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  1. I don't think that word means what they think it means. They need to rethink their distributed model if one data center takes down customers. Isn't the pitch for those services that they basically bulletproof for businesses?

  2. EM Client and Airmail on Slashdot Asks: Which Is Your Favorite Email Client? · · Score: 1

    On the Windows I use EM Client. Decent interface, much faster than Outlook and doesn't bog down the whole machine. It also supports Caldav and Carddav which my server supports.

    On the Mac, it's Airmail.

  3. Re:Another Bullshit Study From the Music Industry on Safe Harbor Cost the US Music Industry Up To $1B in Lost Royalties Per Year, Study Finds (musicweek.com) · · Score: 2

    Someone watching a youtube video does not equate to a lost "sale" from a streaming service. The youtube viewer would have never paid to listen to your song.

    What they are saying is that if the video with that copyrighted music was properly registered as that copyrighted work, Youtube would be paying a royalty for it or monetizing it for the record company/artist. Since it was uploaded by a user and not registered as the copyrighted work, Youtube does not pay for it until after it is discovered. It is not saying these were lost sales.

    What they did not seem to mention was the knock-on effect of purchases made by people that heard the music in those unregistered videos that would likely bring down that $1 billion amount quite significantly.

  4. Re:Speaking of contradictions... on As Contradictions Mount, Experts Call For Declassification of Yahoo's Email-Scanning Order (onthewire.io) · · Score: 2

    I think it's pretty safe to say the employees that would have been involved with writing it would be under a serious gag order. The employees talking about this are clearly not those same employees, and had nothing to do with writing it.

    I would hope that they were at least smart enough to keep any changes like that in-house. Trusting code they give you, especially a kernel module, would be epic stupidity.

  5. Re:telomeres? on New Study Suggests There's a Limit To How Long People Can Live (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if you're slipping toward disingenuous...

    I do not think that word means what you think it means.

    Please, don't start lying...

    Again, I do not think that word means what you think it means. Lying means I have knowingly told a falsehood or or something untrue. I've done no such thing. Everything I've said is true from my perspective. By calling me a liar when that is clearly not the case would seem to make you both disingenuous and a liar.

    If you assume things aren't true, and change only when it's "proven" otherwise, you'll believe nothing but a few demonstrated theorems of pure mathematics, and nothing else, including anything in science.

    Small thing called preponderance of evidence. That also means quality of evidence. That is where being skeptical will lead you to the truth instead of something else more often than not.

    I'm not here to present evidence for anything, I'm not making any claims, you are. You are making extraordinary claims, so show me extraordinary evidence. You've shown me none of value so far.

    I get it. You've been told something all of your life, and the thought that something that big may not be true is scary. Don't troll other people because you have a hard time with it.

  6. Re:telomeres? on New Study Suggests There's a Limit To How Long People Can Live (go.com) · · Score: 1

    > Afterlife is not falsifiable. That said, that means there is no evidence of it,

    It is. If you haven't found evidence you're not believing hard enough.

    Ftfy.

  7. Re:telomeres? on New Study Suggests There's a Limit To How Long People Can Live (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Ummm, no. Not sure how you get that I'm lying about anything when I commented factually about what YOU wrote and made no claims about the nature of what constitutes evidence. Also not sure what "personal evidence" means, but either scientific or legal evidence will certainly do it for me, I'm actually not that picky as long as it's independently and objectively verifiable. I will note that courts usually defer to the scientific evidence, so that works for me.

    If I found my spouse in bed with someone else, that's pretty good evidence for me. If I tell you it happened and you don't know me, then it is not credible evidence for YOU and you may choose to believe it, but you have no factual basis for doing so. If you tell a third person about it, it is then anecdotal evidence only and cannot be considered to be a fact.

    The question is, what is YOUR threshold for something to be called evidence? Based on what you asked people to Google, there is a biased low bar that finds information to support your beliefs that either may have other explanations or has sources that are questionable in their objectivity.

    Try to be a skeptic - assume that it isn't true and prove otherwise - and you can argue with a clear conscience. But something tells me you are not interested in actual "evidence" of any kind other than what supports your beliefs.

  8. Re:telomeres? on New Study Suggests There's a Limit To How Long People Can Live (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Aside from that, you have -no possible way- to know that no one has received personal evidence

    You are stating that there is no evidence that the lack of lack of evidence is absolute, other than that apparent complete lack of said evidence.

    Bravo, you doubled down on that and almost invented a new logical fallacy in the process, except I think that appeal to lack of evidence still covers this.

  9. $4.00 for a nutritionally complete meal and you're bitching about the price? That's less than the cost of an actual coffee in most places now.

