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  1. It compiles to bytecode, which can be turned into compilable c# or vb.net by a third party tool, Ilspy, which is open source and by default opens itself to show you its own decompilation.

    So now your comment makes no sense. You don't have to trust, you can verify every line.

  2. Re:Add in splintering on Cord-Cutting Still Doesn't Beat the Cable Bundle (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm looking for mergers, as places like Disney realize they don't want to do the work of hosting and maintaining several UIs. Netflix will almost certainly absorb a few, gain their content exclusively.

    It's just going to take some time.

  3. Re:As good a deal as a stadium on Wisconsin Lawmakers Vote To Pay Foxconn $3 Billion To Get New Factory (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's cash incentives, apparently tied to whether they meet the employment goals. You could read the bill and sound like you know what you're talking about.

    Not that it makes a huge difference, its still a lot of money. But your argument falls flat when you're off by more than an order of magnitude.

  4. And less than half percent of their cash on hand, they could pay this off just with other companies' dividends.

    This balkanization is not good for customers, but Apple has the base to pull it off.

  5. Re:SubjectIsSubject on Trump Can Block People On Twitter If He Wants, Administration Says (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Spicer said its official. That makes everything he says subject to the presidential records act, and in no fashion a personal statement.

    When he's no longer President, it goes back to a personal account.

    His transgender ban is currently the big war on how much this matters. He can issue orders that generals don't take as orders, and suddenly it is an opinion, not policy, and a personal account. But as of right now, it represents the statements of the head of the Executive Branch, this is no longer a private account. They could have gone a different route, didn't.

  6. Re:time and distance scaling on Astrophysicist Believes Technologically-Advanced Species Extinguish Themselves (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    Just within our own galaxy, it's the height of arrogance to assume that any planet in the Milky Way would be able to detect our signals and decide to send a response in the time that we have been capable of detecting signals. Maybe they decided that we weren't actively trying to communicate, and ignored us. Maybe they detected us as a WOW! signal and haven't gotten around to deciphering the origin.

    That we would be a first priority for anyone remotely close, to decipher and send a response, is a stupid assumption.

    You're looking at a range of maybe 100 light years maximum, to detect signals and decide to respond, and the Milky Way is 100,000 light years across. And they had to have been looking at us very near the beginning of our broadcasts, and have very sensitive equipment, and that they decided to bother us.

    To detect any other life, they would have to be actively broadcasting their existence with powerful signals, and within a very small span of ~50 years, pointed at us, within their species' life span, during a small window depending on their distance from earth. Basically a crapshoot.

  7. Re:Progress of the Arts and Sciences on Disney To Pull Its Movies From Netflix and Start Its Own Streaming Service (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I plead ignorance. I blame Netflix for most of the fragmentation, for going original and teaching the originators, like HBO, that originators can stream.

    I had netflix, have amazon, and joined late.

    I'd like to know who to blame. I know who to blame for reality TV, and I'd love to add to my knowledge store.

  8. Re:Why is the video getting money at all? on Warner Music Files Copyright Claim on A Silent 'Star Wars' Video On YouTube (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    It's 18 seconds right at the beginning. This clearly shows the limits of an automated content ID system.

    As I understand it, the content ID would give a link to Warner Chappell saying your music is used here. Do you want to take down, monetize, or ignore? And same with 21st century fox for the video.

    Fox either hadn't seen the video or clicked ignore, that's why the video stayed up. Warner took 3 years to notice because they have a long queue, and it may sort by length, or have an option to, or multiple people clicked next, unsure what to do, or any number of possibilities.

    The only thing I see wrong here is the lack of a way for a poster to claim fair use and force a review by Warner. But that's not the way the law was written, which has been hashed out a billion times on this website.

  9. This lawsuit is asking the courts to apply that case law to this situation and determine if it applies, how it applies, and necessary reparations if any.

    I haven't read the full suit, but I expect it is more complex than the Slashdot summary.

  10. Re:Correlation is not causation on Unpaid Internships Lead To Lower-Paying Jobs, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    We had a paid intern, who accepted a job after graduating. And shows no sign of trying to advance. Could get a 10k raise by going anywhere, and has the skills.

    I suspect taking an unpaid internship attracts a certain type of person who is happy with the job and not concerned about the pay. I know I had to leave the company (or have a legit offer) to get my pay where it should be, but lots of people don't do that unless their hand is forced.

