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  1. The big cost of chipmaking is R&D, not per unit manufacturing, and the cloud won't reduce that by much. That's a one time cost that Intel has to pay no matter what, which is why it's in their best interest to try and extract as much money as they can from the technology they spent so much on developing.

  2. If "the cloud" meant that costumers pay less, Intel wouldn't be switching to it.

  3. Re:enjoy the book again and again on Slashdot Asks: What's Your View On Speed Reading? · · Score: 1

    Do you also watch movies fast forward?

  4. Re:This bill might not be so bad on Burr-Feinstein Anti-Encryption Bill Is Officially Released (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    When TTIP and TTP get finished the number of those countries will drop sharply.

  5. No, his crime was like giving the company keycard to a bunch of vandals. That the anon guys didn't do serious damage is irrelevant, because they could have.

  6. I'm guessing control systems on different airports need to communicate with each other directly.

  7. Is it worth it? on Free Software Will Help Detect Faulty and Malicious USB-C Cables · · Score: 4, Insightful

    USB has become succesful because it was cheap and simple to use and cheap and simple to manufacture. It seems to me that USB-C is getting further and further away from that by the day. Maybe different use cases require different solutions, maybe there is no such thing as a 'one universal cable' that can combine the advantages of all the others without the disadvantages. It seems like USB just wanted to replace lightning on Apple stuff, and does not care about PC users who don't have a fortune to waste on a piece of wire. Which is not even just wire anymore, it contains its own electronics, losing all the elegance and simplicity tha made USB great.

  8. Missing the point on Opera's Ex-CEO Launches Vivaldi 1.0 For Power Users · · Score: 1

    The reason I liked Opera was because it allowed a rich browsing experience with great degree of costumisability and control natively, without needing to install 20 shitty javascript extensions that make a browser slow and unstable. A browser written entirely in shitty js is not a replacement for Opera.

  9. Re:Why the email client overhead in a browser? on Opera's Ex-CEO Launches Vivaldi 1.0 For Power Users · · Score: 1

    I guess they saw an opportunity with Thunderbird's future being as unsure as it is.

  10. Re:Not clear on the technology on Alphabet's Nest To Deliberately Brick Revolv Hubs · · Score: 1

    Because this isn't a home automation device, this is an IoT device. And IoT works by connecting all your devices to the internet because the control logic is in the cloud.
    There is no technical reason to do so (it's not like you couldn't remote access a home based solution if you really wanted to turn the lights from somewhere else), but companies are heavily pushing it because it gives them control and data to mine. It also fits nicely into the "sharing economy" buzz.

  11. I didn't even know MS renamed WP on Windows 10 Anniversary Update Will Bring Android Notifications To Your PC (winbeta.org) · · Score: 1

    I still own a Windows Mobile phone although I don't really use it anymore. Calling their new mobile OS Windows 10 Mobile just adds another layer of confusion beside skipping the 9.

  12. Interesting.. So Apple was willing to get the data from the phone, they just don't want to tell how they did it? I guess that makes sense, in a way.

  13. Re:MS already has a bot framework on Microsoft Launches Bot Framework To Let Developers Build Their Own Chatbots (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I didn't see your post. Probably cuz it was at -1 :-P

  14. So Apple complied with the requests in drug cases but started a big fight over a terrorist? Did they change their policy or is there a technical difference between the cases?

  15. MS already has a bot framework on Microsoft Launches Bot Framework To Let Developers Build Their Own Chatbots (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    MS already has a bot framework, it's called XP.

    Oh, not that sort of bot?

  16. Re:LOL, too funny on CNBC Just Collected Your Password and Shared It With Marketers (pcworld.com) · · Score: 2

    They should've used LibreOffice, of course.

  17. Re:The Future of Desktop Support... on Trump Gives Displaced IT Workers Attention, and He's Not Alone (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    No, your computer will already be in India and you will access it through the cloud.

  18. And what does getting one man on their side achieve? It's not like researchers can just take home radioactive samples.

  19. Quadros are professional grade cards for content creators, not consumers.

  20. "This is a historic visit," Obama said as he greeted U.S. Embassy staff and their families at a Havana hotel. "It's an historic opportunity to engage with the Cuban people."

    I'm happy I'm not the only one who has no idea which one is correct.

  21. Re:Apple's "significant responsibility" hey? on Apple Unveils Liam, An iPhone Recycling Robot That Salvages Parts (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 2

    If there's money in it that's even better, means that more businesses will start recycling in the future.

  22. Re:the economics don't work out on How Space-Based Solar Power Plants Could Be Built By Robots On the Moon (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, this blog post sums it up pretty nicely.

  23. Re:Google knocks Apple, Bing and Microsoft on How Far Have We Come With HTTPS? Google Turns On the Spotlight (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Why is it better to force users to use https instead of letting them choose? I hate this modern trend when removing features is considered "progress".

  24. There are many kinds of random. The site chooses a photo without taking into account where it was taken, and because the density of photos varies greatly with location, even a simple statistical algorithm using no data from the images could get fairly accurate at guessing.

  25. Re:Russian? on Released: First PC Based On Russia's Homegrown "Baikal" Processor (t-platforms.ru) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I don't know what the motivation for a homegrown CPU was, but if the goal was to build something secure with no foreign backdoors then using a foreign foundry defeats that.