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  1. Breaking up Amazon, Google, Apple, and Facebook could save capitalism

    Says Scott Galloway, NYU marketing profressor

  2. Re:South America on Ecuador is Fighting Crime Using Chinese Surveillance Technology (scmp.com) · · Score: 1

    It's obvious that he is fostering european imperialist attitudes and putting an ethnic bias against the third world.

    Or, he is just one of those Mercator guys

  3. Re:Why should JPEG be replaced? on Can A New Open Photo File Format Replace JPEGs? (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Last week I sent a pdf poster rendered from a vector graph to be printed at a graphic shop.

    Their answer was: "send it in a standard format"

    That's the real world.

  4. Re:Or just move to AMD and never buy Intel again. on Linus Torvalds Calls Intel Patches 'Complete and Utter Garbage' (lkml.org) · · Score: 1

    The issue is with making insecure mode the default one, passing the ball to the OS. This is a damage control PR mode, and INTEL's being called on their bullshit.They said the patch didn't had performance impact, but they don't have the balls to make it the default mode.

  5. Re:Is there any other option, Linus? on Linus Torvalds Calls Intel Patches 'Complete and Utter Garbage' (lkml.org) · · Score: 1

    dwarf fortress will bring your CPU to it's knees, and is an ascii game.

  6. Re:For what it's worth on Google CEO Sundar Pichai Says He Does Not Regret Firing James Damore (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Have you worked at any other field? My experience is that IT locker room is not worse than any other non woman controlled filed, except, maybe, academia.

  7. Re:Operating system and kernel not the problem on Google's Fuchsia OS On the Pixelbook (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Linage OS does it. Why can't the people who built the device do it too.

  8. Re:WOW on Wine 3.0 Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    qemu* sorry for the typo.

  9. Re:WOW on Wine 3.0 Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    You may use quemu + wine for running windows apps on ARM.

  10. Re:Does it run Adobe CC? on Wine 3.0 Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    KVM with windows10 sucks.

  11. Re:How the mighty have fallen on Kodak Announces Its Own Cryptocurrency, Watches Stock Price Skyrocket (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Even today, there's not a lot of name recognition in digital photography

    Nikon, Sony and GoPro are the only brands that come to my mind today. Both, Sony and Nikon, were on the camera business since the analog times. Kodak just missed the ship, the same way that Polaroid did.

  12. Once you trust google with your email, there is nothing much else that matters.

  13. Re:Nope, no virtual machine needed. on Google's Project Zero Team Discovered Critical CPU Flaw Last Year (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    any modern microcontroller worth its salt has memory protection.

  14. Re:Non-android apks on Chrome OS Will Finally Run Android Apps in the Background (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Do any of them work well enough?
    Because APKs on chrome OS sucks, and it's the same company backing the same product on both platforms.

  15. Re:Why does Europe tolerate Kim Jong-Un? on Postcard From Pyongyang: The Airport Now Has Wi-Fi, Sort of (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Why does Europe tolerate Israel? Europe could pressure America and Canada into putting an end to the Israel's antics, yet they look the other way. Now the Israel probably has biological weapons to go along with their nuclear arsenal and ICBMs. If the Israel attacks Sira, Iran or Palestine, then Europeans will have blood on their hands.

    Does that sound crazy? So do you.

  16. Re:Retirement? on Ask Slashdot: When Is the Right Time To Discuss Retirement With Your Employer? · · Score: 1

    And can't afford the level of calorie intake a Westerner has

    I think you never lived anywhere on LATAM.

  17. Re: Retirement? on Ask Slashdot: When Is the Right Time To Discuss Retirement With Your Employer? · · Score: 1

    Are you working on anything IT related? What you say may be true for most people, but an average IT worker can earn enough to retire. If your current paycheck doesn't allow you to save a penny you should start thinking about relocating.

  18. Re:Retirement? on Ask Slashdot: When Is the Right Time To Discuss Retirement With Your Employer? · · Score: 1

    What makes you think than living in a place with healthy people will allow you to stay 200lbs over weight?

  19. Re:AC frequency on Tesla Big Battery Outsmarts Lumbering Coal Units After Loy Yang Trips (reneweconomy.com.au) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Synchronous Generators are fed by a torque sources, if you have a generator outage, and the other generators don't have enough power reserve there are 2 consequences that balance the power consumption. A drop in voltage and a drop in the network frequency (P=T* w, so with the same torque available, less frequency means less power injected to the network )

  20. Re:Peering? on Motherboard and VICE Are Building a Community Internet Network (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    An the infrastructure to back-haul those 10Gbps to the edge nodes? Who pays for installing and maintaining it?

  21. Re: So then leave 'em high and dry on Google and Facebook 'Must Pay For News' From Which They Make Billions (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember what you did with newspapers? Just reading the headlines and the first paragraph for most articles.
    The same happens on news portals and they know it. But they wish you would read headers on their landing pages instead of google news.

    Spain already had a legislators rule in favor of the newspapers against google. google's answer was to blacklist them. Google News To Shut Down In Spain Spanish Media Group Wants Gov't Help To Keep Google News In Spain

  22. Re:Not non-government but new government? on 'Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future' (grist.org) · · Score: 1

    given that Bitcoin is governed by an algorithm

    Bitcoin is not governed by an algorithm but by majority vote. You're just replacing your known tyrant for an unknown one.

  23. Re:Predicting the past again on 375 Million Jobs May Be Automated By 2030, Study Suggests (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The guy in charge of a production line gets a higher salary than the one doing the job manually because of the costs of stopping the production.

  24. Re: WTF? Were you not paying attention? on 'We Are Disappointed': Tech Companies Speak Up Against the FCC's Plan To Kill Net Neutrality (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Swing states voter turnout was around 70%, the total turnout was 60%. Trump won the presidential election.
    You want to change the electoral college for direct election. That's ok, but it's a completely different game and you can't know who'd have won it. it.

    And even if you equate Trump's current disapproval rates with wanting him choking on a chicken bone, a good chunk of them couldn't care less when it really did matter. BTW, the main reason for that disapproval is personality and not policy based. http://news.gallup.com/poll/21...

  25. Re:WTF? Were you not paying attention? on 'We Are Disappointed': Tech Companies Speak Up Against the FCC's Plan To Kill Net Neutrality (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump may hate foreigners and hate racists, and yeah, some people on the more racist spectrum voted for trump for perceiving him as racist. What you fail to realize is that for the vast majority racism is not a relevant issue, don't care about it and even might be fed up of it want it out of the daily agenda.

    By polarizing everybody as racist / not racist, a lot of people was pushed to the Trump wagon.