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  1. Blocking Back-To-Back Ads on YouTube is Testing Having Two Skippable Ads Back-To-Back (cnet.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ad blocking add-ons are testing blocking back-to-back ads.

  2. Re:Building Their Own on Tech Shoppers in the UK Ditch Desktop PCs and DVD Players (ofcom.org.uk) · · Score: 1

    4K and higher refresh rates will need new hardware parts to look really great.

  3. Re: The desktop is dying! on Tech Shoppers in the UK Ditch Desktop PCs and DVD Players (ofcom.org.uk) · · Score: 1

    4K and 5K and 8K games will drive that need to buy more powerful desktop computer parts.
    New CPU and GPU products have to keep up with software that can support 4K.

  4. "innovative US internet". It took the USA to build the fast and free speech supporting internet we enjoyed AC.

  5. Re:Why does the internet need "fact-checking"? on 'Relatively Few' Twitter Bots Were Needed To Spread Misinformation and Overwhelm Fact Checkers, Study Finds (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    So what side of US politics gets to "block" news to make their party look good?
    What nations gets to ban news globally? German? France? Spain?
    Do cults and faith groups get to go to the US gov and ask for all news about their faith to be removed?
    Can political connected intellectual leaders at a "think tank" get to set what is funny art online? What a cartoon can be about politically?

    US freedom of speech starts looking great after considering the regulations, laws and rules of an online Spain or Germany.
    The "business case" should be in tracking users and ensuring ads get placed while users interact.
    When social media becomes a news publisher it can look after its own staff that published news.

  6. discover the idea of an internet forum.

  7. How to sort the resume on New Web App Uses Machine Learning To Analyze, Repair Your Technical Resume (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Put the details into a search engine and look back in time.
    Who did the person graduate with?
    Party with?
    What public debate was the person attracted to?
    What politics did the person try to spread?
    A good person who can study and who passed their exams? Who presents well?
    A person surrounded by activists?
    Someone who needed help to learn how to study?

  8. Re:Why does the internet need "fact-checking"? on 'Relatively Few' Twitter Bots Were Needed To Spread Misinformation and Overwhelm Fact Checkers, Study Finds (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Re "sword and shield" AC?
    Like the Shield and Sword of the Party https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... AC?
    So the internet does not spread the funny cartoon about a political party?

  9. Why does the internet need "fact-checking"? on 'Relatively Few' Twitter Bots Were Needed To Spread Misinformation and Overwhelm Fact Checkers, Study Finds (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Users post content they find internet they find interesting, funny, to be news worthy.
    The social media brand is not a publisher.
    Social media just connects users. The users create the content.

    Users do not need "fact-checking organizations" as they are not publishers.
    They find something funny, creative and want to share it.
    It could be a political cartoon, a meme, an image of a politician not able to keep up with campaigning.
    Should the internet not get a good LOL at that because of "fact-checking organizations"?
    Should party political government and think tanks set limits on what users can link to as funny? As creative? As news?

    A users failed political campaign cartoon is a thinks tanks party political investment.
    Should a partisan think tank get to remove a funny political cartoon?
    Should a gov get to remove user uploaded images about the results of their gov policy?
    Why should a think tank and organizations get to censor the free and open internet?

    Let social media publish its own news and have its own "fact-checking" for its own published news under it own news brand.
    Let users get on with LOL at news, events, art, faith, culture, celebrities, bad movie scripts, computer games and politics.

    What will "fact-checking" remove next? Any comments about DRM? A bad game review? Movie review? Music? A user created political cartoon? What a new OS patch does to a file system?

    Let users publish and enjoy their social media internet. They pay for social media with the ads they view and ads they are tracked by.

  10. NN rules get removed on Ajit Pai Isn't Saying Whether ISPs Deliver the Broadband Speeds You Pay For (arstechnica.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The networks can be free to innovate and grow all over the USA with less federal NN rules.
    Lets add more rules and laws.

    Let the cities, states and towns work out how they want to internet in their own community and cities.

    The past federal regulations left a lot of slow networks in place as they passed NN rules.
    Staying equally slow to meet federal NN rules is all over the USA is not network innovation.

    Got a slow network?
    Request the existing telco to pay more to build out their new network.
    Ask your community to build their own new network.
    Try and see what a city, state will pay for.
    Federal gov networking?

    That network can only get faster when people using a network pay for the costs of a new network.
    Different parts of the USA can afford to pay for upgrades as they pay for their internet.
    What is testing going to show?
    Great internet. The network is in profit as the wealthy can pay.
    Some network is slow and never had much investment as the people can't/won't pay more for internet services.
    More federal NN rules and more "testing" is not the investment needed.

    Want great internet?
    1. Build it as community broadband and invite every ISP on.
    2. Pay for it as a private network from one telco.
    3. Pay more tax and have the federal gov network the entire USA.
    Measuring an existing network is not going to build a needed new network.

  11. The modern EU nation state takes the fun and freedom of the innovative US internet and adds a new EU link tax.
    Only EU bureaucrats could take something as amazing and free as the internet and work hard to add a link tax.

    Publish behind a paywall and take the paper readers to a paying digital version if the EU publication has value.
    Don't tax the internet for the inability to keep a media empire in profit.

  12. Re:Ordnance Survey??? (was Re:Why is the UK) on 'Google, Apple, and Uber Should Be Forced To Share Their Mapping Data' (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Having any gov demand a company hand over its own data sets is not "pool resources together" AC.

  13. Surf with the security services on Using Airport and Hotel Wi-Fi Is Much Safer Than It Used To Be (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    American and British Spy Agencies Targeted in-flight Mobile Phone Use (Dec 7 2016) https://theintercept.com/2016/... .
    Southwinds, Thieving Magpie and Homing Pigeon
    Canada had the wifi part covered.

