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  1. Re: Tesla's overvalued stock on Cummins Unveils Electric Semi Truck Before Tesla (autoblog.com) · · Score: 1

    When Tesla pops there will be so much slippery stuff everywhere that NOBODY will have any traction.

  2. Re: AI 2020! on AI Could Lead To Third World War, Elon Musk Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump's "pussy grabbing" was mostly locker room boasting, in any case. The guy isn't Keith Richards, ya know. Just a guy with a lot of $$, not a rock star.

  3. Re: AI 2020! on AI Could Lead To Third World War, Elon Musk Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Hillart won't ever see jail. However, in the long term history won't be kind to her or Bill. And the irony is, her whole purpose in wanting to contain those emails was to control the narrative of her legacy.

  4. Re: I think I speak for everyone on AI Could Lead To Third World War, Elon Musk Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Elon is the winner of the PayPal fortune. That defines him: a dot.bomb success story. Somebody had to 'win' during that fiasco. It might as well be him.

  5. Re: Elon == Anti-VAXer? on AI Could Lead To Third World War, Elon Musk Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Elon is going to end up like Howard Hughes. It is yet to be determined what his Spruce Goose equivalent will be, but he is headed in that direction. Thirty years from now when Musk is living in a high-rise condo in whatever is the equivalent of Vegas then, I hope his nurse will be taking good care of him.

  6. I keep Chrome installed for those very few times I can't get a web page to load with Seamonkey/noscript that I really want to see. It's the throwaway browser on my PC. Never, ever log onto Google services with it, though.

  7. Re: Business as usual... in the information age! on Creator of Opera Says Google Deliberately Undermined His New Vivaldi Web Browser (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    I switched over from Gmail a little less than a year ago, now. I decided paying a few dollars a year for email was worth it for the privacy. Google had started bugging me to register my cellphone number with my Google account 'for my protection.'

    I chose to buy a Fastmail account. There are a few other good paid email provders you can choose, too.

  8. Re: The European Anti Trust Regulators on Creator of Opera Says Google Deliberately Undermined His New Vivaldi Web Browser (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Nobody at Google will get the message. They are the 21st Century version of Madison Avenue admen. Those critters migrated over to Google early in the companie's history.

  9. Re: I wish "Mr. Von T" would... apk on Creator of Opera Says Google Deliberately Undermined His New Vivaldi Web Browser (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I remember having a paid copy of the Opera browser back when the installer exe fit on a single 3-1/2" diskette. The small size was one of the things they boasted about at thatvtime.

  10. Re: Duck it -- was Re:Monopoly on Creator of Opera Says Google Deliberately Undermined His New Vivaldi Web Browser (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Instead, use Seamonkey. Firefox is too obsessed with changing the UI every time it is fashionable to do so.

  11. Re: Echoes of the Borg (Microsoft) on Creator of Opera Says Google Deliberately Undermined His New Vivaldi Web Browser (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    There was plenty of support for TCP/IP in Windows. It came a little late, and it wasn't a dialup kludge, it was real NIC support. There was even a client for MS-DOS.

    I remember having a Slackware box back in the mid 90's, running Samba on it.

    I remember pareing down the MS-DOS client so that it fit on a floppy diskette.

    I remember setting up a boot floppy to boot on an old 286 box that didn't have a hard drive, that mounted a Samba share as the MD-DOS C: drive.

    Then I remember installing Windows 3.1 from floppy disks onto that C: drive.

    The Windows installer didn't even know it wasn't a real C: drive.

    Now, a lot of less adept people were installing the Trumpet Windsock thing to get PPP to work so they could have a crummy dialup access to TCP/IP. I was just using cheap second-hand 3C503 cards in old 286 boxes.

  12. Re: I understand, but... on Terry Pratchett's Hard Drive Destroyed By Steamroller (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The big wheel of the steam roller was actually a restored vintage steam powered steam roller. Not the wheels of future of a modern machine.

  13. Re: That's the British for you... on Terry Pratchett's Hard Drive Destroyed By Steamroller (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    He should have wiped it, like with a cloth.

  14. Re: Ummm on Is Apple Copying Palm's WebOS? (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    There were PDAs before the Newton. Also, the Newton was a dead end project.

  15. Re: Oddly enough, the answer is yes on Is Apple Copying Palm's WebOS? (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    The original Palm people were ex-Apple people.

  16. Re: I kinda miss on Is Apple Copying Palm's WebOS? (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably because a modern device doesn't have the resistive touchscree, so a little sharp stick cannot be used as a stylus like on a Palm. For graffiti, the resistive touchscreen is superior. For everything else being able to use your finger is easier.

  17. Re: I kinda miss on Is Apple Copying Palm's WebOS? (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    Draggin' Balls Processors, actually, in the Palm.

  18. Re: Apple & Amiga on Is Apple Copying Palm's WebOS? (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple didn't have a preemptive multitasking OS until they gave up (after spending many millions) trying to make one of their own and just slapped a gui layer on a unix-alike. All through the 90s and long after Microsoft had preemptive multitasking with NT, they hobbled along on their task switching kludge.

  19. Not Very Useful As A Currency on Bitcoin Prices Surge Past $5,000 Three Weeks After Passing $4,000 (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Bitcoin is not very useful as a currency if it is going to be a vehicle for speculators.

    The whole function of a currency is to act as a stable means for exchange, i.e. something with a stable value.

  20. Re: Missing the point on Sharp Announces 8K Consumer TVs Now That We All Have 4K (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    So it's about 3% of the Chinese population and twelve Danish plutocrats.

    Thank you for clarifying.

  21. Re: High res TVs don't interest me... on Sharp Announces 8K Consumer TVs Now That We All Have 4K (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That's probably because you bought one of the later models, with the mechanical timer in it that the 'cost reduction' engineering team brought in by the new MBA 'designed.'

    They found that switching from cast aluminum to pot metal had no impact on in-warranty returns, and in fact significantly increased profits from sales of replacement timers.

  22. Re: Do we? on Sharp Announces 8K Consumer TVs Now That We All Have 4K (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's funny how the only time we hear much about 'people like that' is when that one parody article is linked to.

  23. Re: Zero F.... on Sharp Announces 8K Consumer TVs Now That We All Have 4K (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They are probably busy 'digitally remastering' old episodes of Hogan's Heroes from the 35mm originals to 4k right now as we speak.

  24. Re: Hardly use my TV on Sharp Announces 8K Consumer TVs Now That We All Have 4K (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I would probably replace it with another bookshelf.

  25. Re: Hardly use my TV on Sharp Announces 8K Consumer TVs Now That We All Have 4K (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't mention that I watch almost no television unless it comes up in conversation. It seldom comes up in conversation.

    Probably, to be fair, I don't talk frequently to people who talk a lotvabout what they watched on tee vee last night.

    Fair enough.