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  1. Re:Of course on Elon Musk To Stay At Tesla For Another Decade (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would he? The subsidies would then simply allow his competitors to make cheaper electric cars. Just because you don't believe in a subsidy doesn't mean it even remotely makes sense to protest by voting with your wallet.

  2. Re:Much more sensible self-driving scenario than c on French Train Engineering Giant Alstom Testing Automated Freight Train (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The same thing that makes you think this is rife for automation is also the reason why it has nothing at all to do with cars in the slightest (actually it more to do with batch chemical manufacturing).

    The stellar record without autopilot is also why there's little reward for implementing such systems and makes it pointless to prioritise trains over cars instead of working on both side by side or rather actually focusing on the car problem first.

  3. Re:Skip reading the article and look at the top pi on Apple Might Discontinue the MacBook Air (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    The 2016-2017 15" MBP has more I/O capability than any other laptop, period.

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    Okay but seriously though:

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    And if I plug in a dongle I can extend that to: ahahahahahahahahhhahahahahahahahahhaahahahahahahaha ahahahahahahahahhhahahahahahahahahhaahahahahahahaha ahahahahahahahahhhahahahahahahahahhaahahahahahahaha

  4. Re:Spiraling retaliation ... on Trump Administration Approves Tariffs of 30 Percent On Imported Solar Panels (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    You have a splinter in your foot. Removing it will require digging into your foot with a scalpel. Hurts right? But do you remove it anyway or do you risk the resulting infection putting you in hospital and getting your foot amputated?

    Tariffs like this are not retaliatory, they are correctional. Stopping the flood of cheap imports does nothing for the short term economy, but it may be damn good for the long term economy as outsourcing all your manufacturing overseas and dealing with the resulting unemployment is the "cut it off" option.

    The only interesting thing here is that it's only solar panels affected rather than many other industries. Protectionism isn't always a bad thing. Free trade sure as heck isn't always a good thing.

  5. You've apparently forgotten that they have a system that is able to contact EVERY PHONE IN THE STATE.

    The system that wasn't working, and wasn't able to send out the correction? Is that the system you're talking about? Great system that.

  6. Re:Net Neutrality on Google Just Broke Amazon's Workaround For YouTube On Fire TV (cordcuttersnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Nice try, but I specifically quoted "Google is doing this because Amazon refuses to sell Google devices.", not anything else.

    And I'm just giving you shit for splitting hairs in english where the context of the discussion every single person knows they are talking specifically about Chromecast and the FireTV here.

  7. Interesting, thanks for pointing that out. The very first review I found showed a 9.8% penalty on Witcher 3 while zero penalty on most of the other games under test. Interestingly Witcher 3 also gave the highest frame rate, does that mean the rest of the games are GPU bound and Witcher 3 presents an unnaturally high CPU load?

    If so what is it about Witcher 3 that taxes the CPU more than other games? Isn't it just an 3rd person RPG?

  8. and when done in the correct order he can talk to someone?

    Yes which is why it took so long to get the information out. Calling individual media outlets is an incredibly inefficient way of disseminating information. For better or worse in any emergency twitter will get the information to a wider audience and will be picked up by the media faster than anything else these days.

    I heard there's a tsunami warning in the USA.
    https://edition.cnn.com/2018/0... : Count 1 official Twitter source
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-... : Count 1 semi-official Twitter source, 2 unoffical twitter sources.
    https://www.theguardian.com/us... : Count no link to Twitter, but a quote in the article from an official's twitter account.

  9. Re:Guess he forgot phone #'s to news media as well on Hawaii Governor Didn't Correct False Missile Alert Sooner Because He Didn't Know His Twitter Password (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    He should have issued a quick news conference and or radio broadcast.

    That's a great way of getting information out 10minutes AFTER most news outlets have published a tweet.

    Go to major news sites right now and find out about the tsunami warning. I challenge you to find one that doesn't reference Twitter. Here's the first I found: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/0... the tweet is half way down the page.

  10. Re:Guess he forgot phone #'s to news media as well on Hawaii Governor Didn't Correct False Missile Alert Sooner Because He Didn't Know His Twitter Password (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would he rely exclusively on Twitter when there's an entire industry whose job it is to disseminate information?

    Phone number to the media? Are you a time traveller from the 90s? The only thing the "news media" does now is publish tweets wrapped in clickbait headlines.

    No I'm not being facetous. Let's have a look shall we. I heard there's a tsunami warning current. Let's check CNN: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/0... Oh look, their source: https://twitter.com/SF_emergen...

  11. Re:Hate the Sub Model on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Forced Subscription-Only Software? · · Score: 1

    when you consider the Suite used to cost in the thousands of dollars

    And people who used the Suite may be happy about it. People who used a single program, no so much.

  12. Re:I just quit giving Adobe my money on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Forced Subscription-Only Software? · · Score: 2

    I own the most recent non-sub version of Photoshop, and that'll do fine for whatever I need to use Photoshop for in the future

    Yep I thought that too until I bought a new camera which then produced files which couldn't be opened by it. We're not all playing with TIFFs and JPEGs here.

