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  1. Re:Of course, the utility is limited when... on The Audi A8: First Production Car To Achieve Level 3 Autonomy (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Additionally manuals are a lot cheaper. That doesn't really matter with an A8 but if you buy small one getting an automatic can easily make it 10% more expensive.

    Yeah, right - or maybe it would be right if Audi let you chose. Even the old A8 only had the 8 gear tiptronic. Just like most modern mid-range and up cars don't offer "real" manuals anymore.

  2. Re:I've never understood the saying: on PC Shipments Hit the Lowest Level In a Decade (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "Companies exist purely to make as much money as possible."

    What kind of greedy bastard coined that expression?

    What kind of troll asks that kind of off-topic question? Ohh, yeah. An AC.

  3. Re: European cars...... on The Audi A8: First Production Car To Achieve Level 3 Autonomy (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm not quite sure what your point is: the Fiesta (like the Focus) was designed in Europe, it's not n "American" car.

    I suppose you're going to tell me that Jaguar and Land Rover are British cars.

    No, I'm telling you when Americans want to sell cars outside the US they (almost always) have to let Europeans design and build them. The only exception is with cars that find a couple of buyers but that no European would think about building - IOW muscle cars and pick ups.

  4. Re: European cars...... on The Audi A8: First Production Car To Achieve Level 3 Autonomy (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    European car names associated with quality and luxury: Rolls Royce, Bentley, Mercedes Benz, BMW, Audi, Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini

    The Rolls Royce and Bentley are made in the UK.

    The Ford Fiesta is the best-selling car in the UK. It has been for decades.

    I'm not quite sure what your point is: the Fiesta (like the Focus) was designed in Europe, it's not n "American" car.

  5. Re:Apple have a direct interest in security on iPhone Bugs Are Too Valuable To Report To Apple (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Unlike Android, Microsoft etc.

    For other companies, security is about protecting their customers. For Apple, security is about protecting Apple's walled garden.

    Explains perfectly why it's much easier to find security holes in Android and Microsoft products, Because they care so fucking much about their customers.

  6. Hey....why not give us white guys this one, eh?

    I mean, in EVERY other forum, it is perfectly normal and acceptable to ridicule and rant against white guys....

    Errm, dude, people are making fun of you not because you are a white male, but because you are dumb as shit.

  7. Re:Reporting news does not require intent on 'Coal King' Is Suing John Oliver, Time Warner, and HBO (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Okay. How about you showing the relevance in the letter of the law. LOL, too lazy to use google, are ya? Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intention_(criminal_law)

    Are you intentionally playing stupid here, or are you building up a defense?

    Let me rephrase my question by adding a disclaimer you, unlike most, obviously need: "How about you showing the relevance in the letter of the law, where it says something about "satire vs. journalism".

    Because, if you forgot what you were talking about, that's what you keep arguing.

  8. Re:Reporting news does not require intent on 'Coal King' Is Suing John Oliver, Time Warner, and HBO (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    That's because it doesn't have any relevance. I sincerely hope you never get to serve on a jury.

    Okay. How about you showing the relevance in the letter of the law.

  9. Re:I hate coal on 'Coal King' Is Suing John Oliver, Time Warner, and HBO (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    When people use it to be informed on current events it ceases to be a "comedy show" even if they do jokes. I find it interesting that intent has no relevance in your argument. It presents itself as an informative source for information on a topic Ah, I see, you're ignoring intent so you can make up your own version of reality.

    Are you claiming Last Week Tonight makes their main segment (about a usually very boring subject) without the intent to inform people about it? Even if they present it a certain way, it is not just for shits and giggles.

  10. Re:Perhaps we should no longer call him king? on 'Coal King' Is Suing John Oliver, Time Warner, and HBO (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess still Duke is a to high rank, what about Earl or Baron?

    Coal CEOs: The Dukes of Hazardous Work. "The accident was due to a earthquake, not unsafe mining practices."

  11. Re:Good Show on 'Coal King' Is Suing John Oliver, Time Warner, and HBO (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you give specific examples of things they got wrong?

    It boils down to "They were mean to Trump".

  12. You are an imbicle. Let me illustrate why...

    Trump didn't lie when he said his inaugration had more people than Obama's, because someone else told him that and he just repeated it.

    Which would be a believable story if he had made the claim just once. But Trump not only kept talking about how his inauguration had more people than anyone's, the supposed attendance became bigger with time. Long after many other people telling him what was told to him (because that's what he wanted to hear) was obvious bullshit. Heck, he even has a huge framed picture on a wall in the White House where he still tells visitors just how big the crowd was.

  13. Re:Better updated video links on 'Coal King' Is Suing John Oliver, Time Warner, and HBO (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    No, i make it sound like i can watch the videos for free on YouTube on the creator's channel, so why go out of my way to watch the same content on a different channel that's also on YouTube?

    No, you make it sound like anyone who isn't you can watch the videos for free on YouTube on the creator's channel, which isn't true at all. Even though the majority of users on slashdot are probably in the US, a significant portion of us are not, and when we go to those links, we get "This video is not available. Sorry about that."

    Well, I can certainly see the official video despite not being in the US, so your explanation is obviously wrong. Maybe you are in a country where somebody has acquired the rights for showing Last Week Tonight and had YouTube block the original US channel there - but " a significant portion of us are not" and still can see it.

