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  1. Re:Just wanted to point out on Ask Slashdot: Will Cars Eventually Need a Do-Not-Track Option? · · Score: 1

    I believe it ought to be opt-in. If you're a reviewer, opt-in for corroboration is a good idea-- but up to the honesty and revealed perspective of the reviewer, ultimately.

    My personal choice is: no data is recorded unless I chose it, knowingly and willingly and without repudiation. Otherwise, I don't believe their coders, and I want to see source before you accuse me of anything. Then, under tested third party conditions, that code has to be corroborated through empirical testing. Otherwise, your code can lie like a rug about my testing of the upper-end-limits of engine revving, and so forth.

  2. Re:Wonderful on Illinois Politician Wants a Kill Switch For Anonymous Speech Online · · Score: 1

    Dude, if a few key people didn't burn so much money partying in Dubai and Beirut and spent a little money bribing US politicians like those other guys did, there wouldn't be this Zionist rhetoric.

    Now get with the ticket and send money, in truckloads, to a few politicians and get with the program, m'K?

  3. Re:With all that's going on... on Illinois Politician Wants a Kill Switch For Anonymous Speech Online · · Score: 1

    Amusingly, the taxpayers in the legislator's district, by majority, did indeed elect this person. Says a lot about them, too.

  4. Re: Death of Slashdot? on Illinois Politician Wants a Kill Switch For Anonymous Speech Online · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, there's a grand mixture of fools and thieves from both parties, governors, senators, mayors, lots of convictions. Not far left. Big mixture there.

  5. Re:So what the article is saying... on Is "Left" Vs. "Right" Hard-coded Into Your Brain? · · Score: 1

    Whoosh....

  6. Re:Not in the present crop of browsers, tho on Why Hasn't 3D Taken Off For the Web? · · Score: 1

    I believe dimensionality has a place. I don't believe it's a huge place. I don't want to know whodunnit. That's why it's called a mystery. Some huge theatric "wave" effect will live about as long as UA's Earthquake stuff. Although the novelty is big, it's gimmicky.

    I think that 3D will evolve more slowly, and more naturally than what's being done right now. A generation of programmers/coders along with MPEG engineers, codec-makers, and DEMAND will be needed to make 3D an easy default selection, rather than the madness it is right now.

  7. Re:Not in the present crop of browsers, tho on Why Hasn't 3D Taken Off For the Web? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The demand will continue to be weak, though, perhaps forever, and for good reasons.

    3D is compelling in entertainment, but the amount of 3D entertainment media/downloads is but a tiny fraction of 2D because demand is small.

    Yes, it's compelling for modeling, be it architectural, artistic, design, engineering, medical holography, and so forth. But from the beginning of recorded history, we've successfully distributed and used 2D. That's because the added information in the 3rd dimension is useful, but in a movie or a picture, I don't need to see what's behind the tree. I don't care. There is reason in some cases, and we've evolved those cases, to give dimensionality as needed information. Otherwise, it's unnecessary and comes at an extra cost of codifying it, and storing it.

    3D is cool, no doubt about it. Immersive stuff is great. You're not going to find it on a box of CornFlakes, or as content in a James Patterson novel, or an Annie Leibovitz photo of Beiber.

  8. Re:Pathetic. on Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged · · Score: 1

    General principle. Users should own data about themselves.

  9. Re:Pathetic. on Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged · · Score: 1

    The raw data will be useless without software, and so let's see if an independent corrroboration vets either.

  10. Re:Pathetic. on Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged · · Score: 1

    I otherwise tend to like the BBC. Top Gear was suspect, in my mind. They claim otherwise, but I'm not at all convinced of their integrity.

  11. Re:well... on Iceland Considers Internet Porn Ban · · Score: 1

    The outcome of the elections are made more interesting. Vote porn? Doesn't seem like much of a foundation to base an opposition upon. Iceland's financial crisis ought to be more clear in the public memory, although I suppose the public forgets quickly.

  12. Re:well... on Iceland Considers Internet Porn Ban · · Score: 1

    This ain't wikipedia. Do your own damn research, or say fie to everything you see and hear.

  13. Re:well... on Iceland Considers Internet Porn Ban · · Score: 1

    You might consider starting here: http://www.unescobkk.org/index.php?id=1022 and consider that in some countries, even the US, some of the actors aren't making a career out of this.

    These include what might otherwise be consenting adults, engaged in consensual activities, but instead, they're victims of human trafficking. The porn industry is different in the US than in other areas.

