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  1. Re:Supply constrained??? BS on Apple's Risky Balancing Act With the Next iPhone (macworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple is sitting on over $250 billion USD in cash:

    http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/02...

    I'm sure Apple can spend whatever it takes to make as many iphones as they choose.

    Well, when you have justly deserved reputation of screwing over sub-suppliers, I doubt many would be willing to just take Apple's word for it that they will buy 200 million components, when they also refuse to sign a contract to pay damages if they don't.

  2. Re:My ASUS EeePC.... on Windows 10 Creators Upgrade Cuts Support For Some Intel PCs Early (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    ...Came with Windows XP, but now runs 16.04 lubuntu.

    It's still running fine with a 2GB upgrade, and will probably do so until the Y2038 bug

    Why would that stop it? The unix clock can be 64-bit even if the processor is not ;)

  3. Re:low end 32bit only cpus at the amd was all 64 on Windows 10 Creators Upgrade Cuts Support For Some Intel PCs Early (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    ...and they are blaming the Windows display bug on the processor???

    Yes, on the PowerVR GPU. If you know anything about those, you know they suck and have the shittiest drivers.

  4. Sugar is not that big of a problem. The main problem is if your consumed processed food where it is already added, so you are getting too much of it. A bit of sugar in your coffee is a lot healthier and more slimming than not drinking coffee or drinking lattes. Both sugar and coffee are hunger supressing, and will make you eat less (unlike artificial sweeteners that makes you more hungry and eat more).

  5. Re:Avoiding Shelfware on Ask Slashdot: What Are The Lesser-Known Roles Of The IT Department? · · Score: 1

    Ahh, that is a new meaning of shelfware. It thought shelfware is what can be bought ready of "shelves" in the virtual stores, which is sually what you want, nothing too weird that will end up being a maintaince or use nightmare, only buy custom and rare things when it is absolutely necessary for the business, and ensure you have in-house expertise when you do.

  6. Re:Not intelligence, not invention on Facebook's AI Keeps Inventing Languages That Humans Can't Understand (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    It is not even that. It is not the most efficient, it is the most efficient it needs to be to play the game, not the most efficient. It is basically baby-babble, because the game they play is so basic nothing more is needed, so the language used degenerate into baby babble.

  7. Re:America will never become Idiocracy on In America, Most Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad for the Country (chronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Republicans: Challenge accepted.

    I think the phrase was: "Hold my martini"

  8. Re: Evergreen State on In America, Most Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad for the Country (chronicle.com) · · Score: 0

    I you serious or being sarcastic? I can't tell anymore, there people retarded enough on the US right wing to say stuff like that with a straight face you know.

  9. Re:Why am I not surprised? on Automakers Are Asking China To Slow Down Electric Car Quotas (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    The issue is not with having electrict cars or building them, but specifically having to build them in China.

  10. I think he meant you could update the CPU more easily, but yeah, Intel CPU are unlikely to be the thing that makes you throw out the machine either.

  11. You check standard hiring practice. You can't catch one HR bending the rules, but you can punish companies with written policies that are clearly illegal. If the rule breaking is only ttaught in seminars, often somebody tapes it to protect themselves, and if they ever have issues with the company leaks it.

  12. Re:I remember BeOS on 24 Cores and the Mouse Won't Move: Engineer Diagnoses Windows 10 Bug (wordpress.com) · · Score: 1

    2D acceleration is now done using OpenGL framebuffers without a perspective transform or equivalent in Direct3D

  13. In many jurisdictions, it's technically illegal for an emergency service vehicle (e.g. police car, fire engine, ambulance) to speed or break red lights. It's also illegal to prosecute them if they're attending to an emergency.

    It is legal under emergency law/necessity. You don't need special laws to make it legal to break the law when saving human law, it is already covered by "necessity".

  14. Re: Effects on overall speed? on OpenBSD Will Get Unique Kernels On Each Reboot (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    This is a good clarification. Macs already do this:
    https://developer.apple.com/li...

    No, not as far as I can tell. There is a difference between linking and relinking like this. Technically Linux kernels are also linked with their drivers in initrd when loaded, but that is separate from this new randomized relinking.

  15. Re:FFS, it's a phone contract on Forced Arbitration Isn't 'Forced' Because No One Has To Buy Service, Says AT&T (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You buy a mobile phone, you pay $50-100/month. If you don't like it, you go somewhere else. What exactly are you planning on suing AT&T for?

