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  1. Re:Ah, I get the definition on Germany Considers Fining Facebook $522,000 Per Fake News Item (heatst.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't exclude the possibility that some of it is true. There are too many cases of stuff that has been dismissed as false that later has been revealed to be true to some extent.

    Therefore the problem with "false news" is that it opens the can of worms of censorship.

  2. Re:Is Hillary! Running in Germany? on Germany Considers Fining Facebook $522,000 Per Fake News Item (heatst.com) · · Score: 1

    Hillary would probably have a better chance in Germany than in the US.

    But you have to be sure that it's fake news, not just satire. And what if it's real news declared to be fake?

  3. Re:Ah, I get the definition on Germany Considers Fining Facebook $522,000 Per Fake News Item (heatst.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    I wouldn't be surprised if there's truth to the "pizzagate" even if a lot of the namings and definitions there like the name of the pizza joint weren't accurate. Ever heard of code names? Put in a code name that is the same as an actual unrelated business and you get a great diversion.

    It's known that Bill Clinton thinks with his dick from time to time and likes young women. Hillary must know at least something and let the dicks play around just to get what she wants. As long as she was able to get what she wanted she let the men play around with the provision that if they crossed her then she would reveal their play.

  4. Re:CNN on 2016 Saw A Massive Increase In Encrypted Web Traffic (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    But you can't be sure that there isn't a "man in the middle" attack on this. As long as governments are involved they have the power to get approved certificates to place in proxies.

  5. Re:Encrypted is in the eye of the beholder on 2016 Saw A Massive Increase In Encrypted Web Traffic (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    You mean a public CA. If you run your private CA it's a different matter.

    However it won't stop the gun to your head or banging your knuckles with a hammer attacks.

  6. Re:Top ten for what, exactly? on Google and Facebook Dominate The List of 2016's Top Ten Apps (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Popular doesn't mean the most useful app for you as an individual. Also realize that many apps are provided as "bloatware" on your phone which skews the result.

  7. Re:Better Question on Can Learning Smalltalk Make You A Better Programmer? · · Score: 1

    That depends on the problem encountered. A shotgun may also be a problem solver in some cases.

  8. Re:Like Latin... on Can Learning Smalltalk Make You A Better Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Just realize that C++ comes with the disadvantages of both C and Object orienting without many of the advantages and then you know that you should have never done C++ at all.

  9. Re:Like Latin... on Can Learning Smalltalk Make You A Better Programmer? · · Score: 1

    C is a good learning language - you will make all your mistakes there and then you know what you shouldn't do to avoid stack overwrites etc. Shoot yourself in the foot 25 times and you will learn how you shouldn't do, then you can continue with a better language.

  10. Re: Well rounded. on Can Learning Smalltalk Make You A Better Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Z80 Assembly.

  11. Re: Twitter isn't helping on Has the Internet Killed Curly Quotes? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 2

    And those "smart" quotes that appears on and off really messes up some documentation where you document command lines in a document. The straight quotes are good enough, any software that automagically replaces them makes it impossible to do a copy/paste of command lines in documentation and other similar stuff.

    So the "smart" quotes and dashes are a good example of how you overdo stuff without providing any real value for the users.

  12. Re:Why wait??? on Iconic Star Wars Actress Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 (people.com) · · Score: 1

    We have lost a huge chunk this year; Muhammad Ali, David Bowie, Prince, George Michael, Rick Parfitt (Status Quo), Andrew Sachs (Manuel in Fatty Owls), Leonard Cohen, Robert Vaughn, Pete Burns (Dead or Alive), Gene Wilder, Kenny Baker, Anton Yelchin and Alan Rickman (Die Hard, Harry Potter).

    It all started early with Lemmy a year ago on 28th of December 2015. Maybe he felt lonely wherever he went.

    Meanwhile Keith Richards is still alive and well.

  13. Re: I don't think so on Iconic Star Wars Actress Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 (people.com) · · Score: 1

    What she did was important, even if not everything she did made it into the public awareness.

    A lot of people seems to ignore that she became known in the 70's when the amount of female heroines was limited. She fought for equality by showing the way, not by playing the blame game.

  14. Re: I don't think so on Iconic Star Wars Actress Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 (people.com) · · Score: 1

    James Bobd was an ornithologist.

  15. Re:Seems a tad disingenuous on The Project To Revive Abandoned Wikipedia Pages Has Been Abandoned (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Also consider that some Wikipedia pages don't have to be edited much as soon as they have been created. Like pages describing connector pinouts where the amount of information is finite.

    There's of course always some minor stuff that may be adjusted, but such pages are safe to abandon.

    Pages about persons is a different matter - there's always some new stuff that can float up, and there are a lot of variations on them as well.

  16. Re:Childe Cycle Books on What's the Best Book You Read This Year? · · Score: 1

    A good choice.

    Now continue with "Way of the Pilgrim" by Dickson.

    I just finished "The Saga of Shadows" by Kevin Anderson, which is a continuation of "The Saga of the Seven Suns".

  17. Re: Why they are slow? on Slashdot Asks: Why Are Browsers So Slow? (ilyabirman.net) · · Score: 1

    Don't forget all the tracking stuff that's on the web pages that can slow down a web page severely just to get a single image pixel.

  18. Re:Sounds like a public service to me... on Russian Hackers Stole $5 Million Per Day From Advertisers With Bots and Fake Websites (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    The Russian way is to hand out a medal and then shoot them.

  19. What I mean is that most often just the meds are prescribed and nothing else happens. No tests that checks if there's an underlying cause like out of balance thyroid etc. Doctors are too focused on their special area that they don't want to admit that the problem may be relieved better and faster if there's a root cause examination as well.

  20. And what's added to the water used?

  21. Re: Or people are just under/wrongly medicated. on Are Psychiatric Medications Hurting More Patients Than They Help? (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Genetics is one factor, but external stuff may also play a role. Bromides in our drinking water pushes out iodine which the thyroid needs and without sufficient iodine levels the thyroid can't produce enough of the necessary hormones T3 and T4, which can cause a lot of symptoms including depression.

  22. I knew it, Ozzy must be involved somewhere.

    But the drugs just takes care of the symptoms to some extent. Not the cause. We need to dig deeper.

  23. Re:JavaScript on Oracle Begins Aggressively Pursuing Java Licensing Fees (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    I agree, the question is if this headache may cause Ada to grow stronger. But even though C# isn't as good and strict as Java it's likely the language that will benefit from this.

  24. Re:On the balance, most likely not. on Does Code Reuse Endanger Secure Software Development? (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    A lot of small home routers falls into this category. Whenever you look at them they are usually built on a very old kernel with busybox and some quickly thrown together web interface with questionable security.

  25. Re: uh, no on Does Code Reuse Endanger Secure Software Development? (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on the case - a language with built-in bounds checking is less prone to buffer overflow issues than C, but it may be cumbersome to do some stuff that's easy in C.