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  1. "Capital invested may be lost, and in any event it's unavailable for other use so long as it is invested."

    I wish that were true. But have you heard of the word "collateral", not as in collateral damage, but as in the thing that you put in your loan application? Yes, it's possible to use the same money in more than one investment. The financial system is really a massive Ponzi scheme until the people start panicking and try to cash out.

  2. Weird definition of game on Batman Demands 12GB RAM For Windows 10 (steamcommunity.com) · · Score: 1

    "Games should push the limits."

    Weird definition of game you have there. I don't care if it pushes the limit or just lies on the sofa, bottom line for me is a game should be enjoyable, e.g. fun.

  3. Wrong pronoun on Google 'Rethinking Everything' Around Machine Learning (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    "We're thoughtfully applying it," Sundar said. What he really meant was "'They're thoughtfully applying it across all our products, be it search, ads, YouTube, or Play. We're in the early days, but you'll see them in a systematic way think about how they can apply themselves to all these areas." All hail to our algorithmic overlords.

  4. Re:Do One Thing and Do It Well on Government Team Experiments With Paying For Small Open Source Tasks (gsa.gov) · · Score: 2

    Wrong band, mate. Tennant is a member of the Pet Shop Boys, who aren't particularly known for their wild parties and drugs.

  5. $10 dollars for a couch potato is still cheaper than a branded bottle of lube.

  6. Re:Cross-platform on Browser Tests Show Edge Fastest, But Weak On Standards (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I can run Windoze on a VM in Linsucks and Mucks, and Mucks can run some versions os Windoze ust fine.

  7. Re:Time to turn of automatic updates! on Windows 10 Upgrades Are Being Forced On Some Users (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Any way, official or unofficial, to run updates offline or after examination first? There's a hack to do this in Ubuntu and Fedora, which even comes with a rollback feature.

  8. Re:Why should? on Why Self-Driving Cars Should Never Be Fully Autonomous (roboticstrends.com) · · Score: 1

    The only control I need in an autonomous car is a stop/abort button. Why? Because when the car starts to swerve dangerously I'd probably be too panicked to decide whether to hit the pedestrian or hit the back of the truck. If I press abort, the car should deactivate itself gracefully. As for manual controls, the steering wheel is itself an abstraction of the actual state of the car wheels. The steering wheel is effectively a primitive computer that automates the direction the car wheels point.

  9. Not taking sides until more info comes in. But interesting is the blog's use of the word "safety manager" for the guys who temporarily detained the journalists. So know everybody's a manager: sanitation manager (janitor), information manager (reporter), image acquisition manager (photographer) ...

  10. B* is bad says a guy named McM* on There Is No .bro In Brotli: Google/Mozilla Engineers Nix File Type As Offensive · · Score: 1

    So I suppose you didn't catch this part of the summary? "Can I talk you out of it?," replied Mozilla SW engineer Patrick McManus.

  11. Re:Delicious pet on Chinese Company To Sell Genetically Modified Micro Pigs as Pets (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    Ah but pigs squeal. The smaller the animal the higher the pitch. Imagine a pig that squeals like a rat.

  12. Re:just like a movie on NASA Releases 'Journey To Mars' Plan -- But Not a Budget (nasa.gov) · · Score: 1

    Movies go through various phases. This seems more like a pitch than a story treatment, let alone a script. The concept part of going to Mars has been done to the death. So if we're ever going to go to Mars we need to go beyond colorful Adobe InDesign'ed brochures.

  13. Re:gzip or 7zip? on There Is No .bro In Brotli: Google/Mozilla Engineers Nix File Type As Offensive · · Score: 2

    rar is not free software, and I believe the open source part of it isn't enough to compress but merely decompress a .rar archive. So in this case it's necessary to reinvent the wheel. Also, a web compression format has different needs to an compression format primarily used for disk-based archival. Web formats need to be fast or your cat videos will take forever and a second to load. Offline formats could be optimized for size so you can store more kittens in your hard drive. Note that there are general purpose compression formats (rar, xz, bz2) for compressing random files, and specialized formats optimized for particular file or media types (eg: jpeg, flac, mp4)

  14. Re:Change in dynamics on China Arrests Hackers At Behest of US Government (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Add a (3) China's economy is imploding, and they'll grudgingly accept any American demand except one that puts their one true Party system in jeopardy. Once again, capitalism trumps democracy.

