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  1. Re:How about a shorter work week or retirement at on Kurzweil Predicts Universal Basic Incomes Worldwide Within 20 Years (hackernoon.com) · · Score: 1

    As people live longer and the cost of supporting the elderly continues to skyrocket what you are more likely looking at is a much later retirement not earlier.

  2. The timeframe is ridiculous, that alone makes him a nutjob without a clue and indicates he is just pulling stuff out of his arse for publicity.

  3. So a study by scientists and published in a journal no longer qualifies as documented?

  4. Re:If an non-EU resident claims to reside in the E on Facebook Starts Its Facial Recognition Push To Europeans (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    For GDPR they do claim their law is valid throughout the world, it will be interesting when it comes time to prosecute though as unless the company has direct EU premises and business it will be difficult to enforce.

  5. No they simply use science and technology to achieve what the Bajau have naturally evolved to do. The german achieved this in a highly relaxed and controlled environment with carefully controlled water temp and first flooding his lungs with pure oxygen to significantly increase the amount he could stay underwater (the pure oxygen alone is estimated to have added at least 10 mins to the time). The Bajau do theirs on normal air, in the ocean while swimming not relaxing.

  6. Re:If an non-EU resident claims to reside in the E on Facebook Starts Its Facial Recognition Push To Europeans (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    GDPR is applicable world wide to all EU citizens or people residing in the EU. Facebook can be fined for GDPR violations in the US if you are an EU citizen living in the US. your scenario would not be covered by GDPR as you would be neither an EU citizen nor residing in the EU, lying on forms and network routing doesn't change those facts.

  7. Re:Fraud? Can anyone prove it? on German ICO Savedroid Pulls Exit Scam After Raising $50 Million (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    if you are on the run you won't have 5 million, you have to have it laundered and in highly mobile non siezable investments. you won't be getting 150k a year from it.

  8. Re:Fraud? Can anyone prove it? on German ICO Savedroid Pulls Exit Scam After Raising $50 Million (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    5 million is no where near enough. Hell that is my target number at the moment to provide a modest retirement, certainly couldn't do luxury on that, at least not without having to be very selective on your location

  9. Re:why does the summary suggest this is negative? on Netflix Licensed Content Generates 80% of US Viewing, Study Finds (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    and viewership of their own content is what they have. These numbers are very good. What they have traditionally struggled with is the escalating costs of licensed content where they have zero control, huge risk and ongoing exposure to deal changes AKA Disney. the own content is a direct result of those increasing costs risks and margin attack which would ultimately lead them to a death that is not in their control.

  10. Re:Fraud? Can anyone prove it? on German ICO Savedroid Pulls Exit Scam After Raising $50 Million (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    If it was intended fraud from the start I would bet on him having an exit strategy and that by the time it was posted on his website he and the money were already long gone to a nice country with difficult extradition laws, 50 million is enough to quietly retire in luxury in a lot of very safe places. really comes down to how smart he is.

  11. no 20% are just really bad investments, well meaning people running poorly thought out schemes whereas the other 80% are well thought out schemes to fleece you of money from your wallet. at this point you would have to be braindead to be "investing" anything in an ICO.

  12. Re:I know why they picked bright red on Microsoft Ports Edge Anti-Phishing Technology To Google Chrome (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    bright red is the traditional colour for danger and stop.

  13. Re:Something you have and something you know on Windows 10 Update Will Support More Password-Free Logins (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Most enterprise users are home users, at least when it comes to how they manage and use passwords. This is a constant battle in the enterprise and we are not winning. Users take the easy way out.

  14. Re:Something you have and something you know on Windows 10 Update Will Support More Password-Free Logins (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For the average home user that reuses passwords with names and birthdays or simple repeated phrases it is a massive security improvement. For someone that understands the consequences of bad password management, password strength and reuse it is a decrease. The reality is for decades we have all tried to teach password health and for decades users have failed to learn, not sure if it is us IT people to blame or the users, either way it means passwords are very very weak security for a large percentage of the population.

  15. Re:Edit Address Line Is Not Hacking on 19-Year-Old Archivist Charged For Downloading Freedom-of-Information Releases (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    sweet sounds like a great defence. No your honour I am not a hacker, all I did was sending carefully crafted packets to a server, it is not my fault it responded and gave me root access.

  16. Re:Microsoft-secured Linux kernel on Microsoft Built Its Own Custom Linux Kernel For Its New IoT Service (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    well they can't do any worse than the current crop of IoT based devices out there.

  17. Re:Custom IoT kernel? Why? on Microsoft Built Its Own Custom Linux Kernel For Its New IoT Service (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Its a custom Kernel as it is also for custom chips they are producing.

  18. Re:How long before... on Microsoft Windows 10 Gains Linux/WSL Console Copy and Paste Functionality (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    which is why I only use a tablet for a few games and watching movies. It is also why I prefer a PC to a laptop, laptop is great for portability and work but it sucks for customisation as well.

  19. Re:why does the summary suggest this is negative? on Netflix Licensed Content Generates 80% of US Viewing, Study Finds (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    own content is far more valuable as it is immune to being screwed over by licensing deals (like those that Disney are currently screwing them with) and it can be onlicensed to other providers. If I was an investor I actually much prefer seeing the fate in their own hands rather than the hands of their competitors.

  20. Re:How long before... on Microsoft Windows 10 Gains Linux/WSL Console Copy and Paste Functionality (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    That is no different to many Android or IOS tablets. They are designed for a market that isn't going to customise them, this reduces production and support costs as it is a nice fixed target.

  21. why does the summary suggest this is negative? on Netflix Licensed Content Generates 80% of US Viewing, Study Finds (variety.com) · · Score: 2

    Those aren't bad numbers, they are bloody astounding given how small a percentage the original content is of the entire library. That pretty well confirms that their strategy has been highly successful which I am a little surprised at as there really isn't that much original stuff that is any good.

  22. Re:"instead of fixing it, drop the architecture" on Linux 4.17 Kernel Offers Better Intel Power-Savings While Dropping Old CPUs (phoronix.com) · · Score: 2

    code may not change, but new bugs and vulnerabilities are always discovered, if you don't have people actively supporting that code base then it is both a stability and security risk as well as pointless bloat which there is already enough of.

  23. Re:It's still double-digit processor speeds, keep on Linux 4.17 Kernel Offers Better Intel Power-Savings While Dropping Old CPUs (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    things like Power4, Blackfin, M32R etc.

  24. Re:It's time to user smaller specific social media on Is It Time To Stop Using Social Media? (counterpunch.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You seem to have failed to learn your lesson from all the breaches and data collection. there is no such thing as too expensive, Business 101 is if the data is hard or expensive to gather then it is much more valuable and can be sold at a much higher cost. The only answer is for your data not be out there.

  25. I have no phone. This is bullshit.

    They evidently feel that you, as a member of the PC-using minority, are expendable.

    Fair enough given they are even more expendable as yet another social media platform. But if PC users are a minority then what does that make iPhone users with an even smaller userbase?