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  1. In adblocking, false negatives are far far far worse than false positives.

    Absolutely wrong. A false positive means that important content doesn't appear at all - and if you're doing a bank transfer, that could be potentially disastrous. This is much worse for your average user than an occasional ad slipping through. The same is mostly true for antivirus - how many times in the past few years have parts of the OS been flagged as a false positive and broken Windows installs? That is not better than a false negative either.

  2. Yeah, I'm talking about broken rendering - not missing ads. Most people don't choose broken rendering for no reason.

  3. I'd prefer that they're not unknowingly using an ad blocker that can break rendering of any site without warning due to a false positive. If you intentionally install one at least there's a chance you know it did something. These problems can come up at any point down the road, but worse would be during active development.

  4. Abusing their position, that is. Android swipe keyboard is biased.

  5. Only if someone can convince a judge that they have a monopoly. They're definitely anything their position, but they're doing it as part of an oligopoly and it seems to be perfectly legal right now (in the US).

  6. I don't use an ad blocker, but even if I did I wouldn't want one enabled by default - especially not one created by a marketing company.

    I do a fair bit of front end web development, and I don't like the possibility that this could cause rendering errors when it falsely detected an ad.

  7. Re:It's not a minor accomplishment... on Is the iPhone 'Years' Ahead of Android In Photography? (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Depth of field is how eyes work. You can't focus everything in your field of view at once. This is why a photo that's entirely in focus looks unnatural.

  8. Because restaurants don't like free publicity? Most of the times I've seen people take a picture of food, it's because the food was noteworthy or new.

  9. Re: If you truly care about great photography on Is the iPhone 'Years' Ahead of Android In Photography? (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    The size of the lens and thickness of the phone severely limit how much you get from that.

  10. Well, my response was to someone who literally said "Set your firewall to allow only your printer to access it."

    Whatever is possible isn't really relevant.

  11. The Firewall is set to not allow packets between that server and anywhere else. Good luck getting the script to get around that.

  12. Re:then dont' make it public on LinkedIn Says It's Illegal To Scrape Its Website Without Permission (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    1) collecting the website data. Check The spider downloads all of the text content and stores an index along with contextual relationships.

    2) make correlations about the data on the website Check The hyperlinks on the web site are used to evaluate the relative importance of the linked web site.

    3) selling that data to companies. Nearly They don't charge for the search engine directly - they charge for advertisers and then provide the data for free to visitors. More or less the same thing effectively speaking.

  13. Re:then dont' make it public on LinkedIn Says It's Illegal To Scrape Its Website Without Permission (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Slashdot's content is public: can I scrape everything, host it on my site, insert ads, and make money?

    Plain old Copyright law is enough to put an end to that. However, facts are not copyrightable, and Linkedin has a lot of valuable facts in its database.

    But anyways, what about their user agreement?

    Can you put a EULA in a document folder (page 50 in a stack of 200 pages) and throw it on the ground in the park, and expect to enforce it when it tells people not to read the other pages in the envelope? That's the physical-world equivalent.

  14. Build a proxy service (per the article) that parses input before passing it to $SERVICE.

    Sounds like a job for a Firewall/UTM to handle for you. Of course those don't usually protect much from internal traffic.

  15. Good luck getting your scans back off the server.

  16. Re:Ask the coders what they want on Apple is About To Do Something Their Programmers Definitely Don't Want (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Didn't you hear? Their whole building is wireless. They haven't figured out how to make the lights work yet, though.

  17. Re:Jony Ive is a no talent hack on Apple is About To Do Something Their Programmers Definitely Don't Want (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    White on white with no way to tell what is a button and what isn't.

    That's a failure at understanding what minimalism is, not a failure of minimalism.

  18. More like "Hey Siri, please wash me and then flush."

  19. Re:That's not the City of London on Honolulu Targets 'Smartphone Zombies' With Crosswalk Ban (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd say an American does tend to write in American form. If you're referring to a city, you might often say "city of xxx" and it's not based on where the city is but rather where the speaker is from. Whether it's in the article or not, it wasn't incorrect unless you assume the summary was written by a British person - and even then it's more difficult to understand, not incorrect.

  20. Pouring acid on ashes will only neutralize the lye produced when the ashes react with water.

  21. What part doesn't make grammatical sense? Looks good to me, even without hyphenation.

  22. Re:That's not the City of London on Honolulu Targets 'Smartphone Zombies' With Crosswalk Ban (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you never heard of an entire metro area being colloquially referred to by the name of the central city?

    Of course if you were looking closely, they did not capitalize city, meaning it was used descriptively rather than nominatively.

  23. Re:Ah, NOW I understand. on US Voting Machines Cracked In 90 Minutes At DEFCON (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    No, that would mean a promise of "Never Gonna Give You Up." Unfortunately, we've already been given up.

  24. Re: For once use the microsoft shit on Ask Slashdot: Should Average Consumers Install More Than One Antivirus Program On Their System? · · Score: 1

    Most people's data is non-privileged, and botnets don't require privileges to operate as part of a DDoS. Getting root is no longer the only security concern.

  25. Re: Camera requirements on Solar-Eclipse Glasses On Amazon May Not Meet NASA's Safety Requirements (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm looking for a quick change, because I want to take the filter off at totality and I won't have long.