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  1. Re:You live in a big leftist city, right? on Bay Area Tech Executives Indicted For H-1B Visa Fraud (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 2

    Get out of NYC, LA, SF, Chicago, etc and you'll find lots of decent civilized Americans.

    This is very fucking accurate. So many people have no fucking clue what the USA is because they've been stuck in overcrowded cities with no humanity their entire lives. The sad part is that they mock anyone who doesn't live in a big city, calling them ignorant, backwards, intolerant etc. when those labels more accurately fit themselves.

  2. Re:Too soon. on The Galaxy S8 Will Be Samsung's Biggest Test Ever (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Tech blogs and YouTube "celebrities" will be champing at the bit to get the first exploding S8.

    There will be reports, likely even before the official launch, of S8's going kablooey. We'll even see video or photographic "proof" of an S8 exploding/burning.
    It'll all be staged.

  3. Re:Facebook is for old people on Facebook Copied Snapchat a Fourth Time, and Now All Its Apps Look the Same (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Teens crave attention more than anything else, and that's the easiest and most effective way to get it. Plus they're all horny. We should ban all minors from the internet, for their own safety.

  4. Re: That's It, Take It In Nice and Easy on US Congress Votes To Shred ISP Privacy Rules (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Not only is there no proof, there's not a shred of evidence whatsoever.

    Further, even if Putin himself leaked Hillary's emails, so fucking what? Notice how they never disputed the veracity of any of it. They just cried about the fact that someone exposed an infinitesimal fraction of her malfeasance and impropriety to the world. To claim that Russia is influencing US policy now, after the election, is pointless. Other nations have always sought to influence our policy and we have always sought to influence theirs. What difference does it make if Russia has Trump's ear vs. China or Israel or whoever else?

    Yes, if Russia were to be a full puppet master for the US government that would be very bad (regardless of the actual outcome, because sovereignty is important). But there's no fucking evidence of that. At all! So either come forward with actual evidence of existing or future plots to make Trump/etc. betray the nation, or shut the fuck up. I'd welcome any such evidence as it would expose a real problem and get us on track to fixing it. But so far it's about as believable as North Korea hacking Sony over a Seth Rogen and James Franco movie.

  5. Going, Going, Gone on GameStop To Close At Least 150 Stores Due To Poor Q4 Sales (nintendowire.com) · · Score: 2

    I was out at some shopping center recently and I walked into the Gamestop. About a third of the floorspace was dedicated to Funko Pop! vinyl figures and other such novelties that weren't video games. They also had a small, odd selection of movies. The whole thing puzzled me. If I want games I will buy them at Best Buy or Amazon where I get 20% off new titles. (Preferably Best Buy so I can walk into the store and pick it up on launch day instead of waiting for DHL or whoever the fuck to toss it at my door after 8 PM the day after launch despite Amazon's promised launch day delivery.)

    I still prefer physical titles because they can often be had for much less money, even at launch, and you have the ability to resell them. Any sort of physical goodies / collectibles are almost always tied to physical releases as well. Yes, it's slightly less convenient to switch discs/cartridges, but I only typically only play one game at a time unless people are over for multiplayer. Among 4 or more of us, I think someone will manage to switch between Mario Kart and Smash.

  6. Re:While its not my cup of tea on Prominent Drupal, PHP Developer Kicked From the Drupal Project Over Unconventional Sex Life (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not a fair comparison. The BDSM community has Dominatrixes AND Dominants Male and Female. Gor has no such equality...that's the problem.

    You don't know what you're talking about. It's just a sub genre of dom.

  7. Re:Already A Pronoun For It on Stylebooks Finally Embrace the Single 'They' (cjr.org) · · Score: 1

    One wonders where one's language went.

    Even if you did speak English properly, with whom would you speak it?

    I think you mean "with whom wouldst thou it speaketh", you swine.

  8. Re:How on Stylebooks Finally Embrace the Single 'They' (cjr.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm a resident Grammar Nazi, and I've been championing the use of "they" as a singular pronoun for ages. I've also been shitting on style guides ever since I first looked at one because of how inconsistent, ambiguous, and fucking stupid it was.

