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  1. Yep, and they can keep those values in Asia. If it comes over here you'll see a bit of pushback, as in maybe you eat my dog, maybe I turn you into a lampshade.

    They have their own dogs, they don't need to eat your dog.

  2. Re:The agonizingly slow conversion on New iPhones To Stick With Lightning Over USB-C, Include Slow-Charging 5W USB-A Charger In Box (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    It's really not about the cables, but about the interface itself. USB2 is cooked right into the cheapest SoCs, USB1 is in cheap microcontrollers, keyboard interfaces, etc. The designs for those chips have been traded around, shared, transferred in fire sales etc. and as a result they are essentially free. The same thing will happen to the other forms of USB eventually, of course, but people will keep deploying the older forms at least up until that happens.

  3. Re:It's pretty obvious what they're doing on Developers Accuse Sony of 'Playing Favorites' With PS4's Cross-Platform Support (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Sony is far from perfect, but at least they aren't Microsoft.

    I have no love for Microsoft, but it's clear that they are more responsive to their customers than Sony. That's not saying much, but there's not a lot of choice in that market. (I've given up on console gaming for now, mind you. I sold all mine to a local shop and moved on. I can emulate the classics.)

  4. Re:So let me get this straight on Your GPS Devices May Stop Working On April 6 If You Don't Or Can't Update Firmware (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    They should work fine for navigation and positioning, but the date/time displayed may be incorrect.

    In that case, everything is fine. Now I only have to worry about my neo6m GPS modules, one of which I actually want to use as a time source. It's got a PPM output. But it's probably also counterfeit because I'm cheap :p

  5. On the one hand, I sort of approve of tracking the threats, but on the other hand, who appointed Facebook gawd with the secret inside knowledge of who is and is not a REAL threat that deserves to be tracked?

    The users that gave away their private information.

  6. the market rejected Linux then, because they wanted to run Windows software

    Are you sure? I suspect the market never got a look in.

    At least for the first couple years, they definitely had Linux netbooks in the store. I don't doubt, however, that salesdroids who knew what it was were lacking in number.

  7. Re: Headline inversion on China and India Lead the Way in Greening (nasa.gov) · · Score: 1

    Actually, it is easy to get them to take of the dead ones.

    Actually, it really isn't. California is chock-full of them. In many areas, every third tree standing is a dead pine. In some areas, it's much worse.

    that was because your gov have been opposed to allowing full clearing/replanting of that area.

    So just to be clear, we can't have this partial clearing that you say is easy to get because we won't allow full clearing? Make up your mind. Full clearing depletes biomass, greened acres are irrelevant, biomass is what matters. Old growth forest fixes more carbon and slows wind down more than new forest. This is true for nearly every tree species.

  8. Re:Place it where they need it on Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah, he'll just Amazon Prime bottled water in for next day delivery, then curse when it fails to arrive and he can't flush for three days.

    Nah, he'd just RO all his water, and never miss any high usage fees he paid as a result of pissing 6-12 gallons of water down the drain for every gallon filtered.

  9. Re: Good government management on Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    So make smaller companies pay the taxes while amazon make the $$$

    The point is not to prevent Amazon from making money. The point is to prevent Amazon from being a drain. Not making them pay their fair share only means that everyone else pays their share while they profit.

  10. Re:It's pretty obvious what they're doing on Developers Accuse Sony of 'Playing Favorites' With PS4's Cross-Platform Support (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If you fall somewhere in the middle then you're SOL.

    And if you give Sony your money, then you're equally SOL. I don't get why people keep rewarding them. Is there really an exclusive worth the pain?

  11. You're assuming that the real purpose of this isn't to collect cats... for dinner.
    Maybe the dogs are better off.

    The breed recognition is so that they can find the cats with the most valuable fur. All those cute little fluffy toy rabbits and whatnot from China are made with cat fur. Then you feed the meat to the dogs... and eat them.

    For the record, I could give a shit but don't. [Not] eating dogs is a cultural value, there's no real moral difference between eating dogs, horses, cows, sheep, pigs, etc. They're all individuals with hopes, dreams, fears, etc. And they're all delicious when properly cooked.

  12. Re:Doing it the hard way on Smart Cat Shelter Uses AI To Let Strays Inside, Keep Dogs Out (mashable.com) · · Score: 0

    Many cats are as big as or larger than small dogs. They like small dogs in China.

    They taste like cats?

  13. Re:So let me get this straight on Your GPS Devices May Stop Working On April 6 If You Don't Or Can't Update Firmware (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    My Garmin GPS 12 units predate Y2K substantially, you insensitive clod! And they're my only standalone GPS-without-map units. The last firmware update was in 2003. I presume they're about to be rendered useless, which is sad to me because they're reasonably sensitive, have serial output, and support DGPS.

