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  1. Re:Streamed Games = Next Level DRM on PlayStation Now Streaming Service Available On Windows PCs (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Some games could work that way. But it cuts out the adrenaline junky twitch FPS games. It also cuts out the modern style Quick-Time-Event games (like Dragon's Lair but dumber). But it could work for exactly the sorts of games you will never see on a dumbed down console: turn based RPG, strategy, adventure, etc.

  2. Re:Seems about right on Grumpy Cat Wants $600K From 'Pirating' Coffee Maker (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Defendants did respond in some fashion and also filed a counter-suit. The request for default judgement does not mean the defendants never responded, it could be that some complaints were not responded to or not resonded to in a way that they wished, or it's just a standard legal move used whether or not there is a response, or they could be flat out lying by saying there was no response, which it is why it's up to the judge to decide the merits of the request.

  3. Re:Seems about right on Grumpy Cat Wants $600K From 'Pirating' Coffee Maker (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's say hypothetically that the cat doesn't belong to the so-called owners and they don't have a valid trademark. In such a situation, the coffee company should still not be allowed to market under that brand name without the cat's permission. However the cat does not have the appropriate opportunity to hire a legal team to defend the trademark.

  4. Re:Its really the library not the language on C Programming Language Hits a 15-Year Low On The TIOBE Index (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Just make your own library. If the language won't let you make a suitable run time library from scratch then it's deficient.

  5. Re:Moronic Subject for an Article on C Programming Language Hits a 15-Year Low On The TIOBE Index (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Smart cards with JCOP running Java on top of an 8051, existing today. Slow as hell though.

  6. Re:Moronic Subject for an Article on C Programming Language Hits a 15-Year Low On The TIOBE Index (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    If C doesn't have it's own Facebook page, then how can Kanye give it his blessing?

  7. Re:It's not a popularity contest on C Programming Language Hits a 15-Year Low On The TIOBE Index (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean Macsyma?

  8. Re:"topic of discussion for many across the world" on Facebook Removes Fake Article About Megyn Kelly From Trending Topics (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I like NPR. It does really try to be balanced, though local stations may have their own biases. Ie, San Francisco NPR is definitely nuttier with its own local programming at times relative to NPR I hear elsewhere. There are definitely radio stations so far left that they make NPR seem like Fox. It's one of the few places where you do get reasoned views from different sides without it turning into a big shouting match. So I basically get my news from a mix of BBC and NPR.

    But you can never define where the "center" is for politics, so anything that truly has no political bias will still be assumed to be biased by everyone with a partisan outlook. People say that reality has a liberal bias, but I think that reality has a bias to the left of right wing partisans and a bias to the right of left wing partisans, for those people that must put everything on a simplistic one dimensional scale.

    For instance, everytime there's a discussion about the situation in Israel, there will be angry letters written to the local station accusing it of having either an pro-Israel bias or a pro-Palestinean bias.

  9. Re:"topic of discussion for many across the world" on Facebook Removes Fake Article About Megyn Kelly From Trending Topics (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't mind if a news outlet leans left or right, the audience can figure that out and deal with it. The problem with Fox is that it is constant non-stop editorializing disguised as news. Even your straight up "man bites dog" story can't help but throw in some political jibe.

  10. Re:"topic of discussion for many across the world" on Facebook Removes Fake Article About Megyn Kelly From Trending Topics (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    CNN doesn't do news anymore, left or right. It's all talking heads all the time. Even Fox actually has news on occasion, carefully sandwiched between editorials disguised as news. But CNN the 24 hours news pioneer is basically dead as a journalism outlet.

  11. Re:Seriously, we have the government we deserve on Google Tests A Software That Judges Hollywood's Portrayal of Women · · Score: 2

    We are allowed to worry about more than one thing at a time.

  12. Re:"A software" on Google Tests A Software That Judges Hollywood's Portrayal of Women · · Score: 1

    No, because it's very rare to see an interesting news on slashdot most days.

