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  1. Re:Evil cable giant vs. tiny public access channel on Comcast Sues Vermont Over Conditions On New License Requiring the Company To Expand Its Network (vtdigger.org) · · Score: 1

    If Comcast doesn't want responsibilities, then Vermont should revoke all right-of-way for their lines. Let Comcast pay the State and each individual land owner rent.

  2. Pretty much no one was using USB-anything before the first iMac made USB popular with accessory manufacturers. I wasn't an Apple user at the time, but I do have a working memory -- Apple made USB popular. Sure, it would have replaced many other protocols and port eventually, but it happened when it did because of Apple.

  3. Re:Who cares? on Android Wear Is Getting Killed, and It's All Qualcomm's Fault (arstechnica.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Have someone rip your face off and shove an ice pick through your brain. You will no longer be bothered by things that have no impact what-so-ever on your disgusting waste of an existence.

  4. Re:It does or it doesn't? on Apple Says the Leaked iPhone Source Code is Outdated (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    I know you were taking a jab at Apple, but the statement and action are consistent. Security is in the design, while vulnerabilities are in the implementation. The security doesn't change if the source is available, but the ability to find and exploit vulnerabilities increases. In other words, vulnerabilities exist whether or not the source is available, but having the source improves a hacker's chances at finding them.

  5. Re:What's hard [Re:I wonder how long it will be... on 'Modern AI is Good at a Few Things But Bad at Everything Else' (wired.com) · · Score: 0

    Can computers (controlling robots) learn through observation? Can any computer learn to understand natural language, even after a decade of conversation with humans? Infants understand by 2, and are talking soon after.

    Computers have no cognition. All they can do is run programs written by humans, or programs derived from programs written by humans (genetic programming).

  6. Re: Yet on 'Modern AI is Good at a Few Things But Bad at Everything Else' (wired.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Computers don't understand 2+2. They perform the operation by moving electrons from one place to another, ending in a pattern that humans interpret as 4.

  7. Re:How is this any surprise? on Get Ready For Most Cryptocurrencies to Hit Zero, Goldman Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It's also expensive and stupidly slow. Not as bad as BTC, but still has issues to work out if it's going to scale significantly.

  8. Re:There's no quality control on Internet porn on Pornhub Is Banning AI-Generated 'Deepfakes' Porn Videos (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    US citizens don't vote for POTUS. They vote for people who vote for POTUS. The actual voters for POTUS picked Trump. Just because Liberals don't understand the system under which they are governed does not make them right.

  9. They are charging for a secondary effect of getting older, and not because you've reached some arbitrary age. People with certain medical conditions or diseases are also charged more.

  10. Re:Can we sue car insurance companies? on Tinder Must Stop Charging Its Older Users More For 'Plus' Features, Court Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Are they? Insurance companies charge by the statistics. If younger people are statistically more likely to cost more, that's not the Insurer's fault.

  11. Anything that harms SEO is a blessing.

  12. While the reminders get more annoying on the desktop, my wife has been happily ignoring iOS 11 availability from the day it was released. You are not forced to upgrade iOS.

  13. What does that have to do with the tax rates on tea in China? Taxes are not a moral obligation, they are merely legal. If the law allows paying less, you are generally stupid (or lazy) for paying more.

  14. Re:Taxes on Apple: We Would Never Degrade the iPhone Experience To Get Users To Buy New Phones · · Score: 2, Informative

    By definition, loopholes in laws allow for unintended, but legal behavior. Otherwise, it's not a loophole, it's an illegal behavior.

  15. Expensing non-business-related expenditures in order to evade taxes is illegal, but that's not what actual corporations do. Problem is that you conflate what you want to be illegal with what actually is.

  16. I am sure the police enjoy the encrypted data dumps.

  17. It may also save lives.

  18. An innumerate antisemite. How original.

  19. Re:Corrected headline: on Apple Prepares MacOS Users For Discontinuation of 32-Bit App Support (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    It's only correct in your mind because you are fixated on anal sex.

  20. Re: 32-Bit is like what 16-Bit was in the late 90s on Apple Prepares MacOS Users For Discontinuation of 32-Bit App Support (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Only a fucked-up anonymous shit head would consider it a problem to just not update your OS if you need it to run your apps.

  21. It frustrates me that C#/Swift/etc. are being pushed so hard at the application layer and forcing C coders to do a lot of undocumented and probably shadier stuff than they were doing before, just to use OS API calls to functions that we all know were coded in C to begin with.

    That makes no sense at all. If you are always this illogical, I hope I'm not using any of your code.

  22. Re:Exposure and accessibility on Tim Cook: Coding Languages Were 'Too Geeky' For Students Until We Invented Swift (thestar.com) · · Score: 1

    If you don't get why namespaces are useful, you've never worked on a system involving lots of code from third-parties that you can't (or don't want to) change. If all you deal with are toys, you don't need a lot of complex, but useful features.

  23. Re:Exposure and accessibility on Tim Cook: Coding Languages Were 'Too Geeky' For Students Until We Invented Swift (thestar.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would you change? Languages without hierarchy were replaced for production code for a reason.

  24. Re: Congratulations you invented LOGO! on Tim Cook: Coding Languages Were 'Too Geeky' For Students Until We Invented Swift (thestar.com) · · Score: 1

    How is a language that doesn't give a shit about indentation anything like Python? If it was, several thousand Apple devs would have torn their headquarters to pieces and put what was left of Cook on a spike.

    Basically, you know absolutely nothing about Swift, and you are proud to display your ignorance in public. You are an idiot.

  25. Re: It's a TRAP!!!!! on AT&T Calls For Net Neutrality Laws After Fighting To End FCC Rules (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    If someone is poisoning you, but you can't tell without a lab test. what does it matter?