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  1. Gist is....I want to sit on a few company boards after I leave office and lobby for Google. Here's my lobby pitch in advance. We've got lots of problems. I even created a few of my own, so I know the right people. If you are a prospective employer, let me know ASAP if you have any corrections you would like to make, so we have plenty of runway.

  2. Re: Major features are complementary on Slashdot Asks: What Are Your Favorite Java 8 Features? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a dumb contrived example. There's no reason to use streams for logic that works on a single value. On top of that, I've never liked their API anyway, since its only like half a solution to asynchronous data flow problems. Oh, and it eats your exceptions, because reasons. I used RxJava and found it actually did all that I would have needed the Java streams for.

  3. Re: Big surprise some jackhole Silicon Valley on 'Legalist' Startup Automates The Lawsuit Strategy Peter Thiel Used To Bankrupt Gawker (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    The article states that they will not take cases from individuals. So no, normal people will not benefit.

  4. Re: Smells rather suspicious on China To Crackdown On Unauthorised Radio Broadcasts (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 2

    Run a pirate radio station in the US and you'll be shut down as well. The issue is hardly China-specific. There are plenty of good reasons to shut down pirate radio sites that have nothing to do with ads. I suspect the reason it's a problem in China is because the government tightly regulates internet access there, so the quacks have gone to the airwaves instead. Theyre dealing with radio spam.

  5. Re:Follow the money on Oracle Is Funding a New Anti-Google Group (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Google's distributed database technology. When you charge as much as Oracle does for a database, customers expect Google levels of responsiveness and scaling. Oracle is getting squeezed from the bottom by free databases and SQL Server, and is getting squeezed from the top by the big specialized cluster database people. Rather than innovate, they've diluted their value by purchasing orthogonal businesses than don't strengthen them as a database company, the one thing that Oracle actually understands.

  6. Re:Dumb question... on Oracle Is Funding a New Anti-Google Group (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    No, Oracle actually based their case on copyright this time, weirdly. That's why the fair use argument came up; it's a defense in copyright claims. Apache Harmony has some weird lineage issues which make the license of Harmony code somehow different than GPL, a problem that evidently OpenJDK doesn't have. Current and future Android stuff won't be affected by this claim.

  7. Re:I'll bet it's all Larry on Oracle Is Funding a New Anti-Google Group (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    No, he's pissed because he wasn't able to force Google to cross-license their distributed query technology.

  8. Re:SCOracle? on Oracle Is Funding a New Anti-Google Group (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    The difference is that Oracle actually still releases products. SCO just extracts rent, or tries to.

  9. Re:Honest question time on Oracle Is Funding a New Anti-Google Group (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I have, but they have always been products that Oracle has acquired from some other company merger and then slowly strangled to death. Frankly, I've been worried that MySQL would shrivel up and die after the EU decree expired, given the low level of activity until very recently, but it looks like it's turned a corner. Now the shriveling is happening on the Java EE side.

  10. So much for "vulnerability equities" on NSA Worried About Implications of Leaked Toolkits (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    The vulnerability equities process, where lawyers decide whether to disclose to US citizens a vulnerability or keep it to themselves, seems pointless if NSA tools are going to leak to the black market anyway. This is yet another reason why the government cannot be trusted with defensive security measures, they are too conflicted about actually doing it.

  11. Re: My fat white ass... on France Says Fight Against Messaging Encryption Needs Worldwide Initiative (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Morell (who will probably be in Hillary's Cabinet) advocated on TV for arming terrorists in eastern Europe and Syria hoping they will kill Russians ("Make them pay a little price" was the phrase he used). I'm not even joking. That shows you how afraid of terrorist groups the government actually is (not very).

  12. Re: "A Russian cyberattack that targeted Democrati on Hack of Democrats' Accounts Was Wider Than Believed, Officials Say (nymag.com) · · Score: 2

    That phenomenon is called the "echo chamber", where you have 30 or so outlets quoting and referencing each other in a cyclical fashion rather than the other 29 outlets checking original sources. The result is like the rumor game; eventually what is said is so wildly distorted it's unrecognizable. The problem is that by outlets doing this, is you have so many people saying the same thing it lends an aura of credibility to something with very little actual fact behind it. The root cause is the 24 news cycle, where journalists are pressed to publish as soon as possible, often within minutes of the event. This doesn't allow any time at all for research, so the temptation is to skip primary sources and go to third party sources, which is either the press pool or Twitter. The reason for this, in turn, is their revenue model, which currently revolves around display ad impressions (commercials) or clicks. The clicks don't care whether your info is right. They just care that the headline is fresh and enticing.

