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  1. Not really news on Intel Declares Independence From PC, Prioritizes Cloud, IoT and 5G Efforts · · Score: 1

    So Intel, who has focused on the performance enthusiast crowd, now sees dollar signs by trying to put their chips on all your home devices. They're sticking with the one existing market they have a chance at making money from. What a shock.

    Seems strange to go from having one main competitor to having many in the embedded world.

  2. Re: Im a Scientist Mom! on Scientist Shrinks Arduino To Size Of An AA Battery (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I would mod you up for that, but I already posted.

  3. Not an improvement on Comcast To Allow TV Customers To Ditch Set-Top Box (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Since using their app which you then have to install on your hardware, instead of theirs, will probably do something to make you hate them. If you don't understand that statement, you've never been a Comcast customer.

  4. With the potential speedup. I intentionally avoid/bring cash to places that have the chip slot enabled because it typically takes 5 times as long to process the transaction.

  5. Intelligent Vibrators? on Scientist Shrinks Arduino To Size Of An AA Battery (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I can only imagine...

  6. I'm surprised it took this long... on US Treasury To Feature Harriet Tubman On $20 Bill (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    A bill featuring a President who made it his mission to destroy central banking?

  7. Re:Democratic process??? on US Treasury To Feature Harriet Tubman On $20 Bill (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    While Tubman is a good choice (I personally would have preferred Dr. King, but I know they were going for a woman); why wasn't this done via a popular vote?

    It wouldn't matter, Tubman has enough super delegates that she was already a lock for the spot.

  8. Re:I see it in the PC vs. the smartphone on After 150 Years, the American Productivity Miracle Is 'Over' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    The media is so focused on getting our "attention" rather than helping us get things done

    That's because the MBA's are in control of the media is well. It's all about maximizing profits for those at the top, and for the media that's advertising dollars, advertising dollars come from eyeballs. It's why every single linkbait these days is either "one incredible trick" or "blah blah blah until he/she/it did this", always some gimmick to try and make you curious enough to click even if you don't do jack on the page.

    The quality doesn't matter, just the selling.

  9. The Mythbusters already confirmed that air powered had drying spread germs more than paper.

  10. The real question is... on Small and Heavy Arms Traded On Facebook By Libyan Militants (rt.com) · · Score: 2

    How is Zuck going to monetize this?

  11. Bring on the age of... on Bill Introduced To Require ID When Purchasing "Burner Phones" (house.gov) · · Score: 1

    Burner CB Radio sets. Easy enough to get a hold of, cost parity with cell phones. Available at every store that carries toys.

    Once those get tracked they'll move on to HAM radio.

  12. Re:The Future of Desktop Support... on Trump Gives Displaced IT Workers Attention, and He's Not Alone (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    If visa restrictions arrive, IT services firms may increase reliance on web-based "knowledge transfer" to avoid having visa workers at an employer's site.

    If a computer need to be re-image, the user will have to FedEx the computer to India, wait three months for the computer to return, and find their PST file missing from Outlook. That should save a lot of money.

    You're assuming the users are not going to be in India. Customers, maybe, but employees will all become off shore.

    If end users remain in the US, it's very cheap to have a single facility on-shore which functions as a drop ship/reimage station. You could easily have one single tech (paid bottom dollar since their job is mostly inventory control) armed with 20+ network ports and 5 USB sticks reimaging hundreds of machines a day. My employer has already set up these mass imaging and deployment centers.

    One salary to pay to serve hundreds of employees. Everything else runs through India or the Philippines.

  13. Promoting consumerist culture for profits on That Awkward Moment When 'Apple Mocked Good Hardware and Poor People' (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    My personal desktop computer is a decade old. I bought it within months of the Core 2 Duo 6300 coming out as it was the best price to performance CPU out at the time from Intel. I've had HD failures, Video Card failures, but the core of my system is still humming along fine a decade after I first assembled it. I've also ran it pretty much 24/7 for the majority of that decade. I've gone from hardcore gaming and music production to spur of the moment gaming (think flash) and toying around with development. I still prefer web browsing on my desktop since I can effortlessly run multiple tabs across multiple monitors. No single screen tablet comes close to being that productive.

    To think that I would replace this trusty steed with something as useless as an iPad with designed obsolescence is preposterous. Sorry, I don't need to pay Apple $300 per year to feel like I'm cool. I'm way cooler for having a rock solid reliable desktop PC.

    Full Disclosure, I've been shopping Newegg to replace my desktop, but only because I am once again thinking about music production and No Mans Sky is coming out. I'll take a $1000 gaming PC once per decade over a $300 tablet every year.

  14. Who cares on Facebook's 'Closed Silos' Pose Challenges To Open Web · · Score: 1

    This really only affects those who care enough to pay attention. 99% of the users on FB will install the app and be happy as can be since they're getting a "better" experience. If they don't mind, who really cares? Sure FB can control what they see, but their friends already do that, just as they do in real life. It's the whole discussion about how fake FB life is again, just a different context.

    It's not as if it's hard to avoid the walled garden, use the mobile site via a browser with protections built in. Done deal. If people don't want to pay attention or help themselves, why waste your energy caring about it? Yes FB is shaping up to be the perfect way to condition a huge group of the world population. I don't think there' much we can do about it.

  15. Re: My deal with Disney on Surge Pricing Arrives In Disney's Magic Kingdom Just in Time for Star Wars Opening · · Score: 1

    That's the rub though, you have to go multiple days to bring in affordability. I've been to Dland enough times to know it's not worth multiple days to me. That's from when I was single. As I am now married with three kids a bare minimum $500 to get in the door? No thanks. My money goes father with better entertainment value at almost any other theme park. The Disney price premium is just to high.

  16. Re:Admission is appreciated on IRS: We Used Stingray Devices To Track 37 Phones (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
    Why be so negative about it?

    This could easily be interpreted as the government simply thinking their missing something in the general populace and they realize people only want to give up so much, they're stuck with meta-data, but they are seriously investing in trying to find out what they're missing.

    The only problem being, they've found out that by harvesting literally everything, they have way more than they can effectively use, so they trim it to strictly by the books, on the record use.

    Everyone should be thrilled about this, it means that they(the gubmint) have finally realized coming full circle to honesty makes sense since they've finally realized the average populace isn't worth spying on, but we need ultra high-tech, ultra expensive technology to find where we're missing this information. Yet another boondoggle expense that either winds up wildly successful, or the last death gasp of the police state that is quickly losing it's credibility as a country not being a police state, to it's own citizens, not the outsiders.

    Seriously consider it, it's highly likely our government leaders are that inept.