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  1. Tim Cook Reality Distortion Field on Tim Cook to Investors: People Bought Fewer New iPhones Because They Repaired Their Old Ones (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    He'll do anything but admit that they fucked up when they priced it at over $/£/€1000. People aren't buying them because they're too fucking expensive.

  2. Clearly avoiding the elephant in the room. on Apple Says It Could Miss $9 Billion In iPhone Sales Due To Weak Demand (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Quite clearly they're continuing to delude themselves and miss the point that people aren't buying new iPhones because they're over a thousand dollars/pounds/euros and the public have turned round and all said as one "You must be fucking joking."

  3. Assholes on Fortnite Star Ninja Says He Raked in Millions of Dollars Last Year (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why are these people always complete assholes? Every time I've seen him get killed on streams he's there firing up "Report Player" and reporting them for stream sniping. And I swear that guy is going to have an aneurism with the rage fits he has from time to time.

  4. Re:Economic pressures on The EU is Banning Almost All Coal Mining on Jan 1 (futurism.com) · · Score: 2

    The EU gets about 21% of their electricity from coal, and that isn't going to change.

    Yeah actually it is. Here in the UK all coal powered generation is set to cease in 2025 and it has gone from providing 45% of all power in 2012 to now just around 3%. Drax in the UK which was Europe's largest coal powered power station is now almost all biomass and gas. The rest of the EU is following a similar path.

  5. Re:No, it's psychological on Is a Lack of Data Holding Back Universal Basic Income Programs? (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 2

    I agree it's psychological... But what is the principal/impediment?

    Intelligent people knowing the money to pay for it has to come somewhere which inevitably means their pocket through taxation.

  6. Don't give a shit about throughput. Get Fortnite to show live network stats and you'll find its sending and receiving a whopping 3-5k a second. Apart from the latency that means you could game on dialup.

  7. Re:Leave FB Alone And BriskIt Already on UK Parliament Seizes Cache of Facebook Internal Papers (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    FB should block all log-ins from the UK and 'ghost' every UK FB page. If they remain intransigant, give them 30 days and then delete all UK FB pages, photos, company pages, videos, messages, etc etc.

    Next, have MS remotely disable/encrypt all copies of Windows in the UK.

    And nothing of any value would be lost.

  8. Windows 80%+ market share.... on Ask Slashdot: What Kind of Keyboard Do You Use With Your Computer and Why? · · Score: 1

    Windows having 80%+ market share of the desktop OS is why most of them are designed for Windows.

  9. Re:mod parent up on GitHub's Annual Report Reveals This Year's Top Contributor: Microsoft (github.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is exactly correct. There's plenty of us who left github and are never coming back. Obviously the microsoft devs will be represented in the numbers, but we won't.

    And outside of your little clique of mentally deranged tin foil hatters absolutely no fucks were given by anyone when you did.

  10. Re:Hams have always been fighting each other on It's Ham Vs.Ham As Radio Amateurs Are In Conflict At ARRL (perens.com) · · Score: 1

    It's dying today because the hobby is pointless

    Find me a hobby that isn't to an outsider. If you think it is just about talking to people around the world for free you completely miss the point of amateur radio. In the UK we're taught that the license is issued for the purposes of self teaching and experimentation in radio communications, not as effectively another CB radio service which seems to be how you've used it. And it is still today continuing to make advancements in radio communications. At noise floor or below noise floor digital communications is one of the areas of largest growth as is software defined radio, both of which have a lot to contribute to the modern world.

  11. Re:regulations now! on Jeff Bezos Is Planning To Ship 'Several Metric Tons of Cargo' To the Moon (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    No you're not. First thought that entered my mind was to take a photo of the next full moon to show your grandkids what it used to look like before we trashed it. Seems that not being content with trashing our own planet we're wanting to start to move out into space and trash that as well.

  12. Re:Blame the EU commission.. on VW Group, BMW and Daimler Are Under Investigation For Collusion In Europe (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Look up how much energy it takes to manufacture a modern car. Most of it will have come from fossiil fuel power stations or diesel transporation, either shippingi, trains or trucks.

