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  1. Re:Speed cameras = dishonest taxation on Yellow Vests Knock Out 60 Percent of All Speed Cameras In France (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What an idiot you are.

    Speed limits are set by noisy people, busy-bodies, and the politicians pandering to them.

  2. This is the reason why we need government or some non-commercial safety net services.

    We've had that my whole life. What are you trying to say?

    This is the problem with the left. Give them what they want, and a few years later they will be asking for it again as if they arent already getting it...

  3. The scaling factor they have used is 10000 since computers were first used by banks, never the 100 you claim they started with, a scaling factor that has become its own datatype in some programming languages since the early 1990s.

  4. The latest polls show that a majority of the French support the vandals and rioters.

    Proving that the government isnt representing the people.

    You, however, assume the government is representing the people and that therefore the protests arent justified.

  5. Re:How do you even "regulate" AI? on Americans Want To Regulate AI But Don't Trust Anyone To Do It (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    You missed the part where the companies then use those regulators to create barriers to entry into their industry.

  6. Re:important clarification from TFA on Lenovo And Dell Seeing PC Growth in US, But CPU Shortage Takes A Toll On Overall Market (crn.com) · · Score: 1

    Last time I looked, AMD was responsible for around 20% of total CPU shipments.

    ...and it cannot be allowed to grow beyond that like last time, because when that happened Intel had to do things to brazenly that they get convicted multiple times of anti-competitive anti-trust monopolistic practices, repeatedly.

  7. Re:Maybe they should build better laptops, ... on Lenovo And Dell Seeing PC Growth in US, But CPU Shortage Takes A Toll On Overall Market (crn.com) · · Score: 1

    Intel is twice convicted of paying other companies to not use AMD parts. It is by no means a stretch that they would also consider paying companies to cripple AMD performance, especially since Intel was also convicted of crippling AMD performance in their compiler and paying benchmarkers to cripple AMD in results.

  8. Re:Frame by frame? on VLC Passes 3 Billion Downloads (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    As your aware... video data is no longer frame by frame, but lots of deltas and other compression and movement tricks.

    True.

    Very difficult to go backwards

    False.

  9. A movie that can stream movies! on IMDb Launches Ad-Supported Movie Streaming Service (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Title currently is "MDb Launches Ad-Supported Movie Streaming Movie"

    They put streaming in your streaming!! Incredible.

  10. Re:Push ads for a month on VLC Passes 3 Billion Downloads (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    They would make money off me because I fairly regularly download it to see if they have fixed all the copy-pasta features that are crap like their shader effects stuff. Pretty sure they blindly ripped the shader effect support directly out of one of the Media Player Classic forks, and as such it doesnt support any sort of multi-buffer multi-stage shader effects at all... ie, they copy-pasta'd code written over a decade ago which was even considered a primitive place-holder at the time it was written.

  11. Re:Once again: Slackware NOT affected. on Linux systemd Affected by Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities, No Patches Yet (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    After you've drowned the baby, its time to throw it away.

  12. Re:Once again: Slackware NOT affected. on Linux systemd Affected by Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities, No Patches Yet (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Slackware ships with a simple, effective BSD-style init populated by simple and readable shell scripts. [....] Install Slackware, and many sysadmin's worries will go away.

    You are missing the forest for the trees. What you really want isnt a "BSD-style init", what you really want is BSD.

    Linux isnt unix, so dont expect it to maintain the unix philosophy. BSD is unix.

    Fun fact: Been true forever

  13. The FBI is far more professional and less likely to...

    I was expecting you to say "DOX THEIR INFORMANTS" because, you know, thats what you were trying to refute.

    Meanwhile, TFA is about the FBI DOXing one of their informants.

  14. Re: This really isn't a surprise on People Older Than 65 Share the Most Fake News, Study Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    You voted for Clinton, didn't you? My brother I have some bad news for you...

    You've done nailed it.

    The fact is the media is all narrative now, and the authors of this "study" cherry picked some stuff to label fake and non-fake in order to get the "result" aka narrative that they wanted.