    But seriously fuck them. I would have happily paid for an upgrade. I sure as heck am not paying for some cloud garbage I don't need attached to some perpetual license I don't want just to get a single feature that several years ago barely qualified for more than installing a simple plugin.

    Needlessly I found something similar to the plugin on the pirate bay.

  13. Re:Net Neutrality on Google Just Broke Amazon's Workaround For YouTube On Fire TV (cordcuttersnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Google is not the content owner.

    We regret to inform you that this thread is about Net Neutrality. Please find a thread about Copyright and repost.

  14. Re:Net Neutrality on Google Just Broke Amazon's Workaround For YouTube On Fire TV (cordcuttersnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Amazon fucked Google royally then broke Youtube terms of service, then manually worked around a block after the resulting dispute and you come up with Google being the evil one? What does that make Amazon? A clone of Hitler that goes around kicking dogs and eating babies?

  15. Re:Net Neutrality on Google Just Broke Amazon's Workaround For YouTube On Fire TV (cordcuttersnews.com) · · Score: 1

    - Amazon refuses to make an app for chromecast/google cast for prime video, google can't do it on their own...

    Obligatory: And nothing of value was lost.

  16. Re:Net Neutrality on Google Just Broke Amazon's Workaround For YouTube On Fire TV (cordcuttersnews.com) · · Score: 2

    "Google Pixel" and the first result was the Google device I searched for.

    And can you use it to cast to the TV? Yeah thought not.

    Actually it's far worse than the GP said. If you search for "Chromecast" on Amazon only the second hit is a Firestick. The first hit is a cheap fake Chinese knock-off of a Chromecast.

  17. Re:More money than sense on Tesla Owner Attempts Autopilot Defense During DUI Stop (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is everyone is a douche. No seriously. Audi owners think BMW owners are douches. BWM owners think Audi owners are douches. Ford owners think Chev owners are douches, Chev owners think Ford owners are douches, Renault owners think Peugeot owners are.... shit I just realised how long this post was going to be... *bails*.

  18. Re: Drunk Tesla Haiku on Tesla Owner Attempts Autopilot Defense During DUI Stop (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    autopilot suggests it does it for you

    Before you go complaining about the how little autopilots do for you, maybe you should complain to airliners who coined the term. After all the modern autopilot in a car is far more capable than that of a plane.

    Redesigning the English language to suit your specific argument is fun.

  19. Re:What can possibly go wrong... on UK Hospitals Can Now Store Confidential Patient Records In the Public Cloud (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It speaks to horrible judgment

    Maybe. Maybe it also speaks to his quick thinking in an emergency where an unpredictable event forced him to do something he doesn't normally do.

  20. Re:Stupid title on Facebook Announces That It Has Invented a New Unit of Time (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Declare them obviously. Unless it is you declare the variable of a type that never existed before, in that case you invent them.

  21. Re:The example physics test... seriously? on Microsoft Unveils Windows 10 S Laptops Starting at $189 and New Office 365 Tools for Students (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Every single answer (except the 1st I guess) is completely wrong yet 5/6? Are you joking?

    What do you expect when you get the marketing department to check your physics exam.

  22. Re:You mean, doing exactly same thing as Chromeboo on Microsoft Unveils Windows 10 S Laptops Starting at $189 and New Office 365 Tools for Students (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Chromebooks have Play Store (and sideloading APKs/Linux with some hackery irrelevant to an average user). These laptops have Microsoft Store, not sure about developer sideloads. Seems up to which app/game selection you prefer?

    No. Not the same thing. The Play Store for one is useful.

  23. why are we teaching products rather than principles?

    Actually we teach both. The problem is twofold: To learn the principles by example you often need to use a product. To be efficient in the real world it helps if you already use the product that everyone else is already using.

    I had to learn how to lay out a page and type a letter somehow. I may as well do it with a resume filler rather than the eyebrow raising "Proficient in LaTeX" that is likely to land you precisely zero jobs.

  24. but as a gamer the 5-10% hit I'm seeing

    That's quite interesting given that this isn't born out in any of the very many benchmarks that have been done on this. There were plenty to show that gamers experience precisely zero difference. There were more that show in most cases if your CPU is only a year old and has PCID you won't see anything near a 10% hit.

    Now if you said you were a server administrator and your corporate webserver or backend database started chugging, that would be quite believable.

    But by all means class action away. I'm sure the $10 discount you get for your new Intel CPU will be worth it when the new CPU is $20 more to recover the cost of the lawsuit.

    Ok that last sentence was a low blow, but the first was quite real, do you have a link to some real world figures on the effects of the patches, because looking into it extensively last week I concluded it was a non-issue for a gamer and the only thing likely to notice on my system is slightly lower throughput on my SSD.

  25. Meltdown is just Intel.

    Well technically Meltdown is also IBM. The Power7 through 9 are affected.