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  1. Re:what's this about? on Microsoft Sells $17 Billion in Second Bond Deal in Six Months (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    way to oversimplify it. What they are doing is paying ~a couple of billion in interest to avoid a $38 billion tax bill, when you compare the right numbers it makes a lot more sense.

  2. The internet, consumers and success of clickbait has already ensured they won't exist. Real Journalism doesn't pay.

  3. Re:Luck not a factor? on AI Decisively Defeats Four Pro Poker Players In 'Brains Vs AI' Tournament (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Luck tends to not be the most consistent factor in a tournament, that's why you frequently see the same professional players making it through to the top 50 and frequently even the final table out of thousands. When you take the human factor out and boil it down to purely mathematics (i.e. chance and betting patterns etc) I would expect a computer to win long term. Poker though is more than just mathematics, it is about reading people and quite often manipulating them, playing a computer isn't the same as playing poker at a table of people.

  4. unbiased journalism is a long dead art form. I find it causes a conflicted feelings in me as I believe the press should have a great deal of freedom from interference but in return they need to earn that freedom and trust and as far as I can see they do not.

  5. please educate yourself. It is NOT the same process in any shape or form as vaccines. Vaccines work on the principle of introducing a modified or weakened strain of a disease in order to give your immune system a chance to generate anti bodies before it encounters the disease. Homeopathy is about providing poisons that have similar symptoms in the vague hope that somehow the body will recognise that symptom from that completely different source and it will cure some ailment the patient already has. In no fucking manner are this methods similar. please use some common sense, or better yet get a fucking education.

  6. Re:Oh, hey - I forgot to ask . . . on FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses To Recall (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    No your problem is you reject science and happily endanger your children because of your own ignorance. this homeopathy remedy appears to be a random lottery as to whether you are giving your kids a fatal dose. They have clearly stated that the amount of belladonna in the tablets wildly vary and are not in accordance with what is written on the packaging. Therefore it is simply not possible to safely dose your children with this as you cannot possible know how much you are giving them unless you plan to test each tablet.

  7. Re: Hyland's teething tablets on FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses To Recall (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    No the FDA found that no one knows as each tablet can differ wildly. thus the huge danger.

  8. Re:Exposing babies to peanuts on FDA Confirms Toxicity of Homeopathic Baby Products; Maker Refuses To Recall (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    no it isn't. homeopathy is about providing heavily diluted poisons that mimic the symptoms, you would not give peanuts with homeopathy you would give them a poison in trace amounts that can cause a similar reaction.

  9. exactly, leaving you hostage to the system, either spend thousands or in some cases hundreds of thousands maintaining or doing what the open source community decided to abandon or change or have to recode everything to use another system. People are kept hostage both in open and closed source in EXACTLY the same way, the cost of change.

  10. the same applies with a lot of free software too, being hostage to custom ways and ecosystems is not exclusive to closed source systems.

  11. Re:They are all a disgrace on Running For Congress, Brianna Wu Criticizes The FBI's GamerGate Report (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    have you been living in a bubble? their are no victims here except maybe the authorities that have to deal with it. Briana was caught creating fake accounts to post fake attacks. This whole mess started with corrupt journalism which escalated into the corrupt individuals successfully turning it into an sexism issue which was enabled by the idiots that attacked them in that fashion. You don't have to believe me though their are a thousand articles out their detailing the whole saga from start to finish, you just need to avoid any that directly support one side or the other as ALL sides have acted shamefully.

  12. They are all a disgrace on Running For Congress, Brianna Wu Criticizes The FBI's GamerGate Report (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 0

    Neither side of this fight is innocent. All parties need to be thrown in jail for wasting FBI time, that includes Brianna and her cry wolf corrupt friends and that adolescent morons that enable them with their childish attacks.

