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  1. Free as in speech, beer, or Kevin?

  2. My first thought was DedSec.

  3. Re:Who needs Sony? on Sony Cracks Down On Sexually Explicit Content In Games (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    PS4 you just insert the disc and play.

    After a 50GB day-one patch download, anyway.

  4. Re:one head says this, another head says that on DARPA Wants To Make a Better, More Secure Version of WhatsApp (trustedreviews.com) · · Score: 2

    This is how you can be certain that there's no grand government conspiracy. It's left hand doesn't know who it's right hand is doing.

    Conspiracy theories appeal to humans because we are pattern-seeking machines that find connections in randomness. But few stop to ask why there is randomness.

  5. That's called "social democracy" and it honestly is what most people seem to want.

  6. Re:Will this academic question climate 'scientists on Fake Mouse On Twitter Mocks Overgeneralized Scientific Research (twitter.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Climate scientists don't typically use mouse models if that's what you were asking.

  7. I am unclear on what problem is best solved by using libc++ in the FreeBSD kernel. Or most of libc, for that matter.

  8. On the other hand, that's a moderate disadvantage if there is construction work or a traffic jam or something else which makes your geographic knowledge unhelpful. The main benefit of an online map system is that it can route around bottlenecks as they happen.

  9. Re:Well technically... on Moon Landing By Israel's Beresheet Spacecraft Appears To End In Crash (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    You do have a good point. The USSR's first attempt missed the moon completely, so...

  10. It's also only true if you ever only look at your own code.

    Clearly you haven't seen my pre-ANSI-era C++ code. It's... probably for the best.

    Having said that, I strongly disagree that C++ is especially prone to this. Yes, Qt is essentially a different language from C++ (say). By the same measure, Spring is essentially a different language from Java and every JavaScript framework is its own thing.

    The main difference is that C++ is both old and powerful. Like any piece of aging infrastructure, it needs a lot of maintenance (hence the busy C++ standards committee), but it also needs a compelling reason to replace it.

  11. Re:Make C++ simpler ?!? on Most Popular Programming Languages: C++ Knocks Python Out of Top Three in New Study (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You would have to remove things from it, not just keep adding every paradigm from every other language.

    Things are being removed from C++, but that's not the point here. You don't have to remove large slabs of the language, you just have to choose not to use them. The craziness that is C++ locales, for example, need not concern you because you won't use it.

    Modern C++ is mostly about not using implementation inheritance, which is the one thing that bitter experience has shown makes C++ software brittle. But you can't remove it from the language because all of that 1990s era hierarchical tarpit code wouldn't work then.

  12. Re: And thats not all... on Automakers Want Cars That Won't Start If You're Drunk (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    How so? There are laws against drunk driving. This is just a few steps above a speed limiter, whose job it also is to enforce road rules.

    I'm not aware of any jurisdiction which has a law against Driving While Nazi.

  13. Re:Try getting your facts straight first on Ban Fortnite, Says Prince Harry (gamespot.com) · · Score: 2

    At any time the monarch could desolve parliament and start issueing edicts I believe.

    Nope, that's illegal. And we know this because Charles I attempted pretty much exactly this, was successfully prosecuted for it, and lost his head as a result.

    And that's only in the UK. Other countries have a written constitution which limit the powers of the sovereign explicitly. In Australia, for example, the constitutional effect of dissolving Parliament is forcing a new election.

    As far as I know, there is no country in which H.M. can legally raise taxes without the consent of Parliament. This has been the case since 1215.

  14. Re:Ban royalty on Ban Fortnite, Says Prince Harry (gamespot.com) · · Score: 1

    No, just someone who lives in a Commonwealth country and likes it.

  15. Re:Ban royalty on Ban Fortnite, Says Prince Harry (gamespot.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I used to think that, but looking at the United States right now I'm seeing the advantages of a constitutional monarchy.

  16. Re:Translation on Ban Fortnite, Says Prince Harry (gamespot.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Teenagers should be breaking into their grandmother's liquor cabinet and stealing gin like we did."

  17. Re:Because gig work sucks on Why Hasn't The Gig Economy Killed Traditional Work? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Yup. Add to this:

    - You're competing against jurisdictions that have strong laws about workers' rights and unfair contracts.
    - The lowering of transaction costs that the Internet represents is something that all businesses are taking advantage of, not just gig brokers.
    - Some of the high profile "gig economy" platforms are running at a loss.
    - The last tech bubble burst hard and ordinary people haven't forgotten.

  18. I do not believe that Fakebook has EVER deleted or allowed anyone to delete one byte of the data that it has collected!!

    Apart from Zuck's old posts. I do believe that FB deleted those, honestly officer.

  19. Re:Phew on What's The Correct Way to Pronounce 'GIF'? (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    Clearly it's pronounced "yiff".

  20. Re:P.U. Depend Undergarment Wearers United? on IBM Accused of Violating Federal Anti-Age Discrimination Law (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    And the decomposing flesh of things they've killed.

  21. Re: Thanks for the heads up on Microsoft Memo Bans April Fools' Day Pranks (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Imagine living in Australia where they all appear a day late.

  22. Re: Forgot the Censorship Icon on The Washington Post Asks: Should 8chan Be Considered a Terrorist Recuiting Site? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The answer to crazy conspiracy theories is not censorship. It is information.

    That sounds like an argument for breaking all filter bubbles.

  23. Re:So, define "ethics" for this case. on Can We Build Ethics Into Automated Decision-Making? (oreilly.com) · · Score: 1

    You already know you cannot please everyone, so you leave it to the maths. Harm no human unless an equivalent or greater harm comes to 2+ humans.

    So your proposed solution is consequentialist. That won't please the virtue ethicists.

  24. Re:Not really "Automated" if directed on Can We Build Ethics Into Automated Decision-Making? (oreilly.com) · · Score: 2

    Trains are "automated" in the sense that you don't need people dragging carriages across the landscape. They are also "directed" in the sense that they only go where the tracks go.

  25. Re:Politician != expert in their fields on Many People Think AI Could Make Better Policy Decisions Than Politicians (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    A Tony Blair-style House of Lords is looking pretty good right about now. Get the people in the country who seem like they're the most competent and make them review all the laws.