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  1. Re: Think of the criminals that get found on TSA Lays Out Plans To Use Facial Recognition For Domestic Flights (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    eh?
    facial recognition wont help with that, any more than photo id. in fact computers are even less reliable at recognising faces than people.

  2. Re: Please, News For Nerds on Trolls Are Still Actively Trying to Influence Brexit and US Elections (go.com) · · Score: 1

    however proper funny they think they can influence us rather than trigger the general nerdy binary response of walking away or blowing holes in their nonesense.

  3. Re: Main concern on Climate Change Will Cause Beer Shortages and Price Hikes, Study Says (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    i don't, after they posted winter 2000 polar sat images and compared them with summer 2016 polar sat images.

  4. Re: Main concern on Climate Change Will Cause Beer Shortages and Price Hikes, Study Says (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    oh my god, we must act now, the best solution is to double the Tax rate for American wage slaves immediately, and use the money to fund mass beer production in China.

  5. Re: Field testing for bin Salman on The US Grounds All F-35 Jets (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    On the plus side, it seems this is actually about trying to get the stealth working against the 1998 s300s just delivered to syria, rather than the 1978 s300s they were tested against, if they cant, they are just less maneuverable, smaller payload f15s, for 10 times the price.

  6. Re: I'm sure they needed it too on Apple Watch Apps Instantly Went 64-Bit Thanks To Obscure Bitcode Option (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Automatic, zero bit watches still rule the roost.

  7. Re: Slashdot, are you turning into a Puritan? on Alcohol Causes One In 20 Deaths Worldwide, Says WHO (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    probably a better way than being an intern for the WHO tho, but its ok, they promise to stop treating their interns like cattle by 2020.

  8. Re: Ban First, Think About Fixing it Later on Some Linux Gamers Using Wine/DXVK To Play Blizzard's Overwatch Banned (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    It starts with "Once again, a nasty legal battle has pulled back the curtain of secrecy that shrouds major game-industry deals. " i.e. there's been a lot of them. Agreements with microsoft to not let any of their studios produce linux versions, replying to linux support requests that they are breaching terms of service by using their pc games on Linux (that was the point I banned them iirc), just a pile the size of everest of examples, I didn't exactly keep a journal, but as far as I know its well known to linux gamers.

  9. Re: Ban First, Think About Fixing it Later on Some Linux Gamers Using Wine/DXVK To Play Blizzard's Overwatch Banned (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    The one that immediately springs to mind is the various id software court cases. but there are a lot of them, as mentioned in https://www.gamespot.com/artic...

    basically they do everything they can to subvert linux developement, its one of the reasons they have only 3 titles on android vs 10 on ios, when android destoys ios for graphics subsystems.

  10. Re: Ban First, Think About Fixing it Later on Some Linux Gamers Using Wine/DXVK To Play Blizzard's Overwatch Banned (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    You clearly miss the point entirely. Activision, for nearly two decades have done everything they could to undermine, damage and thwart gaming on linux. from legal action to firing any developer that dared use it.
    for example.
    https://www.gamingonlinux.com/...

    it is definately not a coincidence that a couple of months after someone starts a thread asking "will i be banned for using linux", acti starts hunting down and banning linux users.

  11. Re: Ban First, Think About Fixing it Later on Some Linux Gamers Using Wine/DXVK To Play Blizzard's Overwatch Banned (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    No, they started taking action a couple of months after they found out people were playing their games on linux

    https://eu.battle.net/forums/e...

  12. Re: Ban First, Think About Fixing it Later on Some Linux Gamers Using Wine/DXVK To Play Blizzard's Overwatch Banned (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    The fact they now have to advertise the fact that playing on linux isn't a bannable offensive kinda suggests its not false positive; and even if it is a false positive, its one false positive among a pile the size of E
    verest of true positives.

  13. Re: Ban First, Think About Fixing it Later on Some Linux Gamers Using Wine/DXVK To Play Blizzard's Overwatch Banned (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm willing to rethink the ban if they stop actively trying to undermine linux gaming.

  14. Re: Ban First, Think About Fixing it Later on Some Linux Gamers Using Wine/DXVK To Play Blizzard's Overwatch Banned (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    not really, I banned activision from my house due to their treatment of linux.

  15. Re: Russians attack us on Microsoft's Outlook and Skype Are Facing Outages (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    as reported on tuesday

  16. Re: Russians attack us on Microsoft's Outlook and Skype Are Facing Outages (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    nah, they hacked and shutdown various nsa servers, users seeing the messages were having their content routed through them.

  17. Re: Catalogue reductions on EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    more like the EUs are upset all the content the paid for is available on thepiratebay and not netflix.

  18. Re: 5.1 seconds? on Mercedes Unveils First Tesla Rival In $12 Billion Attack (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    probably the conventional thinking. similar to when you could only fill up fords at a ford gas station back in the day I guess.

  19. Re: laws in the uk? on Murder Suspect Jailed Over Refusing To Reveal Password In the UK (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    uk jails are full of people who hate sodomites. The sidomites are all outside running the shithole country.

  20. Re: BTC is still holding strong on John McAfee's 'Unhackable' Bitfi Wallet Got Hacked -- Again (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    there is significant intrisic value in not having to rely on the banks to store the digits of your financial value, or decide how and who you conduct financial transactions with.
    Economics 401.

  21. Re: Libre Office is now so good, MSFT can lump it on Microsoft Removes Device Install Limits For Office 365 Subscribers (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    They're available from the canteen.

  22. Re: Libre Office is now so good, MSFT can lump it on Microsoft Removes Device Install Limits For Office 365 Subscribers (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    but without an editor and very (still to) limited debugging and error logging.

    its definately getting there. but i had a check on js after posting and still found literally nothing but unanswered questions, python seems to have slightly better support but still includes warnings that things silently fail, plus requires additional setup on the user side which completely defeats the point.

  23. Re: Libre Office is now so good, MSFT can lump it on Microsoft Removes Device Install Limits For Office 365 Subscribers (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    no.

    such clients typically cannot install software on the computers they use without jumping through a thousand hoops. even "installerless" software requires preauthorisation.

    Excel VBA is more like a loophole that lets them order bespoke software without having to get pre approval from IT.

  24. Re: Ah. Well i stopped reading... on Adobe's Next Major Creative Cloud Release Won't Support Older OSes (petapixel.com) · · Score: 2

    on the other hand.
    any "it professional" using windows 10 should be immediately fired for gross negligence.

  25. Re: Libre Office is now so good, MSFT can lump it. on Microsoft Removes Device Install Limits For Office 365 Subscribers (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    its getting there, but not quite there yet.
    Tons of consultants justify their fees (and go for lock in to their services) using excel vba. if libreoffice would introduce "javascript for spreadsheets" google docs and office would die the day after.