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  1. would be a nice future, would bring the price of making a movie way way down and perhaps make the studios more adventurous with what they are willing to try.

  2. good news fucked summary/title on Anbox Can Run Android Apps Natively On Linux (In A Container) (anbox.io) · · Score: 2

    If it is running in a container that itself is running Android then it aint running fucking natively. still awesome news.

  3. Re: Irrelevant Studies on Subway Sues Canada Network Over Claim Its Chicken Is 50 Percent Soy (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    DNA percentage is not a way to determine quality or percentage of chicken. remember the subway one is a marinated chicken and that marinate is soy based so you would expect more soy than something that hasn't been marinated in a soy product. This doesn't say anything about which is the better quality product.

  4. Re:Thought the CBC tests were discredited on Subway Sues Canada Network Over Claim Its Chicken Is 50 Percent Soy (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    actually indirectly they do state exactly that where they claim the remaining non chicken product is mostly Soy in the original article.

  5. Re:Thought the CBC tests were discredited on Subway Sues Canada Network Over Claim Its Chicken Is 50 Percent Soy (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    I think Trent University's Wildlife Forensic DNA Lab is about to look like a bunch of a incompetent dicks then.

  6. Re:The court will decide if it's true on Subway Sues Canada Network Over Claim Its Chicken Is 50 Percent Soy (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2

    It is not so much that the ones doing the test were incompetent, they are probably quite competent at what they do, i.e. DNA testing, but this is not a method you should use to measure what percentage of soy is in the chicken. So the issue was CBC took got the wrong tests done.

  7. Re:Thanks but no thanks. on Pirate Bay Founder Launches Anonymous Domain Registration Service (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    No I don't think it is an elaborate idea to steal domains, but it is an obvious issue as you have zero protection from them doing this and you have no guarantee that even if the current owner is altruistic that some future owner or partner isn't. You are basically placing complete trust in a 3rd party to own and look after your property.

  8. Re:Thanks but no thanks. on Pirate Bay Founder Launches Anonymous Domain Registration Service (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    yeah this is the alarm bell that rang in my head to. Basically if the company owns it then any legal or financial situation the company ends up in could result in you losing your domain (not to mention the obvious issue of he could just walk away with them all and onsell them).

  9. Re:Still slower than iphone 7 on Benchmarks Show Galaxy S8 With Snapdragon 835 Is a Much Faster Android Handset (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    It is simple. you use real test cases. IPhone would probably win in a lot of them too, but the point is it would then be a real world test not some bullshit. e.g. how long to take photo, attach photo to an email and send it. How long to send an SMS respond to an SMS from the start screen, how long to look up a contact in your address book and phone person etc etc etc. those are real world tests.

  10. Re:Still slower than iphone 7 on Benchmarks Show Galaxy S8 With Snapdragon 835 Is a Much Faster Android Handset (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2, Troll

    that is your idea of real world usage? WTF? are you on acid while using your phone?

  11. most of the world is not under austerity at all and if anything as a whole the well of middle class has exploded in size but they aren't doing business with Boeing. Airbus has had record profits and orders by comparison.

  12. Re:Incremental improvements... on Benchmarks Show Galaxy S8 With Snapdragon 835 Is a Much Faster Android Handset (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    What possible reason is their for them to do significantly better? They are a business and need to be profitable or they cease to exist, if that is greed then sure. Most would call it common sense and survival.

  13. Re:I'll end up buying several because fuck Nvidia on AMD Launches Higher Performance Radeon RX 580 and RX 570 Polaris Graphics Cards (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    mostly, however at the moment the performance difference is albeit unnoticeable except in very high end configurations.

  14. Re:total recall on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movie? · · Score: 1

    When people refer to total recall I think that version has been collectively wiped from peoples memories. As corny (yet enjoyable) as the first one was, that remake is one of the worst remakes I have ever seen.

  15. Re:The Fifth Element on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movie? · · Score: 2

    must say this is also the first sci fi movie that pops to mind when I think of favourites. It is fun, has great timing and editing throughout the whole movie and it is a movie I can watch again every year or so and still enjoy it.

  16. Re:maths fail on How the Six-Hour Workday Actually Saves Money (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    probably because they have a better grasp of the english language than you and understand that both are acceptable usages depending on your country of origin.

  17. maths fail on How the Six-Hour Workday Actually Saves Money (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    What the fuck is so hard about maths, according to the article and summary it DIDN'T save money at all, it cost a shitload of money, yes it had some health and few sick day benefits but these did not offset the actual cost of hiring the extra staff.

  18. Re:misread as ISIS on Russia Wants To Send A Gun-Shooting Robot To The ISS (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    since when did cruise missiles count as ground infantry? must be a new type of missile I have not heard of?

  19. misread as ISIS on Russia Wants To Send A Gun-Shooting Robot To The ISS (mashable.com) · · Score: 0

    for a moment there I had my hopes up as I misread that as them deploying it against ISIS. We must actually be pretty close to being able to deploy remotely controlled ground infantry to deal with them. I hate the idea that robots would dehumanise war so that those that instigate it feel no consequences, but in the case of ISIS I would put my moral beliefs to one side.

  20. Chrome no longer gets top score.... This benchmark is irrelevant and time to be decommissioned. I am sure this is just pure coincidence!

  21. Re:Pretty Obvious What the Timebomb Is... on Former Sysadmin Accused of Planting 'Time Bomb' In Company's Database (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    SAP is actually the easiest of all to sabotage, just hire a SAP consultant.

  22. Re:In other news, hydraulic crane outlifts a human on AI Wins $290,000 in Chinese Poker Competition (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The whole point is that poker (at least texas holdem) has a large NON computational element or at least it can do. however the problem is when you introduce a computer it becomes PURELY a computational problem as a computer (at least not yet) can't read the players body language and a player can't read any outward signs from a computer so you have a maths vs maths situation (analysing odds, betting patterns etc) where the computer has the long term advantage

  23. Re:GOOD direction on Firefox To Let Users Control Memory Usage (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you have actually just demonstrated the problem. firefox SHOULD NOT be chasing people that think Chrome is a great browser, being a clone is not the way to go. They don't have the resources or funding or distribution machine that google has to compete in that way, it is a recipe for death and has been well demonstrated by their farely rapid decline in marketshare, they need to address go back to addressing the browser audience that wants the power in their hands, sadly though I think it is too late for that.

  24. Re:GOOD direction on Firefox To Let Users Control Memory Usage (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think it is already too late to save firefox. It has alienated and pissed off so many of its previously loyal userbase that I doubt it can recover now. It is all downhill from here on out.

  25. outlook.com, still has in excess of 400 million active users.