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  1. Re:"users" on YouTube Claims 1.5 Billion Monthly Users (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    This. Frequently around prime time YouTube (GOOGLE) tells me how terrible my ISP is, meanwhile my ISP gives me full 50-mbit downloads of midget porn with power tools.

    The fact is that YouTube (GOOGLE) are fucking lying about the issue and have been from the beginning. The issue is that YouTube (GOOGLE) directs you to a specific CDN based entirely on the location of the name server you are using rather than your actual location. This means that even if your ISP has a nice YouTube (GOOGLE) CDN that can deliver terabits of YouTube video per second, it wont use it if your name server is one of the public ones located on another leg of the internet (such as GOOGLES public name servers.)

    Its been a douche bag move from the beginning. They were pretending that their lazy routing wasn't the fucking problem, and conveniently that was right when they were trying to strong-arm other ISP's isnt expanding their interlinks with Google and press of "Net Neutrality" was all the rage. Fucking scumbags.

  2. Re: I think society could improve a lot on Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop $120 'Bio-Frequency Healing' Sticker Packs Get Shot Down by NASA (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 0

    He is trying to figure out some other way to come at this, because his conclusion came first.

    He concluded that the State should... and nothing you say will change his conclusion, because he is a statist fuck that will perpetually move the goalpost instead of admitting that just this once that maybe the State shouldn't. Not once. Not ever.

  3. Re:Read what they said on Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails For Gmail Ads (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Exactly. Google now scans your emails for a completely different, yet evidently more profitable, reasons.

  4. Re:In other news on Home Improvement Chains Accused of False Advertising Over Lumber Dimensions (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You appear to be stuck in the past with magnetic/optical based storage devices.

    Thats the thing tho... these fuck thinks the aeration was the powers of 2, and vocally convince the world that powers of 2 are wrong... all with the help of corporations that wants to put bigger numbers on the outside of the box.

    Basically, these K = 1000 clowns are CORPORATE TOOLS

  5. Re: They did a hell of a lot more than just disabl on Microsoft Admits Disabling Anti-Virus Software For Windows 10 Users (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    He means "delete" in the sense that the icon isnt on his desktop or findable under the start menu any more, and because you is completely ignorant to him that means its gone.

  6. Re: Can you feel sorry for Microsoft? on Microsoft Admits Disabling Anti-Virus Software For Windows 10 Users (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Last time I checked, not a single version of Windows that I have has any Office software.

    If Office macros are a particularly common infection vector, then the fault lies with the developer of Office (Microsoft), not the developer of Windows (Microsoft).

    The common theme here is obvious, but what is uncommon is also important. Office macros are powerful by design. That is VBA inside, and while VBA was always easily ridiculed for performance reason and for the fact that its a BASIC, the criticism was never to my knowledge its capability. Hell VBA code can load a DLL and call its functions. Full stop.

    Powershell is also designed to be powerful. Just another variation on the command-shell theme.

    I really dont want the OS locking down file associations, nor do I want to be prevented in any way from installing "unapproved" software, therefore the OS isnt at fault here. Its the developer of Office for somehow making it too easy for untrusted VBA code to be executed.

  7. Re: 300 000 every day? on Microsoft Admits Disabling Anti-Virus Software For Windows 10 Users (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So your immune system is useless because it doesn't detect all diseases?

    The thing about trying to pull off the lawyer strategy, is that you need to know what the answer will be before you ask the question.

    We could get into the much bigger flaw of your entire line of reasoning by observing that a virus scanner cannot equate to your immune system. Your immune system is composed of both offensive and defensive capabilities, proactive and reactive, layer upon layer. Your skin is part of your immune system. The closest software analogy to this is the Operating System, certainly not the lowly Virus Scanner. But instead of getting into that core flaw of your bullshit thinking, you can be refuted by simply answering your question in a manner differently that you had hoped:

    The answer: Yes.

    (lawyers dont hope to get the answer they want)

  8. French Press's can be electric.

    Were you trying to make some sort of logical argument? If so, you need to start with logic.

  9. Oh, is that why we watched them struggle for years to argue that internet service isn't the FCC's jurisdiction?

    Yes.

    This this answer just destroyed all the crap in your head.... you should tilt your head to the side, shake all that crap out, and join the rest of us back in the real world.

  10. Re:Don't tell me this! on Fidget Spinners Are Over (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    Will that flush?

  11. Re: So, help a father out... on Fidget Spinners Are Over (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    The windshield is easy to break with simple blunt pressure. Its designed to give to blunt pressure such as when your head is smacking into it.

    The side windows not so much. A karate-kid kick from the outside works, but from the inside its kinda hard to do that. The side windows are designed to fail completely or not at all: they are tough suckers until they break, at which points they instantly turn into ten thousand little pieces of glass all roughly the same size.

    I don't know the technical terms for the different kinds of glass strengths, but there are multiple forces to be considered when designing glass. Aside from the other differences (such as that the windshield has a sheet of clear plastic sandwiched inside of it) you will note that windshields can crack. People will drive for years at times with a cracked windshield. Ever see a cracked side window?

  12. Re:Nothing like hypocrisy on Cable Lobby Tries To Stop State Investigations Into Slow Broadband (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    You dont seem to get it.