  9. Re:Intel is blowing on With Optane Memory, Intel Claims To Make Hard Drives Faster Than SSDs (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Hybrid drives are a dead segment. If anything, this is geared for their "Smart Response Technology" (which I had assumed was abandoned) and idiots such as OEMs and those that buy from OEMs.

  10. Re:The are cashes FOR hard drives on With Optane Memory, Intel Claims To Make Hard Drives Faster Than SSDs (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Intel dabbled in this (as did others) years ago when SSDs were too small for most people. As far as I know, it was kinda shitty and only kinda worked and everyone abandoned it because hybrid drives were simpler (even though they too sucked) and SSDs kept getting bigger, faster, and cheaper.

    They called it "Smart Response Technology" when it launched. Maybe it's back? Maybe it never went away? Maybe Windows ReadyBoost has risen from the grave? (I've NEVER seen ReadyBoost in actual use.)

  11. The deal is they have a bunch of half-broken XPoint shit they need to sell off in some form to recoup some $.

    XPoint (Currently "Optane" products from Intel) isn't fucking ready: http://semiaccurate.com/2016/0...

    If Intel & Micron can get to the point where it fucking works as planned then it'll be great. But who the fuck knows if/when that'll actually happen. What you're seeing now is a broken mess that is shippable only because they're loading it up with tons of redundancy / overprovisioning for when it fails, and it works only at about the same speed as a high end SSD.

  12. Re:Reminds me of a conversation with a colleague on Laptop Ban on Planes Came After Plot To Put Explosives in iPad (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know if you're trolling or not, but almost every major conflict in human history has been resolved through violence. The only one I can think of that was truly major and didn't directly play out that way was the cold war. Even considering all the conflicts in asia that resulted, we thankfully never met the full potential of the cold war (several incidents where we came very, very close to nuking eachother). Of course, we're still dealing with the effects of the cold war, particularly with all the Soviet shit (including their nukes and engineers) being sold to all the nations stirring shit up on that side of the globe, fueling the modern terrorism wave.

  13. airliners are built to be dirt cheap

    Dirt cheap? Seriously? How much gold is there in your dirt?
    Aviation in general is ridiculously expensive. Large airliners go into the hundreds of millions, which make them about 100 times more expensive than cars, pound for pound. I work in the field and if there is a word that doesn't describe the industry, it's "cheap".
    The reason flying is cheaper nowadays is not because planes are built cheaper. That's because they are more efficient and require less maintenance. Plus everything that is not directly related to the plane itself such as : cabin crew, airport fees, service, taxes, yield management, etc...

    Materials and construction are dirt cheap wherever possible because of all the other ancillary costs (mostly regulated testing and maintenance) and the push to make them as light as possible to conserve fuel. A couple of decades ago we were building bigger, faster planes. But passengers haven't considered flying to be a positive experience since the early 60s, and thus would rather pay less for tickets and be stuffed into a can like sardines for more hours. They're also willing to waste time with indirect flights and layovers/connections if it saves them $20 on a ticket.

    So fuck it, build it as cheaply as legally possible and stuff them in, then do the bare minimum of maintenance to keep them approved for flight. There's a reason DELTA never leaves on time - they're scrambling with last minute checks and maintenance on planes that should have been retired a decade ago.

  14. You don't say "another story" when it's the logical conclusion of the same fucking story.

    Cheap labor with phony degrees and no skills beyond following a script, from a country with a culture of scheming, scamming, and cheating will yield terrible quality of work and behavior. I don't know who's scamming who here. The tech industry for hiring Indian labor at "fuck you" prices and treating them like shit, or the Indian labor force getting bogus degrees and cheating their way to a job in an outsourcing firm that then sells the western tech industry a pile of lies on what they can produce. If India didn't have over a billion fucking people and a caste system, people might demand fair treatment, livable conditions, and wages. But then the west wouldn't get terrible, condescending "customer service" and cheap, shitty code.

