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  1. Re:Markets named after cities on YouTube Launches 'YouTube TV' In Select Markets (phonedog.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, how broken is your ability to comprehend abstract throught?

    I perfectly understand the desire of some to reduce everything to the market.

  2. This is vaporware, but it makes the nes because there is "Kim Dotcom" in it.

  3. I know there is lots of research into electric compressors, but I didn't realize they were getting that competitive

    It could be that, or alternatively, a clueless journalist incorrectly used the term "jet". The picture in TFA suggests the later explanation.

  4. Market on YouTube Launches 'YouTube TV' In Select Markets (phonedog.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    The company has officially launched the service today in five select markets: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago, and Philadelphia.

    These are called cities, not markets, you insensitive clod.

  5. Electric jet? on JetBlue and Boeing Are Betting Big On Electric Jet Startup 'Zunem Aero' (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    How can a jet be electric?

  6. Grab inventory and layout workers: Amazon does not care about workers. This is no news, we already knew that.

  7. Why purchase? on Verizon Is Rebranding Yahoo, AOL As 'Oath' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    If the brand got toxic, why do they purchase? The personal data leaked and is available for free, so where are the remaining assets?

  8. Re:April Fools Day on Connecticut May Become First US State To Allow Deadly Police Drones (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The story links to a serious Reuters news. I am not sure how to judge it a prank or not.

  9. Re:colleges are now bloated on US College Grads See Slim-to-Nothing Wage Gains Since Recession (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder where all that tuition money goes these days.

    I do not know for US, but in many countries, raising tuition are there because public funding from taxpayer's money has been cut.

  10. Github monoculture on Microsoft Is Shutting Down CodePlex (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It seems we are moving toward a Github monoculture. That will turn it into a high value target for attackers.

    The ironic point is that git nice point is to be distributed, and despite this, we move to a single central hub.

  11. One obvious difference between Apple and the others is the operating system. Could MacOS better manage the battery than Windows? It would not be surprising that MacOS enjoy a better integration with hardware

  12. No save on Your Save Data Is Not Safe On the Nintendo Switch (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    A recent horror story from a fellow writer who lost dozens of hours of game progress thanks to a broken system

    I remember a time where saving functions did not exist at all. It was still fun to play video games.

    No save, but some games gave you codes to skip first levels when you completed them, though.

  13. Ethically flawed? on Playing Tetris Can Reduce Onset of PTSD After Trauma, Study Finds (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no linked article in the summary, but I wonder if this study could be ethically flawed

    In order to be scientifically sound, they need a control group and an experimental group, the later being exposed to a trauma. Willingly inducing a trauma seems to be at odds with Hippocratic Oath's "to abstain from doing harm".

  14. Some patient really need brain electrodes. For the others, it looks like a bad idea to introduce an alien substance that will increase the risk of microbes creating biofilms. As Wikipedia notes (with a reference): "60-70% of nosocomial or hospital acquired infections are associated with the implantation of a biomedical device"

  15. Easy decision: is it legal? If not, let him face justice. Otherwise, it looks like a ban for opinions. Fine, but Drupal will have to set up a list of allowed or forbidden opinions. That will not be pretty.

  16. Finding hundreds of contributors and obtain a license change from them will not happen.

    The only workable solution is just to change it and hope nobody will complain.

  17. Windows lets unprivilegied user inject a DLL in trusted code. That looks like a backdoor.

    I wonder if it has been intentionally added lie Juniper's unauthorized VPN backdoor.

  18. Regulation is not good enough, hence it is good to remove all of it? Sounds like flawed logic to me.

  19. Unreasonable expetations on Apache Hadoop Has Failed Us, Tech Experts Say (datanami.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the issue here is about unreasonable expectations.

    No software, Hadoop or other, will magically extract meaning from a huge dump of data. You need work to do that, whatever the tool you use.

    This rant reminds me about the people who purchased enterprise service bus to interconnect IT applications, just to discover that instead of interconnecting applications, they now need to interconnect applications with the enterprise service bus. No problem solved for free.

  20. Did we really need a proof that patent suits were for big companies with deep pockets?

    Most of the time they do not even sue, but just threat to sue, and the would-be infringer just surrender, because of fears about lengthy battle in court, where only the wealthier will survive.

  21. Market value on FedEx Will Pay You $5 To Install Flash (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Market value for a malware like Flash: -5 USD

  22. Secure by name on Microsoft Delivers Secure China-Only Cut of Windows 10 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They call it secure, but provide no information about security features. From TFA:

    The Register has asked Microsoft to explain the security features of Windows Red, but had not received a reply at the time of writing. You know the drill: we'll update this story if Microsoft sends any information.

  23. EME on Firefox for Linux is Now Netflix Compatible (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    If I understand correctly, it uses a binary-blob provided, architecture-dependant DRM called CDM

    Would EME be an implemented standard, that restriction would be lifted. DRM in a W3C standard may have some good points, after all.

  24. Perhaps it is still "news for nerds", but I am not sure this can still qualify as "stuff that matters"

  25. Do we have any idea how they managed to compromise 300k accounts?