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  1. DUP ireland on Theresa May Loses Overall Majority In UK Parliament (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Democratic Unionist Party already gave sign they would work with conservative to form a majority - for a "price". So no it does not mean no law will be passed or the gov lose its authority. As for brexit, havign no clear majority means the parties will ahve to negociate. Much better for democracy than May which thought she had a mandate to ram UK citizen whatever she wanted.

  2. They were stupid on How a Few Yellow Dots Burned the Intercept's NSA Leaker (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That is why you photocopy with a black and white rough copier (say 10-15 years old) all documents and use that to be published. After that your yellow dots are invisible.

  3. they did eXplode all over europe on Twitter Isn't Removing Enough Hate Speech, Complains The EU (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Ira, basque liberation, corse liberation, Red army fraction.... most terrorism in europe was not islamist. In fact most terrorism in the usa (and possibly eu) is actually local born and non muslim, think ehite supremacist and ALF, look it up on fbi page for the us, it is just that media rarely report most of it.

  4. a quick answer on Twitter Isn't Removing Enough Hate Speech, Complains The EU (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    No it does not, it counts as a bloody stupid joke. Contrary to what people (probably anerican) seem to think hate speech is not defined as "what politician do not like" , in fact there are quite a few protection to ensure this is not used to squash normal non hate speech. Secondely the EU cj does not define hate speech, individual countries do, this may be difficult to understand to american but this is not like your federal system. The eu only define the action that may taken and how to ensure speech protection but does not define hate speech, this is up to each individual state, but if they did include "not liking your president" they would be squashed by the eu court on ground of human right - fredom of expression. No 2 state has then same hate speech definition, but most can be summarized as "call to violence , murder, or genocide against an ethnnic group, nationality or sub group if people" e.g. "kill all turban head" is hate speech, "decapitate trump" is not, it is just blody stupid.

  5. that is because your booking us in gds on IT Crash Causes British Airways To Cancel All Flights (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Airline system are usually split in various intercommuniticating system (be their own, or in case of gds external enormous firms). E.g. you have a crew system, a weight and balance system, a check in system, a baggage system, and a reservstoon system usually handled by a crs, like appolo, axsres, amadeus, galileo, infiny , etc... your booking was almost certainly saved in obe of those gds. And depending on the agreements among airline and interline set up, they can just pull each other booking (aka PNR passenger name record) and rebook onto their own flights.

  6. not enough info on Manchester Attack Could Lead To Internet Crackdown (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    How many duch credible warning do they get per day, and how many can they realistically investigate ? If the y get 5 per day in average and can realistically investigate 10, no excuse. But if they get 50 per day for the same workforce, the y have to prioritize, and maybe some of the workforce were locked into other investigation too (the other nutjob at the bridge comes to mind)

  7. relatively certain it would be forbbiden in eu on Google Following Your Offline Credit Card Spending To Tell Advertisers If Their Ads Work (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    Privacy is stronger here than in the us apparently. I am quite certain bank would not be allowed to sell what looks like intimate data (what you buy), nor would be allowed to tie bank card usage to selling your data.

  8. You misunderstand the rule on EU Passes 'Content Portability' Rules Banning Geofencing (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    France can very well keep that rule. Because the portability rule , the one spoken in the article, is only about people coming from , say , UK, and in France, could not use the BBC player because it checked for your rough location, so people coming in France and using their own streaming in a private setting. Business in France cannot import content. That is the second part about geofencing is, and will be lobbied against far more harder than the geo portability issue.

  9. You know what's cheaper than 2000$ family outing ? on Families Will Spend More Than a Third of Summer Staring At Screens (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    A modern boardgame , a good one like pandemic, battlestar galactica, dead of winter etc... Either coop or with a traitor, played out in the garden or in a parc. And it is reusable. For "$2,328" you can even try a few different one until you find something the family click in.

  10. Biometric should only check WHO you are on Slashdot Asks: Should Businesses Switch To Biometric Passwords? (hbr.org) · · Score: 2

    Biometric is a ONLY username, not a password. It does not matter how much combo you think you can put together to eliminate bad actors, all those technics do is verify who you are, and if they can be fooled each single, chance is that they can be all fooled taken together. And once your system is compromised, what do you do ?

  11. Extremly unlikely on German Publishers' Lawsuit Against Google May Backfire (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    "oogle will probably pull out of the "infected" countrys." yeah fat chance that google pull out of a first world market like the EU , or Germany. That argument is put forth again and again, but it makes no sense whatsoever. That would be roughly equivalent of google pulling out of the US market because the feds added a small fee.

  12. does not matter on 'Weaponized' Twitter Bots Spread Info From French Campaign Hack (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    "What if" indeed ? Well i would rather elect a slightly corrupt macron than a jack booted fascist xenophobic. I mean it isnt a pest cholera choice, it is at worst a cold sniffle - macron - against pest and cholera together - le pen. Le pen would be as terrible for france as trump is for the us right now. Worst even.

  13. America land of free speech... on FCC Considers Fining Stephen Colbert Over Controversial Trump Joke (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...Except when it is on TV.... Then some word are less free than others.

  14. Local population don't know better on Trump Administration Rolls Back Obama-Era Nutrition Standards For School Lunches (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Local population are for spanking and corporal punishment, which we know is counterproductive through studies. Local population are "local" and thus in lower numbers and don't have the power to do a lot of studies, and thus can have hit and miss. In this precise case, I am pretty sure "low fat" is stupid, but this has nothing to do with the "state vs federal". De genere, the feds will have more power for studies and will in average know better than the state.

