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  1. Peter Thiel, first outside investor in Facebook... on Reddit No Longer Accepts Bitcoin (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    and board member and also a major investor in reddit doesn't like anonymity, so I would guess this is coming from him. He is also linked to Cambridge Analytica that provided data to Trump that he used to place one TV ad during the primary. That means he has destroyed our elections.

  2. Re:We can only hope they do on Forget Millennials, the Internet's Most Wanted Users Are Older -- and Poorer (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Not really. I was born in 1955, and most of my older friends and family believe nothing they see on the Internet. That is a problem since they don't believe so many negative stories about Trump.

  3. Re:Great on Intel CPUs Vulnerable To New 'BranchScope' Attack (securityweek.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Same here. We had several Dell Precision 5520 laptops bricked after installing:

    http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=NFKYX

    We have several locations, and unfortunately our IT department didn't communicate that the update did that before I think five were bricked. We paid a lot extra for Dell's ProSupport Plus, but they have no solution yet and won't offer replacements.

  4. Re:Why is this wrong? on Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That's sad, because Java was designed to run on mobile devices from the beginning. That's why, for example, it doesn't support unsigned integers or has no type larger than 64 bits in the language.

  5. Re:I gotta believe this is hurting Oracle on Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And not much written in java is particularly long lived anyway.

    Looks at CVS repo with commits with Java code as old as 1996 that is still running in production...

    I work on helping third-parties integration with our APIs, and a lot of our customers are using Java Struts early-2000s code. You greatly underestimate how quickly companies replace working code.

  6. since they no longer use film, and it's a film festival.

  7. Re:Who is paying Slashdot to post this propaganda? on Ask Slashdot: Can FOSS Help In the Fight Against Climate Change? · · Score: 0

    But standing against Trump is important, so I'm glad this site devotes so much time to complaining about Facebook.

  8. Re:I think it's an ulterior motive on Steve Jobs Tried To Warn Mark Zuckerberg About Privacy In 2010 (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    This. Privacy isn't the problem. Everyone gave them that information willingly. The problem is when, for example, you have your COO Sheryl Sandberg email a candidate's campaign chief saying that you're going to help them:

    https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/976134614099152896

  9. Which is why Clinton's Clipper Chip was a good idea. The manufacturers wouldn't have access to the key, only the police.

  10. But Obama used Facebook to inform voters. Zuck in the last election used Facebook to tell people to vote for Trump. That's the difference.

  11. Re:Jeff Sessions on Craigslist Personals, Some Subreddits Disappear After FOSTA Passage (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Don't blame the Republicans for this. More of them voted against this than we did.

  12. Re:Subscription fools, like the cord cutters on CDs, Vinyl Are Outselling Digital Downloads For the First Time Since 2011 (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Just like how the music industry cherry picks the songs it wants you to buy with radio stations.

  13. Interviewed at three places in South Lake Union, home of Amazon and just north of downtown Seattle, recently and two of the places had air mattresses. The other mentioned the building had showers so you didn't have to go home. About ten years ago buildings started adding showers for people that bike to work. Now, things have changed. I noped out of all three of those interviews.

  14. Re:An absolute crock on Reddit Bans Subreddits Related To Selling Guns, Drugs, Sex, and More (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Not really. I found an archive of the gundeals subreddit, and I didn't see any guns for sale. It was just parts and ammo which are basically unregulated so it's good reddit decided to shutdown people that posted deals and coupons for those things.

  15. Re:He's a "traitor" (pffft) to conservatives on Trump Announces $60 Billion Tariff on Chinese High-Tech and Other Goods (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    HE TOLD everyone that he was going to push leftist economic policies.

    True, but these aren't as strong as what Obama proposed so Trump is Nazi rather than left wing. I know his steel tariffs were exactly half of what Obama proposed. That makes Trump right of the Nazis.

    The Republicans are even worse. They push for free trade which makes them more Nazi than the Nazis. Racism drives their demands for free trade.

  16. Re: And now I know why Facebooks is scared on Facebook Gave Data About 57 Billion Friendships To Academic (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    The difference Obama was innovating when he did this. Trump is just copying so this is treason.

  17. Re:Depends on how old you are on Ask Slashdot: Were Developments In Technology More Exciting 30 Years Ago? · · Score: 2

    But now tech discussions are usually about censorship and politics instead of tech. Just look at the massive bans today from YouTube and Reddit. The past few days before that it was about Facebook working with Russians to influence politics.

  18. Re:Reddit too. on YouTube Bans Firearms Demo Videos, Entering the Gun Control Debate (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Good. Their kind needs to be silenced.

  19. Yes, but claiming that is illegal for people to talk to each other is standing against the 1st amendment. It was legal for Obama to talk to them and for them to talk to Obama.

    The difference now is that it was illegal for them to talk to Trump because they did so in order to destroy our election.

  20. Re:Our president just congratulated Putin on Telegram Loses Supreme Court Appeal In Russia, Must Hand Over Encryption Keys (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    But it wasn't the same thing when Obama did it. Obama did it because it was diplomatic. Trump did it because he had to thank them for forcing Facebook to make people vote for him.

  21. Re:Our president just congratulated Putin on Telegram Loses Supreme Court Appeal In Russia, Must Hand Over Encryption Keys (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    "President Barack Obama has now officially endorsed..."

    But you know that isn't the same. You're being disingenuous.

  22. Re:Telegram should not hand the keys over on Telegram Loses Supreme Court Appeal In Russia, Must Hand Over Encryption Keys (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Or, they could use them to solve crimes like Bill Clinton's Clipper Chip. He wanted a backdoor into all encryption, and it would have protected the people had paranoid libertarians not stood against it. Things would be much better now if the government could spy on Trump supporters.

  23. Re:Anything built at a hackathon is junk on Hackathons Are Dystopian Events That Dupe People Into Working For Free, Say Sociologists (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I had to sign it away. Seems mostly fair since I wanted the prize which was a iBook and a chance at a job.

  24. Re:Of course he's AWOL on Mark Zuckerberg AWOL From Facebook's Data Leak Damage Control Session (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 2

    > the adults

    I do feel a little sorry for him, because I don't think he quite understood the gravity of the situation when he started interfering in elections in 2012.

  25. Re:Facebook and MI6 were "The Russians" on Mark Zuckerberg AWOL From Facebook's Data Leak Damage Control Session (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    But the foreign British spy Hillary hired was doing work at her direction. A foreign government wasn't interfering with our election. In this case, they were ordering Trump to do their bidding so it was a foreign government interfering with our election.

    Same with Obama using Facebook data. An American company was helping an American candidate. In Trump's case, a foreign company was using Facebook data. It's completely different.