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  1. On the bright side, its still not illegal to uninstall them... For now...

  2. Re:How does this compare with Google's? on MIT Develops New Chip That Reduces Neural Networks' Power Consumption by Up to 95 Percent (mit.edu) · · Score: 1, Troll

    It's probably funded by a company or the team/professor is working on Patenting it. This is typical of emergent technology not funded with public money.

    Not yet funded with public money. Don't worry, some dumbass grad student(s) who singlehandedly redesign and optimize processors for neural networks won't keep that company position for long. No, as soon as it looks remotely profitable, and after thier dumb ass works 100hrs/week for three years to get a thesis to market, they will comfortably find themselves out the door with a firm boot mark in thier butt as thier only asset remaining from the company. Don't worry, big money can commit finnancial crimes like fraud and collusion and not be held accountable so forcing the deplorables out won't have to be by the books. The true visionaries are the venture capitalists who will take that technology and make it into something truly profitable to the right people, who ultimately deserve, no - are entitled to it.

    It's the American inventors modern nightma^h^h^h^h^h^h dream.

  3. He is referencing civilisation, where there is a bug where Gandhi's niceness level rolls over and declares war on everyone and tries to nuke them.

    I'm starting to worry this may be a feature of reality itself.

  4. Re:Didnt we already pay? on Trump's Infrastructure Plan Has No Dedicated Money For Broadband (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, just goes to show that when you have evidence to believe it's really bad, reality never forgets to find a way to actually be worse.

  5. Re:Didnt we already pay? on Trump's Infrastructure Plan Has No Dedicated Money For Broadband (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is a Reddit eli5 thread where the top comment is the author of broken promises which directly references this as the subject of his book. In today's dollars it's actually much closer to half a trillion dollars in today's currency.

  6. Re:We've got Spirit, yes we do... on Trump's New Infrastructure Plan Calls For Selling Off Two Airports (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    Kim is more stable, I don't think Kim has wanted a celebration of murdering the kleptocrats in power for obvious reasons.

  7. Re:Don't sell infrastructure on Trump's New Infrastructure Plan Calls For Selling Off Two Airports (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    The part where the citizens get the value back for the stolen asset. Maybe we can just use eminent domain on your house for no reason, short you 30% on the cost, then kick your ass to the curb. The government raises the property tax and makes even more money. If you don't know what's missing, go home.

  8. Re:Don't sell infrastructure on Trump's New Infrastructure Plan Calls For Selling Off Two Airports (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    There's too much crony-ism in the bidding process, too much bias toward existing contractors regardless of performance.

    That's why they usually avoid this by single bid contracts to brand new companies.

  9. Re:We've got Spirit, yes we do... on Trump's New Infrastructure Plan Calls For Selling Off Two Airports (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    Ahh yes, Trump was inspired by a Bastille day parade he saw in France. I say, the man has earned it, let's give President Trump the celebration he derserves in the true spirit of Bastille day. Let's really make it authentic, get the townsfolk riled up, and storm our way to MAGA. He really is a stable genius.

  10. Re:Google Feud on Google Autocomplete Still Makes Vile Suggestions (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    To be fair, I'm guessing most of those went from #1 straight to #8 after 3 hours on the phone with nothing to show for it.

  11. People are leaving off a crucial detail in the costs here. How diffuse and recoverable the scrap is, therefore the cost of collecting it to be recycled. An ounce of gold powder in my hand is worth a thousand dollars, but if I throw it into a fast moving river and disperse it lightly over the water it becomes completely worthless to recover despite an easy low temp meltdown. Aluminum cans are easy and cost effective to recycle while the lower value of steel and the fact it's often only a small part of an item and is bulky and heavy for the cost means that it's just not just less likely to make enough finnancial sense but people at recycling centers give less per pound that for things like aluminum and copper where they make for more money. Since there is less money in it for the same work many people simply throw away cast iron and steel in small quantities.

  12. Re:Please don't refer to your readership in headli on There Are Ajit Pai 'Verizon Puppet' Jokes That the FCC Doesn't Want You To Read (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Congrats! Looked like you used one simple trick to reap karma the mods don't want you to know about!!1!

  13. Re:I'm shocked (Not!)- a plague they are on Hackers In Equifax Breach Accessed More Personal Information Than Previously Disclosed (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I explained how you have no legal basis to sue equifax no matter how criminal they are in this and similar matters. Your inability to address this, instead deflecting to say you could sue anyway, just proves my point. Go ahead and sue, you are a guarentee loss and possible countersuit. I'm just curious, has anyone told you you may suffer from Stockholm syndrome?

  14. Re:Why does Slashdot keep pushing this? on US Transportation Department Calls For 'Summit' On Autonomous Cars (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Your bitch tears are delicious, Beau is doing an excellent job of making your uneducated Republican faggots cry yourselves to death. If only you died faster and cried less somehow.

    Beau? Is that you?

