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  1. Re: It is the app’s fault on VLC Blacklists Newer Huawei Devices To Combat Negative App Reviews (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Actually, the second sentence should be part of the summary. This one:

    Huawei phones have a built in "background app killer" app that is enabled by default.

  2. Re: It is the app’s fault on VLC Blacklists Newer Huawei Devices To Combat Negative App Reviews (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You can't fix the issue if the OS is doing it without forcefully editing the OS. Huawei phones have a built in "background app killer" app that is enabled by default. You'd have to have the right permissions and possibly be root to force an exception on your own, and any app that gets around it is basically acting like a virus.

  3. Re:Good on Firefox Blocks Autoplaying Web Audio (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you expect the page to render then at all? The pixels will have to change from white to the page body background color. At what point do you expect it to render or not, because every resource linked by the website itself can and will cause a render?

    Hint: if you really want that much control over rendering, don't use an image/video rendering browser: use a text only browser like links.

  4. You canâ(TM)t code for shit

    LOL

  5. if(post != political){
      prevent_anon_russian_ip_and_new_accounts_from_posting_about_trump();
    }

    Someone just do it already

  6. Re:When did Fake news become free speech? on Facebook Chooses To Demote Fake News Instead of Remove It (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    Libel is already a crime. Fraud, libel and defamation are already illegal. The issue is twofold:

    Jurisdiction. You can bring someone to court for fraud/libel/defamation already, but what if the defense is American and the prosecution lived in Russia? Or any other myriad of country combinations one can think of.

    Spin and effect. You can write a lot of things about someone and even though it's technically true or even proven to be a lie, someone will spin it to avoid the aforementioned crimes. Let's open a can of worms as an example. And it does matter in this case because it is a matter of "fake news" that led to his suicide; if it wasn't fake news, please provide hard evidence that it actually happened, I want to hear nothing else in reply to said can of worms because 1. this is just an example and 2. hearsay is not evidence, look up what hearsay is legally before even bothering to reply, because I won't bother reading if you don't bother researching and finally, 3. USA is based on innocent until proven guilty, and trying to take that away will only hurt everyone in the end, e.g this guy committed suicide in the end because the media wanted him dead and he was most likely innocent, trying to take it away because "the guy is/did X!" is just a good way to lose all your rights immediately based on accusation alone and because someone felt like it. Michael Jackson and his pedophilia case. No evidence, just a lot of hearsay and harassment by media, people and "victims." If you were actually raped, I'm sorry for your pain, and believe me, I would want justice too, but the justice has to stay just. Otherwise people will abuse accusations for profit or just to hurt people. And there's many cases where people have ruined lives solely based on accusations. The reason why I mention this is because you can say something that is untrue, or make another really harmful statement that only sounds true or is unprovable to a person, and those statements still cause harm even if in court you were proven innocent. This is what I mean by spin and effect: twisting the truth or just making lies to hurt people is a real thing, and those people should be punished for doing so, but see previous item, jurisdiction, you can't prosecute because they are in different countries, or even worse, also a corporation. And even if you can bring the accuser to court and win, it is a Pyrrhic victory: the costs to the accuser is a slap on a wrist usually compared to the legal fees and damage caused by the lies; the spinner just changes their name/location and continues to spin if they want.

  7. Re:Ouargla, Algeria on All-time Heat Records Are Being Set All Over the World (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    https://public.wmo.int/en/medi...

    This is my source, with citations, although not necessarily the GP's:

    (countries emphasized by me)

    WMO uses datasets (based on monthly climatological data from observing sites) from the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and the United Kingdom’s Met Office Hadley Centre and the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit in the United Kingdom.

    It also uses reanalysis datasets from the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts and its Copernicus Climate Change Service, and the Japan Meteorological Agency. This method combines millions of meteorological and marine observations, including from satellites, with models to produce a complete reanalysis of the atmosphere. The combination of observations with models makes it possible to estimate temperatures at any time and in any place across the globe, even in data-sparse areas such as the polar regions.

  8. Re: Cannot be climate change on All-time Heat Records Are Being Set All Over the World (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    https://public.wmo.int/en/medi...

    The last 3 years are the hottest ever recorded. Citations by many weather stations around the world, from NASA, NWS USA, NWS UK, and the Japanese Meteorological Agency.