    I think you misunderstood the price.

  10. Re:Let's party like it's 1995. on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Preferred Note-Taking App? · · Score: 1

    Still spelling Microsoft with the Dollar sign? How retro can you get?

    I saved myself from typing 7 extra letters there, making it totally worth it. Besides, I thought it was appropriate, given that I am implying that after doing their best to ruin the competition, they will eventually start charging for all the pieces of it, like they always do. Then drop it without warning because it isn't as profitable as they want.

    Other tech sites have grown out of this kind of adolescent nonsense. Slashdot never. Which is one of the reasons why the site it is fading into irrelevance.

    Ya, umm, calling something adolescent doesn't make it so. Especially when the subtlety of the comment went over your head to begin with.

  11. Re:Don't subscribe on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Preferred Note-Taking App? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I get the Microsoft hate, but OneNote is free. There is no monthly ransom.

    For now. It's still M$, meaning it likely won't end well.

  12. Re:Finally! on SCO vs. IBM Battle Over Linux May Finally Be Over (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Or this would work even better... Robot Chicken

  13. Re:brilliantly absurd and hilarious on Pirate Bay Cofounder Utterly Bankrupts the Music Industry (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    It's not brilliant. It's stupid as shit and will accomplish nothing.

    Except that now many people are talking about this, and about the absurdity of the music industry calling copied songs actual monetary losses.

    Seems like it's accomplishing a lot, actually.

  14. Re:Community Support on Ask Slashdot: Is it Practical To Replace C With Rust? · · Score: 1

    Actually you're the idiot for completely missing the context of what he was referring to. He is drawing an analogy to the situation, not making a suggestion for that language.

  15. Re:Nothing New Here... on A Breakdown of the Windows 10 Privacy Policy · · Score: 1

    +1 Insightfully Informative.

  16. Why trust them? on Kingston HyperX Predator SSD Takes Gumstick M.2 PCIe Drives To 1.4GB/sec · · Score: 5, Insightful

    After their bait and switch with SSD's, how can anyone trust them or the reviews?

    http://www.extremetech.com/ext...

  17. Re:Are the CAs that do this revoked? on Chinese CA Issues Certificates To Impersonate Google · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yup, same as DigiNotar. This company is no longer trustworthy, regardless of if this happened on purpose, or due to being incompetent.

  18. Re:How is this Canada ? on Some Hackers Unknowingly Gathering Intel For the NSA · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because we're the only country that doesn't have any oversight at all. Who do you think is really in charge of five eyes? It's always the quiet, polite ones that you need to be worried about.

  19. Re:Reading comprehension is important on Major Record Labels Keep 73% of Spotify Payouts · · Score: 1

    I seriously doubt it. You forget the manager, the accountant, etc., etc.. Likely they keep 50-60% of that.

  20. Re:No evidence on Google Releases More Windows Bugs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Microsoft says there's no evidence these flaws haven't been successfully exploited."

    FTFY.

  21. Re:'Big Rip' better than Heat Death on How Galaxies Are Disappearing From Our Universe · · Score: 1

    Heat death gives us an awful long time to work on figuring out extracting vacuum energy, and leaves a viable universe for us to maintain a bubble of livable space in. Given the trillions of years we would have, it should be long enough to figure out how to big-bang our own new universe as well, assuming we still need to inhabit that kind of physical space after that long.

    Of course, the big rip would give us a reason not to procrastinate for billions of years, so I guess there's something to be said for having a literal drop-dead timeline to motivate you.

  22. No doubt it's been mothballed... on US Navy Sells 'Top Gun' Aircraft Carrier For One Penny · · Score: 2

    After losing both catapults for 10 minutes during an attack (that was over in 2 minutes) that was only averted thanks to Pete "Maverick" Mitchell saving their asses, that ship had clearly seen its day.

  23. Re: Fine on Hotel Group Asks FCC For Permission To Block Some Outside Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    The Freemasons would feel right at home there, and would probably find it especially attractive for conventions.

  24. Credible citations please. There are numerous credible studies that say just the opposite, especially with regard to the autism link, or the complete lack thereof. Just saying there is proof does not make it true, especially when there is little to show to backup your claims.

    The last decade has shown exactly the opposite of what you are saying. Less vaccinations has resulting in outbreaks of diseases in the last decade that were basically extinct 20 years ago.

  25. Re:Cubic gigaparsec ... on Stars Traveling Close To Light Speed Could Spread Life Through the Universe · · Score: 5, Funny

    With these kind of huge sizes, I think it's more like a gigabuttload, or as the layman would say, a Kardashian.