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  1. Re:Genie's out on Alphabet's Waymo Asks Judge To Block Uber From Using Self-Driving Car Secrets (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Not really, if Uber is forbidden to waste its monmey on some technology that won't work for the next few centuries and even if it does work is way more expensive than the existing technology (human driver) it gets a competitive advantage over the other companies driven by mass hysteria.

  2. Kill it at the root on GOP Senators' New Bill Would Let ISPs Sell Your Web Browsing Data (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Make aggressive adblockers the default option in browsers, that reduces the value of the information significantly.

  3. Re:Or politicians can go back to basic services on Waze and Other Traffic Dodging Apps Prompt Cities To Game the Algorithms (usatoday.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Mass transport is going from where you aren't to where you don't need to be.

  4. Re:I realize this is bad for 'purists' but... on What the Death of CRT Display Means For Classic Arcade Machines (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I remember going with a (back then in the 1990's) 20 year old TV to a retired repairman: image was compressed to a single line. He started with re-soldering a lot of connections, "because they age". Thing worked OK afterward, and is still functional (if only I didn't dump my TV subscription in the internet age).

    Anyway, new work for types like Rick Dale http://www.ricksrestorations.c...

  5. Re:Leave San Francisco on Uber's Silicon Valley Employees May Be Looking to Jump Ship (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Ethical and lawfull are not equal.

  6. Re:Leave San Francisco on Uber's Silicon Valley Employees May Be Looking to Jump Ship (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    We're working on it. For a start, we've just elected a president that doesn't care about SJW issues and just grabs woman at the pussy.

  7. Re:It would be interesting to see the tipping poin on FBI Dismisses Child Porn Case Rather Than Reveal Their Tor Browser Exploit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a well-known historical case where this decision was made: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  8. Re: So it makes Obama look good? on The US Waged A Secret Cyber War Against North Korean Missiles (tampabay.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the NSA and CIA does. They have just not yet find it usefull to leak it. He might just be pushed to continue the war agenda of thre democrats after all.

  9. Re: So it makes Obama look good? on The US Waged A Secret Cyber War Against North Korean Missiles (tampabay.com) · · Score: 1

    That depends. They would probably try to make him follow their agenda first, and only if he would not cooperate they would go on the impeachment process. The later has the huge disadvantage that the intelligence community would then have to find dirt on Pence if they wanted their agenda pushed, and that's probably a lot harder to find.

  10. I will remember: Uber, the heroic company that stood up against SJW's and government entrapment, instead of cowering on behalf of the legal department.

  11. Now the Congo cobalt is used for other phones and the other cobalt for iPhones. Everybody happy.

  12. Re:The secondary market as sexbots would make bank on Skin deep? Robots To Wear Real Human Tissue (thememo.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They would hate it, it would remove their power over man.

  13. That explains a lot.. on Fed Up Indian IT Professionals Want To Be Able To Leave Their Jobs Sooner (mashable.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Indian ITers: "unrealistic" for anyone to plan that far ahead."

    No wonder their software is even worse than what we in the west call spaghetti code, without any detectable design.

  14. Re: Obama Loyalists on NSA Risks Talent Exodus Amid Morale Slump, Trump Fears (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd say that does not really work for real studies like math, physics or astronomy. Where exam questions are not determined by political opinion.

  15. Re:Obama Loyalists on NSA Risks Talent Exodus Amid Morale Slump, Trump Fears (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    But even less who liked Hillary. Those dumbass DNC leaders prevented Sanders from becoming their candidate, and see what happened.

  16. Re:All my friends in NSA are looking on NSA Risks Talent Exodus Amid Morale Slump, Trump Fears (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    There is a difference between "sometimes" and "continuously". The NSA is still using dragnet constructions on US citizens against the law.

  17. Re: All my friends in NSA are looking on NSA Risks Talent Exodus Amid Morale Slump, Trump Fears (reuters.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Now thet they can't work on Soros war agenda for at least the next 4 years it has become uninteresting for him?

  18. Re:Uber need to get a clue. on Uber Says Thousands of London Drivers Threatened By English Language Test (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Even after the brexit you'll have plenty of paki's and other people from your former colonies to replace Brittish workers.

  19. Re:Why hasn't MS made Skype the iMessage of the... on Microsoft Is Killing Off Skype WiFi Service (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    You're forgetting the Android and iOS clients. MS releases usually once a week, and does usually not show visible differences, so pre-releases are indeed not needed.

  20. Re:Why hasn't MS made Skype the iMessage of the... on Microsoft Is Killing Off Skype WiFi Service (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    It depends very much on where you are. The US is the only country where iOS has a large market share, and most plans offer unlimited or huge numbers of sms, so that might explain the popularity of iMessage. In Europe, sms was quite expensive until recently and mms was very expensive, so noone wants to risk sending lots of sms messages just because a contact does not have an iPhone. WhatsApp became the defacto standard and now sms prices have fallen but the telco's were too late. In other countries, especially Asia, other messengers are the standard: WeChat in China, Line in Japan.

    Skype is mostly popular in buissiness environments or with elder people calling from pc's.

  21. Yet. It's market share is continuously falling and approaching 10%, only in the US does iOS have a significant market share.

  22. Re:"Toxic" comments huh? on Google Releases an AI Tool For Publishers To Spot and Weed Out Toxic Comments (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Posts are not removed, only given score. I can even conveniently select I want to see all posts, even those who are modded down. Having this treshold set to -1 shows my "trust" in the moderation process.

  23. I go for the lowtech solution on Scientists Discover a Way To Get Every Last Drop of Ketchup Out of the Bottle (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I just cut the bottle open when it's almost empty and get everything out.

  24. I want to see the results first on Microsoft Research Developing An AI To Put Coders Out of a Job (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    before I believe it will work.

    I worked once on a very large project that tried to do something similar for the Dutch tax service: put the (ever changing) tax regulations in some form of specification language, and compile that to C# code. I was a contractor for some time on that project. After a 160 milion EUR budget overflow and some questions about it in the parliament the project was significantly reduced in its ambitions.

  25. Re:Not really "free". on New Free O'Reilly Ebook: 'Open Source In Brazil' (oreilly.com) · · Score: 1

    You can use a throwaway email address for that.