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  1. Re:France Media Chronology Law on Going After Netflix, Cannes Bans Streaming-Only Movies From Competition Slots (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    IANAL but I would imagine that you simply cannot alter the release order envisioned by the regulators ("Theaters > DVD > Pay-per-view > Pay TV > TV > Subscription Streaming > Free Streaming") without breaking the law and being subjected to the stipulated penalties.

  2. France Media Chronology Law on Going After Netflix, Cannes Bans Streaming-Only Movies From Competition Slots (slate.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    The article doesn't mention the real problem: France Media Chronology Law. It states that if a film is shown in theaters in France, then the distributors should wait three years until they make it available for streaming. If it wasn't for this law, Netflix could just release the films on a limited number of theaters to appease the Cannes officials.

  3. Re:IOT good. IOT + forced shit BAD! on IoT Garage Door Opener Maker Bricks Customer's Product After Bad Review (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    IoT should be about open protocols and services. Devices that can only connect to their proprietary servers should be called "AOL of things" instead.

  4. Google way ahead of all other companies on Uber Nowhere Close to Having a Fully Autonomous Vehicle, Its Self-Driving Cars Need a Lot of Human Help (recode.net) · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is the official Autonomous Vehicle Disengagement Report for California https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/... Google is at 5000 miles before a disengagement is required, compared to the 0.8 miles reported for Uber. Google also logged over half a million miles, compared to a couple of thousand of some of the other companies. So at least for the companies doing autonomous vehicle testing in public roads in California, no one come even close to Google.

  5. We do have similar numbers from Google and other companies. Google numbers for 2016 are 0.20 disengagements per 1000 miles driven. https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/...

  6. Re:If only it were repeatable... on Malta's Azure Window Collapses Into the Sea (timesofmalta.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't happen every year. It's more like once every four years on average.

  7. Expensive! on Skype Gets A New Competitor: Amazon Announces Chime (geekwire.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Looks like it costs $15 per user per month for for any plan that allows calls with more than 2 participants. For comparison, I believe Google Suite is $5 per user, and includes email, calendar and an office suite apart from the conferencing software. Or if you want just video calls I think hangouts is free for up to 5 participants. Hangouts and Skype are not nearly perfect, but most of the time they are good enough. How much better this has to be to justify paying that steep price?

  8. Computers DO SHIP with a programming language on Melinda Gates Was Encouraged To Use an Apple and BASIC. Her Daughters Were Not. (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is a language called JavaScript that is perfectly suited for learning how to program. Much better suited than BASIC I'd say.

  9. Re:Easy to fix on Facebook Told To Stop Taking Data From German WhatsApp Users (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe it became popular in many countries for two main reasons 1) It allowed to send unlimited messages at a time when telcos in many markets would charge you per individual text 2) Unlike existing alternatives at the time (gtalk, skype) it used your phone number as your account id, so setting up the app was frictionless, specially among non tech-savvy smartphone users.

  10. Re:I'm seeing pattern here... on Google Backs Off On Previously Announced Allo Privacy Feature (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Who is "we"? Is there really such a huge demand for encrypted messaging? I'm sure most people value more the convenience of being able to switch devices and still see their chat history across all of them over the enhanced privacy they would get by not having their messages centrally stored.

  11. Re:Frosty piss on Netflix Finds x265 20% More Efficient Than VP9 (streamingmedia.com) · · Score: 1

    In my totally subjective and anecdotal experience the perceived quality of different mediums and resolutions goes like this:

    4K Blu-ray > Upscaled HD Blu-Ray > 4K Netflix/Amazon streaming = Native resolution HD Blu-ray > Upscaled HD streaming > Native resolution HD streaming > Anything DVD

  12. I would be very surprised... on Donald Trump Signs Pledge To Crack Down On Internet Porn (pcworld.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    if this isn't a deal breaker for the 22% of slashdotters who would vote for Trump https://slashdot.org/poll/2997...

  13. Re:1909 on Third Tesla Crashes Amid Report of SEC Investigation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    What a plane auto pilot system actually is or can do is totally irrelevant. In judging whether Tesla's system is misnamed all that matters is what a layperson *thinks* an auto pilot system does, and I have no doubts a layperson thinks an "autopilot" system does much more than other systems with less sexy names like the "lane assist" other car manufacturers use.

  14. Re:What is a "city" on New York Falls and Seattle Rises on 'America's Top Tech Cities' List (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    They can and they do it. Many Google employees live in San Francisco and commute to Mountain View, located in the South Bay. The company even provides shuttle buses for them, which fueled protests since rent prices close to the shuttle bus stops have gone up noticeably (search for google bus protests). This alone tells you that the number of people doing this is not negligible.

  15. Re:What is a "city" on New York Falls and Seattle Rises on 'America's Top Tech Cities' List (geekwire.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Anyone who has lived and worked in the Bay Area knows a lot of people living in San jose and working in San Francisco, vice versa, or anything in between. The fact that a great deal of people living in the so called Bay Area would consider working in any other part of the Bay Area makes it, by definition, a single job market, which is the focus of this study.

