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  1. Then why no capability to follow a hashtag? on Is It Time To Rethink the Fundamental Dynamics of Twitter? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Why is there no capability to follow a hashtag? It it too complex to develop? (Not to mention the hashtag trending manipulation that forces users to intentionally misspell hashtags. And given other his other censorship efforts, it would seem Jack Dorsey wants users to follow his interests, not theirs.)

  2. Re: They should go online only on Sears, the 125-Year-Old Iconic Retailer, Has 24 Hours To Survive (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They programmed Prodigy

  3. Re: Copyright should last as long at Patents. on All Copyrighted Works First Published In the US In 1923 Will Enter Public Domain On January 1st (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    The Copyright Act of 1790 stipulated 14 years with a 14 year extension.

  4. Occurring so close to the midterms, will Facebook get called out for meddling in an election rather than allowing status quo and allowing existing groups to execute plans they may have made weeks or months ago?

  5. Deletion of hyperthreading known in July on Intel Debuts 9th-Gen Core Chips, Including Core i9 and X-Series Parts, With a Few Twists (pcworld.com) · · Score: 2
  6. Sounds like Microsoft is reinventing Google Desktop (a fine product that should never have been killed)

  7. Letter Perfect for the Atari 800 was an 8K ROM cartridge.

    Image: http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-letter-perfect_13691.html

    Documentation (100 page PDF): http://www.atarimania.com/8bit/files/letter_perfect.pdf

  8. The use of "peculiar institution" without quotation marks or preceded by "so-called" is even more offensive. At least the Register article has it as a hyperlink, but the Slashdot blockquote lacks it.

  9. In for-profit capitalism, humanities are unimportant. Inhumanities are. The goal is not "usability" (though it may fall out as a side effect) but rather stickiness, which is a polite way of saying addictiveness. It is true studying the humanities may help in for-profit capitalism, but only if they are applied to the goal of manipulation rather than the goal to "help us".

  10. Five miles from the Nile and twenty miles from Aswan may be remote, but Egypt has far, far more remote locations. Like Bugs Bunny remote.

  11. It's the government's commons. It's their tragedy.

  12. Did they average in the dose of Chernobyl workers working during its meltdown for four hours -- the typical length of an airplane flight?

  13. Verification on Twitter Bans, Removes Verified Status of White Supremacists (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So... now there's no way to verify that a white supremacist actually said that racist thing?

  14. Accelerated depreciation on America's 'Retail Apocalypse' Is Really Just Beginning (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    In 2004, Malcolm Gladwell accelerated depreciation as to why so many malls were built in the first place. I just now added this to the Wikipedia article.

  15. Yellow Pages-like databases

    No, individuals are found in the White Pages, not the Yellow Pages.

  16. Pi Day Creator Day? on Memorial Set For 'Pi Day' Creator (sfgate.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Next step is to memorialize whoever thought of creating Pi Day Creator Day

  17. Improves performance, not compression ratio on Google Accused of Trying To Patent Public Domain Technology (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    because it can improve data compression from 3 to 30 times

    No, ANS improves processing performance by 3-30x. It provides the same compression ratio of Arithmetic Coding (the previous industry standard -- the 1977 IBM patent having long expired) but at nearly the same processing speed as Huffman Coding (from 1951).

  18. It would ban all phones on A Colorado Group Wants To Ban Smartphones For Kids (apnews.com) · · Score: 1
    https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2017_2018_initiative_29_initial_fiscal_impact_statement.pdf

    A smartphone, which the measure distinguishes from a cellular phone, means a mobile phone that performs many of the functions of a personal computer

    That would encompass even the dumbest phone from 10 years ago.

  19. Re:100% of Microsoft Vulnerabilities on 94% of Microsoft Vulnerabilities Can Be Mitigated By Turning Off Admin Rights (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't forget opening Word macros from OpenOffice https://www.openoffice.org/sec...

  20. watching pirated content is not permitted? on 32% of All US Adults Watch Pirated Content (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    In the U.S., I thought it was only those who share who have been prosecuted or sued, not those who merely download -- due in part to the Betamax decision.

  21. Reports were false on Uber Starts Self Driving Car Pickups In Pittsburgh (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The reports were true.

    No, the reports were false, as they said Uber would start at the end of August

  22. Eclipse on NASA's Juno Space Probe Enters Orbit Around Jupiter (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    In light of Juno entering Jupiter's orbit, I have updated Wikipedia's description of the Eclipse IDE version naming themes.

  23. Why does a package manager have a CTO? on How One Dev Broke Node and Thousands of Projects In 11 Lines of JavaScript (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    To fix the internet, Laurie Voss, CTO and cofounder of NPM, took the "unprecedented" step of restoring the unpublished left-pad 0.0.3 that apps required.

    Wait, what? A package manager has a CTO? Why is there a SPF in the Javascript world? In the Java world, you would just add an additional repository to your Maven pom.xml and move on. (Or even better, you would already have had your own Artifactory listed, with all your required libraries mirrored there.)

  24. Dilbert on Scientists Say Smart People Are Better Off With Fewer Friends · · Score: 4, Funny