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  1. Pretty sure they are using AMD (Intel compatible) chips these days on the Xbox consoles.

  2. Re:New services are not stopped by this on President Trump Says It is 'Very Dangerous' When Companies Like Twitter Regulate Own Content (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I am pretty sure though that the first amendment does not apply to private companies. Isn't it so that the government can't stop you from speaking? There will always be platforms and publishers that will decide that something does not belong on their publication. That does not seem wrong to me. It is their platform, and part of their value proposition is that they give their readers something they might like or find interesting. Maybe the solution is more platforms? I wonder how journalists deal with this professionally.

  3. Re:New services are not stopped by this on President Trump Says It is 'Very Dangerous' When Companies Like Twitter Regulate Own Content (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Anti-abortion is not really religious speech. It might have roots based there, but it is not -in itself- religious. There are courts that decide those kind of things though. The point was that the GP choosing "restaurant owners in the South" choosing to not serve African Americans, is a very different circumstance.

  4. Re:New services are not stopped by this on President Trump Says It is 'Very Dangerous' When Companies Like Twitter Regulate Own Content (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure the criteria is set for what they call "Protected Classes" or "Protected Group". Political speech is not one of the classes that are protected. Race is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  5. You can't patent ideas on Inventor Says Google Is Patenting His Public Domain Work (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This is just not how they work. You can only patent concrete implementations.

  6. Re:Government guilty! on 19-Year-Old Archivist Charged For Downloading Freedom-of-Information Releases (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Again, you wrote this line verbatim with the verbiage "Criminally" right in it. This might lead someone to think you considered his actions to be... well... "Criminal"

    The kid was criminally stupid in archiving the data instead of working towards fixing the problem

  7. Re:Embrace, Extend, Extinguish... on Microsoft's Open Invitation To Valve, Nintendo and Others To Join Xbox One and PC Crossplay (vg247.com) · · Score: 1

    People are leaving the Microsoft toolset. [citation needed] Seriously though, .net is hugely popular and powerful. C# is getting really interesting.

  8. Re:Embrace, Extend, Extinguish... on Microsoft's Open Invitation To Valve, Nintendo and Others To Join Xbox One and PC Crossplay (vg247.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know. .NET development is doing a pretty good job of embracing the community. Not sure what you consider a "super majority", but it is a large share.

  9. Re:iGoogle on Slashdot Asks: Do You Still Use RSS? · · Score: 1

    I would love to see what you came up with if you don't mind sharing. Would like to be less dependent on other sites for my feeds.

  10. Re:Root of the confusion on The Metropolitan Museum of Art Makes 375,000 Images Available For Free (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I think your argument is moot however, as copyright does not cover only "creative expression". It also requires the item be fixed (laid down to paper or some other medium) and original as well.

  11. Re:If they really wanted to fix it... on Microsoft Replaces Command Prompt with PowerShell in Latest Windows 10 Build (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hmmmm.. Pretty sure it is a recursive acronym: Linux = "Linux Is Not UniX" Kind of like GNU = "GNU is Not Unix".

  12. Re:Childish... on A Woman Is Suing Her Parents For Posting Embarrassing Childhood Photos To Facebook · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So you think she should NOT have a right to have naked pictures of her taken offline?

  13. Re:Well that was expected on Cox Denies Liability for Pirating Subscribers, Appeals $25 Million Verdict (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I am not sure that is reasonable. Just because they inspect packets, does not mean they can infer intent. If for example they found a packet that looked like a text message with the content "The OP is a go". How should they be required to respond to that?

    Likewise, if they intercept packets that look like file headers and see a file named "Latest.Beiberific.POP.Song.Crap.alt.bin.mp3", but the content is someone pretending to be Tha Beebz, how should they react?

    The only point I am making here, is that there is no way to automate the response to this in any reasonable fashion.

  14. Re:Well that was expected on Cox Denies Liability for Pirating Subscribers, Appeals $25 Million Verdict (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I thought the FCC classified them as "common carriers" now.

    Also I thought wording under the CDA was that "Service Providers" were not liable for content posted by their users.

    It sure seems like they would be covered either way.

  15. Re:Sony's version of what? on Sony Outage Disables DASH Devices, No ETA On a Fix · · Score: 1

    Maybe if you clicked on the link they provided that leads to the "Chumby platform" you would have been able to read all about them. That is what they are there for, to provide additional information for people who are not familiar with the hyperlinked term.

  16. That seems like an entirely different thing than "Edge won't run without UAC enabled."

  17. Funny, Edge seems to run just fine for me with UAC disabled.

  18. Re:Bulletproof SSL and TLS, get it, read it, live on Ivan Ristic and SSL Labs: How One Man Changed the Way We Understand SSL · · Score: 4, Informative

    Do you mean that you can't recommend it ENOUGH? I know these kind of corrections can seem pedantic, but the omission of a word in this case completely changes the meaning.

  19. Re:Crying wolf on Samsung Finds, Fixes Bug In Linux Trim Code · · Score: 1

    Maybe the difference lies in permission?

    It seems like a better situation all around when you are not dependent on legal agreements and "may I look at this source please?". This also does not guarantee that your fix will be used (though it is quite likely to be).

    What if you are a smaller company than Samsung? Maybe Microsoft will just ignore or outright deny requests to see the source code.

    I think the ability to see code and make/publish changes to that code independent of permission to do so is an important right.

  20. Re:Crying wolf on Samsung Finds, Fixes Bug In Linux Trim Code · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The point however is that in a closed source system, Samsung could not have found and fixed the bug themselves.

  21. Shows as a B for me as well. Here is a screenshot on Clinton's Private Email System Gets a Security "F" Rating · · Score: 1

    http://screencast.com/t/usfMoC...

    What is the deal here?

  22. Netflix says "nothing has changed on our end" on Netflix Cracks Down On VPN and Proxy "Pirates" · · Score: 4, Interesting

    http://www.engadget.com/2015/0...

    Netflix tells us that there's been "no change" in the way it handles VPNs, so you shouldn't have to worry about the company getting tough any time soon. With that said, these blocking errors started showing up in the past few weeks, so it's not clear what would have prompted them.

  23. Re:URL on Know Your Type: Five Mechanical Keyboards Compared · · Score: 2

    You forgot the Cherry Clear switches.

    My CoDE keyboard rocks with the clear switches.

  24. Re:The extent hearing is determined by physics... on Birds Found Using Human Musical Scales For the First Time · · Score: 1

    Thank you!

    I firmly believe in calling out this kind of negative behavior.

    Sunlight being the best disinfectant and all that.

  25. Re:they will defeat themselves on ISIS Bans Math and Social Studies For Children · · Score: 3, Funny

    Labels like "Him" and "His"?