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  1. Re:Soon you will all suffer! on Firefox Goes PulseAudio Only, Leaves ALSA Users With No Sound (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    I asked "exactly", and you answer with handwaving about some other library altogether. I suppose the answer is "it doesn't", then.

  2. Re:Soon you will all suffer! on Firefox Goes PulseAudio Only, Leaves ALSA Users With No Sound (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How exactly will using PulseAudio fix bugs that're due to ALSA, when it is also a client of ALSA? Surely if the bugs were in the system, and not the client, then Firefox-on-PulseAudio would be exactly as failsome as Firefox-on-ALSA.

  3. The list is not exhaustive. Obviously literal cancer is also cancer.

  4. Re:Optimistic or deluded on Ray Kurzweil On How We'll End Up Merging With Our Technology (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I vote for deluded. There's a hojillion reasons to believe he's fundamentally wrong about his previous predictions, mostly due to his mysticization of both technology and human consciousness.

  5. Is to not knuckle under. The logic is that the party making an extreme threat doesn't have the desire, or even ability, to execute; rather, the threat is supposed to make it so that he gets his way without putting in the effort.

    Since the journo coöperated, there'll be no court case. The cops will go on doing exactly this shit until interrupted by the legislature, which PMs will do on pain of being raided -- reluctantly, if at all.

    The lesson: always fight, never give in.

  6. Must be open source to succeed. on Message For AMD: Open PSP Will Improve Security, Hinder Intel · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As a security product becomes widely used, even close to ubiquitous, its value to an attacker increases to the point where the NSAs and CIAs of the world will cut the damn thing open with a nano-spoon and read its doubly-secret ROMs with a scanning electron microscope. If the product is closed-source, we only know that the product will eventually be backdoored or defeated by an adversary; and implicitly that it may already have been -- there's no security advantage. If the product is open source, we can additionally review it to determine whether there are backdoors, and gain from others doing so (even if just for props).

    But besides being open source, the security firmware should ideally be Free Software as well, and replaceable by the user. Otherwise we can't know what's truly running on there.

  7. Yeah, right. on U.S. Jobs, Pay Show Solid Gains in Trump's First Full Month (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    And the chocolate rations were increased to twenty grammes per week.

  8. Sounds like absolute bollocks. on The Quest To Crystallize Time - Previously Considered Impossible, Researchers Create Time Crystals (nature.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "Time crystals", my jap's eye.

  9. Re:Well, that's one thing on US Suspends 'Expedited' H-1B Visas (sfgate.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We're talking about H1B's here. Imported labour. If their jobs could be offshored, they already would've been: the offshoring job-market favours capital even more than that for indentured brown people.

    Some leftie you are, failing even at basic Marxist economics.

  10. Well, that's one thing on US Suspends 'Expedited' H-1B Visas (sfgate.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Let's see if this changes the division of income in affected companies to better follow market conditions.

    I wouldn't expect too much of a republican administration, in that regard. (nor the other party. let's not make this a pissing match.)

  11. Re:28k in a country of 1.25 billion on Fed Up Indian IT Professionals Want To Be Able To Leave Their Jobs Sooner (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    A mandatory three-month notice will lead to a standard unwillingness to contract three months out, because by negotiating shorter lead times than this the company will be at a strong advantage in salary negotiation: they know that the applicant is currently on their notice period, or already unemployed, and have no option of staying with their current employer.

    This works on those who naïvely apply to only one company at a time, which is most of the "goody two-shoes starts at the bottom level" crowd.

  12. Re:South Korea amazes me on Samsung Chief Charged With Bribery and Embezzlement (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the link.

  13. South Korea amazes me on Samsung Chief Charged With Bribery and Embezzlement (npr.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Here we have a well-industrialized country with megacorporations aplenty and relatively free mixing between political and economic power, where yet the judicial and executive branches are at all able (even if unwillingly, forced by the crowds) to take on corruption at the level of the president, and some of the largest megacorporations in the area -- if not the world.

    Hats off. I expected this investigation to whitewash anyone with any power.

  14. Re:That's a lot of supersmart robots! on Supersmart Robots Will Outnumber Humans Within 30 Years, Says SoftBank CEO (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    We could just wait for people to become stupider than the average IoT doodad. Surely there'll be more than 8B of those by that time.

  15. Of course there are no false positives on Is Google's Comment Filtering Tool 'Vanishing' Legitimate Comments? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    Point one out, if you can.

  16. Well that's bollocks on Alphabet's Waymo Sues Uber For Allegedly Stealing Self-Driving Secrets (bloomberg.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    >It took Alphabet Inc.'s Waymo seven years to design and build a laser-scanning system to guide its self-driving cars. Uber Technologies Inc. allegedly did it in nine months.

    I too am able to sit on my hands for six years and three months. Doesn't mean you stole my idea.

  17. Well isn't that just aw-ful. on Inside Uber's Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    >A director shouted a homophobic slur at a subordinate during a heated confrontation in a meeting.

    If this is such a major sin by Uber's standards that it's worth mentioning in a slam piece, then Uber must be far cleaner than their business practices would suggest. It's not like undercutting established taxi service with VC money is in any way "innovation", or "disruption" except in the sense of what George Soros likes to do.

  18. With Jerkcity a close second on Web Comic 'Pokey The Penguin' Celebrates Its 19th Anniversary (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    That's also been around for like 20 years now. Still publishing daily.

  19. Re:Death To All Jews on PewDiePie Calls Out the 'Old-School Media' For Spiteful Dishonesty · · Score: 1

    Came here to post exactly this. It's also been modded to +5 already, so I'll just post this comment to endorse it further.

  20. Re:Article and/or citation are garbage on JavaScript Attack Breaks ASLR On 22 CPU Architectures (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    The simple version is, "that's not what a MMU does at all".

  21. Article and/or citation are garbage on JavaScript Attack Breaks ASLR On 22 CPU Architectures (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    >, which is tasked with improving performance for cache management operations.

    Stopped reading right there. These guys have no idea what they're talking about.

  22. I'd have thought that over 80%, not under, could be identified just by what they browse. Mainstream being stereotypically homogenous, and everything.

  23. Look at it this way. on Ask Slashdot: Should You Tell Future Employers Your Salary History? · · Score: 1

    >I was told that it was part of the background check and wouldn't be used to determine the size of the offer...

    If it were used to determine offer size nonetheless, how would you know?

  24. I know exactly what I'm talking about.

    FYI, MMC never took off. It was used, at most, in less than five models of the Nokia Communicator, and that's it. Flash was very expensive back then.

  25. I recall "Secure Digital" being a reference to the built-in DRM that SD cards had since day 0, to contrast with e.g. CF cards that were "just" a small form-factor for the ATA/ATAPI protocols. The irony of DRM software not being compatible with a DRM architecture from about 15 years before is, while amusing, nothing out of the norm.

    Luckily this also means that TPM-based DRM is also dead in a practical sense.