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  1. Re:Pandora and Amazon for me on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Preferred Music Streaming Service? · · Score: 1

    Pandora with their "music DNA" seems to have the music streaming service option far better figured out than any of their competitors. Apple is particularly bad at suggesting things to you based on what it already knows about you and your collection/preferences.

  2. Re:MP3 on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Preferred Music Streaming Service? · · Score: 1

    Since I've never been a member of the Apple hive mind, I don't know if the average car stereo can play that format exclusively used by Apple or not. I simply don't need to care.

    Most of my music collection predates iTunes anyways.

  3. Re:In other words on High IQ Countries Have Less Software Piracy, Research Finds (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not income, it's disposable income. Even that is relative to software pricing. They could have very comfortable lives otherwise based on their local cost of living and still have problems paying what companies want for software.

    Plus there's the whole availability problem.

    Most simple scientific models are wildly innaccurate.

  4. Re:High IQ People.. on High IQ Countries Have Less Software Piracy, Research Finds (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    No. It was just too easy. Someone had to do it.

  5. Re:That explains quite a lot on Social Media Overtakes Television As Young People's Main Source of News, Says Report (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I lost my faith in "fact checking" after the mess with Cruz and his PPO being cancelled.

    You have to treat it all with as much skepticism as you would reserve for any of it.

  6. Sanders is a "back bencher" that never accomplished anything. He has radical grand ideas that sound nice if you are a kid but are wildly impractical for a number of reasons. Sanders supporters are a great example of how Facebook can magnify the apparent appeal of kooks.

    Also, your claims about his "government experience" are contrary to all of his rhetoric about being some sort of populist or outsider.

    Sanders is a career politician that seems as out of touch with real governance as anyone.

  7. I not sure that being aware that a man bit a dog on another continent really helps. Most people aren't really numerate enough to put things into perspective. It's very easy for people to take advantage of this and publish hysterical nonsense of all sorts. Also, the media can be very selective on what it chooses to report about. It can also craft it's language to push a particular agenda. It's all "curated" so that you believe whatever narrative they are trying to sell.

    Very few news organizations are thorough enough to allow the viewer to make their own judgements. That kind of professional journalism is out of style. It takes too much effort from everyone.

    Theoretically, new media can allow you to broaden your sources. Although most people just craw into the echo chamber of their choice and "radicalize" themselves.

  8. ...again, you are missing the point and focusing on your pet political agenda instead of paying attention to the real problem.

  9. This Libya crap is nonsense.

    We went into Libya at the specific request of the Arabs. It was the Arab League that requested we intervene.

    Also, the military is another department. That's the DoD and the President. Visit a real military installation some time and look at their chain of command.

    Yours is precisely the kind of mindless nonsense that Facebook helps perpetuate. Although Fox News probably already has this particular nonsense covered.

  10. Not quite. While "real journalists" are terribly biased and are slaves to their narrative, the stuff on Facebook is like the Weekly World News. Some of the stuff is like batboy but more subtle but still obviously bogus.

    People will gobble up the obviously absurd as long as it feeds into their biases.

  11. Re: Just like Slashdot in 5 years on Executive Says Facebook Will Be All Video, No Text In 5 Years (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    ...not white hoods, Guy Fawkes masks.

  12. Re:Blame the Unions. on Bill Guarantees 50% Salary For Workers Laid Off With Non-Compete (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    In the meantime, young kids that don't remember the cold war or any of the (true) stories about Soviet style living are starting to embrace communism.

    Bad economic times don't just give rise to Trumps, they also give rise to Bernies.

  13. If they are preventing you from working, then all of that is fair game really. Slavery has been illegal in this country for awhile now.

  14. Re:A YouTube channel is built using cameras. on Trent Reznor: YouTube Is Built On the Back Of Stolen Content (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Exactly. Pirated music has always been a red herring. The real threat of the web has always been user generated content including silly cat videos.

    The real threat of the Internet is cat videos.

    The music industry still thinks they have a monopoly in mobile devices.

  15. "He was famous long before YouTube existed."

    That's kind of the point. He's a has been. If not for YouTube, only angry old geezers stuck in the past would have any clue who he is. You might as well be rambling on about the Bay City Rollers.

  16. Re:So is the music business on Trent Reznor: YouTube Is Built On the Back Of Stolen Content (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    There is not "may or may not" to this. You're trying to sugar coat a turd.

  17. Re:Who is Trent Reznor? on Trent Reznor: YouTube Is Built On the Back Of Stolen Content (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    "I was there" and I still think that Reznor is a no talent nobody.

    He's the perfect example of an old has been that can't cut it so he needs to lash out. Either that or he was always a crass corporate sell out.

  18. I've had my work stolen. I would be pretty disappointed if it wasn't. That would mean that it wasn't even worth being pirated. That's a sad sad thing.

  19. Actually radio DOESN'T pay. While it pays songwriters, it does not pay performers. If anything, the situation was flipped with labels paying the radio stations.

    It was called payola. Perhaps you heard of it.

    When it comes to corruption, Google is an amateur. They're kids who haven't made it out of the playground yet compared to the Music industry.

  20. Re:Where can I find a UNIX-like Linux distro?! on Adios Apt and Yum? Ubuntu's Snap Apps Are Coming To Distros Everywhere (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's not a contradiction. A better way of putting it might be "more Unix and less Windows please".

    It remains to be seen whether today's iteration of "yet another standard" is going to reduce the number of standards or just increase them (as is usually the case).

    Also, dpkg and rpm are already widely supported. Moving to something new wipes out all of that progress. Churn for it's own sake in general does that.

    We're not Microsoft. We can't burn something down and completely redo it every release like they do. We don't have the clout for people to put up with that kind of nonsense.

  21. Re:The legacy left by Steve on Developer Accuses Apple Of Stealing His Breathe App (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 1

    That's a poor paraphrase that doesn't capture the spirit of the original.

    Ironic that...

  22. Re:Duh...app stores exist to develop ideas to stea on Developer Accuses Apple Of Stealing His Breathe App (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, this is about like Windows solitaire.

    It's much less like whatever Apple is calling it's own productivity apps these days.

  23. Re: F'ing useless app on Developer Accuses Apple Of Stealing His Breathe App (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 1

    It's usefulness is irrelevant. It's simply not terribly inventive.

  24. Unless you are a sociopathic leech, you don't have to worry about the licensing for either. This is APPLE we're talking about. File systems aren't exactly their bread and butter. This is precisely the sort of thing that works well as Free Software. You (rightfully) get possessive about your "secret sauce". The rest you don't worry about unless you're a hysterical ninny.

  25. Putting it in the file system is standardized and transparent. Doing things at a "per application" level runs the risk of making your solution completely incompatible with anything else on your own platform.