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  1. Re:Richest country = USA on Netflix To Raise Prices By 13% To 18% (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I think Netflix is going to need per capita money so the per capita figures may be more relevant. They probably won't be on board with sharing the account with all of the country. I guess you thought the 2 dollar rate increase could be split with all users? Sadly it's on an individual basis :-(

  2. Re:What the market will bear on Netflix To Raise Prices By 13% To 18% (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the US, i.e. the richest country in the world.

    Not according to any relevant metric. In other news: American Football is not the most watched sport in the world and the US did not single-handedly beat the Nazi's in WWII.

  3. Re:How exactly does... on IBM Tops 2018 Patent List as AI and Quantum Computing Gain Prominence (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    They may not sell you a laptop, but they provide entire IT infrastructures, major applications and large scale IT consulting to organizations like banks, government agencies, etc.

  4. and they don't appreciate that in truth anybody can aspire to be the next Melinda Gates or the next Bill Gates or the next Jeff Bezos or the next Sheryl Sandberg or Mark Zuckerberg. What they need, what they deserve, is the opportunity to learn this fundamental field.

    How can you say that without any trace of irony when they just got their mediocre idea funded just by living along the rich. A chance some kid in a mid or low income area will never have.

  5. Re:Something doesn’t feel right... on The Electric Airplane Revolution May Come Sooner Than You Think (robbreport.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I realize the engines shouldn’t have to be at full throttle for most of a flight

    For the vast majority of the flight most airplanes are nowhere near full throttle. According to the wiki page, the powerplant uses 280 kW at cruise speed and the 966km range includes a reserve. At this point we just don't have any real info other than these manufacturer provided numbers, and given that they have lots of incentives to hype up their plane, we have no reason to trust these numbers. Purely based on the data provided by the manufacturer it's all possible, but who knows how it performs in real life.

  6. I don't get what this has to do with fascism? If you mean totalitarianism just say totalitarianism. Facism is a major and relatively recent historical event, you'd think people using the term would have some kind of idea what it means.

  7. Re:Jesus christ on AWS Rolls Out New Security Feature To Prevent Accidental S3 Data Leaks (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I didn't say disable access, I said disable public file listings. I think people that want to sell access can manage to make a listing of the files they want to make accessible. Or make it a very hard to enable option or something like that.

  8. For the love of god, just make sure read rights don't include file listing rights, and the public can never be given file listing rights. This solves 99.9999% of S3 data leaks. No sane web server gives public file listing rights these days for a reason.

  9. Likewise, shit languages like Javascript and PHP, are popular because any code monkey can use them. But ignoring a problem doesn't make it go away. i.e. Memory management. To paraphrase JWZ, "Now you have two problems." This attitude of just throw more hardware at it is naive and non-scalable for certain problems.

    I've seen plenty of code monkeys writing C and Java. The languages are by themselves hardly more complicated than PHP, yet are far more vulnerable to the 'just buy a bigger server' paradigm.

    PHP solves memory management by throwing away all your memory after every request (in effect forcing you to write stateless code and preserve any state outside of memory, which really isn't such a bad model for a web server). A skilled C developer will have a hard time keeping up with any PHP developer if it comes to memory leaks with the same amount of string handling your average PHP script does. It's a solution that works for the problem domain. If you really want to spent 50% of your development time doing memory management, you are still free to write a web service in C. If memory efficiency and runtime performance are so important to you as you claim, it's pretty non-trivial to do any better in similar languages like Ruby or Python - and for any language you'll likely spend most time in IO anyway. Personally, I prefer Go, but PHP is a tool and it gets the job done. Ask Wikipedia, Facebook, etc.

  10. Thus for 1GWh (3.6 million MJ), you would need 156,000 cubic metres of cavern. That is actually a relatively small salt cavern! If it was a sphere, it would have radius of 33.4m. Surprising as it may seem, most salt caverns in existence are bigger than that!

    Sounds like a lot of work for 10 Tesla batteries worth of energy storage.

  11. End screen time for adults on Should Parents End 'Screen Time' For Children? (indianexpress.com) · · Score: 1

    Looking around me, it seems it's not just the kids glued to their screens. Perhaps it's a good example for parents to set to also stop using it like crack cocaine.

  12. Re:uhh, what about ISIS? Archive of that? on Twitter Publishes Archive of 10 Million Tweets From Russian, Iranian Bots (boingboing.net) · · Score: 2

    If they put up an archive of ISIS material they would be blamed for spreading terrorist propaganda by idiots. Idiots like the UK government.

