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  1. Re:Zuckerberg must want to be King of Facebookland on Facebook Plans To Create Its Own Cryptocurrency: Report (cheddar.com) · · Score: 1

    Black Mirror ... "98% match making" ... Not too far off

  2. You work for free?

    I have some bridges you might be interested in.

  3. If you're a plumber and you hear the house two doors down, whose pipes you installed 4 years ago during the construction of the house, has a leak. You aren't going to go and fix it for free, are you?

    I don't know what kind of regulation could facilitate good business and secure products. The more secure you make something, usually the more it will cost the client (even with security-first orientated programming).

  4. It's not time, it's money... on 26% of Companies Ignore Security Bugs Because They Don't Have the Time to Fix Them (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not that I don't have enough time, I do.

    It's that the powers at be only want to spend time on something if a client pays for it.

  5. Re:I'm prepared on FCC Says Net Neutrality Rules Will End On June 11 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Every couple days?! Pft, make those suckers create a new Ad profile for you on every page load. Block all cookies and caching.

  6. Re:I'd bet dollars to doughnuts.... on Google Chrome is Freezing Intermittently With the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, Users Say (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a simple solution then.

    Extend that too easy to use ".remove()" jQuery method to remove event handlers too.

  7. Re:Smarter Web searching on Google Assistant Is Smarter Than Alexa, Study Finds (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think the difference between Google's products results shows that's not entirely true. Otherwise, they would've returned the same results.

    AI/Machine Learning is playing the pivotal role here.

    Siri's results prove that in my mind, she's dumb af. All she does is web queries.

  8. Re:How outrageous on Drupal Warns of New Remote-Code Bug, the Second in Four Weeks (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    fyi: saveie6.com yields 404

  9. Download? What about delete? on Instagram Launches 'Data Download' Tool To Let You Leave (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Great, I can download all my Facebook and Instragram data.

    Now... what about deleting it from their servers?

  10. Ha! There was just a story a few days about about the discovery of a pulsar "hiccup".

    Now there is a story claiming their reliability, classic Slashdot move, classic move.

  11. GPS has what, ~3/4 meters precision? That's on Earth.

    This would eventually have 1 km precision in _all_ of space. Ya that's a big circle on my futuristic, hologram smartphone Goopple Maps (c), but in _all_ of space?! Damn...

  12. Re:Curious how this is really different on NASA's Got a Plan For a 'Galactic Positioning System' To Save Astronauts Lost in Space (space.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, wrong. Kinda. Hexagon is the right idea, but pulsars, pft.

    They found the seventh chevron.

  13. Duh? on Netflix Licensed Content Generates 80% of US Viewing, Study Finds (variety.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Most of Netflix's content is licensed material, it would make sense that viewed content matches the same rough estimate of percentages.

    I mean, they say it themselves, Netflix is *pushing* their original content and ramping it up. The numbers in those campaigns start low and then get high.

    Who watches House of Cards or Stranger Things more than once, twice at most, in a given decades span of time, and this survey was 12 months long.

  14. Intelligence-based TLA: "Sorry, about that. Our engineers thought they had finished installing our MIM, but they missed a step in their post-op checklist. Don't worry though, nothing to see here, business as usual."

  15. To extend your analogy, I would certainly purchase a 2018 Hyundai Elantra over my current 2008 model. But I've heard there were some safety risks with the newer ones, so I'll go with the Tesla (AMD).

  16. Re:The Hubble saw _THAT_?! on Hubble Space Telescope Spots the Farthest Known Star (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Modding needs a confirmation box, selected redundant instead of insightful. Sorry man. Posting to undo..

  17. Pretty fast on Cloudflare Launches 1.1.1.1 Consumer DNS Service With a Focus On Privacy (betanews.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just ran a benchmark of the service, here are my results:


      Final benchmark results, sorted by nameserver performance:
      (average cached name retrieval speed, fastest to slowest)

            1. 0. 0. 1 | Min | Avg | Max |Std.Dev|Reliab%|
        - Cached Name | 0.020 | 0.023 | 0.029 | 0.002 | 98.0 |
        - Uncached Name | 0.022 | 0.090 | 0.287 | 0.075 | 100.0 |
        - DotCom Lookup | 0.049 | 0.055 | 0.066 | 0.003 | 100.0 |
                            1dot1dot1dot1.cloudflare-dns.com
                        CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US

            1. 1. 1. 1 | Min | Avg | Max |Std.Dev|Reliab%|
        - Cached Name | 0.021 | 0.023 | 0.030 | 0.002 | 95.9 |
        - Uncached Name | 0.022 | 0.096 | 0.325 | 0.082 | 100.0 |
        - DotCom Lookup | 0.048 | 0.073 | 0.166 | 0.043 | 100.0 |
                            1dot1dot1dot1.cloudflare-dns.com
                    MEGAPATH2-US - MegaPath Networks Inc., US

            8. 8. 4. 4 | Min | Avg | Max |Std.Dev|Reliab%|
        + Cached Name | 0.048 | 0.052 | 0.057 | 0.002 | 100.0 |
        + Uncached Name | 0.060 | 0.104 | 0.344 | 0.073 | 100.0 |
        + DotCom Lookup | 0.063 | 0.070 | 0.158 | 0.014 | 100.0 |
                              google-public-dns-b.google.com
                                      GOOGLE - Google LLC, US

            8. 8. 8. 8 | Min | Avg | Max |Std.Dev|Reliab%|
        + Cached Name | 0.049 | 0.053 | 0.060 | 0.002 | 98.0 |
        + Uncached Name | 0.057 | 0.106 | 0.367 | 0.077 | 100.0 |
        + DotCom Lookup | 0.063 | 0.073 | 0.156 | 0.020 | 100.0 |
                              google-public-dns-a.google.com
                                      GOOGLE - Google LLC, US

  18. Re:IP addresses mean jack shit on More Evidence Ties Alleged DNC Hacker Guccifer 2.0 To Russian Intelligence (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It's also much easier to screw up digitally than physically... and much harder to undo.

  19. Re:Too little too late on Trump Announces $60 Billion Tariff on Chinese High-Tech and Other Goods (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    You're missing the point.

    The point is that a large portion went to the rich. The percentage is just hyperbole (at this point, in the future its real). But the message is the same, the tax cut was not for the poor or middle class as mr trump tried to pitch, but a tax cut for the rich.

    It was clearly for the rich. Even without the 83% story line.

  20. I miss my palmOS phone

  21. Your troll is showing

  22. Re:Here we go again on Are The Alternatives Even Worse Than Daylight Saving Time? (chron.com) · · Score: 1

    Timezones can die in fire.

  23. Poor people, people on medicaid, elect to pay monthly as it's cheaper in the short run and that is the biggest motivator.

  24. It's a savings of $84, that piss stream had a few drops left, you just forgot to shake.

  25. Re:How do they track without cookies? on The Slow Death of the Internet Cookie (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what they are talking about either.

    My guess is some use of local storage.