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  1. Sounds like a problem on Amazon.com Suffers Search Glitch, Users Say · · Score: 2

    for Amazon, not news sites. The fact this makes news is quite enlightening, and not in a good way. Next we will hear about the poor third party sellers losing sales because no one can find their products.

  2. I was being facetious. However when I did go to jd.com I got their corporate info page in english, followed the link on that page to their 'sales(?) portal page' and the url included usa but everything was in chinese... Yea never heard of it till now. But then again I would never buy anything on alibabababa either.

  3. This is why the .com tld should be abolished, that way we would know that if it isn't .us we don't care. Or if it is .us you don't care.

  4. You make some nice points, but what happens when a cell tower or two in the area become saturated? Just maybe the data hogs get throttled first? Why would they care if you burn through your quota, they can just charge you for the overage without a care in the world. Someone sounds grumpy as hell.

    I never mentioned latency, only priority content. So whose confused now? You think that just because you want streaming 'low latency' content, they will give that data priority over other web traffic? haha.

  5. Phone systems have to place priority on phone and emergency services, that means sometimes entertainment data gets throttled to preserve space for those priority services. Thems the breaks. Now if this was happening on a wired land line then I would consider this news. I still think the whole smartphone thing is ridiculous, everywhere you go someone has their eyes addicted to that little screen.

  6. Re:Search can be “sometime twice as fast&rdq on Google Search Now Uses Service Worker For Repeated Searches (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Search results are no longer about what you want, it is about what everyone else wants. What web publishers want; what advertisers want; what politicians want; what corporations want; what governments want; what google wants; and finally, just maybe, they might include what you want.

  7. Reads more like an early patent troll? on 80-Year-Old Inventor Gil Hyatt Says Patent Office is Waiting For Him To Die (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It should be use em or lose em.

  8. Re:No Surprise on Popular College Majors Changed Abruptly After the Financial Crisis (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Students need a good paying job to repay huge students loans.

    Ah, the modern indentured servant, isn't it fun?

  9. Re:How about REAL time? on EU Backs Ending Daylight Saving Time (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's completely forget about high noon being a real thing at some point in time. But yes lettuce start the day based on something that changes every day like dawn. Btw DST is stupid in this modern world where standard work hours of 9 to 5 are hardly a thing to care about anymore.

  10. Re:Shouldn't that be 16K? Who makes this shit up? on Samsung and LG Unveil 8K TVs (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Marketing departments like big numbers, logic be damned.

    FTFY

  11. At least mention the ones that matter, this is slashdot after all. It will be supported by the Worldwide Web Consortium’s Web Authentication API, as well as github.

  12. Re:So what? on Is Your Email Address Holding You Back? (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Ahem, be careful when using example addresses. Like phone numbers, someone is bound to have it.

  13. No.

  14. Google search is getting dumber all the time... on Does Google Actually Make Us Dumber? (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    So yes. It's best new feature is ignoring one random keyword from your search and coming up with uselessly unrelated results.

  15. They were overvalued. on Sea Level Rise Already Causing Billions in Home Value To Disappear (axios.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Common sense says don't build on a flood plain. Oh and stop destroying marshlands and wetlands that protect from flooding in the first place.

  16. He used a car instead, make any 'gun' argument irrelevant to this story. It is more telling that you went right to guns and labels though.

  17. That was still on? I thought it was just reruns. on 'The Big Bang Theory' Is Finally Ending (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    How do you feel about the ending of The Big Bang Theory?

    I may have seen half an episode once.

    -Indifferent.

  18. The actual crime happened in an automobile, we should ban them first. And cats.

  19. Give. Me. A. Break. At some point people have to be responsible for their own shit. Absolving people due to mental state is mostly ridiculous. Some people are 'just not right in the head' compared to a 'normal' person, doesn't make them blameless.

    He could not handle life, this was solely his problem. He also ended it like a video game, now perhaps that is a comment on societies' faults.

  20. Re:Which LED bulb ? on Europe To Ban Halogen Lightbulbs (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Filament LEDs show some promise. As a plus many use a glass case instead of plastic.

  21. Re:dashcam on Japan Wants To Bring Flying Cars To Its Skies (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would you need a dashcam? They will be crashing into personal property with security cameras, corporate property with security cameras, and public property with cameras. Some won't even be crashes but poor parking selection as well as privacy invasion. Complain about roads, buy at least it keeps most of the riffraff within specific areas. Flying cars pose a personal airspace disaster.

    Now get off my lawn and out of my airspace.

  22. Re:meh on Woman Sues US Border Agents Over Seized iPhone (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Back before phones, this is like carrying a stack of self nudy picks and possibly all your financial info in your luggage. Smart people would think twice about that. Phones have made people dumb.

  23. ATI had horrible and buggy drivers too, what happened to them?

  24. Re:100% efficiency on Google Just Put an AI in Charge of Keeping Its Data Centers Cool (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Because it is an algorithm, nothing is AI.

  25. Wait a minute. on Analysts Say We Are Headed For a Flash Memory Price Crash (techspot.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Are you saying the collusion is over?