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  1. Re:He didn't do anything wrong. on Intel CEO Brian Krzanich Resigns Over Relationship With Employee (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It is impossible for a "relationship" between parties where one can fire the other to be "consensual". The conflicts of interest are vast.

  2. No cited article on Researchers Invent a Way to Speed Intel's 3D XPoint Computer Memory (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    The summary includes NO link to any cited article, just links for defining the conference name, school, the professor, etc.

  3. Re:lazy consistency on Researchers Invent a Way to Speed Intel's 3D XPoint Computer Memory (ieee.org) · · Score: 2

    Speculation is about resolving predicates. Consistency is about resolving dependencies.

  4. The thing about areas of low population density is that most people *are somewhere else*.

    We're not (yet) talking about whether it's economically feasible to connect the person who is the absolute furthest from anyone else (and may have chosen to be there deliberately), but rather the people at 90th percentile or even the 99th percentile.

    Also, I don't see why we should need political leadership to encourage companies to make money. What they need is corporate leadership that are actual capitalists.

  5. Re: They also probably weren't expecting threats on GitHub, Medium Remove Public ICE Employee Data Repository (obsceneworks.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can't apply for asylum in your country of origin. You first have to enter US territory, which may be an embassy in a third country or the US proper. Valid immigration status is not a prerequisite for applying for asylum. You may apply for asylum to an immigration judge during removal proceedings.

  6. Re:Wake me when . . . on Shots Fired Again Between CPU Vendors AMD and Intel (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 1

    "The only potential performance advantages for the multi-core are in cache and memory bus size"

    "Now, power consumption may be a legitimate advantage"

    The only two advantages are bus size, power consumption, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.

  7. Re:Once you patent it what can you do with it? on Nearly Half the Patents on Marine Genes Belong To Just One Company (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Marine patents are mostly useful for trolling.

    A lot of people are getting salty over these.

  8. Re:First discrete graphics? on Intel Says Its First Discrete Graphics Chips Will Be Available in 2020 (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    The key is "the *growing* use of textures". (emphasis mine)

    Intel loves deep pipelines and caching. The latter plays to their self-image as a manufacturing company first and a design company second; and the former looks good in the presence of the former and cooperative workloads. In this case, the workloads changed faster than their GPU design.

  9. Re:Possible problem on Senate Will Try To Reverse ZTE Deal Via a Must-Pass Defense Bill (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    It avoids unconstitutional attainder since the punishment is a side-effect of the main goal of compliance. If and when ZTE meets the conditions they will not be sanctioned.

    It also depends on how ZTE and Huawei are targeted: are they just specifically named or are they defined as a class?

  10. Re:for every crime there is a law on Robocallers Win Even if You Don't Answer (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    "And the problem is the database of valid phone numbers from those VoIP providers can be rather big to do a number verification. "

    The providers know who to bill... but somehow they don't know what ID to apply.

  11. Re:OH BIG GOV'T!!! P-P-P-PUH-PLEEEZE SAVE ME!!! on Judge Rules Amazon Isn't Liable For Damages Caused By a Hoverboard It Sold (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    A prerequisite for an efficient free market is information symmetry. Why do you hate capitalism?

  12. Re:OH BIG GOV'T!!! P-P-P-PUH-PLEEEZE SAVE ME!!! on Judge Rules Amazon Isn't Liable For Damages Caused By a Hoverboard It Sold (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "Also, keep in mind that people don't even have to be dumb, just uneducated."

    Also, keep in mind that people don't even have to be uneducated, just unable to meet an implausible threshold for information gathering. Even if we consider just Slashdot readers, how many could determine whether these devices were actually safely constructed without buying one? My PhD in Electrical Engineering and 14 years in the industry don't mean I can conjure test results out of thin air.