  15. The statement may be factual but usage is racist on Advertisers Are Still Boycotting YouTube Over Offensive Videos (go.com) · · Score: 2

    See the problem is that it is well known that IQ test are actually very strongly cultural and educational, and testing 2 populations of different cultures, can lead to irrelevant result comparison. And this is the case here, people are getting from that that black are unintelligent or whatever, but the is almost certainly the wrong conclusion, as normal population, with normal education, should have the same "intelligence". The correct conclusion is that there are obstacle (cultural, wealth and institutional) to the education of black people in the US and that the test comparison show that, and nothing else.

  16. never liked ebook on As Print Surges, Ebook Sales Plunge Nearly 20% (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    if I want to go through page of a tech book, I can have a few colored page marker and go very quickly from 1 page to the next, it is far more slower with ebook. And the feeling of paper in hand is.... I dunno , psychologically better ? OTOH I am now by 900 books at home and it starts to cover literally whole walls.... But one things I remarked : more and more people go to my local bookshop than it was 4 years ago...

  17. "Who exactly has Trump imprisoned wrongfully?"

    From this side of history, the will of Session to stoke up the war on drug and particularly get more repressive against Marijuana, is definitively wrongful imprisonment in my book, even if it is not the legal definition.

  18. free market economy is based on the right price on How Online Shopping Makes Suckers of Us All (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Look the way I learned it, when you have a semi functional free market, prices will tend to go toward what the market will bear : too high and consumers go away, too low and firm don't make enough benefit/don't innovate/don't invest/go away. Since when is having firm trying to go for the maximum price the market CAN bear about "sucker" ? This is madness.

  19. Re:Unemployment on Ontario Launches Universal Basic Income Pilot (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    "Automation has been going on since the industrial revolution, yet new jobs seem to keep on being created"

    The problem is, the rate of stable unskilled and skilled job creation does not cover the rate of destruction in some countries. Note I said stable : interim job , gig job, part time job are anything but stable. And now we are entering an era where full automation of some previously unskilled job is a pretty damn possibilities. When that will start, I predict that if by then we don't have a way to provide basic income to everybody, the society will quickly disintegrate : our western society can't be sustained if the rate of stable job destruction continue.

  20. Each one customized to do a very specific task

    Rather I would say each one was selected for and ended having the function they have now, rather than customized. We even have some protein which started at some function, then with each different selection ended having a different function, which was more important for the survival of the organism, in addition of the original one. IIRC flagella in bacteria was originally a transport protein between intra/extra membrane environment.

  21. You can get a drying rack on Scientists Invent Ultrasonic Dryer That Uses Sound To Dry Your Clothes (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    My mother had 4 children (and a husband) so loads of wash per week, and used a drying rack for years. You can get one for extremely cheap, and yes you can leave it out or in as you have place. But it definitively made it easier for her to have an electric dryer.

  22. I like to test on Researchers Determine What Makes Software Developers Unhappy (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    What makes me unhappy is not to test, is to ask me to mix 3 jobs : being a thorough tester, a full time job, and a thorough programmer, and a thorough business analyst again both full time job. Sorry guys, I can do 1 very good, 2 passable,and 3 badly. Or I will give you estimate which will shock you.

  23. Disputable on Spotify Executive Chris Bevington Dies In Stockholm Attack (variety.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There are plenty of evidence that some genetic marker are present in certain population, marking certain population to a greater weakness (or sometime strength) against some sickness. But it is disputable that they mark what you would call biological race, as they lack the physical isolation, do not have very specific karyotyp (even the melanine one) in human it is only a more likelyness to have such karyotyp or even a continuum of various karyotyp. The only subset you may do is possibly morphological, but even for that and for the karyotyp, you do not have specific identifier you can assign 100%, you have a continuum. That is why even if you look at various biological book or source, they usually sidestep the issue of human race, not because of the sociological indication, but simply because there is no easy way to separate and quantify those. And no, even skin color do not work that well (morphological races - would put for example part of india with africa).

  24. while true awful when you don't have money on Bidding Website Rentberry May Be the Startup of Your Nightmares (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    See , cities offer the job, but if you cannot live there , then not only you are poor, but the burden of a longer more costly (in time and money) transportation will fall on you. So you worsen the the situation for the poorest of all. So while what you say is true, one has to consider what you want for a society, and if you really want to push the head of those without much money even further under the water. Because at some point those will simply decide that destroying the system may as well be a better solution than participating. Just sayin'.

  25. young guy are not 60+hours productive on Google X Worked An Older Employee Until He Was Hospitalized, Then Laid Him Off (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Human indeed does not work that ways. See the difference in *productivity* between a software developer in Europe and one in one in the US, when you look at the quality of code developed, is almost nil over a week. That is, because in my experience, overworked 60+ hours youth/old/whomever has as much productivity when only worked 40h weeks on end. I'll compare that to bulb wattage. You can have a 40 watt lamp and leave it on for hours or have a 60 watt one and leave it on for 40.

    And don't get me started about experience. I have seen a goddamn awful code by young folk which thought they were code diva, but did not understand what the point of maintainability is. I don't care if your code use a metamorphic self compiling reflective algorithm. What I do care is that it will cost 3 time more the development code to maintain compared to normal bloody non compact code. Older developer understand that.