    What are they planning to get away with? If they aren't planning to do something illegal why are they forcing probably illegal contract terms onto their customers to hide themselves from the law?

  16. Re:That no one chooses to offer a competing servic on Forced Arbitration Isn't 'Forced' Because No One Has To Buy Service, Says AT&T (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That no one chooses to offer a competing service doesn't force AT&T to change it's TOS.

    Yes it does, and so does the fact that it violates the US constitution.

  17. Why is it that American law permits clauses in contracts that deny people access to the law of the land?

    That's incendiary phrasing. You could ask why does British law forbid people the right to designate an arbitrator to resolve disputes.

    It is not incendiary, it was entirely fair phrasing.

    The reason is a little thing called contract law, that also applies in the US, but has been weakened several times, including an ill thought out law that enabled this, though it contradicts the basis of all contract law.

    The reason contract law exist is because it used to be possible to sell yourself into slavery, and with the powers of banks and land owners they used to make sure you had to sell yourself into slavery to have home, job or any life. This was called serfdom and was rolled back gradually over a couple of hundred years. The US is currently in the process of reintroducing it.

  18. Re:Extremely thin "evidence" on The Petya Ransomware Is Starting To Look Like a Cyberattack in Disguise (theverge.com) · · Score: 3

    You are really stupid or really shilly. So let's pretend the russian never entered eastern Ukraine and shot down a commercial airline and bragged about it. They still invaded Crimea and even annexed it.

  19. Care to name half a dozen neighboring countries parts of which Putin annexed de facto or otherwise?

    I could name three: Geogia (twice), Ukraine and Moldova, not sure what the last three might be.

  20. Re:Media trust. on The Guardian Backtracks On WhatsApp 'Backdoor' Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Trust the media that retracts stories when they rarely are wrong, and do not trust the media that never retracts stories because they are wrong every day on purpose. It is not difficult.

    This increases my trust in the Guardian.

  21. Re:Binocular Vision on Volvo's Driverless Cars 'Confused' by Kangaroos (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    All self driving/autonomous/driver assisted cars have minimum 2 cameras.
    Facepalm.

    They have a lot more than that, but they are usually not mounted in pairs pointing in the same direction.

  22. Re:The fact she sells these at $120 on Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop $120 'Bio-Frequency Healing' Sticker Packs Get Shot Down by NASA (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    disproves the belief that being rich means you must be smart.

    Why do you think that "the rich" are buying this product? My experience is that it is the poor that are more likely to squander their money on stupid crap. That is a big part of why they are poor.

    That is not my experience. Poor people get in more trouble squandering their money on stupid crap, but rich people are more likely to do it.

  23. Re:120 whatchyamacallit on It's Too Hot For Some Planes To Fly In Phoenix (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    And you're perpetuating a common falsehood, that's been thoroughly debunked.

    It's a nice story, but it's not true. The origin of the scale comes from Ole Romer who set freezing of water at 7.5, and human body temperature at 23.5, and boiling point at 60. Fahrenheit didn't like this scale because of the fractions so he just bumped everything up by 0.5. Freezing at 8, body temperature at 24. Later on he multiplied everything by 4. Freezing now becomes 32, body temperature 96, boiling at 212.

    But there's probably more to the story, since 1oF increase in temperature increases the volume of Mercury by 1 part in 10,000. Did this play into it? No one knows.

    Interesting story. I highly recommend Veritasium's video on the subject:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Similarly Celsius is also based on the Rømer scale, because French Reumer thought the numbers were wierd and made a his own scale with freezing at 0Ri and boiling at 80Ri. And then a crazy Swedish guy decided that was all silly and freezing should be at 100C and boiling at 0C. People copying his scale ignored the crazy part and turned it back the right way around, but kept attributing the crazy Swede.

  24. Re:Millions will perish. on A Third Of the Planet's Population Is Exposed To Deadly Heatwaves (motherjones.com) · · Score: 1

    that is based on the famous hockey stick graph which has been debunked .

    I think you mistyped verified by everybody, even by scientists funded by the Koch brothers specifically to debunk it.

  25. Re:Millions will perish. on A Third Of the Planet's Population Is Exposed To Deadly Heatwaves (motherjones.com) · · Score: 1

    million of people are going to die and millions more will migrate and it will reshape our societies

    You mean that the same process that has been going on for hundreds of thousands of years is going to continue? That's not exactly a bold prediction.

    ? Heating for thousands of years.. No

    It has been going on for 200 years, and is on an exponential curve, making it sucker punch now that it is kicking in.