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Comment Re:Seems ok (Score 3, Insightful) 179

> so I'm not really sure anything is wrong here.

When a customer orders the Phad Thai that is not from the Michelin-starred restaurant because they don't actually make Phad Thai, feels that it's quality is not up to their expectations for a Michelin-starred restaurant, and starts blasting their name around the web and suggesting that their Michelin star should be reconsidered, then you might understand how something could be wrong here.

Comment Isn't that how it always plays out? (Score 5, Insightful) 55

"Your stuff is secure. It's highly protected!"

"Well, it's actually pretty wide open, but no one ever does."

"Well, sometimes people do, but only trusted members."

"Well, anyone can access it, but it's against policy."

"Well, lots of people do, but only for quality of service."

"Well, people sometimes do it for other reasons, but definitely only for business reasons."

"Ok, people watch you jack off all the fucking time and share it on the internet."

Comment Re:Human vision limit (Score 1) 46

144 does it pretty well for me. I definitely notice the difference in the jump form 60 to 144, but not so much beyond that. The issue is that display resolution keeps going up too, so we keep needing more and more bandwidth to provide the same framerate at ever-increasing resolutions.

Submission + - GitHub Expands Bug Bounty Program And Removes Maximum Award Limit

An anonymous reader writes: GitHub today beefed up its bug bounty program. The Microsoft-owned company has expanded the program’s scope, increased its reward amounts, and added Legal Safe Harbor terms to its policy. GitHub also revealed that it paid out over $250,000 to security researchers in 2018 through its public bounty program, researcher grants, private bug bounty programs, and a live-hacking event. Of that total, $165,000 was specifically paid out to researchers through the public bug bounty program.

Submission + - USPS Steals Patent from Alabama Businessman - Supreme Court to Review (washingtonpost.com)

bluekloud writes: The US Supreme Court is set to review a case against the US Postal Service. The USPS used eminent domain to bypass a valid US patent on technology to improve the handling a returned postal mail. The USPS is claiming to be a "person" under US Law, that allows them to take specific actions to invalidate the patent.

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