  15. Re:I'm shocked (Not!)- a plague they are on Hackers In Equifax Breach Accessed More Personal Information Than Previously Disclosed (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, for a start the ruling was only on the legitimacy of mandatory arbitration clauses. Any company that doesn't have such a clause can be sued. Then there are the legal reasons you might sue someone that have fuck all to do with a written contract. I've never signed a mandatory arbitration clause with Equifax, if they commit a tort against me then sure, I can sue them. You cannot use any service without already agreeing to an arcane library of terms. Or are you seriously comming on here to claim you don't have to agree to one with any company despite the continual Eula and forced contract articles reposted here? You cannot sue on an individual basis because you in this example would have to prove that not only did the information come from equifax, but direct proof of your damages, not to mention the court costs could easily top a few million USD. If you could, prove the Russian hacker collusion instead, that outta be simpler. There is no legal basis to sue individually though you may start a frivolous lawsuit at your own peril. Class action lawsuits are blocked so there is also no recourse. No matter how criminal they are there is no legal recourse. I've provided links to actual sources. Yet you just handwave.

    You appear to have quite enough of one yourself already.

    maybe you should have read the actual posts. You started the ad homenim, it just makes you look like an asshole who can't argue with logic or factual sources.

  16. Re:I'm shocked (Not!)- a plague they are on Hackers In Equifax Breach Accessed More Personal Information Than Previously Disclosed (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Correct, it's not illegal there is just no legal basis to sue anymore, no matter how wrong they are. The links to the evidence are posted above. Go ahead and actually show I'm wrong instead of wafting that rancid and ignorant attitude this way.

  17. Re:This is why we can't have nice things on Apple Intern Reportedly Leaked iPhone Source Code (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the reply and I'm glad to hear you have worked for some fair employers and appreciate you like to treat people well. I've seen whole product lines designed and marketed mostly by interns, they really deserve respect when they work hard. Unfortunately I've worked in a few, even one where an argument between a sales guy and the manager in the back meeting room wound up with the manager thrown through the wall right into the sales floor. Needless to say if the cops show up, you may be working in a hostile environment - being forced to work there was undoubtedly my worst job experience.

  18. Re:Batteries are not rockets on Elon Musk Explains Why SpaceX Prefers Clusters of Small Engines (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Haha, I designed lithium smart battery packs in use in the field right now and I dare you to make less sense. Tesla packs not only have series and parallel strings, it can dynamically rewire itself around problem cells. It is insulated and has a heating and cooling system akin to a radiator. Take a look at a teardown before posting stuff you have no idea about.

  19. Re:This is why we can't have nice things on Apple Intern Reportedly Leaked iPhone Source Code (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Would you mind telling me where you are from? I'm from the Midwest USA and can tell you as someone who did an internship and had some friends who did as well it was all pretty bad. Then I got into industry around here and saw some seriously negligent, in many cases outright abuse of interns. This was at three unrelated companies, out of maybe 10 or so I was dealing with over a period of a few years. Same goes for grad students. One CS grad student I worked with had to wash and wax his advisors car to be sure he would pass his defense like it was some kind of karate kid parody made real.

  20. Re:No point in even worrying about this anymore on Hackers In Equifax Breach Accessed More Personal Information Than Previously Disclosed (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    Better hurry, autonomous weapons, automated manufacturing and weak AI are about to put us non wealthy humans out of the revolution business for good. Maybe 50 years, maybe 500 but it is going to come when a handful of people could easily kill off 99.9% of the population and yet make it up with automation. It might not be the best idea to put the technology that will have taken millions of lives to make, in the hands of a very few too ignorant and stupid to even realize what they have much less actually earn the right to something like that.

  21. Re:No point in even worrying about this anymore on Hackers In Equifax Breach Accessed More Personal Information Than Previously Disclosed (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    This won't happen, nothing like this will happen. The only message that anyone is receiving is that they can absolutely and completely get away with being negligent with our data.

    And it is the truth.

    Im sorry but you are terribly wrong. The message they are recieving is that selling your most intimate data to the highest bidder, then selling it again, then abusing and committing half of all white collar crimes possible with it loads them so full of cash they barely can get away. Oh yea, it's now illegal to sue them too, no matter how criminal or negligent. I keep punching myself in the face to be sure this is all real and not some kind of horrible alternate timeline.

  22. Re:I'm shocked (Not!)- a plague they are on Hackers In Equifax Breach Accessed More Personal Information Than Previously Disclosed (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    It is now illegal again to form a class action against equifax, or even to bring suit yourself, no matter how negligent they are or whatever they do no matter how criminal. You are forced into a one sided "arbitration" that is anything but an arbitration. The solution to this is to vote everyone responsible out of office.

  23. Re:This is why we can't have nice things on Apple Intern Reportedly Leaked iPhone Source Code (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Im not sure what you are saying. Interns have always been treated like that, plus overworked and yet still paid like crap. In fact I'm pretty sure if your intern experience isn't 'ruined' you were never doing it right to begin with. Though if you really want a ruinous experience you should try engineering college business outreach programs. It's like being an intern, but without the prestige and dignity.

  24. Didn't you just answer your own question? SpaceX is optimizing the cost per dollar to a particular orbit, which they are doing a great job of. They keep it just safe enough, which is why it's too expensive to rate some of them as able to carry people. Given a similar time table the most efficient engine to capitalists is the one that is cheapest given the risks of the design and technology.

  25. It's basically for the same reasons as tesla batteries are made from thousands of the small lithium cells that are already mature.