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  1. Re:Pro vs Enterprise on Windows 10 Pro Is a Dead End For the Enterprise, Gartner Says (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You think you bought a license? Maybe in the EU, but not in the US! The next spring update or whatever for windows 10 they just need new terms that say it's a term rental and you won't have any recourse other than to reject the update and stop getting security updates.

    Microsoft holds all the cards, that you don't realize that is foolish. The EULA already requires binding arbitration, it already gives MS the right to change the agreement and you already have a term limited license. Have you ever read the EULA?

  2. Re:Pro vs Enterprise on Windows 10 Pro Is a Dead End For the Enterprise, Gartner Says (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Now do you understand why Valve poured resources and development time into SteamOS?

    Windows will be subscription only within 2 years. Think long and hard on that. Want to use windowss? Better be prepared to put a credit card into windows when you start it up and get charged $7 a month, then microsoft can slowly raise that monthly price and finally see an increase in non-cloud revenue. And you don't have any say in it, nor do they care that you don't like it because your opinion doesn't matter. This was the plan MS came up with when microsoft ceo Satya Nadella took over.

  3. Re:Pro vs Enterprise on Windows 10 Pro Is a Dead End For the Enterprise, Gartner Says (computerworld.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Only problem is that microsoft's long term plan for windows is software as a service with a monthly cost just like office 365. They are going this way hell or high water on both enterprise and retail.

    That is what Windows 10 represents, anyone still using it enabling this and giving microsoft confidence that it's got a winning strategy and the fanboi's won't see it until it arrives. By 2020 you will be putting in a credit card number and paying a monthly fee to use windows. It's just about the only way Microsoft can soak more money from the system and grow non-cloud revenues.

  4. I don't know honestly. The inverse square law works on the decibels so I'm not sure it's so clear cut, I believe you are right but someone that knows more about sound would need to chime in. Given the other post that says you needed 118 decibels at 4 inches I'm not sure 154 decibels at 20' would be equivalent.

    My main point was even if you can do this from 4 inches with a chainsaw sound level, you'd need some massive speakers and power output to do it from outside a building. In fac,t I dare say the sound pressure would do more damage to the building than the hard drives in such a situation. But more than that, at these kind of sound volumes this isn't something anyone is doing surreptitiously

  5. Re:Love the sales strategy here on De Beers To Sell Diamonds Made In a Lab (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Lab grown diamonds are poised to destroy the debeers monopoly so they are engaged in a misinformation and propaganda campaign. Go to diamond foundry and look at the prices on lab created diamonds, you can get a 1 carat round stone with good color and VVS2 for about $1K, that's about 1/6th the price debeers charges and that's with a nice huge markup by the lab to cover their equipment costs. This is nothing more than marketing, I doubt they have any intention of selling lab stones, I'd put higher odds they will take all their shit stones and market them as lab stones.

    https://www.diamondfoundry.com...

    Not everyone knows this but when GE invented artificial diamonds debeers moved in and payed GE billions every year to keep them from producing lab grade stones, only low quality industrial diamonds. Fortunately startups and investors have moved in and funded a new generation of lab production that debeers couldn't pay off and the lab grade stones are in the process of destroying their business. Unlike the old days their advertising campaign won't work because the internet gets the real info out there. Lab grade stones are up to 1/10th the cost for a better quality stone. You'd be a fool to buy anything but a man-made stone.

  6. Lets not forget sound attenuates using the inverse square law. At double the distance you need 4X as much volume for the same sound pressures. So if I takes 4 inches and you need 20' you need 3600 times the decibels. And this doesn't include attenuation through walls or other materials. I'd be curious what decibel level this took so you could calculate what kind of volume you'd need at something like 20', if it involves hauling around 20' speakers I'm not sure this is a viable technique in the real world.

  7. Re:You gotta wonder on NPM Fails Worldwide With 'ERR! 418 I'm a Teapot' Error (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yet it's used directly by millions of people every day and with major applications. This is the problem with these hosted javascript scripts that people plug into their websites willy nilly. They are a shitshow where someone could gain access and plug malware into millions of websites and is a single point of failure. Not even going to touch the shitty programming parent alludes too. Anyone thinking of using this shit should pull copies and check it for security and code quality and host it on their own servers rather than just point to the script and load it dynamically.

