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  1. "We need to ensure the world is not a dark place where bad people become authority figures to abuse the law,"

    Fixed.

  2. use tags already on Netflix Replacing Star Ratings With Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Unqualified ratings systems are painfully limited whether they are stars or thumbs. Context is needed to know *why* people liked or disliked something. I can read reviews to get a small sample of this (assuming people have taken the time to write good reviews), but letting users tag content allows us find stuff we like so much more effectively. Tags for sub-genre, themes, memes, good acting, bad SFX or anything else people might be looking for. I wish Amazon would do the same for books too.

  3. Re:With good reason! on A Record High of 455 Scripted TV Shows Aired in 2016 (vulture.com) · · Score: 1

    ...the old media companies could have avoided all of this if their demands weren't so unreasonable.

    What's unreasonable about saying "give me billions of dollars"? It always sounds good when I say it....

  4. corollary study on Information Overload No Problem For Most Americans: Survey (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Surround people with tons of information and see how much & what type they remember.

    We are bombarded with so much information that we are all trained to ignore the vast majority of it just to function; I'd be interested in seeing how our brains decide what to ignore.

  5. Tesla - pay my car property tax! on Tesla Bans Customers From Using Autonomous Cars To Earn Money Ride-Sharing (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Property taxes have to be paid by the owner, right?

  6. Re:Let's repeat it again, Hillary fans... on Donald Trump Running Insecure Email Servers (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Trump isn't the Secretary of State and don't handle classifieds documents. UNDERSTOOD ?

    I'm not generally a grammar nazi, but seeing a Trump supporter post like this is pretty damn funny.

  7. Re:Let's repeat it again, Hillary fans... on Donald Trump Running Insecure Email Servers (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Trump isn't the Secretary of State and don't handle classifieds documents. UNDERSTOOD ?

    No, he's just a billionaire businessman with insecure email. What could go wrong?
    I'm not claiming he's mishandled classified data. I am claiming he's stupid and hypocritical.

    Also, not a Hillary fan.

  8. It's not like Democrats need politically motivated charges to destroy his campaign, he's doing an excellent job of that on his own.

  9. Re:The most most seriously needed LEO database on Across US, Police Officers Abuse Confidential Databases (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    No, they are not.

    Because if they were, they would be fighting nail and tooth to get the 0.01% off the force and behind bars, where they belong.

    As things are, there are three kinds of cops: 1. Dirty 2. Complicit 3. On the way out

    You've just demonstrated that "for every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong." Cynicism without realism is not productive.

    1) Changing entrenched bureaucracies is hard and takes time no matter how good a person you are.
    2) Most dirty cops are unlikely to announce their corruption.
    3) Innocent until proven guilty applies to cops also and that makes obtaining convictions hard.

    Yes, there are corrupt and complicit cops who need to be brought down. But there are good ones that will act to clean up the police force where they can. Those good cops are limited by law in what they can do to reduce corruption just as they are limited in how they can deal with any other crime. This is as it should be; we have rights for a reason.

  10. assigning probability without evidence? on Bank of America Analysts Say There's A 50% Chance We Live In The Matrix (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    This is speculation not science or analysis. It's not much different than people who lived centuries ago speculating about the nature of gods without any real evidence.

  11. "direct detection" defined as: on BitTorrent Cases Filed By Malibu Media Will Proceed, Rules Judge · · Score: 1

    For those who didn't read the linked decision: 'direct detection “involves connecting to a peer . . . and then exchanging data with that peer,” indirect detection “relies on the set of peers returned by the coordinating tracker [of a BitTorrent swarm] only, [and] treating this list as authoritative as to whether or not IPs are actually exchanging data within the swarm.”'

