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  1. Except their algorithm is being adjusted to down mod conservative sources http://imgur.com/HM89EbE. Even using 'Adjust Sources' in Google News , left sites still pop up to the top and are cited many more times. Same thing is happening today, CNN still gets cited more than any other source with the example 'Adjust Sources' . It is impossible to get to that output without a manual parameter that ends up over-riding the user preferences.

  2. CBC is full of it. on Subway Sues Canada Network Over Claim Its Chicken Is 50 Percent Soy (yahoo.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Subway will win the lawsuit. https://arstechnica.com/scienc...

  3. Originally you could remap the button on Samsung Blocks Ability To Remap Galaxy S8's Bixby Button (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Guess someone was able to remap the Bixby button on demo S8 unit in Best Buy. So it isn't that Samsung blocked it from the beginning , they explicitly removed right before launch which is d-bag move.

    http://www.androidauthority.co...

  4. Alexa can unlock my front door, but that will also activate Mozart, my 100lb GSD who's cancel commend doesn't work that well for intruders.

  5. Incorrect, diesel electric subs do not have the range required, nor are the NK subs modern. Yes the best diesel electric subs made by the Swedish are quiet, but they still don't have the range.

  6. Problem is North Korea's subs are diesel electric, which basically makes it impossible for North Korea to be stealthy at all. The US probably has no problem tracking NK entire submarine fleet.

  7. Re:NK *is* a credible threat on North Korea Parades Hybrid 'Frankenmissile', Then Fails Yet Another Missile Launch Test (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    North Korea only has diesel electric subs, it would basically be impossible for them to get close to the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... .

    North Korea could really only get within striking distance of South Korea without detection. Japan would even be a stretch.

  8. Re:Cereberal Network Variability on Neuroscientists Weigh In On Elon Musk's Mysterious 'Neural Lace' Company (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    The brain can use different parts of the brain for new tasks. Echo location studies using MRI in blind humans the part of brain usually devoted to sight,end up processing sound for echo location. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Crazy the blind guy can ride a bike without issue and is crazy accurate for what you would expect.

  9. Yes they are, corporate rate is HIGH on Sorry America, Your Taxes Aren't High (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    My CPA wife does the tax returns for a fortune 50 company for the US,UK and Canada. The corporate rate is the issue, not the individual rate. She works for a very tax conservative company, ie they pay hundreds of millions of dollars in tax every single year and don't try to do any crazy tax loop holes.

  10. Should have just sold Pebble Time 2 instead. on Fitbit's New Smartwatch Has Been Plagued By Production Mishaps (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2

    Fitbit screwed up royally by buying out Pebble and shutting down the entire about to launch Pebble Time 2, which mind you looks better than that monstrosity.

  11. Re:Holy fuck, the indictment is bullshit on Should The FBI Have Arrested 'The Hacker Who Hacked No One'? (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Correction. Can Microsoft be charged if msvc is used to make malicious?That is basically what they are doing. Nope that is right, the kid doesn't have billions for a lawyer fees.

  12. Holy fuck, the indictment is bullshit on Should The FBI Have Arrested 'The Hacker Who Hacked No One'? (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    The entire indictment centers around one of his users that licensed his software put it into a keylogger. Can Microsoft be charged if I uses msvc with msvc runtime dll?

    It is outright insane.

  13. Re:Well that's all interesting and good... on Bannon Loses National Security Council Role in Trump Shakeup (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    No from formers National Security Advisors, it is not normal for the NS Advisor to request unmasking nor is it routine for other agencies. Just none-sense spin from the left journalist .It's the FBI's job to preform counter-intelligence, it wasn't Susan Rice's job. She wasn't even preforming counter-intelligence, she was spying for political reasons.

  14. Re:The Cooker on Bannon Loses National Security Council Role in Trump Shakeup (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Except most of the dozens of unmaksing requests were done from Nov-Jan 2017 , so not 2 years ago. Also it is the FBI's job to find out, not a political appointee unmasking for political reasons.

  15. Except he is still on the NSC, can see all information from the NSC, and has an open invitation to all NSC meetings. It is just not required that he be at the meetings.
    Fact he was only able to attend one NSC meeting due to scheduling conflicts,, thus this isn't really a change at all.
    But go on and believe Steve Bannon was fired from NSC, if it makes you feel any better after Hillary lost the election.