    But that would be hard and who cares if it's hard. Funny thing is we just went through this a couple months ago when one of these major scripts hosting went down and it disabled 1/4 of the internet. You'd think people would learn from that.

  8. Re:Still need to take this with skepticism on First Cuba, Now China? A Worker In US Embassy In China Experienced 'Abnormal' Sounds, Brain Damage (reuters.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    These "attacks" are alleged to have occured at the workers homes.

    The biggest problem I have with this whole story is that all the experts on sound keep saying what the US proposes is happening here violates the laws of physics. That to generate an effect like this at any distance is practically impossible.

    I've been of the opinion that whatever is happening is likely a conflict between two systems exacerbated by some sore of harmonic. Probably a bug / counter bug that are interacting in some bad way, maybe because one of them is broken. I have a hard time believing this is anything other that some accidental harmonic. I won't be surprised in the least if we find out that some fancy new US anti bugging tech is getting into a harmonic sequence with the bug and causing these problems because the US design never accounted for an ultrasonic bug that was broken and using the wrong frequency.

  9. Re:Horse-fuck those morons on Gamers Involved In Fatal Wichita 'Swatting' Indicted On Federal Charges (kansas.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the federal charges, the fed's can't charge someone on murder because murder isn't a federal crime, it's a state crime.

    The murder charges will be at the state level. The Federal sentence will be in addition to the state charges. They are thowing the book at everyone involved in this with both state and federal charges.

  10. Re:Just as scott adams predicted: on Trump Cancels Singapore Summit With North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    North Korea NEVER offered unilateral disarmament. NEVER. That is an outright LIE.

  11. Re:Horse-fuck those morons on Gamers Involved In Fatal Wichita 'Swatting' Indicted On Federal Charges (kansas.com) · · Score: 1

    The gamers that didn't make the call very much have an argument that they did not cause a man's death. I'll be fucking amazed if they plead guilty.

    *unless he murders a Brazilian electrician, in which case he'll get away with it and his boss will be made Commissioner of the UK's largest police force.

    The gameres won't plead guilty, at least not right away, almost no one does in the US. The smart one in the group will turn on the others before trial for a reduced sentence. But they will be convicted, they engaged in a felony that resulted in the death of a man, they'll be lucky if they only get 10 years or less. You might no punish people in the UK for something like this but they will in the US just like they send getaway drivers to prison for second degree murder when one of the other bank robber kills someone. In fact, they charge the get-a-way driver with murder if one of the robbers is shot dead. When you commit a felony in the US you get charged for the actions of everything that happens as a result of that felony.

    The gamers caused this, Barrasis might have made the 911 call and is equally responsible but the gamers put this whole thing in motion and they deserve to be responsible for everything that happened as a result of their actions.

    Personally I think the cop who pulled the trigger should be fired and his law enforcement credentials revoked, but that isn't here or there with regard to the responsibility the gamers have.

  12. Re: Horse-fuck those morons on Gamers Involved In Fatal Wichita 'Swatting' Indicted On Federal Charges (kansas.com) · · Score: 1

    I repeat do you have evidence of this, as I'd like to see it.

  13. Re:Horse-fuck those morons on Gamers Involved In Fatal Wichita 'Swatting' Indicted On Federal Charges (kansas.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if you can make the argument that police screwed up that doesn't excuse the actions or responsibility for what happened.

    In the US if you cause a death through negligence or even accidentally you can be charged with the death, that's why there are things like manslaughter and negligent homicide. There should be no question at all that the people involved caused this. The thing is in the US at least if you are involved in a felony and someone dies you are responsible even if you didn't pull the trigger or directly cause the death.

