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  1. Nothing Robert Moses thought of was a good idea.

    I understand the people screaming about BIAS for this article.

    Its a concrete description of how bad an idea these socialist building projects and housing concepts were... and still are.

    Hindsight is 20/20 and hindsight says Robert Moses di an insane amount of damage to cities he had influence over...

    Socialist, a high.way? Are you trolling or that confused?

  2. Re:Lucky it was a kill switch on 'Accidental Hero' Finds Kill Switch To Stop Wana Decrypt0r Ransomware (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    In the next malware it might be "delete everything" switch.

    Why not both? :D

    Bonus: It would also finally put some reality into that old trope of which wire to cut.

  3. Re:97 percent accuracy is probably not good enough on Apple Watch Can Detect An Abnormal Heart Rhythm With 97 Percent Accuracy, UCSF Study Says (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    With a heart beating at roughly 100 times per minute that is 3 false positives every minute.. Not quite good enough..

    Depending on how they measure the precisions.

  4. Silicon Valley might be hunting unicorns in the wrong places.

    Endangered species weren't a good enough kill for them so they are going after our cryptozoological entities? THOSE BASTARDS!

    This is why Bigfoot refuses to work in IT. ;)

    Considering what Silicon Valley is doing instead, is hunting "whales", I am not sure that is much better.

  5. Re:Live by the FCC - die by the FCC on John Oliver Gets Fired Up Over Net Neutrality, Causes FCC's Site To Temporarily Crash (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    The FCC is part of the executive branch of government what you call the administration, so you are blaming the administration of being political?

    I have heard the Pope might be catholic too, maybe that would also be a worthy cause for you?

  6. Re:Discovery tool only Windows on Intel's Remote Hijacking Flaw Was 'Worse Than Anyone Thought' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The Discovery Tool from Intel is a Windows executable. So how about the rest of us, Intel? Are our Intel CPUs vulnerable?

    Only if you have a machine specifically made to be a workstation. Unless it is at work, you probably only have one if you have ThinkPad, Macbook Pro or another high-end business or workstation laptop.

  7. Blank stares on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Handle Interruptions At Work? · · Score: 2

    I think I chose not to swap out and when interrupted I stay in the working state and just stare blankly at the interruption until it goes away.

  8. Any way to disable this in Linux?

    No it exists above the normal operation of the computer, it is basically a separate secret computer inside your computer to remotely control and monitor you, and will run even when the computer is turned off (same sub-system as wake-on-lan). You need to disable it in the BIOS.

  9. Re:Who gains the most from dividing the EU? on 'Weaponized' Twitter Bots Spread Info From French Campaign Hack (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Western EU countries like France or Germany get loan with negative interests. Austerity makes no sense here.

    Germany does occationally, but not constantly, and I don't think France does at all. But you have to realise they are only negative because the government bonds are in low supply and high demand, if Germany issued more government bonds the price would drop rapidly.

  10. Re:Who gains the most from dividing the EU? on 'Weaponized' Twitter Bots Spread Info From French Campaign Hack (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    Who gains the most from dividing the EU?

    People from EU nations would gain by weakening the EU bureaucracy that enforces austerity on them.

    So people in alternative reality?

    No austerity is forced on anyone by the EU. Some is forced on themselves because they not only ran out of money but ran out of money to loan, and some nice EU countries offered to loan them even more in return for them stop spending over their limit, but that is not by the EU, that is by the charitable individual countries.

  11. Re:If the 5G standard is ratified by then on T-Mobile Says It Will Launch Nationwide 5G Network In Three Years (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They were the first network with 4g-class speeds using HSPA+ back in 2011. Even today, they frequently outperform other networks on speed tests. Sitting on my couch, I get 100 mbps on my phone, which is twice the speed of my internet connection through Comcast.

    HSPA+ is 3.5G, my point exactly.

  12. This is not likely to have an impact, IMO, as majority of french voters are already convinced that both candidates are highly toxic.

    Many will vote Macron while they hate him, because they consider Le Pen to be more dangerous. Hence a smear campaign against Macron is unlikely to change their votes.

    The same was the case in the US, but there the last minute FUD worked. Though Macrons lead is not in single digits, so I doubt the Russians and deep state fascists can duplicate the feat.

  13. Russia has a lot of useful idiots in the West. Some, I think, just don't want to admit the candidate or political movement they favor is either the unwitting beneficiary of Russian hacking "largess", or, potentially much more sinister, is actively courting it. I view these people as just a more brainless breed of partisan. But I do think there are some who are actually rather sympathetic to Russia, who admire the more autocratic leanings of the current Russian government. The latter, when they gain positions of influence, while they may not be out and out agents or moles, are still fairly dangerous.

    Le Pen's political movement, in particular, has historically pro-Fascist leanings, and most certainly views Russia in a fairly friendly light.

    Front National and Le Pen is officially endorsed and financially supported by Putin. and officially endorse Putin back.The favourable light is official

  14. Re:Gay jokes aren't offensive on FCC Considers Fining Stephen Colbert Over Controversial Trump Joke (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 0

    It's not always homophobic to mockingly refer to someone as a homo, or even a submissive bottom homo. Not every pejorative homosexual joke is homophobic or offensive. Sometime it's just boys being boys.

    CowboyNeal enjoys ruggedized USB sticks up his bunghole. See, it's all good.

