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  1. "It felt as though the value proposition that has made Apple products no-brainers might unravel."

    In what universe of delusion has Apple ever been a value proposition???????

  2. Re:It's all bullshit... on Hitman 2's Denuvo DRM Cracked Days Before the Game's Release (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It could also be argued that the internet changed the relationship because stealing/copying/sharing/whatever became trivial worldwide instead of exchanging physical media with your local buddies like the olden days.

    Look at both sides of the internet changing the dynamic.

  3. "Chinese law forbids non-Chinese companies from owning or operating certain technology for the provision of cloud services."

    Gee, I wonder why?

    The government thought process is obvious: We have done it to everyone else so we know it can be done. Therefore we are going to make a law so nobody can do it to us.

  4. Well, I guess we know where that faulty cable that skewed the first OPERA results https://science.slashdot.org/s... ended up.

  5. Which is taller, the moral high ground he claims to take now or the pile of money he sold out for then?

  6. Re:Another example of Entitlement on MIT's Elegant Schoolbus Algorithm Was No Match For Angry Parents (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course, the better solution would have been public schools under state control, with equal amounts of funding per students, subject to minimum national standards.

    I invite you to investigate the education system in the state of Michigan.

  7. Re:Another example of Entitlement on MIT's Elegant Schoolbus Algorithm Was No Match For Angry Parents (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    . As such, I have a stake in this but donâ(TM)t receive any direct benefit. .

    Do you own your home?

  8. Yes, I agree.

    That is not what the AC said.

  9. The Stormy Daniels book is the reason.

    So, Toad is trending because Ms Daniels likes to play Mario Kart? Nothing else to it?

    She says Trump's penis looks like "that mushroom guy from Mario Kart" Skinny with a large head.

  10. No, they actually do mean 7 accounts across as 7 different Switches. The family plan is the way to go if you have friends and/or family who also own a Switch.

    Also worthy of note: only one account on a Switch has to have a paid online subscription in order for all accounts on said Switch to access the online service.

    I don't interpret their language the same as you do for the second part. Each online subscription is tied to a separate nnid. If each local switch account has a different nnid, you have to pay for each one. What reference do you have to assert your second statement?

  11. I don't know if you are being serious or not......

    The Stormy Daniels book is the reason.

  12. Re:No software and no storage? on John McAfee's 'Unhackable' Bitfi Wallet Got Hacked -- Again (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    What problem is electronic voting solving that paper ballots have not solved?

    This has been described above a few times. The problems are obvious because they have been exploited throughout history. The simplest one is if the vote talliers favor one candidate, when they see a ballot that votes for the other candidate they invalidate it by surreptitiously adding a mark somewhere and then that ballot has to be thrown out. Electronic voting is trying to make the talliers unbiased and have no way to invalidate ballots.

    This is just one example of a problem it is trying to solve.

  13. Costs to NYUTuition on NYU Offers Full-Tuition Scholarships for All Medical Students (wsj.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I would be very interested in seeing the books on this program after a few years. The school realized it would not take much fundraising to cover their costs of educating the students. Note they do not have to cover the tuition they charge students; only their costs.

    These days since colleges and universities have turned into money printing machines instead of educational entities, the difference between tuition and how much it actually costs the schools is so large they determined let's raise the money to cover our costs and live off the PR of providing free tuition. They have basically admitted the difference between the two amounts of money is ridiculous in this day and age.

  14. The statement contradicts what the company told me and fact checkers for a story I wrote for the New York Times in February. At that time, a spokesperson said ES&S had never installed pcAnywhere on any election system it sold. "None of the employees, ⦠including long-tenured employees, has any knowledge that our voting systems have ever been sold with remote-access software,"

    You mean to tell me some corporate spokesdrone would LIE to a reporter and not until their feet are held to the fire by legitimate legal power would the truth come out??!!

    Shocked, I tell you. I am shocked.

  15. "could help by trying to locate the boys' precise location using Space Exploration Technologies or Boring Co. technology"

    They found them days ago in that one chamber high above the flood water. How exactly will he help find their "precise" location?

  16. so yeah........ on 'Waluigi Was Robbed and Humiliated by Nintendo' (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Let alone Slashdot covers this, but did the Washington Post seriously dedicate column inches to this?!!!!!!!

  17. Re:Corporations are people too! on CenturyLink Fights Billing-Fraud Lawsuit By Claiming That It Has No Customers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This is hardly the first time someone has tried a shell game, and I have no idea why their attorneys would even imagine the court would long entertain such an argument.

    Simple, they bill by the hour.

  18. Re:Reinventing the (square) wheel on Scientists Explain the Sound of Knuckle Cracking (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If you bothered to read the article you would learn they specifically discuss this. Their model is more advanced and actually realized the previous understanding was too naive and simplistic. The bubbles do not totally collapse but break into a wide variety of sizes and it is the collapse of bubbles in a specific range of sizes that creates the sound.

    I suppose when Einstein published his theory of relativity you would have commented that this has been known for hundreds of years by Newton.

  19. Buzz Aldrin, Neil's partner on the Moon, was at the FH launch. As far as I can tell, Armstrong hasn't commented on the launch.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?... around 2:21

    Ummm...... are you making some weird attempt at humor here?

  20. Re:It should be regulated on How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I do not doubt I have what the article calls a shadow profile given the number of people I know who use it. There is no way I have an account there though unless what you call an account is not what I would call an account.

    I have never used Experian either.

  21. Re:It should be regulated on How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    No, it is more like that magic phrase "Terms of Service". By signing up for an account you give consent to all this. In the real world you are not giving explicit consent to be stalked so the law is on your side.

    That is why I never have had nor do I ever plan on having an account there.

  22. Re:forty spots on WeWork Employees Caught Spying on Competition (nypost.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Is this unethical?

    Yes, it is unethical. When I am at a trade show if someone comes to our booth asking questions but not wearing a badge, I am very careful at what information I give out.

  23. Re:And now skype on How Facebook Outs Sex Workers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    It trivial for Facebook to link the identities, she is using the same IP address to log in for both of them. It is then reasonable for the Facebook algorithm to guess that people logging in from the same IP address are related somehow.

    More likely the simple answer is that she was clueless about how deep their tentacles are and used the same browser without logging out of Facebook first. Thus since just about every website insists on haven't FB's "like" button somewhere on their page, FB gets the details to do the math.

    A smart person (can that be said of a Facebook user?) would at least go as far as using an entirely separate computer for business and personal stuff. Still not fool proof by any stretch, but every little bit helps.

    She is in the sex industry. I have a feeling she knows exactly how deep tentacles can go.

  24. Re:It's a reliable long-term storage medium on Companies Are Once Again Storing Data On Tape, Just in Case (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Antarctic ice cores

  25. Evolution on Where Have All the Insects Gone? (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    How do we know it is not evolution and survival of the fittest? Maybe all of the stupid bugs have been weaned out of the gene pool over the years and now they can't catch the ones smart enough to avoid the traps.