  13. No good deed goes unpunished on Does Amazon Owe Wikipedia For Taking Advantage of The Free Labor of Their Volunteers? (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    This type of article is the type of lazy journalism that I hate. They gave one million dollars, that's a real sum for Wikipedia. It's a generous donation when none was needed. Normally no journalist would ever think to write 'does amazon owe money to wikimedia'. Yet, now it has reached the news that Amazon gave a million, they get pointed to the subject and start berating Amazon for it somehow not being to their standards (which it will never be, if it's too much they'll find something else wrong with it - Amazon powergrab on wiki or publicity stunt or whatever). The real takeaway these journalists give is to never do anything good, or they'll hunt you down.

  14. Re:Lawyers have a strange way of thought... on The Breach That Killed Google+ Wasn't a Breach At All (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you have any sensitive data on your email or laptop? How about you prove that it wasn't accessed in the years specter and meltdown were not fixed, and until you do we just run a trial by media.

  15. Re:Inept Google on The Breach That Killed Google+ Wasn't a Breach At All (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Bugs that arise out of the interaction between services are notoriously hard to find. It's easy to call Google security inept, but realistically they have some of the best in business.

  16. Re:It's not "bias" if it just reports the facts on Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Bias is a non-factual prejudice against someone.

    You should either stop making up word definitions, or start using a better dictionary.

  17. Re:Non-conventional warfare slippery slide on The UK is Practicing Cyberattacks That Could Black Out Moscow (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    If the UK is attacked with any sophisticated weapon, there is only one suspect. And the entire world will nuke Moscow until it is a deeper hold than the Mirny mine.

    Ah yes, surely Trump must be willing to nuke his buddy and have his homeland turned to ashes because of some mistery outbreak of a disease in the UK (where he knows they hate him). Well, at least your remaining friends in the EU must be willing to defend you. Like errr...

  18. Non-conventional warfare slippery slide on The UK is Practicing Cyberattacks That Could Black Out Moscow (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    "This is why cyber is so important; you can go on the offensive and turn off the lights in Moscow to tell them that they are not doing the right things."

    So great to use non-conventional weapons. You blockout Moscow to tell them they are not doing the right things, and they won't be able to respond in kind. Then they just spread the black plague all over London and there will be just enough plausible deniability that you can't respond either. Everyone wins!

  19. Yes, I guess most people that have programmed in the 80's or 90's frowned when reading that, there is very little you can't do with 256MB. Having said that, they need to buffer 2 Megapixel images before sending - and I imagine they don't use lossy compression. While bandwidth may still be the limiting factor that may eat up into what will be left of the 256MB.

  20. Re:Why pay $13,000 when you can learn yourself? on Former Students Say Steve Wozniak's $13,200 Coding Bootcamp Is 'Broken' and Sometimes Links To Wikipedia (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    A good course provides you great tutors to teach and answer your questions, guides you through excellent books at a certain pace, has team and lab excercises to learn, gives you networking opportunities and gives you a useful certificate that you qualify to the standards set by the institute. Also it provides you a setting that motivates you to put real work in. I guess Woz U is not a particularly good example of that.

  21. Re:Just not allowed in hand on Netherlands Proposes Legislation To Ban Use Of Phones On Bicycles (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Yes, I should have made that clear, the car driver is 100% at fault there. Shit happens in traffic though, and it helps if you have focus on the road.

  22. Bluetooth headsets and such would be legal. It's really about the hands. It sounds silly, but it's also the way it works with cars in the Netherlands, so it's pretty well established. Watching Netflix, chatting using voice controls, reading a newspaper, etc. while riding the bike (or even a car) would be fine. Technically you could even use a VR headset for gaming on your bike under this law as long as you don't use your hands for controlling it. Although the way you drive with a VR headset may quickly put you in violation of other rules and there are also some catch-all 'dangerous driving behaviour' rules.

  23. Just not allowed in hand on Netherlands Proposes Legislation To Ban Use Of Phones On Bicycles (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The proposed ban only bans holding electronics in your hand while riding your bike. You can still use a headset, odometer, GPS, etc, just not in your hand while riding. You are allowed to use them when standing still. The same is already true for cars.

    There are lots of kids texting while riding their bike on the public road, leading to an increase in accidents. Things like this are a common occurrence:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  24. Re:The problem... on San Francisco Gets Its First Cashierless Store (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So if you had a mob of 20 people ready to commit a crime, you would rob a convenience store, and not of its cash, but of its products?

    You wouldn't make a great mafia boss. Take that as a compliment.