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  1. I spend 5x the effort of paying for subscriptions on Ask Slashdot: Your Favorite Subscription Services? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I probably spend about 5x the effort of paying for subscriptions finding ways around them. The intellectual reward is worth the extra time - it's like a real-world puzzle. With the glut of entertainment available today, the thrill of unlocking a [game]/[show] /[book] seems to make it worth consuming.

  2. Just calibrate it against those attributes in the source article and it should do fine.

    More seriously, you can play with the shiny new toy here:
    http://www.perspectiveapi.com/

  3. Re: So this means... on Amazon Sues Former AWS VP Over Non-Compete Deal (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks. That describes a "collaboration" system where people can annotate on a source doc, but it looks real-time edit isn't there yet. (It seems to confirm that Amazon has some catch-up to do.)

  4. Back in the day it was like Chrome is today. Google supported it as an alternative to IE because it fed people into Google search/ads. With Chrome, Google's need for a surrogate shrank and so Firefox became the Al Gore of browsers.

  5. Will tank company for food...and $200M on Verizon Closes $4.5B Acquisition of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer Resigns (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'd be perfectly happy to drive your tech company into the ditch too for a couple hundred million dollars.

  6. But we just want a nice MacBook on Cook Says Apple Is Focusing on Making an Autonomous Car System (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Dear Cook,

        Your car hobby is neat, but can you please just keep the MacBook up-to-date?

    Thank you,
    Developers Everywhere

  7. Re:nearly impossible to anticipate? on Chess.com Has Stopped Working On 32bit iPads After the Site Hit 2^31 Game Sessions (chess.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The website has a "CEO", so yes, I can confirm.

  8. Pretty much this, as long as it's just "three (anonymous) people with direct knowledge of the U.S. investigation into the matter" spouting off.

    If there's something we need to know, publish it and stand behind it (with your names and titles) already. This dribble of whispers from the shadows is why most people treat the "Russians hacked the election" stories with a healthy does of suspicion.

  9. >> Does it work?

    You bet. Look how reliable and secure Wordpress is!

  10. You MUST shut down the Interwebs because think of the CHILDREN!

  11. So this means... on Amazon Sues Former AWS VP Over Non-Compete Deal (geekwire.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We're seeing Google's "GCP" start to eat into Amazon's cloud solutions, and we know Microsoft believes Azure and Office 365 are peas in a pod. Does this mean that Amazon was planning to fight back with some kind of "Amazon Docs" solution?

  12. "Clinton-style" on Trump-Style Tactics Finally Stopped Working For Uber (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    >> fight fire with fire and attack the media -- specifically to smear a female journalist who has criticized the company

    Hmmm...that's been the Clinton couple's bread-and-butter for decades. (Why do you think she was the only "major" candidate for the Democratic nod last time?) Trump's a fast learner, but he's got a ways to go to catch up.

  13. Re:The Trump Wing on Museum of Failure Opens In Sweden (failuremag.com) · · Score: 1

    The Great Orange One took out the Chosen Ones from both the left (Hillary) and right (Jeb) despite being outspent by God-will-only-ever-know, tripping over himself every week, and being relentlessly mocked by nearly everyone in both old and new media. Call Trump whatever else you will, but it's tough to call a guy who won the toughest race in American politics his first time out a "failure".

  14. Cost or time on The Hidden Ways That Architecture Affects How You Feel (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    >> lot of architects choose to ignore them. Why is that?

    Same reason software architects ignore principles: cost or time interferes with perfection. Why is this even a question?

    >> says Ruth Dalton, who studies both architecture and cognitive science at Northumbria University

    Ah...now I see. Not much real world experience here, I guess.

  15. Honey Badger on Intel: Steer Clear Of Our Patents (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    >> we fully expect other companies to continue to respect Intel's intellectual property rights

    China don't care. Neither do consumers, for that matter. Given the length of court cases, if I was an Intel competitor I'd be awfully tempted to do what many startups do: steal everything and hope the resulting lawsuit harmlessly drags out until after you've cashed out. With that in mind...what's the point of posting your legal policy in some summer intern's blog? (If I was Intel, I'd be working with my PR department to get stories about how Intel squashed this and that company out into the tech press, maybe even mainstream TV, instead.)

