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  1. posting to undo bad moderation, sorry.

  2. Re:How expensive? on Google Plans Cheaper Smartphone To Draw Users Into Internet Empire (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    but iPhone SE is not discontinued

    Really? Why did Apple announce it in September last year, then and why is it not available from the Apple online shop?

  3. Re:How expensive? on Google Plans Cheaper Smartphone To Draw Users Into Internet Empire (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, let's compare even more apples to oranges, then: my neighbor's kid got his iphone 6, 7 and 8 FOR FREE (from his mom, as she upgraded).

    Discontinued, defective and obsolete items have been selling for less than their initial price for ages, but TFA and my comment aren't about those.

  4. Well, Google must be a first world company. on Google Plans Cheaper Smartphone To Draw Users Into Internet Empire (nikkei.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It is expected to be priced lower than Apple's cheapest iPhone, the XR, which starts at $749.

    If this is the stick they measure "midrange phone" instead of the better Chinese models that sell for less than $200, I'll go out on a limb and predict that Google won't be getting too many customers.

  5. Re:Well, hopefully they start doing small electron on Amazon Quietly Confirms It Is Competing With UPS and FedEx (businessinsider.nl) · · Score: 1

    Good luck buying good quality electronic components from China. I've test-tried several times and every time they send fakes or garbage instead of the specified item.

  6. Well, hopefully they start doing small electronics on Amazon Quietly Confirms It Is Competing With UPS and FedEx (businessinsider.nl) · · Score: 4, Informative

    shipments internationally. This is now a FedEx monopoly, and FedEx is the worst of the worst, especially in places where they're using franchises.

  7. Re:Banning ad blockers will never work on Spotify Bans Ad Blockers In Updated ToS (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This is exactly what will happen. It is that inevitable.

  8. by the Mark Zuckerberg himself is especially disgusting.

  9. We (and they, too) have known this for years, if not for decades.

  10. Gen 3 is pretty much the safest thing in nuclear power today. Will be for a while, because of the idiotic political "safety rules" that have effectively blocked technological development in the sector.

  11. Re:"The AI" is just a bunch of statistical methods on Ask Slashdot: Could An AI Conceivably Create Futureproof Product Designs? · · Score: 1

    You make inferences about the whole population from the value of a sample size of one - your own. It is a very, very poor estimator.

  12. Re:"The AI" is just a bunch of statistical methods on Ask Slashdot: Could An AI Conceivably Create Futureproof Product Designs? · · Score: 1

    That thing is a /. editor, so it is probably just a buggy bash script.

  13. Re: Still would get a Yugo on Ask Slashdot: Could An AI Conceivably Create Futureproof Product Designs? · · Score: 2

    Hello, AI, which foul mouth has trained your instance for today?

  14. "The AI" is just a bunch of statistical methods on Ask Slashdot: Could An AI Conceivably Create Futureproof Product Designs? · · Score: 2

    that compute averages, which are plugged as coefficients in some equation derived from some theory created by a human brain. "The AI" cannot "create" or "destroy", it can only process the garbage in to produce garbage out. It will not become sentient, and it will not start a war with the humanity, these scenarios are also coming from books created by humans, in which they are a plot device that emphasizes some human trait or other.

    Please stop anthropomorphising shit for no reason at all.

  15. Re: Chicom company on US Accuses Huawei of Stealing Trade Secrets, Defrauding Banks (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Also, you know Japan attacked the US, right?

    Actually, it is the other way around. The Japanese had this nice, closed, peaceful country, which wanted only one thing, to be left in peace. And then the Americans shot at them and threatened them.

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

  16. Re:Revenge against Hillary on Julian Assange Launches Legal Challenge Against Trump Administration (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You just misquoted what I wrote, and lied at the same time. Congratulations, citizen, for your lying.

  17. Re:Zerohedge = Daniel Ivandjiiski on Julian Assange Launches Legal Challenge Against Trump Administration (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What is wrong with the Bulgarian sources? Bulgaria is a NATO member, an EU member, and the mobsters and former communists in charge of the country are nowadays very pro-American and conservative or liberal as necessary. They have been very welcome at the US Prayer Breakfast every year for quite a while now. The Bulgarian sources are the best sources.

