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  1. Re:Bring back Classic Google Maps! on Google To Reopen Maps To User Edits, With an Anti-Abuse Plan · · Score: 1

    As with so many classic layouts, I am sure this will be disabled as well.

    Not only do they not want you to use the old layout, they are activaly going out of their way of blocking it one by one.
    So not even everything together, they just notice one thing is used and then it is blocked so everybody goes on to the next one.

    But what did we expect from google when you saw how they raped dejanews.

  2. Re:Tax dollars at work. on Man Arrested After Charging iPhone On London Overground Train · · Score: 1

    So what is the limit at which to which point I can steal?

    If it thousands of dollars, that means at least 2000USD. SO everything below that is a waste of money? Where do you live? I am sure I could steal something worth below 2000USD and I am sure you do not let the police come, because it is a waste of money, right?

    I can also see how this was going down:
    Please stop taking the electricity.
    No!
    Please stop, or we arrest you.
    No!

    So yes, he should be arrested. And no, I do not care about the amount. I care about the principal. That is, in the end, much easier, because it is clear where the line is.

  3. Re:It's clearly out of copyright on "Happy Birthday" Hits Sour Notes When It Comes To Song's Free Use · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you are not happy with the governement, why don't you buy your own?

  4. Re:Business as usual under the US Gov't on How the Biggest, Most Expensive Oil Spill In History Changed Almost Nothing · · Score: 2

    So vote with your wallet. Buy cars that are more fuel efficient instead of big and powerfull. Use less electricity by moving away from areas where you are forced to use an airco. Build houses that need less energy.

    While you are at it, stop the nuts in California (Talking about the Almonds). Start using public transport. Yes, it will cost more of your time, but demand will increase supply.

    Start drinking tap water. Buy less shit that you do not need and is basicaly made from plastic that is made from oil.

    Oh, and vote against lobbying. And no, even when Sanders wins and is able to do what he wants to do (and promises to do) this will NOT be solved with one election. Not even with 2 or 3. It is a LONG continues struggle.

    But it all mostly boils down to this: https://henrytapper.files.word...

  5. Re:Compromise on Barney Frank Defends Political Hypocrisy, Game Theory Explains It · · Score: 1

    A compromise can even be "I am not getting what I want, but the situation is better than what it was."

    e.g. You allow churches NOT to marry people, but enforce official legislation that they MUST do so.

    Or "I had 10%, I want 20%, I got 15%"

  6. Re:Tinfoil hat but..... on Undersea Cable Break Disrupts Life In Northern Mariana Islands · · Score: 1

    I know there is a chance you are just an idiot, but I really can't help but notice that these type of postings happen pretty frequently recently. This makes about the 4000th or 5000th idiotic posting in recent memories.

    Really can't help but wonder if these aren't idiots so much as they are distractions while they are spliced into further down the line.

  7. Re:A long time coming... on China's Stock Crash: $3.5 Trillion Wiped Out, $2.6 Trillion Frozen · · Score: 1

    USA 320MM people and 10MMkm2 (Rounded)
    China is about the same size and has 1360MM people.

    So to compare, you must imagine that there are 4.25 times as many people living in the USofA.

    http://www.indexmundi.com/fact...
    When you compare it, they are pretty similar, except for the number of people living in each country.

  8. Re:Algorithm on Study: Women Less Likely To Be Shown Ads For High-paid Jobs On Google · · Score: 2

    Or perhaps advertisers look at the revenue of those ads and act accordingly. Hence why Barbie is directed at girls and cartoys are directed at boys. Because that makes the most money.

    There are whole sections of stores dedicated to girls and seperate ones to boys. There are complete stores dedicated to one or another. Beer advertisement is mainly directed to boys. Coca-Cola has different products directed at boys and girls. 5subtle, but still.)

    There are insurance companies that have different rates for different genders.

    We are forced to use different rooms to sit in a seperate room to shit. We have to fill out if we are a boy or a girl on almost any form. And then people wonder that advertisers also see a difference so as to maximize their expense.

    No shit, sherlock.

