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  1. uses Chrome on Former Mozilla CTO: 'Chrome Won' (andreasgal.com) · · Score: 2

    If even Eric -- who heads Mozilla's marketing team -- uses Chrome every day

    How does he still have a job there?

  2. 50 cent army on China is Recruiting 20,000 People To Write Its Own Wikipedia (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    costs $10000

  3. It's easy to detect google bots. Why not serve them something different?

  4. Re:Potato chips are a poor example on Salt Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty, Study Says (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    Potatoes are starchy, so high in carbohydrates. Your body also retains water to dilute high blood sugar (glucose). When people go on low-carb diets, they usually lose up to 10lb (5kg) in a week or two, because their body lets go of water.

  5. Re:RTFA on MIT No Longer Owns 18.0.0.0/8 (ttias.be) · · Score: 1

    They announced it. Will use the money to upgrade their systems etc. Selling off 8 million IP addresses. I think that's worth around $100 million.

  6. Re:I use this every year on Ask Slashdot: Seen Any Good April Fool's Pranks Today? · · Score: 1

    It's an indicator that someone probably speaks German, since in German you put a comma before a relative clause (often starting with "that" or "which"). Obviously, you have put the comma in the wrong place. :)

  7. Re:Thoughts on the comet on Rosetta's 12-Year Mission Ends With Landing On Comet (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2
  8. sticking with version 48 on Firefox 49 Arrives With Improvements (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I disabled updates because they're going to get rid of addons. If I have to start over trying to get the functionality of noscript, greasemonkey, privacy badger, ublock, adblocks edge, adnauseum, google privacy, status-4-evar.... I might as well submit to google and install chrome.

  9. at the same time on Warner Bros Issues Takedown For Own Website (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Google's reply? on EU Copyright Reform Proposes Search Engines Pay For Snippets (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    They're a monopoly, in other words.

  11. Re:Google's reply? on EU Copyright Reform Proposes Search Engines Pay For Snippets (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    The EU could declare it discriminitory to exclude those sites and impose fines or whatever else is necessary.

  12. Re:spoon feeding censorship? on CP/M Creator Gary Kildall's Memoirs Released As Free Download (ieee.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful
    It's his children who decided not to release it, and they explain why:

    "Unfortunately Gary’s passion for life also manifested in a struggle with alcoholism, and we feel that the unpublished preface and later chapters do not reflect his true self."

  13. acceptable levels of toxins will be increased for more than two dozen known carcinogens and decreased for 13 currently regulated chemicals. State officials back the plan because it places new rules on 39 other chemicals that are not currently regulated.

    I guess leaving the other ones alone and regulating those 39 was too logical of a step to take.

  14. Re:Um, wtf LW? on The Slashdot Interview With Larry Wall · · Score: 2

    Maybe if you don't understand what he's saying. He's referring to the canonical Have you stopped beating your wife? example of a loaded question.

  15. "Starving minds, welcome to Dr. Know, where fast food for thought is served up 24 hours a day... in 40,000 locations nationwide. Ask Dr. Know. There's nothing I don't."

  16. publicity on Internet Trolls Hack Popular YouTube Channel WatchMojo (csoonline.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Thanks for giving them the publicity that they rightfully deserve. Or being typical media click bait.

  17. Re:Awesome legal hacking by plaintif on Man Sued For $30K Over $40 Printer He Sold On Craigslist (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Last Week Tonight's recent show was on "debt buyers", who use a similar technique of gambling that people won't show up in court. They buy debt from banks for half a cent on the dollar, sue for the money, defendant doesn't show up, so by default (still) owes the whole amount -- debt buyer makes a big profit.

  18. "allegedly" on Apple Sued Over iPhones Making Calls, Sending Email (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    A court ordered Apple to pay half a billion dollars for "allegedly" doing something? Did they "literally" order that?

  19. "he imagined that the VR content would be tied to existing movie franchises", "last around 10 minutes and cost between $7 and $10", with advertising giant Google's support. You'll be paying for trailers.

  20. Any story like this I pretty much ignore because of Simpson's Paradox.

  21. PR piece on Slashdot Asks: Does It Matter That We've Reached Peak Smartphone? · · Score: 1

    I'm probably too cynical, but any story like this I assume it's a PR piece. Maybe pre-hyping some other announcement, or playing down the recent story about Apple expected life times.

  22. Re:AI could with by cheating with insane micro on AIs vs Humans - Next Battle: Starcraft (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    It's definitely keyboard, not mostly mouse. I think APM of 300 is more normal, but peaks of 500 happen. But APM includes things like "spamming" hotkeys, where you hotkey your buildings to say keys 4, 5, 6 and flick through them to check whether they're done building/training, and clicking like crazy before a unit can train yet (to make sure it starts ASAP). Example of Flash playing SC2.

    There's another thing called EPM, which is Effective actions Per Minute. That eliminates most of the spammy kind of things (there's also where you right-click spam with the mouse on the ground many times to order a unit to go to basically one place but you're sort of perfecting the position, for example).

  23. Re:Lies, damn lies and statistics on Microsoft Improves Efforts To Offer Equal Pay For Equal Work To Its Employees (windowscentral.com) · · Score: 2

    I guess this is under the umbrella of Simpson's paradox. The summary and blog linked to don't seem to show numbers of people in each category; for example, $1.003 for blacks but there could be only 1% black employees. And like your links say, things can be sliced in other ways too, like what number of this or that category are part time versus full time, interns/age/experience, carreer choices/preferences, etc.

  24. Re:Fuck him on Top FBI Attorney Worried About WhatsApp Encryption (usnews.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Bullshit propaganda. Some local very wealthy people had some less wealthy brown-nosers (Samuel Adams beer? that was after a "small loan" of 1000 pounds from daddy) persuade poor farmers who rented land that they should side with the local very weathy people instead of the very wealthy people back in England. A quarter of the population who were either enslaved or indentured (temporarily enslaved) were ignored, and occasionally revolted (before and during the Revolution) but were viciously put down by for example the very very very wealthy hero George Washington. The poor farmers who sided with the local wealthy people went from being tenants renting land, to having mortgages on loans to the buy the land. We've not even gotten to the natives yet. "preserving freedom"....

  25. Re:Let me get this straight on German Scientists Successfully Teleport Classical Information (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing PBS Space Time. He does mention that that's how Einstein and Lorentz thought about it (around 5:20 in the link).