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  1. Who said "free"?

  2. This. The financial situation of a student or his parents should not impact the choice of education the student makes.

  3. Re:Who's buying? on George Orwell's '1984' Tops Amazon's Bestseller List (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We've heard Trump's inauguration speech with echoes of the villain Bane from the Dark Knight Rises

    Oh boy, we've got someone pulling out their fake news. There was a single sentence that had a basic resemblance to Bane's speech. That single sentence: "We're giving power back to the people." That's it.

    Then it's not fake news, now is it?
    If may be insignificant and not newsworthy, but it is not fake.

  4. Re:Who's buying? on George Orwell's '1984' Tops Amazon's Bestseller List (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    They'd probably consider it leftist, socialist propaganda.

  5. The "circumvent" clause is not specifically about encryption, but about any and all technical barriers.
    Many CD's have some sort of laughably stupid or downright evil (remember Sony?) copy protection, which would fall under this anti-circumvention.

  6. Re:Good on Three States Propose DMCA-Countering 'Right To Repair' Laws (ifixit.org) · · Score: 3, Funny

    As soon as the RIAA goons figure out this law might be used to repair defective CD's, it'll be gone.

  7. Should it fold if the opponents bet outweighs the probability?
    If the AI uses probabilities, it itself becomes predictable and therefore trivial to beat.
    The game is setup to make you lose if you only play good hands, so there is no playing safe in poker.
    Probabilities in poker are nearly meaningless if you play against even half-decent amateurs.

  8. Sad on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Sad

  9. Hey! We pour the most money into our prison system, so it must be the best.

    Your prison companies will be happy to make your prison system even better by increasing their profit margins.

  10. You're asking the wrong question.
    Why ever release his name at all?

  11. Re:Why not name him? on Dutch Developer Added Backdoor To Websites He Built, Phished Over 20,000 Users (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because you want to be able to punish ex-criminals after he has received his punishment according to the law?
    If a criminal is released from prison, it should be assumed he won't commit crimes again.
    If you assume an ex-prisoner will commit crimes again, your prison system isn't working.

  12. Sure you can. And if you submit your idea to a project like Wine or ReactOS, they might show some interrest, since they're already doing their version of your idea.

  13. SUSE on Windows 10 Gets A New Linux: openSUSE (fossbytes.com) · · Score: 1

    I keep forgetting SUSE still exists.

    Does anybody still use it, and how does it stack up against the other distro's?

  14. Re:Two options... on Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Place To Suggest New Open Source Software? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Third options:

    3: Find a project that already does something very close to what you want and who'll probably see the value of your suggestion.

    I have both suggested such things to other projects and have taken on similar feature requests on my own open source projects.
    If it's a good idea, it doesn't matter where it came from.

    On the other hand, if you're looking for a place to dump your ideas and then expect other people to go looking for them, then why do you expect somebody to take the effort for your idea while you couldn't even be bothered with it yourself?

  15. Re:Well Trump has one thing right on Congress Will Consider Proposal To Raise H-1B Minimum Wage To $100,000 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a bi-partisan bill introduced before Trump is even in office.
    Writing a bill takes time; by the time it was introduced, it has already been in the pipeline for much longer.
    Trump may be able to ride on the coat-tails of this bill, but in reality it's a bill that has nothing to do with the election.

  16. Re:ATT & DirecTV wouldn't be a violation. on New FCC Report Says AT&T and Verizon Zero-Rating Violates Net Neutrality (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Except in this case they have the power to force competitors to pay more.
    It's like them making their own tech support phoneline free while at the same time being able to charge money for using competitor's tech support phonelines.

  17. Re:Whither privacy? on Microsoft Anti-Porn Workers Sue Over PTSD (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    You might have stopped using Microsoft, but how certain are you that your recipient's email server isn't hosted by Microsoft?

  18. Re:Congratulations - you invented the WWW on WeChat Beats Google in Releasing Apps That Don't Need Downloading or Installing (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    As I understand it, you still need to download and install the Wechat app.
    Their "invention" seems to be that the app basically includes a webbrowser (or something very much like it).
    So when they say you don't need to download and install anything, they mean that you have to download a new update for their app, which has extra code it installs, then it can download things that aren't technically apps and execute them using the preinstalled interpreter.

  19. I'm not here to teach any more than you are here open to learn.
    I was rude and correct, you were rude and incorrect and disingenuous to boot.
    You're welcome.

  20. Have you even read the summary?
    Are you really that dumb, or are you just trolling?

  21. A streaming service like Spotify is about the cost of one CD per month. This means you break even at only 12 CD's a year.
    Some streaming services allow you to download for offline listening and they may offer singles or other songs rare on physical media.
    Another thing to consider is that CD's have a limited lifetime; I have several old CD's that are no longer playable; my only legal option would be to buy them anew (assuming they are still sold).
    The full answer is, as always; "it depends". If your tastes are limited to certain time periods or to only a few genres, you're probably better off buying physical media. If you have wide interrest or like to keep up with new music, streaming might be easier.
    Obviously, physical media has some added value due to the artwork and simply the idea of physically owning something you like.
    On the other hand, tracking down cheap physical media (especially less popular or rare music) is only cheaper if your time is worthless.

  22. If you have slightly wider musical tastes and want to listen to music legally, streaming can be a whole lot cheaper than buying hundreds of CD's.

  23. Re:Lessons re-learned on Russia Demands LinkedIn App Takedown, Apple and Google Comply (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I think he's refering to a distributed model, where every user would be able to either host their own data storage or pick their own host.
    Kind of like the distributed Facebook competitor "Diaspora". Remember that project? Me neither.

  24. Why so impatient? on Russia Demands LinkedIn App Takedown, Apple and Google Comply (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Why are they so impatient?
    Just a few more weeks and every database in the US will be hosted in Russia.

  25. The problem is that the only way for Indians to produce the code you need is to specify it to the point where you've just written the entire code yourself.

    I've seen this numerous times; their inability to think of reality is insane. I've once been asked to produce a mock object for a simple currency converter so they could test their components. The mock converter just had a list of static conversion rates for each currency. The code they returned (the code that was supposed to use the real currency converter) relied on the currency converter always returning the same conversion rates. Turns out they were using a substring()-like function to extract the rates from an XML message, so if the rate had a different number of digits or the XML was different in any insignificant and perfectly valid way, it would fail hard. Since their code handled no exceptions at all, failing meant exiting the entire application.