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  1. Re:'Cutting the cord', LOL on Spotify's New Family Plan Is Cheaper, $14.99 For Up To 6 people (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I've been a Pandora user for years. I have a dozen custom radio stations. jbolden radio, filled with songs jbolden likes and the entire spectrum is organized around jbolden's various interests. I can't get anything remotely that good with broadcast.

    I'm thinking of switching to Spotify because Pandora isn't keeping up. As for the data plan the services run about 1m / minute. Data in bulk is running about $3-5/gig.

  2. Re:welcome to 1993 on Spotify's New Family Plan Is Cheaper, $14.99 For Up To 6 people (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    They release game soundtracks. Have for years and almost all the services have them.

  3. Re:Why Are We Ignoring Some Greenhouse Gases? on Rise In CO2 Has 'Greened Planet Earth' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Water vapor stays in the atmosphere on average for 9 days. The CO2 cycle is decades to centuries. CO2 by itself doesn't create heat, rather CO2 increases water vapor which increases heat. Vapor is the effect not the cause.

  4. Re:Somebody ask the judge, please on Worshipping the Flying Spaghetti Monster Isn't a Real Religion, Court Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Spell check. That should have been disseminating but I spelled it with one-"s" and the closest word....
     

  5. Re:Somebody ask the judge, please on Worshipping the Flying Spaghetti Monster Isn't a Real Religion, Court Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Laws don't need to be completely objective in that sense. We do not need to be able to perfectly define something to legislate around it. One of the explicit given reasons for regulatory guidance and common law is to address the fact that the black letter law is quite often rather remote from the law as practiced. I get that you might prefer well thought out fully objective laws which don't require much interpretation: I agree with you, judges agree with you and regulators agree with you. But judges and regulators, our legal system, have to deal with laws that don't meet that criteria.

    The laws governing religious protection in the United States are from a black letter law perspective often explicitly protections for various credobaptists sects that haven't existed in centuries against the institutional Anglican churches of mother England and those congregationalist and Presbyterian churches often favored by our colonial administrators. For example we know as a matter of fact that one of the concerns raised by the people passing the "no trinitarian oaths clause" (specifically designed for deists and Unitarians) in the constitution is that it could come in later times to be applied to Jews and Muslims. The majority of the founding fathers believed these would be one off cases better left to the courts and didn't feel any reason to legislatively address it. Others wanted to restrict it and so the language became the test clause you read today in the constitution.

    The laws aren't objective they are very situational and interpreted by a culture in a cultural context that changes with time.

    As for your challenge about religion that's pretty easy. A religion is a cultural system of behaviors and practices within organizational framework for the purpose of decimating the intergenerational continuity of beliefs in particular mythologies, world views, sacred texts, holy places and ethics.

  6. Re:Somebody ask the judge, please on Worshipping the Flying Spaghetti Monster Isn't a Real Religion, Court Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They don't need to verify what's inside Mormon temples or secrets of Scientology to rule them a religion. There are far more than enough external observable behaviors which are consistent with a religion for such a judgement to be made. The same way that if you tell me that object X has a heart and brain I don't need to see hip bone to verify its an animal and not a plant.

  7. Re:Somebody ask the judge, please on Worshipping the Flying Spaghetti Monster Isn't a Real Religion, Court Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It is not about belief it is about an institution and institutional action. A mere belief never qualified for religious protection.

  8. Re:Somebody ask the judge, please on Worshipping the Flying Spaghetti Monster Isn't a Real Religion, Court Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Court make determinations about intent and state of mind all the time. They ruled this person didn't believe it because it was satire. Faced with some alternative reality where other people did believe it and acted like it the court would rule differently.

  9. Re:More Wayland & Vulkan: GOOD on NVIDIA's Proprietary Linux Driver Adds Support For Wayland, Mir (phoronix.com) · · Score: 0

    Wayland is using an architecture that has obviously better performance. It is an architecture shared by systems that do outperform X consistently. Whether it does or doesn't have better performance today of 6 months ago is mostly irrelevant. When it is done, if it works, it will have better performance. A highway under construction might only be safe to drive at 5mph. That doesn't mean that eventually it won't allow for much higher speeds than backroads and such a statement is obvious by just looking at the sight lines and lane widths.

    -- WTF? Remote access is explicitly not supported at all!

    Not only is it supported it is included. There is a RDP style protocol implemented. That has been tested and worked. I think they suspended development on it once the POC was done but the desktop environments: KDE, Gnome in particular have agreed to implement and are working on full implementations.

  10. Re:This is interesting on Go Champion Lee Se-dol Beats Google's DeepMind AI For First Time (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    I understand. That's important data for MU3. What's of no value is having the doctor fill it out. There are plenty of other people, including the patient who could answer those questions.

  11. Re:More Wayland & Vulkan: GOOD on NVIDIA's Proprietary Linux Driver Adds Support For Wayland, Mir (phoronix.com) · · Score: 0

    -- What exactly does Wayland bring to the table that X doesn't?

    Better performance.
    Effective remote over high latency.
    Reduced cost of support / bugs.
    etc...

