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  1. Re:Sensors are physical objects on Boeing Unveils 737 Max Software Fixes (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    >The system is intended to allow the plane to be certified without redesigning the elevators.

    Actually the whole airframe has to be redesigned because the original 737 was designed too low to fit the larger, more efficient engines of the MAX fully underneath it's wings. The workaround was for the engines mounts have to be moved forward, changing the handling of the aircraft and leading to the introduction of MCAS.

  2. Re:Didn't we have that discussion about Microsoft? on Elizabeth Warren Calls To Break Up Facebook, Google, and Amazon · · Score: 1

    Microsoft should also be broken up if this actually gain traction and happens. Their PC OS marketshare % is higher than the smartphone marketshare of both Apple and Android.

  3. Re: Boo hoo on Former Edge Browser Intern Alleges Google Sabotaged Microsoft's Browser (ycombinator.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't see Apple or Mozilla complaining. The whole issue is with Edge and how slow its update model is.

  4. Re:This is the failed MicroSoft strategy on Google Bridges Android, iOS Development With Flutter 1.0 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Flutter draws on a canvas and doesn't actually use native widgets, only emulating the native look. It's a lot faster than Xamarin or React Native with less platform specific customisation needed.

  5. Re:1.73 BILLION Subway Trips in 2017 on NYC Subway, Bus Services Have Entered 'Death Spiral,' Experts Say (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I said this above, but ridesharing is currently heavily VC subsidised which won't last beyond Uber's exit strategy, whatever that it.

  6. Ridesharing is currently heavily VC subsidised. The current situation won't last beyond Uber's exit strategy, whatever that is.

  7. Chinese smartphone makers are succeeding because they are focusing on marketshare only. While component makers understand this an extract profits from the underlying tech these devices are based on. That's the reason why Samsung and Sony make a lot more in semiconductors and sensors than smartphones.

    Huawei is the only Chinese company that can put up a fight in that sense.

  8. Re:No software and no storage? on John McAfee's 'Unhackable' Bitfi Wallet Got Hacked -- Again (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not only that, they seem to be missing the basics of PR. How hard is it to phase it as - "We have hired an external security expert to independently verify the reported vulnerabilities" ?

  9. I think it's more the fact that the bodies we so badly burned, the investigators were not able to complete straightforwards and standard tasks, like determining if the seat belts were worn by the occupants.

  10. Re:Gun deaths in the home of Sony and Nintendo on Trump's Meeting With The Video Game Industry To Talk Gun Violence Could Get Ugly (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Metal Gear? Street Fighter? Resident Evil? Silent Hill?

    All Japanese games and massive franchises.

  11. Re:Only 1025 per week on Bloomberg Starts Tracking Tesla Model 3 Production (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Currently they are ramping up to 2500 per week. They are shipping a whole battery assembly line from Germany to make 5000 per week happen by Q2.

    https://www.greencarreports.co...

  12. Re:The enemy is us: the Partisans. on Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Net Neutrality Narrative Is False (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This 'both sides' argument is getting to be a bit of a tired trope.

    It's obvious which party is on the side of big telecom and which is on the side of the consumers here.

  13. Re:They're bugs, unless they're not on Security Problems Are Primarily Just Bugs, Linus Torvalds Says (iu.edu) · · Score: 1

    That's not what Linus is talking about either. Stop grinding axe at every opportunity.

  14. Re:PC mining was always going to become unprofitab on Bitcoin Gold, the Latest Bitcoin Fork, Explained (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The way BC is setup and the way the algorithm is build is such that the complexity of calculation and thus the resources needed to perform it are increasing as time goes by.

    That's incorrect. Bitcoin mining difficulty is dynamic and adjusts to the total hashing speed of the network. It does this by requiring a certain number of zeros in the SHA256 hash. As more miners join the network with custom ASICs that only perform this calculation, difficulty goes up, but if they leave to join another network (like Bitcoin Cash), difficulty goes down. It's got nothing to do with the complexity of the calculations are increasing.

  15. Re:Sigh. on Paradise Papers Leak Reveals Apple's Secret Tax Bolthole (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Regulation is neutral, it's who wrote and sponsored the regulation that affects the nature of it.

    If the regulation was written to protect consumers, then very rarely it benefits incumbent players in the market. Regulation on smoking, for example, actually encouraged the development of the vaping industry, which is filled with smaller companies.

    Competition and the efficient market is also not a be-all-and-end-all goal in society. There are things more important, like our health, fairness in our social fabric, the integrity of our representative democracy, and so on, that justifies regulation. After all, regulation should ultimately derive it's power from us, and should serve the interests of the people, not corporations, regardless of size.

  16. Re:What made facebook work so great on Facebook Says 126 Million Americans May Have Seen Russia-Linked Political Posts (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    That handy 'both sides' arguments once again proves its usefulness.

  17. Re:That's HIS opinion. I disagree on Silicon Valley 'Divided Society and Made Everyone Raging Mad', Argues Newsweek (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't see that happening. We are on the Internet, not in forced misery in the trenches.

    When face physical danger together, we are bound by our humanity to choose survival. Military discipline exists to overcome this, reinforcing your tribal loyalties and antagonism against the enemy.

    Being detached from physical contact on the Internet, we can let our darkest thoughts take over and run rampant.

  18. Re: I don't know who's spying who on Israeli Spies 'Watched Russian Agents Breach Kaspersky Software' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Out of the 100s of destination that he could have reached from Hong Kong, he chose to fly to Russia. He had state help to reach Russia, and if his final destination was really that South American country, he made a calculated decision that it was OK to be stuck in Russia and to apply for 'asylum'. The 40 days in the airport was just for show.

  19. Re:I don't know who's spying who on Israeli Spies 'Watched Russian Agents Breach Kaspersky Software' (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    I thought he was brave and principled, and then he promptly fled to Russia and proved beyond doubt that he's a massive hypocrite.

  20. Re:And Nourse's _Blade Runer_ was excellent. on Why Is 'Blade Runner' the Title of 'Blade Runner'? (vulture.com) · · Score: 1

    Why deal with hypotheticals and FUD. Move to one of the many developed countries that has universal healthcare and experience it yourself. Heathcare actually works in a lot of places once freed from the shackles of the market.

  21. Re:Even More Simple on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If a Hyperloop Train Failed? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Do you know how much kinetic energy a moving trainset has at 200mph, let alone 700mph? If there is an accident, that energy has to go somewhere, and wherever it goes, it will have the potential to do something that will kill people.

  22. Re:That's not how productivity gains work on Workers: Fear Not the Robot Apocalypse (wsj.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For the top 10% they lose money on paper - shares, investments, etc.

    For the bottom 90% they lose their savings, homes and livelihoods.

  23. Re:The Rainbow Scare on Google's Other Ugly Secret: Some Managers Keep Blacklists (inc.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Basically, he was sexist.

    We should call a goat a goat and a cat a cat. Enough of nasty people pretending to be victims here.

  24. Re: Stupid credit card system on DOJ: Russian 'Superhacker' Gets 27 Years In Prison (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Amex, VISA and Mastercard have a separate system to authenticate online user via an extra password, cookies and IP addresses. The system is called called 3-D Secure.

    This is typically used together with Chip and PIN cards to provide an extra factor of security for both physical and online transactions.

  25. Re:In 2007 it was ice free in 2016 on Scientists Propose Plan To Re-Freeze the Arctic (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Of course, you can always just yell those facts are 'fake'.