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  1. Re:This approach is absolutely counterproductive on Symantec May Violate Linux GPL in Norton Core Router (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    See, if they complied with the GPL2 we'd know the answer to that. Very useful thing for the customer.

    For what many of these vendors want to do, the BSD license is more useful.

  2. that's correct on Sheryl Sandberg: Users Would Have To Pay To Opt Out of Facebook Ads (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Users of facebook are the product. Don't like it, do what I did 8 years ago, and leave it

  3. Re:This approach is absolutely counterproductive on Symantec May Violate Linux GPL in Norton Core Router (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Not counterproductive at all, there is a purpose that is for the customer's benefit to the GPL. How do you know the drivers they chose to use aren't GPL?

  4. Re:Its not impossible on EFF: Google Should Not Help the US Military Build Unaccountable AI Systems (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Nonsense, some grid transformers *might* be lost is all. And the whining about length of replacement time is based on the stupidity of scaling normal manufacturing times which would not be the case in emergency. Chicken little screaming is all that is

  5. You are the one making an idiotic stance. We are not going to "an alien planet" with our space program. We are only going to have space stations and possibly humans on utterly barren worlds and asteroids in our solar system. There are no known habitable worlds in the universe but Earth thus far. The Kepler planets are merely candidates that could prove uninhabitable for a myriad of reasons, and we won't reach those in the next two centuries.

  6. Re:just run the 2nd OS in a VM and call it a day on Ask Slashdot: Why Are There No True Dual-System Laptops Or Tablet Computers? · · Score: 1

    Means everything when most people on the planet are using phones. You sound like the loser of an argument grasping at straws.

  7. These flaws make the manufacturer's specs and claims of security lies.

    No, the consumers did not demand bad design. That was Intel's doing.

    Intels design is garbage, done with complete and reckless disregard for security. The flaws were pointed out two decades ago and they never ever bothered to fix it.

  8. Re:Thinking Machines on AI Experts Boycott South Korean University Over 'Killer Robots' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    ...after which mankind was controlled by two cabals of manipulative bossy bitches on permanent PMS. I'll take the killer AI instead, thanks.

  9. Re: Stop sign on Is It Illegal to Trick a Robot? (ssrn.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow,I didn't know we were driving cars for 1 million years. Damn. So that's how homo erectus spread over 3 continents so fast, they just went "ungah bungah.... ROAD TRIP!"

    Explains why we find so many of their teeth and bones too, since safety belts in automobiles weren't common until the mid 20th century.

  10. you talk like an Intel shill, do you own stock?

    The flaws have existed for 2 decades.

    Intel's first reaction was to say the OS vendors would have to make software fixes for their garbage design.

  11. 10 year old computers are useful for all mainstream serious activities: word processing, spreadsheets, email, browsing

  12. Re:improvements on Linux 4.16 Released (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes it can, you are speaking in ignorance, I admin hundreds of systems with 1.5 million users. The systemd way is wrong.

  13. Re:improvements on Linux 4.16 Released (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    If there is not enough resource a human should be looking at that system, not just restarting a daemon

    instead the majority of the use cases is unstable garbage like mysql that doesn't even belong in a business.

  14. Re: Non-ionizing radiation can be harmful on Two Studies Find 'Clear Evidence' That Cellphone Radiation Causes Cancer In Rats (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    But that is exactly what is happening in radar installation technicians, the organs without large internal blood movement for cooling, e.g. eyballs, become more susceptible to tumors and cancer and it is do to heating

  15. Re:Yes it does... on 'Nature' Explores Why So Many Postgrads Have Bad Mental Health (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    Bad question, the logical question would be "how easily could you start a University vs. starting a corporate worth hundreds of millions."

    If you want to compare starting a business with educational endeavor, it would be

    "How easy is it to start an online school vs. starting some other kind of business."

    In which case either is very doable.

  16. Re:Don't take it literally on Ask Slashdot: Are 'Full Stack' Developers a Thing? · · Score: 1

    Put the word "slave" in front of it, for the long uncompensated hours and shit benefits.

  17. We're talking about CPU chips here.

    Some graphics systems have wonderful specs by the way, and we have open source drivers for them because of it. Are there any open source graphics projects that haven't flopped yet? seems we're doing just fine there too as long as you pick your card...

  18. Re:improvements on Linux 4.16 Released (phoronix.com) · · Score: 0

    indeed, that restart feature is a bandage for shoddy software, today's developers are largely an inferior species churning out unstable crap.

  19. Re:improvements on Linux 4.16 Released (phoronix.com) · · Score: 0

    Fallacy, if your daemon is crashing, like say mysqld does, it's a piece of shit. It's just going to crash again. Properly written daemons will have uptime of years. I know this is a shocking revelation to today's low watt bulb developers, with their unstable and shaky LAMP stack crap...

  20. AI - hah on To Protect AI From Attacks, Show It Fake Data (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    not doing anything that couldn't be done without big enough array of pneumatics or gears....we'll never do what a biological brain can do, or improve on that, going down this path

    I suspect the real answer to AI will be in the realm of biology, to grow systems that don't have the pesky problems of animal neural nets like lifespan

  21. Re:How does the State award contracts? on Was The Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse Triggered By Post-Tensioning? (enr.com) · · Score: 1

    oh no, I've been watching the whole shebang go to hell for over five decades of "affirmative action" in the USA

  22. Re:Another brilliant insight on 'Thousands of Companies Are Spying On You' (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You underestimate totally the power of gossipy women since roughly 8000 B.C. Profiling, demographics, data mining. 3rd party tracking....those "stitch and bitch" sewing circle sessions had it all

  23. Last I checked the proprietary chips also had documentation, specs and support.

  24. Re:Self-selection on 'Nature' Explores Why So Many Postgrads Have Bad Mental Health (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    "world of maturity"??!!!!

    Having had professional jobs in corporate america with its nepotism, cronyism, internal politics and intrigue, feifdoms for more than a couple decades, I can assure you that realm has no more of it than typical college

  25. No, we don't understand the mechanism of many poisons but still can provably show such are harmful with controlled experiment.

    We might find RF harmful without understanding the mechanism by controlled experiments.