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  1. Re:He is dead right for PCs, Dead wrong for embedd on Why Linus Torvalds Prefers x86 Over ARM (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    And the maintainers...

  2. Re:He is dead right for PCs, Dead wrong for embedd on Why Linus Torvalds Prefers x86 Over ARM (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    There are like... 10 devices on the supported hardware list of those projects. Most of them are painfully obsolete. None of them are open hardware, and they probably run on reverse engineered firmware, and not actual clean open implementations.

    Debin will run on almost any normal x86 PC from the past 20 years, and function quite adequately as a router with two NICs.

  3. Re:He is dead right for PCs, Dead wrong for embedd on Why Linus Torvalds Prefers x86 Over ARM (pcworld.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    It is actually also a major problem for many embedded devices. Have you really looked at the DD-WRT project lately? It is completely dead, largely due to the lack of a common platform. My embedded router is in the rubbish heap now, we have switched to an x86 device running normal Linux...

  4. Sony did not develop No Man's Sky. It's also fairly accurate to say that if someone invests 50 hours into a game and then wants a refund...calling them a thief isn't too far off base. That's the same for any retail business out there. If you bought a game and want a refund after an hour or two of trying to get things to work right, that's perfectly fine. 50 hours? No way.

    Maybe Sony should install a rootkit on their computer... you know since they are probably criminals anyways.

  5. Re:the CO2 improvements are minor at best on VW Has Emissions-Cheating Fix Ready, Says Report (pressherald.com) · · Score: 1

    Diesel also costs slightly less than premium gas...

  6. Re:Crap like this on Apple In Talks To Buy Jay Z-Owned Tidal Streaming Service (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought it was a service started because a self-obsessed douche-bag was overly self-obsessed,

    Jay-Z actually bought the service from Norwegians/Swedes who wanted lossless music streaming.

  7. I agree that the whole checking system is totally screwed up. It turns out that people can just print checks now too.

  8. Re:Good for them on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Norway is a member of EFTA, and enjoys many of the benefits of being in the EU, without being in the EU.

  9. Re:Good for them on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Germany raped Greece instead of helping it.

    . Should it have been raped for them? What's they purpose of the union, then?

    I appreciate that you are attempting to use the word rape in this context as hyperbole.. but since you never actually say what Germany did to Greece, it sounds a lot like you are trying to say that the country of Germany literally just forcibly had sex with the country Greece.

  10. Re:Push - never have money pulled from your accoun on Comcast Admits It Incorrectly Debited $1,775 From Account, Tells Customer To Sort It Out With Bank (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    Being a criminal charge, it would be prosecuted by your attorney general's office in real court... not by you in a kangaroo small claims court.

  11. Your bank is also liable for fraudulent charges to credit cards, so they tend to be more interested.

  12. The check gives them authorization to debit from the account only once. Setting up auto pay with ACH grants a nearly irrevocable agreement giving them permission to debit any amount at any time.

    Bill pay initiated from a bank portal typically results in a check being mailed to the payee, or for a decidedly one time electronic transfer of money to take place.

  13. Re:Fire the Trademark Bureau on Citigroup Sues AT&T For Saying 'Thanks' To Customers (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, the only trademark left is bonerpills

  14. Re:Try the original antibiotic on Antibiotic-Resistant E Coli Reaches The US For The First Time (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Until you turn blue.

  15. Fixed Headline on People Often Deride Game Changing Technology as 'a Toy' (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    [Stupid] People Often Deride Game Changing Technology as 'a Toy'

    A little less profound that way, but mostly true.

  16. Re:I guess I see the point of this on Confirmed: Microsoft and Canonical Partner To Bring Ubuntu To Windows 10 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    and (b) legacy Win x86 applications.

    What about modern applications? How about a functional wifi driver in your laptop? The lack of commercial software in Linux is a major problem, and no amount of talking shit about how stupid end users are is going to solve that.

  17. Re:Microsoft supports Naziism and racism! on Microsoft's 'Teen Girl' AI Experiment Becomes a 'Neo-Nazi Sex Robot' · · Score: 1

    Plus isn't, "Hitler Did Nothing Wrong", a flavor of Mountain Dew?

  18. Re:Microsoft supports Naziism and racism! on Microsoft's 'Teen Girl' AI Experiment Becomes a 'Neo-Nazi Sex Robot' · · Score: 1

    Because it was trained on user input, this is kind of like Twitter looking in a mirror and not liking what it sees.

  19. Re:Code first, talk after on Rust-Based Redox OS Devs Slam Linux, Unix, GPL · · Score: 4, Funny

    Like the crossfit of programming?

  20. Re:Code first, talk after on Rust-Based Redox OS Devs Slam Linux, Unix, GPL · · Score: 2

    I would kind of expect at least an RC version before the level of shit they are talking.

  21. Re:Why conceal it? on Tiny Vermont Brings Food Industry To Its Knees On GMO Labels (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    There are circumstances where such labeling is actually prohibited. Say you want pork that was not raised with ractopamine, and there were a manufacturer that wanted to label their product as such. According to your theory, no problem at all... in reality though, they have to submit the label for USDA approval, who will likely say, "that label is not allowed because racopamine does not materially affect the pork".

  22. Re:Age? on Linux Kernel 2.6.32 LTS Has Reached End of Life · · Score: 1

    The 2.6 branch of Linux was released in late 2003, so I am not really sure what point you are trying to make...

  23. Re:It's simple. on Apple Might Be Forced to Hand Over iOS Source Code to the FBI (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Thinking critically about the rise of Donald Trump, and the demographic he represents in the Republican party, is not the exclusive domain ofsocialists.

    Have you ever heard Trump say anything even remotely on target with the Tea Party Republicans?

    He panders to a crowd of people that want decisive action taken against perceived external threats (Mexicans, ISIS, ...), the law and whatever else be damned. The guy is doing surprisingly well.

    Does Trump effectively represent your beliefs and values?

  24. Re:It's simple. on Apple Might Be Forced to Hand Over iOS Source Code to the FBI (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It is kind of Republican political suicide not to pander to Authoritarian voters. This is a rather long, but interesting article:

    http://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11...

  25. Re:Redhat = embrace, extend on One Solution to MITRE's Overworked CVE System: Build a New One (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Reality is so pedantic to a troll...