  13. Re:Owning vs Renting on Microsoft Reports New Subscribers For Office 365 Plunged 62% (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    given it is available in only a very limited number of markets it is actually pretty bloody successful and still growing. Especially considering if you have older versions of office it would be incredibly hard to convince most people to upgrade as the average person really doesn't use many features anyway.

  14. Re: Amazing how much he fucked up in just 10 days on Trump's Executive Order Eliminates Privacy Act Protections For Foreigners (whitehouse.gov) · · Score: 1

    When you endanger the lives of someones family, especially when that person has made sacrifices on your behalf and request then just about anyone is easy to turn into a terrorists.

  15. sweet, post your full name and address, social security number etc, after all the only thing you lose by doing such is your ability to lie.

  16. Re: Amazing how much he fucked up in just 10 days on Trump's Executive Order Eliminates Privacy Act Protections For Foreigners (whitehouse.gov) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    you mean like the leech working for the US military as a Translator that was detained returning to the US? Perhaps you mean the family that helped US military and had to sell up and move to the US because they thought it was the right thing to do only to find the door slammed shut in their face for the sacrifice? That is how you create terrorists, you would think something might have been learnt from the past 40 years of such moronic behaviour, but apparently not.

  17. Re:Intentional infection? on Police Department Loses Years Worth of Evidence In Ransomware Incident (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    completely agree. A properly audited and controlled system can be subject to change and still able to be trusted and I am somewhat stunned that this is not what they had given it is evidence that will be used in court.

  18. Re:Intentional infection? This doesn't add up. on Police Department Loses Years Worth of Evidence In Ransomware Incident (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    exactly, so under no circumstances does paying the ransom make sense. Either they have proper backups with non repudiation in which case it is not necessary or they don't in which case you can't trust what is recovered anyway

  19. Re:Just inflate history on Ask Slashdot: Should You Tell Future Employers Your Salary History? · · Score: 1

    never ever lie on an application. You run into the possibility it could be used against you later. refuse to answer, or put in a vague range if you prefer. starting on a new job with a lie is just puts your cods on the chopping block and asking them to take a whack at them.

  20. BS title on Server Runs Continuously For 24 Years (computerworld.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    it DID NOT run continuously for 24 years. It simply never stopped or restarted without admin intervention, two very very different things.While still impressive it is no where near as impressive as if it had run 24 years continuously.

  21. Re:Intentional infection? This doesn't add up. on Police Department Loses Years Worth of Evidence In Ransomware Incident (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The numbers add up perfectly, you just aren't adding up the right numbers. system has already been compromised, how could they possibly trust any data as evidence after recovery? On top of that you have the government stance of never paying ransom. Looks to me like they took the right approach.

  22. Re:So that's, what on Apple Is Moving Its Entire International iTunes Business To Ireland (billboard.com) · · Score: 1

    yep these will be economists paid for by Apple or Ireland to try and make the deal look like an economic benefit for the country rather than the intended tax dodge that it is.

  23. Re:Makes No Sense on Seagate Says 16TB Hard Drive To Hit Market Within 18 Months (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    we passed 16TB for SSD's in the big data side a few years ago, these are completely useless in that area. 16TB though is great for home storage for large video libraries.

  24. Re:What are the use cases for these drives? on Seagate Says 16TB Hard Drive To Hit Market Within 18 Months (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    absolute bullshit. with Ultra HD video, hi res photography etc 16TB is no longer something just hosters would need. I have 21TB in my home NAS and it has been bordering full for the past 12 months where I am deleting stuff so I can put new stuff in which is anything but ideal. This scenario is only going to get worse over the next year. I have been waiting to upgrade storage till drive sizes got big enough so that my upgrade could at least double my capacity without insane investment. 10-14TB drives should be able to achieve that, 4 drives for data, 2 for hot spare/raid

  25. Re:Did I miss something? on Microsoft's Market Value Tops $500 Billion Again After 17 Years (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently you missed a fucking shit load considering there annual growth for the last 17 years has been very impressive so not sure where to start.