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  1. Aw, Geez... Don't Call Them "Redditors" on An AI-Powered App Has Resulted in an Explosion of Convincing Face-Swap Porn (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It only encourages them.

  2. Don't Give Up, Mozart on YouTube's Support for Musicians Comes With a Catch (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    YouTube is making a bet on certain types of music and bands, which is their prerogative as distributors. It's a business practice and relationship as old as the music industry. Meanwhile, you were gifted with a free audition, your work on display and distributed to millions of (potential) fans, and you failed. Carefully study what YouTube's winners have done and try to imitate them and profit, or bravely stay true to your oddball muse and create your art. Recognize that you are still ahead of the game compared to previous generations of starving artists who had no distribution whatsoever.

  3. Global Warming Alarmism on Global Warming Predictions May Now Be a Lot Less Uncertain (wired.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...is a religion, and msmash is auditioning to be a High Priestess.

  4. Sounds Great. Raise The Bar. Thin The Herd. on YouTube Toughens Advert Payment Rules (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    YouTube does not owe you a living. The talented and truly worthwhile will survive.

  5. Re:Mixed feelings on Chelsea Manning Files to Run for U.S. Senate in Maryland (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    She is not running against a Conservative or even a Republican -- yet. She has to first primary against the current Dem in office. Which means the whole "If you don't vote for me you are some kind of bad phobic person" only serves to fracture the Left. She has also tweeted out EXTREMELY anti-cop screeds, which would make her the darling of the BLM crowd, if the BLM crowd weren't traditionally homo/trans phobic (American politics is funny that way). So the only group that really benefits from Manning running is the GOP, who will face an already bloodied Dem candidate, whether it be Manning or the incumbent.

  6. Re: As someone who is trying to wipe out DRM on Studios Sue Dragon Box in Latest Crackdown on Streaming Devices (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    All companies should âoegive back.â Every person should âoegive back.â I âoegive back.â Do you? Do you NOT think that Disney gives back? I would wager Disney gives back more than most companies. Who TF are YOU to dictate exactly *how* they give back?

  7. Re:As someone who is trying to wipe out DRM on Studios Sue Dragon Box in Latest Crackdown on Streaming Devices (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    You are suggesting that Disney should release Avengers Infinity War and The Last Jedi on YouTube? Or are you suggesting that no movie be made that cannot recoup its costs via YouTube distribution?

  8. Re:As someone who is trying to wipe out DRM on Studios Sue Dragon Box in Latest Crackdown on Streaming Devices (variety.com) · · Score: 2

    >>Please learn to pirate, so that your video habits will stop being used to legitimize the ridiculous idea that software shouldn't be end-user maintainable.

    So a studio who paid $100M to create a movie should gift it to you in order that you are able to... do what with it exactly? Copy it onto a second device? A third? Your boyfriend's? Your D&D Club's server? The internet? Help me out with this one... Seems as though if every movie was distributed for free, the creators would lack motivation to give us nice things. What am I missing, I'm not getting the "ridiculous idea" part at all...

  9. Re:Even More Interesting Than This... on House Passes Bill To Renew NSA Internet Spying Tool (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Please tell me you wrote that tongue-in-cheek.

  10. Even More Interesting Than This... on House Passes Bill To Renew NSA Internet Spying Tool (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    ...is watching how long slashdot takes to release one of the twitter "shadowban" stories currently burning up its firehose all morning...

  11. Re:Black-Out Blinds on Super-Black Is the New Black (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but blinds and curtains don't contain "nanotechnology." Bird feathers do, apparently. See, this is why I come to slashdot, I am always learning something new here...

  12. Snowden? Well, Golly, If Snowden Doesn't Like It on Snowden Joins Outcry Against World's Biggest Biometric Database (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    ...it CAN'T be good!! I mean, can it? CAN IT?? Because... *Snowden* right??

  13. Re:Michael "Deathwish" Wolf on White House Bans Use of Personal Devices From West Wing (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 2

    No. The problem is that Wolfe was the wrong guy. He's a Gossip Columnist who is most famous for lobbing bombs over the transom to see what he can shake up. To that end he will do or say anything. "The Most Loathed Man in Media," even CNN -- hardly a right-wing pillar -- describes him as "pugnacious" and "arrogant." If you were really looking for someone to lay into Trump and credibly dig up the goods to bring him down, Wolff was ABSOLUTELY THE LAST writer you would call. He's a self-absorbed gadfly party-boy more interested in making the news than reporting it. The cause would have been better served had he taken his notes and given them to a real journalist to byline. Whatever important stuff Wolff may have unearthed during his time as "a fly on the wall" at the White House is going to be buried beneath the inevitable exaggerations, un-truths, half-truths, mis-quotes and overall carnival atmosphere that permeates all his work to date.

