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  1. Re:Why did they "cut them a break"? on Warner Bros Issues Takedown For Own Website (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You seem to expect that high fines would not discourage false DMCA notices, because the filers would expect to get away with it, because they currently get away with it. But they currently get away with it not because it's hard to detect, or hard to identify the perpetrator, or low enough impact that nobody bothers to do anything, but because it's not illegal. If it became illegal, the facts that it would be easy to identify the filer, and the owner of the suppressed material is significantly impacted mean they'd be very likely to get caught.

    Certainly, I expect that some would still file false notices, expecting to not get caught. But I think the majority of _current_ false-filers would consider it too risky and stop.

  2. Re:Carbon nanotube TRANSISTORS on New Carbon Nanotube Chip Outperforms Silicon Semiconductors (nanotechweb.org) · · Score: 1

    they add a smoky feel

  3. Re:Why did they "cut them a break"? on Warner Bros Issues Takedown For Own Website (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    high fines don't discourage humans from doing secretive stuff that affects concerned parties indirectly because they think they won't get noticed.

    high fines can discourage companies from doing publicly visible things that affect concerned parties directly because they realize they will absolutely get noticed.

  4. Re:Depends on MIT Scientists Develop New Wi-Fi That's 330% Faster (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't come up with a solid meaning for "as slow". "As fast" seems straightforward; it's a comparison to a value as measured from zero. But "as slow" would seem to need to be a comparison to a value measured from a reference point above the value (like comparing to 60 with a reference value of 100) but of course then the question is "what's the reference point?" So it's not very useful, which makes it not very common, which makes it susceptible to misinterpretation, which makes it even less useful.

  5. Re: Tell me that when SSI requires 63-70 to retire on HP Hit With Age-Discrimination Suit Claiming Old Workers Purged (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    You can certainly keep doing it. You may not be able to get paid for it.

  6. Re:Lack of anonymity impacts freedom of expression on US Customs and Border Protection Wants To Know Who You Are On Twitter (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    so you're saying that if you act like an asshole I'm not allowed to tell you to bug off? Because that's a repercussion.

  7. Re:When everything you do on Systemd Rolls Out Its Own Mount Tool (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    since he said "lack of mass exodus", you seem to be agreeing.

  8. Re:Uber is not "Ride Sharing" on Massachusetts Will Tax Ride-Sharing Companies To Subsidize Taxis (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    it occurs to me (oh why can I not edit!) that I may have misinterpreted the focus of your statement. If you're going with "use of a method other than a taxi is competing with taxis" I agree, and point out that rental car companies and hotel shuttles have been doing so for quite a long time...

  9. Re:Uber is not "Ride Sharing" on Massachusetts Will Tax Ride-Sharing Companies To Subsidize Taxis (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    he said "ad hoc" taxi service. That's the one where you walk out of a building and wave down a car that happens to be passing by, no apps, no phone calls - the original taxi model, in fact. Uber doesn't do that at all, as far as I'm aware.

  10. I suspect coffee shops will be before nail/hair, which will be before plumbers and electricians. Plumbers/electricians have to do onsite stuff, and no two sites are quite the same. Automating that level of flexibility will take longer than building an auto-mixing espresso bot.

  11. I think he's talking about automated food production (most things outside the produce department have some amount of automation involved; much of the aisle stuff is totally automated after harvest and a lot is automated there too). Have you seen those shows about what kind of factory makes food product X? Frequently the human touch is only for shlepping jugs of sauce and boxing a dozen or two of whatever after they've been wrapped/labelled/bottled.

  12. Re:Incomplete title... on Your Political Facebook Posts Aren't Changing How Your Friends Think (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    That last sentence appears to be general to all parties this year. *sigh*

  13. good question. While there's a lot of them, I'm not sure what the percentage is. I haven't lived in a FCFS parking apartment in 8 or so years, and even at that one I did have a garage, I just used it for storage instead of parking. (If 90% of the residents wanted garages there wouldn't have been enough, though.)

  14. Re:Denormalize on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Bad Programming Ideas That Work? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    my best guess is that it's a matter of whether the extra time to join the multiple tables is a significant problem. If you're never not joining them, it may be faster to just leave it in 3NF.

  15. Re:Denormalize on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Bad Programming Ideas That Work? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    In my experience, "if it's stupid but works it isn't stupid" usually has an implicit assumption that nothing else is working.

  16. Re:Why not use the DMCA to shut it down? on Suicide Squad Fans Petition To Shut Down Rotten Tomatoes Over Negative Reviews (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    I've never heard of a case like that, but I wouldn't be surprised if that worked for someone.

  17. Re:Why not use the DMCA to shut it down? on Suicide Squad Fans Petition To Shut Down Rotten Tomatoes Over Negative Reviews (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    The perjury part is only for the assertion that the filer of the DMCA complaint is the owner or is the agent of the owner of a copyright. The assertion that the work being complained about infringes on that copyright is "good faith".

  18. sounds like you want the developer branch.

  19. Re:Just Ban Sex Offenders on New York Governor Bars Sex Offenders From Playing Pokemon Go (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    from what I've read the original idea (this was 20+ years ago, mind you) was that child molesters can't help themselves, so keeping them away from temptation (residency restrictions) and giving everyone else enough info to keep temptation away from them (publicized addresses) was a good thing. Then they started piling all the not-predator stuff on. And of course since then the attitude has changed from "they can't help themselves" to "they are responsible for their actions", which undermines the entire purpose of the list, leaving it only a lifetime punishment that the state doesn't have to pay for. But doing away with it would be "soft on crime"...

  20. You don't. They do (running off the edge of the road because you thought it was a meter that-a-way is an accident).

  21. Re:Is there really a need for this? on MIT Developed A Movie Screen That Brings Glasses-Free 3D To All Seats (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't have much trouble wearing their glasses over mine, but I don't doubt that some folks do.

  22. Re:The price hike is minimal... on Netflix Stock Price Tanks As Customers Quit Over Higher Prices (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    since they don't overlap, to get all the content you have to subscribe to both.

  23. Re:Squandered on Millennials Set To Earn Less Than Generation X (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    you appear to have neglected the "spread over 12 years" part.

  24. It's probably not even the biggest thing on his "Kernel Shit Must Change" list; more of a "this came up, so here's my opinion; now I'm gonna do something else". At least, that's how I interpret his email.

    But why would you expect to see stuff about war, famine, or the Kardashians on the linux kernel mailing list?

  25. Re:I don't use comments on Linus Torvalds In Sweary Rant About Punctuation In Kernel Comments (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    especially if it lacks comments