  16. Re:He is still on NSC on Bannon Loses National Security Council Role in Trump Shakeup (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Confirm removal as a NSC principal member. IE not REQUIRED to go to meetings AND he can STILL go to NSC meetings.

  17. Re:He is still on NSC on Bannon Loses National Security Council Role in Trump Shakeup (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    "Wednesday’s change means Mr. Bannon is no longer part of the NSC. He is still permitted to attend meetings but won’t automatically be invited to each one."
    "Bannon is still permitted to go to NSC meetings."
    Try again http://online.wsj.com/public/r...
    Also he only attended ONE meeting before, so this really doesn't do anything.

  18. Re:Well that's all interesting and good... on Bannon Loses National Security Council Role in Trump Shakeup (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Last time I check this was tech site, guess it is left wing sjw bash Trump site?

  19. Re:Well that's all interesting and good... on Bannon Loses National Security Council Role in Trump Shakeup (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    No Russia is distraction for Democrats to shift blame on how badly they lost the election.Prompted up by the Obama administration that politicized government agencies to hide the disaster know as Hillary Clinton. Too much CNN rots your brain. Imagine "Dick Cheney unmasked incoming Obama administration's transition team" , you liberals would be screaming bloody murder.

    First, there is NO solid evidence of any connection to Russia to Trump , that wasn't from a Obama political appointee.The entire Russian/Trump report was created by Obama appointees, not career intelligence officers. There wasn't 17 intellgience agencies that said Russia interfered in the election, there was one man named James Clapper created a report that said Russia interfered. Basically only 1 group , the NSA had any input and one person be James Clapper, the one who lied to congress, that Russia interfered with the election.

  20. He is still on NSC on Bannon Loses National Security Council Role in Trump Shakeup (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Steve Bannon is still on the NSC, he's just not a principal member. He is still allowed to go to all the meetings he wants to. He was only able to make one meeting meeting he was a principal member. Thus no real change.

  21. My sub is better, missing key fact. on CIA Tricked Antivirus Programs, Claims WikiLeaks (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The key fact is it disguises the original malware writers in Chinese, Russian, Korean,Arabic and Farsi.
    Wikileaks Vault 7 Part 3 has released the CIA's Marble framework that is used the disguise the origin of malware. Specifically it is designed to " "[D]esigned to allow for flexible and easy-to-use obfuscation" as "string obfuscation algorithms (especially those that are unique) are often used to link malware to a specific developer or development shop."
    https://slashdot.org/submissio...

    Brings up a key point if the CIA does this, other countries do the same thing.
    Do you really think Russia would sprinkle their hacked documents with Fancy Bear and Cozy Bear?

  22. Re:Sick of the hypocrisy on Ivanka Trump To Take Coding Class With 5-Year-Old Daughter (hollywoodlife.com) · · Score: 1

    Expect to get stupid Trump bashing articles on /. for the next 4 years. Slashdot has taken a hard left political turn with the editors.

  23. Re:Mythbusters on House Approves Bill To Force Public Release of EPA Science (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Except it wasn't the Trump administration, so BeauHD didn't care.

  24. /. censorship using modslap on Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case On Toner Cartridges (consumerist.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Slashdot nuked my karma for political reasons. My karma went from excellent after many, many years to good without new any posts, comments or anything. Karma was excellent even after two my comments got modded down, comments before that were all basically modded up. Karma was excellent for the last two days, today suddenly nuked to good.

    I guess since I don't agree that Trump colluded with Russia, slashdot editors / admins nuked my karma.

  25. Not just IRS, States go nuts on Amazon Wins $1.5 Billion Tax Dispute Over IRS (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Multiple states have basically bluffed on the tax returns my CPA wife has done for a very large company.
    More than one time in the last few years, a state will reject a return. Says the company has to pay millions. 1 day before the tax court date, the state drops disagreement.
    3 states are trying to say that they agree that huge chunk of stock sold in another company investment capital gains, but hundreds of millions is company income in their state. So 3 different states are seeing big millions in capital gains and all 3 are trying to say state income tax applies to the same portion of income that came from capital gains.
    One state went as far to try to call someone else other than my wife, to try to get someone at the company to agree that they needed to pay the tax bill.