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  1. Re:FAKE NEWS! on FBI Director Comey Confirms Investigation Into Trump Campaign (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Usually it's the right that brings up the pointless social issues. Maybe you get your news from different sources, but I see plenty of coverage on murders. The average American isn't a Nazi, but the new far right news sources are there to appeal to Nazis. Even Fox humors some of the stories that come out of the crazy-mills like Breitbart

  2. Re:FAKE NEWS! on FBI Director Comey Confirms Investigation Into Trump Campaign (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Russia isn't reporting on hacked emails, Russia hacked the emails and provided them slowly to the press in a way that kept the Clinton campaign responding to criticisms. The Trump campaign/GOP did not have that issue because Russia wasn't releasing the info on them.

  3. Re:FAKE NEWS! on FBI Director Comey Confirms Investigation Into Trump Campaign (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are lots of centrist press organizations. Just because a news source doesn't appeal to Nazis doesn't make it leftist.

  4. Re:FAKE NEWS! on FBI Director Comey Confirms Investigation Into Trump Campaign (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    BUTHEREMAILS!

    If there were leaks from both sides equally, then the press would be miffed, but they were clearly focused only on the Democrats. Both sides have dirty laundry.

  5. Re:FAKE NEWS! on FBI Director Comey Confirms Investigation Into Trump Campaign (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    While the concentration of news organizations has produced fewer options, there certainly are more options than just "Fox News" and "everything else on the left". There are plenty centrist news sources, including those from other countries.

  6. Re:Fake News Headline on FBI Director Comey Confirms Investigation Into Trump Campaign (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I see you're using the alt-right interpretation of "Fake News" where anyathing that goes against your god-emperor is "Fake".

    The FBI confirmed an investigation - he hasn't confirmed the exact people (neither did the headline). It's pretty clear the investigation involves the Trump campaign.

    The Republicans on the other hand, HAVE spent a lot more time examining the circumstances in which the information was disclosed even though it's unrelated to investigation.

  7. Re:FAKE NEWS! on FBI Director Comey Confirms Investigation Into Trump Campaign (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't believe anyone is suggesting that actual votes were changed (as in voting machine hacked or something), the accusation is that Russia influenced the election through the slow release of hacked emails and spreading anti-Clinton propaganda. The "Russia changed votes" theory is just a straw-man.

    The Benghazi hearings were proven to be a political charade anyways where even after months of investigations the Republicans couldn't find any wrong-doings.

    But speaking of asking questions unrelated issues, you should listen to some of the Republicans asking questions. They're more concerned with whether the freedom of press applies to news organizations publishing classified leaks than the actual issue of Russian meddling with the election.

  8. Re:FWIW on Ask Slashdot: Best Virtual Reality Headsets? · · Score: 1

    However, most of the good games for the Rift are available through the Oculus store so Rift users are likely under represented in those stats.

  9. Re: I know it's trendy on US Federal Budget Proposal Cuts Science Funding (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Eventually, but people are still lining up to buy treasury notes. The interest rate is slightly above the rate of inflation atm, but that's only because inflation is so low.

  10. Yes, people provide their fingerprints because it provides an easy way to secure your device against the average person that might try to break in while still being quick and convenient to unlock. They aren't doing it because they love providing their personal data to a large corporation. If giving Google DNA led to some other convenience, you can be sure that people (Google's primary customers) would be doing that too.

  11. Re:LastPass on Ask Slashdot: Should You Use Password Managers? · · Score: 1

    Fortunately, LastPass prevents that.

  12. Re:LastPass on Ask Slashdot: Should You Use Password Managers? · · Score: 1

    If your browser is compromised, then you have a compromised piece of software running on your computer so you might run into problems anyways.

  13. Re:"It's a feature, not a bug" - seriously on Waze and Other Traffic Dodging Apps Prompt Cities To Game the Algorithms (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think signs with time restrictions cost that much...

