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  1. Re:Oh noes! Steady growth! Therefore decline! on Netflix's Subscriber Growth Stalls (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Quite. But the "pluck a number out of our asses" so-called analysts won't get any blowback from this.

    "We forecast this much growth, see, here's the math. That reality doesn't match up is entirely the fault of someone paid less than us and they should be fired."

  2. Re:(sic)?? on Python Language Founder Steps Down (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    As there was no misspelling nor error in conversational grammar it can either be attributed to an editor attempting and failing to appear clever, or that the journalist is misusing it for an equally incorrect reason, such as the one GP opined.

    So, either a dumb editor or a reporter imposing bias. How can I get into this journalism lark and get paid to write crap?

  3. Re:Butler ? on First-Ever Color X-ray on a Human (home.cern) · · Score: 1

    Many machines at CERN. New machines...

  4. Re: Reasonal copyright on The EU's Controversial Copyright Law Has Been Rejected -- For Now (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Why is your special apostrophe different to GP’s?

  5. Re: Finally, the Stasi can have their way! on UK Launches National Dashcam Database For Snitching On Bad Drivers (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    "Report that driver who cut you off. Fabulous prizes to be won!"

  6. This would become UK law one day before the official leaving date. No doubt that was intentional.

  7. Re:Don't mean shit on Reddit's Case for Anonymity on the Internet (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Unidan's (note the 'a', unidens are not native to US mainland) real downfall was that he fed the trolls who were getting tired of his holier-than-thou attitude. Then he created sock puppet accounts to feed them further. People got suspicious and in delicious irony it was him that ended up eating crow.

  8. Re:Pseudonymity on Reddit's Case for Anonymity on the Internet (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll swear with my dying breath that I SEE 7 DIGITS!

  9. Re:I was thinking "why is this even news"... on Facebook Acknowledges It Shared User Data With Dozens of Companies (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    What isn't news is that they could admit to having lied through their teeth because they know there will be no legal repercussions in US.

    That might not be true in EU, but at this point they just don't care.

  10. Re:"write only what fits Nvidia in the junk" on Nvidia Looks To Gag Journalists With Multi-Year Blanket NDAs (hardocp.com) · · Score: 2

    You mean when Google translated it, instead of an actual person who speaks German.

    I don't speak much, but on reading TFA I understood the colloquialism.

  11. Just wondering on Voices of Millions of UK Taxpayers Stored By HMRC (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Is there IVR as well to confirm you are actually saying the phrase as well as the repetition to confirm it is the same person saying it?

    What if you said (in response to "please repeat the phrase" prompt) "Go fuck yourself" each time? Would that become the passphrase?

  12. No need to resort to arson. Just rock up with some friends in hi-viz jackets and some pneumatic drills and "accidentally" cut through the cables when digging up the street...

  13. Re: Type 2 help? on Can Two Injections of Tuberculosis Vaccine Cure Diabetes? (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Instructions unclear, have just given my bank details to a Nigerian cauliflower mogul who needs to move his assets out the country.

  14. I don't see how it can be an honest appraisal of a server when they have been reduced to a skivvy: "computer says table 10, seat 4 wants a Cherry Coke; check for table 7; clear table 12 and join to table 8".

    The computer is more highly regarded than them, and God help them if they aren't all smiles and fawning effusiveness during their brief interactions with the customers as they perform their menial job of doing what a machine tells them to do.

  15. Re:The Man Who... on The Man Who Was Fired By a Machine (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The thing is, he _did_ know when his contract was up. He also knew that his manager knew that as well and that in the normal course of events, would click the button labelled "Renew" and everything would carry on as before.

    What he _didn't_ know was that his manager had become an ex-manager at the time the 6 numbers should have been typed in to advance the plot and hadn't bothered to do so from his lawnchair. Nor did the ex-manager bother to tell anybody else that this was now their job.

  16. Re:Crazy European Privacy Laws... on EU Takes First Step in Passing Controversial Copyright Law That Could 'Censor the Internet' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Along with "some results have been removed due to privacy concerns" we can have "most results have been removed due to licensing issues. Specifically, we're not going to pay for them"

  17. And in more recent times, I remember Pushbullet on Android being able to send / receive SMS until that service got shut down.

  18. Oh goody. Wie can have both Goldeneye and Icarus built in America. That's his best friends sorted.

  19. Really? I'd like to know more...

  20. Not AI on Uber Seeks Patent For AI That Determines Whether Passengers Are Drunk (cnet.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As someone pointed out on Twitter, this isn't AI but an if statement.

  21. I was surprised how low my ICQ number was and thought it would have been higher as I wasn't an early adopter. Same thing with my id here.

  22. Re:Coming soon on Blockchain's Once-Feared 51% Attack Is Now Becoming Regular (telegra.ph) · · Score: 1

    So... RustyChain? Not the most secure and robust sounding name.

  23. Re:A good idea on NASA Wants 40 Social Media Users To Attend SpaceX's Next Launch (nasa.gov) · · Score: 1

    You could argue it was, ironically, the correct spelling. What gets passed off as journalism on social media puts professional journalism in a more positive light, thus it is complimentary.

  24. Re:Not quite. Didn't tell users what we won't do on Most GDPR Emails Unnecessary and Some Illegal, Say Experts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    So you're saying that GDPR is retroactive? It might be shonky in many ways, but that isn't one of them.

  25. The law is pretty clear, so specialist lawyers aren't required, along with their overinflated hourly charges, no matter how much they say they are. It's only when the big companies try to sidestep it that they might be needed. There's onerous bookkeeping, but that's been the case for a few years with DPA, only now there has to be more emphasis.

    What gets me is the sudden flurry of activity. It has been known this was coming into force for nearly two years and the amount of burying heads in sand with a "this won't affect me" attitude to only now be doing anything is staggering.