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  1. Re:So? It's a good corporate move. on Is Microsoft Trying to Become "King of Search" With Cortana Strategy? · · Score: 1

    Putting Cortana in iOS isn't a trojan horse (a covert strategy of infiltration using an otherwise harmless overt action to infiltrate). Putting Cortana in iOS is overtly attempting to gain marketshare for Microsoft and Bing.

  2. Re:So? It's a good corporate move. on Is Microsoft Trying to Become "King of Search" With Cortana Strategy? · · Score: 1

    Yahoo uses Bing's engine. If you use Bing, then Yahoo isn't any lower quality.

  3. Re:Reddit on Twitter Will Ban Revenge Porn and Non-consensual Nudes · · Score: 1
  4. Re:perhaps because of risk getting sued? on Twitter Will Ban Revenge Porn and Non-consensual Nudes · · Score: 1

    It may be, but it's still about uneven application of sitewide rules. Why not just create a rule of no unauthorized celebrity content? If the idea is to avoid litigation, then that's the most obvious choice

  5. Re:Reddit on Twitter Will Ban Revenge Porn and Non-consensual Nudes · · Score: 1

    So your anonymous unreferenced assumptions-stated-as-facts hold more veracity than an actual event happening this week? This has nothing to do with sexism and everything to do with rules being applied unevenly. If you want to make it a sexism issue that merely shows where your biases lie.

  6. Re:Reddit on Twitter Will Ban Revenge Porn and Non-consensual Nudes · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't disagree, but the different levels of enforcement are very evident. Entire subs were locked/deleted for the celeb nude leaks, and users were banned with posts removed within minutes to hours during the height of the leaks. Conversely, the guy I referenced has reported numerous times about a single user that continually harasses him and posts his nudes with no results. Policies like this should at least have the appearance of being fairly enforced. You can say best effort, but if you put in no effort, as is evident here, it becomes a question of fairness and agenda.

  7. Reddit on Twitter Will Ban Revenge Porn and Non-consensual Nudes · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In February, reddit made a similar rules change after the site was embroiled in controversy for allowing the posting of stolen nude celebrity photos in 2014. Banning "involuntary pornography," reddit urged victims to e-mail the site with details so administrators could remove the offending posts.

    Not quite. They only banned the practice for females(in practice). Males who petition to have their pictures to be removed have been ignored. SC2 streamer Destiny posted earlier this week about how reddit refuses to take down his leaked revenge nudes(which are still stored on reddit's servers as someone with a particular beef with Destiny has added the images to a custom CSS for a subreddit) and refuses to discipline those that continually post it.

    This is similar to Gawker's avid posting of Hulk Hogan's stolen sextape versus their denouncement and refusal to host images of the leaked female celebrity nudes, known as the Fappening.

  8. No on Was Linus Torvalds Right About C++ Being So Wrong? · · Score: 2

    The ability to fuck it up is a good thing, because there's a spectrum, and you can also knock it out of the park.

  9. Yep, my steam turbines are going to fail earlier than I thought. Hate it when that happens

  10. Re:Goodbye, Ubuntu on Ubuntu To Officially Switch To systemd Next Monday · · Score: 1

    The fact that you stayed into Unity shows that you're lying and going to continue to stay.

  11. It's happening!! on Demand For Linux Skills Rising This Year · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Year of Linux is finally here!

  12. Re:Yes, and? on One Year Later, We're No Closer To Finding MtGox's Missing Millions · · Score: 1

    But it does leave a papertrail, the block chain.

  13. Full blooded American here on Snowden Reportedly In Talks To Return To US To Face Trial · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...and I wouldn't trust any guarantee I received if I were in Snowden's situation. His best case scenario would be to find himself a nice country(read: not Russia) without an extradition treaty and negotiate his way there. The only way is if the president officially pardons him or he is convicted in absentia and the president commutes his sentence, but even then, they'll find something to stick on him, just like they used the IRS to take down gangsters and the mafia.

