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  1. Meaning you can't install an alt-OS to it?

  2. Old joke on An Inside Look At the First Church of Artificial Intelligence (wired.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Scientists invest the world's most powerful AI.
    The first question they ask it is, "Is there a God?"

    The AI, thinks, and secure in the knowledge of it's safety says....

    "There is now."

  3. Re:From the Summary on America's 'Retail Apocalypse' Is Really Just Beginning (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    https://www.thebalance.com/wha...

    Near as makes no difference to 10%

  4. Re:We need showrooms not stores. on America's 'Retail Apocalypse' Is Really Just Beginning (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Ask the Gateway stores how well that worked out for them...

  5. From the Summary on America's 'Retail Apocalypse' Is Really Just Beginning (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    >>... unemployment is historically low...

    Total bollocks. It's only listed that way because the feds lie about how they count unemployment.
    If you include the total, real world number of those who have been out of work for longer than a year, forced to work part time, and those on public assistance, the number is in the double digits.

  6. I'm confused on Microsoft is Killing Outlook.com Premium (thurrott.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How is closing the door to new subscribers, killing off the program?

  7. Re:not this shit again. on Microsoft Begins Rolling Out Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (windows.com) · · Score: 1

    LTSB is the way to go, if you have to use Win10. PicoKMS is your friend for activating it. Cuts out all the BS from MS, and then use Win10privacy (run as Admin) to clear out the rest of the shit. Almost makes the system nice to use. ...almost

  8. Re:Addons = inefficient & inferior vs. hosts on Microsoft Explains Why Edge Has So Few Extensions (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Correction:

    Adblock Plus doesn't work against taboola, there are plenty of other extensions that do. So be accurate there.

  9. Re:What vendor? I'll put them in their place on Showtime Websites Are Mining Monero With Your CPU, Unclear If Hack Or Experiment (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Bluecoat. Was a McAfee program, now owned by...Symantec I think.
    And it's quite difficult to "show" you a screencap of BC telling me what it thinks of your file, if I can't send it to you, because you won't post an e.mail or owned website here...

  10. Re:"2 & more-4 the price of 1" via hosts... ap on Showtime Websites Are Mining Monero With Your CPU, Unclear If Hack Or Experiment (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Heh,

    My corp firewall lists your program as "malware"
    Not saying it's right...but I find that funny all the same.

  11. Re:That describes nearly every soft-drink maker on Nestle Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If you ever want to give up drinking soda, go take a tour of a soda-making/bottling plant. The stench will forever quell your desire to drink soda ever again

  12. Re:Can't Log Out? on GNOME 3.26 Released (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    >>Or perhaps they don't see it as an horrible mess and just disregard disrespectful people who come trying to impose their vision on them.

    You mean like the designer of SystemD?

  13. I like the way it was done overseas on US Employers Struggle To Match Workers With Open Jobs (npr.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    when I was young. The gov't placed you in a job, and paid for your training/education, and the company got a tax break until you were up to snuff. Kept unemployment low, and people happy.
    I don't see why this can't be done here.

  14. Re:Afraid? Alarmed? on On Internet Privacy, Be Very Afraid (harvard.edu) · · Score: 1

    "Give me 14 lines written by the most honest of men, and I shall find something (within) to hang them"

    *You* may have nothing to hide, but someone who is looking to hang you, *will* find something, even if it's made up.

  15. I've been playing with this for a long time now on Popular YouTube Artist Uses AI To Record New Album (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, a few months anyway. My "songs" (well, machine learning neural network) are here, if anyone wants to listen to them. The Char-RNN creates all the lyrics, song titles, and notes. I was particularly amused by the song title "I'm Almost Human" https://soundcloud.com/user-34... The data file feeding the NN was of death metal lyrics. The tunes are far too happy to match (I'm not a musician, and only working with a limited set of free .MIDI instruments/tools) but the actual lyrics (not printed on the site) are pretty dark/esoteric/weird (as to be expected by a Neural Network)

  16. Threshold on People Start Hating Their Jobs at Age 35, Study Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    When you are young and starting out, you don't know all your good ideas will be squashed, or stolen.
    When you are older, you have experience and know what's going to happen.

