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  1. Re:English... on Is American English Going To Take Over British English Completely? (scroll.in) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Right, like there isn't "French", "Spanish", "Portuguese", or "Italian", etc. There is Latin, and incorrect, bastardized versions of Latin.

  2. Value Differential on Crowdfunded 'PowerWatch' Runs on Body Heat, Never Needs Charging (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The biggest trouble with this seems to be the difference between what it's priced at and what it's worth. A $199 price tag on something worth, maybe $70 over the expected usage of the product (guessing at time saved estimating calories spent doing other things of potential value after 30ish years of use), is a tough sell.

  3. Re:All browsers are broken on 'How Chrome Broke the Web' (tonsky.me) · · Score: 2

    The Russian and American malware you've contracted are incompatible. So are the others, but not such you'd notice.

  4. Re: What The F---?? on Appeals Court Rules: SCO v. IBM Case Can Continue (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2
  5. Re:energy bob, the little pieces on Bitcoin Mining Heats Home For Free In Siberia (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    So neither free as in beer nor free as in software, but free as in marketing.

  6. You could call it that... on Microsoft Quietly Announces End of Last Free Windows 10 Upgrade Offer (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    ... but I'd call it the ability to dodge bullets.

  7. He got a degree from Cal Poly, the judge decided he'd suffered enough already.

  8. Just like their devices on Trump Says Broadcom Is Moving Headquarters To US From Singapore (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The hardware will be there, but will still require a binary blob to provide any kind of useful function.

  9. Re:Warms one's heart on AT&T Admits Defeat In Lawsuit It Filed To Stall Google Fiber (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    My calendar is free on the 14th of July...

  10. Re:I have 3+ passwords. on LastPass Reveals the Threats Posed By Passwords in the Workplace (betanews.com) · · Score: 1
  11. Try to keep up, please on 'Daylight Savings' Is Grammatically Incorrect (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    What's the grammatically correct emoji to express daylight saving time?

  12. Adblocking escalation? on HTTP 103 - An HTTP Status Code for Indicating Hints (ietf.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting
    To me this looks like an opportunity for a client to opt out of undesirable content, but in a way that a server can detect prior to sending the desired content. At first glance it's another vector for undesirable content purveyors to bypass local DNS policy.

    A client can speculatively evaluate the header fields included in a 103 (Early Hints) response while waiting for the final response. For example, a client might recognize a Link header field value containing the relation type "preload" and start fetching the target resource. However, these header fields only provide hints to the client; they do not replace the header fields on the final response.

    This part looks exactly like the "hints" are meant as an opportunity to avoid delivering content if the hints aren't properly "obeyed". If the "preload" directive doesn't happen and a third party doesn't relay that the undesirable content is at least transmitted, the first server can continue to wait until the demand is met.

  13. Sandvine, that name rings a bell on How Kodi Took Over Piracy (wired.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Is this the same Sandvine whose business model included spoofing data packets to discourage bittorrent activity, regardless of whether the content being torrented was legal?

  14. Re:Propaganda on CERN Scientists Conclude that the Universe Should Not Exist (ign.com) · · Score: 1

    The phrasing here is just terrible. They confirmed the universe is harder to explain. Phrasing like this is for pushing intelligent design arguments.

    Intelligent Design tends to get awkward when you combine questions like "Is God irreducibly complex?" with the same reasoning accepted as applicable to theories about evolution (or anything else for that matter).

  15. Re:"identity politics gone bad" on Silicon Valley 'Divided Society and Made Everyone Raging Mad', Argues Newsweek (newsweek.com) · · Score: 2

    No, it inherently *is* bad. It's inhuman, as it distills individual human identities into one monolithic gestalt where individuals are told who they must be and what they must do; and if they're not, then they're ostracized as "evil" and/or "stupid," who don't know and can't believe in what they're saying. "Identity" politics erases all identity in the service of low politics.

    So, you're saying "identity politics" is the politically correct term for "religion"?

  16. Re: What's with the prophetic statements from CR? on Consumer Reports Refuses To Recommend Microsoft Surface Book 2 (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Linux nerds try to hack it and install Linux, and it doesn't work.

    Probability is against you on that one.
    Linux nerds try to hack it and install Linux, and it does work. Shortly after an update is pushed to disable the method that allowed installation to work.
    That's what has actually happened in most circumstances.

  17. Re:"violence to advance their cause" on Twitter Plans To End Revenge Porn Next Week, Hate Speech In Two (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And yes, I'm aware Ohio is bad at filing paperwork and didn't get "admitted to the union" until 1953.

  18. Re:"violence to advance their cause" on Twitter Plans To End Revenge Porn Next Week, Hate Speech In Two (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Go a few steps further: Start flying the 48-star United states flag from when we actually went to war with nazis, because heritage. Spoiler Alert: Hawaii and Alaska became states afterward.

  19. Re:What's with the prophetic statements from CR? on Consumer Reports Refuses To Recommend Microsoft Surface Book 2 (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    https://www.consumerreports.or... They're basically crowdsourcing reviews by surveying product owners. It's tougher for Microsoft to pay for good reviews or Microsoft's competition to pay for bad Microsoft reviews this way. On the other hand, you're left with people who actually bought the stuff. Whether you're getting Microsoft fanboys giving reviews(and it still ended up negative), or they managed to get a sample with a negative Microsoft bias that willingly bought Microsoft gear to use in hopes of being surveyed, or some combination thereof would be a study in and of itself.

  20. Re:This is the biggest problem? on Tribal 'Sovereign Immunity' Patent Protection Could Be Outlawed (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Excellent strawman! Sovereign immunity is being used to violate the right of others to due process. Sometimes things are still wrong whether or not racism is factored in.

  21. Re:A famous (apocryphal) encyclopedia on 'Maybe Wikipedia Readers Shouldn't Need Science Degrees To Digest Articles About Basic Topics' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I think we mat have reinvented a famous german encyclopedia in which the article about your subject was masterfull, and all the others completely obscure... for any given subject.

    [citation needed] Only vaguely kidding, I have no idea which encyclopedia you're alluding to.

  22. Re:TOS violation on How Facebook Outs Sex Workers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Facebook requires you to use your real name on your account. Failure to do so is a violation of their terms of service and they can lock your account.

    Sartre is probably rolling at his grave at the prospect of locking accounts that people don't have, as punishment for behavior they aren't doing, to accounts they don't have. Are you seriously suggesting that she's violating the ToS by not having a second account using her professional name? She is already using her real name on the account she does have according to the summary.

  23. Re:Shouting "Fire" in a crowded theater on Ask Slashdot: Is Deliberately Misleading People On the Internet Free Speech? · · Score: 1

    I keep hearing this drivel from 'murcans. What is the problem with yelling "fire" is a crowded theater? However else are you supposed to notify everyone that there is a fire in the crowded theater?

    You've expressed half of the example, and gotten the result you wanted. The problem is yelling "fire" in a crowded theater... that isn't on fire. From anything false, anything follows.

  24. Re:Slashdot readers should sure hope so on Ask Slashdot: Is Deliberately Misleading People On the Internet Free Speech? · · Score: 1

    what about tesla?

    Electric chair.

    No. it was "invented" by Thomas Edison as part of his efforts to stop the spread of AC.

    A harsh but fair way of dealing with Anonymous Cowards.

  25. Why the hell is it called a BUTTER-FLY anyway?

    https://xkcd.com/1012/