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  1. Re:Reassuming? on House Democrats Tell Ajit Pai: Stop Screwing Over the Public (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's sheep voting for red or blue wolf pack. They may each feed on a different flock (or really have different window dressing, but every time power changes hands you can be sure the wolf pack is bigger, and they vote more sheep for the pack. All the wolfs get fat, every time.

    Oversight you see with rare exceptions is to misdirect from the wholesale fleecing. There isn't a 'good pack' for the sheep.

    Since you mentioned one team, the other teams Nancy 'all money is the government's except what we let you keep' Pelosi is one of them too. I'm not cheering a side, but suggesting we all need to hold both accountable rather than let them play us against each other. That's their winning move, not ours.

  2. Re:More partisan shilling on House Democrats Tell Ajit Pai: Stop Screwing Over the Public (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The whole point of the Slashdot moderation system was to deal with trolls or just unhelpful/off topic noise that plagued forums pre-Slashdot.

    I remember there was just less political talk early. Then more vocal liberals, but I'm not sure that actually indicates the population of the forum.

  3. Re:Not dead on Ask Slashdot: How Dead Is Java? (jaxenter.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    You forgot the security problems. What a steaming pile. My experience is you can half the frequency of business desktop virus problems by uninstalling JVM or at least blocking the ability of anything web or email based touching it. It's a disaster anywhere a regular user can click on something that runs it. Sad since the design model could have been secure.

  4. Re:Well Obama is fucked on Twitter Might Punish Users Who Tweet 'Learn To Code' At Laid-Off Journalists (reason.com) · · Score: 1

    So does posting that or links to NPR count as ban-able offenses on twitter now that a blessed group is affected?
    https://www.npr.org/sections/a...

  5. Re:Covenginton on Twitter Might Punish Users Who Tweet 'Learn To Code' At Laid-Off Journalists (reason.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Haven't journalists been (as at least a rough paraphrase) saying 'learn to code' whenever blue collar jobs are lost, so this is really a 'lets see how you like your own medicine' type of response?

  6. Sounds a bit like this Alpha wave treatment on Electrical Stimulation of Brain Trialed As Aid To Treating Stutter (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    https://www.defenseone.com/tec...

    I wonder if these patients have been checked for Alpha wave issues. It sounds like a problem that could be caused by sync issues within the brain.

  7. Say the wrong thing? Be suspected of thinking the wrong thing? Have a bad breakup with someone connected? Are you a business or political threat to someone connected?
    Congratulations, you're 'bad' and mob justice will be turned against you. In fact, your mob attack performance may be monitored as well so you better go after anyone identified as it could be a test to see if you're next.

  8. Re:And that's fine.. on Supreme Court Won't Hear a Lawsuit Over Defamatory Yelp Reviews (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    And is it OK for Yelp to promote and emphasize defamatory reviews if the venue hasn't paid Yelp and they're engaged in 'convincing' them to sign up? I've read more than one allegation that when the sales team meets resistance - suddenly there are bad reviews right at the top that could be fixed if you just sign here...

  9. If it's legit, it'll be compression in the CD mastering - aka loudness wars.
    DVD-A and such often sounds better because the mastering is better - probably prioritizing dynamic range instead of loudness.

  10. They've already tracked him via the MAC address using pervasive spying techniques they don't want to reveal. This is cover so they can say a member of the public gave them a tip instead.

  11. Re:Speed cameras = dishonest taxation on Yellow Vests Knock Out 60 Percent of All Speed Cameras In France (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    With red light cameras the usual thing is to shorten the timers. First shorten the yellow light until you're caught doing it on camera and you lose court cases, then play games with the green light. In my area they would shorten green lights to 1 second on busy roads with no side streets to cause multi-hour delays, then they'd ticket drivers in the thousands who reasonably treated the signal as malfunctioning.
    The equivalent with speed cameras is to lower the speed limit. 'the government lowered the limit on many main roads' Imagine my shock at finding that.