  12. Already happened on Latest Windows 10 Update Breaks PowerShell (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Yesterday my Windows 10 machine installed updates that caused the BIOS RAID setting for my boot drive to be disabled. "Error loading operating system" GG

  13. 8 year old news, but sadly still relevant on Disable WPAD Now or Have Your Accounts Compromised, Researchers Warn (csoonline.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I found an 8 year-old article (http://perimetergrid.com/wp/2008/01/11/wpad-internet-explorers-worst-feature/) about this and how to disable it with a simple Google search. I'm still glad Slashdot posted about it today because I would never have realized it was a problem. How has this vulnerability existed for almost a decade without being rectified?

  14. Re:Call 911 next time... on Man Says Tesla Autopilot Saved His Life By Driving Him To the Hospital (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    In the vast majority of cases an ambulance is faster (and safer) getting to you than you are getting to the hospital and they can give you some treatment on the spot.

    Source? A brief google search indicates that ambulance response times vary widely from place to place based on a variety of factors. I didn't find any recent sources specific to Springfield, MO. Twenty miles on a freeway is typically less than 20 minutes barring traffic. Do Springfield's ambulances typically respond faster than that? Was traffic a factor? How much would traffic impact the ambulance? How fast does the autopilot feature drive?

  15. Purely rational = without humanity or compassion on Is A Rational Nation Ruled By Science A Terrible Idea? (newscientist.com) · · Score: 0

    Does that sound like a place you'd want to live? Think it through.

  16. Loss of publicity & education opportunity on 'Boaty McBoatface' Polar Ship Named After Attenborough Despite Less Votes (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They should have involved a publicist and some good teachers and kept the name. Imagine using a research vessel named Boaty McBoatface to get school kids interested in science. Such a wasted opportunity.

  17. Everything on that list requires them. Can you imagine an iPhone made with vacuum tubes?

  18. commentary on abuse on Website Attempts To Generate Every Possible Patentable Invention (allpriorart.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a sad commentary on how abuse of US patent and copyright law has flourished.

  19. Re:I won't attend the laying in state, but I appro on US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Has Died (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That is overly simplistic. Or would you care to explain the founder's original intent regarding the internet? Our interpretation of the constitution evolves because circumstances have changed beyond anything the writers could have imagined. The internet is only one example.

  20. Sign up for indentured servitude! on One-Way Ticket: Mars One Project Applicants Top 100,000 · · Score: 1

    The Company owns the food, the clothes, the housing, the air itself... and you.

  21. Need help? on UK ISP Filter Will Censor More Than Porn · · Score: 1

    Feeling suicidal? There are helpful and caring communities on the web who... are blocked.


    Theoretically this shouldn't happen, but it will. And I'd bet getting your website unblocked will be hard.

  22. Re:Brilliant idea on Google Declares War On the Password · · Score: 1

    Or use mnemonics composed of several words.

    xkcd: Password Strength

  23. Virginia already has this. on Senators Vow To Renew Bid For State Taxes On Remote Internet Sales · · Score: 1
    From VA individual tax return instructions:

    Consumer's Use Tax: Did you purchase merchandise by Internet, telephone, or mail, or did you purchase any merchandise outside Virginia and pay no sales tax? If so, you may be required to pay Consumer's Use Tax. Be sure to report the applicable tax on Schedule ADJ.

    The difference: this tax is paid yearly by the consumer rather than automatically collected by the vendor at point-of-sale.

  24. For those who didn't RTFA: on Jail Looms For Man Who Revealed AT&T Leaked iPad User E-Mails · · Score: 1
    He's facing 2 charges:

    1) Violating an identity theft law by "being in possession of the e-mails." With no evidence that he planned to misuse the information.

    2) Violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse act via "unauthorized access to a computer". Even though the information was publicly available on AT&T's website (not behind any kind of protection, not even a password).

    I almost hope he's convicted on the latter charge; the publicity that will generate may lead to sane revision of these laws.

  25. Shockingly low fine on First Three-Strikes Copyright Court Case In NZ Falls Over · · Score: 1

    Even with the faulty logic and extra dipping, the fine is low compared to similar cases in the US. It's actually low enough that a normal person could pay it without going bankrupt....