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  1. How dare they release proof of my illegal and immoral activity to the people I was about to con into electing me to the highest position in the land.

  2. Re:Alternative to AACS 2.0 being cracked on 'First Pirated Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disk' Appears Online (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but what I meant was that if you had your graphics card simply re-encode the video as it played it the loses would not only be minimal, but I believe the naming scheme would allow you to simply call that UHD Blu-ray. Their is no special designation for an elegant dvd rip vs a brute force disc>streaming video>re-encode rip.

  3. Facebook pushed to hire more females to make diversity quotas.
    Hires loads of females, which in turn makes the average female wage, position, and skill level drop.

  4. Re:Glad I'm not interested in the movie on 'First Pirated Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disk' Appears Online (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Rural Canada checking is.
    It would take me a month and a few days because we only get 50 GB a month, and that is because I pay to double the normal plan.

  5. Re:Alternative to AACS 2.0 being cracked on 'First Pirated Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disk' Appears Online (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    No, because that would of been pre UHD Blu-ray.
    But I am confused with why getting a movie off of UHD Blu-ray would be so hard. A protection scheme can make copying the files off it is hard, but if you can play the disk you can rip the content.

  6. Not most, a tiny minority. Truckers, Janitors, restaurant staff (aka 99% of the workforce) are completely free to invent anything they want.

  7. Wireless charging stations are all the rave right now. Even it the device needed to be placed on the router to get any benefit, and needed 8 hours to get any sort of a charge, that is a sale-able product (for a few months before the hype dies down).

  8. Don't you need to actually know how to build something to file a patent on it? Or can you just submit a patent reading: "Transparent Aluminum".

  9. Re:Myth: Mayer didn't do well for Yahoo! on Marissa Mayer Will Make $186 Million on Yahoo's Sale To Verizon (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Under Mayer's tenure Yahoo had a negative market value with respect to its holdings. Yahoo owned stock in companies which did good, but Yahoo itself was valued at negative billions of dollars.

  10. 99% of the World on Gamers in Hawaii Can't Compete... Because of Latency (theoutline.com) · · Score: 2

    Gets worst pings than 120 ms. And it has more to do with the ISP than the speed of light.

  11. Isn't that the One with 20 Gazillion Brackets? on Ask Slashdot: Do You Like Functional Programming? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    I have never understood why the language is not considered a parody like the whitespace language. You cannot debug or change code when it is 90% brackets, and more than two to three ")))" brackets in a row and editing the nesting of something becomes really hard and error prone.
    A proper language tries to evenly distribute the character usage evenly over a wide array of characters, such that the code is easily readable.

    I have only seen a few examples in Scala, which replaced Java in my university the year after my class. But they were the least readable code snippets I have ever seen. It looked like they had replaced all the white space with brackets.

  12. More likely minutes on the popular ones. But 4chan already has its own archive websites I believe.

  13. But should that matter? If the website is publicly facing. why should you not be able to archive it (irregardless of their wishes)? I can take pictures of houses I see from the street. The law seems fairly straightforward here, and it is easy to build any sort of wall around your website you wish to keep the public and archivers out.

  14. Hardly the tutorials fault on Flawed Online Tutorials Led To Vulnerabilities In Software (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 2

    Hardly the tutorials fault. A tutorial will not cover every edge case of your specific example. It will not spend 90% of its length teaching about only partially related topics. I read the same SQL and HTML GET tutorials as everyone else, and a basic understanding of programming I learned in the first month of grade 9 prepared me for sanitizing the input. SQL, isn't special, and GET is no different than CIN, it's not rocket science.

  15. Re:I AM SPARTACUS..... on CIA, FBI Launch Manhunt For WikiLeaks Source (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I am the Milkman. My milk is delicious.

  16. Statistical error only Applies to Statistics on Stack Overflow Reveals Which Programming Languages Are Most Used At Night (stackoverflow.blog) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but this is not really statistics. The author took the entire population, and made a graph out of it. Since not even a single user was left out, it is impossible for errors to creep in because of sampling problems. Therefor all results are significant.

    now it sort of becomes statistics when we try to infer things from these graphs, but then the problem is are SL users representative of general programmers, not that the results non-significant.

  17. Re: No, the real crime here is... on US Prepares Charges To Seek Arrest of WikiLeaks' Julian Assange (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    where are the charges against Hillary's staff?

    Exactly.

  18. Re:Due diligence on Can Parents Sue If Their Kid Is Born With the 'Wrong' DNA? (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you take a genetic sample of a microscopic egg without kill it?

  19. The only Reasonable Solution. on Can Parents Sue If Their Kid Is Born With the 'Wrong' DNA? (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This Todd Kuiken is an idiot. What it implies is that this kid is like any other, the responsibility of his parents. And the unique nature of this screwup meant that he was not strictly the responsibility of the couple, at the same time the original donor should not be held responsible for what was done with his sperm without his consent. So the one responsible was ordered to share part of the responsibility for this child, they are just lucky that the court ordered the responsibility be split three ways, and not half for using the wrong sperm, or if they got really vindictive, it would not have been completely unreasonable to have ordered them to pay all of the expenses for this unwanted child.

  20. Re: No, the real crime here is... on US Prepares Charges To Seek Arrest of WikiLeaks' Julian Assange (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Up to 10 years in Federal prison and a $5,000,000 fine to be precise. You add on 5 years for lying to congress and it pretty much turns into a guaranteed life sentence for a 70 year old.

  21. Re:Sucks, but derivative work on Court Rules Fan Subtitles On TV and Movies Are Illegal (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 2

    For profit and not for profit works are completely different. As well as any potential effects on the profitability of the original work.
    fair use factors:
    the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
    the nature of the copyrighted work;
    the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
    the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

    Non-profit (check)
    Amount Used (None)
    Effect on Sales (Increase in Potential Sales)

    Subtitles check off all the factors of what makes something fair use. A book translation does not.

  22. Re:Sucks, but derivative work on Court Rules Fan Subtitles On TV and Movies Are Illegal (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 2

    That is like saying commentary is a derivative work. Sure, just copying a subtitle file would be derivative, but watching a movie, and writing a subtitle file from your interpretation of how best to translate it is fair use.

  23. Re:no different than translation of books on Court Rules Fan Subtitles On TV and Movies Are Illegal (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    > as the translator could very easily change the intended meaning of the work.

    If the translator changed the meaning it would probably fall under fair use.

  24. Re:Are they subtitling, or distributing the movie? on Court Rules Fan Subtitles On TV and Movies Are Illegal (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    This. Fansubs in my experience are always hard subs. they are always redistributing the original content. Otherwise they are just call subs, and I presume most of the subs floating around are fan written (but they are not called fansubs outside of anime.).

  25. Re:Sucks, but derivative work on Court Rules Fan Subtitles On TV and Movies Are Illegal (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 2

    For a book a translation is 100% of the content. A fan sub is a small addition to the original content.