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  1. Re:Lost? on Uber Lost $800 Million In Third Quarter (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The same way you can use credit cards to go even further into debt once your student loans run out.

  2. Re:Hearing Aid Batteries on Apple Will Charge You $69 To Replace a Lost AirPod (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Lenovo has a great solution in some of their laptops. One soldered-on battery and one replaceable battery. That way if the replaceable battery comes loose, your laptop doesn't suddenly shut down.

    If you're banging your laptop around so much that the the battery coming loose is a problem, you might want to cut back on the caffeine.

  3. Re:This is great work. on Zero-Days Hitting Fedora and Ubuntu Open Desktops To a World of Hurt (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    It's called "usability"; having computers do useful things for us automatically is what makes them so useful.

    True! You won't mind if we reconfigure your email client to automatically launch attachments, right? It'll be really useful!

  4. Some shellfish bastard in Russia

  5. Re:The real missed point on Disney IT Workers, In Lawsuit, Claim Discrimination Against Americans (computerworld.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, but laying people off to fill their positions with an outside contractor is legal, even if the contractor primarily hires H1-B visa workers for their contracts. It's a loophole that has been abused too many times to count and there's absolutely no sign that it will ever be closed.

  6. Re:What exactly are they good for? on AMD Introduces Radeon Instinct Machine Intelligence Accelerators (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    The specific AI use is deep learning, which you'll no doubt write off as a buzz word, but it's important to a large number of fields such as image recognition, voice recognition, drug research, product recommendations and so on.

    Part of deep learning is the analysis of large quantities of data. A GPU should be able to analyze thousands of sets of data in parallel, which would make deep learning cheaper and faster. ATI is attempting to produce the tools needed to make that happen.

  7. Depends on what you mean by working on If You Get Rich, You Won't Quit Working For Long (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If you count working in my garden as work, then yes, I would continue working for the rest of my life (or at least as long as I'm physically able to).

  8. The same way it's stalking if you follow someone walking around town, even though they have no reasonable expectation of privacy as they walk down public sidewalks. Intent matters.

  9. Not likely. Twitter cut the same ties with two other social media surveillance companies that weren't targeting BLM activists prior to cutting ties with this one.

  10. Re:So Sick Of Smartphone BS on Google Now Lets Developers Write Apps For the Assistant On Google Home (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm going to design a pocket sized RF pulse generator that will fry the first stage of the RF receivers in nearby phones

    You should probably do a some research on the power requirements to destroy a cell phone at any significant distance and the energy density of available power sources before you make statements like that.

    The only viable EMP devices that could destroy nearby cell phones and still fit in your pocket are explosively pumped flux compression generators. As the name suggests, they explode, which isn't usually something you want happening in your pocket.

    tl;dr - These already exist, but they'll blow your junk off.

  11. Congratulations Sony! on Sony Has Sold 50 Million PlayStation 4 Units (gamespot.com) · · Score: 1

    You've managed to reach 12th place!

  12. Cheapskates on Drupal Event Apologizes For Giving Out Copies Of Playboy (drupalcamp.de) · · Score: 1

    They could at least go the traditional route and hire scantily clad booth babes to piss people off. Women with huge breasts need jobs too, you know.

  13. The problem with looking at the number of jobs added is that you have to consider population growth.

    The US population grew by about 3 million people from 2015 to 2016, which comes out to about 250,000/month. Adding only 180,000 jobs per month when your population grows by 250,000 people per month is not exactly sustainable.

  14. Re: Here come the science deniers on New Study Shows Marijuana Users Have Low Blood Flow To the Brain (eurekalert.org) · · Score: 0

    Since you love science so much, I'm sure you'll be willing to pay the 27.50 Euro fee to get a copy of the paper so that you can see all the details.

    http://content.iospress.com/ar...

  15. Re:Wasn't CHAdeMO first? on Europe Is Getting a Network of 'Ultra-Fast, High-Powered' EV Chargers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    CHAdeMO can only deliver 62.5 kW while this standard can deliver 350 kW which translates into faster charging times. Producing a better product is not collusion.

  16. Re:Sigh. How many major standards wars is this? on Europe Is Getting a Network of 'Ultra-Fast, High-Powered' EV Chargers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1
  17. There are several cures; become a Buddhist and reject materialism, become Amish and reject materialism, become a hermit and reject materialsm...

  18. Can we swap government officials? on IBM To Pay More Than $30 Million in Compensation For Census Fail (abc.net.au) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Prime Minister said "This was not a particularly clever attack or some great international assault on the census, this was a series of common or garden, utterly predictable, utterly foreseeable denial of service attacks."

    After a decade of fear mongering by US politicians who want to relate every goddamn thing that happens online to a terrorist attack, that is such a refreshingly honest statement that I find myself envying Australia.

  19. Re:Why won't Democrats support the outcome? on Clinton Urged To Challenge Election Results Due To Possible Hacking [Update] (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The article says:
    "An August study by the Washington Post found 31 credible cases of impersonation fraud out of more than 1 billion votes cast in elections from 2000 to 2014."

    But you linked it with the phrase "Fraud doesn't exist"

    Seems like you don't understand the difference between "doesn't exist" and "isn't happening on a large enough scale to influence elections"

  20. Re:What do you prefer ? on Malicious Video Link Can Cause Any iOS Device To Freeze (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently you think the only two smart phones in existence are the iPhone and the Galaxy Note 7. Boy are you in for a surprise if you ever crawl out of your basement and actually visit a store that sells cell phones.

  21. Re:Much more than barcodes on Walmart Tests Blockchain For Use In Food Recalls (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Dammit... broke the link. *plays jeopardy theme song while waiting out the multiple post delay timer*

    https://www2.deloitte.com/nl/n...

  22. Re:Much more than barcodes on Walmart Tests Blockchain For Use In Food Recalls (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't see how this adds any value over and above the use of a standard relational database.

    Blockchain technology: 9 benefits & 7 challenges

  23. Re:Karma on One Third of California's Trees Are Dead (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    You're talking very casually about removing more than a third of the trees and their extensive root systems that hold dirt in place in an area where landslides are already common.

    I think I see a slight problem with your plan.

  24. Re:Karma on One Third of California's Trees Are Dead (sfgate.com) · · Score: 2

    Do you also love it when retarded right lies about their political opponents? Like when Trump spread a hoax news site's fake story about a protester was paid $3,500 as if it were fact and thousands upon thousands of Trump supporters repeated that story for the rest of the election?

    Of course one bit difference is that the retard was Trump, not some semi-anonymous rando from the internet, which makes it just a little less lovable.

  25. Re:No link to Toiletworld? on 2016 Winners Announced For Interactive Fiction Competition (ifcomp.org) · · Score: 2

    The link is right there at the end of the summary. The link literally says "download" in the text, which should have been your first clue that it was a link to download the games.