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  1. where the fuck did a I say I wanted them to change? pointing out their lack of willingness to evolve doesn't mean I think they should. Personally I don't give a shit if they stay the way they are and die or if they evolve and survive, these sort of festivals are completely irrelevant to me.

  2. interesting on Google Starts Blocking 'Uncertified' Android Devices From Logging In (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Geez they are really doing their absolute best to piss off and alienate their core fanbase.

  3. Cannes seems to fail to recognise the irony here. Organisations like Cannes will die off because of the intransigence of the film industry and their own dated model.

  4. Re:How does that even work? on Students Are Using Their Loan Money To Buy Cryptocurrency, Study Says (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    FYI, my brother makes a very healthy living off chopping wood. Fortunately most millennials are too lazy or too self entitled to realise hard work actually can pay quite well.

  5. Re:Why would anyone do this? on Dropbox IPOs. Its Founders Are Now Billionaires (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Dropbox like all these companies is still haemorrhaging money faster than a cheap B grade movie zombie. This is basically a free payday. What would you rather, take a billion dollar payday or keep losing hundreds of millions In the the hope that one day it becomes profitable?

  6. WTF is this doing here on Britain's Plan To Build a 2,000 Foot Aircraft Carrier Almost Entirely From Ice (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    I am completely and utterly baffled about why the fuck this is posted as an article here. Yes it is an interesting piece of well known history. But why the fuck is it suddenly posted here?

  7. Re:So this comes with a min wage increase right? on Trump Announces $60 Billion Tariff on Chinese High-Tech and Other Goods (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump is going to cost US businesses a lot of jobs. Tradewars kill your export business and those businesses don't come back overnight once they disappear. This will cost the US a lot of jobs, most likely in the agriculture industries will get hit hardest.

  8. yes it could depress those prices locally, with that depression will come massive job losses.

  9. Re:So this comes with a min wage increase right? on Trump Announces $60 Billion Tariff on Chinese High-Tech and Other Goods (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    China also make most of the top end range as well as the cheap shit.

  10. we'll see how you are not sad when everything you buy skyrockets in price. In the end tariffs hit your wallet.

  11. the transaction times are too slow, and the volume is too limited for that.

    But Lightning network fixes that by providing Bitcoin the capability to support extremely high volumes of almost instant and nearly-feeless transactions.

    No it doesn't. The lightning network is an offchain network. basically it is a bandaid on a gaping wound where they are trading security for speed. It partially addresses one problem while introducing a shit load more and defeating the entire purpose of decentralised currency in the first place.

  12. another bullshit security beatup on A 15-Year-Old Hacked the Secure Ledger Crypto Wallet (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    hint to article writers and submitters. If something requires fucking physical access and or admin and pin access like this then it isn't worth an article about. this same vulnerability exists in just about every device and every computer ever sold

  13. both are massively over valued, but amazon more so. Google has a PE ratio of around 60, Amazon is around 250. Those are insane numbers that were worthy of the pre dotcom bust.

  14. Re:fast.com on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Prove My ISP Slows Certain Traffic? · · Score: 1

    The question asked was "how can I prove my ISP Slows certain traffic", the site mentioned does not provide a solution the ability to discern that.

  15. Re:Alternatively: on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Prove My ISP Slows Certain Traffic? · · Score: 1

    if you don't want the slowdowns or at least for them to not be as bad then go with one of the providers that promises much lower contention ratios like Aussie Broadband. though the reality is the only way to absolutely guarantee you have 100% bandwidth is to buy a dedicated bandwidth, but then you better add at least another zero to your monthly bill.

  16. Re:fast.com on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Prove My ISP Slows Certain Traffic? · · Score: 2

    The problem with that is that by going over the same network and peering links all you will see is your actual current speed with no indication about whether you are being slowed down by contention/congestion or through throttling.

  17. Re:Alternatively: on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Prove My ISP Slows Certain Traffic? · · Score: 1

    That doesn't prove it at all, by using a VPN you are going via different routes, possibly routes that are not as congested so you can get faster or slower speeds naturally through such a test. The reality is though services like Netflix et al do slow down considerably during peak viewing times as all ISP's have high congestion ratios, some worse than others.

  18. seriously if you are getting your information on topics from youtube videos you are already too far fucked up to be worth saving. Besides which throwing a spotlight on conspiracy theory garbage has the opposite effect, it reinforces it as after all why give focus to something and spend time debunking unless you have something to hide. You can't win arguments with people that have already burned out most of their logic brain cells.

  19. In what possible way is that in the local businesses interests? Insurance, profit and safety is enhanced by them keeping it for a much longer period, sometimes crimes aren't caught or noticed the day it happens as it is unlikely anyone has the time to sit and review their own recordings every single day. More like, "Oh fuck that $20k piece of equipment is gone, time to go back through the last few weeks of recordings to work out when it disappeared and who did it."

  20. This search warrant is likely far too broad to pass Constitutional muster

    really why? cell tower records, credit card transactions have been used for years in exactly the same way, as are CCTV, red light cameras etc etc.

  21. far better to leave it on and someplace you usually go, that way provides a plausible alibi, after all no one could possibly willingly be separated from their precious smart phone for 10 mins.

  22. Re:The usual pattern on The Ordinary Engineering Behind the Horrifying Florida Bridge Collapse (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Then pretty much every highway, freeway and major building better be shut right now as just about all of them will have some cracking

  23. as opposed to the bullshit they call AI at the moment which has precisely zero intelligence.

  24. Re:$1220 fine? on Man Fined For Implanting NFC Train Ticket In Hand (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    this wasn't a criminal case, their is no presumption of innocence in civil matters.

  25. Re:Should have said: on Man Fined For Implanting NFC Train Ticket In Hand (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    probably still would have been done, you are required to present the card for inspection upon request and can be detained until you do. I guess he could have cut it out of his arm!