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  1. Re: Only double-good speak allowed on Google Maps No Longer Lets You Post Negative Reviews About Your Crappy Job (gizmodo.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Indeed, it seems like the digital version of a picket sign to me...

  2. Re:There's a case to be made on Trump Wants Postal Service To Charge 'Much More' For Amazon Shipments (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    No postal neutrality either in TRump America...

  3. Re:At least in the immediate future... on ISPs Won't Promise To Treat All Traffic Equally After Net Neutrality (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    but yet makes it very clear it believes it can, and hence eventually will, block (not simply slow down) entirely legal content...that is a very chilling statement, actually.

  4. ...companies like comcast are quickly dumping anything on their sites that claimed to offer or in any manner support net neutrality, such as...

    https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...

  5. Re:It's the implementation. on Does Systemd Make Linux Complex, Error-Prone, and Unstable? (ungleich.ch) · · Score: 1

    well, at least emacs has a justification; Stallman wanted to write a complete os, and actually did so, it just happens to be called emacs ;).

    But I have no worries, we will replace that redhat init that's makin' such a fuss...

  6. Re:faster boot time as well on Does Systemd Make Linux Complex, Error-Prone, and Unstable? (ungleich.ch) · · Score: 1

    and yet that systemd crap is in yocto...reducing it's value each boot.

  7. Re:But., but...runit! on Does Systemd Make Linux Complex, Error-Prone, and Unstable? (ungleich.ch) · · Score: 1

    Now that runit is being actively maintained, I would definitely choose that.

  8. Obligatory Stasi remark on Germany Preparing Law for Backdoors in Any Type of Modern Device (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And I had thought east germany had joined west germany, not the other way around...

  9. Re:As an app developer I say "go for it!" on NYTimes Editorial Board: The FCC Wants To Let Telecoms Cash In on the Internet (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    yeah, maybe those "good old" lans, and IPX, make a comeback too ;)

  10. Broadcast TV? So Fred Flintstone... on FCC Approves Next-Gen ATSC 3.0 TV Standard (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It has been years since I have watched TV (cable or broadcast), but as far as I am aware there remains now only one broadcaster still actively transmitting within a 100 miles of here to even receive anyway, and they are exclusively a 24/7 advertising platform. I think broadcast TV already died, so how relevant is this?

  11. Re:HTTPS everywhere is all well and good... on Chrome To Force Domains Ending With Dev and Foo To HTTPS Via Preloaded HSTS (ttias.be) · · Score: 1

    Related to this is ethernet connected "devices" and specialized embedded hardware which may not even have spare processing power for https, and have no need to it since they never are remotely reachable. A perfect example might be arduino web servers on a local lan. Pure http is a nice simple protocol that is easy to implement even on very low end devices, https is not. There are different ways to solve this, but banishing http to .localhost/127.0.0.1 is NOT one of them. I think even a new http header entry you can set stating no https support would be fine.

  12. I used to fear big brother on Memories of Fear Could Be Permanently Erased, Study Shows (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    ...but after visiting the ministry of thought i don't remember why...

  13. As they say in Chicago; vote early, vote often ;).

    Yea, I was wondering this too. It is said Chicago achieved greater than 100% turnout for the Kennedy election ;).

  14. If it weren't for those meddling kids... on UK Wants To Criminalize Re-Identification of Anonymized User Data (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    ...and their dog too. Oh, if only there was a law to make uncovering illegal.

  15. 7 trillion cameras today? Maybe in Luxembourg... on In Less Than Five Years, 45 Billion Cameras Will Be Watching Us (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Some may think I am only joking...

  16. I think no, not that simple on Can Primordial Black Holes Alone Account For Dark Matter? · · Score: 4, Informative

    https://phys.org/news/2015-03-... http://www.sciencemag.org/news... If dark matter were simply some existing form of baryonic matter, even if trapped in black holes, then a phenoma like this where dark matter halos separate from collided galaxies and behave under different rules to continue on their existing path should not be possible at all, because it, like all the other ordinary matter involved, it should have followed the same paths gravitationally bound.

  17. And his poor brother San Sharif... on Microsoft's Default Font Is at the Center Of a Government Corruption Case (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I could not resist...

  18. I have a better name for the movie... on John McAfee Can Finally Use His Own Name Again (fossbytes.com) · · Score: 2

    Fear and Loathing in Belize.

  19. Quark Lives Matter!?!

  20. Re: The problem with systemd on 'Severe' Systemd Bug Allowed Remote Code Execution For Two Years (itwire.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Indeed, I already had two remote servers lost over this very issue. I never had systems fail before systemd, either. The first was one that consistently failed to shutdown, but no logging and nothing in the journal made it impossible to ever discover exactly why. Another failed to boot, and it is equally unclear why. It really is rather crappy.

  21. Re:The problem with systemd on 'Severe' Systemd Bug Allowed Remote Code Execution For Two Years (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    I have come to like runit, which at least only tries to do the task of being a better init rather well and consistent with existing practices, rather than having idiots rewriting everything and force needless changes just to create one big fail.

  22. Hell No! on Google Drive Will Soon Back Up Your Entire Computer (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Does this come with already baked in support for NSA prism selectors, too?

  23. Re:Not a single bad word about Python on Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    For me, Python is the language I hope the other guy used if I have to maintain their code. That is, it's often easier to read and comprehend directly, and feels less convoluted to maintain a large code base in.

  24. Re:Revolutionary Rocket aka aerospike engine on ARCA Plans 2018 Launch For Revolutionary Single-Stage Rocket (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    The old Atlas B effectively came close to doing this, late 50's. It did it by dropping the outer two booster engines, and was call a "stage in a half"...I presume the middle engine was modified to operate more efficiently at high altitude, and I believe simply by operating at lower thrust to better fill out the nozzle at lower pressure. Two sets of engines, but one fuel tank. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  25. Re:This reminds me of erectile dysfunction ads on Should The FBI Have Arrested 'The Hacker Who Hacked No One'? (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    And if your keylog session lasts for more than four hours seek immediate help from a legal professional?