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  1. Re:Constant change and an unsure future are stress on YouTube's Top Creators Are Burning Out and Breaking Down En Masse (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    Because that's not a single third-party. If you are a producer/director/whatever (I don't know the correct showbiz terms) and NBC won't do a pilot on your pitch, then you can go to CBS. If they won't do it, then you go to TBS. You are not bound to a single broadcaster until there is a contract (which prevents capricious changes).

    I am all for content creators---just don't be "YouTube creators".

  2. Re:This is a good sign on Tesla Starts To Release Its Cars' Open-Source Linux Software Code (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Um, others already "follow" his example.

    You are not being a "thought leader" when you spot a police car on the freeway and slow down to the posted speed limit, which is the car-analogy version of what Tesla's doing here.

  3. Re:I was going to suggest... on Visa Card Payment Systems Go Down Across Europe (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    And why are you exactly buying a house in an emergency situation? Nobody is suggesting going 100% cash---but there are foolish people out there that are trying to go 100% cashless.

    (And I refuse to patronize any place, even a restaurant, that won't accept cash for reasonably small transactions, around $100 or less.)

  4. If you truly believe this (and never for a second considered that YouTube is forcing a leonine situation on some of these people), you have not kept up with all the YouTube monetization shenanigans. I mean, yes, it's their platform, but they're acting like a capricious business partner.

  5. Re:Constant change and an unsure future are stress on YouTube's Top Creators Are Burning Out and Breaking Down En Masse (polygon.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For YouTubers... not so much.

    It comes down to this simple timeless fact: you can't build your own business on platform owned by a single third-party.

    You can't be a "YouTuber" for a career. You can, however, be a content creator who happens to be using YouTube as an incredible free resource (have you looked at just how much video storage YouTube allows?), but this means YouTube video monetization (i.e. ads) can't be your sole source of revenue.

  6. Re:Glad I switched to Bitbucket so MS gets no cash on Microsoft Is Talking About Acquiring GitHub, Says Report (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Has become"? When was LinkedIn not insufferable, with their constant reminder of contact requests that I was ignoring in the first place (and didn't want to log into their website to officially ignore)?

  7. Hence "fun", if it turned out to be either of them.

  8. TFS says "East Asia". India is not in East Asia by anybody's definition of that term.

    On another note, wouldn't it be fun if this turned out to be Japan or North Korea?

  9. Re:Clickbait Nonsense on Google Listed 'Nazism' as the Ideology of the California Republican Party (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    And the fact that occasional "something bad" always hurts the right and not the left is just a fact of modern life we have to live with.

  10. Re:Very short lived vandalizm on Google Listed 'Nazism' as the Ideology of the California Republican Party (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Um, who without access to Wikipedia's server logs or Google's internal information knows when Googlebot is actively indexing the site?

    My first guess would have been the vandal used Google's webmaster tool, but I don't think those are meant to respond to an indexing request within seconds.

  11. Re:Clickbait Nonsense on Google Listed 'Nazism' as the Ideology of the California Republican Party (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    And this is the company that wants us to put our future in its algorithms/AI?

    Sorry, either this is revealing Google at its most incompetent, or this is revealing Google's priorities (that is, preventing libel against the right is at the very bottom of its priorities, until something erupts). Either way, it doesn't cast Google in a favorable light.

  12. Re:I had an employer do this to me on Walmart Offers To Foot College Tuition Bills for US Employees (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You are right this is meant to benefit the corporation, but it does sound like they are at least taking some of the risk. From TFA:

    and there is no penalty for courses already taken if an employee leaves the company while enrolled in school. There’s also no requirement to continue working at Walmart for any period after receiving the degree.

  13. Re:Am I the only one... on Windows 10 Spring Update Improves Linux On WSL With Unix Sockets and More (anandtech.com) · · Score: 2

    Eh. As a user who have no choice but to use Windows, I welcome our new Bash-friendly Windows overlords. My choice is not whether to use Windows or Linux; my choice is whether to have a Linux dual-boot install which I hardly ever use (and have a Cygwin install which does not work well), or to have have access to Linux toolchain (without a reboot or a second device) while being able to use applications that my job requires me to use.

  14. And 100 minutes could save you 100% or more on car insurance!

  15. Re: commentary grossly misleads readers on Missing Climate Goals Could Cost the World $20 Trillion (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Not to mention he's holding the wrong quantity constant. There is no law of volume conservation; there is a law of mass conservation (at least for reactions involving small enough amount of energy not to affect the rest mass). He's at least several steps away from understanding Archimedes' principle.

  16. Re:Do you remember the good old days on Uber Shutting Down Self-Driving Operations In Arizona After Fatal Crash (azcentral.com) · · Score: 1

    Hence "crazy".

  17. Re:Do you remember the good old days on Uber Shutting Down Self-Driving Operations In Arizona After Fatal Crash (azcentral.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, the good old days when scientist like Marie Curie killed themselves with exposure to dangerous radiation, rather than the public (I mean, yes, there are "radium girls," but Curie discovered polonium, not radium).

    P.S. To be actually serious, it's a good thing for autonomous cars that unscrupulous companies like Uber will be driven out of the business (if not "out of business" altogether). There are much more competent, ethical, and less-profit-crazy companies out there. They are the future of technology, not companies like Uber.

  18. Re:cheating partners on The Wayback Machine is Deleting Evidence of Malware Sold To Stalkers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably matters in divorce proceedings (leverage, etc.). Remember: divorce turns marriage into a business transaction!

  19. Re:It's still at the bottom, you absolute twats. on Google Removes 'Don't Be Evil' Clause From Its Code of Conduct (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Unless the Gizmodo article was updated since its publication without notice, they note that in the article.

    The updated version of Google’s code of conduct still retains one reference to the company’s unofficial motto—the final line of the document is still: “And remember don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!”

    It's called "burying the lede," and quite common in the news business. So, business as usual---also, I guess you are right, literal fake news.

  20. Re:This week's most popular job is... on Data Science is America's Hottest Job (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Eh. But to do that, you need years of education and training. Being a "data scientist" could be done after one summer boot camp!

    I imagine data scientists are like consultants: a huge range in value added (or subtracted) by any particular "data scientist".

  21. Re:http blocked within 5 years on Google Chrome To Remove 'Secure' Indicator From HTTPS Pages in September (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    What if I'm downloading (or making available) a content (like some text material) that I don't care if it was MITM'd? Should I still be forced to use SFTP? Just because I don't want (because I don't need) encryption doesn't mean I need to be STFU'd.

  22. Re:cosmic background radiation temperature is 2.7 on NASA's Atomic Fridge Will Make the ISS the Coldest Known Place in the Universe (vice.com) · · Score: 1
  23. Re:http blocked within 5 years on Google Chrome To Remove 'Secure' Indicator From HTTPS Pages in September (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    No, I'm one of those users who thinks SFTP is unnecessary for anonymous FTP access.

  24. Re:PEBCAK on Ask Slashdot: Which Is the Safest Router? · · Score: 1

    I assumed she was hacked with an axe and was wondering why she would think a network router would help her.