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  1. Re:Tribe's don't deserve subsidies on Court Blocks FCC's Attempt To Take a Broadband Subsidy Away From Tribal Areas (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm somewhat sympathetic to your argument, but the fact is that they're not treated as sovereign.

    Look, I think they should be able to have high-rise casinos with hookers and blow on tap if they want, but the reality is they can't.

    Free them economically *and* take away their subsidies, if they are to be sovereign. That's much better than repressing them and subsidizing them.

    But don't make the mistake of assuming that their sovereignty is being more than respected as a token effort. Or that DC actually wants to treat them as sovereign and not a conquered people.

  2. Contributing to the delinquency of a minor, such as encouraging them to hack the real page, would be a crime. Suggestions?

    Seems to me that persuading a kid to challenge authority would be sufficient evidence in most courts of contributing to delinquency; the actual hacking attempt would just be symptomatic.

  3. My ex was a member of a chorus that uploaded their practice tapes to dropbox for distro/sync. A desktop shortcut on Fedora made this trivial for her to access.

    What's wrong with that use case from your perspective? Did you forget we're trying to grow the userbase?

  4. And by random coincidence a former US Secretary of State came on as a board member.

  5. Data Caps & Rural on FCC Proposes To Maintain US Broadband Standard of 25Mbps Down, 3Mbps Up (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'd rather have slow DSL than fast mobile, personally, because my household uses about 300GB/mo.

    But the FCC thinks they're interchangable, which is a big problem.

    Also 39% of rural Americans don't even have access to the current standard. As a government entity they ought to be focused on that, from a 14th Amendment perspective. If their rules are slowing new deployments, that's an equal protection issue, and the data shows that the Title II rules did just that.

    https://www.fcc.gov/reports-re...

  6. Who is Owen Williams? on 'It's Time to End the Yearly Smartphone Launch Event' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Does Owen Williams own a cell phone company? Does he know better than Samsung how to run Samsung? Does he have valid market data that shows that launches are an expense that don't generate additional sales?

    Because it seems like he's just some dope talking out his ass on the Internet and Slashdot is wasting our time with uninformed opinion.

  7. Re:Is this a Microsoft Ad ? on Baltimore Police Department Is Still Using Lotus Notes (baltimoresun.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not just supported by IBM but they dogfood it too. It'll be around for a while after IBM gives up, even.

    I wouldn't recommended it, but Baltimore PD got 99 problems (mostly with corruption) and this ain't one of them.

  8. I picked up an Essential on Prime day for $250 and I could brag that it's 4 / 128, all day battery, running Pie right now, but I'm not updating it's because there's a really good chance that some of the apps that I use every day are not going to work. It would be nice if everything just automatically worked on the bleeding edge, but that's not how it actually goes. If Samsung pushes out an update in one to two months, that may be the best thing for its customers.

  9. Overheating on Intel Announces the 'World's Densest' SSD (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Thank goodness firmware 1.2 will have the throttling needed to finally stop these bad boys from overheating.

  10. No, you're talking about something completely different. Back when Apple was working on the 5S, and they developed the whole Secure Enclave architecture, it did have some really good engineers working out good security for system. What this guy's talking about is the past few years where they have the iOS bugs that have been identified, patched, and then in the next go-round we find out that they only patched the extremely specific bug, on one line. The next exploit is a few lines down, the same darn thing, in a slightly different way. The most likely explanation for this is that they lost the talent that was working there, making the system good. Why would top people stay when Apple doesn't innovative any more? It's clear from the results that they lost their performance engineering people, for about four major iOS releases, with only iOS 11 having any kind of decent performance again. Now that they are going into the thought police business, good luck getting anyone worth their salt to work there.

  11. Re:Universal anticancer on New Anti-Cancer Drug Put Cancers To Sleep In Mice -- Permanently (medicalxpress.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not clear that they're claiming they targeted cancer cells only. What's neat is the senescence, and the animal models don't need to survive generally. There are other means to target cancer cells, so a combination of techniques seems like further research.

  12. Re:It showa how far ahead Disney plans... on Original Star Wars Movies May Not Launch With Disney's Streaming Service Until 2024 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Judging by their content deals, they originally planned to acquire Netflix but then Netflix went solo on many projects to protect itself from the film cartel and Disney lost its advantage and went its own way as Netflix garnered an unreasonable market cap.

