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  1. Correlation does not equal causation. on Police Complaints Drop 93 Percent After Deploying Body Cameras (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    But even more surprising is that the data suggests everyone is on their best behavior whether the cameras are present or not.

    Sounds like this is less about the cameras reducing shenanigans and more about the two parties not wanting to become the next "officer shot an unarmed suspect" news story. So it's more a change in behavior due to current political climate.

  2. You think all companies are equal under U.S. law?

  3. I think they're waiting to see some more solid demand shape up in the "exploding headgear" market space.

    The fore thinking of those executives is mindblowing.

  4. Krebs reports, "virtually guaranteeing that the Internet will soon be flooded with attacks from many new botnets powered by insecure routers, IP cameras, digital video recorders and other easily hackable devices."

    A frightening "future" indeed.

  5. Re:finally, the year of the Linux desktop on Microsoft Bungles This Week's Windows 10 Anniversary Update (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Just go to Mint instead. Cinnamon's interface is similar to older Windows, the software repository is the same, they pretty much recommend you don't update your kernel unless you know what you're doing.

  6. Re:finally, the year of the Linux desktop on Microsoft Bungles This Week's Windows 10 Anniversary Update (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Is there a specific reason you're updating your kernel? Those aren't automatic.
    You should treat it like PC firmware -- if it's working fine don't replace it until required. If it's not working fine don't update unless the update is supposed to fix your specific issue.

  7. Editing -- not copypasting on Rosetta's 12-Year Mission Ends With Landing On Comet (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 3

    Earlier, it had snapped the interior of deep pits on the comet (shown above, from an altitude of 5.8 kilometers) that may show the building blocks it is made of.

    It it too much to ask submissions be re-written to a point and not just blatant copying and pasting from the source?

  8. Who's the seller again? on Amazon Marketplace Shoppers Slam the Spam (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    There appears to be no way to opt out of this email flood, which is odd, given Amazon's self-professed zeal for great customer service.

    Well, when you buy from a Marketplace seller you're not buying from Amazon, so...

  9. Re:Sorry online is all I've got right now on Author Says Going Offline For 24 Hours a Week Has Significantly Improved His Health, Sanity and Happiness (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do Avast developers really have such bleak social lives?

  10. Only if you're working at the right place. At my employer (IT field) only 5% of the workforce is female, and most of them are older married HR/secretarial people. There are literally zero single women here.

  11. So I guess Mozilla is going to think about dissolving in the next few years?
    I mean, if they are going to stop developing their own technologies and Firefox is to become just a special skinned version of Chrome, there's no need for all those developers -- of some well-paid (but productively useless) board of directors.

  12. Sounds like Rosetta's journey... on Rosetta Spacecraft Prepares To Land On Comet, Solve Lingering Mysteries (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    is reaching its tail end. /duck

  13. I wasn't aware there was anything wrong with LXDE. I bit plain, yes. But certainly not ugly and it was without confusing control widgets some other desktop environments have.

  14. For most people cell phone service coverage is more pervasive than wi-fi network availability.
    I can't drive down the highway and connect to a wi-fi network.

  15. The US being on the bottom of the list is finally a good thing. Of course we just import the finished goods and let manufacturers (China) worry about the pollution we cause.

    I missed where we were forcing China to run their industry the way they do. If they care so much about the Earth they can institute pollution controls and pass on the costs to their customers (the U.S. and other countries). We can, in turn, pay for the higher cost of goods down the line to the end consumer.

    Maybe this will make having Chinese factories build our goods less lucrative for the Companies in California that do it.
    Maybe this will reduce the demand for Chinese exports and cause a resurgence in domestic manufacturing.

    Either way, no one is holding a gun to Shenzhen's head and forcing them to poison themselves. They've made it clear what matters more.

  16. Re:Seriously...music off YouTube...? on YouTube-MP3 Ripping Site Sued By IFPI, RIAA and BPI (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    YouTube audio quality at the HD setting (720p/1080p) is 128kbps AAC, which is close to being considered "audibly transparent" (I believe for AAC the bitrate is a little higher for that - 192kbps?).

    128 kbps? Audibly transparent?
    Only on the promotional materials for MP3 players that came out at the beginning of the century (back when capacity was still measured in megabytes on most of them). That whole "64 kbps is FM quality, 128 is CD quality" was a huge joke -- even then.

  17. Re:Stupid comments aside... on Malware Evades Detection By Counting Word Documents (threatpost.com) · · Score: 2

    You could image a real-world computer and use that to make test environment templates (obviously remove any documents that contain any real sensitive info).

  18. Re:Why do people care... on Snapchat's 10-Second-Video Glasses Are Real And Cost $130 Bucks (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... whether or not somebody else records them in a public place? For fuck's sake, if they are within earshot, they are recording your audio and if they are in eyeshot, they are recording your video... the only difference is that the device that is doing the recording is their brain. When wetware becomes a thing, even that distinction to external devices such as cameras or microphones will be irrelevant.

    Because currently a memory is only usable to the witness, and is often forgotten. It cannot be saved in perfect detail, duplicated (only described), or packaged and sold for monetary gain. When wetware comes to be, as you point out, these issues will need to be dealt with at an ethical and legal level, but the that's not coming as soon as you believe, I think.

  19. Re:Superdistribution of Content on Why the Silencing of KrebsOnSecurity Opens a Troubling Chapter For the Internet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The web, like e-mail, is going through death throes.

    Gimmie a break. You know how often I've heard "email is dying"? Generally it's from some stupid millennial, or the mouthpiece of a social networking company that offers a messaging feature that, for all intents and purposes, is email (except with formatting and picture/video inserting bells and whistles). What they really mean is "we wish email were dead, so everyone would be forced to become one of our users and we could become the new defacto email".

    When those kids go out and get a job and have to communicate in a serious fashion, it's not Facebook they're going to be launching -- it's Outlook.

  20. ... including Amazon's sleeper hit, the Echo...

    The Echo is a hit? Citation, please.

  21. Re:Better allocate some resources now on Senate Panel Authorizes Money For Mission To Mars (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    LOL. The only people saying the coming president is going to be an R is deluded R supporters. The Republicans thew away the Presidency the moment they made Trump their candidate.

  22. Re:What TypeScript is on TypeScript 2.0 Released (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    I wasn't sure what TypeScript is so I looked it up.

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

    It's a language similar to JavaScript that allows you to optionally use types on variables. It "transcompiles" to JavaScript, so you can write programs in TypeScript and then they will run in standard web browsers that only support JavaScript.

    You left out the part about it being developed and maintained by Microsoft. So it's a language that generally imitates something someone else has done and is already a standard, but adds it's own special new features that are not in the original, thus making a case you should use this new Microsoft technology and not the other.

    Where have I heard that before...

  23. Should have gone for Schwarzenegger Headline: on Senate Panel Authorizes Money For Mission To Mars (usatoday.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Senate Panel Says "Get Your Ass to Mars."

  24. Re:Back in the day att used to give you the modem on Charter Fights FCC's Attempt To Uncover 'Hidden' Cable Modem Fees (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Back in the day att used to give you the modem as in you own it. Later it was like you pay $99 for it and get an $99 rebate.

    Was this also "back in the day" when the only DSL provider you had was your local RBOC?
    AT&T didn't have to worry about you taking their free-gift modem and switching to another provider with it then -- unless you were moving and would be out of their service area anyway.

  25. kthxapple on 19-Year-Old Jailbreaks iPhone 7 In 24 Hours (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apple responded to the news by saying, "Apple strongly cautions against installing any software that hacks iOS."

    Luca responded that it took "courage" to talk about his exploit and possibly withholding it from Apple.