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  1. Actually, I could see them offering an opt-out tier of service - limited function, limited bandwidth, and far, far more ads.

  2. Re:Making Google Search less and less relevant on Google Makes Push To Turn Product Searches Into Cash (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    When I search for those things, I want to know where I can drive in my city and pick it up in 15 minutes, not wait for shipping. Most retailers can't handle that, doesn't matter how much they pay Google to direct me to them or how much data Google puts together.

  3. Re:So do your damn job. on Germany Wants Facebook To Obey Its Rules About Holocaust Denial · · Score: 1

    Can you link us to a news article or court document for a case where a US citizen, posting something on a US based internet service, while located in the US, was extradited and tried in German court?

  4. Re:Hate speech on Germany Wants Facebook To Obey Its Rules About Holocaust Denial · · Score: 1

    Because Facebook is run by Americans, who seem to have a better grasp on what is actually hate speech and what isn't?

  5. Re:How about "no"? on Germany Wants Facebook To Obey Its Rules About Holocaust Denial · · Score: 1

    That's grasping at straws when the real point is Facebook deciding to emulate American ideals, or cow to Germany. No, you don't have any "rights" on Facebook, it's a private entity. The users are free to leave for a service that suits them. Once you restrict too many things from being posted, everyone will leave for that competitor.

  6. Re:think about the victoms before saying "no" on Germany Wants Facebook To Obey Its Rules About Holocaust Denial · · Score: 1

    How do you incite hate by denying anything? Anyone denying anything should make the listener curious, and do their own research into the subject. If that's not happening, your education system is failing them. In fact, I'd argue it fails everyone. It seems their either fall for the rhetoric and propaganda of the government, or that of the hate groups. Both should be questioned, often. To suggest that it is somehow naturally a crime, without question, is insane, at best.

    Your duty? If you want to put that on yourself, that's your choice. Avoiding making the mistakes of generations before you, fine. Assuming guilt for actions committed decades before you were born? That's dipping your toe in the crazy pool...

  7. Re:think about the victoms before saying "no" on Germany Wants Facebook To Obey Its Rules About Holocaust Denial · · Score: 1

    Your system of censorship is already like the national socialism you had. Instead of requiring everyone to hate Jews, you require everyone to love Jews. How about you stop requiring arbitrary opinions and just let people decide for themselves?

  8. Re: How about "no"? on Germany Wants Facebook To Obey Its Rules About Holocaust Denial · · Score: 1

    Insulting? Angry? I was under the impression that German students learn English in their schools at a higher level than American students do in American schools. Clearly, you've fallen through the cracks if you got either of those from what he wrote.

    Rather, I'm pretty sure his point was that Germany can have their laws, and they can keep them in Germany. If it has to be this way - Facebook out of Germany, Germany out of Facebook. No big loss.

  9. Re: How about "no"? on Germany Wants Facebook To Obey Its Rules About Holocaust Denial · · Score: 1

    The who? That group that high school kids pretend to belong to for 1-3 years before realizing how stupid it is to try to belong to a **prison gang** while not in prison? Neo-Nazis don't tend to bother killing people already in prison.

  10. Amazing that they can pull off the complete 180... on LEGO Launches a Minecraft Competitor On Steam · · Score: 1

    LEGO Universe died because it was everything about LEGO except building.

    Here it's going to be about building, but no one to play with. Genius.

    Hopefully they're serious about that "yet", and multiplayer will be added sooner rather than later. Then it's just a matter of getting the building part right. Interacting with other people will just happen on its own. Of course, I don't see this making the smart move of full open world MMO with no instancing. Without that, it can capture a decent audience for a long time, but it won't have quite the same broad appeal.

  11. Third Party Test Administration on German Teenager Gets Job Offer By Trying To Use FOI For His Exam Papers · · Score: 1

    Doesn't this just open up a market for using a contractor to administrate these exams? The questions and answers would become trade secret rather than public record.

  12. Re:Just got back from Europe on South Korea Bans Selfie-Stick Sales · · Score: 1

    Sounds like an excellent opportunity for photobombing. Hell, they can't even ask you to stop being less rude in public than they're being. Hadn't really thought of this before this article, so thanks, now I have a plan!

  13. Re:How is this specific to Selfie Sticks? on South Korea Bans Selfie-Stick Sales · · Score: 1

    That's why the first article we saw a few weeks ago was "South Korean hospitals and air traffic control plagued by Bluetooth interference from selfie-sticks!"

    Oh, wait, we didn't see that, and never will. You can file this one in the same folder with taxi medallions and Uber - regulation to protect a taxed industry from an untaxed competitor under the guise of "public benefit."

