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  1. Re:Works for me on Google To Charge Smartphone Makers For Google Play in Europe (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The Android name is trademarked, they'd need to call it something else.
    You'd also have no legal way of using the Play store either.
    You'll have to use proprietary apps for basic features, like text messaging, trusting that they will be kept up to date by yet another proprietary update mechanism.

  2. Re:Admission of anti-trust guilt and gains on Google To Charge Smartphone Makers For Google Play in Europe (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean the EU would reverse their decision and prosecute them again for the same thing they're already made a judgement on?
    Sounds like something that wouldn't be allowed.

  3. Future statement from Facebook: "Some Facebook partners have been found to have misused an API to capture live audio and video data from a small* number of users"
    * small being any number less than the number of devices manufactured"

  4. and still no motherboards with enough slots to test it.
    You'll just have to take AMD's word for it.
    You can however buy a Xeon machine with 3TB of RAM and a 2 CPUs

  5. Re:Printing as a service and dry toner on Printer Makers Are Crippling Cheap Ink Cartridges Via Bogus 'Security Updates' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's probably cheaper to send your files to a print house and have them print it than pay for ink at consumer retail prices.

  6. Re:Why no open source printer hardware...? on Printer Makers Are Crippling Cheap Ink Cartridges Via Bogus 'Security Updates' (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Perhaps you should read about how a laser printer works. The laser never hits the toner.
    It's used to dissipate the static charge on the drum so it only picks up toner in the correct place to print the image.
    The only heating that occurs is the drum that fuses the toner to the paper. That only melts the toner, it doesn't vaporise it.

    Ink jet printers on the other do vaporise ink in some types.
    HP used to brag that the instantaneous temperature inside the print head heats up hotter than the surface of the Sun. It's called "thermal drop-on-demand" . Canon, HP and Lexmark use it.

  7. Adobe saw the writing on the wall on The Full Photoshop CC Is Coming To the iPad In 2019 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    They knew the MacBook line was going down the toilet.
    The iPad is going to be the only way they keep their Apple user base..

  8. Re:Cool, journalism for tech support on The New and Improved MacBook Keyboards Have the Same Old Problems (theoutline.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Mac's are status symbols for looking at, not for actually using.

  9. Re:Read the Fine Print - Nothing is really "Banned on Facebook To Ban Misinformation On Voting In Upcoming US Elections (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    ... where fewer = 0
    But it won't be banned, because they'll still be able to see their own post.

  10. Re:Vote via Interpretive Dance on Facebook To Ban Misinformation On Voting In Upcoming US Elections (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    For someone who doesn't understand the technology, text messaging is no different than any other online channel.

  11. Facebook to ban misinformation on Facebook To Ban Misinformation On Voting In Upcoming US Elections (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    But not all misinformation, only that which steers people away from their own political views.

  12. From this link:

    Max Mem: 1,536 GiB

    50% more memory bandwidth too, due to 6 channel instead of 4.
    They're not just for servers. HP sell them in workstations with up to 3TB of installed RAM for dual CPU models.

  13. If you're willing to only drop $800 on a CPU, You're not going to want to drop $80,000 on 1TB of RAM.

  14. Re:Chasing AMD taillights on Intel To Support 128GB of DDR4 on Core 9th Gen Desktop Processors (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    You can buy workstations loaded with 3TB and 2 Xeon CPUs.

    Where do you buy Threadripper motherboards that support 1TB of RAM?

  15. You're confused.
    A Precision T7500 is a computer.
    A Threadripper is just a CPU and doesn't have any memory slots. You need to find a motherboard with enough RAM slots to put 2TB in it. There are none available for a child company like AMD.

    You have been able to buy HP workstations with Xeon CPUs and 3TB of RAM for a year now. The RAM alone costs $220,000 though.

  16. Re:Triple channel? on Intel To Support 128GB of DDR4 on Core 9th Gen Desktop Processors (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    Quad channel was done by AMD in 2010 for their Opteron CPU's
    Intel did quad channel on their LGA2011 sockets in 2011 and 3 channel on LGA1366 in 2008
    The "desktop" 1151 sockets are only 2 channel, not enough pins. You'd need ~150 pins minimum for just the signals for each channel. I assume each bit is a diff pair and the channels are 64 bits with, with clocks, ras, cas, etc.

  17. 5 tabs now they're removing the RSS reader code.

  18. You have the same rights a director would.
    You can't stop anyone else from recording video of the same things you did though.

  19. It's right in TFS on Does Amazon Owe Wikipedia For Taking Advantage of The Free Labor of Their Volunteers? (slate.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Amazon's Alexa, for example, uses Wikipedia "without credit, contribution, or compensation."

    Amazon recently donated $1 million to the Wikimedia Endowment, a fund that keeps Wikipedia running

  20. You'd have to assign them copyright on EU Ruling: Self-Driving Car Data Will Be Copyrighted By the Manufacturer (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1

    I'm not a lawyer, but who ever does the work to make the data - the owner of the car telling it to go somewhere - owns the copyright.
    It's like Adobe saying anything you create in Photoshop is the exclusive property of Adobe.

    It's either data and can't be copyrighted, it's owned by the owner of the vehicle, or the vehicle owner has explicitly transferred the rights of the information.

  21. You can make a book that contains the sunrise and sunset times and copyright the book. No one is allowed to copy your book.

    You can't stop anyone making their own book with the exact same data, as your copyright on your book only protects your designed and layout of the actual book, The data wasn't created by anyone, it's just raw data representing something that happened.

    Copyright protects creative effort. If there is nothing creative*, it has no protection.

    * for various definitions of "creative"

  22. Re:Switch to cellphones on State Attorneys Urge FCC To Combat Neighborhood Spoofing (biglawbusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    You are very defensive.
    I wish I had the effort to read your entire post
    'Murica, fuck yeah!.

  23. Re:Switch to cellphones on State Attorneys Urge FCC To Combat Neighborhood Spoofing (biglawbusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know how the USA system works. I've never been there. I'm just stating how systems work elsewhere. which effectively make spammers unable to profit from calling mobile numbers because they have to pay to call them.

    Yes, everyone else does things differently. The way they do it doesn't open up the mobile phone system to robocalls, spammers and scammers. The way USA does it, does. There's pros and cons for both. You tell me what's better.

    Personally, I prefer not having to pay for something I didn't initiate. Caller ID obviously can't be trusted as this article states. It's stupid to have to answer the phone, pay for answering the phone, just to find out if you wanted to take the call or not.

  24. Here's a video by CBC news
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  25. Re:Switch to cellphones on State Attorneys Urge FCC To Combat Neighborhood Spoofing (biglawbusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    When I call a local number, I don't need to put an area code. It's free (depending on my plan)
    If I want to call a national number, I put in an area code. They start with 0. In New Zealand that's 03, 04, 06, 07 and 09
    08 and 05 are national toll free number, like in USA where you have 1800. we have 0800 and 0508. There's also 0900 numbers that charge per minute.
    The 02 prefix is a cellphone number. 021, 022, 025, 027 and 029 are all in use by the different telcos.

    Everyone here knows this. 2 digit area codes are national land line rates. 3 digit codes are mobiles.

    I'm sure it's similar in other countries.
    In essence it's no different from calling a 1900 number in USA, you know it's going to charge you before you call it. You know you'll get charged if you put in an out of state area code, or an international code.