  15. Re:Alternative media. on Still More Advertisers Pull Google Ads Over YouTube Hate Videos (morningstar.com) · · Score: 1

    Please list 3 pieces of bullshit he has spouted off.

    I don't know who this guy is beyond somebody that the left really, really hates. That makes me think he tells the truth and people cry about it because facts make them uncomfortable.

  16. Re:But Dissent is Now HATE on Still More Advertisers Pull Google Ads Over YouTube Hate Videos (morningstar.com) · · Score: 2

    Why would you need to watch or listen to 150 hours of new content?

    A dozen unpaid interns can adequately police all videos for advertisers.

    1: A video doesn't have ads on it for the first 50,000 views. Adjust to the 98th or whatever percentile Google feels is worth losing ad revenue over vs. not hiring more people. (Even unpaid interns cost money.)

    2: Once a video crawls out of the sewer and hits 50,000 views, or whatever magic number you have decided upon, toss it into a reviewer queue.

    3: An unpaid intern is automatically assigned the video, watches it at 1.5x speed, and determines if it will make special snowflakes cry, or whatever it is that advertisers are concerned about.

    4: The unpaid intern flags it for a handful of categories/companies that should be blocked from having ads on it, then approves it for ads. No ads from gay companies, no ads from Disney (Disney can pay extra $$$ to get elevated to an entire category), no ads from sissy little shits who want a "family friendly" image, whatever.

    5: Google's ad system injects ads as usual, with an additional search clause to not select ads for categories that are banned on that video.

    Your mistake is that you think you have to watch all of the content. You don't. You need to watch all of the content you run ads on. Since the vast majority of content on YouTube goes unseen except by the uploader and a handful of people, you can skip ads entirely for those videos and not lose any meaningful revenue. You just need to target ads that have lots of views to maintain your revenue. And you could even have some viewer go into ad debt if they watch a lot of monetized, low-view (and thus ad-free) videos. Simple show them ads more frequently when they do watch videos with ads until they catch up.

  17. Not in the US, either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  18. Re:"You couldn't pay me to install Flash." on FedEx Will Pay You $5 To Install Flash (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It depends, how many times will they pay me to install it?
    I can un-install it one more time then they are willing to pay me to install it.

    I can uninstall it exactly as many times as they pay me to install it.

  19. The manager, who is a woman, wrote: "I understand your concern. I just want to say that sexism is systemic in tech and other industries. I've met some of the most inspiring people here."

  20. Re:Holy Blinking Cursor, Batman! on Blinking Cursor Devours CPU Cycles in Visual Studio Code Editor (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's because most "programmers" are utter crap. They don't know their tools. They don't know the language that the program in. They don't stay up-to-date.

    I don't "know the tools" or "know the language" until I'm fucking using them. Then I google whatever the fuck it is I need to do using whatever the fuck it is some clown has put in front of me, RTFM, and get it done. Interviews test for the dumbest fucking shit. I for one generally don't care what fucking language or environment I'm in. With documentation (the fucking internet 99.9% of the time) learning how to do X in Y is trivial. Knowing that you need to do X instead of x is the trick. When you give an applicant a test to do X in Y, you're just testing if they know Y and maybe if they have memorized X. You're not finding out if they understand anything or can think critically.

    They cannot reason about problems. 95% can't do the simplest of problems. You have to really deep before you find people who can talk about design principles, design by contract, etc.

    When your "problems" are all pulled from the same "Shitty Questions and Tests for Shitty Interviews" site/book, what do you expect? If you're looking for people who talk about "design principles" or "design by contract", you're retarded. There are only three design principles: Correct, secure, and fast. There is only one design contract: Deliver X for $Y. If you don't understand what X is or why it's X and not x (even if the customer doesn't, or if the customer asks for X when they need x) then you're gonna have a bad time. See Oracle and IBM and anyone who's ever contracted with them.

    You're getting mindless applicants because you're asking mindless questions. You cannot discern a competent programmer/developer from an incompetent one because you're looking for memorization, certifications, etc. Of course, the people conducting the interviews are typically not competent programmers/developers, so they don't know what else to look for or how else to evaluate applicants.

