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  1. Re: Why would anyone buy a DRM-infested POS on Amazon's Kindle Voyage May Be Over (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    not locked down, I can import and read open documents too. In fact, it's more useful than any open source device the way things are at present.

  2. Re:Maybe if you're a paper-shuffler.. on Bank of England Chief Economist Warns On AI jobs Threat (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    eh, robots can't cook, that the thing the wondrous burger-flipping-robot has proved.

    robotic delivery? well there are those 20 in Washington D.C. being tested. wait till a whackjob puts a bomb in one and that'll be the end of that. Not a threat to jobs in the near term. Meanwhile delivery jobs are going up...

    You keep making things up seeing visions in your crystal ball and quoting fear mongering articles about The Future. Meanwhile, facts and reality are against you. Employment is going up, unemployment going down if you haven't noticed....

  3. about the only type of job AI is good for on Google Just Put an AI in Charge of Keeping Its Data Centers Cool (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    So the worry-wart slashdotter was right, "A"I put thousands out of work. Thousands of older model thermostats, haha.

    Of course anything this "deep think" AI is doing could have been done 60+ years ago with an analog computer, you tards know that right?

  4. Re:Maybe if you're a paper-shuffler.. on Bank of England Chief Economist Warns On AI jobs Threat (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope, Let's have some facts instead of your imagination.

    For example, in the UK, automation eliminated 800,000 jobs, but created 3.5 million new ones.

    https://venturebeat.com/2017/0...

    The numbers are even huger for the USA.

    There is no problem. The work will never end.

  5. breaking is the right word.

    just go around with a bat and a friend, practice those pitching and hitting skills. Any self righteous goody-goody who wants to stop you should have sense enough not to mouth off to a crazy motherfucker swinging a bat, amIright?

  6. I'm 54 years old and never heard of nasal intercourse.

    So, is your roommates nose wide? deep? nice and tight? Because I'm guessing you're not...puny...but probably average sized at least.

  7. Re:It's not the size of your telescope, on Construction Begins On $1 Billion Telescope That Will Take Pictures 10 Times Sharper Than Hubble's (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    it's not how long it is, but how wide it is.

      this one is wide...

  8. Re:Maybe if you're a paper-shuffler.. on Bank of England Chief Economist Warns On AI jobs Threat (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No reduction happened. my employer is decades old. staff is bigger than ever since they went to "Automated Data Processing" in the 1980s and all that is due to computers including jobs that didn't even exist like making web sites, IT department, data entry, etc.

    Computers have created a massive amount of jobs in the economy. the curve has been going upward not down.

  9. Re:Maybe if you're a paper-shuffler.. on Bank of England Chief Economist Warns On AI jobs Threat (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Computers can't even "shuffle paper" properly. There are jobs where people deal with the fuckups computers make. We have a call center at my employer with a dozen people who do nothing but resolve computer fuckups. They're hiring.

    It's clear from the last 50 years that computers create jobs with no end in sight.

  10. Re:Why would anyone buy a DRM-infested POS on Amazon's Kindle Voyage May Be Over (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    mine is the 2012 model... battery still good

    the naysayers might point to the "Animal Farm" book Amazon retracted when the source company didn't really have rights to it.... but good grief

    There are 48.5 million books available for kindle. 1 out of 48.5 million had that problem and so autists go full on Richard Stallman pulpit pounding? Pfffftttt.

    The paper versions didn't go away, I could read those with a magnifying glass if the day comes all kindles die. But Kindle is convenient, it works, it never failed me.

    Besides, the naysayers are hypocrites, their PC have all kinds of embedded DRM BLOBS that no one knows what the heck they do. There is no totally open system.

  11. Re:Why would anyone buy a DRM-infested POS on Amazon's Kindle Voyage May Be Over (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    because it works to read books in any font size I want with old eyes that have trouble with paper books.

    I can read my kindle books on other devices too if I wanted. Like in browser.

    The DRM doesn't even matter in this case, it's just an appliance. if amazon went away the kindle still works too.

    Been using it for 8 years with no issue.

  12. Re:If you can read it, you can save it. on Gmail Now Lets You Send Self-Destructing 'Confidential Mode' Emails From Your Phone (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I will actively seek ways to bounce such emails at my employer and my own domain servers. It violates record retention and other legal requirements.

