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  1. "the video ... didn't have any music in it at all" on Warner Music Files Copyright Claim on A Silent 'Star Wars' Video On YouTube (wired.com) · · Score: 0

    What's this if not Williams, then?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Fair use, probably, but why is anybody with three brains cells to rub together surprised an algorithm matched on this?

  2. Re:western bankers on 'World of Warcraft' Game Currency Now Worth More Than Venezuelan Money (theblaze.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are you saying the CIA convinced Venezuela to ditch capitalism and embrace socialism as a means to destabilize itself?

  3. Re:Stupid lawsuit, but useful on Linux Kernel Hardeners Grsecurity Sue Open Source's Bruce Perens (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    They filed in California where anti-SLAPP laws provide for heavy penalties? Oh, dear.

    Bruce, do you need a gofundme?

  4. Re:Had no idea this was even a thing on Popular Password Manager LastPass Doubles Price of Its Premium Plan, Removes features From Its Free Service Tier (neowin.net) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ummmm...yeah. I'm sure they do. And I promise I won't cum in your mouth. Pinky promise.

    So do you work for a competitor or did you just want to comment without reading up on how the encryption is done locally with audited viewable-source code in the browser extensions?

  5. So we can hack these now? on Hackers Can Turn Amazon Echo Into a Covert Listening Device (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Jeez, back in the day these threads would be full of all the projects people were going to do with commercial hardware once somebody found a way to load new firmware onto it.

  6. Re:They must not have heard of Dan Rather on Calibri Font Plays Its Role: Pakistan Now Sans Sharif as Prime Minister is Disqualified (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    We don't read many news stories about the good forgeries.

  7. other carcinogens

    e-cig vapor likely contains some carcinogens. In much smaller amounts and less dangerous types than cigarettes, we think, but let's be completely forthright about it. Vaping isn't harmless, just much less harmful.

  8. "Two charismatic young founders" on The Inside Story of the Lily Drone's Collapse (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Two charismatic young founders

    There are a few unicorns, but usually this is a risk factor. Most successful businesses are founded by people in their 40's and 50's.

    Reading the summary, I see "risk, risk, risk, risk, risk", and the results are what most investors would expect.

  9. Re:This is healthy on SEC Rules That ICO Tokens Are Securities (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I have little sympathy for technolibertarians playing word games to dance around sensible regulation. Particularly when they grumble that sensible regulation is fascism.

    So you believe that small investors should never be allowed to invest in a company by mutually agreeable terms with the company, without some parental agency dictating the rules and thereby precluding their consensual activities?

    Only rich folks should get to do that?

    It's hard to tell "smarter than you" from "you're too poor for equal rights" these days.

  10. Who Do I Have To Sue? on Qualcomm Opens Its Mobile Chip Deep Learning Framework To All (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Partnering with Qualcomm seems to be a high-risk sport:

    https://www.google.com/search?...

  11. Re:Silence? Yes please! on How Jony Ive Masterminded Apple's New Headquarters (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    When Apple was really being inventive, they had two people to an office, floor-to-ceiling whiteboards, and tie-on-the-doorknob was respected.

  12. Maybe you don't remember the audio format wars, in which the BIOS vendors just decided to support everything and you could tell the BIOS which standard to make the hardware do.

    Give it a few years and all the device firmwares will support everything and auto-switch based on detected traffic. In nicer devices you might even get automatic device bus isolation with programmable switches for things like main monitor connections, to give fixed gear its own dedicated bus bandwidth.

  13. Re:More to the story on Fact-checking and Rumor-dispelling Site Snopes.com Held Hostage By vendor (savesnopes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There's almost always 2 sides of the story, and Snopes isn't doing themselves any favors failing to acknowledge the other side's grievances. I'd sure want to understand the big picture here before donating.

    Yup. No mention of the party, the contract details, etc. Just "give us money to file a lawsuit". It's hard for us to figure out what's really going on, especially because they used a Private Registration service. I really encourage people to never do that except for small non-commercial websites.

    They apparently have 14 people on staff - this is a small business but not a mom & pop that could easily be running on the razor's edge.

    Rating: partly true.

  14. Use the "labor force participation rate" metric, not "unemployment". Unemployment is subject to "definitions", which are political by definition.

    UK looks to be at 79%. It still doesn't account for people who have been bumped down from full-time to part-time to decrease regulatory costs, but it's the best number you'll get from people whose job it is to lie about how great the numbers are.