  13. Re:How women are portrayed in movies on Google Tests A Software That Judges Hollywood's Portrayal of Women · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You need to watch a lot of older movies. Men have been the butt of jokes forever. And there's certainly good reason for it, you make fun of the ones at top not at the bottom.

    Though in the past there were some strange oddities, amazingly sexist to very fair and balanced. I saw one about the first female president, a comedy about the husband trying to cope with being number two, and it ended when the president got pregnant and resigned, thus restoring order to the family.

  14. No screenshots I've seen from that show look like Silicon Valley in the 80s. At best they look like a San Francisco hipsters idea of what it was like. Seriously, brick buildings in Silicon Valley?

  15. Re: Too late, said the Hunter on Hillary Clinton Used BleachBit To Wipe Emails (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    No one really knows Trump's political stance since he's not really giving out any details of his policies. He just says whatever gives the biggest cheers at his rallies.

    Politics isn't as simple as left vs right or liberal vs conservative. That's just simplistic hand waving to stop the mases from thinking things through. It is possible to be anti-immigrant and pro-gun-control at the same time, for less regulation and more social safety nets at the same time, and so forth. It's more complex than even a Gartner Group quadrant diagram; if there are N political issues then there are N axes on the political spectrum.

  16. Re:Too late, said the Hunter on Hillary Clinton Used BleachBit To Wipe Emails (neowin.net) · · Score: 0

    Makes sense. Conservatives hate carbon credits as being unconservative (if it was good enough for my grandpappy it's good enough for me). Libertarians may see a carbon credit as just another method of using the free market forces to account for non-monetary externalities. The conservative idea of free market is do whatever it takes to make me rich, be fair to me and be unfair to the competition, tariffs are bad unless they help out my business in which case they're good. The libertarian idea of the free market is to be fair with reasonable regulation to ensure fairness, though of course different libertarians have different ideas about how little regulation is enough.

  17. Re:More political redirection on Hillary Clinton Used BleachBit To Wipe Emails (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    Let's be pragmatic here. She didn't decide the logistics of her email server and how to secure it or delete emails. Her IT intern did this.

  18. Re:More political redirection on Hillary Clinton Used BleachBit To Wipe Emails (neowin.net) · · Score: -1, Troll

    A: "But anyone could hack in and see her emails, it's totally unsecure!"
    B: "She used BleachBit."
    A: "That proves she had something to hide!"

    The rationale comes from having a pre-conceived notion of guilt or nefarious motives, thus any action is further proof of malfeasance. Someone is accused of a crime and so any denial is seen as being unrepentant, pleading innocent in court is wasting tax payers time by going to trial, etc.

    It would be nice to ignore idiots who go down this route, but we really can't. The crazy rich guy going off on a bender about how Obama isn't really a citizen could be dismissed as a lunatic but then that person ends up as a serious contender to be president several years later. You could ignore Trey Gowdy as just another blowhard looking to score points with the constituents, but crazy people have a disconcerting ability to hang on and not go away...

  19. Re:No but I'm optimistic on Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Use Optical Media? · · Score: 1

    I'd trust bit rot on disks over having data in the cloud. For a backup have it on solid state media, and have more than one copy.

  20. Re:Only SOME Optical Media Is Durable on Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Use Optical Media? · · Score: 2

    My headache has been the CD/DVD readers. As the speeds got faster they started having more and more problems reading pressed discs from many different sources, and the discs work fine on other readers.

  21. It's not like this is an obscure device.
    Of course, since we can always hide problematic updates... oh wait, we can't even do that... if we required to accept all updates then Microsoft needs to be even better about testing rather than become more sloppy.

  22. Clearly, Amazon failed in predicting the future behavior of Windows and foolishly assumed that yesterday's AI would work today.

  23. Windows 7 doesn't reduce video quality in games. Very few games require anything beyond DX11.

  24. It's a bug that should have been caught before it reached any customer. Most companies would feel bad when bugs are first found by customers instead of QA, but not Microsoft.

  25. Re:But will they ever be profitable? on Uber Loses At Least $1.2 Billion In First Half of 2016 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Trusted? That's just for those who believe the marketing, there are plenty who do not trust Uber at all.