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  1. Re:Scientology not Science on Elon Musk: 'One In Billions' Chance We're Not Living In A Computer Simulation (vox.com) · · Score: 2

    Without ANY bugs? Really?

    Surely the whole of quantum mechanics is a bug? Spooky action at a distance?

  2. Re:Step 1: get a gun on Elon Musk: 'One In Billions' Chance We're Not Living In A Computer Simulation (vox.com) · · Score: 3

    You are positing a "Matrix" style simulation. What if it is more like a "Sims" game and you are no more than part of the simulation?

  3. Their mistake on How The FAA Shot Down 'Uber For Planes' (fee.org) · · Score: 1

    Flytenow's leadership met with members of the Federal Aviation Administration to ensure that they were complying with all laws and regulations.

    That's not how you build a Unicorn. Instead, you stick your fingers in your ears while loudly proclaiming, we are not a "bank|tax service|etc." until you are big enough that you can buy your own laws.

  4. ... buzzword salad deleted ....

    Translation: It's yet another social networking site.

  5. Re:Could systemd be responsible for the boot issue on Linux Kernel 4.6.1 Released; Some Users Report Boot Issue · · Score: 1

    I have seen the message "Address family not supported by protocol" when a program has IPv6 support but the kernel does not.

  6. Re:Make it into H2? on Chile Has So Much Solar Energy It's Giving It Away for Free (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Why not make it into H2 and export it?

    Because it requires a large infrastructure to actually separate and use that H2 and that infrastructure is unlikely to be economically viable because of the inherent inefficiencies of using hydrogen as an energy store.

  7. Re:"slowdown" on Expect Substantial Slowdown In Smartphone Shipment: IDC (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    The context is: "substantial slowdown in shipments". I don't see how that can possibly mean the second derivative.

  8. "slowdown" on Expect Substantial Slowdown In Smartphone Shipment: IDC (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    "Slowdown". I do not think that word means what you think it means.

  9. Re:Poverty on US Death Rate Rises, Health Officials Aren't Sure Why (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not just poverty. Medical insurance is so expensive and often has very high deductibles so that many middle class people don't go to the doctor when they probably should.

  10. I was pleased to note that they do consider subject lines as data ("content"), but the status of email addresses isn't so clear.

    Envelope addresses are clearly metadata, but there are also addresses in the data part of an smtp transaction. RFC 5321 vs RFC 2822, I think.

  11. Re:He's wrong of course on Net Neutrality Is Complicated: Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales (indiatimes.com) · · Score: 1

    So what you do is reduce your bandwidth to B2 from 50% to 25%, take the money you save and give it to executives and shareholders.

    That's how it works today.

  12. Re:Why a "center"? on Is Denver The Next High-Tech Center? (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Employees at other companies to poach?

    And laws that protect the right of those employees to change jobs.

  13. Re:Well fuck you, systemd on Systemd Starts Killing Your Background Processes By Default (blog.fefe.de) · · Score: 2

    Or Gentoo. systemd is optional on Gentoo.

  14. Re:That only works until Microsoft... on Massive Backlash Building Over Windows 10 Upgrades (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Not the GP poster here.

    Could the difference be that your 500 machines are linked to a domain, while the GP's single machine is stand-alone?

  15. Re:They don't know what they're talking about on Op-ed: Oracle Attorney Says Google's Court Victory Might Kill the GPL (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    She is a lawyer, not a programmer. What she is saying is nonsense, but it is grammatically correct, and succinctly encapsulates Oracle's outrage at the verdict.

    Lawyers are today's hired guns. They do and say whatever is in their employer's interests, with little (or no) regard for the truth.

  16. That's like claiming that Silicon Valley and San Francisco are the same place despite being 50 miles apart. They're not. Same region, yes. But not the same place. Not every place in California is a sanctuary city.

    WTF has being a "sanctuary city" got to do with anything? There is no sanctuary for gang-related crime.

    Silicon Valley is definitely in the SF Bay Area also. A quick look at a map and you would see that Richmond, San Jose and many other cities have shorelines on the SF Bay.

  17. Re:How about on California Mayors Demand Surveillance Cams On Crime-Ridden Highways (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You're confusing these East Bay cities with San Francisco.

    No, the confusion is between San Francisco and the San Francisco Bay Area. These cities are certainly in the SF Bay Area.

  18. Re:Simple question on Controversial Surveillance Firm Blue Coat Was Granted a Powerful Encryption Certificate (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Simple answer, because the tinfoil hat club has been proven right over and over again in the 21st century.

    I don't think that the tinfoil hat club has been right. In fact, the surveillance and control has been worse than most claims of the tinfoil hat club.

  19. Re:I would like a simpler electric car on Model X Owner Files Lemon Law Suit Against Tesla, Claims Car Is Unsafe To Drive (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Nissan has had to replace only a tiny number of batteries under their warranty.

  20. Really? on North Korea Linked to the SWIFT Bank Hacks (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    A country in which few people have access to the Internet (few of whom are likely to have real computer skills) and a generally poorly educated population has produced all these skilled hackers that have hacked multiple companies and banks?

    It doesn't seem very likely.

  21. Re:It's Nadella and his arrogance on Microsoft's Get Windows 10 App, KB 3035583, Reappears (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    He decided to exclude Enterprise, because we are their most profitable customers. He thinks that Enterprise customers will pay for 10.

    FTFY.

  22. Re:I'll pay for a Nexus on Slashdot Asks: Would You Pay For Android Updates? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    My last phone (Samsung Galaxy SII) got an OTA update last October -- when the phone was 4 years old.

  23. Re:Umm no. on Slashdot Asks: Would You Pay For Android Updates? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    And yet that miserable failure did a better job of pushing out security and OS updates than Google ever has.

    It's a lot easier when there are only about 5 models of phone that run your OS.

  24. Why not just stream the data to a satellite while flying over water?

    The technology is there. The engines stream data continuously (we know that from MH370).

  25. Re:Yes, good job FCC!!! on FCC Formalizes Massive Fines For Selling, Using Cell-Phone Jammers (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Other than hollywood fantasy, I'm unaware of any jammers being used by law enforcement in the US.

    Do the Stingray devices have a jam mode? It would be trivial to include it.