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  1. Re:Any connections? on Nigerian Firm Takes Blame For Routing Google Traffic Through China (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    No, they do not.

  2. Re:Any connections? on Nigerian Firm Takes Blame For Routing Google Traffic Through China (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    First, the answer to OP's question is no, China Telecom has no stake in Main One. Second, your statement about indebted nations makes no sense, Nigeria has a very, very low debt-to-GDP ratio, they haven't been an "indebted nation" since the late 1980s. Read up a little before replying about something you know nothing about.

  3. However boys tend to be more inclined to pursue studies in science.

    Is that difference in "inclination" biological or social or both?

  4. If you had read a couple sentences further:

    ...which draws heavily on a ProPublica report published in March that said the company has fired more than 20,000 employees older than 40 in the last six years...

  5. Re: Job opening up soon on Google-Funded Study Finds Cash Beats Typical Development Aid (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    This article is about people in 3rd world countries... only the wealthiest in those places would have access to video games.

  6. Re:Judges, not legislators on Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Opposes Net Neutrality (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure why this is so hard for people to understand - judges don't (and shouldn't) make the laws. They only attempt to interpret them as cases are brought before them where a violation is claimed.

    Want different laws? Elect different legislators.

    You miss the point entirely... his intepretations of the law in these two cases are completely ridiculous and unrealistic, no sane person would come to those conclusions... the problem is his interpretations, not the laws themselves.

  7. Imagine if instead of trying to chase people down for pirate radio stations, it was actively helping provide information on how to set stations up and letting people know which frequencies would be good to use in their area?

    They already do have that on their website for people who want a Low Power FM License. You can search by latitude and longitude of your station to find available broadcast channels. These tools have existed for years and years.

    They also haven't taken any applications for LPFM licenses in years and years.

  8. Fortnite purchases are purely cosmetic, they don't help you win. And they aren't random loot boxes either, you buy a specific item, not a random item.

    You don't need to pay a cent to play Fortnite, and there's absolutely no disadvantage for players who spend nothing.

  9. Re:$500 for 4GB and a Celeron? on Samsung Unveils Chromebook Plus V2 (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    True, but the 3965Y used in the Samsung is built on the Core arch (specifically Kaby Lake), not the Atom arch. The Acer referred to uses the N3160, which is built on the Atom arch (Braswell). The 3965Y outperforms the N3160 handily in most applications despite the 3965Y being only a dual-core while the N3160 is quad-core.

  10. Re:netflix and alphabet will be fine on 'Netflix and Alphabet Will Need To Become ISPs, Fast' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    New services that don't have a huge customer following will be over the barrel though.

    Therein lies the problem. Ending NN won't hurt the current Internet behemeths much, if at all... it's the smaller players and future start-ups that won't stand a chance.

  11. Re:What Netflix does is drink from the skulls of I on 'Netflix and Alphabet Will Need To Become ISPs, Fast' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    What Netflix DOES, my dear child, is play the three off against each other since it has the most desirable online resource in America, and any ISP that does not deliver it well is open to customers being poached by other ISP's (or even wireless carriers if they can deliver a decent base video quality).

    Netflix might have the power to do this... smaller companies do NOT.

    It's also a pretty big assumption that Alphabet/Google would compete with Comcast or Verizon everywhere. More likely they'll start gradually adding a market here and a market there like they were before. There will likely still be a large portion of Americans with only one "choice" of realistic ISP for a long time to come.

  12. Re:" Internet pioneers " ? on Internet Luminaries Urge EU To Kill Off Automated Copyright Filter Proposal (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    You didn't bother reading the last paragraph of the summary, huh? None of the listed "pioneers" work for the companies you mentioned.

  13. Re: Does that even qualify as pork? on Senator Makes Amtrak Hire Ticket Agents Because 30 Percent of His State Lacks Internet (senate.gov) · · Score: 1

    "...that will force Amtrak to employ at least one ticketing agent in every state that it serves"

    What part of "every state that it serves" do you not understand?

