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Comment Hey you grumpy cynics... (Score 5, Insightful) 356

1. The search results are only changing for non-mobile friendly devices IF the search originates from a mobile device, not for everyone.

2. This has very little to do with ad revenue. Google is always tweaking the algorithms that feed the results page. This does not give any new precedence to paid advertisers at all.

Basically they want you to bring your site into the 21st century. I see no real issue here. Responsive sites that are designed well (IE, not slashdot mobile), can be useful, and you can always request the full desktop site (if the site honors that request). Content and formatting do not exist independently of each other. Do you want some gopher sites in your search results?

Comment Re:possible workaround. (Score 1) 229

Even were the spammers able to coordinate and get a game greenlighted (doubtful at best), they would still get kicked out by normal reporting procedures, requiring an endless parade of $5 accounts to keep scamming.

I received three invites this week from scammers. rather than ignore, I accept, wait for the bait then report. Two sent fake steam community links that were typosquatting malware, I did not investigate further as I was not near a test box and did not want a drive by infection. One sent a bit.ly link to a trojan downloader. When I put it in my test system, it promptly installed cryptowall3. Personally I am all for reasonable measures to curtail these douches. $5 seems reasonable to me.

Comment Re:The wider social context - people distrust scie (Score 1) 173

AGW and antivaxxers fly in the face of established science. With hair forensics there was no established science, just an echo chamber of 'experts' under pressures to prove guilt. This is just FBI cases. What about state and other cases based on the same science? What of other "scientific" forensic processes then and now that a jury can't possibly understand. All a jury knows is that a congenial, nicely dressed, "expert" with superior "credentials, certifications, education, and achievements" states that the scumbag in the defense chair must have done it. I do not care if the defendant is a dick of the first order and that they have the right guy a larger percentage of the time. It is unacceptable to let any innocent person rot in prison or be killed falsely.

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