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  1. Re:Not too happy about this one on NSA-Leaking Shadow Brokers Just Dumped Its Most Damaging Release Yet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm happy if mine are visible so long as all the transactions investment banks make with one another are also visible.

  2. Re:My suggestion... on The Mac Pro Is Getting a Major Do-Over (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Just out of curiosity, for the intervening period until Apple updates their product, is there any server management software you'd recommend for allowing not-very-knowledgeable technicians to successfully perform more mundane and routine server maintenance tasks on Linux servers? It occurs to me that this is a matter about which you may have done some considerable thinking.

  3. Re:My suggestion... on The Mac Pro Is Getting a Major Do-Over (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    It would seem Apple-esque to me to have brand continuity in the types of choices across different product lines. Servers don't seem Apple-esque to me as the cost to performance ratio plays a much bigger part in the purchasing decision. I don't think people who want plug-and-play from servers are inclined to purchase their own hardware.

  4. It'll feel like I'm tapping out characters on a display with flexible human skin stretched over it?

  5. Re:This is unnecessary and stupid on Companies Start Implanting Microchips Into Workers' Bodies (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    My thought, also. When I was thinking why they'd want an implant instead of a bracelet, I had to start wondering how much alcohol their employees consume on a typical evening.

  6. Re:Meta data? on Companies Start Implanting Microchips Into Workers' Bodies (latimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Or, they'll match the days you skip the wank and go to work horny with your least productive days and then require everyone to have an orgasm before coming in to work.

  7. Re:My suggestion... on The Mac Pro Is Getting a Major Do-Over (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Regarding you iMac Pro idea, if they put a non-mobile GPU in an AIO, they'd be the first. Even the Z1 that HP labels "Workstation," gets a gpu made for mobile.

  8. I wonder if it's similar to on Elon Musk Launches Neuralink To Connect Brains With Computers (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    this project helping a woman locked in by ALS.

  9. Re:Something people forget... on Terrifying Anti-Riot Vehicle Created To Quash Any Urban Disturbance (boingboing.net) · · Score: 2

    Sure, but SOP for a peaceful protest becomes: send in a couple guys to do violent shit in the middle of the crowd, call it a riot, and bring out the killdozer. Freedom of assembly absolutely is a right in many counties.

  10. Not a concern on US Workers Face A Higher Risk Of Being Replaced By Robots (cnn.com) · · Score: 1
  11. Re:So, they've reached the end of the alphabet on Ubuntu Linux 17.04 'Zesty Zapus' Final Beta Now Available For Download (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I was thinking Aaron Aardvark.

  12. Poor brand management on Comcast Launches New 24/7 Workplace Surveillance Service (philly.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm a little surprised that they didn't form a new division and give it a different name for this product. I don't think that the "we surveil people for money" notion is going to help their cable internet business. Granted, much of that is in locations where they have a monopoly, but still. Now if municipalities want to fight with them they can say "regardless of whether they're spying on non-business customers, too many of our community members are convinced that they do - we have to provide a municipal alternative for their peace of mind."

  13. Re:Autonomous Ships? on Norway Plans to Build the World's First Ship Tunnel (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Automated control doesn't prevent a boat from getting slapped around by rough water. When the boat pivots around center of mass, causing the deck to drop faster than the freely falling objects that weren't tied down, this can cause undue stress to the transported cargo. Second, one thing that's nice about staying on an inside passage is that the nearby land blocks wind. When you're bucking into the winds around a low, making two knots while running the engines as hard as you usually do making twelve knots (even if there's software that prevents overspeeding when the prop catches air), generally the extra time and fuel consumed makes staying inside much more sensible and economical even though it's less direct. Also, are you suggesting that the Norwegian government buy a automated replacement boats for everyone North of the Stad peninsula? A bet a lot of other Norwegians would want new replacement boats, too. $272 million is starting to seem less and less expensive.

  14. Re:Emerging markets?? What about the united states on Qualcomm's New Processor Brings 4G To Feature Phones As Company Eyes Growth in Developing Markets (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    A new DynaTAC with the 205 platform and some 21700s could be a fun phone. No one would touch it for standby time. Customers who insist on texting could get a bluetooth keyboard and an ebike display as accessories. Might be difficult convincing Lenovo to produce it though.

  15. Re:Emerging markets?? What about the united states on Qualcomm's New Processor Brings 4G To Feature Phones As Company Eyes Growth in Developing Markets (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    The original Nokia 3310.

  16. Re:Sounds like vaporware on Swatch Takes on Google, Apple With Watch Operating System (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a good reason not to be making promises they don't keep.

  17. Sounds like vaporware on Swatch Takes on Google, Apple With Watch Operating System (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Two years ago, Tissot said they'd have a smart watch available now. Now, they say the end of next year. I think I'll be hearing announcements about this for a while.

  18. Re:Nice printer size on 3D-Printed House Constructed On-Site In One Day (treehugger.com) · · Score: 1

    What if there were corners, but not square ones?

  19. Nice printer size on 3D-Printed House Constructed On-Site In One Day (treehugger.com) · · Score: 2

    It looks like a good size printer to rent for DIY projects. I'd like to see a printer like this using cellular lightweight concrete to print in place insulating concrete forms. Then, it would be very easy to make ICF walls that are any shape at all. Seeing so many houses with square corners just looks depressing to me.

  20. Re:Batteries from Nevada to Australia? on Elon Musk: I Can Fix South Australia Power Network in 100 Days Or It's Free (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    A Maersk B class (some of which are now idle) could get them from Los Angles to Sydney in ~11 days. If you wanted to go beyond non-conductive packing material, you could use a nitrogen generator to keep oxygen out of the shipping containers with batteries.

  21. Seems like the wrong approach for the FSF on Free Software Foundation Challenges Tim Berners-Lee On DRM (defectivebydesign.org) · · Score: 0

    If they don't like people thinking it's normal for the cool content to be handcuffed by EME, shouldn't they be producing better content and sending it out unshackled?

  22. Let me guess... on FCC Chairman Calls Net Neutrality a 'Mistake' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Municipal broadband is also a mistake, as are ISPs who don't make their pizzo.

  23. Re:One more reason to own a smartphone on Cellebrite Can Now Unlock Apple iPhone 6, 6 Plus (cyberscoop.com) · · Score: 1

    Now I'm imagining someone paying Cellbrite $1500 to unlock my smartphone, and once it's unlocked, all they find is hundreds of photos of my food. I suppose I'd want a steganographic watermarking app that encodes a randomly generated serial number in each image.

  24. Is capacity next? on Sony Unveils World's Fastest SD Card (amateurphotographer.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The BlackMagic Production camera needs 265 MB/s for it's 30 fps 4000 x 2160 CinemaDNG RAW recording mode, which means it would fill the big card in less than 10 minutes. How can we make amazing quality home movies of our children if we have to fiddle with changing cards every 10 minutes?