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  1. This should help get Firefox user numbers back up.

    Yes, let's have Chrome without adblockers and Firefox with adblockers. It's the best way to reestablish some competition in the marketplace.

    Google's secret plan to avoid FTC scrutiny? ;)

  2. Re:The real question on Wine 4.0 Released With Vulkan Support, Initial Direct3D 12 and Better HiDPI (phoronix.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For example, I can use MS Word under VirtualBox and most things work fine, but do something like update the Table of Contents and *boom* Word crashes.

    There's probably something wrong with your Word or Windows (or out of memory, etc.). That combination should "just work" - it's really running on Windows on virtualized hardware.

    WINE contains no Windows; it's a reimplementation of the Win32API, etc. Stuff may or may not work depending on completeness and for bug-for-bug compatibility reasons (check their database).

  3. Re:Torture and kidnappings on US Will Seek Extradition of Huawei CFO From Canada (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    This is all about Huawei's growth and increasing market share, nothing else.

    You think Huawei refusing to play ball with Five Eyes has nothing to do with it? Please.

  4. Re:Just remove them on How Companies Secretly Boost Their Glassdoor Ratings (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously ... they're just using an arithmetic mean? Did all the maths folk quit working at Glassdoor?

  5. Thinner. Lighter. More Fashionable. on MacBook Pro Stage Light Fault: Apple's Design Turns $6 Fix Into a $600 Nightmare (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 2

    Didn't the hinge cable issues get solved with the Powerbook 500 series?

    Does anybody still work at Apple who has experience?

  6. Re:Property is dead on Android Q Will Include More Ways For Carriers To SIM Lock Your Phone (9to5google.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    They'll complain that the very concept of property is theft but not blanch at an old woman having her paid-off house seized for having too low of an income to support a younger generation's demands for subsidies.

    Marxists can't be trusted.

  7. Re:Property is dead on Android Q Will Include More Ways For Carriers To SIM Lock Your Phone (9to5google.com) · · Score: 2

    It's easy to buy an unlocked phone, and activate it on most any network. I always go that route - probably for the last decade, even when it was harder.

    The only trick is you need to know what you're shopping for. For instance, I might have a OnePlus phone, if it handled Verizon LTE band 13, but it doesn't, and that's what available where I actually drive in the real world. So I got an unlocked Essential phone instead. Many people don't understand how the tech works, and it isn't easy to figure this out if you're just shopping on Amazon. Which is too bad, and/or a market opportunity.

  8. Re:Not going to happen on Android Q Will Include More Ways For Carriers To SIM Lock Your Phone (9to5google.com) · · Score: 1

    You started speaking with ideological possession and got the basic facts wrong because of it. There's a not country on Earth where you get a subsidized phone "for free " and the carriers are not allowed to lock the service on that phone they subsidized, so you can immediately jump over to low-cost carrier with no subsidies.

    Use your mind, don't be a Marxist drone.

  9. Re:Quasi-religious nonsense on Why High-Fidelity Streaming is the Audio Revolution Your Ears Have Been Waiting For (forbes.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There are biases on remasters too. Listen to the Black Sabbath Paranoia remaster, for instance. Yeah, there's a lot of cleanup and some clarity from DRC but the high-hats are nearly impossible to hear on some tracks, even when they're providing the syncopation. Total WTF - who buys this shit?

  10. Re:Quasi-religious nonsense on Why High-Fidelity Streaming is the Audio Revolution Your Ears Have Been Waiting For (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't though. CD covers what your eardrum can hear just fine but that's only one part of the human auditory system. Small bones vibrate sympathetically with higher harmonics, for example. This becomes even more relevant when calculating the HRTF on fine binaural sound because of the way your brain learns sound convolution matrices.

    That said 98% of people think mp3 playing on a car stereo is totally acceptable and the more dynamic range compression the better.

    Some people like to listen to sound in a quiet room with amazing headphones and feel the dynamics of a small cymbal, but that's maybe 5% of the people I know and my sample is heavily nerd-biased. Fewer still are willing to set up a soundstage with appropriate surround and subwoofers to approximate a live performance.

    I would love a huge market but will settle for a long-tail market.

  11. Re:There are no silver bullets for anything. on Bug Bounties Aren't Silver Bullet for Better Security (infosecurity-magazine.com) · · Score: 0

    It's Clickbait for Nerds, dude.

  12. US foreign policy is what's happening in Yemen. So, uh, obviously?

    The trick for many of these societies will be to depose their authoritarian oppressors before they get strong AI assistance. It will be a survival-level trait for those that evolve it. Bombmakers have poor sales during peacetime, so this trick is to not focus on the bombmakers but those who can declare war, on outsiders or their own citizens.

    http://hawaii.edu/powerkills

  13. Don't let the GP bother you - cultural support for high priests in a Science orthodoxy is rapidly waning. Degrees are starting to head towards obscurity.

  14. Oh, sure, it's the money, not doing a deal with the NSA and bringing on a CFR functionary as CEO. Must be the money that turned Google sociopathic.

  15. Re:What is the ROI? on Digital License Plates Are Now Allowed in Michigan (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I presume on private property the car enthusiasts can program them to say PSYWGN or whatever. The RoI on underglow isn't measured in dollars.

  16. Re:Errrr SIs only? on Intel Core i9-9990XE: Up To 5.0 GHz, Auction Only (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't that pretty much the Alienware market? Some dope will pay double for this tiny performance boost.

  17. Re:Why not go with a Xeon? on Intel Core i9-9990XE: Up To 5.0 GHz, Auction Only (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    Normal humans don't want their massive filesystems to be corruption-free. :rolleyes:

    Thanks, AMD, btw. BIOS vendors, get your shit together.

  18. Re: It is a fucking cIt is not an alien spacecomet on Have Aliens Found Us? A Harvard Astronomer on the Mysterious Interstellar Object 'Oumuamua (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Tell that to NASA who just did a fly-by of a Kuiper-belt object, without understanding that they can't fly without atmospheric lift.

  19. Lightning doesn't route - it bases its functionality on open problems in computing. Spend a hour (if you must watch at 1X) on these two to get a good summary of its problems:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  20. Ripple is already the most-used cryptocurrency for cross-border payments (DAG-based) with years of R&D and partnerships with major banks and corporations around the world.

    It'll be a steep hill to climb to get something out of the Ivory Tower to compete. This would have been cutting edge six years ago, though.

  21. It's not "after a skype interview", but rather "after the user opened a malicious executable which compromised the system". How is this newsworthy again?

    Clickbait for Nerds.

  22. Re:Also need to make it impossible to turn off GPS on New Satellite Network Will Make It Impossible For a Commercial Airplane To Vanish (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 2

    He's talking about a GPS signal going out, you're talking about GPS data going out.

    Everybody knows what the OP meant - this is a battle to see who can be the most pedantic. The only winning move is not to play.

  23. For more information, see: on Google Play Starts Manually Whitelisting SMS, Phone Apps (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
  24. Re:If only ... on Netflix To Raise Prices By 13% To 18% (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh, you mean stealing (Imaginary) Property?

    Oh, you mean copying data without permission?

  25. Re:If only ... on Netflix To Raise Prices By 13% To 18% (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Kids barely watch Netflix even when it's available - YouTube has far more interesting and entertaining content, with zero direct fees.