    And that is likely what this survey found, not the conclusion stated by the authors. In fact, I never read the Con lusion or Findings parts of papers any more. They often don't follow from everything so far, so I ignore the opinion.

  11. Re:Take over! Only if you are lawyer on Ask Slashdot: Someone Else Is Using My Email Address · · Score: 1

    Legal advice is suspect. Do not do this. Especially if you do not know country of owner.

  12. Re:Rolling Release on Ubuntu 16.10 Reaches End of Life (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    I also switched to rolling release. It's called Windows 10.

  13. Re:This is the sort of testing the Feds should do. on The Myth of Drug Expiration Dates (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    Focus on one rant at a time, you goofball. It sounds like you have a string in the back, repeating the same nonsense for any tangential topic.

  14. Re:Hearing code read by others is jarring on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Read Code? · · Score: 1

    Var Char sounds like you're an idiot, or academic, or both.

    Var Kar sounds like you know a bit about programming.

    Var Care sounds like you're too pedantic to know how language evolves.

    So I judge everyone against an internal and constantly evolving standard where everyone else is wrong. Especially when varchar(max) supplants everything and we just sat string or text.

  15. Re:Wrong! on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Read Code? · · Score: 2

    What do you mean by "imagine", you insensitive clod!

  16. Re:FFS on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Read Code? · · Score: 1

    My response was going to be "I just play with myself in the corner for an hour, then announce that the code needs rearchitecting." So yeah, it's possible I guess.

  17. Re:Amazon Prime can go DiaF on Amazon Prime Will Soon Be More Popular Than Cable TV (recode.net) · · Score: 0

    I cancelled when they showed movies I JUST WATCHED on the Watch Next list. I can't get rid of that shit.

    6 months later I need to buy stuff so I get prime again, check out the rec lists, and there's like a million things I want to watch in a row. A week later, THEY ARE ALL STILL THERE after watching them. All.

    Diaf indeed. Slowly, as is your pace. Netflix wins here.

  18. Too many words, mismash on First Object Teleported From Earth To Orbit (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 0

    Florid descriptions are for Rolling Stone types with no word limits. This should be a summary. Half of those words are useless.

  19. Re:PayPal when possible. on Ask Slashdot: How Safe, Really, Is Paying For Things Online? · · Score: 1

    I much prefer getting a one time CC number, over giving a third party control over my banking. CC company and bank are basically second party, so no idiocy from the peanut gallery.

    No fees, above the CC merchant fee, which is priced in regardless of whether you pay cash, CC, or third party extra fee.

    The safety factor boils down to a race condition, but your personal info is just as vulnerable as with a direct CC number. PayPal just centralizes the attack surface.

  20. its not on Ask Slashdot: How Safe, Really, Is Paying For Things Online? · · Score: 1

    Not all that safe. But my credit card gives me a window to dispute charges, and a level of indirection I'm comfortable with.

  21. Re:What they're all REALLY afraid of on Privacy Watchdog Sues Trump's Election Committee Over Voter Data (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Gertude Higglestein got divorced and remarried. She has had 3 different last names. This could cause problems for your strategy.

  22. Re:Understandable... on The White House Now Has Zero Science Advisors (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Since they won't take advice anyway.

  23. Re:The real problem we have is flavor on A Million Bottles a Minute: World's Plastic Binge 'As Dangerous as Climate Change' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    When Ocean Spray Cran Grape switched from glass to plastic, the flavor went to shit. I don't feel overpopulated, but I can tell when packaging affects flavor. Down with plastic, back to glass.

  24. Re:Ship of Theseus? on The US Government Wants To Permanently Legalize the Right To Repair (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Right to repair clearly does not include right to access services without paying. If there's no DRM, there's no way to enforce it. If there is, you can break DRM to fix it, but not to access unpaid service.

    And no, a thing you built yourself is not "broken" just because it can't access a service for free. Not even the original that you shipped of theseused into not working intentionally.

    Go back to the drawing board and read a lot more before being ignorant on the internet again.

  25. Re:This will be quickly squashed. on The US Government Wants To Permanently Legalize the Right To Repair (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Potus has no dog in this fight, given his business model. He will sign anything that gets him a photo op, as long as democrats are either livid or apathetic. And right to repair is a very pro small business, pro small government concept. You can spin it as added regulation, or removing teeth from patent or other IP laws.

    Your knee jerk reaction is a small minded goon talking, and your positive moderation indicates likewise simplistic thinking.