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  1. Re:Oracle playing dirty? You don't say! on Judge Skewers Oracle Attorney For Revealing Google, Apple Trade Secrets (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Oracle's products are great

    The problem with talking out of your ass is that everyone can smell your bullshit.

  2. That's the kind of info that should be available to all shareholders. No court order should have been issued to try to prevent it from being disseminated.

    Oracle's complaint has merit. Google is going to take Android and put it on the PC, or rename Android, or leverage Android's mobile position to achieve the same effect of unification across mobile and PC.

    Oracle's claim is that Google plans to use Android, which absolutely did copy both Java and Java APIs, to compete in a space Oracle is in. Google got a "fair use" ruling in part because they weren't directly competing with Oracle. Oracle pointed to a $31 billion in revenue, $22 billion in profit, and $1 billion to gain the leverage of being the default search engine that screams "Of fucking course Google is going to expand this to every corner of existence!".

    Oracle is fucking awful and I hope they go belly up. But Google is far from being the good guy. (And for those keeping score, there's no fucking way anyone with a brain believes that Compaq's BIOS was a "clean room" implementation.)

  3. I do not own a Kindle. I do not own a Fire tablet. I do not own a Fire stick. I do not own an Echo.
    I do not own a Chromebook. I do not own a laptop. I do not own a Chromecast. I do not use my phone to "cast" to my TV. I do not own a Google TV device. I do not own a Nest device.
    I do not own an iPad. I do not own an iPod. I do not own a Mac, book or otherwise. I do not own an iPhone.

    I do own a dumb TV with great response times and good picture quality. I do own several PCs, one of which is connected to that TV. I do own game consoles. I do own an old Android phone. I do own some Philips Hue lights. The "battle for my living room" was won a while back by my custom display case filled with Amiibo and some LED lightstrips I control via the Hue bridge.

  4. Re:Incoming liberal asspain on Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey Is Secretly Funding Trump's Meme Machine (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 0

    He's trouncing Hillary in the polls, so...

  5. Re:Good for backhauls and maybe some DC uses on Nokia Says It Can Deliver Internet 1,000x Faster Than Google Fiber (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    And where are all the home routers/switches with 10g?

  6. Re:Apples and Oranges on SolidRun x86 Braswell MicroSoM Runs Linux and Full Windows 10, Destroys Raspberry Pi (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    It starts at $157 because you need a connecting board which is $40.

  7. Re: With all due respect to Mr. Hawking and us... on Stephen Hawking Wants To Find Aliens Before They Find Us (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    If FTL were possible causality would be violated and we would already see the effects of future FTL travel happening in the present.

  8. Re:With all due respect to Mr. Hawking and us... on Stephen Hawking Wants To Find Aliens Before They Find Us (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    That's why I fucking told you to name one.
    Hint: Outside of asinine wormholes or space bending/warping, you fucking can't.

  9. Re:To late .. they are already here on Stephen Hawking Wants To Find Aliens Before They Find Us (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    So basically Hillary pulls off the mask and goes from President to Reptillian overlord?

  10. Re:With all due respect to Mr. Hawking and us... on Stephen Hawking Wants To Find Aliens Before They Find Us (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Name one theoretical way of traveling faster than c.

    Hint: Wormholes or compression of spacetime don't count because if you alter spacetime you're traveling a shorter distance, and are thus not traveling faster than c. Further, even if you care only about the time to reach a destination, any such alteration of spacetime would require insane amounts of energy and wouldn't exactly be doable without significant impact to everything at the destination, at the origin, and along the way.

    Flight was never not possible. Birds and insects inspired us to achieve it.
    And the instant we achieved powered flight we looked to see how fast, how high, and how far we could go. The sound barrier was quickly broken. No one with a brain ever through that was impossible because we'd already been breaking the sound barrier with explosives, munitions, whips, etc.

    Reaching the moon was never not possible. In fact, we achieved a manned trip with a successful return less than 1 lifetime after we first achieved controlled, powered flight.