    The big companies want the FCC to regulate them. Federal regulations are written by corporate lobbyists. That "Net Neutrality" regulation everyone is so in love with was written by AT&T. AT&T's DSL service cannot compete with a cable industry that can threaten to offer "DSL speed + fast lanes for stuff" at a tiny fraction of the cost that AT&T can rig up.

    State-by-State regulation is the worst-case scenario for the big corporations, but it doesnt effect them all equally.

    That whole stink about Netflix being "throttled" by various ISP's. This was congestion at the interlinks between the backbones, a problem that grew worse as Netflix became more and more popular. It is not Net Neutrality to demand a fast lane for a specific companies benefit, but somehow a demand for a quite-specific fast lane became the poster child for "net neutrality." AT&T's P.R. firm was hard at work twisting the public narrative while their "consultants" wrote the legislation.

    The corporations want it to be a federal issue. Wile they may disagree about what the federal rules should be, they can all agree that duping you suckers into demanding it to be a federal issue is a great idea.

  13. Re:Dunno about a law.. on A Colorado Group Wants To Ban Smartphones For Kids (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    They are a pick pockets wet dream

  14. Re:Another would-be dictator on A Colorado Group Wants To Ban Smartphones For Kids (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the local school board should be allowed to ban smart phone use while on school grounds, and whoever has the authority could ban them in.. say courtrooms.

    Of course the State should stay out of it.

    However these people that say smartphones "obviously" dont have a negative effect on children havent been paying attention to college campuses. Something fucked up a bunch of kids, and if its not the smartphones then ... what?

  15. Re:not a government issue on A Colorado Group Wants To Ban Smartphones For Kids (apnews.com) · · Score: 0

    College students now protest chanting "he cant say that!"

    Do you want more evidence?

  16. Re:What about Kyle Kullinski, Darvid Pakman, etc. on Google Announces New Measures To Fight Extremist YouTube Videos (cnet.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Yes, the left are bigots.

    Oh... thats not what you were getting at? Too bad, they are bigots due to the duck rule. Looks like a bigot. Acts like a bigot. Must be a bigot.

  17. Re:What about Kyle Kullinski, Darvid Pakman, etc. on Google Announces New Measures To Fight Extremist YouTube Videos (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Young Turks is getting pretty big,

    Sponsored by and supported by Google now, so ... yeah... amazing that the genocide deniers in this case are not just ok to stream... ok to support too

    These guys literally did not know that the group they named themselves after committed a genocide, and instead of owning up to the mistake, they doubled down and denied that there was a genocide at all. Complete scumbag racists.

  18. The entire Asimov robot arch even ends with a robot that decides on its own that there is a law that supersedes the 3 laws. The robots are there all the way into the Foundation series.

  19. Re:Revealing data on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Prepare For The Theft Of Your PC? · · Score: 1

    All this stuff about organised robberies, knowing what to look for, recognising a pearl in the pigsh... , thefts to facilitate hacking - that only happens in bad movies.

    It happens in real life too, but only if your home is worth north of $5 million or when your job already prevents you from having sensitive data on personal devices.

    Yeah... if you live in a shitty basement apartment because you miss mom... nobody is breaking in looking for pearls. They are looking for small electronics, cash, and any drugs you got.

  20. Re:Build one that is too heavy to steal on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Prepare For The Theft Of Your PC? · · Score: 1

    I was thinking that one of those mineral oil cooled PC's is absolutely not something that I want following me home. Not the entire tankm not the parts lifted out of the tank... none of it is allowed in my home or my car. Thats some strong theft protection right there.

  21. Re:backups + encryption on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Prepare For The Theft Of Your PC? · · Score: 2

    This one one of those Quiet or Fast? Pick one! moments.

  22. Re: What about the Y2K38 bug? on Trump Orders Government To Stop Work On Y2K Bug, 17 Years Later (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If your 32-bit posix doomsday time is unsigned, then it isnt doomsday in 2038.

    Make up your mind.

  23. Re: What about the Y2K38 bug? on Trump Orders Government To Stop Work On Y2K Bug, 17 Years Later (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody said anything about the cpu mode.

    We are talking about the fastest word on the machine, and in both 32-bit and 64-bit mode those are specifically the registers eax, ebx, ecx, edx, ebp, esi, and edi. They are not the longer 64-bit forms rax, rbx, rcx, rdx

    There are also more 32-bit registers in total... a LOT more.. xmm1 through xmm16 can all work with 32-bit integers even on the lowest capability AMD64 chip from either intel or amd. They cant work with 64-bit integers until SSE3 or whatever defined 64-bit integers as a valid data-type for the registers to hold.

    I realize that you think you know what you are talking about, but really ... you arent even close. You are so far from the mark with your arguement that you honestly might as well not know anything. Thats compiler switch targeting 32-bit vs 64-bit isnt even part of the equation, but thats all you know.

  24. Re: What about the Y2K38 bug? on Trump Orders Government To Stop Work On Y2K Bug, 17 Years Later (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You just have to create new system calls and alias them so that new code uses the 64-bit version

    ..and verify that all time functions everywhere in the os now continue to give correct values.

    ...ah, those little things... that nobody that ever spoke like you... knows anything about.... clearly you arent a software developer, and not only that, you dont even fucking know one.

  25. Re:Leftists will bash Trump for this on Trump Orders Government To Stop Work On Y2K Bug, 17 Years Later (bloomberg.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    The Democrats think that thats $45 of added value.