  13. Re:What the fuck has this place become... on A Material Found To Carry Current In a Way Never Before Observed (phys.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    FWIW, I read the paper and don't really think it belongs here.

    It's not a working paper, but what they're describing isn't some huge new model, but rather observations, first of what's not happening, and then some measured properties about what is happening. I'm inferring that they view the entire system as behaving in a quantum manner, but it's slightly beyond my expertise, and they talk about this work being the basis for more work that needs to be done.

    It looks like good science - don't get me wrong - but /. is usually about "News" and this is more of a paper for people in the field. Most good science is kinda boring. The submitter seems to have not fully understood the topic either, which doesn't help.

  14. sounds more like an excuse to not admit to having a shitty business model

    Yeah. Probably:
    a) some loony sent them a deranged rant
    b) there were no customers and no profits
    c) company shuts down because of a)

  15. Re:Fuel economy doesn't equal less emissions on White House Proposal Rolls Back Fuel Economy Standards, No Exception For California (npr.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    spew out a lot more pollutants per minute than the hugest SUV or pickup truck.

    Don't forget that the big transition from cars to SUV's was a direct response to fuel economy standard increases, because they effectively banned family station wagons but "light trucks" were in a different class, so people who needed station wagons now needed SUV's, which got worse mileage.

  16. Re:What a load of horseshit. on White House Proposal Rolls Back Fuel Economy Standards, No Exception For California (npr.org) · · Score: 0

    What does that have to do with your job at the EPA, Wehrum? You're not a cultural ambassador.

    What the heck do you think representative government is, man?

    Oh, right, stupid people need their academic betters to tell them what to do. Because that's worked so well.

  17. Re:For what? on Apple Removing iOS and Mac Apps from Affiliate Program (apple.com) · · Score: 1

    News, review, and download sites have built their entire presence to champion the app store.

    Which are outside of the App Store. Look, Apple doesn't want for economists. They know this will disincentive certain review sites and app reviews in general, outside of the App Store.

    Those are people they cannot control. That's a bad thing for the Apple model, and this move will help them with that.

  18. Re:I liked MacRumors reporting of the news on Apple Becomes the First $1 Trillion US Company in History (reuters.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    a trillion dollar market cap doesn't have too much significance

    It does for the socialists who love their iPhones because Apple is "their company".

    I mean, it should for those who have two brain-cells to rub together.

  19. Now what, shorts? on Tesla Model 3 Outselling Small, Midsize Luxury Cars In US (forbes.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Time to get your media buddies to make up some #metoo fake news about Elon before your positions are called.

    Or maybe just flee to Thailand before the inevitable happens.

  20. nice mobile API you back ported to the desktop there

    Precisely. If it won't work natively on mobile it doesn't belong in MacOS as the two won't remain separate for long.

  21. Re:what happend to pro market apple ? on Autodesk Drops Support For Alias, VRED In macOS Mojave Over OpenGL Deprecation (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 0

    Apple deprecated the Pro market. Getting ready for "Mac Mode" that supports KVM on the iPhone 12 or whatever.

  22. Re:I have an idea on 'World View' Wants To Send You To the Stratosphere in a Balloon (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Don't waste one second more of your short and valuable life on such idiots. Let's all pitch in $5 to bring clean water to another village instead.

  23. Re:Cable on New York Orders Charter Out of State (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow, a cable company failing to live up to its promises and obligations and actually being smacked hard for it? I am shocked and amazed. Which is sad.

    We'd be better off without a PUC preventing competition, but since they're there it's amazing to see them actually enforce their rules. The regulatory-capture revolving door must be temporarily out of order.

  24. I am happily surprised to learn that current commodity technology is within 1000x of manipulating individual atoms. That's amazing for anybody who worked with shoebox-sized 5MB drives.

  25. Re:Shadow DOM is a W3C standard on Google Has Made YouTube Slower on Edge and Firefox, Mozilla Alleges (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    Their own browser is going to break the framework in a few months.

    So you're saying YouTube is going to break and Chrome users will be out of luck in a few months?

    I mean, the only alternative is that YouTube engineers are working on getting shadowdomv1 working now so it's ready for newer Chrome and newer Firefox soon, but then what could the MoFo guy complain about if the solution to his problem is already in the works?