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  1. This sounds nice in paper, but in practice, it's you and your little company against millions of people trying to subvert and break your thing.
    But making easier to get the legal alternative generally works a LOT better.
    This is why netflix is a thing, steam is a thing, apple store is a thing...
    Those worked much better at actually getting money to the companies than any form of law, DRM system or monitoring.

  2. Re:So, does this super earth... on Astronomers Discover 60 New Planets Including 'Super Earth' (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    Mini earth?

  3. So, does this super earth... on Astronomers Discover 60 New Planets Including 'Super Earth' (nypost.com) · · Score: 2

    Is like earth, but better on every sense? like having a super sundae instead of regular sundaes or a super intel that runs their processors at 20 Ghz because they use the super silicon?
    And most importantly, do they name everything super (something)?

  4. Re:What BASIC can do... on Is IoT a Reason To Learn C? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed indeed.
    Or you can just use enough pokes until it does what you want.

  5. Re:Android Things on Is IoT a Reason To Learn C? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Android you can and generally do use the NDK thing, that allows you to create native C compiled libraries to get a really, really nice boost of speed.

  6. Re:No ... on Is IoT a Reason To Learn C? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Basic can't do that by its own, But i bet if you add some magical pokes it do.

  7. Re:FAKE NEWS! SAD! on Michael Flynn Resigns As Trump's National Security Adviser (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, then better became a industrial scale water filter seller to get to install one on the white house.

  8. Re:FAKE NEWS! SAD! on Michael Flynn Resigns As Trump's National Security Adviser (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Not many people take infowars seriously.
    When even the "alt-right" (also known as /pol/) can't take him seriously, stuff's not serious.
    But there will be always one or two that will buy the filter to stop his frogs from becoming gay.

  9. Re:Xenophobia on H-1Bs Reduced Computer Programmer Employment By Up To 11%, Study Finds (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    One of those makes it stronger, the other make it weaker.

  10. Humans will be always relevant.. on Elon Musk: Humans Need To Merge With Machines Else They Will Become Irrelevant in AI Age (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Given the fact everything is built to serve humanity.
    But its the context where humans fit in that is the tricky part.

  11. Everyone and their mothers will be including "jobs for americans" in their campaigns for the next 12+ years, so indirectly he might end fixing it, assuming he don't completely wreck america.

  12. Re:Hate Speech on Twitter Announces (More) Hate-Speech Fighting Tools (Again) (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Sorry, he can't read your answer because he got banned by twitter.
    Now he will go elsewhere, spread his message around and then ten of those people will come and say the same thing.

  13. Re:The Real Question on Mission Possible: Self-Destructing Phones Are Now a Reality (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Password B also have to erase the program that does the password A/password B scheme.

  14. Re:Obligatory political rant! on Nanorods Emit and Detect Light, Could Lead To Displays That Communicate Via Li-Fi (ieee.org) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well, i'm pretty sure you can use em to display a picture of trump with a photoshopped hitler mustache.
    But people will mostly talk about the whole light capturing thing that probably needs a lens to actually work.

  15. Re:Trump scare maybe on Intel To Invest $7 Billion in Factory in Arizona, Employ 3,000 People (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not about Trump, but people being so worried about their jobs, they're willing to vote on trump to get em.

  16. Re:Have to say it... on Nintendo's Engineers Have Embraced Unreal Engine (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    At least they had the sane decision of using an USB-C port on the thing, so you can plug those battery packs.
    Probably was the best engineering decision nintendo did in decades.

  17. Re:What about the actual code? on DRM Company Denuvo Forgets To Secure Its Server, Leaks Two Years Of Emails (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well, there are systems like that, but its quite hard to make a truly secure system when you can't even trust that the chip will run right.
    The playstation 3 DRM scheme was basically impossible to crack because the hardware itself locked any access to the code.
    The cell processor had this inaccessible internal ROM that was read and executed by one of the SPEs before the boot time, and it "locked itself from inside", making impossible to the rest of the system to read it.
    But the crackers managed to get it by glitching the cell processor just when the SPE tried to lock itself, making the instruction fail and exposing it to the other CPUs etc..
    This actually became a quite common tool for breaking into consoles now.

  18. Give em a memey name on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Aggressive Forum Users? · · Score: 1

    And obviously keep the name under control, instead of letting people use it for anything they dislike.
    That should be enough to discourage em from posting or easy classifying users by those that will self describe with it.

  19. Re:Ban temporary lifted for the wrong reasons on Microsoft's H-1B Workers Cited In Motion That Successfully Blocked Trump's Travel Ban (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    When they come to the country, integrate to it and are able to grow in it yes.
    But when they come to basically create a miniature version of their country or are basically slaves with no chance of fighting or growing, not so much.

  20. Re:Go ahead.. on Reddit Bans Far-Right Groups Altright and Alternativeright (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    There's no such thing as "ALL" when talking about humans, it's all percentages.
    But if you manage to convince a big majority, you win.
    But this is a bit hard on a "safe space for anti antisemitism" like the nazi germanyh was, where you could get "banned" for disagreeing or trying to discuss it.

  21. Re:Go ahead.. on Reddit Bans Far-Right Groups Altright and Alternativeright (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    To kill a "bad opinion", you must discuss it and convince the other side by their own logical frame that it is a bad opinion.
    The more you isolate and group people with a same opinion, the less likely it is to go away.

  22. But you know this is just sweeping what you dislike under the rug, right?
    It's this kind of approach that got Trump in power and probably will get him reelected.

  23. Re:This could get interesting on Apple Developing Custom ARM-Based Mac Chip That Would Lessen Intel Role (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Given the current manufacturing processes etc, its most likely a lot smaller than an 1980ish 6502 for example.

  24. Re:This could get interesting on Apple Developing Custom ARM-Based Mac Chip That Would Lessen Intel Role (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    The translation layer is actually quite tiny, with the more arcane instructions being handled by a rom.

  25. Re:The strange narrative on It's Time To Admit Apple Watch Is a Success (imore.com) · · Score: 1

    "millions" is a quite subjective measure.
    I mean, the 3DO system sold 2 million units, but can it be considered a success?

    Probably the real question is: did it paid for the R&D that apple put into the watch?