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  1. prison on Man Who Uploaded Deadpool To Facebook May Get Six Months In Prison (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's the first time I've heard of someone going to prison for a copyright violation.

  2. The major problem is that turtles need to breathe. Unlike sharks, the turtle will need to come up to the surface in the huge waves, and that is exactly what the turtle did. We don't know any more than that, it was a single data point.

    It's interesting because the sharks actually DO avoid the hurricane, even though as you said, they don't really need to.

  3. Re:IT is going to be hit hard on Machines Are Going To Perform More Tasks Than Humans By 2025 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    We've circled back a generation to where to be a SA who gets paid well and has job security you'll need to be able to script that system like a boss

    There's no such thing as job security in tech (or anywhere, tbh). "Job security" means "I am good at finding jobs." That's the only way.

  4. Re: Do it like Last.fm on Fans Are Spoofing Spotify With 'Fake Plays', And That's A Problem For Music Charts (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I came here exactly to say this. They aren't upset about it being manipulated they are upset because they are not the ones doing the manipulation.

  5. Re:I hate this practice on Why Edinburgh's Clock is Almost Never on Time (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Stop setting your clocks incorrectly and leave when you need to like an adult.

    There are so many problems I have, that if this suboptimal one solves my problem of being late, that's good enough and I'll worry about much more serious problems instead.

  6. One example is from about six years ago when Linus reminded [lkml.org] everyone very crisply that one doesn't change userspace APIs willy nilly and then blame the applications that were broken by the change. I'm pretty sure that his response reinforced in many developers' minds that this was simply unacceptable and reminded them far more effectively than an unemotional purely technical observation would have.

    IF anything, he should have worded that message more forcefully. It's that important.

  7. It really doesn't beg any question, you are not writing clearly. If you want to know why little-used drivers are in the kernel, the answer is that even if only .05% of the users actually need it, and someone is willing to maintain it, then that is a good enough reason to put it in. The kernel is well architected so adding another driver won't affect the quality of the other parts of the code.

  8. Re:Article is completely missing the point... on Automation: The Exaggerated Threat of Robots (flassbeck-economics.com) · · Score: 1

    Manufacturing will move closer to the markets to reduce cost of logistics.

    Our logistical infrastructure is really efficient. Transportation costs of goods are so low that it doesn't really drive decisions. As one example, it costs more in transportation costs for you to drive a mile to the store to pick up a toothbrush than it does to ship if from China.

  9. But a bug in any one of those lines could bring down the whole kernel.

    Most of it is drivers, and most of those drivers are for devices not running on your computer, so if there is a bug, it will be in a code path that is impossible to reach on your system (are you using JFS?). The core kernel is a lot smaller.

  10. Re:How many bugs in, say, 10,000 lines of code? on The Linux Kernel Has Grown By 225,000 Lines of Code This Year, With Contributions From About 3,300 Developers (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    They state 0.45 defects/kLOC. Of course, they won't "find" all defects...

    They won't find most defects.

    But you get the ballpark

    Not really because the kernel developers know how to avoid the kind of bugs Coverity scans for (Coverity has been haranguing them over it for nearly two decades now).

  11. You can be certain he won't sacrifice code quality. That is his top priority, and you can tell because he talks about interpersonal issues in terms of how it affects the kernel code quality.

  12. Re:Cloud for standby/backup only! on Nintendo Switch Cloud Save Data Disappears If You Cancel Subscription (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "Cloud" has so many meanings that it's not clear which one you are talking about.

  13. It seems Nintendo didn't say they would delete the data, merely that there was no guarantee they wouldn't. The difference between those two clauses is huge.

  14. Re: The campaign rhetoric was scary... on Leaked Video Shows Google Executives' Candid Reaction To Trump Victory (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah. Americans all agree they hate dictators. Even Nixon lost support, and he was much more popular than Trump, and didn't try to become a dictator. Americans merely have the disagreement over which president they think is trying to become a dictator. It's always the other party's guy. Or girl.

  15. Re:Arizona laboratory codenamed on FBI Mysteriously Closes New Mexico Observatory (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 0

    Look at me, still talking when there's science to do.

  16. Re:The campaign rhetoric was scary... on Leaked Video Shows Google Executives' Candid Reaction To Trump Victory (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Accepting arguendo that liberals are reacting as deranged lunatics, I think the reasoning behind that is they've noticed that THAT'S HOW YOU WIN ELECTIONS. That's how Trump did it,

    Trump didn't win by being a deranged lunatic. You might have a point though, Some democrats might be reacting to what they perceive by acting like deranged lunatics.

  17. Re:The campaign rhetoric was scary... on Leaked Video Shows Google Executives' Candid Reaction To Trump Victory (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    There's a thin line between civilization and anarchy. Ask Venezuela.

    There's a huge fat thick ocean between the US and Venezuela. The US isn't going to go down that road any time soon.

    I can see the argument for Bush being worse because he got us into a needless war (I call it needless not just because there were no nukes, but also because I've read the conversations between GW and Rumsfield as reported by themselves). And this war can literally be argued to have brought the death of over 1 million people

    Yeah, it was really bad. As far as attacking the press, changing laws etc, the same criticisms were heard of Obama. I will freely admit that Trump annoys me, but we aren't headed into anarchy. (That's unfortunate.)

  18. Re: Espionage ? on FBI Mysteriously Closes New Mexico Observatory (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if it had explosives, the helicopter wouldn't be much use.

  19. Arizona laboratory codenamed on FBI Mysteriously Closes New Mexico Observatory (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Black Mesa

  20. For the same reason Pluto is named Pluto and Neptune is named Neptune? By the time Pluto got its name, no one believed in the Greek gods.

  21. Re: private cause of action??? on Limo Firm To Uber: You Misclassify Your Drivers As Contractors, Which Is Unfair (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't help but thinking this is a really confused idea of how the law works.

  22. Re:private cause of action??? on Limo Firm To Uber: You Misclassify Your Drivers As Contractors, Which Is Unfair (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
    This case is complex, and depends so heavily on technicalities of various laws and decisions that it's hard to understand without quite a bit of domain expertise. However, the article has this quote from an actual lawyer:

    Veena Dubal, a law professor at the University of California, Hastings, emailed Ars. "It seems to raise the same arguments re: unfair competition that have been raised by many cases before it. Misclassification is a sub-issue in this case. If another court finds conclusively that Uber drivers are misclassified for wage purposes, then it will become relevant."

  23. Re:Employees don't work for 2 firms, generally on Limo Firm To Uber: You Misclassify Your Drivers As Contractors, Which Is Unfair (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Second, it's pretty clear from those who have worked at Uber when they decide to "choose their own hours" they somehow don't get as many customers

    Is that clear? I can believe it happens, but what sort of algorithm is Uber using here? Anyone working less than 10 hours a day gets lower priority?

  24. Re:FAA software development standards! on Auto, Tech Industries Urge Congress To Pass Self-Driving Legislation (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Give it to them. Make them all develop ECUs using FAA 'commercial air' software standards!

    This definitely should happen.

  25. More appropriately, Enterprise because this plan is grounded.