    Almost 100% of any car made in the last 20 years is recyclable. Most of the materials used in a new build are from recycled metals.

  13. Re:Blame the EU commission.. on VW Group, BMW and Daimler Are Under Investigation For Collusion In Europe (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    .Sure, it will end up with cars producing less CO2, but they'll as you say be less reliable and all the replacement parts required and/or early scrapping will easily offset any minor gains in the exhaust emissions.

    Yet modern cars with all of this are far more reliable than they ever were back in the day of carburettors, doing mileage that cars of the 70s would never reach.

  14. A few years ago when I was at university doing my BEng degree almost half of my course were chinese students so it doesn't come as a real surprise.

  15. Re:More like 297MW+ on World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm Opens Off Northwest England (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    To put that in perspective, the UK has 14GW of active installed coal fired power stations.

    Not for long. All coal fired powerstations have to be closed in the next half decade and many of them have already begun to shut down if they haven't already. Near me there are three with a few miles of each other. Ferrybridge C has closed with its coal stockpile nowhere to be seen and a waste/biomass plant has been built on the same site, Eggborough is in the middle of closing down and hasn't generated power for over a year and Drax, which was one of Europe's largest coal fired stations is running at least 50% on gas/biomass/waste.

  16. It does mean you're less likely to use the same password or handful of passwords for every site you use.

  17. Re:additional eight paid weeks for physical recove on Microsoft Will Require Business Partners To Offer Paid Parental Leave (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    So now we're up to twenty weeks, and that's a long time.

    Yet here in the UK statutory maternity leave where you receive pay at some level is 39 weeks and other countries in the EU are even more generous.

  18. Re:Why wouldn't it be counted as work? on Emails While Commuting 'Should Count as Work', Researchers Say (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    But more importantly, what difference does it make? Who gets paid for every hour of work worked? So it means I work 70 hours in a week instead of 60. I'm still only getting paid for 40.

    Me. Not only do I get paid for every hour I work I also get paid for the mandatory 45 minute rest breaks I must take during my shift. I'm a truck driver in the UK. So currently I get paid 50hrs for doing 46.25hrs and I also get 28 days annual paid leave too. The joys of not living in a country which has shitty workers rights.

  19. Re:Ok, emails on the train are work, now what? on Emails While Commuting 'Should Count as Work', Researchers Say (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Since knowledge workers are generally exempt employees

    No such exemption applies in the UK.

  20. Re:Then how do all the other apps do that? on What Dropbox Dropping Linux Support Says (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah but the difference is you paid for a tool, most using Dropbox won't want to pay, the majority of users know how to block any ads so no revenue from that and why should a developer support an OS which requires more work than the one with the largest market share where they make a load of money?

  21. Re:Are you retarded? on What Dropbox Dropping Linux Support Says (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For the GUI you have to give them that, they have a valid point. Everything else is just bollocks though.

  22. Re: Yes, we did. Again and again and again. on Tesla Short Sellers Actually Made Over $1 Billion After Musk's Taking-Private Tweet (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Tesla is a relative newcomer. Volkswagon were producing and selling an electric car in the 1970s. And whilst Tesla may have been doing electric cars for 5 years now, BMW, Mercedes and Porsche have been designing and producing high end cars for almost a century and to them all this is is a change in the drivetrain. The rest of the stuff such as mirrors, door handles and everything else Tesla seem incapable of getting right is run of the mill.

  23. Re:These guys don't have a clue about UK internet. on Microsoft's Next-Gen Xbox Will Focus On 'XCloud' Game Streaming (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Live in rural East Yorkshire, have 72mbit.

  24. Re:Netflix for video games even with download caps on Microsoft's Next-Gen Xbox Will Focus On 'XCloud' Game Streaming (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Much of the rest if not all of the rest of the first world don't have data caps. I've not been with an ISP which hasn't been unlimited data for almost two decades here in the UK.

  25. They're certainly not a sign you're rich here. In the UK thanks to the way the mobile phone market works they're widely owned by Chavs (think Rednecks) and those who are long term unemployed or may not have ever worked in their lives.