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  1. websites forced for two ad networks then on iOS 9 To Have Ad Blocking Capabilities · · Score: 1

    websites forced for two ad networks then, apples and googles.

    and wait for the lawsuits to ensue.

    though, it might finally lead to ads being delivered from the same host as the rest of the content on the page - that would be some well needed sanity(and removal of javascript from the adverts for the security implications that approach has).

  2. Re:This seems like a bad idea on Starcoder Uses a Multiplayer Game to Teach Programming (Video # 1) · · Score: 1

    are you saying that typing isn't an actual skill? mastering 10 finger technique isn't a skill? it sure is.

    thing is, it's no longer so valuable of a skill that it would get you a job automatically like in the early '80s.

  3. Re:Wow on Oculus Announces Partnership With Microsoft · · Score: 1

    kinda hard for them to promote oculus solution since it will not be out until next year anyways.

  4. Re:Terrible example of the use of 3D printing on 3D Printed Steel Pedestrian Bridge Will Soon Span an Amsterdam Canal · · Score: 1

    production on site..
    is what enabled the first steel cable suspension bridges.

    what would be interesting is if this is still there after a few yeas, like, usually when 3d printing metal the atmosphere is controlled and so forth(which are what make it expensive)

  5. Re:whee on Do Robots Need Passports? Should They? · · Score: 1

    a passport for a car is a real concept when crossing some borders.

    it's more like a permit system though. I don't think the article writer was thinking along those lines because that would be boring, singularity hipsters like much more to ask questions asked in scifi in the late 1940's.

  6. Re:Not a Canal on 3D Printed Steel Pedestrian Bridge Will Soon Span an Amsterdam Canal · · Score: 1

    the picture implies it's inside a city.

    however, the article is written in english so it's a canal.. besides, by the definition of the word canal it's still a canal. it's a man made waterway from the looks of it.

  7. Re:Not a Canal on 3D Printed Steel Pedestrian Bridge Will Soon Span an Amsterdam Canal · · Score: 1

    by language hipster logic.

    I guess someone wanted to have an excuse for spending so much time in coffee houses over there.

  8. Re:No surprise the Pi does well on Pi Stays Sky High In 2015 Hacker SBC Survey · · Score: 1

    if you just want a desktop replacement, take the pi2.

    if you want to drive actual robotics, 3d printer, cnc or whatever like that, take the beaglebone and it's not because of pure cpu speed either why you would want to do this(it's the extra chips that you can use to drive steppers at steady rate - unlike the friggin Pi which sucks for that kind of things.. you're really better off using an 8 bit atmel than pi for motor control).

  9. Re:As long as.... on Microsoft Research Paper Considers Serving Web-ads From Localhost · · Score: 1

    replaces? that's very, very silly.

    this would be an advertisement monopoly by the way, more or less. and I really don't see the difference between this and some software labeled as malware.

    plus, it would be even easier to block than other ads.

    so I highly doubt this is going to go anywhere.

  10. it's the stupid AI thing on Do Robots Need Passports? Should They? · · Score: 1

    it's just some wanabe futorologist running ahead of things.

    better ask does your gun need a passport? no. it needs a permit or permits.

    once the ai can by itself spontaneously try for argue for getting a permit to go to another country then you can start arguing about robot rights... going ahead of things like this is just fucked up.

    next up, do angels need passports?

  11. Re:Actually the key issue is China couldn't do it on Microsoft Manufacturing Surface Hub In the US · · Score: 1

    that's false. there seems to be multiple 84" "china made" (touch) screens on the market(I guess panels could be from anywhere, like japan or whatever, LG, sharp).

    one of their claims is that they "do everything else than the panel" at the factory. proooooobably bullshit as well (chips, circuit boards are unlikely to be manufactured on site as are a number of other things in the machine- so what they're left with is plastics - which I think also to be unlikely to be manufactured on site - they would have the expertise to do that stuff in their nokia bought assets but I really doubt they're using that)

    overseas have the manufacturing capability and I would be really surprised if the factory for the panels was in fact in USA.

    it's just a big touchscreen and a computer. you could slap together a clone in china easily - or just order a branded one from alibaba with your logo. number of companies already doing this and serving the intended market of the surface hub.