    The water is boiling sir, and you can't jump out because that would mean leaving earth.

  9. Re:Near-perfect emulation? Not really.. on Hacker Gets Super NES Games Running On Unmodified NES (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I learn something new everyday. I was not quite right it seems. But it's interesting what they did to enhance the power of the NES near the end of its lifetime.

  10. Re:Near-perfect emulation? Not really.. on Hacker Gets Super NES Games Running On Unmodified NES (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Also this is how Super Mario Bros. 3 works: there is an ASIC instead of the PPU ROM, which is why it is not only quite large but supports both horizontal and vertical scrolling at the same time, with more palettes than normal. Except he put a Raspberri Pi in it instead of an ASIC. So he just decided to emulate SNES games for fun after figuring out the PPU.

  11. Re:Ha! on Microsoft Turned Customers Against the Skype Brand (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    No it's pretty much dead in the water except for maybe corporate because while Skype was stagnating Discord just popped up with more features to sweep people off their feet. Also not helping is their tagline was actually "It's time to ditch Skype."

  12. Re:Proof that CO2 does not cause warming on Earth's Carbon Dioxide Levels Reach Highest Point In 800,000 Years (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessm...

    A bunch of graphs, data and projections say otherwise.

  13. They're also ignoring the neuron simulation programs that emulate a brain. I believe we're at the computational level of the lizard right now, but when Google can finish their qubit computer hardware there might be a jump in level. To mice.

  14. Re:The three laws are unusable. on Google Cofounder Sergey Brin Warns of AI's Dark Side (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    While they are interesting stories, actually putting it into practice and coding it would be nightmarishly hard. We as human beings can deal with it because we can see the metaphorical grey; an AI only sees as well as it was coded, and inputs are simplified more and more so that it knows what to do if X Y and Z is seen (a vastly simplified version of AI driving a car). I don't think AI is anywhere near human level consciousnesses but trends in AI car driving and use in math and money make it forefront to news articles and ad venues for them.

    However I think the next gold rush is AI. To what end is up to the creator but it seems to have the same circular logic as snake oil, having good AI means making good money through some intangible magical means.

  15. Re:and-- on Palantir Knows Everything About You (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Burma Shave

  16. Re:+/- 12,383 miles on No One Knows How Long the US Coastline Is (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 2

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    The best answer I can give is >0.

  17. Re:Don't forget whose fault this REALLY is!! on Former FCC Broadband Panel Chair Arrested For Fraud (dslreports.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    It says right there, appointed FCC chairman by Donald Trump (emphasis mine). Under Obama he was in the FCC as the Republican seat; the chairman under Obama was Tom Wheeler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....

  18. I read the release notes, most of it was already broken on those dropped architectures.

    I'd say "nonworking and unmaintained"

  19. Re:Where'd the Linus users go? on Debian 9.4 Released (debian.org) · · Score: 2

    I don't use Debian, I use Arch Linux. So there's no point in me commenting since it barely applies to me.

  20. Re:Because replacing a URL is a great idea on Chrome 64 Now Trims Messy Links When You Share Them (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    https://stackoverflow.com/ques...

    There's loads of javascipt that already changes copied text, prepending or appending anything you want. And also copying to the clipboard, usually just to share a link, onclick it automatically writes to the clipboard. This library handles writing to the clipboard for you if you need such a thing https://clipboardjs.com/

  21. Yeah no. It works both ways: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    You can't make a law retroactively, it's in the constitution. Neither to punish nor permit something.

  22. Re:I give it... on Google To Kill Off 'View Image' Button In Search · · Score: 1

    Greasemonkey. Also you can add your own JS to any page by design of the addon making process anyway. So basically, you have to not allow addons at all, or vet every addon to not have that specific piece of javascript, which can probably be rewritten an infinite number of ways.

    This battle is not winnable.

  23. Re:Alternative to Skype? on Skype Can't Fix a Nasty Security Bug Without a Massive Code Rewrite (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Discord

  24. Re:A web browser that dosen't suck on Ask Slashdot: What Is Missing In Tech Today? · · Score: 1
  25. My keyfile is the a specific string of text (with no returns to avoid the /n/r and /n text file differences between Windows and *nix). That way I can't lose it unless I forget that string of text, and I can easily remake it if need be from any text editor.