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  1. Re: Just virtue signaling on Virtual Zuck Fails To Connect (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Citation please

    Here you go:

    http://www.gazettetimes.com/al...

  2. Re:Paper towels? on Virtual Zuck Fails To Connect (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You'd think that the whole tone-deaf episode with Trump with his paper towels, Zuckerberg would've learned a lesson.

    Of course not. Zuck knows he's so much a better person than Trump that he couldn't possibly be insensitive like Donald!

  3. Re:Never an Apple user on Security Researcher Finds a Fundamental Flaw in iOS (krausefx.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is, because it shouldn't be possible for a trojan to impersonate the system log in screen. That's why Windows boxes make you use ctrl-alt-del--user programs can't catch that key sequence and make it look like you're logging in.

  4. Gonna be tough on Security Researcher Finds a Fundamental Flaw in iOS (krausefx.com) · · Score: 1

    Will they install control, alt and delete keys on iPhones?

  5. Re:Tizen? on Slashdot Asks: Does the World Need a Third Mobile OS? · · Score: 1

    Also buggy as hell, I hear.

  6. Re:Old TVs? on Latest TVs Are Ready for Their Close-Ups (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    640x480 was the original highest definition of IBM's VGA cards for PCs, which is why early CRT monitors often had this definition--which early flat panels copied, as it tended to be the lowest definition supported by graphics cards at that point. It's certainly copied from the definition of standard def NTSC TV minus the overscan.

  7. Re:Yahoo on Microsoft 'Was Sick', CEO Satya Nadella Says In New Book (intoday.in) · · Score: 2

    A few month ago Verizon snapped up the "core Internet assets" for less than 4.5 billion.

    And with the breaking Yahoo hacking scandal, are widely regarded as having badly overpaid for it.

  8. Well, of course they are on Java Coders Are Getting Bad Security Advice From Stack Overflow (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    You always get bad advice from Stack Overflow.

  9. Re:Categories on Why Is There No Nobel Prize In Technology? (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    They do half-way acknowledge that in that they say that the award for Economics was only added in 1968. But both the summary and the article seem to regard it as a real Nobel Prize, which it isn't. It's a "Nobel Memorial Prize", specifically named that to set it apart from the original Nobel Prizes, and funded differently. The Bank of Sweden funds it rather than the Nobel Foundation, but contrary to what the parent post said, it's still awarded by the Foundation--the Bank of Sweden has no say in who it goes to.

  10. Re:Marketing on Why Is There No Nobel Prize In Technology? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    In EU, lying in advertisement is a no-no. In USA, lying is protected by 1. amendment or something.

    Well, no. Lying in ads is illegal in both the USA and the EU. 1st Amendment free speech decidedly does not cover fraud. They're illegal in both places, but only if they catch you. And there's the ever popular "We didn't lie; we can't be blamed if you drew the wrong conclusions."

  11. Re:I agree - moon first on Vice President Pence Vows US Astronauts Will Return To the Moon (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    We can't even do midair habitats on Earth and he wants to build them 260 million kilometers away? Yeah, that's gonna work really well.

  12. Re:I agree - moon first on Vice President Pence Vows US Astronauts Will Return To the Moon (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Venus has the slight problem that anything you want to send there would melt. Mars is a lot easier.

  13. Come on, Google, you know everybody's just going to call it "Babelfish."

  14. It's meant to be awarded for work done that year on The Absurdity of the Nobel Prizes in Science (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    But it never is, for two reasons:

    a) you can't generally get a good feel for the importance of an achievement in that short a timeframe
    b) there's a backlog. They can't give it to the person who deserves it this year because they need to give to the guy who deserved ten years ago--who didn't get it then because at that time they needed to give it to the guy who deserved it ten years before that, who didn't get it then for the same reason, etc., etc.

  15. Now they can download at 112K!

  16. Re:If the registrars/hosters are liable... on US Telco Fined $3 Million in Domain Renewal Blunder (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    At this level of incompetence, whether or not it was deliberate becomes irrelevant, because the party at fault had a legal duty to be aware of what was going on. The legal boilerplate for this situation is "defendant knew or should have known"

  17. Well, yeah on Code is Too Hard To Think About (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    We haven't solved the hard AI problems necessary to make computers think like us, so we have to think like computers in order to program them, and we're not good at it. This is news?

  18. The Kristallnacht happened in Germany, that is in Europe.

    Kristallnacht was violence and vandalism. I am not arguing for permitting violence and vandalism.

  19. Standing in front of a Jewish shop and shouting: 'Death to all Jews!' is a crime.

    No, it's not. Or at least, it shouldn't be.

    Writing the same thing on facebook is a crime, too.

    What exactly is your point?

    That these are not crimes.

  20. That would be provable intent to commit the crime or violence. Unless you prove the intent, you got nothing.

  21. you have to address how you plan to control hate groups if you let their rhetoric flow freely

    By arresting and penalizing them only when they commit crimes and violence?

  22. Rock climbing, Joel on 'Lost Continent' Rises Again With New Expedition (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Rock climbing.

  23. Re:Why just the Russian ads? on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Rejects Trump Bias Claims (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If the concern is foreign actors meddling with the U.S. election, shouldn't Facebook be turning over to Congress all political ads purchased on Facebook by foreigners for viewing in the U.S.?

    They can't. These people aren't identifying themselves as foreign agents; they're using false fronts. Facebook has learned who the Russian false fronts were, but nobody knows who the others might be.

  24. Well, sorta... on Do Strongly Typed Languages Reduce Bugs? (acolyer.org) · · Score: 1

    A strongly typed language doesn't make it less likely that you'll write bugs, but it does make it more likely that your bugs will prevent the program from compiling or running, thus forcing you to fix them.

  25. Re: Well, duh on The Problem, Really, is This Thing Called 'Disruption' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    The reason for the artificial limit is to make sure cab drivers can earn a living. Otherwise the supply would dry up.

    "We have to restrict supply, otherwise there would be so many people doing it that nobody would do it!"

    And this explanation makes sense to you?