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  1. Way to go!!!! on A Federal Ban On Making Lethal Viruses Is Lifted (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    We found something else we can blame Trump for now!! Woooohooooo!!

  2. Google put "doing evil" on pause and did some good. That's nice.

  3. Maybe not a bad thing. Maybe we see a flood of used high-end graphics cards for ridiculously cheap prices.

  4. Welp, there goes the neighborhood on Apple Is Reportedly Buying Shazam For Nearly Half a Billion Dollars (phonedog.com) · · Score: 1

    How many think this is Apple's way of "getting even" with Android users, probably by forcing them to download a version of quicktime to their phone??

  5. Coming From on YouTube to Launch New Music Subscription Service in March (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The let's find more ways we can undermine the platform department. If they want to charge more for the "red" service I have now, I'll simply unsubscribe and throw my money towards Amazon.

  6. Re:Slow news day? on No One Makes a Living on Crowdfunding Website Patreon (theoutline.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No. What you have now are left leaning "social justice warriors" calling *all* conservatives and anybody who has voted Republican "alt-right". Not just the Nazi's and the KKK racists.

    Thus, they truly believe that any conservative talk is therefore "hate speech" and needs to be censored if at all possible. Many believe that violence is justified in order to silence the so called hate speech, and why antifa has in the past on both youtube and Patreon websites.

    Youtube has evolved itself into a socialist/feminist monoculture internally which will demonetize or put in limited state anything that it disagrees with politically. It's what resulted in James Damore's firing.

    I find it interesting that when Youtube started the "limited state" censorship, they censored a Nazi video, then they censored political videos from youtube user Black Pidgeon Speaks that was critical of Islam before they censored a bunch more Nazi videos. Do your research.

  7. Do what I heard when I was quite young on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Explain Copyright To My Kids? · · Score: 1

    Explain it in terms of copyright "holders" and *not* copyright "owners".

  8. VPNs are used by many now, so that probably is not possible for the vast majority of violators. But at the same time, youtube could demand better verification at sign up *for submitters*.

  9. To all those on Slashdot who defended the Oregon Board of Examiners (and there were a few of you that did), this would be a very good time for you to sit down and have this here warm cup of STFU.

  10. Re:Further degrading education and employability. on 'The Death of the MBA' (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Not an "easier" but more affordable degree. People aren't going to go into six-figure debt for degrees anymore.

  11. Re:gee wizz on FCC Approves Next-Gen ATSC 3.0 TV Standard (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The Russians??? Just sayin'.

  12. Brother, any Slashdotter whose blood is Slashdot green would be saying the same things, or maybe "We are in the embrace phase, just before the "hug of death."

    I really can't help but wonder myself how they're going to twist the knife.here.

  13. Some people here on Slashdot don't understand how big of a wildfire Alzheimer's is going to be for an upcoming generation that is going to have to give up their lives to be full time caregivers for the boomer generation.

    Mr. Gate's contribution is a much needed boost for something that has no other approach other than dread. Thank you, Mr. Gates, really.

  14. The scalable cluster supercomputer software that will certainly need to be used in the pursuit of possible treatments will not have been possible without open source Linux.

  15. Re:I'm Shocked, Shocked I Tell You! on Munich Council: To Hell With Linux, We're Going Full Windows in 2020 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    That's exactly what this was about. Microsoft is the "Comcast" of the software world. Microsoft clawing their turf back one city government at a time.

  16. Re:Pet Windows Programs on Munich Council: To Hell With Linux, We're Going Full Windows in 2020 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    You really get the feeling that software salesmen were hard at work creating FUD so they could start selling licenses again. And I can't help but wonder how many government employees were behind it as well wanting their Solitaire back.

    Munich, you aren't getting any productivity back, just more viruses and data-theft

  17. Re:I know how this ends on Human Mini-Brains Growing Inside Rat Bodies Are Starting To Integrate (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually it ends with Ben, the king of rats.

    Suggested tag - whatcouldgowrong

  18. Re:I know how this ends on Human Mini-Brains Growing Inside Rat Bodies Are Starting To Integrate (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, it ends with Ben, the king of rats.

    suggested tag for this article = whatcouldgowrong

  19. Re:It's in the SouthBridge not CPU dammit on Google Working To Remove MINIX-Based ME From Intel Platforms (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Yea nope. Read the previous slashdot article on this. Minix is running even with your desktop pc powered down. Which makes this doubly pernicious for even those just casually concerned with security.

  20. Re:Interested move? on Google Working To Remove MINIX-Based ME From Intel Platforms (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Uh, US can't override Canadian law on Google Wins Ruling to Block Global Censorship Order (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I beg to differ. The Canadian government cannot override our bill of rights concerning free speech.

    Our constitution overrides treaty obligations which might obligate U.S. citizens to follow an external judgement which violates the bill of rights.

    If that was not the case, you'd have every banana republic forcing judgements on anyone in the U.S. they didn't like for any happenstance reason.

    Furthermore, this is one of the primary reasons we have a military that is larger than any to make sure that it remains that way.

  22. Case proven, really on Jimmy Wales' WikiTribune is Already Biased (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1
  23. Let's not forget what brought us here on How Data Science Powered the Search for MH370 (hpe.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Everybody would not be needing to comb over minute pieces of data and vast esoteric computations if service providers had behaved better.

    The satellite service was capable of gathering the gps data from the plane instantaneously and throughout its flight path. But the satellite company was charging for it, and Malaysian authorities did not want to pay for it presumably because it cost too much.

    If the gps location service had been available for this flight, one can't help but wonder if there was a possible intervention that could have been undertaken when the plane would have been discovered wildly off course, and even though it appears the crash was not survivable, the quick crash site discovery and possible apprehension of possible criminals involved (if there are any).

    As it is, everybody was chintzy all the way around at the expense of the safety of the flying public.

  24. Don't bitch about the FCC on FCC Ends Decades-Old Rule Designed To Keep TV, Radio Under Local Control (variety.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As a conservative, I think this decision is a horrid one that is made more out of ideology rather than good government. It follows from the incorrect conclusion that because companies can merge to form larger conglomerations, why can't radio stations do so too?

    Even though the FCC voted for this, ultimately the buck stops with congress and they are the ones that need to be held accountable. With republicans who don't understand the dangers, or with the Democrats who are so impotent because they are burdened down with social agendas to the point everybody who does not live on the east/west coast won't vote for them.

  25. Hey guess what Slashdot?? - you are "older" now!! on 'Blade Runner 2049' Isn't the Movie Denis Villeneuve Wanted to Make (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    That's the demographic that is seeing the movie; From this link is an exact quote;

    But the audience poll mostly consists of older male audiences who likely saw the original film in theaters. Opening night demographics were 71 percent male and 63 percent above the age of 35

    Truly a movie for the "patriarchy."