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  1. Re:Antitrust is anti-business and anti-consumer on Qualcomm Fined Record $773 Million In Taiwan Antitrust Probe (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you hate Adam Smith?

  2. None of those sections refute anything in the article.

    The first section describes what different requestors might want, not what they are limited to getting.

    The second section how the requestors access may be authorized, not whether an unauthorized requested is limited in any way.

    Note that Krebs actually obtained the information you claim cannot be obtained in this manner.

  3. Commentary tracks on Nearly 4 Million People In US Still Subscribe To Netflix DVDs By Mail (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    I get Netflix DVDs because streaming does not provide commentary tracks and the other "extras". Although, an increasing amount of DVDs from Netflix are "Rental Only" versions that don't have the extras, just a "too bad so sad" message.

    If I want to stream something, I'm already paying for Amazon Prime shipping so I can just look into the rando video selection they are including

  4. Re:Another Nobel, another American on The 2017 Nobel Prize For Physics Goes To Three Scientists Who Proved Einstein Right (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    They are quite far from Sweden.

    Not as far, on average, as the United States.

    Stockholm is closer to Beijing than to Chicago, and closer to Guangzhou than to Dallas.

  5. The data collection does not need to identify passengers, just distinguish them.

  6. The Oyster card only tells you which which entrance someone came in and which exit they went out. Using the WiFI MAC you can determine routes and train taken and follow walking routes through station.

    When there are multiple routes a passenger might take this information can be used to suggest less crowded options, shows station designers if they have inappropriately sized facilities for the spot demand, etc.

    Here is the reports on the kind of results they got: http://content.tfl.gov.uk/revi...

  7. Another thing that Apple didn't invent on Ask Slashdot: Why Would Anyone Want To Spend $1,000 on a Smartphone? · · Score: 1

    Expensive cell phones existed before, e.g. base price of the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is $930. Why is it Apple's entry into >$900 base price that justifies this handwringing?

  8. Re:But 725$ for a Samsung is OK! on Ask Slashdot: Why Would Anyone Want To Spend $1,000 on a Smartphone? · · Score: 2

    It's even closer than that: base price for the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is $930

  9. Re:It's a shame we know this on US Slashing Embassy Staff In Cuba Because of Apparent Sonic 'Attacks' (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm guessing the Canadian embassy is near the US one; but if it isn't then we have to ask ourselves who would want to mess with both countries?

    Over three miles apart, so It's not just collateral damage.

  10. Re:Please just don't just be SJW propoganda on 'Star Trek: Discovery' Premieres Tonight (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    Because if one race and gender are being blamed for all evil in the world, that's a very dangerous problem. That has happened before, and it always ends very badly.

    You were against social justice 11 minutes before this, and now you are for it.

  11. Claiming backwards compatibility is easy when your reference point was standardized 15 years after the creation of the language.

    (Note: this metric still leaves Python3 as fair game.)

  12. Tracking alternative sources on There Will Be 22 Million Cord Cutters By 2018, Says Report (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Are there any existing sites where I can match what current run shows I watch against what services carry them and what devices can access those services?

    For broadcast networks I can plug the antenna into the Tivo, but for cable shows some are only streamed on the networks website, or some are on one streaming service and not the other. It should be possible to compute some minimum covering set that gets a viewer everything they want, but every time I try plotting it out myself I get stuck.

  13. Apple gets shit on anyway for supposedly being the most expensive phone, they might as well actually have the most expensive phone.

  14. "the US economy only functions because of China"

    The US GDP in 2016 was $18.57 trillion. The US net trade deficit with China in 2016 was $347 billion. The US GDP growth rate in 2016 was 1.6%. The loss of trade with China would represent only 14 months of lost growth at the 2016 rate, assuming no replacement (i.e. no new domestic production to replace former imports, no alternate customers for exports, etc.).

    "China owns about $1.1 trillion of the US debt"

    Why do you think federal budget debt has anything to with trade deficit?

  15. Re: Blade Runner - bad example? on What We Get Wrong About Technology (timharford.com) · · Score: 1

    "Why plural? why would you carry around a stack of PADDs?"

    To display multiple things at the same time.

  16. Re:Makes sense. on Large-Scale Dietary Study: Fats Good, Carbs Bad (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There is an additional difference in that sucrose has the glucose and fructose bonded together, while HFCS has free fructose and glucose. Therefore sucrose is inherently slower to digest and the spike in absorption is flattened out.

  17. Re:Officially Pissed Off on How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    To test this method of search, you need very obscure subjects who are nevertheless identifiable by some other means.

  18. Re:So "Hyperloop" is a 200mph maglev? on 201 MPH Pod Run Wins SpaceX's Second Hyperloop Competition (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    "Safer that way anyway."

    Safer in terms of decelerating force applied directly to the body. More dangerous in terms of objects breaking lose and hitting you in the face.

  19. Re:So "Hyperloop" is a 200mph maglev? on 201 MPH Pod Run Wins SpaceX's Second Hyperloop Competition (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    The point is not whether there are any circumstances under which the human body can withstand slightly more than one G but whether it is plausible that frequent commercial transport could subject the general public to such acceleration. For comparison, a commercial airplane with belted passengers barely hits 0.2G and a train with unbelted passengers is maybe 0.05G.

  20. Re:Can we get something for the consumers? on IBM and Sony Cram Up To 330 Terabytes Into Tiny Tape Cartridge (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Longer archival life for the media is irrelevant if the drive becomes obsolete, as is the case with today's tapes. LTO, for example, only guarantees backwards compatibility for two generations, which come every 2-3 years. The typical consumer isn't going to put in the time to migrate archives to the current format before old drives stop being available.

    If you think $1000 is a reasonable investment, might as well buy a new $100 hard drive every two years. Interface compatibility will be vastly easier to ensure.

  21. Re:Reaching for the prize. on Trump Removes Anthony Scaramucci From Communications Director Role (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    cofveve is for closers

  22. If you lose the walls, you lose the whiteboards on Apple is About To Do Something Their Programmers Definitely Don't Want (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    The lack of whiteboards was a problem I ran into in my experience with a pure open-plan workspace. With our cubicles we were constantly adding more whiteboards to the walls whenever we found them. We were even lining the aisles between the cubicles. When they took away our cubicles we had vastly less wall space to hand whiteboards.

  23. Vyzov prinyat! on Russia Bans VPNs To Stop Users From Looking at Censored Sites (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Vladmir is a funny guy

  24. Re:Not even allowed to use the gym on Facebook Employees Living in a Garage Hope Zuckerberg Will Learn What's Happening in His Own City (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Facebook stipulates that its contracted service providers pay their employees at least $15/hour. The people in the story make $19.85/hour and $17.85/hour

  25. "So how can they not afford FB's own health plan?"

    They don't work for Facebook. They work for the contractor that provides food services in the cafeteria on the Facebook campus, Flagship Facility Services.