  14. Re:Pathetic. on Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged · · Score: 1

    In the ongoing exchanges, there seems to be questions regarding the veracity of both, although it would appear the damning evidence that Musk turned up will trump some of the reporter's claims.

    But it also is somewhat onerous that Musk could get that much information, damning or not. I think that tracking that deeply is an invasion of privacy.... although it's a double-edged sword at this rate.

  15. Re:well... on Iceland Considers Internet Porn Ban · · Score: 1

    Oh, that's NOT right. One is slavery, the other is freelancing. Major difference.

    There's a serious clue waiting for you if you'll look into the matter. Subjugation is real, and it's plainly awful. That said, porn is made up of subjugation to a small extent, not a huge one. Your mysogny is miscast.

  16. Re:well... on Iceland Considers Internet Porn Ban · · Score: 4, Insightful

    While I agree with your sentiments, you judge all 300K+ Icelanders by the whims of one moralist minister.

  17. Re:well... on Iceland Considers Internet Porn Ban · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Sorry, despite anecdotal circumstances that seem suspect, there are still a huge number of involuntary sex workers in porn video. The statistics are available, and the sampling methods not suspect.

  18. Re:Pathetic. on Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No problem. The BBC will hire him in a heartbeat. They, too, seem to have tarted up electric car reviews as well.

  19. Re:well... on Iceland Considers Internet Porn Ban · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't think Icelanders are any more or less sexually moral than any one else. There are indeed abuses of women in porn, and the sex worker trafficing problem is huge.

    However, this is a moralist in disguise. He doesn't mention as an example, gay/lesbian porn. He's thinly disguising is contempt for porn in general. Consenting partners, unencumbered and free to make the choice, make porn all of the time. He's just interested in making sure no one watches it, for his sense of moral satisfaction.

  20. Re:Christians, physicians and hospitals on Missouri Legislation Redefines Science, Pushes Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    A lot of holy books were science books of legends and stories of interaction with each other, and ostensibly a diety (or more). After looking around, science found more.

  21. Re:Christians, physicians and hospitals on Missouri Legislation Redefines Science, Pushes Intelligent Design · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But we're not talking logic here, we're talking belief systems, and their frailty. Trust is very important to humans, and some will trust parental and mentoring sources more than "science".

    It's best to question it all. Science has enormous chasms, charlatans, lack of referential integrity, and lots of bogus opinion marching around as fact. Yes, I prefer science, despite its problems.

    But you're not fighting facts, you're fighting trust and beliefs masquerading as injecting doubts. The orthodoxy isn't going to give up. Best to educate them, and let them choose, so that they buy into what's going on around them.

  22. Re:Exception to Betteridge's law!! on Is the Concept of 'Cyberspace' Stupid? · · Score: 2

    This is a Slate meme-push to get terminology on their terms. As you cite, the Internet is essentially IP-addressable space, be it IPv4 or IPv6 and whatever's connected to *that*.

    Meme shifters want to start divvying up all of that into their own arguable memes, realms, constituencies, and politic. Nice try, Slate. Go back to washing bottles.

  23. Re:Why would you need a web browser on a server? on RHEL 6 No Longer Supported By Google Chrome · · Score: 1

    I agree with you in principle, but there are a ghastly number of users of RHEL that are developers, or who'd like to use a GUI instead of CLI when they do admin on a server-- for whatever reasons.

    A GUI takes less CPU cycles than you might think. If you've got a quad-socket, 4/core/socket machine, you have strokes to burn because even the vaunted, hallowed Linux kernel can't use them THAT efficiently. So, you want to open gnome or kde or x-something and do your surfs? Gotta use a different browser now. Seems strange that the support life would be that short, but I can also see valid reasons. And also see valid reasons not to use Chrome.

    Best practices would say: servers need every stroke they can get. Real world: we never use this stuff as intended except when the auditor is hovering around our cubes.

  24. Re:Isn't this the same for everything apple? on Surface Pro Sold Out; Was It Just Understocked? · · Score: 2

    Microsoft needs its hardware homies. The rest was for the press. If they lose their Taiwanese and Chinese homies, they are sooooo screwed.

  25. Re:Isn't this the same for everything apple? on Surface Pro Sold Out; Was It Just Understocked? · · Score: 2

    Consider that the Microsoft-branded units are probably limited, and not profitable. Watch Acer, Asus, MSi, and plentiful HP, Lenovo, Dell, come in and handily backfill the "demand".

    This is about the sillyest news story I've seen in a while. Microsoft's rewarding its hardware partners with "running out".... that is, if they had intended to be a major vendor in tablet Windows 8 form factors at all.