  16. >> Why are the animals somersaulting all the time?

    Because they want you to buy a VRML demo for $60. ("OK, so we imported a bunch of 3d models. Now you can move them around. Next month maybe we'll animate them or add some logic to make them interact, but in the meantime [SHINY].")

  17. From what I see, if you loved Amiga graphics demos, you'll love this. Here's a 20-minute play video:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz0ncBjk2V4

    Reminds me of a monkey and football, but then again, I've only been consuming video games for 34 years.

  18. So...we're done with "impeach Trump" then? on AT&T Uses Forced Arbitration To Overcharge Customers, Senators Say (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    >> (the day after Comey's testimony) Five Democratic US senators talked about (something other than Trump)

    Just to be clear...we're done with the "impeach Trump" bit then?

  19. >> The loan program is invitation-only.

    I hope they're staying clear of "red line" regulations...

  20. Was there any recent announcement from Apple that on Apple Announces Support For WebRTC in Safari 11 (webkit.org) · · Score: 1

    >> there were 2 big holdouts -- Microsoft's Edge browser and Apple's Safari.

    Was there any recent announcement from Apple that didn't being with "finally, Apple is introducing (feature that everyone else has had for years)"

    As a daily Mac user, I think it's safe to ask...does anyone really still use a Safari on the desktop? Doesn't everyone just use Chrome (and occasionally pull up Safari for another look before flipping over to the virtual desktop to try IE and Edge)?

  21. Re:good riddance on Facebook Is Planning To Move WhatsApp Off IBM's Public Cloud (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't trust any vendor will fully support anything other than core products going forward. In terms of GCP, I do believe that their container/VM infrastructure is real. Here's why:

    1) Google likes money. They've watched Amazon's highly profitable virtualization service take off (despite EMC's previously dominating VMware offering) and have decided there's enough profit there to step into the market.

    2) Google is marketing (successfully) directly at enterprises, in fact telling them they can replace all their IaaS stack with GCP (and also that there are enough PaaS and SaaS items in there to go cloud-native if that's what you wanted to do).

    3) The stuff works today and hundreds of tech companies are "roadmapping" to build out the same level of integration with GCP-specific things (e.g., cloud/hardware encryption modules) that they already have with Amazon.

    So...while I expect a couple of GCP's edge/little-used services to come and go, I also expect Google to gouge Amazon's IT market share in the coming years.

  22. Re:I have a pitch for you dumb Apple Fucks: on Apple's 'Planet of the Apps' Reality Show Is 'Bland, Tepid, Barely Competent Knock-off of 'Shark Tank' (variety.com) · · Score: 0

    If you're more subtle with the squeeze you can really get paid. Like how Jesse Jackson packaged up Chicago's 1990's racial strife and cashed it on a beer distributorship for his kids. (http://articles.latimes.com/1998/nov/21/news/nc-46240)

  23. ...you're likely not watching "reality shows". At if you are, you're not watching them on broadcast or cable TV. I think the design flaw started at the demographic.

  24. Re:good riddance on Facebook Is Planning To Move WhatsApp Off IBM's Public Cloud (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Ditto. I might know another "IBM shop" or two migrating from IBM cloud offering (the cool kids seem to be skipping right over Amazon and going to GCP these days). Not sure who's going to be left up there.

  25. Re:Is this report as reliable as Wikipedia? on Wikimedia Executives Receive Six-figure Golden Handshakes (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    >> it might be nice to know how they're gonna spend it

    They do. It's called the "Form 990" and it's right here. (Exec compensation is on page 51.)
    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/4/44/Wikimedia_Foundation_2015_Form_990.pdf

    If you're dumb enough to donate to Wikipedia, well, I've got another couple of "charities" you might be also interested in.