    When people say FTL isn't possible, time travel isn't possible, etc. they do so because they know what they're talking about. We're running up against the hard facts of the universe itself - c, relativity, and causality.

  11. Re:With all due respect to Mr. Hawking and us... on Stephen Hawking Wants To Find Aliens Before They Find Us (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    To a lion chasing down a zebra or whatever isn't too comparable to crossing the Atlantic ocean.

    The lion doesn't have any clue how to cross the ocean, but people do.
    We don't have any clue how to cross large distances in space, but aliens may.

  12. Re:With all due respect to Mr. Hawking and us... on Stephen Hawking Wants To Find Aliens Before They Find Us (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Humans find goldfish interesting.

  13. I had shingles. I don't recommend it. It hurts and the damage can potentially be permanent.

  14. Re:We Already Know This on Hackers Seed Torrent Trackers With Malware Disguised as Popular Downloads (grahamcluley.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Go to TPB. Download only from green/pink skulls. Torrents are alive and well.

  15. Re:maybe but when the batteries go bad it can on Germany Unveils a Hydrogen-Powered Passenger Train (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    This is Germany, not Korea. I doubt Samsung will be involved.

  16. Re:Good for backhauls and maybe some DC uses on Nokia Says It Can Deliver Internet 1,000x Faster Than Google Fiber (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm annoyed that consumer gear doesn't have 10 gig ports on it yet. It's really not that much more expensive to implement anymore.

  17. Re:10,000 not 1000 times faster on Nokia Says It Can Deliver Internet 1,000x Faster Than Google Fiber (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    500 * 1024 / 56 = 9142.857142857142...

    I'm counting. And yes, kbps means 1024 bits per second. Networking clowns fucked up and used 1000 instead of 1024 because they were stuck in the analog world of symbols per second and baud. b = bits, not baud, you fucks.

    I'm aware that there's basically no networking gear, manufacturer, etc. that uses 1024-based shit. That doesn't make them correct, it makes them unanimously retarded. If you want more proof they're retarded, why would they use 1000 instead of 1024 yet still go to the trouble of branding things as 1000 Mbps instead of 1 Gbps?

  18. I'm not gay, but I did see the first few minutes of the Scream Queens season 2 premier yesterday.

    The rich dean bitch character had a thing going about how she wants to CURE diseases instead of profiting off of endlessly (and unsuccessfully) treating patients and their symptoms. She was starting a new institute with her own money to find cures for everything. Obviously, it was some sort of evil plot.

    That said, this leads me to conclude:
      - Zuckerberg watches Scream Queens (and you know what that means)
      - This new plot Zuckerberg is evil, like all his other plots
      - This new plot will fail spectacularly

  19. Re:I Think this article might be a bit misleading. on Quantum Teleportation Achieved Over 7km of Cable (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    NOTHING is being transmitted FTL.
    You entangle particles, separate them at speeds = c, then you measure them.
    The information transfer is in the separation of the particles at speeds = c.

  20. Re:AI on MIT Scientists Use Radio Waves To Sense Human Emotions (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    A flat sequence of instructions are an if/then at a lower level. If there's shit on the stack, if there's a pointer to return to, if there's input to process, etc.
    Loops are simply if/then. Unconditional loops are just "if true, then". Loops are often unrolled by a compiler for performance.

    And considering we use binary, it's all a bunch of if statements at the lowest level.

  21. Re:Changed wife's and mine's on Activity Trackers May Undermine Weight Loss Efforts, Says Study (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    We get it, you vape.

  22. Re:I think that they are missing the point on Activity Trackers May Undermine Weight Loss Efforts, Says Study (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    If you look at it that way (i.e., not at the whole picture) plants "generate more matter" than they "eat". From light!!

  23. Re:AI on MIT Scientists Use Radio Waves To Sense Human Emotions (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    All programming is if/else when you get down to it.

  24. I can do this too. It's called looking at someone.

  25. Re:Need to stop exporting recycling goods on A Shocking Amount of E-Waste Recycling Is a Complete Sham (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not garbage it's used goods!