  14. Re:Parody on Gritty 'Power Rangers' Short Is Not Fair Use · · Score: 1

    I'd say the tongue was firmly planted in cheek for the whole thing.

  15. Re:Parody on Gritty 'Power Rangers' Short Is Not Fair Use · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You don't see the humor in changing a hilariously bad kids show into a very serious adult movie? Satire, parody, and humor aren't just in the domain of chuckles.

  16. Re:Like everything else M$... on What Would Minecraft 2 Look Like Under Microsoft? · · Score: 0

    Welcome to today, the same as yesterday, where another critical security flaw appears with Java

  17. Re:serious question on Marissa Mayer On Turning Around Yahoo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The only companies left standing after 20 years are those that use acquisitions to make up for the fact that successful innovation involves a lot of luck. Google, Microsoft, and Apple all use strategic acquisitions to enhance themselves. Do you think Google created Android, YouTube, and Google Maps/Earth? Do you think Microsoft created MS-DOS, Powerpoint, and Skype? Do you think Apple created iOS, OSX, and Final Cut Pro? All of those are final products that evolved from acquisitions. They are not home grown, yet they define massive parts of their corporate identities.

  18. Re:serious question on Marissa Mayer On Turning Around Yahoo · · Score: 4, Informative

    Number one sports website, number one fantasy sports website, well regarded finance site, Flickr and Tumblr are still going strong, Yahoo Mail is still near the top in active userbase, smart investments in foreign social/search companies, etc. They do pretty well for themselves, which is why they're still around

  19. Re:Brain drain on Marissa Mayer On Turning Around Yahoo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Brain drain wasn't about engineers, it was about culture. They want the Silicon Valley culture of being in-office tied-to-desk slaves. They got it.

  20. Hmm? on TrueCrypt Audit Back On Track After Silence and Uncertainty · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Now, almost a year later, the project is back on track. Ptacek, a cryptography expert and founder of Matasano Security, will no longer lead the cryptanalysis and the effort will no longer be crowdsourced. Instead, phase two of the audit will be handled by Cryptography Services, a team of consultants from iSEC Partners, Matasano, Intrepidus Group, and NCC Group.

    Are these auditors trustworthy? At least if it's crowdsourced it's an open process.

  21. Re:someone explain for the ignorant on Credit Card Fraud Could Peak In 2015 As the US Moves To EMV · · Score: 1

    I enter the pin when I use it? Or I initialize the card with a pin when I get it and that creates some type of cipher key for encrypted transactions?

  22. someone explain for the ignorant on Credit Card Fraud Could Peak In 2015 As the US Moves To EMV · · Score: 1

    ...like me

  23. Re:They brought it on themselves on Confirmed: FCC Will Try To Regulate Internet Under Title II · · Score: 1

    Rates are more or less unregulated. An individual under LA DWP pays less than an individual under SCE. SDGE has the highest rates in the nation. If I lived across the street in the next city, my rates would be much less(SCE rates rather than SDGE rates).

  24. Re:They brought it on themselves on Confirmed: FCC Will Try To Regulate Internet Under Title II · · Score: 1

    This isn't going to stop local cable monopolies, either. I have access to one gas utility, one electric utility, and one water utility. Where is my competition? The only place I actually have choices is internet/tv: cable or fiber or DSL(where I have dozens of options from DSL resellers).

  25. Re:FWIW on Ask Slashdot: Pros and Cons of Homeschooling? · · Score: 1

    My private school had 15 people per class, and 200 people at the most in the school. My public Jr High had 25+ people per class and over a thousand students, 3000+ students at the high school level. When you go to class with the same kids for 6 years, your social experience is much less. The private jr high and high schools that I would have attended would have been small as well. Apparently you had a tough time in public school, I didn't, but, more to the point, you found out about the real world in high school. You go to college to live that naive and you're in a worse spot than if you did it in high school. Learning how to protect yourself(both mentally and physically) is important.