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  1. Darth Li says to Nadella... on Microsoft Says Bing is Restored in China (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    "I have altered the deal. Pray I do not alter it further."

  2. It's certainly news, but on Microsoft's Bing Search Engine Goes Offline In China (france24.com) · · Score: 1

    People probably should wait and see if this is just a technical glitch. Websites do go down, occasionally.

  3. the Cyber War has.

  4. WINE contains no Windows; it's a reimplementation of the Win32API, etc.

    This is true in the default config, but Wine also supports dropping in many/most of the actual Windows DLLs if you have them. It’s one common hack to get otherwise-unsupported versions of software to work (especially games).

  5. Re:100% of Attention on Netflix 'Would Lose 57 Percent of Their Subscribers If They Added Commercials' (netimperative.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Back in the old days of television, commercial breaks were prime time for “potty breaks”. During hugely popular shows (e.g. Roots or the Super Bowl), there were anecdotes about large old apartment buildings having their plumbing fail because too many people flushed at the same time.

  6. The ocean's not getting louder per se on Oceans Are Getting Louder, Posing Potential Threats To Marine Life (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's just that Howlin' Mad Murphy's pirate radio station is back on the air thanks to the FCC's Search and Destroy team being out of action, thanks to the government shutdown.

  7. Re:Good example of what is wrong on Dutch Surgeon Wins Landmark 'Right To Be Forgotten' Case (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    They are way more willing to accept censorship to suppress "hate speech", burqa bans, etc.

    The events of World War II may have had a tiny impact on this... sure, Americans also fought in the war, but the American population as a whole had it pretty good (relatively speaking).

  8. Dr. Rita Kappel you say? on Dutch Surgeon Wins Landmark 'Right To Be Forgotten' Case (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    So Dr. Rita Kappel was initially disciplined and her right to practice was suspended because of her postoperative care of a patient - but then her disciplinary action was altered to allow her to continue to practice. However the overall disciplinary action remains intact and on her record.

    Do I have those facts regarding Dr. Rita Kappel correct?

  9. Re:Good example of what is wrong on Dutch Surgeon Wins Landmark 'Right To Be Forgotten' Case (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Apparently the tribunal didn't agree. "The right to privacy is more important than for the public to find information on the judgment of a medical board"

    Speaking as an American - I'd love to see a poll showing where European citizens fall on that question. I have a hard time believing they'd agree with the tribunal; but perhaps I just don't understand the average European.

  10. Yeah, I heard that the viewing situation improved considerably as one headed north - it was supposedly great up in BC! I'm about 40 miles south of Seattle, though, and it was cool enough (and the soil wet enough) that fog ended up being a problem.

    One of the great things about lunar eclipses, though, is that they're not all that uncommon. We've gotten to see a number of them over the past several years.

  11. Re:Obligatory on Total Lunar Eclipse Set To Wow Star Gazers, Clear Skies Willing (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    ... and we got to see full totality for maybe 15 minutes before the fog started to significantly interfere. Now I can’t even tell where the moon is...

    But it was still cool, regardless.

  12. I live in western Washington State, you insensitiv... oh, wait, the sky is actually fairly clear right now. I can see the moon!

    Never mind.

    (But it does seem like fog may ultimately get in the way)

  13. Google on MIDI Association Announces MIDI 2.0 Prototyping (hackaday.com) · · Score: 0

    Does Google just sign up for every multi-company initiative as a matter of course? Are we going to hear next about their participation on the ratings panels for small gas engines or feminine hygiene products?

  14. Re:What the treehuggers won't tell you on How Orkney Leads the Way For Sustainable Energy (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    If everyone harvested the wind and the waves, there'd be no wind and waves. This solution simply does not scale.

    Well, their first choice was to build a Dyson Sphere... but once they looked at Dyson’s Catalog, they decided the company’s prices are just too outrageous.

  15. For Android Pie, the beta-eligible list appeared to be

    Essential Phone
    Google Pixel Xl / 2XL
    Nokia 7 plus
    Oppo R15 Pro
    Sony Xperia XZ2
    Vivo X21UD
    Vivo X21
    Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S

    (From https://www.wikigain.com/insta... )

  16. I that’s a bit of an oversimplification. Android offers a public beta program (much like Apple) which does test pre-releases against a set of eligible Android devices with the stated purpose of identifying both software and hardware incompatibilities.

    However for those Android devices which are not beta-eligible, your statement is true.

  17. I’m just hoping on Google Criticized Over Its Handling of the End of Google+ (vortex.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... the end of Google+ doesn’t break our YouTube channel.

    We set up a channel for our work, but quickly found that there were numerous artificial constraints on the channel unless we also created a Google+ account and linked them together. A couple years ago Google said they’d provide a way to unlink YouTube from Google’s+, but as far as I know they never followed through on that. So, with Google+ ending, it will be interesting to see what breaks.

  18. Re:Ok, I'll sorta survive on Are You Ready For DNS Flag Day? (dnsflagday.net) · · Score: 2

    Well, based on the linked site... it seems eerily like scaremonging.

    They list one possibility is indeed “may not work”, but that’s alongside “slower than it should be”. But they say current DNS is already slower than it should be, so reading between the lines I’m going to guess that just about no one is actually going to see anything change.

  19. Re:Never pay attention to internet hate on 'I Got Death Threats For Writing a Bad Review of Aquaman' (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    But if you do read it, just remember that death threats on the internet are absurdly hollow. No-one wants to actually get up from a chair and do anything about anything ...

    I’m sure the guys who are making internet death threats aren’t deterred by getting up from a chair. It’s the long climb up the stairs from their mom’s basement which really gives them pause.

  20. Re:Seems their sales and marketing... on Red Hat Rejects MongoDB's 'Discriminatory' Server Side Public License (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Red Hat and Amazon are sharding all over their plans.

  21. Re:The one test I really want to see on Identical Twins Test 5 DNA Ancestry Kits, Get Different Results On Each (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    How about the Thompson Twins?

  22. Re:Periodic table my ass on World's Oldest Periodic Table Chart Found At University of St Andrews In Scotland (phys.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    This was at St. Andrews - the chemists we’re playing golf.

    Which explains the presence p, on this particular chart, of the so-called elements “mashie” and “niblick”.

  23. Just what we need on Adding New DNA Letters Make Novel Proteins Possible (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Genetically-improved E. coli.

  24. I guess on Saturn Put A Ring On It Relatively Recently, Study Says (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Saturn must'a liked it.

  25. I strongly dislike Trump on Michael Cohen Says He Tried To Rig Online Polls 'at the Direction' of Donald Trump (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But I'm not sure, on the face of it, how this substantially differs from the usual political practice of quoting poll numbers which possess only a tenuous relationship with reality.