production increases for any consumer item, the unit price always falls, including Macs and PCs.

  10. Amazon Genius on Jeff Bezos: AWS Will Break $10 Billion This Year (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    Bezos is clever. He's cheaping off thin computing. I want him to win so that fast hot desktop PCs and Macs get cheap through having a larger customer base.

  11. Ulterior Behaviour on Chrome Extension Caught Hijacking Users' Browsers (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Ulterior behaviour of any description always throws away users, it's in the basic principles of marketing.

  12. I would like to see another episode of Unreal, it is such an eye catching game.

  13. Abnormal Psychology on Study Finds Sleep Deprivation Increases Compulsive Facebook Usage (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Compulsive behavior of any sort only exists in pre existing conditions of abnormal psychology, so this research should not be applied to regular folks OR advertised as being applicable to normal sane individuals. I mention this because many children have had their computer hobbies curtailed by parents because of a sadistic misapplication of psychopathy research, misapplied by media companies and simpleton politicians.

  14. Moore's law on World's Smallest Optical Switch Uses a Single Atom (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Does this mean that there is a limit to Moore's law, or will someone figure out how to go subatomic?

  15. Three Ampères on Some Reversible USB-C Cables/Adapters Could Cause Irreversible Damage · · Score: 1

    Three Ampères is a lot! I bet there are a lot of engineers that thought it was a typo when they looked at the maximum tolerance needed in the USB-C spec. :-)

  16. Great CEO pet projects that I have known .. on Nintendo Hits Snooze On Sleep-Tracking Device (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess that blows the video game tie-in "Super Mario Snooze."

  17. Marketing Nature Abhors a Power Vacuum on Intel Says Chips To Become Slower But More Energy Efficient (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I want a desk warmer that's blisteringly fast. I hope they keep the high end of the bargain too.

  18. Security Advisory on Financial Advisers Disrupted By AI (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If someone hacks these, we're all in a world of pain. Everyone tanks simultaneously, there will be huge layoffs everywhere all at once and no vacancies for the month it takes to realize that they kicked the wrong kids out. In short it's industry's event horizon for infinitely gauche rear end negative money pain. Ouch!

  19. Back to basics on Computer Chips Made of Wood Promise Greener Electronics · · Score: 1

    " They're 400 feet wide, the binary maths is performed by interacting cantilevers and push rod slats, and, it's powered by push pedals and a river with a water wheel. Augmented Canadian tech at it's finest!"

  20. Phew! on Linux Mint Will Continue To Provide Both Systemd and Upstart · · Score: 1

    Oh man, that's good news. Those people who were dragging their feet had me going up the wall. Init's had it's day, it fleeces me out with time consuming problems ...

  21. Catch 22 on Can High Intelligence Be a Burden Rather Than a Boon? · · Score: 1

    No one thinks of themselves as stupid. The mentally ill people enumerated above could not discern their own stupidity due to hysterically dissociated ego deflective logic. I think I've made my point! Later ...

  22. Who fails the “Cool Aid Acid Test?” on Cannabis Smoking Makes Students Less Likely To Pass University Courses · · Score: 1

    Hide their dope and I bet the same kids are equally stupid. I guarantee it! It's a hard world out there and not everyone passes college ...

  23. On a challenging note! on Windows 10 Successor Codenamed 'Redstone,' Targeting 2016 Launch · · Score: 1

    Does Minecraft really compete well with the open source Minetest? http://www.minetest.net/

  24. Skepticism is needed to test reality in Science on Years After Shutting Down, Tevatron Reveals Properties of Higgs Boson · · Score: 0

    We should always remain skeptical of new theories such as this. That's how science works.

  25. Edutech Dough on The Cyberlearning Technologies Transforming Education · · Score: 1

    I've worked on this tech before, it was fun, but the money's too lousy.