  12. What went wrong is constant churn in mission:

    i) Create an open source platform for a commercial browser (Netscape) to sit on top off.
    ii) Create an alternative browser so that Microsoft won't be able to squeeze out AOL.
    iii) Create a lightweight version of the open source platform totally useless as a platform for commercial netscape.
    iv) Create a browser that people like that enforces web standards allowing for web applications and thereby replacing Microsoft IE. Oh and make Google the default search engine.
    v) ????

  13. Re:Rust and Servo... LOOOOOOOOL! on Pale Moon Devs Ponder Dropping Current Codebase And Starting From Scratch (softpedia.com) · · Score: 0

    Rust/Servo doesn't really have competitors certainly not C++. Rust/Servo are about parallelism and the ability to take advantage of multiple cores easily. Everything else could be worse if that proves to be a substantial advantage.

  14. Re:Microsoft should open source Edge. on Pale Moon Devs Ponder Dropping Current Codebase And Starting From Scratch (softpedia.com) · · Score: 0

    No at least with Microsoft you are supposed to move to applications that can gracefully upscale and downscale depending on where they are rendering. On a watch they offer a very limited feature set, a phone far more, a tablet more, a laptop far more, a multiscreen display desktop even more. The idea is that you don't have data migration issues as you migrate between interfaces and interface adjustment happens automatically.

    That's the goal. You may agree, you may disagree but it doesn't help the argument to mis-state the goal.

  15. Re:If they push too hard... on WhatsApp Encryption Said To Stymie Wiretap Order (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    In this case: the legal system's interests it isn't terrorism so much as routine criminal investigation. Strong encryption does in fact break something that law enforcement has had for a long time.

    Now take the rest of your argument. Software is math. Software is information. It isn't a product. In today's world software is increasingly not sold but given away. How do you make software into contraband effectually?

  16. Re:This is interesting on Go Champion Lee Se-dol Beats Google's DeepMind AI For First Time (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The question was what changed with Obamacare. Having doctors fill out charts is a stupid idea. That kind of stuff should be filled out by the nurse, by the front desk by the... Most medical offices still have terrible workflows.

  17. Re:If they push too hard... on WhatsApp Encryption Said To Stymie Wiretap Order (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    First off telcos remember are utilities and make heavy use of government they are thus much more regulated. How would you write a law given the keys are for the client. The clients are the ones encrypting. Facebook is just letting them know how to get in touch. You are basically arguing for a system that would require Facebook to ensure that no encrypted traffic exists that references their system. That's a pretty high bar. Moreover that connection service can easily migrate off Facebook.

  18. Re:And still no 32 GB option! on Dell's Next Rev for Project Sputnik: Ubuntu 14.04 On XPS 13 Developer Edition (hothardware.com) · · Score: 0

    Apple moved to all SSD and compression in memory both of which reduces the demand for RAM.

  19. Re:If this was an American high school... on Israeli 10th-Grader Discovers Elegant Geometry Theorem · · Score: 2

    It does when you claim it is common core and not State X's misapplication of common core.

  20. Re:Yeah, no kidding... on Sorry, Indie Devs -- Pop Apps Are the Future of App Store (imore.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple does allow for refunds and has excellent fraud protection.

    I don't know of much evidence for widespread fraud in the Apple store.

  21. Re:Yeah, no kidding... on Sorry, Indie Devs -- Pop Apps Are the Future of App Store (imore.com) · · Score: 1

    Even today high dividend yields are the norm in places where you have high stability, low growth and good profits. The late 1940-mid 1970s were rare in that the post depression era generation valued stability so much not (not surprisingly). One of the post 70s changes has been to have a much more dynamic economy than the post WWII would have tolerated. Implying much higher church which means the payouts have to be faster on stocks.

    But this is mostly irrelevant to the point above about distribution channels.

  22. Re:This is interesting on Go Champion Lee Se-dol Beats Google's DeepMind AI For First Time (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The question was AI-based doctor vs. one not using an AI. To use your IDE analogy programmer writing code themselves using VIM vs. one using an AI.

  23. Re:You're not making sense on GNU Project Introduces Gneural Network AI Package (gnu.org) · · Score: 1

    I say that presenting the BSD argument without countering the way known retort is essentially dishonest. The poster knew the retort and is obligated to present it when discussing the opposing views.

  24. Re:Vertical markets on Sorry, Indie Devs -- Pop Apps Are the Future of App Store (imore.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes the mapping apps do have errors. And that's after spending 100s of millions on them. Some indie's app would be far worse on average. In specific perhaps they can fix something but then that becomes narrowly focused.

    As for the interface I'd doubt that you could make that much on a better interface. Maybe one of the apps would let you change the interface and maybe you would be able to sell that interface but I doubt there are millions of customers who would pay $1 or tens of thousands willing to pay a lot.

  25. Re:Yeah, no kidding... on Sorry, Indie Devs -- Pop Apps Are the Future of App Store (imore.com) · · Score: 1

    OPM is attracted to big payouts. That's what VC funds, angel funds and at a large scale stock growth funds are about.

    The reason I tend to agree with you on value is that people often overpay not underpay for growth.