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  1. Re:Check the teeth on Google Buys Part of HTC's Smartphone Team For $1.1 Billion (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Setting aside the random chip on your shoulder and just addressing your claim, how many non-Asians do you think a Taiwanese firm has? RoC tech visas are not so easy to get.

  2. British Rail and National Rail are not even attempting the same role. BR was a vertically integrated organisation that got to maintain tracks and run trains. NR maintains the infrastructure for rail firms of various levels of competence who then proceed to cause reliability issues through feats like not managing to have enough drivers (hello Southern) and costing more in subsidies than BR did. So, well, you're slightly unfair to BR here.

  3. Re:We need to wind back the clock... on Sci-Hub Faces $4.8 Million Piracy Damages and ISP Blocking (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, and if you weren't claiming these donated costs as justifying your own costs, then that would be fair. As it is, it is extremely disingenuous to claim those costs in a comparison to open access, zero-cost to reader journals, which also have those costs donated.

  4. Re: Android, for those who don't care about secur on Android One Is Anything But Dead, Google Reaffirms With Xiaomi Mi A1 (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Sure. I agree that racists are a subset of the set 'people I don't agree with'.

    I'm OK with that.

  5. Re: Android, for those who don't care about securi on Android One Is Anything But Dead, Google Reaffirms With Xiaomi Mi A1 (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    "And this is precisely why Slashdot needs to do away with moderation."

    A quick visit to Voat will tell you the utter cess pit of racists that that results in.

  6. Re:This is why the US need a smaller government... on Sweden Accidentally Leaks Personal Details of Nearly All Citizens (thehackernews.com) · · Score: 1

    Classy with the affiliate link there, that wasn't at all transparently motivated.

  7. Re: THIS is the danger. on Ethereum Exchange Reimburses Customer Losses After 'Flash Crash' (gdax.com) · · Score: 1

    If the New York Stock Exchange shut down trading of currencies that wouldn't indicate you could not use those currencies to buy goods and services - including other currencies! on other exchanges! - outside of the NYSE. This is why you are able to spend dollars outside of the NYSE trading hours (Monday through Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m).

  8. Re: $1.43? Unlikely. on Anthem To Pay $115 Million In The Largest Data Breach Settlement Ever (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    This community - and you - are really quite disgustingly prejudiced.

  9. Re:A good first step on Trump Plans To Dismantle Obama-Era 'Startup Visa' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Only one problem: this is a way for immigrants to legally start businesses in the USA. It's now being shut down. How does that help with illegal immigration?

  10. > In the mean time the average life expectancy of a house built in the past 50 years is ... 50 years anyway American house building methods are astonishingly slipshod.

  11. Re: The Freedom to Choose on Delays In Unlocking Cellphones Seized In Inauguration Day Protests? (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    I have also been to Nepal. I walked to Kala Pattar from the Rai areas, rather than flying into Lukla. It cost me less than $10 a day.

  12. Re: a matter of kettle on Delays In Unlocking Cellphones Seized In Inauguration Day Protests? (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 2
    "there are only two known chromosomal configations ... XX and XY."

    This is factually untrue. See XXX, XXXX, XXXX, XXY, XY/XXY mosaic, XYY. The list goes on.

  13. Re: Have fun with those Pwn points! on Edge, VMWare, Safari, And Ubuntu Linux Hacked at Pwn2Own 2017 (trendmicro.com) · · Score: 1

    They aren't getting richer, they have committed most of their assets to ongoing projects. As such, they have become poorer in the purely personal sense.

  14. Re:yeah, tax the robots on Backlash Builds Against Bill Gates' Call For A Robot Tax (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    No they don't. As an example, the polio eradication program has continued in all states that have cases of polio regardless of IP laws...and some cynics would say that eradicating a disease does not exactly set up an ongoing market for vaccines.

  15. Re:yeah, tax the robots on Backlash Builds Against Bill Gates' Call For A Robot Tax (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    That is a lie, and you are a liar. Bill Gates got rich by abusing Microsoft's monopoly position. The USDoJ found that Microsoft (under the direct control of Gates) basically abused its position in every way possible. And then under Bush, John Ashcroft declared that they would not be punished in any way. Then the Gates Foundation was created to hide those ill-gotten goods from future administrations which might try to seize them.

    Cunning hiding it away in things like vaccination programs and other A rated charitable activities? I dislike the MS story as much as anyone, but to say that Gates hasn't used his money for genuine philanthropy is myopic.

  16. No change in her technical competence since she ran HP into the ground, I see.

  17. Re:Antitrust on Google Apps License Forbids Forking, Promotes Google Services · · Score: 1

    It does not. Of course the Sherman act isn't a law, so you can't violate it as such. It's what and when the government should look at trust issues.

    ...what do you think the 'Act' in Sherman Act refers to?

  18. Re:Actually, it IS that easy on Nokia Turns To Android To Regain Share In Emerging Markets · · Score: 1

    GMS isn't licenced on a payment basis.

  19. Re:or stop hiding... on Assange's Lawyers: Follow Swedish Law, Interrogate Him In the UK · · Score: 1

    If he'd really thought that he wouldn't have run off to hide in an embassy - he'd have waited for any indictment then played it out in court THEN gone to an embassy if things looked bad.

    This is almost exactly what happened, but thanks for your uninformed reckon.

  20. Re:Wacky thinking on Kansas To Nix Expansion of Google Fiber and Municipal Broadband · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It matters not whether you follow Christian beliefs or not during your time on this earth, but when you shed your mortal coil and find yourself in the Pit you will wail in disbelief ... but by that time, it will be too late.

    AKA: "I don't care about people, but I'm forced to be ethical because otherwise I'll be in the pit." That's an inspiring ethical approach you've got there.

  21. Re: I had a N900 too... on Ask Slashdot: Life After N900? · · Score: 2

    No need to virtualise, one can run it in a chroot.

  22. Re:"The Justin Bieber of chess" ?! on 23-Year-Old Chess Grandmaster Whips Bill Gates In 71 Seconds · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sure, although it's worth noting that Bieber is more of a heartthrob that sings. That's not to knock his singing per se, but he's no grand master and certainly wouldn't be globally #1 rated. Just like Hilton, his main skill is being very charismatic in an attention economy and he primarily supplies eyeballs.

    Carlsen plays the best chess in the world and happens to be attractive. That's the difference.

  23. Re:When will Wayland contain this essential featur on X11/X.Org Security In Bad Shape · · Score: 1

    Jokes aside, trademarks only apply in the same field of business (as can be seen in Apple Corps v Apple Computer). It is Wayland though.

  24. Re:I'm seeing this more on the biography side on Wikipedia Actively Battling PR Sockpuppets · · Score: 1

    You have been marked as next for policy correction.

  25. Re:Set course for accountability... on NSA Chief Built Star Trek Like Command Center · · Score: 1

    It's not about not having a nice office. Making people unhappy and unproductive is stupid.

    My issue is that it's designed for the ego of the person in the main chair at the cost of practicality. You can't, for instance, see what people are doing behind you or easily go to their desk. Nor can you look your workers in the eye without leaving the chair, and it's a massive screen in a data gathering operation that is the opposite of something that needs quick command decisions. If it was on a warship I'd think it was poorly placed for crew communication. Since it's in an admin office it's a remarkably classless piece of manhood compensation for the boss that actually makes the office work less well.

    I'd be embarrassed to be the person who had commissioned that, and not because I believe in hair shirts for public officials.