  21. Re:It might not always be partially incorrect on Some Of Hacker Group's Claims Of Having Access To 250M iCloud Accounts Aren't False (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It's fucking ridiculous.

    "Some Of Hacker Group's Claim Of Having Access To 250M iCloud Account Aren't False"

    Let's start with the easiest thing to correct. "250M iCloud Account" should be "250 Million iCloud Accounts".
    And while we're telling shitty headlines to fuck off, we can tell them to at least follow their own bullshit rules and not capitalize the first letter of "of". I fucking hate style guides (because they're arbitrary, inconsistent, and ambiguous) but no major style guide (such as AP, Chicago, APA, and MLA) says to capitalize "of" in a headline.
    Now let's tackle the core problem here: "Some", "Claim", and "Aren't". As far as I know, we're counting this as a single claim, so we can say that "some" of it "isn't false". If we're counting it as multiple claims, we can say "some" of the "claims" (plural) "aren't false".
    For bonus points, we can kill off the double negative as well.

  22. Re: Or just don't violently riot. on Feds: We're Pulling Data From 100 Phones Seized During Trump Inauguration (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You're a moron. Trump won the election and was elected to the office of President of the United States of America by the electors.

    Please present any evidence to the contrary.

  23. Significant digits (figures)? Fuck that shit - everyone does it incorrectly, and it's fucking retarded when done "correctly". Seriously, why the FUCK would you consider a reading of "20" to be less valid than a reading of "21" when all else (measurement device, environment, methodology, etc.) is the same? Yet "2.0x10^1" is more significant than 20? It's absurd.

    Further, 26.3 / 25.6 is a calculation, not a measurement, and you can't apply significant figures to raw calculations like that without fucking everything up. Significant figures are meant to handle the inaccuracy/imprecision of measurements. Only a few classes of calculations are imprecise (essentially because they are based on measurements or approximations, like trig functions on shitty, not cool angles).

    What if I asked you to convert 1 meter to inches? 1 meter is exactly 5000/127 inches. Using 1 significant figure, to match 1 meter, we need to do 5000/100! 1 meter is not 50 fucking inches.

    For 26.3/25.6 You get exactly 1.02734375.

    Now, IF you know the significant figures of the measurements (and you don't necessarily just by seeing the number there), then you can do the following:

    Assume 26.3 means a value in the range of [26.25, 26.35) and 25.6 means a value in the range of [25.55, 25.65).
    We can take the extremes, 26.25/25.65 and 26.35/25.55 and get 1.0233918128654970760233918128655 to 1.0313111545988258317025440313112. The mean of which is 1.0273514837321614538629679220883, if you want to take a statistical stab at it. Remember our calculated value of 1.02734375? How does that compare?

    If we used "significant figures" we'd get 1.03 for a 3% increase. But wait, it gets more retarded. Because if we calculate the percentage increase instead of the ratio, we get a different result even though they're giving us the same fucking information!
    (26.3-25.6)/25.6 = 0.02734375, rounded to 3 significant figures gets us 2.73x10^-2, or 2.73% (as leading zeroes are never significant).

    It's HORSE SHIT!

  24. They would sell such gift cards for cash at 75-100% of face value.

  25. Re:Nintendo is done on Nintendo Is Repairing Left Joy-Cons With ... a Piece of Foam? (polygon.com) · · Score: 0

    I knew you would come back with this shit. The window includes not just reading the post but the you landing on the story after it was posted, browsing at 0 or -1 to even see it, reading other posts attached to the story before getting to it, finally getting to it, reading it, deciding to reply, and ultimately typing out a response and hitting submit.

    I simply don't believe that's gonna happen in less than 5 minutes or before 31 other Slashdot posts are created, especially since you're replying to a bad troll with a pointless post about how it's a good troll. No one takes the effort to praise shitty trolls unless they're the same shitty troll who loves the smell of their own shit.

    I caught you, fucking deal with it.