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What good is having an opinion if you can't express it or discuss it in an open forum?
Racism does not have to be about "the inferiority of another race". Racism can be "I don't think it's good for the economy that so many people from outside are coming" or "this culture is completely incompatible with ours and I don't want these people here". It's a pretty lax word. By outlawing "racism" you're outlawing discourse.
Heh, I still can't believe they have "outlawed racism". That's like outlawing any other political opinion. How is that possible?
Re:Intel Responds to Security Research Findings on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @03:48PM (#16064955)
They would have to screw up really bad for people to go to AMD. I think that may never happen.
Re:Intel Responds to Security Research Findings on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @03:46PM (#16064942)
"The most secure in the world" does not mean "flawless". Thinking like that is pretty dangerous (and silly)
Re:Spotify files for its IPO on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @01:57PM (#16063908)
They removed those limits years ago. But they were added just when they launched in the US.

https://www.wired.com/2010/05/spotify-adds-us-friendly-servi...

"Meanwhile a new free version called Spotify Open allows Europeans who had not been invited to sign up for free accounts in the past to join without being invited – however, they can only stream up to 20 hours of free music per month, with advertisements."

This is what the client looked like when you were out of hours: https://spotify.i.lithium.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1... (notice the bar at the top right. dakika = hours I suppose. I can't find a better screenshot)

Facebook required: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-login-required-for-spo...

"Unfortunately you will need a Facebook account to access Spotify from now on, unless you already have an account set up"

So please just because you weren't there to see it don't say it's a lie

Can't say much about music being removed. I don't remember what they removed and don't have any citations. But I remember it happening.

Re:Spotify files for its IPO on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @12:38PM (#16063011)
A lot of music was removed. They added really bad limits, like a limit on how many hours you could listen every month. They forced you to create Facebook accounts to register, which means I had to create tons of Facebook accounts to overcome the hours/month limit. And some other things I don't remember.
Re:Iceland becomes first country to legalise equal pay on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @10:55AM (#16061999)
Reddit banned salary negotiations because women were worse at negotiating.
Re:How Does Technology Affect Which Men Women Choose? on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @09:46AM (#16061348)
The same it means to everybody else: to be rich or in the media spotlight.

You can also have a high esteem in a community by being a manipulative fuck.

Re:How Does Technology Affect Which Men Women Choose? on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @09:42AM (#16061316)
>Or could it be because the traits one needs to cultivate in order to achieve high status have an overlap with the traits that are desirable in romantic partners (e.g. empathy, integrity, being an active listener, knowing when and how to compromise)?

You do not need those traits to be high status.

Re:Why Use Debian Stable on the Desktop? on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @08:42AM (#16060848)
I've used Arch years ago. It was a trainwreck. They had a very very bad QA and I had to reinstall every few months. The community is also full of people I wouldn't want to have around, as your own message shows.

Also I don't use Gentoo to get "pointless optimisations". Ricers are the low hanging fruit that's there to be mocked. I use Gentoo because it's the best rolling out there.

Re:Why Use Debian Stable on the Desktop? on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @07:28AM (#16060413)
Using Debian Stable on a desktop is probably the closer to hell that you could ever get. Imagine to never be able to get that one feature you need because it's only in a more recent version.

The best option for a stable desktop is Gentoo, where you can run old software but then unmask recent stuff if you need it. As a recent example I'll say that MTP support in stable (libmtp) was flaky for my mobile phone. With Debian I would've had to suck dicks in the bug tracker forever to get the fix backported. With Gentoo I just unmask a more recent version et voilà. And that applies to any software you could ever need: you are always going to need more recent versions of certain packages at some point. Stuff that gets fixed, a certain new feature you want, a more recent kernel...

I know someone is going to mention apt pinning but that only works in theory since pinning a more recent version of a certain package usually means you have to update half your packages to unstable because of dependencies. And in that case why even use stable?

Re:IP address errors lead to wrongful arrests on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @11:04PM (#16058274)
I expect something like the dmca "safe harbor" if you're a Starbucks.
Re:IP address errors lead to wrongful arrests on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @07:58PM (#16057434)
Which are owned by a person. That's like saying you can only correlate a licence plate to a car, not to the owner of a car. Don't be ridiculous.
Re:IP address errors lead to wrongful arrests on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @02:54PM (#16054968)
There's no way a prosecutor/investigator can correlate an IP address to a person without asking the ISP so I don't see your point.
Re:IP address errors lead to wrongful arrests on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @02:14PM (#16054504)
>* most residential IP addresses are dynamic * more and more carriers are using cgNAT as they exhaust IPv4 addresses

You can ask the ISP. They are supposed to store metadata.

Re:Norwegian Student Takes Secret Street Photos In The 1890s on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @12:28PM (#16053425)
I did not get anything like that. Are you sure your ad blocker is up to date?
How many arrests have happened because of CP posted on, say, Facebook? Or on Reddit? Is there any proof that CP is more likely to be posted on the 4chan imageboard than anywhere else on the Internet? Do you think the owners of 4chan somehow encourage the posting of CP?