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  1. Re:App Store is enough on Two-Thirds of Android Antivirus Apps Are Total BS (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 1

    Antivirus can only recall bad code when a signature is distributed.

  2. You can't use internet technology to filter broadcast/cable TV...

  3. I've seen situations where two TVs in the same house watching the same cable channel get separate ads... this tech already exists.

  4. Re:Less than 1 in 10? on Two-Thirds of Android Antivirus Apps Are Total BS (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 1

    We really need to get antivirus down to a charity level of business... too many illegitimate stabs at profit going on here.

  5. Fair Value of Antivirus for Andriod on Two-Thirds of Android Antivirus Apps Are Total BS (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 1

    (Cost of incident) times (frequency the incident has happened)... equates to unknown times zero... antivirus is currently worthless.

  6. App Store is enough on Two-Thirds of Android Antivirus Apps Are Total BS (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as you're using your smartphone's official App Store, there's nothing that an antivirus has to do... bad code is recalled by the store, and there's little way to get around the rules of the store.

  7. Re:One criminal is sure getting crippled : Drumpf. on Hollywood Tries To Cripple Several Alleged Pirate TV Services In One Lawsuit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Back in 2000, there used to be a Politics section of slashdot, but right now you're just a -1, Troll and Offtopic too.

  8. Contracts and webstreams... on Hollywood Tries To Cripple Several Alleged Pirate TV Services In One Lawsuit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    These days, the computers that run a TV or cable network make it too easy to create a webstream of the network... TV Everywhere works by making sure you subscribe to the network on cable, then giving you a URL to the webstream.

    Omniverse seems to the be collecting these webstreams, and sending the URL out all over the world without providing payment to the networks. This is a violation of US copyright law, but some other places love this. If the networks wanted this to stop, they just have to firewall their streams.

    As the download Whac-a-Mole game seems to be winding down, it's now a matter of protecting the copyrighted webstreams.

  9. Re:"Radiation is good for you" on Grand Canyon Visitors May Have Been Exposed To Radiation For Years (azcentral.com) · · Score: 1

    Some people are able to absorb energy from broadcast radiation... but too much causes cancer... but cancer can be solved by the right dose of more radiation.

  10. Re:Verizon is planning to increase the fee 11x on Verizon Blames School Text Provider In Dispute Over 'Spam' Fee (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This existed in 1999 a few hundred times over... start with free, then add paid. Turns out the free service was money-losing, and costs went up making the paid service not profitable as expected.

  11. Re:Who fucking cares? on Verizon Blames School Text Provider In Dispute Over 'Spam' Fee (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You're using the consumer rate card... when you make a business out of texting, you pay more.

  12. Business Plans... on Verizon Blames School Text Provider In Dispute Over 'Spam' Fee (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    1. Start free texting service
    2. Try to convert to a paid service
    3. Get bill from Verizon for all of your profits and then some.
    4. ??????
    5. PROFIT!

  13. Re:WWW still expanding... on Facebook Chooses Singapore For $1 Billion Data Center (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Yep... but currently FB lags in Asia contacting the USA.

  14. WWW still expanding... on Facebook Chooses Singapore For $1 Billion Data Center (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They're still building new datacenters nearly everywhere there's bandwidth. Will this be 100% used by FB, or will this be the start of an FB cloud hosting to rival AWS?

  15. Facebook is hitting the wall when it comes to growth... the hot new app appears to be called "Delete your account!"

  16. This is why house ads show up in the local newspaper... something everyone should have access to.

  17. Re:What is the problem? on HUD Files Complaint Alleging Facebook Ad Tools Allow Housing Discrimination (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you can't see the Facebook ad, how do you know the house is for sale? A discriminator can advertise only on Facebook, and then set the blocks against whoever, and assure the sale isn't an equal opportunity.

  18. Sure is hard to write a app these days... on HUD Files Complaint Alleging Facebook Ad Tools Allow Housing Discrimination (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Contest sites have to be careful who they hand a million dollars to...
    Gun sites need to follow 51 sets of laws (federal plus 50 states)...
    Radio streams have to obey local rules on products and prices....
    Google has to target people who will buy the product, they can't just randomly send ads around...

    Facebook has to follow regulations on ads too... sorry, no exemptions to the laws about what you could advertise in the newspaper.

  19. Almost everything that takes power is using up some sort of filament that will hit zero eventually... which is why computers need to be replaced every 5 years or so. Gimbals and resistors have longer lifespans now, but nobody can develop an infinite version of these things.

  20. The current subscription model for new editions of Quicken requires you pay every year or two years or the software stops working...

  21. The court will most likely rule that he's owed BitCoins, not dollars if he wins... wonder how that'll pan out for him if that happens.

  22. The problem with assessor-based taxes is that the Apple HQ has never been sold, so there's no market quote to work from... Apple's unwilling to give it up at any price, and nobody's willing to buy the building if Apple moves out... sorry, market doesn't have an answer for the price.

    Ineligible for "The Price is Right"... it belongs to "It's Worth What?"

  23. Dial brand gold seems to be worth $5.97 for 12 bars....

  24. WWVB affected? on WWV Shortwave Time Broadcasts May Be Slashed In 2019 (qrz.com) · · Score: 1

    WWV/WWVH are outdated and were replaced by WWVB... so nothing of value seems lost.

  25. Re:Intel Down, AMD Up on Intel Discloses Three More Chip Flaws (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    AMD was almost out of business in the late 1990s... they were paying Intel for design patent rights, and couldn't compete on price or quality, until Intel stumbled with the Pentium math error. It was expected that AMD would merge with Intel, who would have basically shut the company down completely. Digital Equipment Corp. was trying the break into the WIndows game, but never got off the ground, and their processor line was shut down with the Compaq/HP mergers.

    Mr. Ryzen was with AMD in early 2000s, and laid out the course the Ryzen processor series would take here on Slashdot once the patents were in their hands, with new ideas such as the pin-less connectors, continuing to hyperthread (something Intel has given up on) and cramming more cores per chip.

    A 32-core Generation 2 Threadripper is due out this month, while Intel is limited to 6 cores per chip. Intel is still selling fast Penitums and Celerons, there's hardly any innovation there.

    AMD moved up in the past 20 years, but was almost down for the count in 1999.