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Comment Re:The ironicalness of it (Score 1) 288

Obviously she said the words she's shown on video saying, but she presumably also said a lot of other words before and after the short clips shown in the video which would provide valuable context to the words you actually hear her say, and probably completely change their perceived meaning. Carefully editing out this context is a common technique employed by those who try to push their own world view by painting their opponents as sinister or evil. (Playing sinister music and showing a silhouetted speaker with a dark background helps too.)

We've seen this all before, I'm surprised people still can't see through it. The Planned Parenthood baby parts nonsense was a prime example but it's easy to find plenty more even on regular "mainstream" news shows.

Comment Re:I build new Slack in Open Source (Score 1) 123

If I want to use something that is almost an exact Slack clone, why wouldn't I just use the real thing and get probably better support and probably more stability and more features?

Because with Rocket Chat you can host it yourself and avoid the aforementioned middlemen surveillance and monetization. If that isn't important to you then go ahead and use Slack.

Comment Re:It's a complicated thing (Score 3, Insightful) 579

In the Catalonian case over 90% of voters voted to leave

90% of the 43% of the population who voted in a referendum that had been declared illegal by the Spanish government. Given that the separatists are far less likely to respect the view of the Spanish government than the loyalists, I think that probably skews the results more than a little.

On the other hand a recent opinion poll showed that 41% were in favor of independence and 49% opposed (source).

Comment Re:Civilization (Score 4, Funny) 172

Turkey around 10,000 years ago: Well Tiddles, I don't know about you but a lot of us have had enough of this abuse, kicking us when any little thing goes wrong, tormenting us for their sport, even murdering our poor children, so we're heading out to the desert until they've evolved a bit.

Egypt, thousands of years later: As you all know, some members of the exploration committee went in to town - and let me tell you we were all a bit scared after those tales we heard as kittens - spent a few weeks cautiously interacting with the humans and trying to teach them our language, generally being friendly and helping to put food on the table and you know what? They treated us like gods.

Austria, 1935:
What am I doing in this box?

Comment Re:When my games stop working on Win 7, maybe (Score 2) 272

Do remember that Windows 10 includes DirectX 12 and Windows 7 doesn't (and presumably never will). Not an issue right now because there are no games out there that actually use DirectX 12, but soon enough it'll be the norm so you probably want to upgrade while it's still free, if games are your primary reason for running Windows at all.

Comment DirectX? Do you mean ActiveX? (Score 5, Informative) 134

No idea why an IP camera would require DirectX, but some of them do have web interfaces that require ActiveX, but you only need that if you actually want to use the web interface to view the video. Most IP cameras (certainly including Axis, I'm not familiar with the others on your list) also implement RTSP, and H.264 is pretty standard, so you can view the streams using e.g. VLC player.

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