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  1. just trust any tool found on the internet claiming (insert claim here).

  2. the whole world... on Automakers Are Asking China To Slow Down Electric Car Quotas (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    ...should take the same stance. see how quick the car industry will be to adapt (they won't have a choice really).
    instead of dragging along, asking for extentions after extention after exception etc.

  3. the piracy tool we've all been waiting for!

  4. Re:Easy enough to prove, if true. on Spotify Denies Allegations It's Putting Fake Artists On Popular Playlists To Cut Costs (factmag.com) · · Score: 1

    That doesn't mean Spotify is behind this. Some time ago there was this news item about a guy who made a lot of money from Spotify, but he wasn't a famous or even a good artist. He simply put music on with names sounding like big hits or that had typo's in them (comparable to those URL's that send you to some bs site when you make a typo). The music from this guy was nothing like the original, to avoid any legal problems. Anyway, he had enough plays using this method that he raked in money to make a living.
    Not saying this is any good, Spotify needs to do something about this or soon you won't be able to find the real song you want to listen to between all the fakes.

  5. Idiot on Would You Buy the iPhone 8 If It Cost $1,200? (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    What a nut case this guy is, the 'top end' phones are already way to expensive as they are now. Not a chance i'm paying €800 for a phone.
    My maximum budget is €200 and that gets you a really great phone already, suiting more then my needs. Paying €600 extra could never be worth the added value these 'top end' phones provide.

  6. ... who though - what, there is an xhamster?! i only know xteddy & xpenguin!

  7. Re:Closed source security software on Should Kaspersky Lab Show Its Source Code To The US Government? (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    and who's to say they will show the actual source? maybe they'll clean it up before handing over.

  8. The second one on 'Severe' Systemd Bug Allowed Remote Code Execution For Two Years (itwire.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    The second 'bug' mentioned is far more crazy. The unit file mentions a user that doesn't exist (well, in tfa it is wrongly parsed, even worse), so the default action is to continue as root (instead of supplied user). And this is a good idea because... ??

    Why can't this unit action just fail? Wouldn't that be far far better then just deciding to use root, this might cause all kinds of problems. I wonder which other nice surprises and default fall-back action are encoded.

  9. Re:Probiotics is horseshit on Researchers Create New Probiotic Beer That Boosts Immunity (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    eating varied and healthy, skipping my nice fat, salty and suggary processed foods sounds too much trouble.
    i'd rather just go for feces transplantation instead...

  10. sometimes it just feels we're going backwards in time, factory workers used to get housing provided to them, close to the factory.
    all the shops & bars in the neighbourhood would also be owned by the factory and so people were mostly spending all their money back to the factory.

  11. Re:Right place, right time, right marketing? Dunno on Team Collaboration App Slack, Valued at $9 Billion, Draws Attention of Amazon (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    still not seeing anything that irc doesn't/can't do, over 20 years ago we already had irc bots that did anything you could think of.

  12. That facebook IA is out there and... on Facebook Built an AI System That Learned To Lie To Get What It Wants (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    ... it can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.

  13. Re:Insane Tirade from Linus in 5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. on Docker's LinuxKit Launches Kernel Security Efforts, Including Next-Generation VPN (eweek.com) · · Score: 1

    that is all user land, Linus isn't involved in that. he's also not ranting against google for whatever they do wrong with android.

  14. Re:Here in Norway the case is already settled on Electric Vehicles Have Another Record Year, Reaching 2 Million Cars In 2016 (iea.org) · · Score: 1

    i hear subaru is releasing ev's next year which will feature awd, so i guess scandinavia will be a big market for them.

  15. Re:Need to get cooler looking electric cars on Electric Vehicles Have Another Record Year, Reaching 2 Million Cars In 2016 (iea.org) · · Score: 1

    you like the i3 of all the available options, really? it's a horrible car with so many strange design and usability choices.
    in fact, ekectric cars shouldn't look any different then normal cars at all, just keep it normal instead it trying to make something that looks scifi now, but will be totally outdated in a few years (while classic car design can stay great for years and years).

  16. not on my monthly bill...

  17. can't run programs outside store? on No Known Ransomware Works Against Windows 10 S, Says Microsoft (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    you can browse the web right? because it has the edge browser (you know, the most secure browser of the big 3).
    sure, edge might run in a container or something similar, and those are secure, right?
    better read up on the last pwn2own - https://arstechnica.com/securi...

  18. The Hudson river crash was due to pilot error.

    They hit the birds quite high, 2,000' by memory. They took a full 30 seconds to decide to turn the bird around, by which time it was too late. Fortunately, the river happened to be nearby. (Wikipedia is your friend.)

    i've only seen the clint eastwood film, there the delay is explained as followed:
    - there is a checklist they have to go through when something happens that covers all options
    - it takes time for humans to decide what to do

    that is not human/pilot error, that is just human behaviour. it takes time to react. in fact the pilot skimmed huge part of the checklist because it would take too much time.

  19. It might be a cancer according to him, but there is no hiding in OSS either.
    Much of what he describes for the sport teams, is true for OSS.

  20. Re:Low UID on Bruce Perens Explains That 'GPL Is A Contract' Court Case (perens.com) · · Score: 1

    don't be so hard on the noobs...

  21. ...can ban the technology that endangers them.

  22. easy, just fork the code and remove all those tracking bits...
    what is that? you can't do that?
    well then there is nothing you can do to fix it, so ditch windows.

  23. Re:Great example of how Patents should work on MP3 Is Not Dead, It's Finally Free (marco.org) · · Score: 1

    Fraunhofer enjoyed the monopoly on use of this technology, but only for a short time. Now, the Public owns it (it is in the public domain).

    short time indeed, more then half of my life it's been locked away because of patents and i'm 41!

  24. They are not doing a good job on Our Obsession With Trailers Is Making Movies Worse (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They edited the movie 'suicide squad' because of the trailer? wow, they really failed that one big time. I seem to remember some people suid them because it didn't feature enough of the Joker, which the trailer made out to believe was going to be in there.

    So, they are editing movies depending on the trailer made from the same movie, but then the movie is nothing anymore like what was promised in the trailer. aaargh...

  25. Seems to me like what's really wanted here is a system with both x86 and ARM processors in the same box

    I think Apple is working towards this, their main OS will be iOS and the x86 CPU will be something similar to a 'high performance' CPU in the system you can offload certain tasks to, much like you can do now with your GPU.