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Comment fixed that for you (Score -1, Troll) 106

"I suggest that facebook maintain honest, truthful posts as a separate list or filter that people can opt into. Do whatever they want on that list with Trump's tweets, conservative bloggers, and whatnot - just make it local to their list and invite people to use the list via opt-in."

Fixed that for you.....

Comment Re: Not really news (Score 1) 280

as a lifetime gymnastics coach who has coached at every level from beginners to elite i can tell you that any comparison here of men and women's gymnastics is invalid. unlike sports like tennis and track, male and female gymnastics differ to such a degree that they are more different than alike. women have 4 events and men have 6, the only common events are vault and floor with floor having the significant difference that the women do a routine to music, the men do not and that engenders differences not readily apparent to non-gymnasts. women have to learn two sets of skills for floor, tumbling skills and dance skills, some of which are quite difficult and dangerous. i witnessed a young lady blow out the medial collaterals on both knees doing a straddle jump, a seemingly elementary skill. in other words, floor is two events for women, one for men. and women's gymnastics is a jumping sport, three events centered on leg strength, men's gymnastics is an upper body strength centered sport, 4 events with no leg support, all upper body strength. that being said, simone is so beyond the rest of the field that she would give some guys a real run for their money in pure tumbling and vault, and her endurance on floor would whip many men due to all the non stop movement in her routine to get all the dance and tumbling in, men get some rest between passes. i can tell you that all the male gymnasts have unending respect for her and would not want to meet her in a dark ally at night, if you know what i mean and i think you do. that girl can whip some you know what. pardon the lack of caps, keyboard issues....

Submission + - Grace Hopper, UNIVAC, and the First Programming Language

M-Saunders writes: It weighed 13 tons, had 5,200 vacuum tubes, and took up a whole garage, but the UNIVAC I was an incredible machine for its time. Memory was provided by tanks of liquid mercury, while the clock speed was a whopping 2.25 MHz. The UNIVAC I was one of the first commercial general-purpose computers produced, with 46 shipped, and Linux Voice has taken an in-depth look at it. Learn its fascinating instruction set, and also check out FLOW-MATIC, the first English-language data processing language created by American computing pioneer Grace Hopper.

Submission + - EFF: Amazon, AT&T, And Snapchat Most Likely To Rat On You To The Gov't (itworld.com) 1

jfruh writes: The EFF has released its annual "Who Has Your Back" report, which uses publicly available records to see which web companies do the most to resist government demands for your personal data, by requiring warrants and being transparent about requests received. Social media giants Facebook and Twitter scored quite well; Snapchat was at the botto of the list, and Amazon and AT&T didn't do much better.
The Courts

Appeals Court Says RIAA Hearing Can't Be Streamed 208

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has overturned a lower court order permitting webcast of an oral argument in an RIAA case, SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum, in Boston. As one commentator put it, the decision gives the RIAA permission to 'cower behind the same legal system they're using to pillory innocent people.' Ironically, the appeals court's own hearing had been webcast, via an mp3 file. The court admitted that this was not an appropriate case for a 'prerogative writ' of 'mandamus,' but claimed to have authority to issue a writ of 'advisory mandamus.' The opinion came as a bit of a surprise to me because the judges appeared, during the oral argument, to have a handle on the issues. The decision gave me no such impression. From where I sit, the decision was wrong in a number of respects, among them: (a) it contradicted the plain wording of the district court rule, (b) it ignored the First Amendment implications, and (c) there is no such thing as 'advisory' mandamus or 'advisory' anything — our federal courts are specifically precluded from giving advisory opinions."
Hardware Hacking

MacBook Air's Battery is Actually Easy to Replace 420

pizzach noted that the MacBook Air battery is actually fairly easy to replace. "All it requires is a philips screwdriver. Unlike some of Apple's other products, the battery is not so soldered in which should make a lot of people at least a little bit happier." I think I'll have to wait for something with a bigger screen and a faster clock speed.

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