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  1. Dying business model on MPAA Seeks Stronger Actions To Fight Streaming Video Piracy (streamingmedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Max Planck famously averred that science advances one funeral at a time. Ditto with this - we just have to wait for the dinosaurs in charge to the content companies to die for legal streaming to blossom.

  2. Why is this still an issue? on Firefox Blocks Autoplaying Web Audio (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I mean, why is it the case that browsers do not come with a setting to allow users to specify whether or not they want to enable autoplay? Are there any technical reasons why this might a difficult feature to implement?

  3. Is there anything broadcast for free worth watching? Last time I checked, I could only get channels with more ads than content, channels with preachers (and ads) and channels with Spanish soaps (and ads.) Quite frankly, I'd pay NOT to have to watch any of that.

  4. Google home page - well okay, that one should be a lot of white space and a search box, I'll give them that one.

    I prefer it with a lot of dark space and a search box. Thankfully, there are solutions for this. Imperfect ones, but better than the alternative.

  5. Because everybody was screaming for it on Google Video Shows All-White Redesigns For Gmail, Google Photos, and More (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Or might it be because the GUI people have to justify their paychecks? How long has it been since the GUI problem, with the type of hardware generally used, has been solved? 15 or 20 years?

  6. What a breakthrough on Google Tests Curvy Chrome Tabs With Material Design Overhaul (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    With breakthroughs of this magnitude, Google keeps showing the world what it is capable of.

  7. That's not the secret on People Like Getting Thank You Notes, Research Finds (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    the secret stems in making sure to convey sincerity. It is all too easy to send insincere thank-you emails, that will elicit, if anything, a negative reaction. Just like those commercial letters that we all get every so often, which seem to be addressed specifically to us, to the exclusion of everybody else, but which, of course, aren't.

  8. Hardly surprising on Rome's Subway Expansion Reveals Artifacts From The Ancient Past (npr.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'd bet that in Rome you cannot dig anywhere without stumbling on some archaeological finding.

  9. Re:Code in which language on Bing Now Provides Exact Snippets of Code for Developers' Queries (searchenginejournal.com) · · Score: 1

    Coming from Microsoft, it's probably more like Intercal.

  10. Excellent news on Microsoft PowerShell Core For Linux Now Available as a Snap (betanews.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    A piece of software that fills out a much-needed gap in the Linux world. Thanks, MIcrosoft; we could not expect any less from you.

  11. It is true that duck.go redirects you Google. It is also true that you end up in a page of Google search results, at the top of which is DuckDuck.go. This aside, the problem is that DuckDuck.go is not very good. I used it as my default search engine for two weeks a couple of months ago, and had to reluctantly acknowledge that it is has (it did then) a long way to go to become comparable to Google's. Which sucks big time, for I am sick and tired of Google :-(

  12. Now please stick your Modern Life Services you know where.

  13. Yes! on FCC Vote Likely Dooms Sinclair-Tribune Merger (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Huge middle finger to you, Sinclair. May you rot in hell.

  14. Hysterical investors on Netflix's Subscriber Growth Stalls (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    On this news, investors reacted as they are wont to do: hysterically. No wonder we have market collapses every so often, with investors reacting like neurotic sheep.

  15. Really? on Digital Ads Are Starting To Feel Psychic (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    For the most part, the ads I see tend to be the same largely irrelevant junk that I never buy. It's true that I use adblockers galore, and don't get to see so many ads anyway.

  16. Re:Nope. Made it better. But offside needs to go. on Has Video Refereeing Ruined The World Cup? (npr.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Which just shows that you know nothing about football. In schoolyards all over Europe, children play informal football games without referees, where the offside rule is never enforced. The end result is all too often for the children to stay bunched up in front of their respective goals - i.e. a game in which nothing much happens. The offside rule is one the fundamental rules of football.

  17. Dinosaurs on Has Video Refereeing Ruined The World Cup? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The soccer dinosaurs doing everything they can to prevent progress. Max Planck claimed that science progresses one funeral at a time. That's probably true of sports as well. Well, at least the repulsive, corrupt Blatter is largely out of the picture.

  18. Don't forget some enlightened states in the interior.

  19. Re:Not many CPU designs are on New Spectre 1.1 and Spectre 1.2 CPU Flaws Disclosed (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The much-maligned Itanium remains impervious to all these attacks. Just saying.

  20. About Computer Associates on Broadcom Buying CA For $19 billion (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I never knew exactly what this company was all about. I always wondered though who came up with such an uninspiring name for a company. They might just as well have called themselves Everything-that-Is-Boring-and-Tedious-and-Mindless-and-Uncreative-about-Computing-Is-Us.

  21. And this is surprising, how? on Magic Leap Finally Demoed Its Headset And It Is 'Disappointing' (digg.com) · · Score: 1

    More vaporware. That happens all the time. $2.3B? The idiocy of some is vast.

  22. What a warm fuzzy feeling on DOD Seeks Classification 'Clippy' To Help Classify Data, Control Access (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Most Americans are I am sure reassured in the knowledge that their military is dependent on Microsoft for its security. Let's invade some country - let's foist a few BSODs on them.

  23. They are also the ones who fill out your phone with bloatware that you can't uninstall, who have penchant for installing and removing apps from your phone without your consent, and for adding a heavy layer of software cruft to Android. But, they are the most explosive devices in the market.

  24. Re:No it's not. on Is C++ a 'Really Terrible Language'? (gamesindustry.biz) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's a worthy conceptual child of PL/1.

  25. A setback for those in the UK keen on establishing a police state.