    It's a common law principle that you are responsible because if you hadn't committed the felony the death wouldn't have occurred, and there should be no argument in this case at least that the felony the gamers and caller committed resulted in a mans death. In the US that makes them responsible for what happened even if they didn't pull the trigger or couldn't foresee it happening. That's why you don't commit felonies.

    In the US it's routine where a bank robbery occurs for the get-away driver to be charged with everything that happens even if it's something as simple as someone does something stupid like attacking the robbers and gets shot.

  14. Re:Horse-fuck those morons on Gamers Involved In Fatal Wichita 'Swatting' Indicted On Federal Charges (kansas.com) · · Score: 1

    The police officers who killed the innocent person were 50+ yards/meters away and had cover.

    Do you have evidence of this?

    The news story I read said the police were standing on the porch ready to breach when the door opened and the shooting officer and the guy that died were less than 10' away.

  15. Re:The judge didn't issue an injunction on President Trump Can't Block People On Twitter, Court Rules (knightcolumbia.org) · · Score: 1

    The judge doesn't need to issue an injunction and it's noted why in what you quoted. But woe be unto Trump if he doesn't follow this court order, that would give the court the ability to hold him in contempt.

  16. Re:Also, the beginning of the end for Iridium flar on SpaceX Flies Satellites For Iridium, NASA In 10th Launch of 2018 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not the solar panels that cause the flare, it's the radio dish.

  17. Re:robots.txt on The Wayback Machine is Deleting Evidence of Malware Sold To Stalkers (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The internet archive (Wayback Machine) does not delete the data for sites with robots.txt that restrict data access. It simply marks the pages as unavailable if it already has them. Now I don't know if they will download new copies once the robots.txt is changed but they don't delete data they already have.

  18. Re:Huh. on Tesla Unveils Dual Motor and Performance Specs For Model 3 · · Score: 1

    Those "Flat" Batteries as you call them are Lithium Polymer, not Lithium Ion. Completely different manufacturing process, ingredients and battery chemistry.

  19. Re: Run, Tesla. Run! on Tesla Unveils Dual Motor and Performance Specs For Model 3 · · Score: 1

    Cow emissions like your own come from carbon already in the system, they aren't adding carbon from a carbon reservoir like oil and coal. Much like burning firewood for heat it's considered carbon neutral because it's just changing the place of carbon already in the system.

  20. Re:Two models of Trump on Bill Gates Shares His Memories of Donald Trump (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    The economy will tank if Trump wins

    Don't worry it's coming, no one expected him to hold off on his economic and trade polices for over a year and a quarter. The peak was in Jan, and the slide started about 3 months ago and it's accelerating. The foolish tax policy will deepen the bottom.

  21. And making policy decisions based on personal grudges should be an impeachable offense and a criminal action.

  22. Re:How do you know it's more expensive? on Trump Personally Pushed Postmaster General To Double Rates on Amazon, Other Firms: Report (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They are required to pre-fund for employees 75 years out per the interpretation of the government on the law congress passed. This means prefunding retirement for employees that have not been born yet.

    It's absurd and anyone that can't see that is a shill or a partisan troll.

  23. Re:MODERATION IS CENSORSHIP on Fedora-Based Linux Distro Korora Halts Development (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Ignoring Slashdot is a private company and can censor anything they want using their resources.

    Shocking fact, if you post shit people don't like your comments get down voted. Just like real life where people choose to ignore you.

    You aren't entitled to an audience, speak whatever you wish but if you say things people don't like they aren't going to listen to you. This is no different than moderation. That's life.

  24. Re:So of course, they just ASSUME it is a water pl on Moon of Jupiter Prime Candidate For Alien Life After Water Blast Found (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's why they do science and look for things like gravitational shifts and plasma changes that would indicate a probe flew through one.

    Maybe you've heard of this thing called science, it's where they look for other evidence and rarely are thing unequivocal.

  25. Re:So of course, they just ASSUME it is a water pl on Moon of Jupiter Prime Candidate For Alien Life After Water Blast Found (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Hubble imaged a plume several years ago, NASA has been confident that's it's happening but the new data suggests a previous probe actually flew through one of the plumes and no one realized it at the time.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com...