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  1. Re:Two different markets. on Microsoft and Others Mean Stiff Competition For Apple iPad Pro · · Score: 1

    However, the big head-to-head competition will no doubt be between the Surface Pro 4, which is set to be unveiled early next month and Apple's iPad Pro

    Gosh! Do you happen to have a Microsoft Pamphlet with you, independent author?

  2. Good tech, but why doesn't a project for the elitist rich bother Europeans? And subsidized at that?

  3. They got caught, but this kind of thing has been going on in the industry since the 1990s.

  4. Re:Microsoft still can't win can they? on NFL Commentators Still Calling Microsoft's Surface Tablets "iPads" · · Score: 5, Funny

    Aspirin is a brand name jackass.

    I prefer generic donkeys and mules over the overpriced brand name ones.

    What is your position on brand name miniature red-head roosters?

  5. Taken on Trademark Trolls Stops University Nicknames · · Score: 1

    > replacement nicknames for "Fightin' Sioux" trademarked

    So some scammer pre-registered "The Not-Fightin' Self-Abasing European-DNA'd Getalongers"? Rats!

  6. Re:Gee-zus on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 1

    Lil' metal suitcase, check!

  7. Lossless on Xerox Creates Printed Labels With Rewritable Memory · · Score: 1

    > 36 bits...store up to 68 billion data points

    Man compression has made a ton of headway.

  8. Writer's cramp on APIs, Not Apps: What the Future Will Be Like When Everyone Can Code · · Score: 1

    I assume it will be like now, when everybody can write, only less.

  9. Re:They still have a 90 day gag on Federal Court Invalidates 11-Year-old FBI Gag Order On NSL Recipient · · Score: 1

    The best case I can make for the government is an innocent person happens to be an associate of a terrorist suspect, and letting the innocent person talk about it would alert the suspect.

    It isn't much, and I don't know if it is even proper to do that.

  10. Re:You understand incorrectly on UK Labour Party's Support For Homeopathy Grows · · Score: 3, Informative

    Note the frauds who sold him, and a million others, known ineffectual treatment in place of real treatment, are not rotting in jail.

    That is the problem.

  11. Re:Politics of homeopathy on UK Labour Party's Support For Homeopathy Grows · · Score: 2

    This required state governments to stop outlawing microbreweries AKA your corner pubs with a copper hooskerdoo in the corner, which had been outlawed since the end of prohibition at the behest of giant national breweries.

  12. Re:Gotta love neural networks! on Neural Network Chess Computer Abandons Brute Force For "Human" Approach · · Score: 2

    Well, yes, that kind of is the issue. The computation chess masters make, the actual thoughts, could be handled on a 1950 computer no problem.

    The question is how. It isn't brute force, though they do delve into plies ass desired. The real trick is knowing which handful to explore mentally. And if it were just pattern matching against known games, it would ne done by computer already that way, too.

  13. Hand it off to cronies on Google Found Guilty of "Abusing Dominant Market Position" In Russia · · Score: 1

    I find this claim clownish given what Putin has done, taking over all major media that criticises him, and any challengers to his political power through the election process suddenly have legal problems.

  14. Re:Tor costs them money! on How To Find Out If GCHQ and the NSA Spied On You, and How To Complain · · Score: 1

    Any such claimed secure system will attract illegal activity that would be quickly rounded up out in the open.

    As such, any of these systems will immediately become a stress test for government penetration.

  15. Re:Autonomous "Driving" needs to be truly driverle on Philosophical Differences In Autonomous Car Tech · · Score: 1

    You have to take the good with the bad. As witb a new drug, which might kill someone, are net deaths less or more? And do you want regulators, at the behest of elected officials with cameras pointed at them, deciding this for you...when they decide for the status quo, giving you more deaths? Or lawyers suing the new, lower-death drug into oblion because it can be proved to kill people, even though it saves more lives than it costs?

    This intellectual vapidity of government power actually acts like this.

  16. Re:Autonomous "Driving" needs to be truly driverle on Philosophical Differences In Autonomous Car Tech · · Score: 2

    In most situations an emergency routine to slow the car to a halt, possibly pulling over, is a preferred solution to handing control to an ever more skillless driver.

    If most cars are robot, and most of the remainder have robot avoidance, this should go well the vast majority of the time.

  17. Give me your answer, do. on The Force Awakens With Devon's $28,500 Star Wars Limited Edition Watch · · Score: 1

    "...create products...that bend reality. I'm excited to introduce our latest...", droned the robot with far less personality than any droid.

    Also, for that kind of money there should be no fewer than 17 pictures on it of Daisey Ridley.

  18. 1% advantage sounds good...in theory. on Benchmark Battle, September 2015: Chrome Vs. Firefox Vs. Edge · · Score: 1

    I will give up 1% winning speed, or 50% actually, for a browser whose various scripting engines don't grind things to a halt as some web site overwhelms their calculations, no doubt abusing this to grind defenses to a halt, or exploit race conditions.

