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  1. You're thinking of AOL, not AIM on AIM Has Been Resurrected. Kind Of. (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    AIM was just another ICQ rip-off. Not to dissimilar to todays Telegram, WeChat, Whatsapp and the likes.

  2. Was part of the Internet, yes on AIM Has Been Resurrected. Kind Of. (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Independent of the Web altogether.

  3. Re:Experts on WHO Gaming Disorder Listing a 'Moral Panic', Say Experts (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    I'm confident that what experts they did have are no longer in the loop. The legal declarations around addiction as a whole reek of driven bureaucracy. Lacking of real science and certainly lacking of experts.

  4. Re:Of course! You're happy with yourself on People's Egos Get Bigger After Meditation and Yoga, Says Study (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll happily hang on to my bytes of ego, thanks.

  5. Re:MRAM could be better than Xpoint on Researchers Invent a Way to Speed Intel's 3D XPoint Computer Memory (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    MRAM is at least as dense as DRAM on the same process tech, and potentially denser than DRAM at finer processes. Just no one is making MRAM in anything like the latest process. The chicken and egg scenario here. And probably a lot of patents slowing things down too.

    MRAM doesn't inherently use more power. STT-MRAM, more than a decade ago, reduced the write-current requirements a lot.

  6. Of course! You're happy with yourself on People's Egos Get Bigger After Meditation and Yoga, Says Study (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You've just completed a supposedly beneficial task. It's no different to completing a task at work or even winning a competition that matter.

    One would hope one is happy occasionally.

  7. There's time, fission will take a while to fade. No one seems in a rush to deal with decontaminating closed sites.

  8. Fusion is coming on America's Nuclear Reactors Can't Survive Without Government Handouts (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Fission is just treading water until then.

  9. Commercial television on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the commercialisation of television. Free market competition has no mandate to educate. Education takes a lot of effort - which equates to money in market terms.

    And of course that's applies equally to Facebook.

  10. Free market == monopoly on Judge Rules AT&T Can Acquire Time Warner (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the free market's outcome right now. Unregulated, ie: free for businesses, only has monopolistic outcomes. Oh, and that same unregulated situation also leads to slavery.

  11. It's not a win or lose calculation, it's about maintaining strong popularity. Avoiding a campaign that could have included taking away more sparkly things would be worth the wait.

    Keep privacy concerns firmly in the helpless camp, will be the attitude.

  12. I note this action has probably been held off until after the recent elections.

  13. Wierd, it's chicken, but why? on Russia Demands Apple Remove Telegram From Russian App Store (macrumors.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It doesn't seem their usual approach to be so lenient. It's like they are trying to get Apple to blink first. I would have thought that any warnings would be made very clear behind closed doors.

    So why make the warnings public at all? It must be a popularity problem, as in the wealthy are being told to prepare for no more iPhones.

    Which probably makes the Russian iPhone market quite valuable to Apple also. So I guess it follows that Apple might actually cave on this one. Hence the mind games.

    Can Apple count on enough support to change the government's mind? I doubt it, this is obviously driven straight from the top.

  14. Who said this isn't a government intervention? on Huawei Will No Longer Allow Bootloader Unlocking On Its Android Handsets (androidauthority.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It certainly wouldn't be the first time a government used a "national security" blanket excuse to covertly force something down a company's gullet.

  15. Re:Wrong order... on Suspect Identified In CIA 'Vault 7' Leak (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My guess is the CIA had a short list of likely suspects and when the documents were revelled those individuals were all given a poke. Anyone of that group that appeared to run would be arrested.

    The charges will, of course, be fabricated because there isn't any evidence for who leaked the documents.

  16. Patents, copyright and licensing on Interviews: Ask a Question To Christine Peterson, the Nanotech Expert Who Coined the Term 'Open Source' · · Score: 2

    Cut back the max term lengths to something sane like 5 years.

  17. More about product sales ... on Are Research Papers Less Accurate and Truthful Than in the Past? (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Politics doesn't need stats to push an agenda.

  18. Science did its job in the 1970's and 1980's. on Can Problems From Climate Change Be Addressed With Science? (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It has always been a political solution since then. We just have to decide to act.

  19. Remove 'push' tech on 'Why YouTube's New Plan to Debunk Conspiracy Videos Won't Work' (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia went through their hurdles long ago. As in 10-15 years ago. It is being managed at surprisingly good levels. It hasn't outwardly programmatically changed in all that time.

    This is testament to the basic 'pull' tech of ordinary HTML.

    The only real problem is the 'push' technologies that support rapid spread of ideas, any idea, good or bad. Eliminate 'push'ing and the fake news problem mostly goes away.

    Let the Web go back to what it was intended to be - an information repository.

  20. Win-Tel over again on How Amazon Became Corporate America's Nightmare (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the logical outcome of "free-market" policies.

  21. Wrong country on Facebook Has Turned Into a Beast in Myanmar, UN Says (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    The problems reported are in the country they came from, not where they fled to. In other words, the Facebook problem is what forced them to cross the border.

  22. Re:Modularity will solve much on Most Americans Think AI Will Destroy Other People's Jobs, Not Theirs (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a key point of the process of course. The labour component vanishes completely along the way. And once there is no labour input then it costs zero to produce. And economic systems vanish too. All that's left to deal with is recycling of existing resources.

    The only question after that becomes, who gives the orders?

  23. Head-in-the-sand is normal thinking everywhere. They look at you like you're just scaremongering.

    And when they realise it is affecting them it's somone-else-should-be-fixing-this-now! And where's-all-my-cuddly-toys-gone?!

    The weather ain't being so nice any longer.

  24. Modularity will solve much on Most Americans Think AI Will Destroy Other People's Jobs, Not Theirs (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't see it happening any time soon but as, automation cheapens mass production even further, the cost of modular designs drops down to the point where what was expensive and chunky becomes cheap and chunky and so easy to handle that even basic robots will have no issue doing module swaps.

    Whole buildings will be based on it. The old rickety buildings will be bulldozed/reprocessed and vanish.

    Where something needs to be compact/portable then it becomes a single unrepairable unit. This is already pretty much the case now.

    Recycling is the final step here. Combine recycling with unlimited automation and it all becomes cost free.

  25. Re:Time to block them all on Sri Lanka Blocks Facebook, Instagram To Prevent Spread of Hate Speech (lankabusinessonline.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Agreed. No rules (global reach) + commercial = "wild-west"