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  1. With very few exceptions Intel has been basically selling the same performance for years.

  2. money talks, others walk on Uber Granted Short-Term License To Operate In London (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The check must have cleared.
    Limey politicos must like Porsche's too

  3. Pichai said "Like many U.S. companies, we have agreements with dozens of OEMs (manufacturers) around the world, including Huawei. We do not provide special access to Google user data as part of these agreement, and our agreements include privacy and security protections for use data" One bets that when it means millions that Alphabet like other corporations with ties to the PRC that Google will cough it up when the CPC squeezes hard enough.

  4. Re:Cutting the head off on the snek on Microsoft Acquires GitHub For $7.5B (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    Many thanks :^)

  5. Re: Who Cares? on Diversity At Google Hasn't Changed Much Over the Last Year (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Nice but this is wrong.
    or at least is an attempt at propaganda
    or is a victim of bad data
    or maybe this is the left mumbling to itself again
    Since S. Asians make up majority of the workforce at Google.
    Face it, determining quotas using race is racism just the same.

    How the Asians became white

  6. Given a choice I would choose "the wild west", I like the hats

  7. Cutting the head off on the snek on Microsoft Acquires GitHub For $7.5B (microsoft.com) · · Score: 0

    In typical fashion M$ opted to own/kill anything like competition with the purchase of Git.
    Is there a strong alternative to GitHub?

  8. For most what they call a PC is computer + Internets.
    If Intel wants to help out and expand the PC then how about spending some dosh on busting big com so more can tweet their infos on facechat. >:^P

  9. Re:Old trick, new dog on Now Fighting for Top Tech Talent: Makers of Turbines, Tools and Toyotas (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    There were examples of this kind of thing at universities in the US.
    Chrystler used to have a partnership with schools where they would pay for a 2 year degree and for tools and the budding mechanic would work for them for a certain amount of time after graduation.
    In general though US universities do not seem to do this well.
    They are often expensive and have no interest in this.
    They can be this way since they can fill a seat with a subsidized foreign national.

  10. Old trick, new dog on Now Fighting for Top Tech Talent: Makers of Turbines, Tools and Toyotas (wsj.com) · · Score: 3

    Assuming that this is really true and not just another attempt to justify bringing in cheap, exploitable, incompetent, foreign labor it sounds like they should train workers for these jobs.
    They could either pool resources and form a school/cert and share graduates or do this in house.
    Something like this is being done now by Swiss luxury watch makers to train talent to do repairs and maintenance.

  11. Yes I agree, thus DACA

  12. Actually, he could do a lot with executive orders, Obama acted like a king with them.

  13. Of course Cook is going to say these things as they both serve his own interests.
    His taxes are very low because he has access to the many tax shelters and loopholes only available to the rich and so he is not going to pay for the welfare and other giveaways that criminal aliens enjoy
    He also will never live next to them in his lily white bread, walled estate in California.
    That is to say he can afford his point of view.

  14. The problem was that there was no alternative, Democrats have more to do with Trump being in the Whitehouse than Republicans do.

  15. Curious ethical foibles on Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    It is possible the the same Google employees resigning now sat tight as Google continues to read users email to build out their profiles and when it was shown by CitizenFour that Google was selling back door access to various agencies.

  16. Re:If I were Iran I'd just wait it out on Trump Withdraws US From Iran Nuclear Deal (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not necessarily defending Trump but the Paris accord was toothless,
    Even proponents of the Iran deal claimed it was not very good, because it does not work. Obama had to buy Iran's signature on it anyway so they were not thrilled either.
    I'm not thrilled about a wall as it will not keep the deadbeats out but a minefield with copious signage in many languages would be better.
    Just about all of the criminal aliens refuse to naturalize as they get everything, welfare, license, owning property etc. without paying income tax

  17. What about the computing and networking infrastructure?
    Can they really be so naive to think that computing and network gear was not the first thing that was bugged?

  18. Shelled and dumped on Cambridge Analytica Shuts Down Amid Scandal Over Use of Facebook Data (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    CA's board has likely moved most of the assets of CA into a shell company and will wind down CA stiffing creditors and investors. The shell company will continue the rape of privacy for profit of Facebook, Twitter and others users like others are doing right now.

    You can try and make this illegal and in some ways it already is but this is ineffective, the lure of big ad and big gov dollars is too strong. The only effective method of dealing with this is not to use the service.

    "The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves'?" - Mark Zuckerberg

  19. Stop the humanoid!, stop the intruder! on Westworld's Scientific Adviser Talks About Free Will, AI, and Vibrating Vests (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    If we are talking androids then they would at least have to affect something like human emotional responses otherwise they would be humanoid shaped automatons.

    Maybe this would be better?

    I think that is part of the attraction of \W/ as the hosts seem to be struggling with all of the mush they have been saddled with to make them seem more "real" to guests.

  20. Re:Steller failure on Google Joins Apple in Condemning the Repeal of the Clean Power Plan (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Typical troll fucktard, I never mentioned coal as an alternative but you would prefer landfills filled with the remains of solar panels.

  21. Any policy that subsidizes solar is subsidizing the PRC since they have been dumping panels for ages.
    The problem with solar particularly is that the panels have a limited lifespan and the materials they are made out of are difficult to recycle and can not be dumped without impacting the environment

  22. Sell out on Trump Meets With Apple's Tim Cook To Talk Trade (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Like the rest of the tech industry all of Apples products are made outside of the US, primarily in the PRC
    With the tax incentives for doing so and with the lure of slave labor in a country where retirement is measured in 9MM the wealthy were tripping over themselves to move operations out of the US.
    This was very shrewd of the PRC as it tied American wealth to the fortunes of the CPC
    So when the PRC is upset with something going on in the US government they talk to people like Cook and people like him tell politicians what to do

    Money talks, others walk

  23. Ford execs may be called on the carpet when gas hits $5 a gallon prices again
    Yes the trucks are lighter and so can use smaller more fuel efficient engines but Ford went with turbos on most of the line
    Turbos engines still have to prove that they can put in the service of a normally asperated v8 and they are always going to be more expensive to maintain
    The Mustang is a somewhat impractical sports car, the coach space is small and the sills are huge.
    They must be nice in states where there is not much snow and it also is not a mileage champ
    Maybe the execs at Ford are throwing a tantrum because Trump stomped on their idea to move all production to Mexico?

  24. Been there, seen that on EPA Proposes Limits To Science Used In Rulemaking (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Since when were legislators worried about writing bills behind closed doors?. An example that comes to mind is the NYS SAFE act which was dictated in secret and passed at 2am though to be fair that may say more about corruption in Albany then the law.

  25. If the "just-us" system worked M$ would be broken up and Windows would be public domain by now.
    As it is M$ had said in the past that they retain ownership of the copy of Windows on your computer and all you paid for was conditional use