"Never underestimate the marketing power of 20 million tweenage girls."

Exactly, because the 20 million teenage boys torrent their music.

" Swift is an artist who could afford to shoulder the cost of three months of not being paid by Apple, but she has chosen to make a stand and stick up for those who are less fortunate."

As always when people tell us, it's not about the money, it's about the principle, it's about the money.

"American tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Apple..."

All those mentioned are located in Luxembourg, where they pay their taxes.

"If he was using TOR, or a VPN or anything, they're Out of luck anyways. Plus as they said above, its not like the ISP keeps 4 year old logs"

And if they did, wouldn't it be against the law? Perhaps forbidden tree etc?

The slashdot UI produces psychedelic visuals even without any artificial or natural intelligence.
Every time I come here, there are icons all over the place, in the middle of the text, the title bar shows random icons or text and I'm not even on beta.
Not to mention the dupes or stupid articles and don't make me begin about the videos.

Here's a link where you can select a few verbatim Google search plugins, different countries, SSL, etc

http://mycroftproject.com/sear...

I've had the very same problem for years now. I get exclusively results that other people got, who searched something vaguely similar.

First, you have to enclose every fucking word between quotes or you get only Taylor Swift and Kardashian search results.

Second, even _if_ you do that, it ignores all the punctuations I enter. I _really_ want only the results where there are exactly the period or comma on exactly the place where I put it, how hard can that be?

If I search for carbuncles, I don't need to see cars of somebody's uncle.

And don't even mention if you use a VPN, then you'll get Estonian or Russian results even when you enter only English words.

Google has become useless other than for clueless teens.

Why can't they just have a checkbox that you can select:

Check this box if you can spell and really mean what you type.

"which is amazing considering the vibrations that ISS experiences merely from astronaut movements."

You might be surprised, but many cameras have a system to remove those vibrations and if not, there are filters for that.

Unfortunately also many filmmakers don't seem to know that or they're just to cheap to pay 50$ an hour to rent a steadycam fixture.

"Google announced today an armpit powered personal server."

That was not real, they'll just do a moustache-powered Google Glass.

It's been around for almost 40 years and most trains and lots of factories are still running on it.
It runs on almost everything since the original hardware has been discontinued years ago.

"I'd just like to be able to watch movies on a headset and don't really care all that much about the VR aspects. I get it, for gamers it'll be awesome. I'm just not sure of the utility of VR for non-gaming entertainment."

If you watch a movie and you see the victims' eyes widen in fear, you can look over your shoulder and see the killer coming at them.
It's like a hologram but you're in the middle of it instead of outside.

"The question of the day, how long till someone links imaging processing software with the guidance system so they can get the drones to hover over, and follow along, as sharks patrol off shore?"

Hopefully drones equipped with lasers to drive them sharks away. It's not fair if only sharks have lasers.

1. Pretend that you have decrypted the files.
2. Observe suspected agents to see who is fleeing.
3. Profit.

Asset tracking? Slashdot needs a dupe tracking app. This has been posted not a week ago.

Tuesday is crash-day, oops I meant patch-day.