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  1. Re:IMDB on YouTube Is Heading For Its Cambridge Analytica Moment (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That's the goal, enable YouTube to eliminate content their management doesn't want, and use demagoguery against anyone who criticizes their choices. And the best demagoguery is "it's for the children".

  2. Why Would It Reduce Emissions? on Under Current Policies, Residential Batteries Increase Emissions In Most Cases (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Intuivively, if a battery perfectly stored the energy from the power plant, and perfectly released it, the amount of emissions would be the same as if the battery wasn't there. So it shouldn't be surprising that using batteries doesn't lower the emissions.

    The article supports the intuition by making it apparent that trying to use batteries to arbitrage the emissions from the power plant based on variable emissions efficiency of the power plant isn't likely to cost-effectively work either.

  3. A Nerd on Slashdot is on A Woman on Twitter is Abused Every 30 Seconds (fastcompany.com) · · Score: -1

    How many Flamebait articles a day should Slashdot be posting?

  4. Re:Average salaries on What Are Silicon Valley's Highest-Paying Tech Jobs? (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    That's might give the impression the underlying data isn't garbage in the first place.

  5. Re:Why Python? on How Microsoft Embraced Python (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're stuck with DO-178C, programming is the least of your problems.

  6. Re:What, the astroturfers have nothing to say? on Senate Report Shows Russia Used Social Media To Support Trump In 2016 (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Are busy preparing memes for fool you again 2020

  7. Using personal email for work and vice-versa is something everybody does, even though it's often against some policy.

    What matters is whether Classified information is being sent over unsecured links.

  8. Fortunately Slashdot is Still Pure on How Podcasts Became a Seductive -- and Sometimes Slippery -- Mode of Storytelling (newyorker.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm just glad we have Slashdot, which never has advertisements posing as new articles, like those nasty podcasts.

  9. Thank you Facebook! on Facebook Removes 82 Accounts Linked To Iranian Disinformation Campaign (usatoday.com) · · Score: 0

    It should be clear by now that the growing divide in the US over the last decade has been caused by disinformation agents and bots from foreign countries on social media, and their collaborators in the US. If only people would get their news exclusively from the US corporate media like they did in the old days, everything would be fine.

  10. Maybe they're simply acknowledging that the NPC humans on social media provide no more intellectual content than a software bot. Kind of like the bogus clickbait headlines on Slashdot.

  11. You First on The Consequences of Indecency (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Let's start with the bad actor Ron Wyden, somebody who really doesn't meet the decency principles that reflect our values. That bad actor blows by the bounds of common decency. Make sure that stuff is taken down.

  12. Re:He's on a boat on Amazon Plans To Move Completely Off Oracle Software By Early 2020 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    By taking out another loan against his equity.

  13. A fake domain for phishing is not a campaign hacking attempt.

  14. Plimpton 322 on Stonehenge Builders Used Pythagoras' Theorem 2,000 Years Before He Was Born (techtimes.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Pythagorean triple had been in use for a while back in 1800BC

  15. Re:face it you RSS dinosaurs on Digg Reader To Shut Down This Month -- Latest RSS Service To Bite the Dust (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't know about peaked, but about 90% of the news sites and blogs I go to have RSS. I get 500+ articles a day from about 100 feeds. For sites which only use Twitter inoreader incorporates them into the feed.

  16. Re:Needs a new direction on We've Reached Peak Smartphone (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    A tiny phone that just dials and talks and runs a 4G access point.

    The Jelly is a step in the right direction.

  17. Crouton Phone on Chrome OS Is Almost Ready To Replace Android On Tablets (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I hope they proceed to using this on phones so I can install Crouton on my phone and have a regular Linux desktop user experience there if I want.

  18. That clears things up! on YouTube Clarifies 'Hate Speech' Definition and Which Videos Won't Be Monetized (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    So I just need to make sure I don't do things like say or show anything "associated with systematic discrimination or marginalization".

  19. Re:What does "conservative" mean? on Senate Republicans Introduce Anti-Net Neutrality Legislation (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed, Burke and similar conservatives don't think the government can get the people what they should want by precluding them getting anything they shouldn't want.

  20. Addicted to Control on Netflix Replacing Star Ratings With Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down (variety.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Netflix will control the narrative, with minimal input from pesky users. How long before there's only a heart symbol? How long before they take away comments like IMDB because you don't want them.

  21. World-Leading Legislation on The UK Is About to Legalize Mass Surveillance [Update] (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Leading the world to where?

  22. Re:Screw all of them on This Cyber Monday Was the Biggest Online Shopping Day, Ever (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I haven't bought anything expect a dinner since the 21st. And I am not going to buy anything.

    A diner is a pretty big investment, so I'm not surprised.

  23. Fake News? on Snopes.com Editor on Fake News: Social Media Is Not the Problem (backchannel.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sorry, is this a real news story about snopes, or a fake news story?

  24. Dear Japan, thank you for your offer. Upon consideration, we are not interested, but our door is always open in case you'd like to provide another offer. Until then, cheers! UK

  25. Lock Screens are Devouring the Open Web on Apps Are Devouring the Open Web (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    Lock Screens are eating the web. Over the past decade, there has been an inexorable movement from the open internet to the Lock Screen -- and this trend just hit a major milestone. According to data from common sense, more than half of all time Americans spend with their phone it is on the Lock Screen.