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  1. How good is the technology on Facebook To Use Photo-Matching To Block Repeat 'Revenge Porn' (aol.com) · · Score: 1

    Will it work if you make alterations to the photo (change resolution, apply filters, change compression, add elements to the photo, etc).

  2. That's just wishful thinking on 'Moore's Law' For Carbon Would Defeat Global Warming (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 0

    Who writes all this crap?

  3. There is a technical solution but it won't happen on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Solve the Instant Messaging Problem? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is XMPP but there are too many vested interests.

  4. If you want privacy use private services and serve on Your Personal Facebook Live Videos Can Legally End Up on TV (thememo.com) · · Score: 1

    Any other thing is naive, specially if it's free.

  5. Re:Interested in comparison with the Apple Watch on Android Wear 2.0 Is An Evolutionary Update To Google's Smartwatch OS (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    If the app is well designed a round display is not bad. For reading concise information like a health/sport sensor/tracker, a message, an email is good. If you wanted to read a novel or do graphical design it would be horrible.

  6. Re:Practical Uses? on Scientist Investigate A Brand New Form of Matter: Time Crystals (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    A clock more precise than the atomic ones?

  7. Re:I guess 2017 won't be the year of Linux on Japanese Government Requires Java and Internet Explorer 11 X86 · · Score: 1

    The normal is to buy the card reader apart (the computer I use at work has a card reader Incorporated in the keyboard though but I don't see them in other places.)

  8. Re:I guess 2017 won't be the year of Linux on Japanese Government Requires Java and Internet Explorer 11 X86 · · Score: 1

    You tell me. The problems I had to make the electronic DNI work (and I didn't use it too much). Well now at least the driver is included in Windows (only for IE/Edge and Chrome though).

  9. Re:1984... on George Orwell's '1984' Tops Amazon's Bestseller List (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Political correctness, uniform thinking, demonization of the oposition ...

  10. They got it wrong on George Orwell's '1984' Tops Amazon's Bestseller List (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    What is Orwellian is the political correctness and all that shit. Trump is the exact oposite

  11. I wouldn't make it public on An AI Is Finally Trouncing The World's Best Poker Players (cmu.edu) · · Score: 1

    I would use it to earn money.

  12. Re:What will the reaction tweet be? on President Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning's Sentence (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps he should say that Obama is playing dirty and he shouldn't make important decisions with only a few days left in office.

  13. How well does this thing perfom...? on D-Wave Open Sources Its Quantum Computing Tool (gcn.com) · · Score: 1

    ... compared to a normal computer or a GPU? And what about the energy consumption? Is it useful more than the coolness of the quantum thing?

  14. Re:Why Mayer was so incompetent? on The End of Yahoo: Marissa Mayer To Resign; Yahoo To Change Its Name To Altaba (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    1) She wanted to run Yahoo like Google but the corporate culture was very different. 2) She thought of herself as a visionary and wanted to be a little like Steve Jobs (and she decided stupid things like the color in Yahoo mail's Android App) but she lacked vision.

  15. FSF is not transphobic on Richard Stallman Acknowledges Libreboot Is No Longer A Part of GNU (gnu.org) · · Score: 2

    When that same Leah Rowe decided to make public her sexual identity the far had no problems with retroactively change her name in past posts in the mailing lists. Is they were truly hostile they wouldn't bother.

  16. Independence Day on Norway To Become First Country To Switch Off FM Radio (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    In an alien invasion we will be screwed.

  17. Re: Merry Christmas!! on FreeDOS 1.2 Is Finally Released (freedos.org) · · Score: 1

    Happy Newton day. Stupid Android keyboard ...

  18. Re: Merry Christmas!! on FreeDOS 1.2 Is Finally Released (freedos.org) · · Score: 1

    Happy Newton datos?

  19. Re: Change is bad on LibreOffice Will Have New 'MUFFIN' UI (documentfoundation.org) · · Score: 1

    Yes, I use it at work and even now I have to Google to do things I did without problems in the past.

  20. It depends on the terrain on Slashdot Asks: Will Farming Be Fully Automated in the Future? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If your farm is a big plain it can be done. Now if the terrain is more abrupt or you have many small plots of land it is more tricky.

  21. Re:I've got news for you... on Google Search Results Have Liberal Bias, Study Finds (thedenverchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Reality has a liberal bias ...... Because many people are afraid of being labeled as sexist, racist, intolerant, etc if they don't follow "the Truth". And so we have that Cancer that is political correctness and true intolerance.

  22. Re:Detractors live in a reality distortion field on Is Technology A Bigger Story Than Donald Trump? (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, I didn't know that. But the truth is that used Trump as a reason/scapegoat to beat him up. What would have happened if a group of white people had beaten up a black man yelling "you f**g n**er? That would be racism, a hate crime. The would be in the news all over the world Double standards.

  23. Detractors live in a reality distortion field on Is Technology A Bigger Story Than Donald Trump? (backchannel.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As an external observator it tell that if you continue to think as only a racist madman and understimate him he will win a second election. Also its disgusting your sense of moral superiority while you do things like beat Trump supporters. Who is acting like nazis?

  24. Re: one of the biggest issues with 'tech' movies on More Code In Movies: Nmap Meets Snowden (nmap.org) · · Score: 1

    ... a bank transfer with a progress bar that takes minutes.

  25. How can they use that with such an evil license? on More Code In Movies: Nmap Meets Snowden (nmap.org) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Someone could require to release the movies under the GPL