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  1. Re:Vigorous debate? Surely you jest on Ontario Launches Universal Basic Income Pilot (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    So you're saying that if the EPA released all of their restrictions on everything, that competition would maintain the status quo? Or would we have dirty air and water?

  2. Re: Unimpressive performance. on Intel Launches Optane Memory That Makes Standard Hard Drives Perform Like SSDs (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    If the remaining space on the 2TB is games/applications maybe. Otherwise, you just put your programs and OS on the SSD and file storage on the 2TB. And then you get 128GB of accelerated binaries vs. 32GB.

  3. It wouldn't be without use at all in that case. GTA 5 doesn't use all 70GB every time you play, so the assets you've been using lately will be cached.

  4. Re:Vigorous debate? Surely you jest on Ontario Launches Universal Basic Income Pilot (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Companies rise and fall all the time

    And new businesses offering a better way are undercut by established businesses operating at a loss until the nuisance is gone.

    Do you think the two party system is somehow better at meeting the needs of the people?

    False dichotomy. Two-party system vs. companies is not the only choice here.

  5. Re:We already had this sales pitch... on Intel Launches Optane Memory That Makes Standard Hard Drives Perform Like SSDs (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Because you need chipset support, not just CPU support.

  6. Re:We already had this sales pitch... on Intel Launches Optane Memory That Makes Standard Hard Drives Perform Like SSDs (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe for latency, but an SSD on a SATA III port has 6Gbps of bandwidth to play with. I'm too cheap for an SSD with 750MB/s+ transfer speeds.

  7. Re:Vigorous debate? Surely you jest on Ontario Launches Universal Basic Income Pilot (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    No - the majority gives up and goes along with whatever comes out of a company's anus, and people wanting an alternative never get it. This is not competition winning. There is no competition in an oligopoly. There is collusion and several nearly-identical alternatives.

  8. Re:How is this even illegal? on Uber Gets Sued Over Alleged 'Hell' Program To Track Lyft Drivers (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Theft of trade secrets

    So now the Lyft driver has trade secrets? Really? Maybe Lyft does, but the driver would not.

    Much would depend on the details of the contract with Uber

    The Lyft driver also did not have a contract with Uber.

    software committed acts which the Uber drivers had _not_ agreed to in their contracts,

    The software acts against Lyft's system, not Uber's. The Uber drivers' contracts have nothing to do with this.

    The drivers working for Lyft might not even be empowered, by their Lyft contract, to share that information with Uber, in which case they could not agree to share that data.

    The drivers working for Lyft aren't sharing that information. At all. Uber is getting it directly via Lyft's systems by signing up for fake ride-hailing accounts.

    Did you read anything before responding? Because you sound like you have no idea what you've read.

  9. Re:Vigorous debate? Surely you jest on Ontario Launches Universal Basic Income Pilot (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    It really doesn't.

  10. Re:Vigorous debate? Surely you jest on Ontario Launches Universal Basic Income Pilot (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    They can respond to the needs by creating an oligopoly and dictating most of the terms, without much chance for the consumer to have any way to opt out.

  11. Re:Ting on Slashdot Asks: Which Wireless Carrier Do You Prefer? · · Score: 1

    Ditto. Unlimited data is for people who just like giving away money.

  12. Re:How is this even illegal? on Uber Gets Sued Over Alleged 'Hell' Program To Track Lyft Drivers (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    It's not. And as a Lyft driver, his identity was effectively anonymized - he has far less of a standing to even try to sue than Uber.

  13. Re:Vigorous debate? Surely you jest on Ontario Launches Universal Basic Income Pilot (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    So the alternative is to let governments have ultimate power over people?

    Ideally, the government is "We the people." That's what needs fixed, not putting businesses in charge of the markets.

  14. Re:Vigorous debate? Surely you jest on Ontario Launches Universal Basic Income Pilot (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You think libertarian is a synonym for conservative,

    In many of the important ways, it is. Both want to let corporations to have the ultimate power over the people by destroying the parts of the government that interfere.

  15. Re:It's spelled "UNIX" on Wall Street IT Engineer Hacks Employer To See If He'll Be Fired (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a bit of a genericized trademark, since it's applied to Unix-like OS's like AIX or HP/UX.

    When you see the name UNIX, which of these do you think of? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  16. CBS is the same network that put out CSI: Cyber. If you're going to joke about a bad show, at least aim for the lower-hanging fruit.

  17. Re:Beautiful moment on Pioneering Researchers Track Sudden Learning 'Epiphanies' (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    so many students are left behind in maths early on as don't have these core revelations.

    Here in the US, we are stuck with Common Core revelations.

  18. I'm sure they were talking about GOTO (JMP)

  19. Re:Future of Yahoo Mail? on Verizon.net 'Gets Out Of The Email Business' (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Verizon already hosted its own email on Yahoo's servers before the acquisition, and now Yahoo's reputation is in the toilet. They'll probably use this as practice for shutting down all of Yahoo mail. Or rebranding AOL mail as Yahoo mail - it's actually a decent little webmail now.

  20. Re:There's a huge anti-soy movement on Subway Sues Canada Network Over Claim Its Chicken Is 50 Percent Soy (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Phytoestrogens are a scientific fact. Just how much of an impact they have on the average diet is still up for debate:
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

    A lot of people on the "paleo" diet specifically seek out grass-fed beef, but it's awfully expensive in general.

  21. Re:Touch-activated sphincter rod sensor on Mastercard is Building Fingerprint Scanners Directly Into Its Cards (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    TASeRS?

  22. Re:I can't write code that compiles on 95% Engineers in India Unfit For Software Development Jobs: Report (gadgetsnow.com) · · Score: 1

    Me either. I jump around so much between PHP, Javascript, Classic ASP, Bash scripting, and Batch scripting, that it takes me a while to get reacquainted with a language after even a short time away. I realize none of the languages I listed even compile (other than maybe JIT), but I don't really do much that needs to output binary programs.

  23. Re:Don't buy this on Scientists Invent Ultrasonic Dryer That Uses Sound To Dry Your Clothes (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Not under normal usage - unless you burn it. But I don't understand why anyone would use cooking spray instead of an oil for cooking. But the (especially underside of a) teflon coating can overheat during normal cooking.

  24. Re:More EBay Gold! on Nintendo To Launch SNES Mini This Year, Reports Eurogamer (eurogamer.net) · · Score: 2

    If there was enough supply, people would just order online. Offline-only stores are only attacked in droves by prospectors when the convenience factor is cut off.

  25. Re:Eurogamer is a rag on Nintendo To Launch SNES Mini This Year, Reports Eurogamer (eurogamer.net) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    SNES won't be 30 until 2022.

    That makes the SNES 25 this year. A 25th anniversary tends to be more celebrated than a 30th. Except with movies. Now there's some big event for every movie ever made, every 5 years past 20.