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  1. Re:Bitcoin has been rather dull and stable... on Bitcoin Falls Below $5,000 For First Time Since October 2017 (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm not sure how losing 75% of its value in less than a year is stable. Heck, its lost 17% in the last week.

  2. Re:Doesn't matter. on Why Some Open-Source Companies Are Considering a More Closed Approach (geekwire.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So license it under the AGPL.

  3. Its disingenuous to paint this as a Facebook or even a tech only issue. Classically when you subscribed to a magazine or newspaper, the publisher would the sell your contact information and subscription details to third parties. ISPs are inserting tracking headers in traffic, and selling browsing details. Cell providers are selling demographic information based on location, they're also selling location data. Virtually every business is packaging and trading on the data about you.

  4. Re:why not use openjdk? on Amazon Releases A No-Cost Distribution of OpenJDK (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Standardization. Basically from a support perspective if a business sells you an application which runs on the JVM, they don't want to waste time investigating a problem that turns out to be caused by a janky build someone cobbled together. Generally the OpenJDK will work fine, but eliminating variables will always make problems simpler.

  5. And no notch, that took courage.

  6. We'll have an algorithmic tech blog that generates nonsensical stories. The formula is simple company x + category y + fad z.

  7. Its also clearly part of the OS, we know this because Microsoft won't let us uninstall it.

  8. Re:It's not the language, you stupid jackwagons... on The Internet Has a Huge C/C++ Problem and Developers Don't Want to Deal With It (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    But 18 wheelers *are* awkward, and regularly kill cyclists and pedestrians because they have awkward mirrors that are painful to use. We reacted as a society by requiring special driving licenses and regular health checks (at least in Europe).-

    This statement proves my point and shows the flaw in the grandparents argument. Despite these issues being known and attempts to place a band-aid on the problem it still happens. At a certain point you need to fix the tool not the user.

  9. Re:It's not the language, you stupid jackwagons... on The Internet Has a Huge C/C++ Problem and Developers Don't Want to Deal With It (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What if the 18-wheeler were designed in such a way that it was very awkward and painful to check mirrors....

  10. Re: Is it Adobe's fault that he didn't keep back u on Nasty Adobe Bug Deleted $250,000 Worth of Man's Files, Lawsuit Claims (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    What if the insurance coverage isn't enough money for the rest of your life with a disability? Or if it kills you? See Jeep settling with Star Trek actor Anton Yelchin's family for killing him.

  11. Re:Is it Adobe's fault that he didn't keep back up on Nasty Adobe Bug Deleted $250,000 Worth of Man's Files, Lawsuit Claims (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I have mixed feelings here - what if an automaker said "is it our fault you don't have enough insurance" after their software mistake caused cars to crash?

  12. Re:It's not the price it's the content. on Netflix Says It Will Test Lower-Price Subscription Plans (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Netflix has taken to slapping the Netflix label on content which they've exclusively licensed in a region rather than produced, I suspect you'll find those are the 'good ones'. IMO Netflix is pursuing the cable model, its all about the volume not the quality.

  13. Re:That's what you get for being lazy. on Deserialization Issues Also Affect Ruby -- Not Just Java, PHP, and .NET (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've been attempting to the write this and not sound like a jerk.... but serialization simply means translating whats in memory into a format that can be stored. Even the scenario you're complaining about isn't necessarily "bad", it sounds like they're using it as an alternative to disk storage and as long as they aren't running queries on the contents of the field that isn't a problem.

    The issue that Java (and presumably Ruby, though I don't care enough about Ruby to check) is that it turned out to be possible to craft serialized objects that simply deserializing would cause code execution. In the case of Java most development had long since switched to using other formats instead of native binary serialization before the vulnerabilities were discovered but as there are a ton of legacy applications and frameworks people still had problems.

  14. How is it "fraud" for people reselling your product? Are you saying the used good market, or even people selling legitimate products should not be allowed?

  15. we see a lot of stories about how Amazon really doesn't care about people selling actual counterfeit goods on their platform.

  16. Re:Would an ignore feature work? on A Third of Wikipedia Discussions Are Stuck in Forever Beefs (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you'd have a lot of merge conflicts. Plus how many visitors of Wikipedia are actually going to do this? Further, the fighting editors aren't satisfied as they're attempting to set the current state.

  17. Re:and people being wrong on A Third of Wikipedia Discussions Are Stuck in Forever Beefs (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The scenario you describe doesn't sound like original research since there is an external reference.

  18. Re: This is stupid ... on Samsung Will Put Notches On Its Future Phones (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Its semantics whether they're adding space or taking it away. The notch restricts the number of notifications that can be visible, the space beside the notch is also entirely useless when the phone is in landscape mode. I also wonder about manufacturer cost, a complex shape seems like it would be more difficult to manufacture than a rectangular screen and that extra cost would definitely be passed to the consumer.

    I had been leaning towards an S10 to replace my Nexus 6p as I assumed Samsung would maintain sanity and not remove the headphone jack or add a notch as Google has with the Pixel 3 XL, but with this announcement I can't imagine it happening..

  19. Would one pay instead of using openSUSE, Ubuntu, or Debian? The value add from these guys must be tiny, maybe donate that $20 to Linux Foundation or some meaningful open source project.

  20. Re:Intel Compiler on Intel Cascade Lake-AP Xeon CPUs Embrace the Multi-Chip Module (techreport.com) · · Score: 1

    You need to do more reading friend. https://www.agner.org/optimize...

  21. Re:This makes no sense. on Childhood Obesity Linked To Air Pollution From Vehicles (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on whether our pollution standards happen to target the chemicals or if they were considered harmless and irrelevant.

  22. Re:Another random correlation on Childhood Obesity Linked To Air Pollution From Vehicles (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I wondered if there was something like kids in rural areas are more likely to play outside than those in urban environments.

  23. Intel Compiler on Intel Cascade Lake-AP Xeon CPUs Embrace the Multi-Chip Module (techreport.com) · · Score: 2

    Specifically blocks non-Intel CPUs from getting an optimized code path, hardly shocking their CPU performs a lot better.

  24. Apples watch whose sole purpose is telling time managed to brick for 24-hours recently when Australia changed time.

  25. Let's rephrase that... on Tesla Says Justice Department, SEC Are Investigating Model 3 Production Targets (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    'Funding secured.' That is utterly false. That's absurd," SEC told Musk. "To state such a falsehood on a public platform is outrageous. Like, why is he even a CEO? He's terrible. Terrible person."