    OTOH I am going to say that I am a women if that means I get less ads trown at me.

    And just to be sure: I need feminism to get rid of advertisers.

  9. Re:I've had one rule while on-line and followed it on ICANN's Plan To End Commercial Website Anonymity Creates Real Problems · · Score: 1

    I had this rule before I was even on Internet. I knew that some things come back to bite you because things change. I had these discussion about what privacy was and what should be public. We had these discussions at the age of 15.

    Politicians are not even allowed to change their minds ever.

    That said, I have seen things I posted on Usenet where I have the complete opposite opinion right now. People change ideas. Extra information becomes available. What was OK a while ago is not ok now and the other way around.

  10. Re:Straw man? on ICANN's Plan To End Commercial Website Anonymity Creates Real Problems · · Score: 1

    In hindsight, the whole com, net, org idea was stupid to begin with. The best would have been to ONLY use the countries different TLDs.

    "But what about debian.org and the like?"
    Well, either you register in one country and use that domain or you register multiple times.

    "But that costs extra money, that we do not have" Then use only one domain.

    "But my country does not allow me to have a domain." Then take one that does

    I do have an org domain. I would not mind if they suddenly deside to change it to org.us.

    That way each country can deside what the rules are. You want xxx.us? Please go ahead. You want to forbid individuals to have a domain? Great, your choice. You only want it for people who have an address in your country? Fine. Want to give them away for free? Also ok.

    It would solve a lot of the shit that happens because we need to look at international rules all the time and it would take away the dominance of the USofA.

    I am aware that this will not happen and we are stuck with the shit we have now and TLDs will be added to make money, not because it is a good idea.

    And as long as the EU is not a country, drop that as well as CATalunia. I have an EU domain, but I would gladly give it up for having ONLY country TLDs.

  11. I can confirm on Facebook's New Data Center To Be Powered Entirely By Renewables · · Score: 1

    One latte has indeed the same effect on me as a FB account.

  12. Re:HOME ownership is key on Why Electric Vehicles Aren't More Popular · · Score: 1

    Even if you are a homeowner, at elast in Belgium, the possibilaty to charge your car are limited. If you live in an appartment, there will be rarely the option of charging the car.

    That leaves basically people with a house and a garage or at least driveway. That would be a minority.

    Imagine that you had to store your gas for your car at home.

  13. Re:The short answer is nothing on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Hold Onto Your Domain? · · Score: 1

    If a company wants your name, there is not a lot you can do. I know an individual who owns a two letter domain name. Till now he has refused to sell it.

    That said; if a company want to sue you, it will most likely be dealth with on a US based trandemark. If you want to defend it, you will need to have deep pockets to even try and hope your pockets are deeper than those on the other side.

    This will mean that you need to risk all that money with an uncertain outcome.

    So the best think you can do is register it as a trademark.

  14. Not really illegal on UK Government Illegally Spied On Amnesty International · · Score: 1

    If they don't get punisched, it is not realy illegal. It is like those crazy old laws that exists where you can not walk a pig on sunday during a storm.

    The laws still exist, but nobody actually will be prosecuted or punnished if they do it. It is just too much of an issue to remove these laws.

  15. What are YOUR conclusions? on Volkswagen Factory Worker Killed By a Robot · · Score: 1

    When I read it, many will say 'robots are unsafe'. I read 'robots are safe, because only NOW does it happen for the first time.'

    That said, replace robot with machinery and these kind of things happen all the time. People are where they should not be. People do not follow safety procedures for various reasons. People die.

    It is realy nice how it is written in a way that is clearly intended to bring up an idea of a robot willfully and with determination grabbed a person and killed that person. If that were the case, I do not condemn the programmer, I aplaud him for being the first to have made AI a reality.

  16. Re:Misleading Title on Volkswagen Factory Worker Killed By a Robot · · Score: 1

    Replace 'robot' with 'machinery' and it suddenly isn't news at all.

    The fact that a robot moves in more directions than e.g. a forging press does not realy matter.
    He should not be there while the thing was operational. That means either he giot an ok, while it was not ok to go (By his own or others decision) or somebody turned the machine on, while it should have been off.

