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Comment Re:commentsubject (Score 1) 45

by s1d3track3D (#56247903) Attached to: Inside the Booming Black Market For Spotify Playlists
Those are some really current innovative bands you listed there... lol
Do you seriously not listen to any current music? I like the 'classics' too but really, that is all you listen to? If so this discussion is not relevant to you.

A lot of people enjoy hearing new music by new bands, how do you find those new good groups? Based on the group you like, check out "Rival Sons - Pressure and Time", your welcome, please send my $5 when you can...

Comment Re:Free market will take care of it (Score 1) 45

by s1d3track3D (#56247817) Attached to: Inside the Booming Black Market For Spotify Playlists

If they squander the goodwill by selling out to paid placements, so be it. Free market will take care of it.

BS. Just listen to the radio, there's hardly a good song to be found...

. If people are told enough times that something is good they will talk themselves into believing it as well.

This. The truth is most people don't know what a good music is, as long as it's melodic-ish sounding and features attractive people marketed well (easily found) they will consume what you tell them too.

Comment Re:Critical success, but is it Star Wars? (Score 2) 300

Then there is the whole Finn and Rose sub-plot where they try to get a codebreaker. Their efforts are worse than useless. The codebreaker somehow figured out that the rebels were sneaking away and tipped off the First Order. (I really don't know how a codebreaker could figure this out; Finn couldn't have told him because Finn didn't know either.) The rebel plan to sneak away was working until the codebreaker tipped off the bad guys, so something like 90% of the surviving rebels died because of that codebreaker guy.

When you see it again, you will notice that as Finn and Rose are flying away on their mission, they get a call from Poe who tells them that the Vice Admiral is evacuating the ship sending off the pods, it's clear that the code breaker hears this as they pan to a shot of him.

And why did they take the risk of the whole codebreaker thing? Because the Vice Admiral didn't tell Poe that she actually had a plan, and she went out of her way to let him think she had no plan and everyone was going to die. Was this to "teach him a lesson"? Makes no sense, and that lesson came at a horrific cost.

Her opinion of him was that he was a reckless fly boy who was off the handle and would have probably rejected the plan, I think she was banking on the fact that we would at least fall in line with authority and not do what he did, I feel he thought he had a better plan anyway. I agree with you though, this part was a little "Gilligan's Island-ish".

But seriously, Star Wars has always been a soap opera in space, the writing/plot has never been really great, it was always the special effects/creativity/imagination that was such magic.

Submission + - Patreon rolls back planned fee changes (patreon.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: Recently Patreon announced changing their fee structure to make donors cover payment-processing fees. https://tech.slashdot.org/stor... Responding to the huge pushback from users over the planned changes, they have rolled them back and apologized.

Dear creators, From the bottom of our hearts, we’re truly sorry. Last week’s service fee announcement caused a tough week for you, your patrons, and your teams. We were trying to solve a problem for creators and, in turn, caused more problems for you and your patrons. You’ve spoken loud and clear. We’re not going to rollout the changes to our payments system that we announced last week, and are currently assessing other options. Our CEO & co-founder, Jack, explains more here:

https://blog.patreon.com/not-r...

Comment Re: OMG (Score 2) 117

by s1d3track3D (#55186155) Attached to: Why Bats Crash Into Windows
I don’t know,

Q: Why did the bat crash into windows?
A: It saw the Blue Screen of Death

Q: Why did the bat crash into windows?
A: Because the door was closed

Q: Why did the bat crash into windows?
A: Because the Mac was more secure

Q: Why did the bat crash into windows?
A: Because it ran l33t c0d3z scr1ptz

Q: Why did the bat crash into windows?
A: Because the batman is a master technologist

Your welcome!

(thank you, i’ll be here all night)

Comment Look in the mirror for blame (Score 1) 283

Equifax Blames Open-Source Software For Its Record-Breaking Security Breach

7. Disclaimer of Warranty. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, Licensor provides the Work (and each Contributor provides its Contributions) on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND... - Apache License

Comment Also, Unabomber (Score 1) 427

by s1d3track3D (#55098497) Attached to: How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto
Interesting, there was a story recently on Fresh Air/NPR about how they caught the unabomber through linguistic work. It wasn't until his manifesto that they had enough writing to analyse. They didn't mention stylometry but the FBI interviewee discussed breaking down the writing into geographical location, writer's age, etc.

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