  14. Re:As seriously as the US takes it on Valve Slammed Over 'Horrendous' Steam School-Shooting Game (eurogamer.net) · · Score: 2

    Two reasons: Because 14 deaths a year is a trivially small price to pay for the right to defend yourself,

    Tell that to the family of one of those 14, I dare you.

  15. Re:As seriously as the US takes it on Valve Slammed Over 'Horrendous' Steam School-Shooting Game (eurogamer.net) · · Score: 1

    So... school shootings are okay because more people die from harder to prevent causes each year?

  16. Re:Lets convert Meters to Galons. on Human Race Just 0.01% of All Life But Has Destroyed 83% of Wild Mammals, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    We don't like being told that we are bad people. Because in our mind, we are not. We may not like the things we do, but it out of necessity not because we are trying to be evil.

    Who is telling you you are bad people? TFA does not contain the word "bad" even once.

  17. Re:Metadata is data on NSA Collected 500 Million US Call Records In 2017, Says Report (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, execution in the U.S. is from treason went out of fashion long ago. So stop being melodramatic. And Google and Facebook can sell your information to companies that will hound you for years, constantly yapping for attention.

    Then don't use Google or Facebook. You're stuck with your government, short of emmigrating, in which case you're stuck with another government. I may have been melodramatic, but the fact is your government can punish you in various ways, corporations cannot.

    And if they sell it to insurance companies, your rates can go up for no reason you can see.

    Do you have an example where someone's insurance rate was raised due to Google or Facebook selling the insurance company information that you didn't publicly post?

  18. Re:Metadata is data on NSA Collected 500 Million US Call Records In 2017, Says Report (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not the same thing. You don't have to use Google, Facebook, etc at all, but you're stuck with your government. The government can imprison or execute you based upon what they think they've found surveilling you, Google and Facebook cannot.

  19. Re:Windows Defender for macOS? on Microsoft Ports Edge Anti-Phishing Technology To Google Chrome (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    What does your choice of OS have to do with phishing links?

  20. Re:Major caveat: Windows Store only on Microsoft Will Bring 64-Bit App Support To ARM-Based PCs In May (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    TFA says the ARM64 SDK will be available for both Store and traditional desktop applications.

  21. Microsoft Says Windows 10 Spring Creators Update Will Install in 30 Minutes

    No, they did not say that. They said the "offline" part of installation will take 30 minutes (down from 82 minutes for the Creators Update and 51 minutes for the Fall Creators Update). They are just moving more of the install to the "online" phase. Total time should be about the same. The only advantage is that you can still use your computer during the "online" phase.

  22. Re:"Mislabeling products"? on Walmart Whistleblower Claims Cheating In Race With Amazon (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Huynh claims Walmart mislabeled products so that some third-party vendors received lower commissions, failed to process customer returns, and allowed offensive items onto the site.

    If he wants to claim whistleblower treatment..... he'd best have a better story than that.

    I'm sure Amazon has some erroneously labelled products too.

    Causing some vendors to receive lower commissions will be interesting to those vendors, but it's not likely to be criminal.
    Perhaps Huynh is just not realizing retailers generally must become as ruthless as the company they're trying to compete with....

    If, as he claims, he raised concerns about unethical and/or illegal activities to upper management and was fired simply for doing so, that would be retaliation. The severity of the alleged activities and whether or not other companies do them too isn't relevant under either law he is suing under.

  23. Re:I wish Linux had Visual Studio on JavaScript Rules But Microsoft Programming Languages Are On the Rise (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They previous anon said:

    >Visual Studio is my favorite IDE. I wish Linux had something as good as Visual Studio.

    VS Code is pretty much just the VS IDE, exactly what he's asking for.

  24. Re:I wish Linux had Visual Studio on JavaScript Rules But Microsoft Programming Languages Are On the Rise (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3

    They do... it's called Visual Studio Code for Linux.

  25. Re:I see exactly 1 MS but 2 Apple languages on JavaScript Rules But Microsoft Programming Languages Are On the Rise (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The two MS languages that rose, Typescript and PowerShell, aren't mentioned in the summary. They both moved up the list, but aren't in the top 10.