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  1. Re:Give some protection to Combetta on Oversight Orders Reddit To Preserve Deleted Posts In Clinton Investigation (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    The burden is on the accuser to prove guilt.

  2. Re:Help Wanted on North Korea Has Just 28 Websites (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    3. If Hillary wins and NK endorsed Trump, nothing will happen. If Trump wins and NK didn't endorse Trump, he'll probably nuke them. You don't antagonize a vengeful child with self control issues.

  3. Isn't this what notifications are for?

  4. Re:clearly they havent heard on GoDaddy Proposes New DNS Configuration Standard (programmableweb.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    GoDaddy's implementation of the API their senior VP of Domains Engineering "said that the program will not be open to public developers and that any service providers wanting access will have to be approved by his team at GoDaddy."

    aaaaaand go fuck yourself for trying to make the internet proprietary. you might have swinging dicks backing this idea, but you can expect a shit-storm of legitimate registrars like Dreamhost and register4less to completely ignore this DNS fever-dream you have. Im sure youll support it for 4 years as an option, then quietly shuffle it under the rug of shit that didnt work out like that cloud storage you based entirely off net-app called Nebula.

    Don't worry. If everybody follows GoDaddy's example, then nobody can interoperate and this protocol is dead in the water. They're basically hoping that competitors will let them take "their" domainnames while paying lipservice to supporting the protocol themselves.

  5. The likely reason they give TV away for free, is so they can claim a larger audience, and thus charge more for TV ads.

    Yeah, because the people buying adspace are retards who blindly trust the TV providers and do no market research of their own.

    I prefer to asssume that the people who are actually making a living doing something are atleast as knowledgeable about their job as me.

  6. The curved screen looks cool on a store shelf but, like glossy displays, is utterly useless and, like glossy displays, will be the norm before you know it.
    Because fuck usability; it's sellability that counts.

  7. Fails to address the unwritten requirements on Stanford Engineers Propose A Technology To Break The Net Neutrality Deadlock (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    How will this technology enable ISP's to blackmail content providers and double-charge customers?

  8. Re:in b4 a hundred "poor little angels" on Instagram Rolls Out 'Keyword Moderation Tool' That Will Filter Out Offensive Comments (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, you can still post your rantings on Instragram. But other people may choose to ignore your rantings.

    It's exactly like freedom of speech; you can say whatever you want, but you can't force me to listen to it.

  9. Re:Ah, "inappropriate" words... on Instagram Rolls Out 'Keyword Moderation Tool' That Will Filter Out Offensive Comments (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    If that were true, than people should stock censoring the word "Fucking", because it is never used to mean "having intercourse" any more and has basically become synonymous with "very much so".

  10. Post Vogon poetry on Instagram, ofcourse!

  11. Re:It's about time... on Twitter Will Extend Its 140 Character Limit On September 19th (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They have a business model?

  12. Re:scapegoat much? on Volkswagen Engineer Pleads Guilty in US Diesel Emissions Probe (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder how much money he's being paid to take the fall.

  13. Re:Slashdot summary isn't great, it's "DDoS decade on Israeli DDoS Provider 'vDOS' Earned $600,000 In Two Years (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, my bad, you were right and the summary is truely that bad.

  14. Re:Slashdot summary isn't great, it's "DDoS decade on Israeli DDoS Provider 'vDOS' Earned $600,000 In Two Years (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the "operating for decades" refers to the people and their DDoS activities and "sept. 2012" refers to the specific website they use to offer those activities.

  15. Re: Completely wrong.... on University of California Hires India-Based IT Outsourcer, Lays Off Tech Workers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Technical "education", in India, is also hardly worth the ink written to spell those words.

    It's apparently sufficient to outsource jobs to.

  16. But I'd have to do that if I didn't use bluetooth anyway.

    But then you didn't have to carry the bluetooth headset with you.

  17. You have to be pretty courageous to call yourself "courageous" in the first place.

  18. Re: Completely wrong.... on University of California Hires India-Based IT Outsourcer, Lays Off Tech Workers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You do understand WHY foreign labour is cheaper, right?

    Despite common believe, IT employees are not able to live on half a can of mountain dew a day.
    The entire economy has to basically collapse in order for local labour to become "competitive" with countries where everything in the economy is cheaper.

    As an example; technical education in India is about US$1000 per year (http://qz.com/445500/the-cost-of-getting-a-decent-education-in-india-is-now-staggering/).
    According to GP, that would be roughly 35 times cheaper at the very least.

  19. Re: Why are you people so worried about this? on Leaked Demo Video Shows How Government Spyware Infects a Computer (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's probably because a lot of people say the exact same thing without being sarcastic at all.

  20. I f**king hate the shiney screens.
    Those things look absolutely great in a store display with the power turned off, but are useless in pretty much any other situation.
    How insane is it to have a computer you can lug around but can't use in the sun. Or with a lightsource anywhere near you. Or with a window behind you. Or in a brightly colored room.

    Many brands still sell business models without the glare, but these usually cost extra. You can also buy separate anti-gloss overlays which may also block touch.

  21. The slimmer the device gets, the thicker the protective cover becomes.
    Unless these devices are designed to bend and dent, going more thin just makes them more fragile.

  22. Re:Spaceflight is risky on Satellite Owner Says SpaceX Owes $50 Million Or Free Flight (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    There are insurance companies that do, but the premiums skyrocket.

  23. Re:What about perjury? on Warner Bros Issues Takedown For Own Website (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    No. DMCA puts the onus on the accused to proof her innocense.

  24. f.lux has been standard on all computers I use for many years now.
    Let's first see how Microsofts' version works before jumping ship.

  25. Re:BSD on the rise on PC-BSD Follows a Rolling Release Model, Gets Renamed To TrueOS · · Score: 0

    Why is that a strawman argument?