    Google, with the "best" programmers, this means Chrome! Some damned 3D ad or video ad or something, freaking stop it from "use every CPU cycle you can!" to eke out that winning percent. Maybe they overuse RAM, too? You figure it out if you are so good.

  19. Re:Nonsense. on Spy Industry Leaders Befuddled Over 'Deep Cynicism' of American Public · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This isn't "deep cynicism". This is the Founding Fathers' hard-won experience in freeing themselves from oppression.

    The King, George III, used all kinds of tricks to keep opposition down. Warrantless searches, "general warrants", allowing them to root around your house and papers until they find something they can tag you with, which would be applied to uppity folks. Outlawing of speech. Outlawing or restriction of presses, the literal mechanical method of mass producing speech for distribution, a backdoor method of censorship. Using one particular popular denomination of one particular religion to stir outrage and knock down other opponents through religious laws.

    These a d dozens of other concepts are not freaking cynicism!

    Attention NSA leaders and politicians: You are constructing a panopticon (go look it up) that is literally more powerful than that which was cynically portrayed in "1984". With no mechanical methods to prevent, or even track its abuse, you cannot guarantes that the 1 out of 1000 agent who is a G. Gordon Liddy type won't abuse the spying to report on political opposition to his patron.

    "Imagine a boot stamping on a human face...forever." Ancient Rome and Greece, 1930s Germany, these are democracies that handed over emergency power and The People never got it back.

    The Founding Fathers knew the only way to guarantee (as far as such is possible) this cannot happen is to simply blanket forbid these powers to government. Now you want Eye in the Sky crap, too?

    Yes I am sure you all fancy yourselves The Untouchables, but it's not you We, with our Founding Fathers hats, are worried about. It is those who would abuse these marvelous tools for dictatorship.

    Do you think Putin, to whom you are selling Eye in the Sky to, won't abuse it to track opposition?

  20. Re:Let's make a movie called "Baseball"! on TSR's Lost 1980s Dungeons and Dragons Movie Script, Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Did you see the movie Battleship?

    I think that refutes your entire post. Of course you could say it was crap and doesn't deserve mentioning, but the movie was based on how the game was played, including the alien bombs being peg shaped.

    So...the hot elf chick with the metal breast cups should be portrayed as having a socially inept male soul trapped inside her?

  21. Re:LOTR on TSR's Lost 1980s Dungeons and Dragons Movie Script, Reviewed · · Score: 1

    So, yes, any Forgotten Realms movie that actually got produced would somehow be about the 18th Century Polish monarchy. The Dark Sun movie would end up being set on Waterworld. The Planescape movie would take place in a single, featureless locked room. The Spelljammer movie... well, the Spelljammer movie might potentially be so awful that it would eventually become a cult favorite, though it would bomb all the harder at the box office for that.

    Baba Yaga's Giant Mechanical Spider!

  22. Re:LOTR on TSR's Lost 1980s Dungeons and Dragons Movie Script, Reviewed · · Score: 1

    I would like to offer up as a movie character my elf fighter from DDO -- she can bench press six tons, and dual wields massive "Lightning 2" greensteel bastard swords, with which, at level 20, she could easily 1-shot (one round) Asmodeus from 1st Edition with his 199 hit points.

    And her awesome armor shows off a nice belly button, good screen content!

  23. Re:I knew I shoulda learned to speak Mandarin... on Chinese Tech Companies Hire 'Cheerleaders' To Motivate Programmers · · Score: 2

    Plus most programmers in the US could use practice in chatting socially with pretty young women.

  24. Re:Yes, they are employees on California Overturns Uber's Appeal: Its Drivers Are Employees, Not Contractors · · Score: 1

    > - Uber drivers are not required to work full time, or a minimum or maximum number of hours

    That is really the controlling consideration here, if you ask me. I'm not gonna argue details of California law, but if "here is an opportunity: work as much or as little as you want" is the offer, it is not a classical employee.

    My uncle was a dyed blue auto worker unionist "Hey, isn't (Bill Clinton) 'electable'?", he said way back when, parroting what would years later be described as a talking point.

    But he also rolled string on fishing rods in his basement for extra money (attaching guide loops). Same damned thing. Work for units, as much or as little as you want.

  25. Re:Gender/Racial makeup of the results was behind on Intel Drops Support For Science Talent Search · · Score: 2

    Your parents emphasize education, as do East Asian parents. Studies show family emphasis on education outweighs any other factor.

    The Left and Right argue about funding levels, and what goes where, but both ignore this elephant in the room.

    You would have done well going to a terrible school, as would East Asian kids. Kids from families that don't care won't do very much better in an awesome school. The link with money per pupil, class size, and so on is gossamer compared to family emphasis on scholastics. These are red herring talking points.