  16. Re:Java and Java EE: two different things on Oracle May Have Stopped Funding and Developing Java EE (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It is the other way around. The Java community has been signaling for years a lack of interest in what Java EE has to offer, and this decision by Oracle is just a response to that. It seems Java developers just prefer "chasing the fads". This is true for other development platforms too, like Node.js, Python, Ruby, where the main language is accompanied by a myriad of frameworks and libraries that you have to learn in order to become productive. This is a trend that you might not like but it is here to stay.

  17. Java and Java EE: two different things on Oracle May Have Stopped Funding and Developing Java EE (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    This affects less people and it is way less dramatic than what the summary implies. Java EE it's just a bunch of "enterprise" frameworks which run on top of the Java virtual machine. Many people using the Java platform don't even bother with Java EE and use other set of frameworks instead (like Spring or Hibernate), and even for those using some of the Java EE technologies, they are most likely using some third party (IBM Websphere) or open source (lJBoss, Tomcat) implementations, since the "official" Java EE implementation by Sun (and later Oracle) never gained much traction.

  18. Google vs Tesla approaches to self driving cars on DVD Player Found In Tesla Autopilot Crash, Says Florida Officials (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Although in this particular case it is unclear whether the driver was actually watching a DVD at the moment of the crash, it is pretty obvious that an assisted driving technology that can handle 95% of the driving situations will make users confident enough to be distracted when operating the vehicle, no matter how many warnings and disclaimers are shown telling users they need to pay attention all the time in case they have to gain control to handle the remaining 5% of the traffic situations. This is clearly explained in this TED talk by the head of Google driverless car program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (this particular issue is discussed around 4:10, although the whole video is worth watching). This is why Google approach to self driving cars is to release their product when the system is able to handle 100% of the driving situations and never require the user to take control in contrast to the Tesla approach of releasing a system than can handle most situations and make incremental improvements over time.

  19. Re:Seriously? Autocomplete? on There's No Evidence That Google Is Manipulating Searches To Help Hillary Clinton (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Search results and autocomplete suggestions are very different things. Extrapolating findings of a study on one of those to the other is very wrong. Autocomplete is merely an aid in writing the query. If we were talking about Google suppressing an unusual or hard to spell word from autocomplete in order to discourage searches on that term, I could buy the theory. But here we are talking about Google not suggesting the last 3 characters of a very common word after the user had already formulated most of the query. I find hard to believe that such a manipulation would prevent most users from completing the search and change the public perception on a candidate. Certainly the study you cite doesn't prove that either.

  20. Seriously? Autocomplete? on There's No Evidence That Google Is Manipulating Searches To Help Hillary Clinton (vox.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Gee! I wish I knew more about Hillary Clinton's crimes. I know! I'll use that Google thing to find out! OK, here we go: H-I-L-L-A-R-Y C-L-I-N-T-O-N C-R-I. Oh boy! I'm so tired of typing! Still three more characters to go. I don't think I can make it! I wish Google had autocompleted my search for me. I don't see "hillary clinton crimes" in the list of suggestions, though. Oh! If only there was a way for me to do this search! But no, it's impossible! Wait a minute! Of course! IT'S OBVIOUS! GOOGLE WANTS TO HIDE CLINTON'S CRIMES FROM ME!

  21. Re:Experiments on Universal Basic Income Programs Arrive (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. They are going to study 100 randomly selected families, receiving $24000 each over the course of a year. They could study lottery scratchers winners instead and get the same results.

  22. No privacy and no control over content on Google Releases Spaces Group-Sharing App On Android, iOS, and Desktop (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    I just tried it and it seems like just the opposite of a balkanizing product. It's a really open product. Way too open in my opinion. You don't need to install an app or even have an account to see the content generated with it, you just share the URL of your "space" using whatever medium you like and everyone can see your content. So there's no privacy either. Also there's no control: anyone with the link and a Google account can add content to your "space". So I would say it's just a glorified flyer sharing app, with the added "feature" that anyone can deface your flyer.

  23. Who is "People"? on People Often Deride Game Changing Technology as 'a Toy' (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    The article is merely a list of technologies that some people might have referred to as "toys" when they first appeared. There are not links, and nothing indicates that was the prevalent opinion at the time. I'm sure it is possible to find references with "people" calling the same technologies "revolutionary".

  24. Re:Why not 16.04? on Dell's Next Rev for Project Sputnik: Ubuntu 14.04 On XPS 13 Developer Edition (hothardware.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Because 14.04 is the latest LTS (Long Term Support) version released https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS

  25. Re: from the not-so-bright department on Scuba Diver Survives Being Sucked Into Nuclear Plant (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Reports indicate that they even admitted having moored to the buoy, which is illegal. So it is clear these guys are complete idiots with absolutely no clue about navigation rules.