  13. There is a group that should be surprised on Meet Norman, the Psychopathic AI (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The people that swear up and down that algorithmic decisions cannot be racially biased and that claims to the contrary are merely the work of SJWs should be surprised by this result. At least they should act surprised, or people might think that they had been covering for racists and not expressing a well-founded conclusion.

  14. Re:Really really easy solution on Microsoft Sticks With Controversial 'GVFS' Name Despite Backlash (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    "Change the name of Git's GVFS to Microsoft Virtual File System"

    Git does not have a GVFS to change the name of.

  15. Public expenditure per capita for healthcare in the US, with its notionally private insurance system, is already more than total expenditure per capita for healthcare for most European nations except the UK. If the US moved to system like there's it would be a tax cut.

  16. Re:Look harder then? on Now Fighting for Top Tech Talent: Makers of Turbines, Tools and Toyotas (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    "Perhaps you need to look harder"
    Perhaps YOU need to stop assuming you are the smartest person in the thread.

    I was unemployed for a year and a half. I would apply to anything slightly relevant in the US or Canada, things in the UK or Ireland if I though I could explain why I was relevant, and things on continental Europe if they were the kind of place where they did their business in English and they didn't specify that the applicant already be in the EU. I would apply for experience down to 0 years if they did not explicitly state "recent graduate". I wouldn't mention my last salary at all unless it was a web based form that required a number to submit. I applied to companies whose products were in fields outside of my won who did internal work in my field. I applied for junior jobs in adjacent fields.

    It took a year and a half to get one offer.

  17. Re:90% as good as a Skylake core with the same pow on Arm Unveils Next-Gen 76-Series Mobile CPU, GPU Cores (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2

    "That's just describing the smallest feature size"

    It's not even that. Calling a node "7nm" just means it comes after the node called "10nm" and before the node called "5nm". Even that is not a given since retroscaling is becoming popular these day.

    There's a good chance that *no* features in a 7nm process are actually 7nm.

  18. Re:Valuation, not "evaluation" on Microsoft Is Now More Valuable Than Alphabet (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "To be fair, you're comparing a software company to a hardware one."
    INTC has a slightly higher net margin than MSFT.

  19. In the book we got Carousel at 21.

  20. Re:Or did they not keep up with technology? on Intel Faces Age Discrimination Allegations Following Layoffs (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    If an employee was not keeping up with the job requirements they could have been fired for cause at any point in time.

    A defining characteristic of a lay-off is is that it is NOT a for-cause termination. It is an elimination of positions. If the demographics of those whose positions are terminated do not match the demographics of those who generally hold the position, that puts the lie to claim that it was the positions that were targeted.

  21. Re:Economics of scale. on Companies Are Using California Homes As Batteries To Power the Grid (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, they only have to pay the home owners their marginal rate while in their own facility they pay the fully-allocated cost. The relative merits depend on what their utilization is like. The summary specifically mentions 'replace things like natural gas "peaker" plants need to help support the grid on a moment's notice"'so we already know the utility is looking to address the short-term variable portion of demand so a dedicated facility will have low utilization.

  22. Facebook already has all your nude photos. They're just making you submit your own copies for identity verification.

  23. It really takes a special snowflake to earn money and then get when people steal it. It must be more fun to get angry than to exercise good judgement and not have nice things in the first place.

  24. Re:I still use it on Netflix's DVD Rental Business Is Still Profitable (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I've never had this happen with TV episodes.
    With movies on the other hand I actually use this as a feature. Anything in my queue marked as "Short/Long delay" I will deliberately move to the top of my queue. That way I don't wait to work through my queue to where a delayed item is and then wait again for that disk to become available; the queue works around the block of delayed items and as soon as any show up I'll get one. Sometimes if there is a big block of delayed items at the top of my queue for a long time Netflix will send me an extra disk above what my subscription level is.

  25. Re:I still use it on Netflix's DVD Rental Business Is Still Profitable (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    "I just subscribed to dvd.com and will cancel netflix.com"

    DVD.com *is* Netflix.