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  1. buzzword bingo on The Problem, Really, is This Thing Called 'Disruption' (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    Top-left corner.

  2. World record? on South Park's Season Premier Sets Off Everyone's Amazon Echo (maxim.com) · · Score: 1

    Largest-scale practical joke?

  3. Re:Block third-party cookies, done... on Every Major Advertising Group Is Blasting Apple for Blocking Cookies in the Safari Browser (adweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Ads will just be less targeted, that's all. They will still make money, just not as much. Paywalls are a dead-end for most things and they know that. They just don't like that the playing field is being tipped against them.

  4. Kinda like "All Natural" on Are Top US Startups Really Startups? (om.co) · · Score: 1

    There's no legal requirements associated to the label - it's just a marketing gimmick. Maybe it's true to the connotation, maybe it isn't. As soon as it stops suiting their needs, they'll change it.

  5. Re:Stop deflection ad hominem: It was a $400 blend on At Burning Man While Your Startup Burns (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    You should go hang out in places like Boulder, SF, Santa Fe, etc..., and watch how people spend their money there for a little while. Trust me, there's a market for things like this.

  6. Re:Try these... on Ask Slashdot: What Modern PC Games Would You Recommend For An Old School Gamer? · · Score: 1

    +1 to Deus Ex. Fallout is another one.

  7. Mass effect, elder scrolls (morrowwind and skyrim mostly)

  8. Re:Virtue signaling douche bags on Tech Leaders Speak Out Against Trump Ban on Transgender Troops (axios.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One of the great thing about our country is that they are allowed to voice their opinion, whether you care to hear it or not.

    Pot

    Sorry, don't like it? Leave.

    Kettle

  9. Re:A transgender should be CEO... on Tech Leaders Speak Out Against Trump Ban on Transgender Troops (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Well based on the reasoning from the article earlier today, they'll never get funded.

  10. Use it a lot in that environment. Having smooth updates from previous versions, as well as network reliability.

  11. get rid of tenure on 'The Traditional Lecture Is Dead' (wired.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Pretty hard to get many professors to change their ways otherwise.

  12. what would be cool... on Dungeons and Dragons Goes Digital (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Is if they allowed apps to all share the same map and such (like roll20, FG, etc...) so the DM could have detailed maps with character positioning, etc... without them having to do all the busywork of drawing out rooms all the time. Anything that this app can do to cut down on busywork during a game is a win-win.

  13. Only way to know this is a financial report on Nobody Likes Uber Anymore, Recent Reviews and Ratings On App Store Suggest (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    While what's happened at Uber is terrible, what the media thinks is popular, or social ratings, is suspect at best. In the end, how people vote with their money is what really matters for "popularity".

  14. Re:Not a complete outage on Amazon's Cloud Service Has Outage, Disrupting Sites (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on your business model. If you're big on data, having redundancy might not make economic sense. If it's mostly compute, then yeah, have a backup region.

  15. Great time to handle failure cases... on Amazon's Cloud Service Has Outage, Disrupting Sites (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    To make them fail gracefully with this sort of outage. These opportunities don't come by very often.

  16. The US after the world wars might have been an exception (since we were hardly touched), but when you have devastation from war, your infrastructure and systems get thrown out of whack, the "equal" after might be worse than the "poor" beforehand.

  17. ...as some may call it.

  18. surprised it's not even higher on Your Political Facebook Posts Aren't Changing How Your Friends Think (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    In other words, 6% - 15% of the people reading have a chance of being swayed. I think this result will only encourage people who want to get their side elected to continue to rant.

  19. Re:None of those terms are jargon. on Startups Can't Explain What They Do Because They're Addicted To Meaningless Jargon (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Sometimes I think it more has to do with what a jargon term doesn't mean in a technical sense, which might otherwise be implied to someone who has a vague idea of what it is, but isn't familiar with its actual and proper context. It's sort of a way of over-promising on a technology's capabilities without ever really promising those things. That's not always the case, though. Some really are pretty cut and dry.

  20. Re:There actually is value... on Startups Can't Explain What They Do Because They're Addicted To Meaningless Jargon (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm smoking experience, friend. Note that I didn't imply the other direction was true. Also, there's more to a product than just the engineering aspect. There's customer support (are they just as uninformed and useless as the marketers?), there's the documentation (same thing), and the overall management of the company (who let these clowns out of the circus, and what's to make of the future direction of this technology I'm investing in today, should I be trusting them?). The list goes on.

  21. There actually is value... on Startups Can't Explain What They Do Because They're Addicted To Meaningless Jargon (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    ...for an investor/customer perspective that actually knows what those words should mean and imply. You hear the buzz pitch, then you look at the actual technology, and see if they really used the buzz correctly. If they didn't, you can probably bet that the actual product is crap. Saves you having to go through wasting a few weeks trying the technology out and being disappointed.

  22. Re:Some suggestions for Google. on Google Steps Up Pressure on Partners Tardy in Updating Android (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Many MFA token apps don't like rooted/ASOP devices. Have to address this as well. If google tries to advocate hiding unrooted status from apps, then you might get friction between google and security app providers.

  23. Based on "customer feedback" on Microsoft Backtracks On 'Nasty Trick' Upgrade To Windows 10 (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Dirtiest Jobs' newest episode: Microsoft support helpline *cringe*

  24. Folks, you've been had. on Tech Billionaire Peter Thiel Secretly Bankrolled Hulk Hogan's Lawsuit Against Gawker: Reports (gawker.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is anyone else noticing how the headline has turned the conversation posts from what the actual news subject matter to what a provocative NY professor has said about the subject matter?

  25. Re:Partner with Apple and be done with it on Nintendo Ending Wii U Production Later This Year, Says Report (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't see Apple and Nintendo ever getting along. Both have a long history of being vicious with their partners.