  12. Re:Speed cameras = dishonest taxation on Yellow Vests Knock Out 60 Percent of All Speed Cameras In France (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Now we know you're lying or you drive while the right color and not looking poor. Otherwise you'd know that driving the speed limit is not an effective defense to prevent speeding tickets. (as with other 'because I said so' citations like failing to stop at a stop sign or changing lanes without a turn signal)

  13. I didn't with SE, but your experience was dependent on the quality of your hardware drivers. There were no guard rails there, and lots of drivers that weren't reliable especially when in combination with other iffy drivers. (One can break the rules without symptoms, several breaking the rules shows you why they're there. Vendors don't care when the user doesn't have a way to know they're responsible)

  14. Re:3D TV again? on LG Introduces Rollable OLED TV (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    I want it to make very large consumer sets viable. 200 inch sets can't be shipped without damage. Somewhere between 100-150 inches would comfortably fill the wall across from my couch.

    I really see these being build into bookcase valences and lowering. Then the room could be decorated far more flexibly without a clash with the TV.

  15. Re:They *DO* have degradation problems. on LG Introduces Rollable OLED TV (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    TFT backlights wear out as well. The cold cathode tubes dim over time. But until you've got the brightness at 100% for normal viewing it doesn't matter, and in practice capacitor failure will likely have taken the set out first.

  16. And how many of them monetize that properly?
    A counter-intel team that sells the exploits they find so the group is self funding, then waits juuuust long enough they'll be able to sell the next time before patching.
    Done right that could be an intentional extra revenue stream. It's not like these companies have any ethics to complicate matters.

  17. Re:We need Obamacable on AT&T, Dish, Comcast All Raising Cable TV Rates To Counter Cord-Cutting (dallasnews.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Basic cable will be redefined as Cable Gold whose cost will double. Plans with more channels will be dubbed luxury products and be assessed a couch potato tax. It will be marketed as a plan to stop excessive cable company charges.

  18. Re:For the price and quality of cable on AT&T, Dish, Comcast All Raising Cable TV Rates To Counter Cord-Cutting (dallasnews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is a signal they figure they can block/degrade media streaming and get away with it, and that media properties are pulling out of the big streaming companies and that'll screw up the cord cutting value proposition.

  19. Re:Sony screwing their customers again on Sony Appears To Be Blocking Kodi On Its Recent Android TVs (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    If you want to avoid crippled equipment or services you are better off dealing with people who have no financial interest in what you actually use them for, because otherwise your needs are always going to come second.

    *cough* Apple *cough*

  20. Re:Fuck those fucking fuckers! on Sony Appears To Be Blocking Kodi On Its Recent Android TVs (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    Lots of us... the number of systems I had to fix that'd been Sony'd...

    Especially the year Turbo Tax slipped DRM into the software, using disks that couldn't be read if you'd every played Sony media since it'd quietly replace the optical disk driver with a defective version. Both of them can die in a fire.

  21. Re:Fuck those fucking fuckers! on Sony Appears To Be Blocking Kodi On Its Recent Android TVs (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    that means there is more for the rest of us who know what the fuck we are doing.

    Consuming like an automaton?

    Consuming because your PC based media devices don't work after exposure to Sony?

    We don't doubt Sony works as long as you're vendor locked with Sony and make no attempt to consume outside of the boundaries Sony sets. But if you, say, consume Sony media on a PC and discover your PC is malware infected with rootkits and spyware and also that your hardware drivers have been replaced with crippled versions so your tax software won't run you may be upset. Well, not you... someone who isn't a consumer drone.

  22. This! Exactly how is a quad copter going to damage a bridge?

  23. They do, and then your card has 'gone missing' when you're ready to close out your tab and leave. But it sure was charged! That's happened to me twice. Now I don't surrender my card, ever.

  24. Re:The list... on Several Popular Apps Share Data With Facebook Without User Consent (ft.com) · · Score: 2

    Your cut and paste list include the apps that DO NOT transmit data on startup (everything after the space break). That aside, why is approriate for a print driver to send data to FB ever?!?!? (the HP eprint app) Orany of the rest of these, really...

    "We also tested the following apps but they don’t transmit data to graph.facebook.com the moment the app is opened, in the most recent iteration of our analysis (December 2018)"

  25. Until actual penalties are enforced for paying a politician to intercede I wouldn't expect anything but a token financial penalty that's far smaller than the profits gained by violating the rules.