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meandereron YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

If there wasn’t something fishy going on, Flynn and Stone wouldn’t need to be pardoned.

meandereron YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

Do people remember the Dems crying large scale voter fraud in 2016? I don’t too.

meandereron A new Linux memory controller promises to save lots of RAM

Not familiar with this, but I assume measures are taken so that we don’t accidentally share memory content between different processes through slabs? That seems a pretty straight forward security consideration.

meandereron Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads

Building profiles of senders can be necessary, e.g., for detecting spammer accounts.

Also, email is transmitted in plain text. Sending an email is more like shouting to your friends in the street, rather than putting a letter into an envelope mailed to the recipient. Thus, I don't think an explicit consent is needed.

That said, I understand that fair use of such information is a concern.

meandereron MMIX 2009: A RISC computer for the third millennium (2011)

Quantum computers could work in very different ways, though.

meandereron Introducing Mavo: Create Web Apps Entirely by Writing HTML

The most interesting part to me is the integration of RDFa -- not just adding semantic marks, but using them in data binding etc.

Is there any plan to support microdata?

Also, how does it interact with existing JS libraries / code? IMO it will accelerate its growth if it can be used with current technology.

meandereron HP laptops covertly log users’ every keystroke, researchers warn

Why does the title mention HP only? Seems that any Windows computer using Conexant audio chips + driver will have the same problem. Pinning this on one specific manufacturer feels weird to me.

meandereron Giant Panda no longer an endangered species

if it is better or worse depends on your value.

for me, lions being vulnerable instead of endangered doesn't justify trophy hunting. killing for fun is arguably worse than killing for medicine.

in another scenario, dogs are not endangered. do you think it is ok to kill dogs just for fun?

meandereron Giant Panda no longer an endangered species

oh come on, how about stopping trophy hunting of lions?

it annoys me that some western people are so apt to play the game of blaming China, just to take the moral high ground, but not to actually solve problems.

I'm not saying that China is not blamable. it is. but so is any other country, group, even individual. the media bias is just disgusting. can we please try to understand each other and figure out ways to solve problems?