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  1. Re:This time it's different.. on Silicon Valley's Tech Bubble Is Now Larger Than In 2000. Will It Come To An End? (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    In many ways it is different this time. 50% overvalued is nothing compared to the 1000% overvalued during the 2000 dotcom boom which was common in a lot of big stocks. You also had huge amounts of people leveraged to the hilt expecting those rises to continue. While I am sure a lot will get burnt with another bust it won't be anything like the last one as many that got burnt last time learnt that lesson the hard way and won't make that same mistake again. I personally know at least half a dozen that went from multi millionaires almost ready to retire early to bust overnight. Those same people have slowly clawed their way back and while they still invest significantly they don't do it in the same way that leaves them exposed.

  2. startups always had a high failure rate. on Silicon Valley's Tech Bubble Is Now Larger Than In 2000. Will It Come To An End? (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    as much 50% overvalued? companies during the dotcom boom where hundreds of percent over valued, some 1000% percent plus and they were not the little startups either. Companies like Cisco lost near 90% of their market value. maybe total values are at the same level but the insane overvalue isn't quite their yet, though with some we are rapidly approaching it. It isn't the startups that should scare you it is when the so called bluechips are overvalued.

  3. Re:MS knows how to harden Windows ... on Microsoft Explains Why Windows Defender Isn't Ranked Higher in New Antivirus Tests (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Defender is built in, it isn't an addon. To use the other vendor products you are removing Microsoft's hardening and adding another vendors.

  4. Re:Because it doesn't slow the system on Microsoft Explains Why Windows Defender Isn't Ranked Higher in New Antivirus Tests (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    no, it lost points only during installation process of apps, that is hardly a common task, I would hazard a guess it isn't even 1% of what a computer is generally doing and when they are they don't give a shit if that 2 minute install takes an extra 5 10 or even 60 seconds.

  5. what utter bullshit. Samsung agreed with the utilies patent one and settled for apples requested amount. Your argument is complete and utter bullshit. You can completely remove the utilities from the discussion as they were not a significant part of the judgement or settlement.

  6. the utilities made up less than 2% of the judgement, the majority of the amount IS for rounded corners and a grid of colourful icons which is just complete bullshit. regardless of whether you like or hate either of them this is a disgrace.

  7. Re: No skid marks = death by autopilot on Tesla's Promised $35,000 Model 3 Is Still a Long Way Off (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Musk has no one to blame but himself, he courted the media attention when you do that all the negatives as well as the positives get magnified, fuck him responding to the media in this way will only make it worse as he draws attention to it. No amount of butt hurt you feel as a fanboy is going to change that.

  8. Re:No skid marks = death by autopilot on Tesla's Promised $35,000 Model 3 Is Still a Long Way Off (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    No, everytime it crashes WITH autopilot engaged it is front page news. I am sure their are thousands of other tesla crashes that are never reported.

  9. yeah me too, but then I don't buy clothes and shoes over the internet. I imagine people that do would absolutely need to do a lot of returns.

  10. Security for tweeting?

    no, I think they could not give a rats arse about that (as long as he doesn't tweet anything he shouldn't). However security for cameras, GPS's and especially microphones (ie those found on his phone) in the whitehouse I think they should and DO give a shit about that.

  11. Re:All politians have no respect for security on Trump Ignores 'Inconvenient' Security Rules To Keep Tweeting On His iPhone, Says Report (politico.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    completely irrelevant, the issue is the phones are not adequately secure to start with, phones when compromised can be turned into listening/recording devices, it isn't what he does on the phone (though that is important too), it is more what others can do with it given it is not a secured device.

  12. Re:Meanwhile: on Tesla Model 3 Falls Short of Consumer Reports Recommendation (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    and how is that relevant? all that is relevant is how long it takes for the car to stop. (also note the motor trend one was not average, 119 was the best, it also was between laps as the vehicle and tires were cooling so most likely also done with warm tires).

  13. Re:How Embarrassing on German Test Reveals That Magnetic Fields Are Pushing the EM Drive (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not embarrassing at all, this is how real science is supposed to work. People propose theories and then look for ways to test and verify results.

  14. All politians have no respect for security on Trump Ignores 'Inconvenient' Security Rules To Keep Tweeting On His iPhone, Says Report (politico.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Kinda ironic given how much stick he gave crooked Hillary for ignoring security on email.

  15. the problem was the only thing premium about the Vaio line was the price.

  16. Re:teslas numbers also bad. on Tesla Model 3 Falls Short of Consumer Reports Recommendation (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    different testing conditions and motor trend was a best not an average.

  17. yes Sony make smart phones and have met with little success. Basically depending on the product range there are different companies that make it better and quite often cheaper. With the internet it is easy nowadays to do your research before a purchase, Sony really are only the electronics choice for those stuck in the past or fans of PlayStation.

  18. Re:Save you some time on Ask Slashdot: Could Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics Ensure Safe AI? (wikipedia.org) · · Score: 2

    yes he was a very smart man. Obviously significantly smarter than you as he knew the 3 laws wouldn't work!

  19. Classic example of someone quoting classic literature without having actually read any of it themselves. If they had they would never have wrote such a dumb fucking question

  20. I got no problems with it being convertible into another currency. I have issue with morons like you that think this is them accepting bitcoin, it is not. They are explicitly NOT accepting bitcoin, they are simply enabling another payment provider, that payment provider only pays them in USD.

  21. The government department is not accepting bitcoin at all, it accepts the cash equivalent as transacted through bitpay. They are not nor do they have any intention of accepting bitcoin.

  22. Re:Isn't this creating bogus data? on The SEC Created Its Own Scammy ICO To Teach Investors a Lesson (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    so far nearly all ICO's are one kind of scam or another, or at best a really REALLY bad investment. sadly people are ignoring this and stil being dumb shits and buying into ICO's, this sort of site regardless of the data collected will probably create some much needed publicity. Though anyone dumb enough to fall for an ICO at this point in time thoroughly deserves to be parted with their money.

  23. Re:Every email provider "reads" your email. on Google Hasn't Stopped Reading Your Emails (theoutline.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    yes they do, the difference here is google reads it to leverage the content for their own purposes not to necessarily directly assist you with your email management.

  24. Re:Helis would. Here's why on NASA Will Send Helicopter To Mars To Test Otherworldly Flight (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    your statements are just plain wrong. Drag goes up but it is also proportional to sir density, air density on Mars is much much lower, 1/100 that on earth, hence you can push much bigger blades or spin existing ones much much faster for the same power.

  25. Re:Voip is better. on Microsoft Turned Customers Against the Skype Brand (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    video, messaging, presence integration etc etc, plus of course it does VOIP as well.