  13. Re:Use GSSAPI on Encrypt NFSv4 with TLS Encryption Using Stunnel (linuxjournal.com) · · Score: 1

    People that have never done such things shouldn't comment using something they read as only reference. We do NFS over vpn on public internet across the country without issue. With today's gigabit plus links and high performance encryption hardware in firewalls there is no problem

  14. Re:NVidia is terrible on Nvidia Is Giving Up On the Cryptocurrency Mining Market (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    no they will not take a niche market with no future. bitcoin is deeply flawed for it's claimed purpose. there are alternative better scaling crypto coin architectures in the works. BTC will finally auger into the ground because of its flaws.

  15. Re:Strong argument, bro on Linux Study Argues Monolithic OS Design Leads To Critical Exploits (osnews.com) · · Score: 1

    No, QNX is not fit for general purpose OS or server, it's a real time OS. Corporations are not serving internet and middleware and database from QNX servers.

    It is not fit for desktop, though yes some here have loaded it onto desktop proving exactly nothing, it's a toy. No one here is posting from QNX desktop and they're not using QNX desktop at work.

  16. Re:Real-world examples on Linux Study Argues Monolithic OS Design Leads To Critical Exploits (osnews.com) · · Score: 1

    yeah that's really cute. you can run HURD on some desktops too.

  17. Re:Fuchsia is for computers too on Linux Study Argues Monolithic OS Design Leads To Critical Exploits (osnews.com) · · Score: 1

    wasn't talking about Fuchsia but QNX, yet to be seen if Fuchsia can do anything it claims. Put your crystal ball away and we'll see someday what reality is.

  18. Re: Real-world examples on Linux Study Argues Monolithic OS Design Leads To Critical Exploits (osnews.com) · · Score: 1

    the Wind River one is dead.

    RTL does have some use...does anyone use RTL in real world besides for radio (not knocking that use)

  19. Re:11 of 21? on Recruiters Are Still Complaining About No-Shows At Interviews (kyma.com) · · Score: 1

    the recruiters are just as rude to the majority of the candidates, not even bothering to contact them to tell them they are no longer being considered.

    recruiters rewrite resumes with lies (which is why they want it in word format), post jobs that other recruiters have posted even though they haven't even contacted the other recruiter (linkedin has a lot of these fakers), don't understand the industries they're recruiting for at all...

    recruiters are the scum of the earth, treat them as such.

  20. Re:NVidia is terrible on Nvidia Is Giving Up On the Cryptocurrency Mining Market (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    sounds like butt-hurt miner talk

    nvidia doesn't need a market that has small saturation point

    bitcoin too illiquid to be useful as money because of its bottlenecked architecture.

    maybe someday someone will design a cryptocurrency that is actually useful to the masses, but that day is not now

  21. Re:Real-world examples on Linux Study Argues Monolithic OS Design Leads To Critical Exploits (osnews.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    means nothing, there are reactors being "run" by logic arrays with no microprocessors at all.

    get it through your head, embedded real time OS is different thing than Linux

  22. Re:Real-world examples on Linux Study Argues Monolithic OS Design Leads To Critical Exploits (osnews.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Linux did NOT start out as an embedded OS.

    Linux did NOT start out as real time operating system.

    Huge difference between the two, not for the same purpose nor the same job.

  23. Re:Use GSSAPI on Encrypt NFSv4 with TLS Encryption Using Stunnel (linuxjournal.com) · · Score: 1

    WAN links and networking have evolved much over the lifespan of NFS. It can be done over WAN now with no problem.

  24. Re:Real-world examples on Linux Study Argues Monolithic OS Design Leads To Critical Exploits (osnews.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Utterly irrelevant to bring up a little embedded OS fit for cars and blackberries and compare it to Linux. You have no point,

  25. Re:Misses the point of NFS on Encrypt NFSv4 with TLS Encryption Using Stunnel (linuxjournal.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    actually, NFS has encryption option, and the article tries to justify this extraneous stunnel solution by stating "waaah, it's too hard to do the built in..." which is bullshit

    You can do NFS securely and without stunnel. end of story.