  14. Re: most stable macOS update in years on The Behind-the-Scenes Changes Found In MacOS High Sierra (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Spam filtering locally requires that you download the mail. Doing it on the server (which is not what we're talking about) would mean that the learning would be separate. I keep an archive of spam so that I can quickly train new spam filters to know the difference between email I expect and email that I think is junk.

    So how do you put a "new SPAM filter" into Mail.app? Your argument makes less sense the more you go into the details. Just stop, okay?

  15. Re: most stable macOS update in years on The Behind-the-Scenes Changes Found In MacOS High Sierra (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that it's stored on the mail server, whereas I want it stored locally inside my local items folder.

    Why the hell would you want to do that? Isn't the major point of recognizing junk mail (apart from the obvious of not seeing it in your incoming folder) to not download it onto your computer until you go to the SPAM folder and tell your mail client to download it )and moving it out of that SPAM folder in the process)?

  16. Re:that's not the way forward. on The Behind-the-Scenes Changes Found In MacOS High Sierra (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Except it did exist. Metal and Vulkan are both highly based off of AMDs thin layer API that was being developed at the time. Just Apple didn't want to wait or play with others, so they came out with theirs before a portable standard was finalized.

    They didn't "want to play with others" because "others" wanted a proprietary solution tailored to their high end chips. If anything Vulkan as it wants to be one day only exist because Apple went ahead and did what Vulkan now copies. I repeat the facts: Apple's Metal was shipping half a year before Vulkan's new focus of also working on mobile devices was even announced.

  17. Re:Tech employee here on Tim Cook Told Trump Tech Employees Are 'Nervous' About Immigration (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    How do we know? Because poor people started leaving wills. Whereas before they had nothing now they mattresses and oak furniture and this and tht.

    People who were too poor to learn how to read and write left wills for their mattresses? Yeah, right.

  18. Someone told me once there's a huge hot glowing ball of gas not too far away that produces heat.

    So did he also tell you that it didn't change heat output, and yet earth's atmosphere's temperature is rising? Do you actually give a damn about those pesky facts?

  19. Human-induced climate change is real... but this article is alarmism.

    A hint: please don't use Mother Jones as a source for science information.

    Ignoring that the article is originally from The Telegraph - here, fetch: https://www.nature.com/article...

    Climate change can increase the risk of conditions that exceed human thermoregulatory capacity 1–6 . Although numerous stud- ies report increased mortality associated with extreme heat events 1–7 , quantifying the global risk of heat-related mortality remains challenging due to a lack of comparable data on heat-related deaths 2–5 . Here we conducted a global analysis of documented lethal heat events to identify the climatic conditions associated with human death and then quantified the current and projected occurrence of such deadly climatic conditions worldwide. We reviewed papers published between 1980 and 2014, and found 783 cases of excess human mortality associated with heat from 164 cities in 36 countries. Based on the climatic conditions of those lethal heat events, we identified a global threshold beyond which daily mean surface air temperature and relative humidity become deadly. Around 30% of the world’s population is currently exposed to climatic conditions exceeding this deadly threshold for at least 20 days a year. By 2100, this percentage is projected to increase to 48% under a scenario with drastic reductions of greenhouse gas emissions and 74% under a scenario of growing emissions. An increasing threat to human life from excess heat now seems almost inevitable, but will be greatly aggravated if greenhouse gases are not considerably reduced.

  20. Re:They are taking your jobs, putting YOU on benef on Tim Cook Told Trump Tech Employees Are 'Nervous' About Immigration (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    start protesting, vote with your wallets, let Apple, Microsoft, Facebook etc. know that it is YOU they should hire, not someone from Europe or China or wherever.

    Yeah, exactly. Buy from Samsung or Huawai instead.

  21. Re:Signal is there - American jobs for Americans! on Tim Cook Told Trump Tech Employees Are 'Nervous' About Immigration (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Read Trump lips (or just listen to what he said every opportunity). American jobs for Americans! This means no outsourcing. No H-1B exploiting.

    Or look at who works at his construction sites and resorts.

  22. Re: Tech employee here on Tim Cook Told Trump Tech Employees Are 'Nervous' About Immigration (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple wouldn't even exist if Donald Trump and your Muslim ban had been in effect in the 1950's since Steve Jobs biological dad was a Muslim Syrian immigrant.

    Whoa, slow down - you are giving people here ideas.

  23. Re:Tech employee here on Tim Cook Told Trump Tech Employees Are 'Nervous' About Immigration (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The Soviet Union, for all it's many and well-documented flaws, achieved for the average citizen a huge increase in standard of living compared with the system it replaced.

    Many Russians say it was also better than the one it was replaced with https://www.thetrumpet.com/13769-more-than-half-of-russians-want-the-soviet-union-resurrected. Funny thing: the government is basically working the same it did back then.

  24. Re:Tech employee here on Tim Cook Told Trump Tech Employees Are 'Nervous' About Immigration (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You know, a McDonalds won't be around long without a burger flipp

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/03/09/genius-burger-flipping-robot-replaces-humans-first-day-work/ - doesn't spit on you burger either, so no more "special sauce".

  25. Re:Tech employee here on Tim Cook Told Trump Tech Employees Are 'Nervous' About Immigration (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly, me too! Tim Cook is only worried about not being able to hire as many H1-B workers as he needs. Jump off a bridge Cook!

    "Cook cited the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program" - are you claiming his H1-B workers are all under aged too?