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  1. I am 13.

    You're 13 -- yet you have a six-digit user ID.
    To get an ID that low you would have had to join years ago, putting you in violation of Slashdot's TOS.

    I suspect it is much the same issue on YouTube. If they are collecting data on children those children are lying about their age. What's YouTube supposed to do here? Require positive ID from the user? That just sets up another creepy Facebook-like data collection problem.

  2. Its probably being tormented by now :(

    Well, at the very least it's annoyed about being pulled back and forth around the globe.

  3. The way the world works... on California Police Ticket A Self-Driving Car (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    Cruise says its data shows the person was far away enough from the vehicle and the car did nothing wrong....

    Sounds like Cruise is finding out the imbalance of power that human motorists have to deal with apply to their cars, too. Doesn't really matter what happened, if the cop says you were doing something you're gonna get ticketed. And the courts will take his word above yours.

  4. Re:Without sending a tweet on Twitter Bans 270,000 Accounts For 'Promoting Terrorism' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Almost 75% of accounts were suspended before they sent their first tweet

    How can an account be banned for promoting anything before speaking publicly?

    I hear Tom Cruise and some drugged-out ladies in a pool were involved.

  5. Re:Useful??? on Twitter Bans 270,000 Accounts For 'Promoting Terrorism' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    From TFS:Almost 75% of accounts were suspended before they sent their first tweet

    How can the account be guilty of promoting terrorism without having sent any tweets? Was this just going off them "liking" other tweets, from accounts that were shut down for actual infractions, or was any account named "DownWithAmerica" targeted?

  6. It's called "corporate speak" for a reason... on Your Strategic Plans Probably Aren't Strategic, or Even Plans (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    An "objective" is something you're trying to achieve -- a marker of the success of the organization. At the other end of the spectrum is "action." This occurs at the individual level -- a level that managers are presented with day after day. So naturally when they think "strategy" they focus on what they do. But this isn't strategy either. "Strategy" takes place between these two at the organization level and managers can't "feel" that in the same way. It's abstract. CEOs have an advantage here because only they have a total view of the organization.

    Is the poster seriously expecting business management to use proper grammar? It's hard enough for regular rank-and-file employees to understand these nuances.

  7. Re:Email STILL works with friends on Sheryl Sandberg: Users Would Have To Pay To Opt Out of Facebook Ads (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Facebook doesn't do anything a blog couldn't before. The difference is the mental barrier of entry for usage. Subscribing to an RSS feed is too hard for many people compared with just Liking someone, or doing whatever people do to start getting spammed with the other's updates.

  8. If only there was some sort of standard... on Twitter Will Break Third-Party Clients in June (apps-of-a-feather.com) · · Score: 1

    How troublesome. Hooking your cart to someone else's horse, and being upset when it doesn't go where you want.

    Twitter messages are so small in terms of data payload. Too bad there isn't a open way to deliver really simple messages like these, syndicating them over the internet so to speak, to a wide audience without going through a single for-profit company's servers...

  9. ...rather need more than 6GB RAM

    This right here.

    I'm sick of downpurposing CPUs and being restricted to some stupid memory limitation. The NUCs are a fine example of this.

    Pretty sure that poster just didn't see the reason to spend the money on the memory upgrade, it wasn't a limitation of the CPU. I have an i7 920 as well. I started with 6 GB of RAM also when I built it (3 x 2GB, triple-channel config), and a couple years ago I upgraded to 16 GB (4 x 4GB, dual-channel config) so there was room for VM work.

  10. Re:Plain text can be easily hacked ROFLMAO on Gay Dating App Grindr Is Letting Other Companies See User HIV Status, Location Data (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Author apparently doesn't understand plain text doesn't need to be hacked, it's already plain text

    You have to be literate to understand plain text. I guess that's a skill that even befuddles internet "journalists" now.

    ---
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  11. Re:Don't look surprised on Microsoft Email Privacy Case No Longer Needed, Says The US (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    The Cloud Act, which was tucked into the spending bill that Trump signed March 23.