  18. Re:Revenge against Hillary on Julian Assange Launches Legal Challenge Against Trump Administration (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just like those Swedish women.

    The Swedish women asked for only one thing - that he's not prosecuted for rape. The first Swedish prosecutor, who decided the case on the actual merits let him go.

    Then the CIA stepped in, and the wishes of the Swedish women and justice were not a concern anymore.

  19. So, basically they'll tag everything as 'ad' now? on Social Media Stars Agree To Declare When They Post Ads For Products (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Because I've never seen anything posted by a "media star" that is not a product ad. Even their titpics are advertising - for silicon gel bags or niptuck services.

  20. Re:He can't keep up with demand here, allegedly... on Tesla Model 3 Is Heading To Europe (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    LOL, when stupid is beaten with facts, stupid reacts with boilerplate kindergarten trolling. Fuck off, dildo.

  21. Re:Don't worry, Julian on Julian Assange Launches Legal Challenge Against Trump Administration (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why is it that the US believes it can interfere openly in other nations' elections, but its own should be untouchable? Just yesterday the former US ambassador to Moscow confessed (or bragged) in an effort to sell his new book that he spent a shitload of US government money on Putin "opposition" in efforts to remove Putin from power. How is that acceptable, but the reverse is not?

    Of course, this is a question about general principles only, as the actual evidence that Russia has effectively meddled in US elections simply does not exist. The best "evidence" we've seen so far are allegations that Russia has paid a few hundred thousand dollars to advertise on social media (compare that with nearly ONE BILLION DOLLARS that Hillary Clinton spent - that's like 3 or 4 DIGITS in the number more), and the wild allegations about "Russian hackers", who, if one believes the media, are super-powerful and can do anything.

    The only real thing they may have done is the DNC attack, a simple phishing operation, which speaks more about the stupidity of the victims than the capability of the "hackers". Besides, even if we accept that it was "stolen" by the "Russian hackers" and then passed to Assange, the DNC emails leak did not influence the elections at all. The democrat leadership like to present it so just because the emails show to their party rank that their representatives are sleazy shitbags and that US politics is rotten to the core, but let's be real, who doesn't already know that?

    Comey's comments about those other emails did the biggest external damage to Hillary. Comey would not have been able to make those if Hillary had followed the law. Also, the effect of Comey's investigations is a distant second to Hillary's disgusting personality. "It is my turn" was her campaign slogan. Really, now? The rest was done by the sensationalist US media, which blew the "Trump factor" out of all proportion, embiggening bigly another shitbag just for the lulz. Won't you blame the US media greed on Russian hackers, too? Anyone could have beaten a campaign like Hillary's, and anyone did. No "Russian hackery" needed, even stellar one, of which the Russians aren't capable anyway.

  22. Re:He can't keep up with demand here, allegedly... on Tesla Model 3 Is Heading To Europe (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Get real, the market for show-off vehicles over 60k euros is nowhere near 500 million in EEA.

  23. Stop lying, GDPR is nothing like that. GDPR states that you have obligations under it if you serve EU residents within the EU. That is, you do business within the EU. If I go to Japan, and pick a hotel there to stay, GDPR does not apply at all and has nothing to say about it.

  24. Re:He can't keep up with demand here, allegedly... on Tesla Model 3 Is Heading To Europe (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, there is a large, untapped market for performance, good looking electric cars in the EU. And VW, Mercedes and BMW are going to have it. The ugly ducklings that Tesla sells for the same price as a Mercedes SUV with all bells and whistles - not a chance.

    I mean, for the same 60k euros a pop sometime in 2019, are you going to buy a horse carriage with a subpar Android tablet or this:

    https://www.mercedes-benz.com/...

  25. Re:Because nobody's expecting google to pay the fi on Google Fined $57 Million By French Data Privacy Body For Failing To Comply With EU's GDPR Regulations (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, kinda sad.