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  1. I guess they are talking about the reviews below.

    > This movie will be the most pathetic movie of the year

    >This Movie is going to be a total disaster.

    > This looks like straight up garbage.

    > Tired of all this SJW nonsense

      Also I guess there was an unusual influx of "Not Interested" that is not normal:
    Have a look at the Way Back Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/...
    Early February: A few thousand votes at a sold 90% interested
    17 Feb: 86% / 3704 Votes
    19 Feb: 82% / 4606
    20 Feb: 62% / 8k
    21 Feb: 57% / 12k
    23 Feb: 52% / 18k
    25 Feb: 38% / 28k

    Perhaps this is normal, but to me it does look a bit strange.

  2. Since a lot of people are claiming it's just the interest meter, and no reviews. It's actually both.
    Here is a link to the actual Audience Reviews.
    https://www.rottentomatoes.com...
    At present time around 400 audience reviews have been submitted. The written reviews seem mixed but more positive than the interest meter suggests.

  3. Secrecy/security is not the issue here on 2.7 Million Patient Phone Call Recordings Left Exposed Online (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Social Security numbers (or directly translated from Swedish, the Personal Number), are not considered secret in Sweden and that is not the issue here. In fact it contains the date of birth and is printed on your drivers license so you can show that when you need to verify your age.

    The problem is that they were talking about sensitive medical information, and with the Personal Number you could much easier connect that information to the correct individual. That is the whole issue here.

  4. It would have been fine if it was for my benefit on 83% Of Consumers Believe Personalized Ads Are Morally Wrong (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    If personalized ads was for my benefit I would have been okay with it, but right now it is strictly for the benefit of the advertiser.

    Right now we have a situation where financially literate people looking to borrow money see ads from serious lenders with competitive rates,
    whereas people who are not financially literate get to see ads from predatory lenders and scams.
    These are exactly the people that need help finding the good options, and the advertisers take advantage of them.

  5. Re:Typical Microsoft Employee -- Arrogant on Microsoft Project Manager Says Mozilla Should Get Down From Its 'Philosophical Ivory Tower,' Cease Firefox Development (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Clickbait for Nerds.

    You might be on to a new tag line for /. there

    Clickbait for nerds, stuff that doesn't matter!

  6. Isn't this a bit like a DDoS attack though?
    Everyone is doing something that by itself *looks* innocent, but if you look at the aggregate for the receiver it is clear that it is not.

    If they have already received 783 tweets with "learn to code", nobody with good intentions will send the same exact "career advice" again.

  7. Not surprising, since Netflix seems to greenlight anything that even remotely looks like a script.

  8. We have to focus on quality on Developer Misinterprets Linux Code of Conduct, Suggests Replacing F-Word with 'Hug' (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    And that includes the fucking comments and variable names. But there is a time and place for cursing. Serious source code is almost never that place.

    Auto replacing fuck with hug is obviously ridiculous, but improving code and comments should always be welcome.
    And the truth is, re-writing so the text does not contain curse words is likely to make it look more professional. We should encourage that.
    If you can't make a strong point without cursing you are probably not that good at communicating anyway. So let someone else clean up the comments without bitching and whining. Remember, we were focusing on quality, right?

    This obviously means we should not just remove the curse words blindly without thinking. It has to be an actual improvement, and we don't want to lose the meaning the original text was trying to present.
    If something is fucking important, it is fucking important. But don't be lazy. Make also the comments look professional on a level that Linux deserves!

    Changing someones comments is also not censorship. It is the whole point of the GPL, that we can take someone else's code and make changes to it, if we think it will be an improvement.

  9. Sometimes it's necessary to make a point strongly.

    As a person that swears quite a lot, and thinks Americas tv/radio ban on curse words is absolutely ridiculous; there is a time and place for everything, and in "official" written text it is almost never appropriate.
    If you can't make a point strongly without cursing, you are probably not that good at communicating.

  10. Re:Nothing will help. on Ask Slashdot: How Can You Find a Good IT Consultant? · · Score: 1

    They also hate that answer because it does not solve the problem. For many businesses moving away from windows is not an alternative because they are dependent on windows applications, and moving away from those applications is not an alternative.

    They didn't start with getting a windows computer and then start looking for applications that work on windows. They start with the application that they need for their business, and then windows comes as a secondary requirement from that application. And as much as that sucks, that is the reality.

    Obviously this is is not true for everyone, but for many.