  14. The brand builds great new maps in real time using their own tech and money.
    Has to then give their resulting new data away for free to everyone on a gov demand?
    That data was not "compiled at tax payers expense". The US brands went out all over different nations and collected their own data.

  15. Re:But 5G is on the horizon on Canada Has 'No Plan' To Bring Broadband To Rural and Remote Communities, Watchdog Says (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Got some frequency bands for every settlement?
    5G is going to have to connect back to a series of tubes from a mast. How to share that 5G with all in the settlement?

  16. Why is the UK on 'Google, Apple, and Uber Should Be Forced To Share Their Mapping Data' (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    telling the US brands what should be done with data the US brands collected.
    Its "inaccessible to others" as the US brands had to spend a lot of time and their own money to collect all that data.
    The UK gov can create its own data sets and give them away to any project they want for free as "national infrastructure".
    What is it with gov and bureaucrats need to take from the private sector and give to competitors?

    Should the UK gov want to provide data sets to innovate new start ups, create a UK gov backed open set and let anyone use the data for anything.
    Start spending gov money in the UK on UK projects that provide data to UK brands.

    Don't go full tyranny and demand US brands give their years of hard work over to the UK for "free".

  17. Re:Remote Work Doesn't Work on GitLab's Secret To Success? All Its 350 Employees Work Remotely (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    Re "Videoconferencing remains a mess of high-latency nose-gazing. It's awful" AC.
    Move to a part of the US that has great networks and a lower cost of housing.

  18. Quantum computing on Is Quantum Computing Impossible? (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    is another AI winter? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    Great for getting all possible mil and gov funding.

  19. Having "two jobs" is not an academic skill.
    Why should a person who put in the effort not get a place on merit?
    They sit exams and tests, worked hard and know how to study?
    Should a university fill up with students who get "80%" but get allowed in for reasons other than merit?
    75%? 65%? How low can that academic side slide to cover for a "person" who "works two jobs"?

    What happens when a student who can't/won't study gets into face the tests and exams a year or two into university?
    They cant study, cant pass their exams, take keep up with the students who can study?
    Give them a free pass so they as a "works two jobs" person can stay on campus for free for a few more years to learn how to study?
    What about all the students who did not get accepted but had great study skills? Who had a "private tutor" and would have done really well?
    Attempts like that got made in the US mil under Project 100,000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... .
    All the US mil had to do was find people to look after the people who would have failed to enter the mil under normal testing.

    Filling up the best US universities with people who cant study will not result in better graduates.
    Keeping people who can study out on the best universities for people who cant study wont improve US wide academic results.

    A skilled person should be ready to study and not be getting 80% after years of education before university.
    A university can only accept so many people on campus every year. Select on merit who are the best in their generation.
    Not the people who cant study after many years of trying.

    Getting 90% shows a bit more ability to study. The ability to study more for years.

  20. Is that on merit? So the very best get into a top university and can then move into work ready to be productive?
    Such people could just be given a scholarship after showing they have the academic skills to win out over people seeking the same scholarship.
    Want a top university?
    Select the very best students from all over the USA on merit only.
    Do great on your exams and tests and be one of the best in the USA.
    Know that academics is the key to getting in.

  21. The US mil at that time gave smart people selected on merit access to repeated training needed to parachute into wilderness at any time of day.
    This was before Project 100,000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... so the accepted US mil skill level, fitness and IQ would have been great for that generation.
    The FBI would have been all over any strange flight school and parachute clubs looking for people who did not fit into that decade of normal people doing normal "parachute" things.
    The mil then becomes alternative way to have learned a skill used and had the out door skills to escape on the ground.

    The "Navy" part is the open question for the slashdot US mil historians.
    Early special forces? Elite units?
    Someone who had to maintain and prepare Navy parachutes?
    "Navy" was early mil cover for a lot of over activity by other agency units?

  22. Re:Extend, Embrace, Enveigle, Extinguish on GitHub's Annual Report Reveals This Year's Top Contributor: Microsoft (github.com) · · Score: 1

    Ads in the comments.

  23. Re:If you want to speed up the framework on Google To Pay JavaScript Frameworks To Implement Performance-First Code (zdnet.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The ads need the frameworks. The customers with high-quality ads have to be looked after.

  24. Re:So they will also graduate the incompetent? on Virginia To Produce 25K-35K Additional CS Grads As Part of Amazon HQ2 Deal (loudounnow.com) · · Score: 1

    The education will reflect the demographics of the surrounding community.
    Take in lots of really random people.
    Educate them with lots of new ideas. New ways to teach computers. Robot kits and new GUI. Computer ethics and less of that complex old math.
    Expect the education to work for this generation as its a new way of educating.
    See what the tests and exams show.
    Work out that using merit to select students first would have been a good idea. Past decades showed that too.
    New data shows more new money is needed for more computer education.
    Offer more education at work to support people who have just graduated with their educational needs.
    Create more new jobs to look after new workers who will always need decades more educational support.
    A skilled computer professional to look after larger teams new computer graduates. Work becomes further education and support for years.

  25. are always trying to tell people all over the EU what they can use and have to do.
    People all over Europe made the selection to buy into and support Apple and Microsoft products over many generations.
    Users saw what the EU nations tried to do with 1980's educational computing and fully supported the much better US computer quality and innovation.
    In 1018 people all over the "EU" are still supporting and using innovative US computer products.

    What the EU doing? Supporting science and creating its own consumer computer products?
    The EU nations return to tax and use courts to show what governments want done.
    The USA just keeps on creating great products people want to use.