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  1. We enter a new era of AI products scam! on Many Firms Are 'AI Washing' Claims of Intelligent Products (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    About to see it on a Tide soap box just beside HE tag!

  2. Re:Ok, next! on AMD Has No Plans To Release PSP Code (twitch.tv) · · Score: 2

    QC, Canada

  3. Re:Ok, next! on AMD Has No Plans To Release PSP Code (twitch.tv) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lay's, Humpty Dumpty, Yum Yum,...

  4. So I have no plan to use AMD processors on AMD Has No Plans To Release PSP Code (twitch.tv) · · Score: 2

    Period.

  5. How much money?? on New Research Shows Humans Could Outrun T. Rex · · Score: 1

    How much money we will spend on ridiculous "research" like this!

  6. Re:no WhatsApp-style dependence on phone numbers h on Amazon May Unveil Its Own Messaging App (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not. Just build a 'Messenger like' client and anyone will be able to use it easily.

  7. VisaLess Challenge. War on Visa. on Visa Considers Extending 'War on Cash' Business Incentives Outside US (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    I pay everything I can in cash. Almost all transactions on my bank account is cash withdrawal from an ATM machine. Except morgage, car, insurance... payments. And sometimes maybe a couple of rare online transactions. Now I spent a LOT less on stupid things like I did in the past. The less companies (credit cards, fidelity cards, banks, ...) knows about me, the better I feel. My cash. My Privacy.

  8. Re:Stop it! on We Need To Reboot the Culture of View Source (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly! And remember to use microservices everywhere and add 1000x complexity... Because you know, Netflix do it...

  9. Stop it! on We Need To Reboot the Culture of View Source (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Today's developers are bunch of lazy code monkeys who doesn't know anymore how to optimize/organize code.

    Yes it's the developer's fault if :
        - he use bloated framework;
        - he produce shitty code
        - he doesn't know how to do a proper SQL query, handle the transaction and close the connection after
        - he's not able to write clean HTML code
        - he doesn't know how to use a semaphore in concurrent programming
        - ..........

    No it's not "the fault of the industry" or anyone else!
    It's YOUR/OUR FAULT!
    It's YOUR/OUR MESS!

    Programming since 1988...

  10. Re:A photon is not an "object" on First Object Teleported From Earth To Orbit (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes it is : Photon photon = new Photon();

  11. Use GNU Ring instead on Skype Users Slam Microsoft's Attempt To Infuse App With Social Media Magic (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Interesting
  12. Yeah Right! on Facebook Has a New Mission: Bring the World Closer Together (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Closer to the NSA!

  13. Why not? on Amazon Says It Won't Replace Whole Foods Cashiers With Computers... Yet (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    With a 15$/hour minimum wage, they will probably change their minds.

  14. Re:Great on CRTC Bans Locked Phones and Carrier Unlocking Fees (mobilesyrup.com) · · Score: 1

    +2$ per month... paid itself after 2 years contract.

  15. Re:Great on CRTC Bans Locked Phones and Carrier Unlocking Fees (mobilesyrup.com) · · Score: 2

    Activation fees : +50$

  16. Re:Universal tracking on LG Joins NFC Payment Party With LG Pay (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I pay my "day to day" expenses using cash only.

  17. Did they try to turn it off and on again? on British Airways IT Outage Caused By Contractor Who Accidentally Switched off Power (independent.ie) · · Score: 1

    :)

  18. $ c:\$MFT\123
    c:$MFT123: command not found

    $

  19. I annonce new formats... on JSON Feed Announced As Alternative To RSS (jsonfeed.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    YAML Feed
    INI Feed
    CSV Feed
    PROTOBUF Feed
    THRIFT Feed
    TSV Feed
    TXT Feed
    {NEW TRENDY FORMAT} Feed

  20. No command line of any kind make this "computer" as useful as a Tamagotshi or a Hot Diggity Dogger machine.

  21. Re:Depends on the company, doesn't it? on 'WannaCry Makes an Easy Case For Linux' (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    What was the last time you heard about a company who sued Microsoft for Word/Excel/... file corruption?

  22. And small ants from outerspace are going to eat our brain.

  23. Yes a lot! on Slashdot Asks: Do You Still Use RSS? · · Score: 1

    There is no real replacement for that.

  24. The first thing I do when I got a new phone is to turned off the "assistant" (Google Assistant, Cortana, Siri, Alexa ...). It's useless and it take bandwidth/battery/...

  25. Re:AI? on Netflix Uses AI in Its New Codec To Compress Video Scene By Scene (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Let's call it : Algorithms Intelligence. :)