    Their fake list lacks any MSM, and need it be pointed out that MSM people like Shaun King just got busted yet again for fake news and yet again is unavailable for comment...

  15. Re:Funny... on People Older Than 65 Share the Most Fake News, Study Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    We appreciate your sacrifice to drain their mod points. Well done sir.

  16. Re:Oh Lord no, on People Older Than 65 Share the Most Fake News, Study Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Our media has served corporate masters for decades, probably centuries.

    Your citation indicated government masters, not corporate masters. Funny how you provide the citation and then are immediately wrong about its contents.

  17. Re: Windows Tablet... on New Windows Virtual Desktop Feature Will Finally Make the iPad Useful (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 1

    chromebooks are even less useful than ipads and ipads are nearly useless.

  18. Re:For anyone wondering why it's only specific mic on New Windows Virtual Desktop Feature Will Finally Make the iPad Useful (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 1

    Those that remember the long ago past remember that Apple has always fought against 3rd party functionality, easily going back all the way to the Apple IIgs and first Macintosh (mid 1980's.)

    Back then, even development tools were part of the growing idea of a walled garden, creating an entire "Free Tools" movement written about extensively in magazines at the time. Apple tried really hard to stop you from developing for their hardware unless you first gave them money for their tool chains, and every application developed with their tools looked exactly the same because fuck you we know whats best.

  19. Re:Funny... on People Older Than 65 Share the Most Fake News, Study Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fox isnt on the list of fake news sites that they considered. Also missing is MSNBC and CNN, and these are clearly the top 3 fake news outlets.

    They did include CNN in the real news set. Hah.

    This story is clearly also fake news due to these facts.

  20. Thats an issue for another day for them. With yields so terrible it doesnt matter how great the working chips are.

    Normally things like power/heat issues are dealt with first by binning the parts. Refinement comes after large numbers of parts are made and the binning statistics that go along with it are considered.

    In the case of 10nm, Intel cant even do binning because the yields are so bad.

    What Intel needs to and will do is chiplets. Its the only way forward (only way to deal with the bad yields) and they have had 5+ years already to figure that out but didnt. They are now literally 5+ years behind AMD in future relevant cpu designs.

    Add to being behind in CPU design with also no longer having a semiconductor advantage, and that that advantage will NEVER come back because the rent-a-fabs are now bigger than Intel and will now always be so....

    I've been saying this on slashdot for 2+ years now: Sell your Intel stock and double check your 401K's and Roth's to make sure Intel isnt included in any of their index funds. Intel is fucked. Its been clear ever since they announced massive layoffs and a new "cloud strategy." Intels known that they are fucked for at least that long.

  21. Re:Won't block YouTube ads. on Chrome's Ad Blocker Will Go Global On July 9 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Not blocking youtube ads would be a killer for tech enthusiasts, but I'm fair confident that many advertisements by google ad networks wont be blocked, not just youtubes.

  22. Re:Not needed on Chrome's Ad Blocker Will Go Global On July 9 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    On top of that, ad blocking being integrated into the browser was already done first by Opera... funny that Opera is still leading the pack even though its now merely a skin on top of chrome.

  23. Companies must get express permission, revocable at any time to sell any data obtained from a paying client.

    Then express permission will become a requirement for service, and revoking that permission will cancel the service,

    You arent offering a solution. All you are doing is increasing government power and therefore all the increased corruption that goes hand-in-hand with increasing government power will be on your hands.

    If you want your future complaints to fall on deaf ears, you are off to a good start.

  24. It is not that Intel cant do 10nm, its that Intel cant do it economically. So far every 10nm part they have sold has come at a large loss, and this will probably be no different.

  25. Re:Why would you put wifi on the CPU. on Intel Demonstrates 10nm Ice Lake Processor, Promises PCs Will Ship With it Later this Year (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    How would you know if they're the same or not?

    Intels has proven to be a security risk, while AMD's isnt even in a position to have the same security risks because AMD's is a hypervisor while Intels is several containment levels more privileged than a hypervisor. If your system had both, Intels would be in full control of AMD's. Its really that god damned simply.