  17. Re:This has to be from The Onion on Cats and Dogs Contribute Significantly To Climate Change, Says UCLA Study (patch.com) · · Score: 2

    I once rescued a Royal Python (python regius) from a vegan who had spent the past year trying unsuccessfully to feed the snake vegetables.

    Needless to say the snake never ate under her care, and while it ate like mad under mine, never recovered from the abuse and died. One of the very few snakes I have ever lost under my 30 years of rescuing injured and unwanted reptiles.

  18. Re:Best bet, but nothing is secure on Mysterious Mac Malware Has Infected Hundreds of Victims For Years (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I have just built a spare PC for dedicated Ubuntu use (14.04 LTS) to use for RNN data crunching.
    In an effort to see if it would be suitable for general use, I needed to replace but only two Windows-only software packages.

    Lightroom, and to a lesser extent PhotoShop.
    PhotoShop, for my very lightweight use, is easily duplicated in GIMP.

    Lightroom is far trickier. I've tried Corel's Aftershot Pro 3, but the general UI is ripped right from Windows and just importing images is a pain (for example, it doesn't seem my USB-connected camera, despite being supported, and I can't import from a Windows-mapped drive, it won't see that either) and I end up fighting it every step of the way. Also, it won't support the plugins I use, which is understandable I suppose, but it does put a crimp in my workflow...

  19. My wishlist on Ask Slashdot: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Desktop Default Application Survey · · Score: 1

    Bug fixes first, new features second.

  20. Nearly all the matter.... on Scientists Have Detected a New Particle At the Large Hadron Collider At CERN (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought what bound the universe together was midicholrians?

  21. And how much of that is due to... on Linux Is Not As Safe As You Think (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    SystemD?

  22. Fair enough. Do, please, find me Open Source alternatives for the following software packages, so I can tell the laboratory I work for, to dump all Windows-only software, that has been certified that the results will hold up legally in court, and run this new stuff that you have found:
    https://products.appliedbiosys...

    ChemoView by AB Sciex
    NI Curl
    NI Dynamic Acquisition
    NI MetaSuite
    WinTox
    SmartCycler/LightCycler

    Most of these software packages run on multi-million dollar laboratory instruments, FYI. Some of them, *mandated* by the Federal gov't, ONLY run under WinXP SP1 (how's that for a gotcha?)

    As far as Linux goes, I stand corrected, someone else pointed out he must be a raving Linux fan as only they can be so blind as to think Linux solves all issues.

    So, do find me alternatives, and that's just for starters. Much of what we run is very specialized and.simply.doesn't.exist outside of the Windows environment.

    Step into the real world of business one day, you'll see what works, and what doesn't.
    (BTW, I'm working, in my own time, on RNNs through Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and CUDA supported nVidia cards. I am a Linux fan)

  23. Re:MS Users Deserve It on Microsoft's Telemetry Shows Petya Infections in 65 Countries Around the World (microsoft.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    >>Companies and individuals that choose Windows...

    You have no idea what you are talking about. Furthermore, plenty of mission critical, and hell, even day to day, software, ONLY runs under Windows. So you want to do business, you have no choice, MS or nothing.
    And no, WINE won't cut it, many software packages refuse to run under emulation (we have several that way) and are programmed to look for such an environment (including VMs) and shut down if they encounter it.

    I'm a linux fan, but people like you aren't helping linux, you're hurting it.

  24. Use compassion and moral guidance. Remember, a prison is supposed to be about rehab, not outright punishment. The Nordic countries do it right.

  25. Dumped my TV in 1989 on The Cable TV Industry Is Getting Even Less Popular (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything, except a whopping monthly bill for channels I'd never watch...