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  1. Re:move to the side on Are Widescreen Laptops Dumb? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    moving the taskbar/start is a start but what's really needed is a complete GUI design rethink so title-bars, menu-bars, toolbars, status-bars sit on the vertical rather then the horizontal pan

  2. A higher calling on Former Reddit Executive Sees 'No Hope' For Reddit (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    If your aim is to have a positive social impact you should be running a non-profit. A for-profit will always be conflicted between growth/profit and social aims, the investors and creditors, will put huge pressure to skew heavily towards the former

  3. Re:Let's toss in some numbers... on Doctors Tried To Lower $148K Cancer Drug Cost; Makers Tripled Its Price (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Three failed , if the if the fourth had failed, $388,000,000 would have been completely lost. The problem with drug development is not so much the high costs but the high probability of failure. If you are going to convince people to take a *huge risk* you have to dangle a very large carrot in-front of them

  4. Perhaps the Flying Spaghetti Monster sees it fit to give liberals a consolation price for loosing the chance to break the nearly 50 years of conservative majority in the Supreme Court

  5. Re:But, but on Linux 4.17 Kernel Offers Better Intel Power-Savings While Dropping Old CPUs (phoronix.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    They were dropped because there are no developers to maintain the code, If you want to pick up the slack, I'm sure the community will be more then willing to rummage through their junk-piles to send you testing hardware

  6. Re:Trump is a big sellout ! on Trump Proposes Rejoining Trans-Pacific Partnership (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Most "developing" countries have environmental/safety/labor laws in the books, the problem is that they are rarely and selectively enforced, usually because of a incident that made widespread news or simply to hurt company owners backing political rivals.

  7. In a nutshell you are fine with a dinner refusing gay's or African-Americans lunch because as a private business they are free to discriminate as they please. Well if they can discriminator against member of the community, then why can't the community discriminate against them but let's say refusing them a business license!

    FYI: Democrats, liberal, progressive; Republican , conservative are not interchangeable terms. The GOP used to be the party of the progressives (heck Lincoln was a Republican) and the Southern slave-owners were members of the Democratic party. Infact since we are discussing ideology and not politics, leave the political parties out of it.

    And finally I dare you to find me a African-American community that "believes" there were better off in the pre "civil rights" Jim Crow era (at the time a Democrat) , you asinine turd

  8. Re:Something is seriously wrong on How Will Automation Affect Different US Cities? (northwestern.edu) · · Score: 1

    Putting your faith on some abstract idea like "the free market" seems rather idiotic, personally I prefer putting my faith on the "flying spaghetti monster" No matter, liberals don't give a damn about your bartering, what we are concerned about is that you or your "neighbor" doesn't abuse their position of privilege by offering a unfair deal that you can't afford to refuse; "You an work for this peace of stale bread, or you can starve to death," not exactly much of a choice

  9. Re:Something is seriously wrong on How Will Automation Affect Different US Cities? (northwestern.edu) · · Score: 1

    If there is competition in the sector that will inevitably happen as competitors try to wrestle away market share from each other, leading to pricing wars. Of course in this era of corporate giants, consolidations and mega-mergers it is unclear how many healthy competitive sectors still exist in the economy

  10. Re:Simple Answer on How Will Automation Affect Different US Cities? (northwestern.edu) · · Score: 1

    It is very difficult to find lots of people willing to work odd-hours/weekends for long periods. The reason fast-food chains and other 12/7 operations are heavily investing in automation, is to solve their chronic under-staffing issues rather then save money on wages

  11. Oh spare me. The conservatives were with the Democratic party (also known as the Dixicrats) until the Truman and the liberal wing of the party took control and pushed it towards supporting the civil rights movement. After that the Conservatives left the Democratic party and eventually mostly joined the GOP.

    Only Conservatives consider gay's not being able to marry or have cakes at their wedding, fare and equal treatment. The rest of us call it what it is; discrimination on sexual orientation based on religious grounds

    FYI: Conservative in the context of the issues we are discussing obviously refers to social conservatives, leave the "fiscal conservatives, free market conservatives" out of it.

  12. How's that any different from Conservatives favoring laws that revert society back to Biblical times. Alabama only repealed it's ban on interracial marriages in 2006 and there are still states with anti-sodomy laws in the books, despite both being ruled unconstitutional a long time ago.