    It is offensive to conservatives, and they are in power of the entire government including FCC. Objective facts doesn't matter.

  15. Why would it need to go through a water treatment plant? I don't see the need.

  16. Re:It is NOT a "democracy" on Leaked Document Reveals UK Plans For Wider Internet Surveillance (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy."

    Why do people keep referring to modern governments as "democracy"??? Have YOU voted on the issues? NO! Democracy is where We The People actually VOTE on issues.

    Current modern governments are representative, and the problem is: We The People are NOT being represented. The best fix is to FIRE the bastards. We need much more frequent elections: I propose at least twice a year.

    And we need either a People's Lobby, or shut down ALL lobbying.

    Democracy is a philosophy of power. It represents where the power to govern comes from. In democracies the government and legislators derive their power from some sort of direct or indirect mandate of the people.

    The best example of this is the US constitution, that declares itself as democratic in its first three words alone: "We the people.." All power in the document is allegedly derived from the people.

  17. Re:Why 4-digits on Intel Announces Xeon Scalable Processor Family (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    When the last one is always zero.

    Or 7 when they go CRAZY!

  18. Re:If the 5G standard is ratified by then on T-Mobile Says It Will Launch Nationwide 5G Network In Three Years (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    AFAIK 5G still isn't official so building a "true" 5G network would need to wait until we know what one is. It aint even scheduled to be ratified until 2020!

    Yeah, and they call it "true LTE".. I am guessing what they mean is that they are making a 4G network way too late, and is mistaking it for 5G, because they are that incompetent.

  19. Re:Marxapedia on China is Recruiting 20,000 People To Write Its Own Wikipedia (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    So now we'll have marxapedia to contrast with conservapedia..

    A fitting addition to the age of Fake News and Alternative Facts.

    More likely to be a chinese translation of conservapedia rather than a communist counter-point. What they will be denying due to conservative double-think is just different things, like the existence of Taiwan, that China has ever been split into multiple warring parts, that Tibet has ever been independent, etc.

  20. My dad was a COBOL programmer for more than 30 years, learned on an IBM System 36 in the late sixties and early seventies. He maintained that COBOL was very human-readable, especially compared to languages like C where something like

    for(;P("\n"),R--;P("|"))for(e=C;e--;P("_"+(*u++/8)%2))P("| "+(*u/4)%2);

    will clean-compile.

    At least it will once you replace the double-quotes with single-quotes, otherwise you are doing adress offsets from the undefined pointers of string constants, which compilers will as minimum complain about.

  21. Re:Why not call it 4.5G? Or 4 7/8G? on AT&T To Roll Out 5G Network That's Not Actually 5G (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, most of the US market called 3.5G for 4G until the real 4G LTE tech was launched. So the precedence for the American market is there. You round up!

  22. Remember that your router is limited to 1W output (FCC limits in the US for all 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz devices), fired in every direction. At a mere 1 meter away from the router, even if your cell is placed facing the router (to have maximim surface area), and assuming 100% efficiency... your cell would harvest about 0.0004 watts of charging power.

    But it will not be 100% efficient. Your cell will not be within 1 meter of the router most of the time. This entire idea is ludicrous, and anyone thinking that it's a great idea does not know much about physics.

    Time for a round of choose the hypothesis:

    #1 - Out of the 10,000+ engineers working for Apple, not even one of them knows about physics.

    #2 - At least one of them knows not only about physics, but also some other type of technology that would actually validate the patent filed (somehow).

    #3 - Patents for patents sake. Even fake news is still a (click) revenue generator. Oh, and is there an app for patents yet? 'Cause we need some patenty app goodness!

    Ironic how "dumb" phones have removable batteries that last for a week, and "smart" phones have non-removable batteries that struggle to last a day.

    You spelled month wrong ;) My last feature phone lasted 4 weeks on a charge when it was new, and was contemporary with the iPhone 1, but the feature phone had 3G.

  23. Re:"popular belief"??? on Popular Belief That Saturated Fat Clogs Up Arteries Is a Myth, Experts Say (independent.ie) · · Score: 1, Informative

    That's pretty rich, given that government guidelines have been saying for years that saturated fat is bad:

    Saturated fat can increase the risk of developing cardiovascular disease.

    The worst part isn't even that they falsely identified saturated fats as bad, but that for years governments told people to eat a low-fat, high-carb diet, which is pretty much a prescription for weight gain and diabetes.

    Considering this new research (not by experts, but singular, one controversial expert shill) is complete bunk, it might have been good thing to advise people to do what is good for them.

  24. Re:Remote Vaccinations on World's First Vaccine Against Malaria To Arrive Next Year, Says WHO (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    A vaccine that protects developed areas or non-locals in remote areas such as doctors from charities or workers building infrastructure is still immensely valuable. While they would likely survive malaria, it is not exactly a walk in the park, and some die anyway.

  25. Re:Sucks, but derivative work on Court Rules Fan Subtitles On TV and Movies Are Illegal (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Why don't you simply read up the law?
    Derived work and fair use are contradictions in terms.
    A work can only be one of the ...

    Fair use is a _defence_ for copyright infringement, copyright infringement can only happen with derived work. By DEFINITION all fair use are derived works.

    So this begs the question: Are you are shill or a troll?, because I find it hard to believe you can be that stupid by accident.