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  1. Crypto currencies give it away for free.

  2. No they don't deserve a fucking cut. Wikipedia were donated that information on the basis it would be made freely available to everyone and anyone. Wikipedia don't produce or research anything themselves.

  3. Re: Reliability (lack of) on Google Launches Third-Gen Chromecast With 60fps Video, Multiroom Audio Support (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    I have strong wifi signal throughout my house, The AP is in the next room. Nothing else has wifi problems and the chromecast when playing doesn't disconnect or stop playing just the damn controls for it become intermittent. basically makes the device useless unless you intend to never use pause etc which with my wife is not an option as toilet breaks or plot explanations at some point are an almost certainty. I switched to using a Fetch TV device in one room and a generic android pvr in another room, they work perfectly and both have remote controls which is definitely a better setup.

  4. Re: Reliability (lack of) on Google Launches Third-Gen Chromecast With 60fps Video, Multiroom Audio Support (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a newer gen, same exact problem so no it aint better on newer versions, I have almost stopped using mine completely now as it is so god damn annoying.

  5. sounds like he fell for a scam on Voice Phishing Scams Are Getting More Clever (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1
    hmm I suspect this security professional actually fell for one of these scams.

    when someone from a trustworthy number calls, says they're from your small town bank, and sounds incredibly professional, you'd fall for it, too

    No I really wouldn't and I don't think anyone I know or where I work would either, I have been targeted with these before and know many others that have received similar types of calls and not even for a nanosecond would I fall for it. Hell when I have had legitimate calls from my bank I ask for a name/extension and tell them I will call the banks switchboard and ask for them. It isn't rocket science, if they called you DON'T TRUST THEM WITH ANYTHING.

  6. Re:Missing something here on Will Chromebooks Someday Threaten Windows? (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you are giving far to much credit to Apple and Google. Blackberry was a complete nightmare on the admin and management side, it server was a buggy pile of poo and app deployment was an exercise in self evisceration. Enterprises were all screaming to replace Blackberry.

  7. yeah right! on Will Chromebooks Someday Threaten Windows? (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously schools are critical, look how Apple dominates desktop computing with its decades of school dominance!

    sarcasm aside I think schools are highly overrated for their influence here, especially nowadays when the difference between a windows and chromebook user from a school perspectivie is basically ZERO, both of them you open a browser for the majority of your work, the rest is all down to individual apps/

  8. Re:Apple's full-court press against this story on Apple Insiders Say Nobody Internally Knows What's Going On With Bloomberg's China Hack Story (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 2

    Most people don't need to be paid to think, perhaps you do? the story doesn't pass the smell test, I suspect what we have here is sources that were getting paid and hence made up something to get their money. Something of this scale doesn't stay secret and is very easily proven if true.

  9. Tesla's official announcements come from tweets, so unlike other social media they are actually very relevant, hence why the fucktard is in trouble over his tweets. Personally I suspect he has just taunted the bull one too many times now, DOJ were probably looking at saying the settlement was enough, but he has immediately shown contempt for that and that he really was after the shorters so I expect criminal charges are on their way for him now. Musk has really lost it.

  10. Re:I'd be curious to know, on Artificial Sweeteners Are Toxic To Digestive Gut Bacteria, Study Finds (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    arsenic isn't artificial either! neither is Botulinum toxin.

  11. conspiracy whack jobs seem to run this place now on A Shadowy Op-Ed Campaign Is Now Smearing SpaceX In Space Cities (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    WTF, have you whack jobs never heard of syndication of content? Almost every story will appear in many different sites across the country and the world, it isn't a fucking conspiracy it is how content is produced and sold nowadays, a single site cannot afford to make all their own news content so it is licensed from others and what they produce is resold.

  12. Even if SpaceX was well advanced in preparation they would be hard pushed to have any sort of sizable moonbase by late 2020's, maybe late 2030's or 40's

  13. utter bullshit on Is Your Email Address Holding You Back? (wsj.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The reality is that is pure ignorance on the interviewers part, having ancient email addresses connected to those domains often means a long history of involvement with internet, I literally only just ditched an ISP account I had used for nearly 30 years. I do many interviews and not once have I ever given a shit about their email address. However nowadays the ignorance of some interviewers probably does need to be catered for, doesn't mean you have to change anything though, just register a new domain/email address just for those situations. If you are reliant on your domain name and email address to obtain an interview you have other serious problems anyway.

  14. The reality is even when google was in china they weren't competitive so they pulled out. going back in they need to obey the rules, they censor content in every other country so why not China too? I doubt it will make a difference there as it would be like a Chinese search engine starting in the US, it has no hope of any real influence regardless of content.

  15. Re:VR != AR on Magic Leap is a Tragic Heap, Says Oculus Cofounder (palmerluckey.com) · · Score: 1

    AR is far smaller at the moment as it is far more demanding technology wise and far more complex to do well thus making it unaffordable in the consumer space for now. AR has vastly more applications and potential than VR just we are only on the edge of it being affordable/usable tech and it will be a few years yet before we see real progress in the consumer space for AR.

  16. Re:nothing new here. on Magic Leap is a Tragic Heap, Says Oculus Cofounder (palmerluckey.com) · · Score: 1

    both are correct.

  17. personally I think the bigger issue is the moron kids that will think it is cool and make one, the inevitable blowing up in your face problem rather than the mass shootings.

  18. Re:you didn't give me YOUR money on Magic Leap is a Tragic Heap, Says Oculus Cofounder (palmerluckey.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    well yeah, kinda understandable given the amount that went to ML for the overhyped crap they have produced. I would be kinda pissed too if I was in that industry and fighting for investment with a real product and watched it all go to them.

  19. Re:bad summary, are their real Amazon based clause on Is Amazon Rigging the Bidding For Massive Government Contracts? (vanityfair.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't disagree that people write specs to favour a vendor, I have seen it done myself. But those specs DON'T favour any particular vendor, if those are true samples of what they call favouritism then I call Bullshit on the story as it must have been written by someone with no knowledge of the topic. I am assuming though it is just a really badly written summary/article and somewhere in the details really are some amazon favouring clauses.

  20. or in other words half poorly audited on Half of Audited JavaScript Projects Contained a Vulnerability (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    I seriously doubt only half. better title "JavaScript auditing so poor that half are given a clean bill of health"

  21. bad summary, are their real Amazon based clauses? on Is Amazon Rigging the Bidding For Massive Government Contracts? (vanityfair.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is that a joke summary? seriously I hate Amazon but none of the 3 sample clauses seem at all unreasonable. Was the 32GB of RAM a fucking typo? is there seriously any cloud provider (even small ones) that don't go that high? having Datacenters geographically separated is a common clause. 2 billion in revenue would be the only questionable one.

  22. The difference is very important from a legal standpoint. If they claim it is based on science it would be much better for everyone as they can be shutdown as scam artists and liars in many countries.

  23. meh. homeopathy isn't based on false science, it is based on absolutely no science at all.

  24. Re:Wouldn't it be better on Colorado Prepares To Install 'Smart Road' Product By Integrated Roadways (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    yet they have no problems spending millions on electronics to tell them this? wouldn't fixed cameras combined with better guard rails be a far better and cheaper investment and provide the same information to authorities? Add some speed cameras to it and they may even pay for themselves.

  25. poor understanding of survival of the fittest on New Research Suggests Evolution Might Favor 'Survival of the Laziest' (phys.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So now we are associating lower metabolic rates with laziness in a species? fucking really? adapting to your environment with a lower metabolism is the very fucking definition of "survival of the fittest", perhaps the writers of this article need to actually understand what that means.