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  1. Read Reddit's Privacy Policy... on Reddit's Case for Anonymity on the Internet (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Then tell me they don't want your data and don't sell it. https://www.redditinc.com/poli...

  2. Re:Offer an alternative to piracy already on Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites In Search Results (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    In the USA, none of the download-to-own movies can be legally format shifted so they play on all devices

    What devices don't support the formats widely used on pay sites? I've not had to format shift anything for quite some time.

  3. Re:Offer an alternative to piracy already on Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites In Search Results (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Good on you, Google! I am sure that you will at the same time promote the sites where I can legally purchase movies that are download-to-own, and can be format shifted so they play on all my devices, right? Oh wait...

    Yes they do. Google Play Store, Itunes, Amazon Video and many other places allow you to legally purchase and download to own in formats that'll play on anything, many titles being released the same day they are in the cinemas so stop trying to use that well out of date bullshit excuse as a reason for your thievery.

  4. Re:Self-fulfilling idio(crac)y! on Google is Adding Anti-Tampering DRM To Android Apps in the Play Store (androidcentral.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The only reason people behave so damn retarded with regard to computers ... and I mean on a level that qualifies as literally mentally disabled ... is because tech firms have treated people like non-independent retards until they were.

    No, its because there are millions of people using computers today who just 25 years ago wouldn't have the basic knowledge to even work out how to put the system they'd bought together, let alone how to get online. Once upon a time using a computer required a reasonable amount of technical knowledge or at least an IQ sufficient enough to learn.

  5. Re:And this is the flip side ... on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    ll enjoy my cold carbonated beer in the US.

    Assuming your boss will give you time off...

  6. Re:Full Email From Elon on Elon Musk Emails Employees About 'Extensive and Damaging Sabotage' By Employee (cnbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Christ there's some tin foil hat level conspiracy nonsense going on in Elon's head.

  7. Re:true, but needs focus on users first on Why OpenStreetMap Should Be a Priority for the Open Source Community (linuxjournal.com) · · Score: 2

    Very good but OSM gets the data from people who use apps that use OSM data the same way Google Maps gets much of its data from its users but if very few people are using apps powered by OSM then its data pool won't really increase in any meaningful way. So if nobody else is writing an app to use that data that is going to have a meaningful amount of users then OSM is going to have to.

  8. Re:true, but needs focus on users first on Why OpenStreetMap Should Be a Priority for the Open Source Community (linuxjournal.com) · · Score: 1

    It does but like Open source projects with shit UIs people will use an alternative with a friendlier and easier to use interface if one exists regardless of the underlying functionality. There's no point having very powerful software if only the people who write it know how to find all those functions, this is the problem GIMP has.

  9. Re:Uber PTO on A British Plumber May Show Uber the Future of Employment (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Here in the UK every single employee is entitled to 5.6 weeks pro rata holiday pay no matter how few hours they work. In the case of someone who works different hours every week the way holiday pay is calculated is as an average of the previous 12 weeks replacing any week where no work was done with one that was so for example if in the last 12 weeks you had a week with no pay you would include the week prior to this 12 week period in the calculation. Every employee is also entitled to a workplace pension as well.

  10. No they're not. They're updating the client, the old OS no longer has the features that the new client needs so from thereon in it won't work. You can still fire up the old client, it'll just sit there doing nothing. You don't have an automatic right to have a software company support massively outdated OS feature sets that was end of life a decade ago.

  11. Re:Not faster then speed of light on Microsoft is Working on its Own Game Streaming, Netflix-Like Service (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would it be when it isn't on Sony's already existing system which uses game streaming PS3 games when playing them on a PS4.

  12. Re:"console quality" on Microsoft is Working on its Own Game Streaming, Netflix-Like Service (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Clearly never seen a Xbox One X.

  13. Re:Battery life? on Clear Linux Beats MacOS in MacBook Pro Benchmark Tests (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Came to post this very comment. Battery life is one of Linux's achilles heels.

  14. Shame nobody on /. will be using it..... on Microsoft Adds Post-Quantum Cryptography To an OpenVPN Fork (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Given that its hosted on Github which since Microsoft bought most of /. say they won't use, then I guess there won't be that many people trying it....

  15. When you continue to milk the cash cow.... on 'Solo' Will Lose $50+ Million In First Defeat For Disney's 'Star Wars' Empire (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    Eventually the cash cow runs out of milk.

  16. Re:I dislike Microsoft, too, but... on Microsoft's Interest In Buying GitHub Draws Backlash From Developers · · Score: 1

    Mentions trust, posts as Anonymous Coward. Oh the irony.

  17. Re:I dislike Microsoft, too, but... on Microsoft's Interest In Buying GitHub Draws Backlash From Developers · · Score: 1

    Do you realise how mental you sound?

  18. Re:I dislike Microsoft, too, but... on Microsoft's Interest In Buying GitHub Draws Backlash From Developers · · Score: 0

    I like how you try to portrait people who absolutely hate Microsoft as "emotional and irrational"

    Because it is. If you don't like their products and their practices then don't use them but to absolutely hate something because you don't like the software it produces and because it behaves as a business which exists to make money is just irrational, even more so when companies that you don't hate do some of the same practices. You just end up sounding like a mental person when you post anti-MS diatribes to anyone who dare post anything that mentions Microsoft or Windows.

  19. Re:Trust on Microsoft's Interest In Buying GitHub Draws Backlash From Developers · · Score: 2

    Microsoft have many divisions that run at a loss and aren't expected to make a profit because of the benefit they provide to other divisions. Microsoft buying Github, that they use themselves, will save them money elsewhere.

  20. Re:MS buy GitHub, I leave GitHub on Microsoft's Interest In Buying GitHub Draws Backlash From Developers · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Grow the fuck up you pathetic pile of shit. The "Muh Micro$haft is eeevil' meme trotted out by the FOSS community is getting old and you just sound stupid and pathetic.

  21. Re:Please no on Europe Plans Ban on Plastic Cutlery, Straws and More (cnn.com) · · Score: 4

    No it doesn’t. Plastic is inert. That’s why we use it.

    Humans are already ingesting microbeads through eating seafood and they have also made it into our tap water.

  22. It's almost like you want to sell the higher margin ones first, in order to help pay for the amazing capital expenditure it takes to build a car assembly line.

    Who is shocked by this? Nobody should be, as this is how it has always worked.

    No it hasn't always worked like that. All other car manufacturers release budget models the same time as the higher end ones.

  23. Since when was Natural Gas not a fossil fuel? on No Fossil Fuel-Based Generation Was Added To US Grid Last Month (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If you're adding more natural gas generation you're adding more fossil fuel generation.

  24. Re: Yes and no on Could SpaceX Rocket Technology Put Lives At Risk? (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    While most people are not qualified to judge rocket safety risks, there is only one entity that has actually *demonstrated* that they are incompetent at judging rocket safety risks, and for that matter they did so spectacularly and totally, and then managed to stay in a position to continue judging rocket safety anyway and then did so again! That would of course be NASA, so I laugh when they judge someone else for being "too dangerous". It's still a hell of a lot safer than the deathtrap shuttle was. Next you'll be complaining it's too expensive...

    The counter argument to that would be that they've had the experience to learn from so are better placed than Musk's Space-X to make such decisions.

  25. Re:Technology exists today on UK Car Industry On Alert Over Reports Some Hybrids Face a Ban (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    However due to the cost of doing it in comparison to just digging more lithium out of the ground they don't bother.