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  1. Re:Foxes. Henhouses. You know the rest. on Many Nations Pin Climate Hopes On China, India As Hopes For Trump Fade (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Its hard to see the point you're trying to make - the USA didn't bother doing anything until LA suffered serious smog problems and actively fights against it to this day. China at least has some excuses around cost, Americans (and other western countries like mine) have none. What should worry you is that countries like India are significantly hotter than the USA, what happens if the entire population gets air conditioning?

  2. Next Week - Amazon to Stop Selling Non-Fire TVs on Amazon Targets Cord Cutters With First-Ever Integrated Fire TV Sets (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    because they're "confusing"

  3. They just want their devices to sit on a desk and look pretty. Not be sullied by using them to do something.

  4. Re:Don't Blame Me. on Our Obsession With Trailers Is Making Movies Worse (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree, its been years since I watched one. I imagine its a tiny subset of the movie viewers who do more than file a movie under "looks neat" vs "zzz" from trailers.

  5. Why does every other piece of software need to run on that platform?

  6. Its also a cascading effect - if the vendor continues to support that software then third parties will also be expected to. Its already bad enough that we're forced to support old EOL browsers and JVMs, I can't imagine how much worse it would be if Oracle & Microsoft were still supporting them. The amount of productivity wasted supporting these luddites is astronomical.

  7. The RIAA has the option to not upload their content to YouTube and to use Google's contentid system to block user uploads if they don't like the rates offered.

  8. Safe harbor provisions means that they are not responsible for content users upload.

  9. Except that isn't what is happening here. When a user uploads a video which Google's contentid system (which incidentally they had no legal requirement to create) recognizes copyrighted material, the creator has the choice to either block it or to monetize it. The RIAA is the party hypocritically accepting the rates (and uploading their own videos) but complaining about them.

  10. There is no 'claim' the safe harbor explicitly makes them not liable for content uploaded by users. In fact YouTube goes above and beyond doing content-id and allowing the music industry to take revenue or block videos.

  11. Snapchat's Best Feature Was Copied on Snap CEO Evan Spiegel Is Not Afraid of Facebook (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    from software shipped 10-years ago with webcams.

  12. Well, there is one particular side which attempts to tell others how to live based on their own personal religions...

  13. As the other person mentioned, guardians usually have the power to make decisions for their children. Even without that tell your kid, its a condition of the phone.

  14. Re:Riiight... on Microsoft Tests a Secured Edge Browser For Business (techradar.com) · · Score: 2

    At pwn2own someone(s) actually managed to break out of Edge and vmware - https://arstechnica.com/securi...

  15. Why 4-digits on Intel Announces Xeon Scalable Processor Family (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2

    When the last one is always zero.

  16. One Imagines on Splitting Up With Apple is a Chipmaker's Nightmare (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Its pretty much impossible to build a modern GPU without infringing on the patents of one of the existing players. Even Intel is stuck paying licensing fees from AMD or nVidia, its hard to see how Apple won't have to do the same.

  17. Re:Funny they mention the environment on Apple Pledges $1 Billion Toward Creating Manufacturing Jobs In US (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    They actually require that all their hardware be shredded, no extraction of parts. https://motherboard.vice.com/e...

  18. Re:Sports are about the body on Colleges Are Starting Varsity Programs For Video Games (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    They'll be sports when you carry the horse through the course or change golf so its like the biathlon. Until then they are no more sports than pool, snooker, darts, bowling or racing cars.

  19. Not Surprising on Colleges Are Starting Varsity Programs For Video Games (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    They smell money and want a piece. 'Student' gamers who don't get paid next?

  20. Re:Sports are about the body on Colleges Are Starting Varsity Programs For Video Games (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Not like golf, equestrian and other activities which are clearly not sports are already put under the umbrella.

  21. Re:Missing the point on BitTorrent Inventor Bram Cohen Will Start His Own Cryptocurrency (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't that what happened with bitcoin? Its an arms race.

  22. One Wonders... on Credit Suisse Deploys 20 Robots Within Bank (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Whether robots also have quotas and have been programmed to mislead customers into signing up for unnecessary services.

  23. On the upside, you have a spot to wipe your cheetos fingers on.

  24. Re:I mean I got this article through RSS on Slashdot Asks: Do You Still Use RSS? · · Score: 1

    I think it went away because people (not me) just went to social media and use that as their aggregator.

  25. DMCA on Massive Tinder Photo Scrape Has Users Upset (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems like people who had selfies scraped could file DMCA takedowns as they would own the copyright to the images.

    Really though, is this surprising? Seems like one could get most of these images from Facebook directly anyway.