  14. It's a giant legal circle-jerk. Those filing the suit get to thump their chest, pose as The Great People's Champions of... something, tweet aphorisms, and pump up their resumes. The FCC, meanwhile, quietly warns the other side's lawyers to go away lest they be taunted further...

  15. Michael "Deathwish" Wolf on White House Bans Use of Personal Devices From West Wing (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Out-Of-Towners may not know that NYC gossip columnist Michael Wolff has a bit of a deathwish when it comes to choosing his battles. He took on (in a weirdly, clearly fixated way) Rupert Murdoch with a previous "biographical" tell-all, seeming to have forgotten that Rupie owns the town's biggest tabloid The NY Post. THEN he began diddling one of his interns at Newser, escorting her about to all the city's hottest and most popular spots, because: Michael Wolff. (Those were the days when diddling an intern didn't get you automatically rejected from The Club.) The Post pilloried Wolff, whose columns for various publications always trended deeply into holier-than-thou moralizing. Even more suicidally, Wolff's wife at the time was the -- wait for it! -- preeminent NYC divorce lawyer! She took him -- and likely everyone within 2 square blocks of him -- to the cleaners.

    His work has always been sloppy -- by his own admission he is not a "real" journalist. He's like the masochist who is always picking fights, just for the attention. Is it any wonder that he would -- loudly, grandly, with much fanfare -- try slapping around the world stage's biggest bully?

  16. It's the NY Times giving credibility to the non-word "listicle" that I find most disturbing...

  17. It's actually even stupid-er than that. Fagioli is bylined on the original Betanews site. He is using slashdot to essentially link to/promote his own site. If you look at his submission history, he does this regularly. Hopefully, slashdot is compensated for this promotion, and is not just participating in this pseudo-journalism circle jerk out of laziness, but I am not hopeful...

  18. Re:Is There No Adult Supervision Here at All? on Kodi 18 'Leia' 64-Bit For Windows Is Finally Ready To Replace the 32-bit Version (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    There are also these things called Lazy Millennial Buffoons who don't yet realize that writing articles online that require or encourage the reader to click away from the site of the article is both tedious for the reader and bad for the site's own sales.

  19. Is There No Adult Supervision Here at All? on Kodi 18 'Leia' 64-Bit For Windows Is Finally Ready To Replace the 32-bit Version (betanews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Editors: Could you not once during the lame summary have mentioned exactly what Kodi is? It's like slashdot is being written by one guy sitting at his high school lunch table for the other guys sitting at the same table.

  20. Re:Santa is a distraction on Resuming Its Annual PR Mission, NORAD Tracks Santa Claus (cnn.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    We do teach them why the Church decided to celebrate Christmas on Mithras' birthday, and honor St. Mary on May Day, Candlemas on Imbolc, and celebrate All Saints' Day on the day after Halloween. It was part of our Embrace-Extend-Destroy strategy. See people celebrate a pagan feastday, put a Christian overlay atop it, gradually shift focus to the Christian deity and demi-deities, wait a couple of centuries, and Poof! All the pagans and witches are polishing crystals in New Age bookstores struggling to make ends meet, and The Church has become a multi-billion dollar enterprise.

    We think about these things way more than you give us credit for...

  21. It's a Bad Time to be a "Serial Womanizer" on Eric Schmidt Is Stepping Down As Executive Chairman of Alphabet (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    It was big in the 90s. The Late 10s? Not so much. Guy's got a custom-made dungeon in NYC, I am sure there's a disillusioned young lady lurking somewhere downtown waiting to pull the pin on her #MeToo grenade. The Alphabet Board did the only thing they could do.

  22. That's An Easy One! on Net Neutrality Protests Move Online, Yet Big Tech Is Quiet (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The large tech companies like FB have already made arrangements with Comcast and the other pipe-owners. They will happily pay a premium for their bandwidth, as it will make it harder for newer, less flush rivals to compete against them. What good is an Old Boys' Network if you can't use it to squash the young pups?

  23. It's not necessarily product placement. Some artists believe that by referencing a real-life brand, their work will take on a patina of authenticity or 'grit.' Look at any William Gibson novel from the past 15 years.

  24. ...but the summary is incomprehensible.

  25. Re:The Year of the Linux Desktop on Linux Mint Is Killing the KDE Edition (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    >>Having a version of Mint using KDE was redundant and confusing.

    Right, because The Linux Community will absolutely not stand for any redundancy and confusion in our distros. Sure glad those chuckleheads at Mint got with the program. Man, what were they thinking...?