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  1. Re:When is 10 nm smaller than 7 nm? on TSMC, a Company Few Americans Know, is About To Dethrone Intel (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It is like modern retail 'sales' - up to 90 percent off, which means 1 item is 90 percent off and everything else is 5 percent or so.

    Their 7nm process is really just down to 7nm, but most of it is over 10.

  2. Most SUVs are just cars with the unibody frame shaped like a bus, otherwise known as station wagons.. but ssh don't tell anyone they drive a station wagon or they will throw a fit. It makes sense really, why have a car with limited cargo space when you can make that car with cargo space for almost the same manufacturing cost and sell it at a higher price.

  3. If they follow you everywhere you go and log what you are doing, shouldn't these old laws eventually start to apply? Yea I know; don't buy such a device, because these things are so easy to avoid. That fellow citizen standing next to you probably has one even if you don't, not to forget all the cameras watching you everywhere...

  4. Some people once had desks completely covered with stacks of papers, even if they weren't relevant to the current task. These are those people, but now in the digital age.

  5. Re:Cool I'm safe on US Asks Foreign Allies To Avoid Huawei (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Some forums have an actual [sarcasm] font, this is as close as we can get. I think they should be used more often, just for you.

  6. Whoosh.

  7. Re:Why does Europe have Black Friday? on Amazon Workers in Europe Stage 'We Are Not Robots' Protests on One of Its Busiest Shopping Days (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Corporate greed has no boundaries.

  8. It was always a noun, just not in the way used here - but alas input 'define:mobile' into google and now the way they used it has become a noun. Language evolves...

  9. Re:Is it just me or do the deals suck this year on Thanksgiving E-commerce Spend To Top $3.5B, Mobile Accounting For One-Third of Sales (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    My theory is that it is hard to have a good surprise deal anymore, as soon as it is up for sale social media and blogs blab about it and suddenly it's sold out and now sellers have a lot of angry potential-customers that can't get in on the deal. Sure a handful are happy, but the backlash is probably worse for future sales. Now we get mediocre sales instead so they won't sell out in an internet second.

    As for me I simply check in on things that caught my eye over the past year, I have 'my price' and if drops to that then maybe I will buy. Otherwise it would have to be a wow deal, which doesn't happen much anymore.

  10. tracked you.

    For once it might benefit the end user, but really they just want to help you get your tracking device back.

    -We passed creepy a long time ago.

  11. They are passing those cost savings to me, they delivered my neighbor's package to my door yesterday! Didn't cost me a cent. Maybe it was snowing at his location?

  12. From the guy that calls cruise control on Elon Musk Renames Big Falcon Rocket To 'Starship' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Autopilot...

    Starship implies a ship that can go between stars. Well at least he is aiming for the stars :D, but can a rocket really be called a ship?

    This is like naming things hoverboards and AI, which do not and are not.

    -off my lawn.

  13. Re:Ahem on How I Got Locked Out of the Chip Implanted In My Hand (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Please don't give companies ideas.

  14. Re:To do what exactly ? on Virginia To Produce 25K-35K Additional CS Grads As Part of Amazon HQ2 Deal (loudounnow.com) · · Score: 2

    Flood the market with excess labor so that wages drop. Saves amazon money.

  15. for the affordable phone market. The price is expected to be around $400-500.

  16. Re: Gravitational Field Varies on Kilogram Gets a New Definition (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    How do they account for the movement of the moon? It effects the tides so I would think it is not insignificant. And the moon moves, when you weigh something the moon won't be where it was when you calibrated the scale.

  17. Requires hyper threading. on Linux 4.20 is Running Slower Than 4.19 On Intel CPUs (phoronix.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So technically not ALL Intel cpus.. I finally dodged one of the many bullets, I should buy a lottery ticket.

  18. Re:Gravitational Field Varies on Kilogram Gets a New Definition (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    infinite number of significant figures

    First thanks for the explanation, but are you sure your meant 'infinite'?

  19. Re:long hand of liberals on Kilogram Gets a New Definition (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The current pound is based on the kilogram, so we all suffer the same flaw haha.

  20. Are all electromagnets equal? on Kilogram Gets a New Definition (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Do they have a guaranteed efficiency vs electric input? Or does this not somehow apply?

    Doesn't each kibble scale require calibration whenever the altitude changes? What do they use as a reference for calibration since it appears even the Kg reference is not stable?

    - Yep I got plenty of dumb questions.

  21. Want friction Mr Advertisement Company(google)? on 'The Internet Needs More Friction' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    We should ban all advertisements on the internet, they are the enabler that allows anyone to afford putting up useless content. Without advertisements we wouldn't have the social media sites that are basically the epitome of your claimed 'problems'. Look in the mirror pal.

  22. C doesn't have seat belts. on The Internet Has a Huge C/C++ Problem and Developers Don't Want to Deal With It (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    If you are used to a language with seat belts, like java, and you still routinely get ejected, maybe C isn't for you.

  23. It is outright fraud. on Comcast Forced To Refund $700,000 To Customers Over Misleading Fees (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The reason they can get away with it is because the 'taxes' part of the additional fees varies by region and government. Since it varies it can't be a flat advertised price. The 'and fees' part though, should be outright illegal if you advertise a 'price for a service'. This is supposed to be what regulated monopolies and utilities is supposed to not allow happen...

  24. There is a lesson to be learned in here somewhere, both for you and for grandma.

  25. Re:There's More to QUIC Than You Think on The Next Version of HTTP Won't Be Using TCP (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And what happens when you GUID is stolen or spoofed, you just know it will happen.