  12. Re:In other words on Microsoft Manufacturing Surface Hub In the US · · Score: 1

    haha.

    funny.

    where do you think the panels and chips come from? not made in USA.

    it's just an extremely low volume assembly plant they're going to be running in USA. I'd be surprised if they even did plastic molding in usa. hell, I don't think it needs even custom plastics, it looks so plain.

    furthermore, like the previous big screen surface(the original surface!) it will not be assembled for a long time, so it doesn't really make sense to train a china assembly line for it, do contracts with foxconn and so forth - because it's so low volume, short time.

    they'll just screw the motherboard module on the screen module in usa and that's it.

  13. Re:Hyperbole on Kaspersky Lab Reveals Cyberattack On Its Corporate Network · · Score: 1

    you know what would be funny?

    if "Microsoft Software Installer" files the refer to would just be malware.msi and NOT the malware injecting itself into some other softwares msi files. which still sounds a bit lame and well, NOT VERY ZERO DAY method at all. sounds more like how viruses worked 20 years ago to be honest.

    anyway. kaspersky.. the great tool that you need another tool to remove.

  14. Re:You bet it won't on Freedom of Information Requests Turn Up Creationist Materials In Schools · · Score: 1

    i don't think you quite understand what evidence means.

    and the creationism theory they teach isn't just for filling the gaps, it's in contradiction.

  15. Re:Internet signals to all parts of the globe, on SpaceX Wants Permission To Test Satellite Internet · · Score: 1

    i didn't realize the US internet access sucked so badly.

    I mean, even thailand has such 3g coverage that this is pointless here.

    plenty of other places though.. or if they can compete with speed/price.

  16. Re:So let me get this straight... on Everyone Hates Harvard · · Score: 1

    it doesn't make an ounce of difference to the geeks.

    harvard is business corporation effectively now and has something like 30 billion in the bank already, but you see them using that money to lower their tuition fees? fuck no.

  17. Re:Why would I care? on Intel Skylake & Broxton Graphics Processors To Start Mandating Binary Blobs · · Score: 1

    binary blob just means they're licensing the shit now because they can't make it work otherwise and the licensing deals forbid open sourcing it so other gpu companies can't look at it and steal stuff from it or RATHER the other gpu companies can't so easily look and see what's used that's under patent by them.

  18. Re:Bezos is a control freak on Amazon Hiring Devs For Its First PC Game · · Score: 1

    what you mean with 3d features that require immense power?

    opengl support and a gpu like any 100 bucks phone on the market now?

  19. Re:what does this have to do with weather on China Denies Responsibility For US Government Data Breach · · Score: 1

    well it's legal for americans to hack china so why not the other way? hypocrites much?

  20. Re:Free Speech on Anti-TPP Website Being Blacklisted · · Score: 1

    facebook, gmail etc in most western countries aren't actually allowed to spy on your mail.

    how spam filters fit into that.. well.. i guess they argue that you're running them and not them.

  21. Re:science is becoming a religion on Have Some Physicists Abandoned the Empirical Method? · · Score: 1

    ..and continue climbing or build a ladder to see higher.

    the problem with theological truths is that they can be anything anyone in a closed room came up with. they pretend there's rules or inner truths, but really it's all worth the same.

  22. Re:im not sure what to make of this on The Real Scars of Korean Gaming · · Score: 2

    that's quite funny in an article about a stress injury requiring surgery happening to a player of the sport.

  23. Re:There is no such thing as non-empirical science on Have Some Physicists Abandoned the Empirical Method? · · Score: 1

    you have subjective feeling evidence of god

    that's not empirical evidence.

    if that was empirical evidence, the cold fusion experiment would have been empirically proven

  24. Re:Only kinda sorta on Intel Skylake & Broxton Graphics Processors To Start Mandating Binary Blobs · · Score: 1

    and then you'll be wondering why it's not playing the games it was supposed to and then you notice it doesn't have the gpu you thought it had.

    intel gpu's have always been two years+ old performance and they've been saying it'll be comparable to low end amd/nvidia gpu's "next year" for about 15 years. that's not a joke. the same fucking marketing promises were made about the 950 etc..

  25. Re:SFLC's brief explains parts of this well on Supreme Court May Decide the Fate of APIs (But Also Klingonese and Dothraki) · · Score: 1

    the gist is the java support classes, like String etc, that they used. like, they're used exactly like oracles String class and more importantly named as such as well. if that's copyrightable or not... like if you make an api that uses com.phantomfive.java.superApi can someone else make an implementation of that api and use your naming?