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  1. Re:Charging stations? on All Fossil-Fuel Vehicles Will Vanish In 8 Years, Says Stanford Study (financialpost.com) · · Score: 1

    depends on the location of your property, SF will probably appreciate faster then the money. also you are assuming you have the principle on hand... if you do you are still ahead long term.

  2. to at least once hear about cisco away from the US Cert alert emails. wonder why the outlook looks grim,
    build back doors, get caught... not profit.

  3. the chairman was not in favor, but his boss made him listen to the public... so i guess some difference is there.

  4. otherside... you mean the people that take money from the same corps and lobbyists?
    personally i am giving up hope and just ignoring the world as it burns around us all.

  5. Re:Wow, more than 2 billion devices? on Google's Android Now Powers More Than 2 Billion Devices (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    whats MS upto...

  6. in US i use VPN to comcast sniff block. i don't even connect outside US.
    just a fuck you to comcast.

  7. Re:Charging stations? on All Fossil-Fuel Vehicles Will Vanish In 8 Years, Says Stanford Study (financialpost.com) · · Score: 1

    but so worth buying as investment and then hiking the rent to make money. for a landlord, they paid the value on date X and mortgage based on that... the rent is nased on todays value... so long term it pays to invest.

  8. Re:Charging stations? on All Fossil-Fuel Vehicles Will Vanish In 8 Years, Says Stanford Study (financialpost.com) · · Score: 1

    aha, a valid point. as a counter point i would give you a personal example. I have a 12 year old car that i paid off in 4. so for the last 8 years been just used based costs. the renting of vehicles in the future would have to be cheaper than maintaining the paid off car. the value is depreciating in the market, but for me the use value is ever the same.

    its the same (short term) issue with buying vs renting housing. take Palo Alto for example ( as some one pointed out above) its cheaper to rent than to buy... today maybe but in 3 years the rent is going to go way up... and the trend will continue.

    but then again i am a bad example as i own multiple homes and cars. so my bias maybe showing.

  9. the car industry will continue its downfall and in another 8 years will completely vanish. because teleportation will become the ONLY way to travel.

  10. Re:Charging stations? on All Fossil-Fuel Vehicles Will Vanish In 8 Years, Says Stanford Study (financialpost.com) · · Score: 1

    i guess their point (fallible) is that no one will be "buying" cars just renting use... because renting is cheaper. i mean that's why no one owns homes any more.

  11. Re:Slashdot Feature Request on All Fossil-Fuel Vehicles Will Vanish In 8 Years, Says Stanford Study (financialpost.com) · · Score: 1

    why wait, laugh now.

  12. Re:Ha! You need some KRANK! on 'Exercise-In-A-Pill' Boosts Athletic Endurance By 70 Percent, Study Finds (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    LOL

  13. Re:Physical distribution media? on 'First Pirated Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disk' Appears Online (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    a designed theater for HD can render the image without additional scaling that may add pixelation. both the projectors available NOW and the screens can render a image well enough that the added benefit of larger screen makes a tremendous difference in the experience.

    Personally i ended up with a 9k lumen 4k projector (says infinite contrast... whatever) because kids don't like sitting in the dark and eating and feeding them with lights on. side by side with my samsung led, the blue ray video (split by my receiver) is better on the projector screen.
    its costly yes... but i never go to movie theaters and netflix and amazon 4k is much more enjoyable.

  14. Re:Apple on Splitting Up With Apple is a Chipmaker's Nightmare (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    not sure if its a sane long term strategy from apple, just look at the maps debacle... just because they have the cash to do every thing doesn;t mean they will do it better or heck just as good. MS is another one of those examples, how many times has MS tried to screw over oem and builders... every time crawling back.

  15. Re:compelling... story on Court Rules In 'Sextortion' Case That Phone PINs Are Not Protected By Fifth Amendment (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    might as well compel a confession and be done with it faster.

  16. god bless it on WhatsApp Users Are Reporting Outages Worldwide (metro.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    those 3000 new hires are for the video feed, not to watch all whatsapp users.

  17. Re:Not general purpose? on China Makes Quantum Leap In Developing Quantum Computer (scmp.com) · · Score: 1

    over traditional computing methods... eventually i mean its already faster then the first ever electronic computer. oh ENIAC i miss you so.

  18. Re:What About False-Positives? on Facebook Hiring 3,000 To Monitor Videos After Murders, Violence Shown Live (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    if facebook is the only thing keeping society at bay from anarchy... i guess my nuclear shelter will definitely pay off.

  19. i am not sure its that simple, Apple (also others) trasfer their IP's to a subsidiary in a tax shelter, then all the profit from local (country) sales is paid to the subsidiary that Holds the IP and is thus prevented from being taxed in the country of sale.

    its a pretty nice setup for them. EU is realizing this is an issue as well and what is basically needed is some form of reform that can address multinationals. but chances of any reform happening is pretty close to nil. the US at least tries to recover some when the profit is brought home because of shareholders wanting some payment (profit). i am sure even this is barely scratching the surface, the convoluted tax code is convoluted by design.

  20. Re:To put their fortune in perspective on Apple Has a Record $250 Billion In Cash, 90% of It Is Banked Overseas (phonearena.com) · · Score: 2

    nice, or in other words almost 3 billion per year for you for an avg lifespan of 88 years. i could try to live on 3 billion a year, i know its a stretch but i am willing to try.
    just in case you are wondering its 7.8 million perday roughly. i mean after i get done paying all the hookers and blow, i'll probably have just 7.5 million left to waste each day.

    how is that perspective.

  21. Re: I don't mind paying taxes on Apple Has a Record $250 Billion In Cash, 90% of It Is Banked Overseas (phonearena.com) · · Score: 1

    thats wonderful news, its funny how the IP that makes the profit now doesn't sit in the US but in Ireland paying less than 2% of profits in taxes. wish I could move my tax burden to ireland as well while still living in US.
    ofcourse they paid for the tax loopholes so ofcourse its all legal like.

  22. Re:its called optimization on Facebook Lets Advertisers Target Insecure Teens, Says Report (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    i guess they could feel a moral conflict and thus depression and then perhaps get targeted by their version of therapy providers in similar vein.
    chance are though no one looks back until they have to, or are forced to, until that time its fun with all the cash hey are pocketing :)

  23. wish i could pay no taxes

  24. yes but those can't buy cars so ...

  25. Re:they are getting prepared FTFY on China is Recruiting 20,000 People To Write Its Own Wikipedia (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    as history is continually rewritten by the victors