  15. Re:Serious psychology on Quantum Particles In Motion Can Still Travel Backwards (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Back before leaking culture, AC used to be a valuable feature. Now five nines of AC posts are people who don't feel like logging in or trolls.

    I guess the analytics shows they don't run adblockers. It's too bad Slash doesn't have cookie-based shadowban based on downmods though.

  16. Bad Move, Apache on Facebook Petitioned To Change License For ReactJS (github.com) · · Score: 2

    Apache 2.0 could be tweaked like this to incorporate what Facebook is trying to do. They really should do it - it's an oversight and does not do enough to squash the patent trolls. Facebook is doing the right thing for the industry, even if the wording needs help. Apache Legal might forget what these licenses are for in a misguided quest for purity.

    3. Grant of Patent License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this section) patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer the Work, where such license applies only to those patent claims licensable by such Contributor that are necessarily infringed by their Contribution(s) alone or by combination of their Contribution(s) with the Work to which such Contribution(s) was submitted. If You institute patent litigation against any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that the Work or a Contribution incorporated within the Work constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, then any patent and copyright licenses granted to You under this License for that Work shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed.

  17. Leaks are Worse, Fellas on AMD Has No Plans To Release PSP Code (twitch.tv) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Go ahead, try to keep this stuff secret. There will be leakers and if you will be embarrassed by the leaks, it's better to come clean now than to be the center of market turmoil when the vulnerabilities are disclosed.

  18. Re:Original sealed container on The Myth of Drug Expiration Dates (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't know why you would get handed a generic pill bottle with individual pills in it these days, I haven't seen it happen in a couple decades.

    Bulk drugs are less expensive, easier on people with arthritis, and pill bottles (not caps, usually) are recyclable.

  19. Yeah, I knew I was buying a sketchy Chinese camera that wanted to phone-home for "remote access" features, but VLAN's and firewall rules work just fine and only the recording VM needs to ever get traffic from it.

    Trouble is, only networking geeks can get this kind of thing working today.

  20. Are You a Great Typist? on Ask Slashdot: Is Password Masking On Its Way Out? · · Score: 1

    I've only known a few IT guys who were great typist.

    There's not a decent-quality password today that can be reliably typed by somebody who is not a great typist. If you are not masking, users will use better passwords. That's all.

  21. Rust Belt on US Increases Number of H-2B Visas By 15,000 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    If Trump were clever, he would allow unlimited H1B's in Rust Belt areas, with protections for local IT workers (assuming he won't support a free market, which is pretty much a given).

    Silicon Valley CEO's don't want to go anywhere but down their mountain to work, but the massive influx of workers into one area is making things miserable for non CxO workers because of the density/demand-driven prices.

    Want to see how badly the VC-fueled ventures really want to consume their H1B workers?

  22. Re:Great. More glassholes on Google Glass Makes an Official Return (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    This is exactly what we needed, more glassholes continuously uploading video feed to the largest data aggregator company in the world that has facial recognition, geo location, reads our email, and knows about our web searches.

    So, don't go into a business that is using Enterprise Glass in their operations. Derp, what part of this is hard?

  23. Re:Tin foil hat on Google Glass Makes an Official Return (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You might want to borrow it, you know, to keep anymore of your brains from falling out.

    OMG, when the stupid GP replies to a criticism of his stupid comment as AC. Like anybody is being fooled. Better to be seen as an asshole than a coward.

  24. This.

    Humans need to have a purpose to be individually happy.

    Humans need to be productive to have a happy society.

    Society needs the production of goods and services to avoid scarcity of resources, and thus survive.

    UBI, as currently pitched, is mostly billionaires trying to foist their nouveau-riche guilt off onto society, so they don't have to take personal responsibility for anything.

    Once technology gets to the point of creating a post-scarcity society, then the rules will change. For now, it's a recipe for a decaying society and must be avoided, so that we can get to that vision.

    These Silicon Valley rich-guys are exactly the worst people to listen to about this, as they have personal reasons to put this particular cart before the horse.

  25. Re:Rule 1. Don't attract attention. on Dark Web Marketplace AlphaBay Shuts For Good After Police Raids (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    will continue without any positive effects, but doing massive damage.

    Cui bono?

    It's positive for policemen and those who sell their toys.
    It's positive for prison owners and unions.
    It's positive for the "justice" system.
    It's positive for the people who sell "interdiction" equipment.
    It's positive for politicians who need an internal enemy.
    It's positive for black ops budgets.
    It's positive for big pharma.
    It's positive for organized crime.

    It's only doing massive damage to The People. And that's who it's a War on.