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  1. yes they get bailed out because they are insured either by the government or by 3rd party that is why I keep my money in a bank. What insurance did QuadrigaCX's depositors have?

  2. Re:1.4 billion phones shipped - worst year EVER on 2018 Was the 'Worst Year Ever' For Smartphone Shipments (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    IF you are in a shrinking market then your entire investment and research and development needs to be re-evaluated with the declining market in mind. It isn't a disaster but it does significant affect current and future investments and will force companies to shutter or drop lines as they look to address the new reality. plenty of companies operate on razor thin margins in this sector (yes not apple or Samsung).

  3. Re:You're a moron, stop opining with head @ ass on Pirate Bay 'Promotion' Increases Post-Release Box Office Revenue, Study Shows (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    most movies are not out in torrents before theatres at all. and most that are around the same time in theatres are Cam's. We have had a few brief periods over the years where some were leaked or stolen but that is a rarity

  4. Re:Study must be deeply flawed on Parents Who Don't Vaccinate Kids Tend To Be Affluent, Better Educated (go.com) · · Score: 1

    don't confuse education with intelligence!

  5. A lot of people have religious objections to man-made vaccines. Why do you oppose freedom to practices one's chosen religion? It's a foundational principle that the USA was built on. If you do not support it, you should make your home in a more suitable country for your beliefs.

    You can do whatever the fuck you want in your religion. But if you want to be anti vaxxer then isolate yourself from the rest of society for life, why should my children be sacrificed to death because you of your beliefs.

  6. Re:The sooner they leave the better on Foxconn Is Reconsidering Plan For Wisconsin Factory (cnn.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    not quite, If some offers to pay you a million dollars and you offer them a 200,000 tax break you aren't paying 200,000 you are gaining 800,000. the problem with this is people like yourself that can't convert the agenda driven press articles into real math. You have not saved ANYTHING by them not building, you have LOST tax income and jobs.

  7. Re:Prospective Buyers actually make sense on Game Retailer GameStop Says It Can't Sell Itself, Sees Stock Drive 27 Percent (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    gamestop don't carry and aren't interested in old no longer manufactured games, they want games with high turnovers, they want to resell second hand new and recent releases, those make them money as they fuck over the person trading them in as well as the buyer. But that market is dying in the digital age as even if the game can be easily resold it will inevitably require online subscriptions or season passes.

  8. exactly, like it or not commercial realities override personal passions and crusades if you are getting paid to do a job.

  9. Only shitty developers don't test under Firefox. With that being said, Chromium and Gecko are closer than you might think in terms of rendering. Which is a good thing. They are very standard compliant with Chromium implementing features much sooner as an experimental features. But they tend to axe some of them soon after which is why I've never and I will never use an experimental Chrome/ium feature. Which means, whatever I make and works under chrome will most likely work under firefox as well.

    Only shitty developers don't consider marketshare an important part of determining what to test for.

  10. Re:1 TB / month isn't a lot really on Terabyte-Using Cable Customers Double, Increasing Risk of Data Cap Fees (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    traffic costs are negligible, Bandwidth to provide the traffic is NOT.

  11. Re:1 TB / month isn't a lot really on Terabyte-Using Cable Customers Double, Increasing Risk of Data Cap Fees (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It is "possible" to pull a lot more than that, the reality is even on 100mb or gigabit most will not even do 1TB.

  12. fuck if I was Ecuador I would throw his ungrateful arse out the door and lock the gate behind him.

  13. NO THEY FUCKING DON'T need a DPO. The regulations are quite clear on that, only organisations that process large scale data processing and collecting. You don't have any "hours to react to a breach", you have to act in a timely and responsible manner. NO your country DOES NOT mandate recording information in breach of the GDPR, The GDPR excludes government requirements for data storage, what it mandates is that you must store and process data in a responsible manner.

  14. Do you say the same when it comes to China or North Korea? Oppressive, protectionist laws are equally oppressive regardless of the current regime.

    I certainly do, if the regime is Oppressive and you disagree then don't do business there. Businesses do not and should not EVER get to select which laws they will and will not obey.

  15. Loyal G+ users? on Google Criticized Over Its Handling of the End of Google+ (vortex.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    "they have as far as I know provided nothing to help loyal G+ users maintain their social contacts", These actually exist? surely they could hire a temp for an hour or 2 to re-enter the contacts for those half a dozen people into a new system.

  16. unless the fine ends up SEVERAL orders of magnitude bigger than the google one then it isn't even a slap on the wrist. the 22.5million for google was a joke, it would need to be 100 times that before it even becomes an issue for management to take seriously. both facebook and google would spend orders of magnitude more on their legal teams, this is just pocket money for them. Fines are meant to deter, these do the opposite,.

  17. Re:so ... on Chrome's Ad Blocker Will Go Global On July 9 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    The Peace sign allows you to fool people into a false sense of security so you can really drive the knife in right to the hilt.

  18. Better summary on Chrome's Ad Blocker Will Go Global On July 9 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps a better summary. "In desperation to save their revenue stream, google tries to foist a dodgy Ad Blocker that lets them continue to display Ads"

  19. I have 2 RX 480's with Asus Z170 pro gaming MB. regardless Crossfire is SHIT, when it works it gives a good bump in performance, but the drivers are complete ARSE and so many games misbehave with it that I actually usually run with crossfire disabled. I have suffered through SLI and Crossfire many times over the years, but this will definitely be the last and I would NEVER recommend anyone to go down this route.

  20. As someone that currently runs with 2 AMD cards I would not wish this fucking pain on anyone. Games that don't work or artefact and constantly require disabling Crossfire, The heat and power draw are insane. I hate Nvidia and will do just about anything to stick with AMD for graphics but fuck they make it hard.

  21. been that way for quite a few years now. $50-$250 would all be classified as low end. high end is in the $500+ range with very highend in the $1000+ range.

  22. Re:I am not going to spread my payment data on Netflix's New iTunes Billing Policy Will Curb a $256 Million Revenue Stream For Apple (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I think they will be just fine with that. unless 10's of millions think the same they are certainly much better off. basically Apple reduces the income and puts upward pressure on price, not supporting them is better for everyone long term.

  23. Re:Authorized Devices Indeed on USB Type-C Authentication Program Launched (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    regardless of the damage to the device potential that is purely the USER's choice, not Apples or Samsungs or whoever wants to prevent 3rd party kit. At most they should WARN a user the device may damage the device. If they really wanted to prevent the damage they would not arse rape their consumers with 1000%+ markups on sub $1 cables and chargers.

  24. A person is limited by their vision and hearing. anything in earshot or visual range of a human is already to close to be stopped for, their simply isn't time. I would much prefer a robot/computer in those situations as they would have a chance to detect the situation long before a human could and certainly react faster. The reality is on a train you really have only 3 things you can do, slow down/stop (can take a few kilometres to do), speed up or send a signal.

  25. Re:good on Trump's Tech Battle With China Roils Bill Gates Nuclear Venture (wsj.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    nuclear power IS THE SMARTER ALTERNATIVE. unfortunately a bunch of retards are scared of it and would rather speed exponentially more precious resources and cause far more environmental harm using other renewables.