  14. Re:Selfie Stick? on South Korea Bans Selfie-Stick Sales · · Score: 1

    Because you can't get one of those extend-y grabby arm toys at Target or Walmart for $10? Some of those can take decades of abuse and still work. Hell, you could probably build the thing yourself using those parts, but I'd rather pay someone else to do it.

    Far more likely that it's been patented, not in production from the holder of said patent, and no one wants to pay the licensing.

  15. Re:Buyer Beware on Elite: Dangerous Dumps Offline Single-Player · · Score: 1

    I've always hated the use of either "donation" or "investment". It's a pre-order for a product that may be delivered in any amount of time, which may be longer than the buyer's lifetime.

  16. Re:To be expected on Elite: Dangerous Dumps Offline Single-Player · · Score: 1

    That analogy just seems off to me. Maybe "ordering a luxury four wheel drive vehicle that has deployable rails, and upon delivery it doesn't have the rails." You can still drive it straight, but it's no longer built it. (Yes, I'm implying that anyone that wanted a single player version without MMO was asking for a game on rails.)

  17. Great, another step when setting up a new install of Firefox. If only Chrome would bring back side tabs...

  18. They seem to be asking the wrong people... on LinkedIn Study: US Attracting Fewer Educated, Highly Skilled Migrants · · Score: 1

    Pick any random university and go ask its foreign students how hard it is to get a green card. We don't just have skilled workers wanting in, they're already here and were trained here, and we send them back. It's really not worth the concession for access to their schools for our students (the government where the students are from want them to come home and "impart their knowledge to their countrymen"), the end result is that their best students come here and stay, and our best students stay here too.

  19. Obvious things are obvious? on Cops 101: NYC High School Teaches How To Behave During Stop-and-Frisk · · Score: 1

    "It's unlikely that a high school student would come away with any other conclusion than the police are a fearful group to be avoided at all costs"

    Wouldn't the most effective way to prevent that conclusion be to not be "a fearful group to be avoid at all costs"? Not every police department is that way. I'd go so far to say that most aren't. Even if you can make a somewhat logical claim that yours needs to be, you're already doing something wrong to get to that point.

  20. This study feels like it misses the mark for me... on Too Many Kids Quit Science Because They Don't Think They're Smart · · Score: 1

    Ask any student or teacher that knew me in junior high or high school and they'd have thought I'd be some mathematician or engineer or programmer making millions while receiving a pile of awards. They'd tell me I was smart, my grades would tell me the same, and any testing they did for placement into advanced programs would tell me the same. I didn't lose interest because I didn't think I could do it - I could then and still could. I lost interest because I also had potential as a pro athlete or musician, and actually wanted to do those, but no one gave the same encouragement there. (Also, the latter had more screaming female fans and tend to date more models and actresses.)

    Surely I couldn't be the only one - yeah, I'm good at science, but I don't *want* to do science. It's hard to get behind a study that claims someone loses self-confidence for being praised for something they know they're good at.

  21. Re:Non-comprehensive list on Ask Slashdot: MMORPG Recommendations? · · Score: 1

    Agreed with Icebalm. It's not an opinion, it's a flat out lie at this point. If you bother to reply to someone, and don't edit or post a correction, your disclaimer doesn't mean dick, and you really don't have room to claim that anyone "respect" anything about you. As much as I like someone putting together a list like you did, claiming to "have played them all" should not count uninstalling it after 30 minutes.

    Planetside 2 is "pay to have sooner." Anything you can buy other than visual fluff is available for free through play, and you can't even buy the upgrades to the weapons in the shop - you have to earn those just like you can earn any of the weapons.

  22. Re:fud on IAB Urges People To Stop "Mozilla From Hijacking the Internet" · · Score: 1

    You aren't very good at making a point, but we'll be more entertained if you keep trying anyway.

    "Climate change" doesn't need humans, or their egos thinking that it does.

  23. Re:fud on IAB Urges People To Stop "Mozilla From Hijacking the Internet" · · Score: 0

    Don't feel sad, 'cause two of out three ain't bad. (And I'm conceding the "faster pace" to even get you to two...)

  24. Re:How many knew that it was a global release? on Despite Global Release, Breaking Bad Heavily Pirated · · Score: 1

    Let's keep going with that football analogy, shall we? The game isn't always in overtime. When you score, you get back on the field and try to score again. If this analogy is going to be NFL football, people will pay you to go out there and keep scoring, and they'll stop paying if the players are visibly not trying.

    In the football analogy, the entertainment industry is trying to say "that touchdown we scored in 1982 should still count today!" Markets change. Consumer demands change. Technology changes. Put on the latest and greatest helmet, get back on the field, and keep scoring.

  25. Re:I don't believe the right applies with a warran on Seeking Fifth Amendment Defenders · · Score: 1

    Rather, he agrees with you and you fail at reading comprehension.