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  1. Alternative Reason - Protectionism on China Blocks Twitch (engadget.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    China has a number of popular domestic streaming platforms, perhaps the move to block twitch as it became popular is also to protect their buddies.

  2. Re:Whatever happened to... on China Blocks Twitch (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Turns out if your an authoritarian regime who controls all the pipes it doesn't.

  3. Re:Blame the EU commission.. on VW Group, BMW and Daimler Are Under Investigation For Collusion In Europe (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They say 3-10% savings in city.

  4. Re:Blame the EU commission.. on VW Group, BMW and Daimler Are Under Investigation For Collusion In Europe (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Stop start actually does meaningfully improve fuel economy in cities. The technology that does not improve fuel economy is a turbo. Tests don't replicate common driver behaviour (with more power) which results in the tests effectively testing the smaller displacement engine w/o the turbo.

  5. Re:Blame the EU commission.. on VW Group, BMW and Daimler Are Under Investigation For Collusion In Europe (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The reason modern cars are heavy is primarily safety - crumple zones, reinforced pillars, airbags, etc. all add weight. Generally other parts of the car (e.g. engine) have gotten lighter.

  6. Re:Since when? on We Hold People With Power To Account. Why Not Algorithms? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think you're optimistic, the only time in human history when people in power are held to account is when they were lynched by a mob.

  7. Except that the servers are not run by Microsoft/Sony, for games with many players publishers run them and for games with a small number of players often one user will end up as host (hence consoles wanting upnp to open ports).

    Your math is also way off on Sony & Microsoft - they charge $60.

  8. Re:Definitely Wrong on Many Job Ads on Facebook Illegally Exclude Women, ACLU Says (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The argument particularly makes sense if as the advertiser you're paying per impression instead of per click. That said this also leads to a self-perpetuating imbalance, if few women perform the job so employers don't target them, which circles back to women not performing the job. Obviously this could happen to men also, when was the last time you heard of a male dental assistant?

  9. Re:Loot Boxes Vs Digital CCGs on Video Game Loot Boxes Under Scrutiny By 16 Gambling Regulators (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the card games both digital and physical should be required to disclose odds.

  10. Re:This highlights a critical issue within Apple. on Apple's AirPower Wireless Charger Is Facing Overheating Issues, Says Reports (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I dunno but Apple has always had this issue, one only need to look at the ways their cables fray or their poor antennas in phones for years to realize at Apple design is the priority over function.

  11. Re:Cannot Comprehend 'Superfandom' on Fans Are Spoofing Spotify With 'Fake Plays', And That's A Problem For Music Charts (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't you remember teen/tween girls going ga-ga for boy-bands or whomever the heart throb at the moment was?

  12. Re:Any word on how it was done? on Google Remotely Changed the Settings on a Bunch of Phones Running Android 9 Pie (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe the Settings application was updated.

  13. Re:Social Engineering on US Carriers Introduce Project Verify To Replace Individual App Passwords (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If the security works as advertised, it sounds like this particular solution is designed to prevent the exact kind of attack you're describing. Even if someone was able to convince the carrier to switch a phone number and SIM to effectively "clone" a phone, I would hope one of the other validation methods (phone account type, SIM card details, etc.) would prevent unauthorized use.

    I think you're missunderstanding - to me it sounds like they're claiming their application will verify the SIM in the phone vs the account, at which point the attacker is probably also using the cellular network for the attack so their IP address matches records too.

  14. Interestingly Microsoft only does this on the Xbox One, I pulled out my 360 recently thinking I could backup the saved games on the console and despite updates you cannot push them w/o Gold .

  15. Social Engineering on US Carriers Introduce Project Verify To Replace Individual App Passwords (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Haven't we already discovered that SMS was an insecure 2FA method because carrier customer service can trivially be convinced to switch someone's phone number to an arbitrary SIM. Wouldn't this attacker then be able to use their phone with Verify.

  16. It scared the crap out of me, but I came out of my shell with encouragement from some kindly teachers.

    There is a pretty big difference between not wanting to do something and someone with an anxiety disorder experiencing panic attacks. Claiming your own experiences are somehow relevant for people who have real neurological disorders is exactly what people are referring to when people talk about the stigma of mental illness. Would you tell someone who is paralyzed to try walking? No and you shouldn't tell someone experiencing depression to think happy thoughts because it worked for you, nor should you tells someone with an anxiety disorder to put themselves out there it'll be great.

    Even for people without a disorder, doing a presentation once a year isn't going to help someone overcome their anxiety any more than the school's single track & field day is going to make someone run 800m quickly. In both cases they need frequency and they build up.

  17. Re:problem should be fought at the source on Giant Trap Is Deployed To Catch Plastic Littering the Pacific Ocean (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1
  18. 45-day battery life....

  19. Rumours on How Facebook's WhatsApp Destroyed A Village (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 1

    not Facebook.

  20. Re:problem should be fought at the source on Giant Trap Is Deployed To Catch Plastic Littering the Pacific Ocean (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    In fairness, our ancestors in North America and Europe did the same stuff, in some / many cases we still have sewers which overflow into the river and some cities near the oceans empty directly.

  21. Re:No good reason for the change on Google Slammed Over Chrome Change That Strips 'www' From Domain URLs (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a step on the path the announced recently - https://www.wired.com/story/go...

  22. Re:Still... a good interview. on Tesla Stock Plunges After Senior Execs Leave, Musk Smokes Weed During Interview (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no way a C-level executive is hired who has that level of difference of opinion with the CEO and the board.

  23. Re:No good reason for the change on Google Slammed Over Chrome Change That Strips 'www' From Domain URLs (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a problem here - normal users don't understand how URLs work and many malicious sites continually attempt to trick them into believing they're on a site they're not.

  24. Re:How is historical literature relevant? on Pluto Should Be Reclassified as a Planet, Experts Say (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    Labels for many body parts and symptoms originally named by Greeks hundreds of years B.C. are still widely used.

    And they had no idea what most of it did - naming body parts only demonstrates they had eyes.

    My personal view the IAU's behavior is simply illegitimate and I refuse to recognize it.

    And what behaviour is that exactly? Clarifying and re-classifying as we learn more?

    Domain experts are free to develop whatever specific terms they want to refer to whatever they damn well please AMONGST THEMSELVES. They are not free to take ownership of popular language used by everyone and modify popular language by decree. Certainly not by vote on the last day of an IAU meeting when many had already left involving less than a 4% of astronomers /w zero feedback, input or outreach to the general public. Bullshit to that.

    Got it, I assume you also don't believe the skin is an organ because we didn't consider it to be one in the past?

    Personally I don't care either way if pluto is a planet or not.

  25. How is historical literature relevant? on Pluto Should Be Reclassified as a Planet, Experts Say (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We don't consider medical definitions in the context of the four humours, heck late 19th century astronomers thought space was filled with luminiferous aether so why are their opinions on the definition of planets suddenly considered insightful.