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  1. 404 Not Found on Link Rot and the US Supreme Court · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Which is not what you want to see in, say, an Apple verses Samsung style case where "previous art" and earlier applications are all that separate you from being successfully sued into the Stone Age.

  2. and then there's on LucasFilm Combines Video Games and Movies To Eliminate Post-Production · · Score: 1

    Get to the end of the movie, the big climax, and Toad says "sorry, Mario, the princess is not in this castle."
    That or we get a Gozilla flick where the monster looks remarkably like Bowzer.

  3. let the Congo bombing raids begin on Conflict Minerals and Cell Phones · · Score: 0

    The US has a longstanding policy of getting involved where it doesn't belong over some natural resources, why not others? We need hard drives and cell phones just as much as we need internal combustion cars... Right?

  4. Even the great ones whiff on Ballmer Admits Microsoft Whiffed Big-Time On Smartphones · · Score: 2

    There's a long history of businesses saying "nah, not going that way" then finding out they made the wrong choice and missed the boat. Good that Ballmer admits what everyone has known for a long time regarding being late to the smartphone party, how can he not?

    Funny he should take a poke at Google since Bing is... uh, Bing... but to MSFT's credit they took up the mantle to challenge Google at search engine technology. They could have very well said "nah, it's been done, look Yahoo and Alta Vista, ad infinitum, there's no meat on the bone" and left it alone. Which, in many opinions, wouldn't have been that bad a thing to pass on since, well, Bing -- but it's still a revenue stream despite quality. MSFT can't always buy a winner when they can't make a winner.

  5. perception on Emotional Attachment To Robots Could Affect Battlefield Outcome · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Soldiers told her that attachment to their robots didn't affect their performance, yet acknowledged they felt a range of emotions such as frustration, anger and even sadness when their field robot was destroyed.

    There are two ways this can be taken:
    a) Like a soldier that loses a comrade on the battlefield
    b) Like a mechanic whose only 10mm crescent wrench snapped

    The former may be the implication, but the latter is a fact -- the robot is a tool and without that field robot the operator isn't doing his job / lacks the thing he's operating.

  6. (addenum) on Brazil Announces Plans To Move Away From US-Centric Internet · · Score: 1

    also wanted to add: Learn from China, Brasil, that while you can go at it alone, your people will still go under the wall for what they're looking for.

  7. and all of the places you are connecting to on Brazil Announces Plans To Move Away From US-Centric Internet · · Score: 3, Informative

    are outside Brazil, such as the United States, because beside a small collection of servers you want to call secure and local (Brazil's own webmail server, for instance) everything else is "out there". Including most of the "Brazillian content" such as info about the Rio '16 Olympics and all those hot photos of women at Carnivale.

  8. skeleton in an space suit on Join the Efforts of a Manned Mission To Jovian Moon Europa · · Score: 1

    Game Over. You and all of your friends are dead.

  9. "laser"? on Canadian Scientists Protest Political Sandbagging of Evidence-Based Policy · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is Canada, they use a chicken cannon.

  10. the Related Links on this story are on Canadian Scientists Protest Political Sandbagging of Evidence-Based Policy · · Score: 1

    > Canadian Government Muzzling Scientists
    > Canadian scientists protest Tory's sandbagging of evidence-based policy

  11. Re:Drudge and other U.S. bloggers are next on Arrested Chinese Blogger "Confesses" On State TV, Praises Censorship · · Score: 2

    If she had her way, there would be 26 little kids still alive going to Sandy Hook Elementary.

    If anyone had their way, no one would have died. And unless she personally or some law enforcement she alerted somehow showed up outside the school with a sidearm before the bad guy got to the doors, she could have gotten her way. I don't picture that happening.

  12. SOP: leave the body as a warning to the others on Arrested Chinese Blogger "Confesses" On State TV, Praises Censorship · · Score: 1

    Or since this is China, he'll be the most famous member of the "Bodies" exhibit in a year.

    That's the only reason why he'd be pushed to renounce his beliefs and practices, because the guvmint wanted others like him to curl up and give up so they're making an example of him. And for the record, the Internet that he says is best controlled by the government is controlled by the government, it's behind the Great Firewall and required him to find a way around it to be heard.

  13. Goatse freedom? on Arrested Chinese Blogger "Confesses" On State TV, Praises Censorship · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why, because Kirk's anus looks like what this blogger's life just became -- buggered by a cock the size of a telephone pole?

  14. online local newspaper on Can Internet Pseudonymity Be Saved? · · Score: 1

    I wonder how this will shake out for a major Puget Sound newspaper that a couple days ago they announced they are going that direction, using Facebook logins and dropping the anon/pseud posting ability. But this would be where the nonpersonal/semipersonal throwaway Facebook accounts come in...

  15. Many on Can Internet Pseudonymity Be Saved? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I know quite a few people, myself included, who either have two profiles on Facebook -- the public one and the private one -- or go with a pseudonym because they want to preserve their privacy. And not for nefarious reasons, because they only want to be connected to people significant to them and not to everyone. Like for instance, a lawyer may have a professional presence but keep the family elsewhere, or a teacher keeps everything out of where students and adminstration could see it.

    It's been mentioned already that you can be shitcanned for what you put online, even if it's not a picture of your junk or a status update about a party you're at. It has been done for the weakest of reasons because somebody with some power doesn't agree with your private POV. Some people would like to be netizens like everyone else without having to deal with oversensitive vindictive dickheads snooping on them.

    I just tell people I don't trust I don't have a Facebook since my username doesn't involve my given name in any form and usually don't friend anyone I work with, and without a lot of work some HR spy isn't going to find how how much I love kittens and midget bowling.

  16. driving the coffin nails on Tumblr Follows Instagram - Reveals Plan For More Ads · · Score: 2

    The moment we heard Marissa was buying Tumblr, we all knew death was imminent. Flickr's the test case to prove it.

  17. the irony on Tumblr Follows Instagram - Reveals Plan For More Ads · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yahoo getting targetted ads on Tumblr to find out what its users want... then ignoring when users on Flickr try to tell Yahoo what they want.

  18. targetted ads on Tumblr Follows Instagram - Reveals Plan For More Ads · · Score: 2

    Does this mean we'll start seeing something semi-worthwhile on Radar rather than what American Apparel mistakenly thinks kids should buy or the latest flash-in-the-pan Fox TV drama?

  19. repeating the mistaken info on Another Climate-Change Retraction · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the author is a Birther? :)

  20. The first and last time on How a Grandmother Pioneered a Home Shopping Revolution · · Score: 1

    ...anyone got their grandmother to shop online. :)

  21. "I cheated." -- Spock, in the first movie on Preventing Cheating At Hackathons · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hacking in and of itself is cheating. So if you can cheat at cheating, you're doing it right -- you're smarter than the beast you're facing.

  22. If they're banning technology post-1986 on Toronto Family Bans All Technology In Their Home Made After 1986 · · Score: 1

    This means that their kids are not allowed to be named Trey and Denton.

  23. pumped and dumped on Twitter Seeking To Go Public · · Score: 2

    Yeah, I remember when Netscape had its IPO.

  24. would have been awesome had this happened -- on Twitter Seeking To Go Public · · Score: 4, Insightful

    a year or two ago when the company was on the upswing, not shortly-to-be-passé.

  25. can we call what Yahoo did to Flickr "treason"? on Yahoo CEO Says It Would Be Treason To Decline To Cooperate With the NSA · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Because someone needs to be swinging from a yard arm or given a blindfold and a cig for how badly Marissa boned Flickr.