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  1. Re:Batching Means Delay on Netflix Calls Out HBO For Not Letting Subscribers Binge On New Shows (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    As opposed to the delay of making people each week for the show then going on hiatus for a few months at a time because its not "sweeps month"?

    I'd much rather the show come out all at once than in spits and spurts because if I'm really into the story nothing pisses me off more than having to wait for 3 months while they make more, or pre-empt it around some sporting / cultural events, or because they're waiting for the "best" time to exact the maximum value from the advertisers.

    So you'd rather wait for a year while they make the next season after they release their big batch?

    Having it all at once lets me watch it on my schedule, and I don't mind waiting for that in the slightest.

    Wait until its all released and watch as you choose?

  2. Batching Means Delay on Netflix Calls Out HBO For Not Letting Subscribers Binge On New Shows (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If you publish the entire season at once this means you were sitting on progressively more unreleased for a period of time. Imagine if one were to instead release this content as it were available instead of making people wait...

  3. WSJ Doesn't Run Ads for Competitors on Google Uses Search To Push Its Products: WSJ (usatoday.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When was the last time a news paper ran adverts for their competitors? I mean, if I'm looking at a newspaper I'm probably interested in news right?

  4. Correct Article on Krebs Pinpoints the Likely Author of the Mirai Botnet (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/01/who-is-anna-senpai-the-mirai-worm-author/

    We do we link to some shitty gadget blog instead of the original author with real credibility?

  5. Get Doxed on Krebs Pinpoints the Likely Author of the Mirai Botnet (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Criminals

  6. Offer, Not Bring on Microsoft is Bringing Cortana To Android Lock Screen (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The question is does anyone actually want it.

  7. Press releases from Tesla are not necessarily news for nerds.

  8. Re:... and that's bad, why? on Netflix is 'Killing' DVD Sales, Research Finds (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    While I don't like hollywood I doubt they'd be so incompetent as to not know the effect of Netflix on their sales by this point. They have many years of data to build models on.

  9. Re:So what. on Netflix is 'Killing' DVD Sales, Research Finds (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    There is an awful lot of terrible filler in the 'enormous catalog'.

  10. Re:So what. on Netflix is 'Killing' DVD Sales, Research Finds (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Really Crackle? They have the worst commercial insertion and will repeatedly show you the same commercial, not just through the course of an hour but literally back to back to back in the same commercial break.

  11. Re:Snowden wouldn't be ALLOWED to make his case on President Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning's Sentence (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If I recall correctly US law wouldn't even consider him as a whistleblower since he worked for a contractor not the government.

  12. Re: Smoking gun of theft or go home on Oculus Accused of Destroying Evidence, Zuckerberg To Testify In $2 Billion Lawsuit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't forget he was the primary shareholder of id software before zenimax bought it. He probably didn't have a normal contract.

  13. AI - Latest Tech Fad on Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Warns Against 'Hubris' Amid AI Growth (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Because its hip, lets describe every algorithm as AI. How long before you go back into the dumpster like Social Search and all the other fads.

  14. They can kick you out if you're winning, that seems like cheating to me as it also changes the odds.

  15. There are many different uploads of jquery and every other popular library.

  16. Random Website Shutsdown on App.net is Shutting Down (app.net) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A site no one has heard of shutdown, and makes first page news.

  17. Re:Conservatives need to realize cheating occurs on US EPA Accuses Fiat Chrysler of Excess Diesel Emissions (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    What do you mean myth? Batteries have nothing to do with it. We have fewer hours of sunlight per day and as a wetter climate we also have more cloudy days. Its unquestionably less efficient than in southern dry places. It doesn't mean you can't use solar but you will need more panels to get the same amount of juice.

  18. Re:Conservatives need to realize cheating occurs on US EPA Accuses Fiat Chrysler of Excess Diesel Emissions (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    The Bolt is supposed to be available soon in Canada and the pricing is actually much better than in the US.

  19. Re: Headline should be on US EPA Accuses Fiat Chrysler of Excess Diesel Emissions (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    You do need some way to standardize the tests, otherwise car A is tested by a hypermiler and car B is tested by someone who drives like a race driver.

  20. Re:Conservatives need to realize cheating occurs on US EPA Accuses Fiat Chrysler of Excess Diesel Emissions (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2

    In Ontario (Canada) we have no coal plants, though 5% of production comes from natural gas. (65% nuclear, 25% hydro, 4% wind)

  21. Re:Conservatives need to realize cheating occurs on US EPA Accuses Fiat Chrysler of Excess Diesel Emissions (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Its less efficient the further you go north, as well as the more cloudy days you have. In Ontario solar power accounts for a trivial part of the electricity generation.

  22. Re:Conservatives need to realize cheating occurs on US EPA Accuses Fiat Chrysler of Excess Diesel Emissions (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    They realize, didn't you see how they went after Bill Clinton!

  23. Re:Well yeah.... on US EPA Accuses Fiat Chrysler of Excess Diesel Emissions (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    This is why there is a law for Corporate Average Fuel Economy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  24. Re:Headline should be on US EPA Accuses Fiat Chrysler of Excess Diesel Emissions (yahoo.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Virtually all cars exceed emissions standards because manufacturers build to pass the test, not build to meet the emission standards.

  25. Re:This is why emissions testing should actually t on US EPA Accuses Fiat Chrysler of Excess Diesel Emissions (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2

    They need to test them driving around as well as sitting on a dyno. And they should not be allowing manufacturers to make any changes (e.g. taping intakes to reduce drag), the standardized testing is good but you also need to have some real world smoke (ha ha) tests.