    The 'robot' is the the 'on the internet' we see with other things. So, indeed as sad as it is, nothing new here,

  17. or am I getting old

    Depends on whether I can stay on your lawn or not.

  18. Again proof who they work for on San Francisco Fiber Optic Cable Cutter Strikes Again · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I am talking about the FBI : "When it affects multiple companies and cities, it does become disturbing,"

    What I read is "When it happens to citizens, we don't care."

    So apperently they cut of the wrong company or the wrong CEO and now they are disturbed. Before that? Meh.

  19. Re:Holy fuck ... on Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi Password With Contacts · · Score: 2

    Have you been in a coma for 15 years? Let me give ypu a short history lesson:
    Some idiots flew into the twin towers on purpose. Afganistan was invaded to kill the terrorrists.
    Irak was invaded to kill the same terrorists, but it was really about weapons of mass distruction, but actually about oil.
    We have always been at war with Terrorism.
    For our own safety; subpoenas do not excist anymore.
    War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.

  20. Re:if that's true, on Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi Password With Contacts · · Score: 1

    "typically", so they can be anything, including the person next to you on the metro or you for the person next to you in Starbucks where the router is down.

    So suddenly they are surfing on your limited data bandwith and you don't even know it. Nice.

    I would think that I say who has access to my network. This goes far beyond 'we own your hardware our software is running on" and even that is not debatable.

  21. Re:College is to get a diploma. Education is a bon on Struggling University of Phoenix Lays Off 900 · · Score: 2

    If I were a company I would rather hire you with a 100.000USD debt than somebody with a 10.000USD debt. The power I have over you is 10 times that of what I have over the other person.

    That means I can presss much more extra hours out of you without any need to pay for a longer period,while the other person might easily say "Fuck this, I quit."
    This will not work in each an every situation, but in general? Hell yeah!

  22. Re:Why force her to do something she doesn't want on Ask Slashdot: Getting My Wife Back Into Programming After Long Maternity Leave? · · Score: 1

    To me it does not look as if he is pushing her anywhere. She wants to do IT, but not Java or coding in general. He is trying to help find a solution.

    As somebody else suggested, Project Management or Business Analist.

    OTOH the information is extremely limited. What she should do is write dwn what does DOES like and what shoe does NIOT like. Brainstorm. Perhaps she lies to be more social and then she could perhaps help elderly about the Internet. Or she perhaps she wants to do more networking or she likes more tinkering with the hardware itself.

    Does she really want to go into IT, or is that 'just the best option' to get a job? For all I kn ow she likes to give guided tours for tourists in her city.

    So she should first see what she REALLY wants to do and what she really does NOT want to do. This is a process that needs a lot of thinking and hard work as you need to re-thik everything and it is hardest on the partner to accept that change.

  23. Re:Crooked politicians. on Quebec Government May Force ISPs To Block Gambling Websites · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Educate people that gambling is bad.

  24. Re:Just run your own on Cisco To Acquire OpenDNS · · Score: 2

    I use an alternative DNS server, becausde the ISPs in my country are orderd to block certain (torrent) sites. As I already give enough info to Google, I use servers I found on http://wiki.opennicproject.org...
    With http://wiki.opennicproject.org... you can find witch one are closest,

    I used to run my own, but after a re-install I did not yet bother.

    What I think is strange is that nobody has made an easy local DNS server (for Windows) e.g. just a program that listens on port 53and only fromlocalhost and is just a DNS server. So no additional (local) zones. No additional things. Just a stripped down caching DNS server.

    Just point to 127.0.0.1 as DNS server and done. No other changes should be needed. No kill of domains.No nothing should be needed.

  25. Re:Taxi licenses are crazy expensive on Uber France Leaders Arrested For Running Illegal Taxi Company · · Score: 1

    Are these medaillions sold everywhere for that amount? Because each time Uber is discussed, thise pops up and I am curious if this is everywhere.

    If not, why not make Uber legal where there are medaillions and illegal where they do not exist.