  13. Re: Nothing would make me run to Tux faster. on Microsoft, Google, Apple Could Be Requested To Actively Block Pirated Downloads, Says Report (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Nearly all proposals which become law are written by people who have no idea how stuff works. What usually ends up happening is you stop making things legislators don't understand.

  14. Re: 2016: The Year of Linux on the Desktop on Microsoft, Google, Apple Could Be Requested To Actively Block Pirated Downloads, Says Report (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, Linux is associated primarily with terrorism in the minds of legislators, not piracy.

  15. Re: 2016: The Year of Linux on the Desktop on Microsoft, Google, Apple Could Be Requested To Actively Block Pirated Downloads, Says Report (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Circumventing region locking on a video player is a $500,000 fine for the first offense. I'm not even kidding.

  16. Re: Thanks, Google on Average Broadband Speed in US Rises Above 50 Mbps For First Time (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, it absolutely has to do with Google. Otherwise they would just amortize the older DOCSIS infrastructure over more years and only upgrade to avoid equipment failure. Just because new tech is available doesn't mean there is any reason to deploy it if you have no competitors. In the telcos case they did fiber projects in order to get grant money, and Verizon sold off their fiber business to Frontier after the grant money ran low. I've seen other smaller fiber operators setting up shop because the incumbents aren't interested in upgrading their networks. This usually works out with the incumbent purchasing the small operator and driving the price back up, but Google is the first one I've seen that AT&T etc can't afford to buy out.

  17. Re: Charter is probably right on Charter: City Giving Google Fiber Unfair Edge (courier-journal.com) · · Score: 1

    Anti trust is federal law. If you operate a franchise totally within the borders of a state, then antitrust can't be triggered. This is the reason health insurance is sold on a state by state basis, in order to prevent insurance from falling under antitrust regulation.

  18. Re: This will get interesting... on Charter: City Giving Google Fiber Unfair Edge (courier-journal.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh boo hoo. I bet if you totalled the cost of the internet services needed by the city, it would be vastly less than the accumulated price difference for the rest of the population due to there being no competition.

  19. Re: Ad blocker blocker blocker? Eat DMCA. on Malvertising Campaign Infected Thousands of Users Per Day For More Than a Year (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Most of the time, these scripts are not loaded synchronously, or repeatedly trigger DOM reflow as they load. In such a case, while the text is available to the browser, it is not visible to the user.

  20. Re: The internet and data on Court Ruling Shows The Internet Does Have Borders After All (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Data is not, nor ever has been, physical.

  21. Re: I think it's pretty obvious on Snowden Questions WikiLeaks' Methods of Releasing Leaks (pcworld.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Problem is Wikileaks just had a similar leak about full private information of practically every female person in Turkey, shortly after the coup, including whether they were a member of Erdrogan's political party. What's their suggestion to women in Turkey? Get assassination insurance? Get a legal name change? Sell your house?

  22. Re: Hughes on Using VPN in UAE Could Cost You $545,000 (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Then the UAE will require Hughes to block based on geolocation of the transmitter, or forbid use if satellite services without a government license. You're assuming there is some sort of limit to the authority of an authoritarian regime.

  23. Re: Easy enough ... on You Can't Turn Off Cortana In the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the microphone is used for lots of legitimate stuff, and you shouldn't have to use a microphone switch to make the computer respect your boundaries.

  24. Re: Not running Windows 10 seems like a total fix on You Can't Turn Off Cortana In the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Same here. For me Windows is mostly a toy now. All my work stuff is now Linux.

  25. Re: Not running Windows 10 seems like a total fix on You Can't Turn Off Cortana In the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    What we found was that the upgrade process left a system that mostly worked but did not perform well and had occasional driver issues. A clean reinstall of Win10 resolved it. I think people who are saying how wonderful 10 is have probably been using a clean install.