  13. Re:translation on Zuckerberg Testimony: Facebook AI Will Curb Hate Speech In 5 To 10 Years (inverse.com) · · Score: -1, Troll
    1. First they forbid burning gays at the stake,
    2. then they banned imprisonment,
    3. then they outlawed discrimination.
    4. Now you can't even spew out vile hatred without hiding behind a computer screen. What's a good old Conservative to do?!
  14. Re:The Post Is Incomplete on FDA Worried Drug Was Risky; Now Reports of Deaths Spark Concern (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    CNN reporting a half truth / incomplete story for sensationalist purposes? Unbelievable. If they keep that up someday they will be known as fake news. Did they link Trump to it yet?

    Give me one for profit network that is not willing to report "a half truth / incomplete story" or even a straight out lie "for sensationalist purposes."

    Honest TV reporting died in the 80's when network executives stopped treating journalism as a "loss leader" and turned news it into another "entertainment" revenue stream

  15. Problem with all "modern-ui" aka Metro-style" apps on Is Microsoft Trying To Make Windows 10 Mail Worse? (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problems are not specific to the mail app but mostly showcase the limitations of the "sand-boxed application" model. The whole idea of "one OS to rule them all" was idiotic from the start. Phones and pc's have very different usage scenarios, what works on one doesn't work very well on the other

  16. Are we sure they are ditching x86? on No More Intel Inside, Apple Plans To Use Its Own Custom-Built Chips in Mac (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1
    Apple has been slowly integrating OSX and IOS much like Microsoft did with Windows10, integrating Windows and Windows Mobile. Microsoft's solution to the x86/ARM problem was the "universal apps," basically a package with 2 set of binaries, one for x86 on for ARM.

    Perhaps Apple is looking at a solution where they add a second ARM processor to their iMac/Mackbook lines that can run ARM apps negatively.

  17. Re:Repair in a room you can't transmit from on An Apple Facility That Repairs iPhones in California Won't Stop Calling 9-1-1 -- and Nobody Knows How To Stop It (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful
    The problem with fines is that it's the cellphone's owner who's number is going to show up on 911 dashboard.

    Although the bad publicity of people getting 911 fines in the mail because of AppleCare, is probably going to make Apple find a solution much quicker then fining Apple, what's to them an insignificant amount

  18. Re:IOS or Security Enclave on State Department Seemingly Buys $15,000 iPhone Cracking Tech GrayKey (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Its a 4' by 4' box that is capable of working offline. Definitively no crypto brute-force going on here

  19. As usuall missleading headlines on Confirmation of a US Government Probe Pushes Facebook's Market Loss To $90 Billion (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Facebook Corp. hasn't lost anything. Those shares were sold or given away already. The holders of Facebook stock lost a couple of % of the paper value

  20. IOS or Security Enclave on State Department Seemingly Buys $15,000 iPhone Cracking Tech GrayKey (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Its obvious that they must have found an exploit that allows them to bypass the number-of-attempts security mechanism. I wonder if this is handled in IOS or if it is a more serious Security Enclave bug.

  21. Re:And then a hero comes along on Flat-Earther's Steam-Powered Rocket Lofts Him 1,875 Feet Up Into Mojave Desert (latimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Because he is a want-to-be daredevil that just wanted some free publicity for his stunt.

    Some nobody pulling a stunt on a oversized bottle-rocket might make the local news, but someone trying to prove the earth is flat on a homemade rocket, now that's national front-page news.

    Nothing difficult to understand

  22. Fortunately Googles location data gathering can be turned off; For now at least.

    From a web browser it can be done from the "activity controls" settings, This is the easiest way since each android release seems to be burying the settings deeper and deeper

  23. This search warrant is likely far too broad to pass Constitutional muster, unfortunately only a defendant can challenge a search warrant. In other words neither Google nor the ACLU have the standing to challenge the search warrant before it is executed. The only silver lining is that this tactic is not likely to end once someone is charged and they end up walking free because of it

  24. Re:Ford sells too many trucks on Ford's Badly Needed Plan To Catch Up On Hybrid, Electric Cars (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Forget boats and construction material. When the closest shopping center might be some 100 miles away, having a vehicle that can haul a couple of weeks worth of necessities for the family, is an absolute must. Unless of course, you enjoy spending every weekend at Walmart

  25. Perhaps cheating is even easier now on Sierra Leone Records World's First Blockchain-Powered Election (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Ballot box stuffing is the simplest and most wide-spread form of election fraud. With internet connected machines giving real-time results the government could flip on a piece of hidden code on the machines to electronically stuff the boxes right under the noses of election observers. The government just wanted to get rid of those pesky paper records while pretending that the elections are even more secure because of the magical blockchain ledger