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  1. Re:Only downloads? on Vinyl Records Outsold Digital Downloads In the UK Last Week (adweek.com) · · Score: 1

    By far the majority of digitally distributed music is streamed, not downloaded.

    I also believed that, but RIAA report linked from TFA says otherwise: 34% downloads, 34,3% streaming and 28.8% physical.

  2. For whoever wonders how much "low cost" is, here is TFA excerpt:

    Soekadar said the system could be brought to market within two years at a cost of between 5,000 and 10,000 euros ($5,370 to $10,740), depending on functionality.

  3. Little help on CO2 Researchers Are Now Hacking Photosynthesis (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    On the climate change front, it is of little help to remove CO2 from the atmosphere to make fuel that will be burnt again.

    I wonder if at some time we will be able to use sunlight, CO2 and nitrogen to make aminoacids.

  4. Data is stil collected. This means at some time, an insider or a hacker will leak it.

    And since it is tagged "for use after prime minister approval only", it will be easy to leak only that data

  5. Secret justice? on Canonical Sues Cloud Provider Over 'Unofficial' Ubuntu Images (ostatic.com) · · Score: 1

    The informations are scarce: Cnnonical sues who, in what court of what country?

  6. France's tax incensive for diesel on Paris, Madrid, Athens, Mexico City Will Ban Diesel Vehicles By 2025 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The case of Paris is interesting since France has oddly favored diesel for years, using tax incensives.

  7. While having a visionary tech leader is nice, it would be nice to remind that even the better idea needs workers to be actually implemented as something real.

  8. The article suggests businesses like insurers "will likely see the cost of complying with this new action as a disincentive to conducting business in China."

    If there is profit to be made, they will do business in China, whatever the rules are. Remember Lenin's quote about capitalists ready to sell the rope that will be used to hang them?

  9. Official liars on Reuters Built An Algorithm That Can Identify Real News On Twitter (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder how such a system can cope when US Secretary of State claims Iraq has weapons of mass destruction. True or false?

  10. France, the UK, Germany, the USA are now so invested in the NSA, GCHQ methods and national signals intelligence contractors that they cant do anything else.

    This is recent for France. Before president Sarkozy merged the Renseignement Généraux and the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire, there were some fine-grained network of surveillance.

  11. Is this the erase and rebuild method applied to brain dysfunction?

  12. Stupid move on French Man Sentenced To Two Years In Prison For Visiting Pro-ISIS Websites (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The smart way of dealing with this is to monitor the suspect.

    Now he will have a good time completing his training in prison, where he will be in touch with real specialists

  13. TFA says nothing about how they achieved the result.

  14. Not Russia again on Muni System Hacker Hit Others By Scanning For Year-Old Java Vulnerability (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The summary points finger to Russia, but Brian Kerb's article has strong hints that the hacker is from Iran. Russia was just the country hosting the hacker's e-mail provider.

  15. Similar Effect On Brain As Taking Drugs on Religious Experiences Have Similar Effect On Brain As Taking Drugs, Study Finds (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Similar Effect On Brain As Taking Drugs, Study Finds

    So does sport, sex, good food, and so on. Anything satisfying acts like a drug, without the drug side effects.

  16. This is capitalism: when you invest into a company, you can win if there are profits, but you can also loose if the company goes bankrupt.

  17. If Tepco's profit are not enough to fill the bill, then there is a good case to go after Tepco's capital. Japan's state could seize the company.

  18. Ageing is not the only problem of space travel. When outside of Earth magnetic field, the space traveler is hit by high energy cosmic particle that damage DNA.

    And while you are in "animation suspension", things may get worse because cellular DNA repair mechanism are switched off.

  19. Blame Tesla on Android Malware Used To Hack and Steal Tesla Car (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I see many people blaming Tesla, but in my opinion, assuming the OS can keep a cookie secret is not a security mistake. The flaw is in the OS here.

  20. This looks like the ancient Gifar attack: inject some executable content identified as an image.

  21. Interesting article. But here we head into the territory where no point of view can be verified by the average reader in a reasonable time

  22. They consider elections to be the vulnerable moment for democracy? That suggests a very kinked view on what democracy is.

  23. Related story? on Apple To Swap Faulty iPhone 6S Batteries (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Is it related to the recent self-shutting down iPhones?

  24. Discussing plans on China Says Terrorism, Fake News Impel Greater Global Internet Curbs (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    This is weird China feels the need to discuss the motivations of Internet control. For now they just moved unilaterally to regulate their sovereign space.

  25. News companies are special on Snopes.com Editor on Fake News: Social Media Is Not the Problem (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Democracy requires educated and informed citizen. This gives news companies a specific duty that is screwed when we allow tycoons to buy them.

    As a consequence, there is a need for a special rule here. For instance, we could require news companies to be owned only by staff and readers. Of course some will die because of the lack of investment, but that is better than living just to produce poor news and defend the owner's business.