  15. Re:Are these sponsored stories? on Rookie Dongle Warns Parents When Their Kids Are Driving Too Fast (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I kinda like this feature. Now I know when not to read TFA 'n just start trollin' away.

  16. Re:Safety on 4 Calif. Students Arrested For Alleged Mass-Killing Plot · · Score: 2

    And your point?

    Do we now ban guns cause today's society can't handle guns?

  17. Blame it on the D on OpenIndiana Hipster 2015.10: Keeping an Open-Source Solaris Going · · Score: 1

    I suspect it's because you're using a BSD. I don't mean that as an insult to the BSDs but to the Linux-centric cruft the Gnome developers have been adding to their beloved DE, not the least among them the hard-coded dependency on SystemD(ead).

    Just stick to Lumina (hope it gets a proper Linux port) or LXDE or its even more awesome-looking QT-based successor.

  18. From one Indian to another on Google and Microsoft Agree To Stand Down In Patent Wars · · Score: 1

    Maybe the fact the two companies are now led by Indian Americans also has something to do with the de-escalation? I don't know much about the different Indian cultures, but it appears that the families of both MS CEO Satya Nadella and and Google CEO Sundar Pichai come from southern India (different states though). Of course this doesn't explain why the former European American CEOs of the two companies couldn't get along with each other.

  19. Trolling for users on Treefinder Revokes Software License For Users In Immigrant-Friendly Nations · · Score: 1

    It's better called shitware. His announcement is actually quite suspicious, as if he's trolling for users in a reverse streisand effect. HALLO! I've written this uberfabulous piece of bio software that I'm forbidding all you ugly excuses for homo sapiens from using.

  20. Microsoft update causes Brain Damage! on Nerves Rattled By Highly Suspicious Windows Update Delivered Worldwide · · Score: 1

    Nerves rattled? Scanning the title I thought a Microsoft update literally caused Brain Damage that caused users' pointer fingers to shake uncontrollably on top of their mouse.

  21. A different kind of beast on Ditch Linux For Windows 10 On Your Raspberry Pi With Microsoft's IoT Kit · · Score: 1

    "They can reuse a lot of their existing software with minimal changes, and reuse their existing developers. Real embedded and Linux experts are much less common and much more expensive than .NET monkeys."

    WinPi comes with a stripped down version of Windows that doesn't even run a desktop. Most of the software written for desktop Windows is gui-fied by default.

    Any software that runs without the need for a GUI tends to be common development languages and environments that also runs on Linux as well, so any advantage is negated. This is besides the fact that Windows software development tends to be business-oriented which is not a market the Raspberry Pi is known to serve well.

    So, no, you can't just stick in a .NET monkey into your Raspberry Pi Project.

  22. Moon as a gas station on Why NASA's Road To Mars Plan Proves That It Should Return To the Moon First · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "no it doesn't. it proves it should not go at all."

    Have you read the article at all? Its main point is quite simple, the moon could be used as a refuelling stop for a Mars mission. Since most of the mass involved in a trip to Mars consists of fuel, the use of the Moon as a sort of interplanetary gas station would greatly reduce the number of trips need to rocket people to Mars.

    This is the point you should rebut to support your assertion it's bullocks to go to Mars.

  23. hosts file IP blocking? on iOS Ad Blocker "Crystal" Will Let Companies Pay To Show You Ads · · Score: 1

    The only kind of ad blocking I trust is localhost redirects via /etc/hosts. This is what I do for my desktop and Android phone. I believe there's a similar mechanism for Windows. Since iOS is running a BSD base, wouldn't it be the same for iPhones? Create a host file with something like:

    127.0.0.1 facebook.com

  24. A better Second Life? on Samsung, Facebook's Oculus Plan November Launch For $99 Gear VR Headset · · Score: 1

    Since FB is a social networking site, I see the Rift's most obvious FBooky application a souped-up version of Second Life. FB's real names policy appears not to cover profile photos, so by extrapolation users could adopt catgirl or Spock avatars so long as they have an ID or tag of some sort identifying who they really are.

  25. Re:A better nickname is in order on ESA-JAXA Team Wins 'America's Cup of Rocket Science' · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up.

    America's Cup is about actual hardware. This is about teams doing the maths and perhaps running their calculations in a simulator.