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  1. Good controversy is the best marketing on 'Captain Marvel' Smashes Box Office Record, Laughs Off Review-Bombing Trolls (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Investing into small team of review-bombers is a brilliant marketing move.

  2. Changing the word won't make it so. on OpenJDK Bug Report Complains Source Code 'Has Too Many Swear Words' (java.net) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As if removing the words will make that monstrous ball of crap better.

  3. Great Firewall of EU on Germany Urges Global Minimum Tax For Digital Giants (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2

    When they run out of "creative" ways to collect tax revenue expect them to fall back to simple technical means of controlling data flow to foreign countries. In the name of preserving equality, naturally.

  4. cowboyneal exposed on Deep Neural Networks for Bot Detection (arxiv.org) · · Score: 1

    I always suspected that about CowboyNeal. Now we will know the truth.

  5. fixed that for you... on Female Uber Drivers Get Paid Less Than Men, Says Study (recode.net) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Female Uber Drivers EARN Less Than Men, Says Study

  6. moral character in good standing is required on GDC Rescinds Award For Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell After Criticisms of Sexually Inappropriate Behavior (polygon.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Anyone care to explain how personal indiscretions affect his achievements in developing "a breakthrough technology, game concept, or gameplay design at a crucial juncture in video game history"?

  7. Sweet dreams are made of this... on Facebook Users Cry 'Censorship' After Being Told Which Russian Troll Pages They Liked (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sweet dreams are made of this
    Who am I to disagree?
    I travel the world
    And the seven seas,
    Everybody's looking for something.

    Some of them want to use you
    Some of them want to get used by you
    Some of them want to abuse you
    Some of them want to be abused.

  8. Re:So, a whistleblower, not a "deep state" anythin on DOJ Charges Federal Contractor With Leaking Classified Info To Media (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    The leaked document could have been manufactured to out the leaker. It does not contain any evidence and the government is not confirming anything. There is not enough information to jump to any conclusions. The story is that they nabbed the perp. Anything beyond that is speculation.

  9. Re:Then leave Silicon Valley on More Than One-Third of Schoolchildren Are Homeless In Shadow of Silicon Valley (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I find it hard to believe with number of illegal immigrants crossing the border looking for jobs. I doubt they have sizable amount of liquid funds at their disposal.

  10. Re:WTF is "Project Include"? on Project Include Drops Y Combinator As Peter Thiel Pledges $1.25 Million To Trump (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't know, but it is spelled "PC".

  11. This is non-denial denial: "we cannot confirm that report is true".

  12. oh, the irony on The Spread of Ignorance (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    The article on "agnotology" is an example of "agnotology": let's higlight dangers of cigarettes and unworkable Donald Trump policies as opposed to dangers of strict veganism and unworkable Bernie Sanders policies.

  13. Re: bald eagles, too on Dutch Police Train Bald Eagles To Take Out Drones · · Score: 1

    ... with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads

  14. Re:why is critical infrastructure on the internet? on Ukraine Power Outage May Be the First One Caused By Hackers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It is hard to lock down pirated Windows XP.

  15. Re:So when's "gun control" going to stop guys with on Guy Creates Handheld Railgun With a 3D-Printer (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    If only criminals have guns it will be damn easy to identify them and lock them up.

    40% of households have guns in them so about half of the people you know are likely own a gun. Can you name them?

  16. better cancel your weekend plans on 'Severe Bug' To Be Patched In OpenSSL · · Score: 1

    ... and clean the coffee machine

  17. Re:it is called demographics... on FB Reveals Woeful Diversity Numbers · · Score: 1

    Majority of people are not willing to relocate away from families or communities. Diversity numbers around the areas of white collar jobs "have everything to do with it".

  18. it is called demographics... on FB Reveals Woeful Diversity Numbers · · Score: 1

    Facebook offices are located in the area populated by mostly white or asian residents. If you look at census data for San Mateo county it will not be hard to see that facebook diversity number closely follow demographics of college graduates for that live in that area.

  19. Broadwell is yesterday's news. Bring on Skylake! on Intel Releases Broadwell Desktop CPUs: Core i7-5775C and i5-5675C · · Score: 1

    The world is waiting for HDMI 2.0.

  20. Re:Uber not worth $41 billion ... on Tech Bubble? What Tech Bubble? · · Score: 1

    Uber is not worth $41b but it is worth $1.5b that investors put in it. VCs hold preferred shares and they will get paid first should tings turn sour. Everyone else will be holding the bag - that includes employees with stock options. Don't believe startups offering 0.00001% of $41b in stock options. Negotiate for hard cash instead.

  21. Re:Already there on What AI Experts Think About the Existential Risk of AI · · Score: 1

    Watson is tip of the iceberg. Computers already tell us which route to take, places to go eat, news to follow and stuff to buy. The new generations will a) accept these suggestions as blind truth; b) will not understand how these suggestions are generated. Resistance is futile.

  22. Re:why is that the question? on What Was the Effect of Rand Paul's 10-Hour "Filibuster"? · · Score: 1

    As if voting has anything to do with candidate's qualifications. People vote along party lines. If you are not voting republican or democrat - you are throwing your vote away.

  23. Re:STL on Was Linus Torvalds Right About C++ Being So Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Not everyone wants to install 50MB runtime package to split strings.

  24. "ease maintaining friendships" on In 10 Years, Every Human Connected To the Internet Will Have a Timeline · · Score: 1

    ... all 754 of them.

  25. Re: Oomph. on Intel Core M Enables Lower Cost Ultrabooks; Asus UX305 Tested · · Score: 1

    Are you implying that buying $2000 computer that will be worth $1000 in 3 years makes you "smart spender" vs someone who bought $400 computer that ended up worthless after 3 years?