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  1. another PR slashvertisment from apple on Teenager Who Found FaceTime Bug Will Be Eligible For Bug Bounty Program (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 0

    oh what a good company we are, giving bounty money to a teenager despite the fact that by the letter of our rules he shouldn't get any. Applaud us please.

  2. Bullshit. Live streaming in youtube (with camera) requires hangouts which is chrome only. There are other examples as well.

  3. and why would anyone want to do that ? it's stupid.

  4. worth every penny ? seriously on California Company Markets A $2,400 2W Laser Bong That You Need to Wear Protective Glasses To Use (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    that's way overpriced, wicked lasers have been selling lasers of this power at a fraction of the price for years

  5. 660 MW for 600k homes? on World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm Opens Off Northwest England (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    How exactly does a 660MW plant power 600k homes ? Does each home only use 1.1KW ? seriously ?

  6. Totally agreed about market cap. You're not right about the amount that was into crypto though. The major exchanges only made 4 billion in 2017 from fees alone. there was definitely much more "invested" though from the average joe.

  7. Seriously, this is the 21st century, use SI units for chrissake.

  8. Re:aww poor baby on Short-Sellers Sue Tesla After Musk's 'Going Private' Tweets (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I wanted to artificially make the stock go down (short selling) and it didn't work this time, I lost money, I'm not a good manipulator. fixed that for ya.

  9. Re:Exclusive rights for research and development? on Nearly Half the Patents on Marine Genes Belong To Just One Company (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    How exactly does this make it any better ? Genes occur in nature they're not something invented. Why shouldn't a competitor exploit a gene ? It's not as if this gene is the product of the company that has the patent. It's like saying that a company can have a patent on cow's milk and no other company or person in the world can milk cows.

  10. Re:All cryptocurrencies are Ponzi Scams on Nasdaq 'Would Consider' Creating a Crypto Exchange, Says CEO (coindesk.com) · · Score: 1

    did you get your meds today?

  11. Re:Cryptocurrencies will evolve into something bet on Warren Buffett Predicts 'Bad Ending' for Cryptocurrencies (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    a tether is backed a by a usd. and what is a usd backed by ? It's turtles all the way down. Tether doesn't solve any problem. It scams people by giving the impression of solving a problem.

  12. Re:The fundamental premise of cryptocurrency is nu on Warren Buffett Predicts 'Bad Ending' for Cryptocurrencies (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Please address your question to Adobe, Autodesk and others. Their software is "just a string of digits".

  13. good but.. on Qualcomm Announces Latest Snapdragon 845 Processor (9to5google.com) · · Score: 1

    will there ever be a smartphone which will have BOTH a top end cpu AND >= 5000mah battery?

  14. watch us, we are coming.

  15. Re:Hyperloop misses the forest for the trees on Elon Musk Inspired an Industry of Hyperloop Startups. Now He's Building His Own (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    no, you are missing the point. Hyperloop does not compete with cars. it competes with airplanes.

  16. mosquito the ... on Should We Kill All The Mosquitoes? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    useless one, like literally in Greek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (anopheles = an-ophelos = without use) so yes, we should.

  17. That's the most idiotic comment if i ever heard one. The virtual screen obscures half of what you're looking at? for the X time your are typing ? a feature phone blocks half of ALL of your phone, depriving you permanently of the possible screen area you would have if you didn't have a mechanical keyboard claiming half of your phone space.

  18. The user will receive a code via sms which then he will have to manually enter ? If that is so, it is a much worse - less practical - tactic than just entering my password. Unless, the app will automatically read the sms and enter the code. Plus I don't understand why this new method is needed, most apps and browsers offer the option to save my credentials, why would we need a new method ?

  19. somewhat deceiving numbers.... on NVIDIA Creates a 15B-Transistor Chip With 16GB Bandwidth Memory For Deep Learning (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes it can do 21,6 teraflop.... at FP16.... half precision...it can "only" do 10,6 teraflop at single precision and 5,3 teraflop at double (64) precision. Also it doesn't have 1TB/sec advertised (for months) HBM2 memory speed, but only 720GB/sec

  20. Re:not the only coutry on North Korea Is Switching To a New Time Zone · · Score: 2

    why get rid of them ?

    what you're saying is totally unrelated to my point. My point is that NK is not the only country in the world that does the "crazy enough" thing of not having the time zone it should have.

  21. Re:not the only coutry on North Korea Is Switching To a New Time Zone · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's where it geographically should be (Greenwich meridian) and it isn't for political reasons. It's not just what you said, but also reasons such as differentiating from the UK.France's time was GMT+0 and it was changed by occupying Nazis. When the war ended, there was a decision to change it back but it was canceled.

    Spain is in the "wrong" time-zone as well due to Franco's decision during WW2.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  22. not the only coutry on North Korea Is Switching To a New Time Zone · · Score: 1, Interesting

    France does the same. It should be on the same time zone as the UK but it isn't due to reasons known to everyone.

  23. shameful slashvertisment on Intel Adopts USB-C Connector For 40Gbps Thunderbolt 3, Supports USB 3.1, DP 1.2 · · Score: 0

    "The high speed Thunderbolt interface standard, which is used for everything " Seriously ? Is it indeed used for everything ? By all 12 worldwide users of thunderbolt?

    "this time jumping from 20Gbps to a whopping 40Gbps. While that is impressive in its own right" - this one sounds like it was worded by a poorly paid marketeer.

    "the truly big news is that Thunderbolt 3 is moving away from the Mini DisplayPort" - see above

  24. flat as a pancake: invasion pending on Microsoft Tries Another Icon Theme For Windows 10 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I (genuinely) don't understand this tendency with flat buttons and interfaces, they do look slight of "90-sh revamped". Generally speaking through the years, changes in the UI have been positive and IMHO they were at their peak with Windows 7.

    What's the sudden (the last year or two) appeal with the super flat GUIs all over the place ?

    Change for the sake of .. UX experts...I apologize, for the sake of change ?

  25. That's way too much on Pandora Paying Artists $0.0001 More Per Stream Than It Was Last Year · · Score: 4, Funny

    the artists are gonna be rich now and we won't be able to control them!