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  1. Sure they lose money on every vehicle, but they make it up on volume.

  2. "the increase in annual average global temperature could reach 9 degrees Fahrenheit"

    It's ok, we just build some more coal power stations, turn up the air-con, and it's all good..

  3. Responsible to... on Tech Companies Pledge To Use Artificial Intelligence Responsibly (axios.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... their shareholders, whom they are duty bound to maximise profits for.

  4. Re:Frequently changed on With Rising Database Breaches, Two-Factor Authentication Also At Risk (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Your algorithm method is probably fine, as long as deep state NSA types don't target you specifically as a high value target. Then they might put the resources in to figure out your algorithm.

  5. Re:This is not a good solution on Laptops Could Be Banned From Checked Bags on Planes Due To Fire Risk (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Will all the people the plane flies over also sign a waiver?

  6. 10 miles is a stunt. It would take most of this distance to accelerate and decelerate to the touted speeds. Lots of people are going to lose lots of money on this stupidity.

  7. Re:Correlation/causation on Intelligent People More At Risk of Mental Illness, Study Finds (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    That observation is probably more credible than it first appears. The links between certain behaviors and other behaviors is less obvious than it first appears.

  8. Maybe they don't suffer more mental disorders, they are just more introspective and sensitive to their own mental state. Maybe someone stupider wouldn't identify their unpleasant feelings as being depression or whatever.

  9. 60 seconds at 100% won't work. They'll just write the code to sleep for 1 second every 59 seconds.

  10. Shut your eyes or turn away, it won't work. Also you can click the power button 5 times and it disables face id.

  11. With Google engaged in an all out war against wrongthink and the type of freedoms the 1st amendment was designed to protect, I don't give a shit about Google's products no matter how clever. I'm sure they'll be popular with SJW retards however.

  12. Prove it was a disaster. It might have been slow and late, but at least it was good.

  13. Maybe Turnbull is cleverer than you think. After all, in 1984 the book, Winston the protagonist, concludes that 2+2=5. You just need more double-think mate.

  14. How is it a hack to kill processes with SIGKILL? That's the completely correct way to kill a process on UNIX.

  15. They ARE frozen, just with some exceptions. Like some download apps are allowed to stay awake for a limited time. Music apps are allowed to play (duh, or you couldn't listen) and some GPS apps are allowed to track you on their map. So for most apps, they are utterly frozen. But some classes of apps are not. But the advice in the main article is mostly right.

  16. Yes, if these laws get up, I hope Apple has the balls to pull out. The populace would be down at parliament house with pitchforks if that happened.

  17. Re: It has its uses on Ask Slashdot: Do You Like Functional Programming? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    Nobody's ever made a type system that doesn't need ways to get around it in a non trivial program. Admittedly the type system ends up still being useful.. up until it isn't.

  18. Re:Wasn't this already covered a year ago? on The iPhone 7 Has Arbitrary Software Locks That Prevent Repair (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe not for the NSA.

  19. Can they do it? on Italy Bans Uber (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't know if Italy has the power to ban an app. Maybe on IOS if Apple is willing to play ball. But they can't ban a web app. Not easily anyway.

  20. Re:Perspective, Please! on Earth-Sized Telescope Set To Snap First Picture of a Black Hole (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Even so, the premise of the stupid comment above is that its hubris to consider a telescope the size of the earth as a big telescope. But I can see the sun with no telescope at all, probably even from the centre of the milky way. So the idea that a telescope the size of the earth is not "big" when trying to look at an object that is 17x *BIGGER* than the sun, is kind of idiotic, no? I mean, I don't know all the calculations, but it strikes me as stupid.

  21. Re:More US warmongering on US Strikes Syrian Base With Over 50 Tomahawk Missiles (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I've never seen a war pull a profit.

  22. Re:Perspective, Please! on Earth-Sized Telescope Set To Snap First Picture of a Black Hole (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    You do realise that a black hole of any size is a singularity right? i.e. it is smaller than the earth.

  23. Re:Tradeoffs on 'No Turning Back' on Brexit as Article 50 Triggered (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "In the last 10 years, did joining the EU make them richer? If so, then they'll be poorer than they are today."

    Your logic does not follow. Things were different 10 years ago.

  24. Re:Tradeoffs on 'No Turning Back' on Brexit as Article 50 Triggered (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The people that matter don't want to leave London, thus they don't want their subordinates outside London lest they have to leave London. The EU might force a few thousand to go to the continent, but that's it.

  25. They are fooling themselves on Microsoft Delivers Secure China-Only Cut of Windows 10 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Have they considered that unless they trust the compiler, they can't trust that the final product will do what the source code says? What if they are given the source to the compiler, how are they going to trust the compiler they use to compile that? I suppose they could move to an open source compiler, which maybe can be trusted, but of course they won't, they'll use Microsoft's compiler won't they. And if the NSA was really deeply embedded in MS, they could have this all stitched up so that the source code is compiled and doesn't do what it claims to do. Sorry China, you are ignorant and you fail.