    You were warned.

    *shrug*

    > Implying we could do anything about a bill that was a rider on a huge spending package.

    top kek

  12. Oh boy. on Microsoft Is 'Demoting' Windows for the Cloud, Says CNN (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Finally the unwashed masses will be able to legitimately blame their Internet provider for their computer not being able to boot up.

  13. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Which makes the comment rather circular considering it was Facebook.

  14. Who's the sheep? The person who follows the currently popular fad or the person who can look at it, determine for themselves its overrated and then just say, "meh"?

    So since I never had a (official, not shadow) Facebook account, does that make me a hipster for "not using them before it was cool", part of the "fad" of hating on them now, or am okay since I "determined for myself its overrated" and never joined to begin with?

  15. iCloud Storage on Apple Announces New $299 iPad With Pencil Support For Schools (theverge.com) · · Score: 3

    The free iCloud offering for students has also been bumped up from 5GB to 200GB.

    How about you get with the times and give that to everyone, Apple?

  16. You can have access to my iPhone... on Cops Are Now Opening iPhones With Dead People's Fingerprints (forbes.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...when you unlock it with my cold, dead hands.

  17. Re:That's a terrible reason to do a good thing on Face ID Deemed Too Costly To Copy, Android Makers Target In-Display Fingerprint Sensors Instead (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    I got facial recognition working with a VGA webcam hooked up to a Raspberry Pi v1.0.

    Your facial recognition and Apple's FaceID are not the same thing. Your webcam is not doing three-dimensional mapping of the subject.

  18. Would that make it... on Britain's Plan To Build a 2,000 Foot Aircraft Carrier Almost Entirely From Ice (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    an ice boat? :-D

  19. it is almost like best buy saw this coming...

    One of the very few times their management has been ahead of the game on something.

  20. Re:"an Ubuntu-based OS" on Linux Mint Ditches AMD For Intel With New Mintbox Mini 2 (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    jesus how many levels of distro abstraction are we going to

    If you don't like all the rehashing, there is LMDE, which is a rolling Linux Mint setup running on Debian itself, instead of Ubuntu. Major version 3 is set for release around the same time as Mint 19 (this coming June).

  21. ...hold us back in the race to 5G... on FCC's New 5G Rules Favor Fast Setup Over Federal Reviews (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Who are we "racing" to get 5G deployed and why?

    Is there some huge issue with people hitting the wall speed-wise on existing LTE networks? Last I heard no one was getting anywhere close to the maximum speeds of the infrastructure we've got -- mostly due to a lack of back-haul capacity supplying it.

    Considering how the government coddles the incumbent telcos and doesn't hold them to any standards when it comes to fully supporting the markets they have been given exclusive access to, it's obvious that they don't consider high speed internet access an important thing, so that's not why.

  22. Re:Getting sued by Disney 3.. 2.. 1.. on New R2D2 Technique Protects Files Against Wiper Malware, Secure Delete Apps (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    "You don't need to see our license agreement."

  23. The exception to Betteridge's Law of Headlines.

    How it is an exception to the law? The title is written in past tense because of his death. "Did Stephen Hawking Owe a Nobel Physicist a Subscription To a Softcore Porn Magazine (He Never Paid Up On)?"

    The answer is no -- because in the 1997 video Hawking states he had given him the subscription (note also past tense).
    Hawking paid his debt. So Betteridge's Law continues.

  24. I don't think that's going to work how you think. on New Bill In Congress Would Bypass the Fourth Amendment, Hand Your Data To Police (medium.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    If passed, this bill would give law enforcement the power to go directly to tech companies, no matter where they or their servers are, to obtain our data.

    Pretty sure that violates some sort of principals of sovereignty, but yeah, you try doing that.
    Don't complain when China comes knocking asking for access to your servers, too.

  25. ...indicating that Siri 1.0's infrastructure was very creaky, which held back the service.

    It's not Apple's fault. They did the best with the resources the then second most valuable company in the world could do. /s