  14. Having windows/arm will only result in user disappointment, either because expected things don't work or perform poorly under emulation.

    We went through some of this with netbooks, now they're repeating it all over again with armbooks. Netbooks could run windows software since they were x86, but they could only run it poorly because of memory limitations. Linux wasn't so memory-hungry at the time, so it made more sense.

    Unfortunately, the market rejected Linux then, because they wanted to run Windows software. Today, the people who would want a low-power laptop are probably more likely coming from the other end — they don't want a lower-powered windows laptop, they want a higher-powered Android or iOS one, with the keyboard that their phone doesn't have.

  15. Re: Headline inversion on China and India Lead the Way in Greening (nasa.gov) · · Score: 1

    Actually, it is easy to get them to take of the dead ones.

    Actually, it really isn't. California is chock-full of them. In many areas, every third tree standing is a dead pine. In some areas, it's much worse.

  16. Re:Why is number spoofing even possible? on FCC Chairman Warns of 'Regulatory Intervention' as He Criticizes Carriers' Anti-Robocall Plans (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    It's expensive for the ILECs to keep track of a master list.

    How much does it cost to have a database with a few million rows these days?

  17. Re: Headline inversion on China and India Lead the Way in Greening (nasa.gov) · · Score: 1

    Trump is about to allow foresting through national forest, and Apparently, so is California. Apparently, this last fire that swept through dead pine and spruce killing ppl and destroying hollywood star's homes, has finally convinced dems to allow it. Sad.

    Cutting the trees won't work to control fires, except in certain very limited situations. I'm sure it will work for the richie rich people above Los Angeles, but it's not going to work up North, because the area is too large to manage in that fashion. They're only going to take the trees they want, not the trees we'd need them to take. Only yearly fires really work. After the fires on Cobb Mountain, the contractors stole all kinds of trees they weren't supposed to cut...

  18. Re:China's dependent on the US for their food supp on China and India Lead the Way in Greening (nasa.gov) · · Score: 1

    Little Seizures pizza is made from Chinese ingredients, too.

  19. Re:high on China and India Lead the Way in Greening (nasa.gov) · · Score: 1

    high co2 content good for trees...

    Only briefly.

  20. Re:Well, that is just completely wrong on Google Plans Cheaper Smartphone To Draw Users Into Internet Empire (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    The Nexus 4 was like the size of an XBox.

    Well, I'm the size of your ex's box. I have nearly NBA-sized hands. The real problem was that it was made by LG, which makes it a POS.

  21. Re:Just because you can doesn't mean you should. on You Can Now Run Windows 10 on the Raspberry Pi 3 (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Virtually all kiosks are now web kiosks, and you're better off using Linux for that unless the site you're targeting requires Aieeeeee! In that case, just shoot yourself, it will be a lot less painful.

  22. Re: Just because you can doesn't mean you should. on You Can Now Run Windows 10 on the Raspberry Pi 3 (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, but none of that stuff is built for arm. If you want to run Scala or something (the titling/signage software, not the programming language) then you're running it on x86. And what's more, you're going to need a current CPU, a decent GPU, or both. So once more, what in hell is this good for? There is no meaningful software which can be run on it. There's not even enough RAM on the platform to browse the web decently.

    Running Windows IoT core on raspi makes sense if all your developers are windows developers, and you want to do some kind of embedded task. But running full windows 10? That makes no sense at all.

  23. Re:Put the CLIENT in the hands of the user! on How Hard is it To Have a Conversation on Twitter? So Hard Even the CEO Can't Do It. (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    "There is nothing about the separation of content and reading software, nor leaving the choice of reader up to the person, that precludes sharing spam filters."

    And yet, sharing killfiles was never popular until it was implemented for browser ad blockers.

  24. China is reclaiming desert on China and India Lead the Way in Greening (nasa.gov) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    China is reclaiming desert with grid plantings.

    My understanding is that the USA has at least as many forested acres as ever, but a lot less biomass, and a lot of dead trees. Old growth is taller so it slows wind down more, and it's also more massive so it fixes more carbon. (Trees only grow from a thin layer beneath the bark, and the rate of growth is limited by photosynthesis, with larger trees able to do more of it because they have more leaf area with which to receive insolation.)

    Is there a biomass index?

  25. Re:What happened to their previous phones? on Google Plans Cheaper Smartphone To Draw Users Into Internet Empire (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    The digitizer on my E960 died, making it like every other piece of LG garbage I've ever owned. Until then it was great, but that was enough to put me off LG smartphones for good since it would have been expensive to replace. But you're right, they were $300 less than the Apple competition.