  14. Re:Seriously? on Litebook Launches A $249 Linux Laptop (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously because those are programs people commonly use and would want on a new computer. Attitudes like that are why Linux is slow getting into the market.

  15. Re:Can't stand kiosks... on More Fast Food Restaurants Are Now Automating (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure if you're joking, but you can do that on their website on your phone or PC and choose what time you want to pick it up. I used to use it quite often (before they got the kiosks) to skip the lines until they discontinued the lunches I liked.

  16. Re:No, because it FUCKING FAKE NEWS AGAIN on Mike Pence Used His AOL Email For Indiana State Business -- and It Got Hacked (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Right, he just called the ones that suggested it "fake news" or "conspiracy theories". Huh, you just called them fake news too.

  17. Re:No, because it FUCKING FAKE NEWS AGAIN on Mike Pence Used His AOL Email For Indiana State Business -- and It Got Hacked (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that Trump lies about having contact with Russians and there is evidence that proves otherwise. I don't see Podesta lying about eating pizza

  18. Re:No, because it FUCKING FAKE NEWS AGAIN on Mike Pence Used His AOL Email For Indiana State Business -- and It Got Hacked (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Who knows, but the media also has responsibility to dip down to tabloid stories like this. If there was a shred of evidence that could be investigated, maybe there would be a story on it.

  19. Thermometer isn't very useful on a phone since it generates a lot of heat and is often in your pocket.

  20. Re:two solutions. on Ask Slashdot: How Are You Responding To Cloudbleed? (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    1. The "bleed" come from it bleeding data that was in memory - I don't recall any other exploits that release data in other ways being called that. It was also first jokingly called cloudbleed by the security researcher (not the media).

    2. This isn't the '90s anymore. CDNs are extremely common and cloudflare is one of the cheapest out there, especially for small sites. Most sites can't afford to deploy load balanced services and rely on others to do it for them. Cloudflare has been in the business for a while now and has more experience than your average IT guy.

  21. Re:How would you implement this? on 'Social Media Needs A Travel Mode' (idlewords.com) · · Score: 1

    You say "I'm traveling from the 14th to the 21st, travel mode should cover those days", then you click the "confirm" button and if you made a mistake, you have to wait a bit. That sounds easier than your option.

  22. I can get a segfault pretty reliably in C with this code:
    char *s = "hello world"; *s = 'H';

  23. Re:google should adopt this on FBI Will Revert To Using Fax Machines, Snail Mail For FOIA Requests (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    From what I've seen, it's just news without the journalism. I watched one bit where the news casters were literally just describing the video feed from a helicopter about a man in a flooded area. It was just filling up time and didn't tell me anything that I couldn't see just by watching the video.

  24. Re: The Guardian goes full racist on Reddit Bans Far-Right Groups Altright and Alternativeright (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    So? It provides the information, plus a good, logical, rational explanation of how to interpret that data. Do you find any fault with their arguments?

    Yes, they neglected to include most of the data

    Of course they are. That difference is rooted in other racial differences. And the rate isn't "much higher", it's around 20-25% higher, which is basically noise when you look at social science data.

    Those are fairly high numbers - more than statistical noise. The civilian reported numbers are even higher.

    The NYT is not a credible source of news or analysis, and it is highly biased, far more than those papers you call "right wing".

    The NYT is a very reliable source and one of the most trusted in the country. The right tries to portray them as not credible because facts make the right look back. If you claim they're not credible, you must also think the national review is not credible since they get their information from the NYT.

  25. Re: The Guardian goes full racist on Reddit Bans Far-Right Groups Altright and Alternativeright (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The links here are not the data, they're right-wing opinion pieces about the data.

    Take a look at the NY Times piece for the full results: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0...

    In one regard, it's correct to say that police shoot black people less in the cities that were reviewed, but cases of violence by police against blacks (including pointing a gun at them) was MUCH higher than for whites - something the right wing blogs neglected to mention.