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  1. Re:Seems reasonable. on Harvard Pulls Student Offers Over Online Comments (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Rather than shout speech you don't agree with down, or try to keep it from being expressed, why not debate it, and the best way of thinking will surely win based on merit, no?

    The debate is free to continue, since the story doesn't say anything about the private group being shut down. It just won't be involving Harvard students any more.

  2. Not only that but who cares about seeing a movie when it's released.

    About 10 million people per week on the average,

  3. In fact, 2 simultaneous streams are explicitly included with the standard streaming membership, so the first one you share isn't remotely illicit.

  4. Then there are no episodes to release.

  5. Feedly on Slashdot Asks: Do You Still Use RSS? · · Score: 1

    So, yes.

  6. "New Girl" has finished its season and has not even been renewed yet, so there are no unreleased episodes of that. So..huh?

  7. Re:This is seriously up to for debate..? on Slashdot Asks: Should an Employee Be Fired For Working On Personal Side Projects During Office Hours? (quora.com) · · Score: 1

    If we're devolving into stories like this...a project of mine was once suspended for about a week because of a contract dispute with the customer. During this time we were told explicitly not to work on the project, not to work on any other project, but come to work and stay there during working hours anyway. And this was early 1980s so I don't even think Usenet was much of an entertainment source.

  8. Re:Email tie-in on Verizon.net 'Gets Out Of The Email Business' (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm using my first ISP, sort of, except that it's been renamed more than once: it was mediaone, now I'm on comcast.net, and it was attbi.com at some point in between.

  9. Re:fuck tipping on New York Plans To Force Uber To Add Tipping Option (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Tell you what: in the interest of honesty and the free market, if you're going to go against expectations and not routinely leave a tip, tell the driver/waiter/whatever that right up front.

  10. Note that the Alexa app includes the option of training on a voice, which I suppose would make it less likely to trigger on someone else's voice. I don't know how well it works. I don't know about the Google setup but it sounds like there's no such option there.

  11. Re:Contract negotiation... on Will Streaming Media Lead To A Massive Writer's Strike? (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope, I simply did good work and got successive significant pay rises as a result. Never threatened to leave, never felt the need to job hunt. When I did hand my notice in, I actually left, no threats involved.

    You never explicitly threatened to leave, no. (And you seem to have a very strong reaction to the word "threat" here.) But...come on. The only reason employers pay anyone at all is because if they don't, you won't work for them. And I'm sure, they love the fact that you seem to think that holding out the prospect of not working for them is morally offensive.

    More generally: what you're describing is the fact that you were able to get a large enough piece of the pie that they allocate for salaries. Your "opponent", in this case, was your co-workers. Strikes, generally, are about getting management to make the pie bigger. The writers aren't striking so that Aaron Sorkin or whoever can get a better deal; they're striking so that all the writers get more money when a series gets sold to Netflix.

  12. Cancelled on Netflix on Ask Slashdot: Seen Any Good April Fool's Pranks Today? · · Score: 1

    Netflix has a category "Cancelled By Netflix", containing one video: "Netflix Live Cancelled", which is Will Arnett maybe-improvising over a "live stream" of office equipment, including 3:30 of a burrito being microwaved. (Also, arm wrestling.) It's 48 minutes long, "available until April 2".

  13. Re:Netflix outspends HBO more than 2:1? on Enemy Number One is Netflix: The Monster That's Eating Hollywood (business-standard.com) · · Score: 1

    And you'll note that both GOT and Westworld are those generally-despised things: "adaptions and remakes". As are the Netflix Marvel shows. It's all in how you execute.

  14. Re: Old business models don't die, they are killed on Enemy Number One is Netflix: The Monster That's Eating Hollywood (business-standard.com) · · Score: 1

    If you insist that the online price and the in-store price should be the same, eventually the two prices will converge between where they are now, because somebody's going to be paying the overhead for the physical stores.

  15. I suspect that the person who made the joke you thinks that "chords" implies "vocal chords", except that it's "vocal cords".

  16. Why not just ask the hotel? on Your Hotel Room Photos Could Help Catch Sex Traffickers (cnn.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Instead of trying to crowdsource this in a crazy patchwork fashion based on the motivations of random travelers, shouldn't law enforcement ask the hotel chains to provide systematic pictures of their rooms, assuming this is a useful line of inquiry?

  17. Re:A Perfect Illustrationk on Android Ransomware Infects LG Smart TV, Company 'Refuses' To Help (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I tried to get my mother (in her 80s but, for all that, pretty tech-friendly) Netflix for her birthday, which with her 8-year-old not-Smart flatscreen would have meant a Roku box. After I explained it (for the 5th time in my life, I think), she finally announced "I don't want that stuff on my TV. It's too much." Calling it "just a computer" would not have helped. In this case, I think if it didn't require a change of HDMI input when using it she might have gone for it.

    Also, even with the Chromecast, you have to control it from your mobile device or computer, and now for some people that's an entire different category of complexity from using a cable remote.

  18. Reminder: the Wikileaks we're dealing with right now are not government documents. They are the internal emails of the Democratic National Committee. Wikileaks has released the stolen emails of private citizens -- granted, relatively powerful ones, but still.

  19. "DJI, the leading manufacturer of...." -- it's pretty simple.

  20. Episode title names on Mr. Robot 'Plugs' uTorrent and Pirate Release Groups (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Considering that all of the episode titles are designed to look like filenames of torrents of themselves, this is hardly surprising.

  21. Re:This is NOT a new thing. on Researchers Add Software Bugs To Reduce the Number of Software Bugs (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I learned as "bug seeding", but yes, and I'm of about the same vintage as you.

  22. That's the valuation of the company. If the editors had made it easier to get the the ACTUAL news report, you could see the explanation, which is that because of the way the investors are paid off before she is, her stake is what's now presumed to be worthless.

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/ma...

  23. I report, you decide.

  24. Editing is fundamental on Harvard Scientist: Rio Olympics Could Spark 'Full Blown Global Health Disaster' (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Which leads to a simple question: But for the Games, would anyone recommend sending an extra half a million visitors into Brazil right now? Of course not: mass migration into the heart of an outbreak is a public health no-brainer. And given the choice between accelerating a dangerous new disease or not—for it is impossible that Games will slow Zika down—the answer should be a no-brainer for the Olympic organizers too. Putting sentimentality aside, clearly the Rio 2016 Games must not proceed.

    Phrasing, dude.

  25. Re:Reading between the lines on Swarm AI Correctly Predicts Kentucky Derby Superfecta, Turns $20 Into $11,000 (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    What's fascinating in general is that "horses run to their odds"; that is, at all levels, for all bets, the swarm is, in the long run, correct.

    Except for the "favorites/longshot bias", which is that people overbet long shots and underbet favorites, because they want a big payout.