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  1. Social Credit scoring on We're All Being Judged By a Secret 'Trustworthiness' Score (wsj.com) · · Score: 0

    But not in China, and seemingly (up to now anyway) focussed on retail purchases and not being a good citizen in order to restrict your freedoms. Thin end of the wedge.

  2. When they eventually come to name the current epoch, they may well settle on "Youcouldntmakethisshitupstocene".

  3. Comment to remove mods on Wikileaks Co-founder Julian Assange Arrested in London (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Cvvfjgn

  4. My Xperia-ence on Sony To Slash Smartphone Workforce 50% By 2020 (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    I quite liked the Xperia SP I had a few years back, for the price it was well built and lasted me well. I liked the design too. But Sony's version of Android was just so odd...

  5. Eastern Oregon Telecom are going to be there, or the outcome could be very different.

  6. It should actually read "Electronic Arts Has Become a Disaster For Electronic Arts"

  7. What an utter fucking waste of bandwidth and storage.

  8. Re: You could try not using it as much on Turning Off Facebook Location Tracking Doesn't Stop It From Tracking Your Location (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Being in the Apple ecosystem has different, but equally shitty problems.

  9. Amazon/Nokia on Will AWS Be Spun Off Into a Separate Company? (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Interesting how both Amazon and Nokia both started as companies dealing in paper but have eventually ended up in tech. Maybe I should open a library?

  10. Re: article discusses Australian ruling on Companies 'Can Sack Workers For Refusing To Use Fingerprint Scanners' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    And by Germany, I mean that they clearly have many reasons not to revisit many parts of their past, but have forgotten about the parts that were genuinely good (the knack for mechanical engineering, not engineering Nazism). Australia is rapidly becoming an authoritorian hell.

  11. Re: article discusses Australian ruling on Companies 'Can Sack Workers For Refusing To Use Fingerprint Scanners' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    My single week in Australia in 2005 (before I spent 2 weeks in the very much more accommodating New Zealand) absolutely screamed 'Nanny state'. I'll never go back, a nation far too scared of its past/own shadow. Just like Germany. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

  12. Re: Why is this so strange? on That Time The Windows Kernel Fought Gamma Rays Corrupting Its Processor Cache (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    Why are people still doing this captcha thing? Most the time they are completely tenuous, if not utterly irrelevant.

  13. Re: I'm not sure what's odd about that on That Time The Windows Kernel Fought Gamma Rays Corrupting Its Processor Cache (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, I'd be fascinated how you find the smoking gun of a bit flip retrospectively? There's some Columbo shit right there.

  14. Re: I'm not sure what's odd about that on That Time The Windows Kernel Fought Gamma Rays Corrupting Its Processor Cache (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    A 6502 PC? Do you mean a Commodore 64?

  15. Interesting. I used to work for an FPGA manufacturer and the move to 90nm back around 2003-ish (?) Really spooked our mil/aero costomers in particular.

  16. Even Diablo fans, but you wouldn't know it..

  17. Re: A ban on menthol cigarettes? on FDA Seeks Ban On Menthol Cigarettes To Fight Teen Smoking (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    No reason to reply other than that my last cigarette was the 31st January this year and I haven't smoked one since. Best bit is I went completely cold turkey, no substitute. It is possible.

  18. Re: A modest proposal on FDA Seeks Ban On Menthol Cigarettes To Fight Teen Smoking (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    On St Valentines too. Bummer.

  19. Local transport infrastructure on 'Amazon's HQ2 Was a Con, Not a Contest' (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Was a monorail part of the deal?

  20. Re: FPGA chiplets too? on To Keep Pace With Moore's Law, Chipmakers Turn to 'Chiplets' (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    Trouble is FPGA is that much less power efficient than ASIC, which appears to be one of the biggest issues with crypto mining.

  21. 'West Africa Investment Trust' are going to be WAITing a long time for their money.

  22. Re: National security concerns? on US Bans Exports To Chinese DRAM Maker Citing National Security Risk (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    A very slow clap for you, perhaps one of the most irrelevant pedants of all time.

  23. Re: Capitalism bad. on Alaska's Universal Basic Income Doesn't Increase Unemployment (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Communism doesn't work for several reasons, as demonstrated by history but no matter what the idealists like to keep trotting it out as a viable solution. Firstly, for communism to work - someone, anyone - needs to be some sort of enforcer - completely incompatible with the whole notion in the first place. Secondly, human nature (as it stands) is still very much tied to betterment of the self, and so ultimately being better than your fellow human will remain a thing until we are all programmed not to do so. Now, who is going to be our equal and yet do that fairly and without bias?

  24. Fourth thing on Apple's Dual-SIM Tech Ruins Verizon Coverage (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    OP forgot to list the fourth reason which is maintaining a secret second number for the purpose of having an affair. Side hoe 101.

  25. Re:National security concerns? on US Bans Exports To Chinese DRAM Maker Citing National Security Risk (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    China are clearly IP thieves, have been for some while, and are working against the west with no idea or desire of how to play fair. There is no international law in place of preventing this either, and at this point, it's unlikely there will be either. This is pretty much immutable at this point. So what are your plans for stopping this? No, I'm not an American (thank fuck, thanks for ruining it for the rest of us), and find Trump abhorrent in general, but I do find this his 'even a stopped clock is right once a day' moment.