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  1. Ad friendly depends on who's advertising on YouTube Is Fighting the 'Adpocalypse' With a Less Trigger-Happy Flagging System (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Just because X company says, "We don't want our advert next to any drug-related video (including harm-reduction)" doesn't mean that every advertiser feels the same stupid way. Just give advertisers the option to check-box exactly what type of videos they freak out about without just assuming a one-size-fits-all. Probably most advertisers don't care or would rather not impact on free speech, given the choice.

  2. Re:This is why we need to criminalize CryptoCash on North Korea Is Dodging Sanctions With a Secret Bitcoin Stash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So the banks that govern our fiat currencies have "moral responsibilities" do they? Actually, no, they don't at all. This is precisely why cryptocurrency was invented.

  3. What a horrific waste of valuable hard drive space.

  4. Re:Ham on We Could Have Had Cellphones Four Decades Earlier (reason.com) · · Score: 2

    "Cellular" means using low powered transmitters at a high frequency and something like frequency modulation, which has a "capture effect" to create small geographic zones of reception. This enables more conversations to take place over less frequencies, particularly in built-up areas. As you move from one "cell" to another you hook up with a different base station. Not quite what radio hams were doing. If you turn up on a frequency they are already using with some new-fangled FM signal they would probably tell you to QSY or QRP in no uncertain terms.

  5. What the heck on What the Hell Is Happening To Cryptocurrency Valuations? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I say cryptocurrencies are fun!

  6. Windows is a "toy" on Android Overtakes Windows as the Internet's Most Used Operating System (betanews.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    "Windows is too difficult for the average person to use. That is why it will never gain popularity succeed as an operating system." I always wanted to say that!

  7. Smoothwall on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Aggressive Forum Users? · · Score: 1

    Anyone remember the Smoothwall mailing list circa year 2000? Now THAT was trolling. Anything since is just lightweight.

  8. Just to make sure 3D is completely dead on 3D TV Is Dead (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I will now poke out one eye. That should fix it! I don't know why anyone thought it was so useful in the first place.

  9. Re:Main application? on Chrome is Getting the Ability To Play FLAC (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Active studio monitors, with one local amp pre driver, are a reasonably cheap way to get fantastic sound. However most people will really notice on headphones which are getting amazingly good value for money these days. I see quite a few people listening to high-end headphones on the train. Unless they are tone deaf, they will definitely hear a difference.

  10. Re:What He's Saying is... on Donald Trump Won Because of Facebook (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    ...that Trump won because the media could not control the narrative despite their best efforts.

    I'd like to dedicate the song, "I've Lost Control" by Sleezy D to Rupert Murdoch since it probably describes how he feels right now.

  11. Newsflash! Skype for Linux is up to version 4.3 and has had video calls for years now.

  12. You know... I could grow tomatoes in my back yard... but I don't... I buy them at retail.

    The operative word here being "could". Why shouldn't we be allowed to grow tomatoes, or even cannabis?

  13. Microsoft will soon kill it on Raspberry Pi Passes 10M Sales Mark (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They are getting loads of publicity about their Windows 10 that actually transforms the Pi into a vegetable. People will read the articles and think, "I must buy one of these and install Windows 10 on it". Having done so its vegetative qualities under the Windows 10 curse come out in full force and the poor punter has to return it as it "wasn't as good as expected". Then tells all his friends how "rubbish" the Pi is.

  14. Bring it down to a crawl. These selfish people take up all the bandwidth in order to move stolen contents. It seems the solution has been technical all along.

    "Stolen contents" such as Linux Distros and other legitimate ISOs?

  15. Re:I guess Law are useless then on Online Drug Sales Triple After Silk Road Closure, Says Report (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Prohibition is a stupid law and makes the police and courts look stupid when they try and enforce it.

  16. Re:false comparison... on 'Headphone Jacks Are the New Floppy Drives' (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    By the 1990s, floppies were woefully inadequate in capacity and needed to be replaced. In which way is a 3.5 mm analog jack inadequate at delivering audio?

    A CHILD could swallow one! Think of the children! Will someone PURLEESE think of the children!

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    As a landlord/employer I would be totally sold by that irresistible sales pitch!

  18. Re:This may sound harsh... on Wikipedia Editor Says Site's Toxic Community Has Him Contemplating Suicide (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Getting banned from Wikipedia is quite bad though....

  19. Dosconnect the MPAA for persistent whining on MPAA Wants ISPs to Disconnect Persistent Pirates (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    As I understand they are they ones with the problem that they need to address. I can quite happily live without watching any more films. In fact I did for many years before downloading became possible. Then I developed an interest in films and even started visiting the cinema once in a while. Based on my own experience piracy = promotion. They should be grateful.

  20. Still makes a great server on $5 Raspberry Pi Zero Compared To Intel's NetBurst CPUs & Newer (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    I use it in at least one application where I need a simple server that consumes negligible power, has a wired network connection, has no moving parts, read-only FS and for all the above reasons will probably run for years and years without failing.

    I thought about using an old PC or server but the noise, power and space requirements, long-term reliability, cooling requirements and electricity bills are kind of off-putting.

  21. Re:Either this is false or they are idiots on Belgian Home Affairs Minister: Terrorists Communicate Via PlayStation 4 (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    He is pretending to be ignorant and incompetent to give the terrorists a false sense of security.

    That, or maybe he is simply Belgian.

    Non! He is petrified that someone will use his handlebar moustache as a gaming controller!

  22. Re:wtf.. on Atom 1.1 Is Out, With Lots of Graphic Improvements (blog.atom.io) · · Score: 1

    That's classified information.

    You know too much....

  23. Government to industry: Empy wallet on India's Worrying Draft Encryption Policy · · Score: 1

    Stopping a law like this is probably expensive to some major industrialist out there. A fair few Crores Rs I would wager :)

  24. Re:Just do it on Underground Piracy Sites Want To Block Windows 10 Users · · Score: 1

    Or at the very least run Linux in a VM and encrypt everything that goes in or out of the VM by using a good proxy service. Probably QEMU is the safest type of VM, followed by the Open Source version of Virtual Box (without the closed-source extensions). Anything closed source such as VMWare may have it's own spy payload for all we know.

    Personally I use Linux anyway but I can't imagine using Linux in a VM to be any more complicated than the confusing Torrent sites with their phoney links that drive users to useless spam pages. The real link being the smallest and least noticeable link on the page.

  25. Wong place to spend money on $340 Audiophile Ethernet Cable Tested · · Score: 1

    Digital audio has no "sound". It is where it becomes analogue and what happens after that that matters. Assuming no data errors, the only way anything in the digital chain affects the sound quality is by the interference and jitter it induces on the DAC and analogue components. This can be quite noticeable (and measurable), if you've ever heard the background mush from a cheap MP3 player or some mother board sound outputs through headphones, but a decent DAC would be well isolated and the clock would be at the DAC, and preferably be the audio master clock and not just phase-locked to something.