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  1. Re:it looked so much like layoffs on Former Yahoo Employee Challenges the Legality of Yahoo's Ranking System (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. It's called "The Shell Game".

  2. Re:I've got an idea for trademark. on Fine Brothers File For Trademark On Word "React" · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Evidently, enough people have said they are stupid dumb fucks that they have actually withdrawn the application and shut down their website where they were offering to license the use of this trademark to other people doing this. And are now also withdrawing takedown notices [I guess youtube content id, not DMCA].

  3. Re:it looked so much like layoffs on Former Yahoo Employee Challenges the Legality of Yahoo's Ranking System (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple can't make enough profits to make Wall Street happy. How can anybody else?

  4. Re:duh on The Feds' Freeway Font Flip-Flop (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    can't do that. here in Canada, the gov't went with an open-source font to use for our 150th anniversary, and immediately font designers started whining about how it's not expressive enough and that the gov't really has to pony up some cash and hire a 'real' designer to make a proper font [or rather, license a font from a designer].

    there is always someone looking for a new gov't teat to start sucking on.

  5. That would be hilarious. Donald's head would explode having to report to Hillary.

  6. Re:Trump will save this country on Air Force Firewall Now Designated a Weapons System (gazette.com) · · Score: 0

    When will the commanders just declare their dicks to be weapons, and demand cash from Congress in order to keep them in good working order and to use them as necessary on the battlefield?

  7. Re:Maybe it's not profitable? on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Major Companies Exiting the Spam Filtering Business? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    Probably just realized it's more profitable to get into creating and sending out spam, and they don't want one division of their company working against another division.

  8. yeah, it's a huge problem that pretty much all content providers default to streaming 4K video.

    all the major content providers automatically reduce quality to stream better.

    this is PRIMARILY for t-mobile's benefit, not end-users.

  9. 1. And of course, your personal preference should be mirrored across all of T-Mobiles customers. Because everyone has the same wants, needs and desires. Why does anyone even bother making 1080p televisions?

    2. T-Mobile KNOWS that nobody reads their communications. It's exactly why T-Mobile defaults this to opt-out instead of opt-in. Even if their email to their customers had a giant "Enable This Feature" button, virtually nobody would press it to enable the feature. T-Mobile knows that even if they called each of their customers and explained Binge and then asked them if they wanted it enabled, most customers would say "No".

    3. Except:
    -virtually everyone ignores this "communication" [letter/email/flyer] as the spam that it is. t-mobile knows this
    -the vast majority of T-Mobiles customers have no idea of the implications of this feature, that it screws up ALL video, or how to resolve it. they would either just wind up watching the crappy video, or calling, say, Netflix and complain to them about the poor video, and maybe Netflix tech support will figure out "oh, your on t-mobile. t-mobile is screwing up your video, phone them on how to fix this problem"

  10. First, it defaults to ON, and includes companies that aren't part of binge-on
    second, from t-mobiles site, it's 480p.
    third, for the typical end user, they would go "oh, the video quality in netflix is crap, even though I set the quality on the netflix service to 720p and then 1080p" which is more likely for the end-user to say
    a) "I guess Netflix has crappy video quality"
    b) "The internet is slow right now"
    or
    c) "Oh, T-Mobile is throttling Netflix, I have to figure out how to make T-Mobile stop throttling it"

  11. Yes, there is a HUGE problem with netflix streaming their movies at 4K to mobile phones. or even at 2K. wait, no. no they don't.

    t-mobile is improperly altering the communications between you and the content provider, and not at your request or the providers.

    And to go "oh, the video on this service is crappy. hmm, it's set for 720p, so it should pretty clear. oh, wait, t-mobile is fucking up the stream. I have to tell t-mobile I want a good video stream from netflix." couldn't be simpler or more obvious to end-users.

  12. Except they fuck up the connections between end-users and content providers that haven't "joined" the program.

  13. That's exactly the problem. End-users paid for the data AND bandwidth. T-Mobile is fucking up the data stream the end-user has already paid for, so they can strong-arm the provider into kicking in some more money.

    This is EXACTLY the situation net neutrality is supposed to be used for to kick in the nuts of the CEO of T-Mobile.

  14. I wish the CRTC here in Canada started getting some balls like the FCC has recently started showing.

  15. Re:Wow this site has gotten... on Canadian Government Lobbies Europe To Pass CETA (freezenet.ca) · · Score: 1

    You don't think Trudeau has received a call from Obama "Would you mind mentioning CETA to those EU guys?"

    Our PM's are like little lapdogs for the US President.

  16. Re:Suuure on The Widely Reported ISIS Encrypted Messaging App Is Not Real · · Score: 1

    They also use encrypted phrases such as "Go now"

  17. Re:Known NSA Sympathizer, cold fjord on 12 Years Later, Warrantless Wiretaps Whistleblower Facing Misconduct Charges (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    LIES! The gov't has very clearly said that they have not found any evidence that he tried to report any wrongdoing.

  18. Re: Fools think this is horrible. on EFF: License Plate Scanner Deal Turns Texas Cops Into Debt Collectors (eff.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    good luck getting a public defender for traffic court. they are overworked just doing criminal trials.

  19. Re:Fools think this is horrible. on EFF: License Plate Scanner Deal Turns Texas Cops Into Debt Collectors (eff.org) · · Score: 2

    Of course, the jail charges the inmates for room & board...it gets added on to the outstanding fines.

  20. Re:Good luck, Mrs. Gorski! on NSA Wants To Dump the Phone Records It Gathered Over 14 Years (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    They got the idea from a movie. This guy just waved his hand and said "You don't need to see his identification....These aren't the droids you are looking for....he can go about his business....move along..." and they figured they would try that in court, and it seems to have worked.

  21. Re:Everyone "knows", the new legal standard on Stingray Case Lawyers: "Everyone Knows Cell Phones Generate Location Data" (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    They're working on it. They are making it a lot harder for terrorists to get in [terrorists being anyone outside of America] and making it harder for terrorists to get out [terrorists being anyone inside of America].

    Politicians are the wardens, law enforcement and the military are the guards, the wealthy are the visitors.

  22. Re:Mdsolar strikes again with unrealistic FUD on US Could Lower Carbon Emissions 78% With New National Transmission Network (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    In this case, the concept is "government handout".

  23. Re:Ain't going to happen on The Clock Is Ticking For the US To Relinquish Control of ICANN (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes, they've done so much to limit the use of executive orders in the past, we can reasonably assume they continue to do so in the future.

  24. Re:Google... on Amazon's Customer Service Backdoor (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    There is, only the phone line isn't connected. It's so they can technically say they do have a telephone support department.

  25. Re:Glory hole? on Amazon's Customer Service Backdoor (medium.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the summary is confusing. unless he only has an amazon account for Amazon's cloud computing platform, what would be the point of migrating to Google? And google is only 'more robust' because they make it EXTREMELY hard to actually contact a live person.