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  1. Re:No kidding. on Google Studies How Bad Interstitials Are On Mobile · · Score: 1

    Which is exactly the point. On most sites, you just want to READ content. RSS is just fine for that.

  2. Re:No kidding. on Google Studies How Bad Interstitials Are On Mobile · · Score: 1

    No useful content included.

    Your comment sure was pretty, though.

  3. Re:Browsing with mosquitoes on Google Studies How Bad Interstitials Are On Mobile · · Score: 1

    In this case they're not talking about the advertisement screens, but about websites that completely block mobile access and display a "download app" instead.
    I know I've met a few such sites and just closed the browser tab instead.
    Apparently I'm not allowed to see what one of their subscribers posted without having to sign away all my personal information first.
    Those apps invariably need unrestricted access to my entire phone for me to view some pictures or read some text.
    If I wanted to install an app for your site, I wouldn't be visiting your website in a browser, now would I?

  4. Re:Won't allow forwarding? on Gmail Messages Can Now Self-Destruct · · Score: 1

    I can only imagine they render the text to an image hosted on dmail's servers, which is deleted after a set time.
    But that won't work with Gmail, since Gmail caches all images on their own servers (including HTTPS and never-ending images).

  5. Re:I like this on Smithsonian Increases Goal For Spacesuit Crowdfunding Effort · · Score: 1

    The most interresting thing about this (and some other kickstarters) is that people ARE actually putting their money where their mouths are.

  6. Re:Shocking on Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign Revealed In MPAA Emails · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How about an Attorney General knowingly siding with illicit corporate interests?

  7. Re:We need better legislation on Chinese Tourist's Drone Crashes Into Taipei 101 Skyscraper · · Score: 1

    How are RC plane owners currently informed of the regulation?
    Perhaps the drone producers could devote a page of their manuals on this subject (they probably already include "don't be a dick" notes anyway).

  8. Re:Makes sense to me on New York Judge Rules Against Facebook In Search Warrant Case · · Score: 2

    A key difference between physicial and digital searches is the scale. This case revolved around 381 user accounts. Imagine how a judge would respond to a request to search 381 individual houses in what amounts to a dragnet search.

  9. Re:Makes sense to me on New York Judge Rules Against Facebook In Search Warrant Case · · Score: 1

    They just use the clues/data to backtrack alternative paths to the clues/data and claim the clues/data was obtained through those means. The original search warrant need never be mentioned in court, even though the clues/data are used.

  10. Re:Makes sense to me on New York Judge Rules Against Facebook In Search Warrant Case · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Except that the defendant/accused isn't informed of the search warrant.
    Effectively, this ruling says that NOBODY can challenge search warrants.

  11. Re:Can email service providers do more? on Belgian Government Phishing Test Goes Off-Track · · Score: 1

    It exists and It's called DKIM
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  12. Re:A self limiting problem on Genetic Access Control Code Uses 23andMe DNA Data For Internet Racism · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This thing was created by somebody identifying as "Offensive Application Programming Initiative".
    It is obviously not meant as a serious authentication system, it just shows what is possible if we give out too much personal information.

  13. Re:Clearly a shoo-in on Woman Recruited By Google Four Times and Rejected Now Joins Age Discrimination Suit · · Score: 5, Informative

    TFA states here last interview with Google was in 2013 and the bought the farm in 2014.
    These do not overlap. Her LinkedIn profile would have been different in 2013.
    It may very well be that she got into dairy farming due to being jaded with the job market.
    She may only be joining the case because she's no longer interrested in IT jobs (which certainly will become impossible after the case).

  14. Taxi company on Europe's Top Court To Decide If Uber Is Tech Firm Or Taxi Company · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's a taxi company

    I can order a taxi online already. Why would a particular implementation of ordering transport online suddenly make it something completely different?

    If you take away the cars, Uber no longer has anything to sell. If you take away the online app, they could switch to some other channel and continue.

  15. Re:Screws with users on Ask Slashdot: How Often Do You Update Your OS? · · Score: 1

    The pointer moves in the direction that your mouse moves.
    If you tap the top-left side of the mouse, it's called a click.
    Click on the picture that looks like a button to do what the text on the button says.
    This has been true ever since the earliest of GUI's.

  16. Re:Dollas on Apple Watch Still Waiting On App Developers · · Score: 1

    So people want Yellow Pages?

  17. Re:Dollas on Apple Watch Still Waiting On App Developers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No one wants to see ads on their wrist.

    No one wants to see ads anywhere, ever.
    Doesn't seem to stop the advertisers, though.

  18. Re:No I am definitively not on Is Advertising Morally Justifiable? The Importance of Protecting Our Attention · · Score: 1

    Except when your friend and family influence you, they probably don't want to sell you the worst crap possible for the highest profit margin possible.
    Advertising is also morally unjustified because it actively tries to have you make the worst decission.

  19. Obligations on Reddit CEO: Site Is 'Not a Bastion of Free Speech,' Change Coming · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "we don't have any obligation to support them."

    Nor do the redditors have any obligation to keep visiting the site.

    This isn't about obligations, it's about ethics.

  20. Re:other charitable causes on For Microsoft, Windows 10 Charity Begins At Home · · Score: 1

    The Steve Ballmer Institute: No one knows what condition afflicts steve ballmer. Hes a man once known to hurl furniture in fits of paranoid delusion, only to emerge days later caked in sweat and howling a chant of 'developers' over and over, in a schitzophrenic episode. The Ballmer institute seeks to heal by studying and, in time, formulating a treatment for this rare and profoundly sad disease.

    It's a nice idea, but their suggested treatment is just repeating the word "doctors" ad nauseum.

  21. Obviously, for the same reasons Facebook new chief security officer wants to kill Facebook's anti-privacy defaults: None whatsoever.

  22. Teaching the science of homeopathy. on University of Toronto: Anti-vaccine Homeopathy Course Is Fine · · Score: 2

    Welcome students, to this course delving deep into all the science that is the foundation of homeopathy.
    Let's start.
    No questions?
    You all get an A.
    Class dismissed.

  23. Re:Take The Right Wing Out Of The Loop on Taking the Lawyers Out of the Loop · · Score: 0

    If 99% of people would no longer drive, this would reduce the risk of causing an accident, thus reducing the cost of this full medical liability insurance, in turn bringing back people onto the roads as drivers.
    I wonder where the optimum would be.

  24. Re:divorce psudocode on Taking the Lawyers Out of the Loop · · Score: 1

    And how many seconds is it going to take before you get amalcolm's joke?

  25. Re:Cry More on Making FOIA-Requested Data Public: Too Much Transparency For Journalists? · · Score: 2

    "Two month exclusive" as in "If you paid for it before I did, I can't get it for another two months"?