  11. Re:Freelancers! on Ask Slashdot: How Can You Find a Good IT Consultant? · · Score: 1

    (2) Find a competent freelancer

    You are answering by re-stating the question with other wording. That don't help her at all. How is she supposed to find this competent freelancer. This is what she needs to know.

  12. Re:$10 once does not seem like "investment" on Bitcoin Loses 32% of Its Value This Week, Falls Below $4,000 (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    It's perfectly fine to invest monthly in something volatile, if it is a LONG TERM investment. It's much better than putting everything in at once. Monthly savings acts as a low-pass filter and makes sure you do not put all your money in when it is already at a local high. The important thing is that is has an upwards trend. And that is the reason Bitcoin is a shit investment right now. It has a downwards trend, and there is no fundamental reason that trend would change.

    Buying low and selling high, on something volatile, is almost impossible to do, even for pros. If it was easy everybody would be doing it...

  13. Re:You need some context to decide. on Google News May Shut in Some Countries Over EU Plans To Charge Tax For Links (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't this a great opportunity to put their AI to work?
    Either by not posting links to articles with misleading headlines, or by automatically adding automated commentary.
    "New research proves coffee prevents cancer!" -- (Headline exaggerates findings. Article makes weaker claims)
    "Mother gives kids milk for breakfast, you won't believe what happens next!" - (What happens next is not at all surprising)

  14. We are quite good at adopting new technology in Sweden, so it is not surprising someone here has tried it. But we also have half decent labor laws, so trying to make it mandatory will never fly.

  15. Encourage answers on A 'Clippy'-Style Chatbot -- and Other Creepy Online Dating Innovations (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    When one party has been ghosted, that means there is an unanswered question. They should encourage answering that question before trying to get more questions.
    On the other hand there is room for some automated coaching without being creepy. Like advice on how to ask better questions and how to answer questions in a way that drives the conversation forward and not stopping it.

    If you want to give conversation topics it might work in the form of announcing it to both parties. Like "do you know you were both to Disneyland this summer?"

  16. Re:First define what a friend is on Should Alexa Be Your Child's Friend? (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    . A friend is not there to learn about you so that it can better get you to buy things.

    I am not sure Tupperware would agree to that.

  17. Isn't that what the "Troll" mod option does?

  18. Nobody REALLY knows how computers work. on Kids Think the Darndest Things About How Computers Work (acm.org) · · Score: 1

    All the different Spectre security holes is proof of this.
    A lot of people know how some parts work but nobody knows how everything works.

    But we don't need to know all that either. Depending on what you want to do, different abstractions and simplifications are good enough. Kind of knowing how a computer works is good enough for most programmers, and for others it's enough to know that the "f" on your mobile phone brings up Facebook.

  19. He has shown signs that he has a conscience on Major Facebook Investors Want Mark Zuckerberg Out as Chairman (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    He has shown signs that he has a conscience, and the share holders don't like that at all, because it can only hurt the bottom line.

  20. No, I also need to know what the hell Digital Trends is, and why their opinion matters.

  21. Unsend only before it has been read. on Facebook Is Testing An Unsend Feature For Messenger (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Messenger shows you when it has been read by the other party. If they can make it so it doesn't show up in any "previews" like the notification bar before it has been really read, then it would be useful with unsend until that point.
    Once it's been read unsend has very limited use.

  22. Re: More accurately - A **few** FB employees outr on Facebook Employees Outraged Over Exec's Appearance at Kavanaugh Hearing (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Please do. If a nominee can not get support from at least 2/3 of both chambers they should not get a lifetime appointment.

  23. While I do see your point in what the "hive mind" tried to do there, it actually turned into something hilarious. It is so retarded and funny at the same time because the writer salvaged what they tried to destroy.

    Obviously this would never work on a large scale, with commercial interests calling the shots, but still...

  24. Re:Streaming = bad (Sqore:20000) on Streaming Accounts For 75 Percent of Music Industry Revenue In the US (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Strange, because I'm paying less money for more music since I started streaming.
    It's almost as if different people have different preferences, and there isn't one solution that works for everyone.

  25. Re:That makes sense on Streaming Accounts For 75 Percent of Music Industry Revenue In the US (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm guessing you are so old you are starting go senile, because I can assure you 9 out of 10 tracks were always crap. Even when you were young. You just don't remember all the garbage because you didn't hear it that many times.