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  1. Re:BFD on RIAA Seizes Wrong MP3Skull Domain (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess it just were namesquatters. Using the same name under another TLD for a slightly related service, hoping for typos and/or many visitors from search engines. I am not very sorry for them, they are spammers anyway.

  2. Re:What happens, when a gag order is violated? on Google Reveals It Received Secret FBI Subpoena (theintercept.com) · · Score: 2

    I always wonder, why a NSL for example for google doesn't leak. First enough people know it and its stored somewhere insecure and next it leaks and nobody knows what happend. Of course the leak was stopped and everybody urged to delete it, yes even on reddit. There isn't much more you can do, when such an accident happened ...

  3. What happens, when a gag order is violated? on Google Reveals It Received Secret FBI Subpoena (theintercept.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Let's say somebody accidentally publishes the scan of the incoming letter on the homepage. Just for a short time, until he err notices. Internally nobody knows, who make this mistake, but now several people downloaded it and it's trending on reddit.

    What happens next?

  4. Prejudices confirmed? on Google Research Promotes Equality In Machine Learning, Doesn't Mention Age · · Score: 1

    Let's say we put all available data in, sort out the crap data so the input is neutral.
    Then we get exactly the prejudices out. This confirms them. Period.

    This does not imply, that we should support them. This only implies, that they are there. People often jump to conclusions, that this implies causation, while it implies correlation. If some places have higher crime rate and some places have more black people there (another case of ML prejudices) and the data is correct, it's the correct decision for an insurance to raise the rates at these places. Because they can expect more cases.
    This is the point, where exactly the people who are upset by the result from the data need to act. And change the circumstances.
    For example maybe the blacks move away and the crime rate stays the same, but the black people who were associated (by the upset people misinterpreting the statistics) with the crime now live in a peaceful place with cheap insurance rates.

    So the only thing it says is: You need to interpret statistics. Data doesn't lie, but your fast conclusions do.

  5. Windows Subsystem for Linux runs Linux? on New Project Lets You Install Arch Linux In the Windows Subsystem For Linux · · Score: 1

    I guess you're speaking about a Linux Subsystem on Windows.

  6. Of course you get android in the full glory, you just do not get the pixel stuff in the full glory. But the pixel exclusive software is then just as some samsung exclusive software or weird htc launchers. Why does the author think, that the most powerful google phone has the software everyone wants? We want a nice clean android, that's not neccessarily the latest firmware of the official google phone.

  7. alpha-beta-RC-final is independend from the process. The process of the kernel would require many beta-releases, but not many RCs. If they label it correctly and it's not totally broken (i would guess it's not).

  8. If you're ending up having eight RC, you did not have long enough beta phase before. An RC should not require any further snapshot. It can happen (that's why you have a RC), but more than let's say RC3 is a bad sign.
    It may happen for one release, because you don't go back from rc2 to beta8, but if it happens on a matured project, that's strange.

  9. That's not good sign. Either Linus doesn't understand what a RC is, or each of them still had bugs nobody noticed before, which is a bad sign for the code.

    A RC is something, which can be renamed to a final version, unless somebody finds a critical last minute bug.

  10. Re:A poor craftsman blames his tools. on Are Flawed Languages Creating Bad Software? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The good craftsman looks at the tools and weights the efford and the lowered quality aginst his skills any may refuse to use the tools. Only a fool will use tool, which are way too bad. Or some artist, which chooses a totally incorrect tool to do his work as part of the performance. But a craftsman knows what to use and what's not good but still usable for the job and what tools he will refuse.

  11. Re:A poor craftsman blames his tools. on Are Flawed Languages Creating Bad Software? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A good craftsman chooses good tools.

    Of course you can create excellent work with very bad tools.
    But the first a good craftman does is to search for the right tools. He checks his budget, then starts to search for the right tools and if they are too expensive, he searches for replacements, which are for him (but not for everyone) similiar useful. If he cannot find a tool he needs for good work, he's honest about it and tells his client before starting to work.

  12. Slashdot is NSFW, as everything not work related at work.

    If you're allowed to browse on your workstation, artistic nudity should not be a problem.

  13. So deep learning way about learning how to deep throat without choking the whole time?

  14. It's a cancerous meme anyway on Anti-Defamation League Declares Pepe the Frog a Hate Symbol (time.com) · · Score: 1

    But declaring it as hate symbol is bullshit. From people who do not understand memes and snowclones.

  15. Microsoft knows their browser coding skills on Windows 10 Will Soon Run Edge In a Virtual Machine To Keep You Safe (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    strange, that they do not recommend to use a dedicated pc for edge.

  16. Re:Finally anonimity! on Japanese To Pay Utility Bills Using Bitcoin (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    He's right, especially about the pyramid scheme. People just do not want this to be true, because they depend on more people coming, so there are more people below them in the pyramid. The founder(s) know it's such a scheme and have reserved enough cheap bitcoin in the beginning to be millionaires now.

  17. And that's a good thing on UK's Top Police Warn That Modding Games May Turn Kids into Hackers (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Look up what a hacker actually is.

    But no wonder, that police, government and so on fear people who can think and build things. Indepence and doing stuff yourself is dangerous! Let's consume only one devices which just allow netflix, but no pirated movies. Which track you via google/apple, but do not allow you to firewall it.
    Do not mod your games, do not upgrade the pc yourself. Do not build cool stuff. Do not thing, do not question things.

  18. Re: Teased, burned on W3C Set To Publish HTML 5.1, Work Already Started On HTML 5.2 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    They are all better than implementing it with jquery UI. Browser really can validate inputs (i.e. is it a number of the integer range 1-100?), provide a nice ui showing whats up (slider) and provide alternative input (textfield with validation) for blind people. With jquery you have a piece of javascript fucking with your input fields, possibly breaking when some stupid ad script contains a js error.

  19. And still the free sample is worth it, because there are people, who will buy it.

  20. Then there is no need to limit the data on Verizon Says It Knows You Don't Need Unlimited Data (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    If you don't need unlimited data (hint: It's true. You may need a lot of data, but with a limited bandwidth you cannot even use unlimited data), they don't need to limit it, as you won't use it anyway.

  21. Re:I still won't use it on Twitter No Longer Counts Photos, GIFs, Videos Toward 140-Character Limit (adweek.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a platform for people, who are able to express themselfes in a consise form, without overlong essays.

  22. Breaking the API again on Twitter No Longer Counts Photos, GIFs, Videos Toward 140-Character Limit (adweek.com) · · Score: 1

    And so they are breaking the api and abbreviate these tweets with "..." and a link to /i/web/TWEET_ID, locking out all existing apps from properly reading them, even their own apps in slightly older versions.

  23. Re:Who cares about Allo? on Google Backs Off On Previously Announced Allo Privacy Feature (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I should sue google, i am having the older rights ;-).

  24. Noooo oooooo ooooooo on Netflix Wants 50% Of Its Library To Be Original Content (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Their library is now small enough, do not cancel even more shows!

  25. Re:Who cares about Allo? on Google Backs Off On Previously Announced Allo Privacy Feature (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I care.

    SCNR.