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  1. Re:No Qual Comm would mean no CDMA. on Apple Is Designing iPhones, iPads That Would Drop Qualcomm Components (wsj.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Cdma is being phased out anyway for LTE. It just means that Verizon will accelerate plans to phase out and shut down the cdma towers iin favor of the faster 4g LTE ones. (Which they are doing anyways)

    Qualcomm is so far in the wrong here it isn't even funny. They are trying to charge Apple two to three times for the same patent just because Apple has deep pockets. If no one else has to pay twice for the same patent. Not HTC not Nexus and Google.

  2. Re:More cliche's about happiness on Einstein's Note On Happiness, Given To Bellboy In 1922, Fetches $1.6 Million (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If you can't make a particular woman happy then you are wrong for each other.

    My SO I make happy everyday. It is little things that we do together (cooking dishes, cleaning)plus in sex we play a game. She has to orgasm at least twice as often as I do. The higher I can keep her orgasm count the better. Now being a guy that is difficult but I have 10 fingers and a willingness to try a combo with every single oone of them.

  3. That's just it you can be rude and tell someone their perfume is too much. I don't donit all the time and it has gotten better but certain stores annoy me. If I can smell you perfume across 2-3 car parking spots it is a bit much.

  4. Re: We all know this is comming on Bankers Publicly Embracing Robots Are Privately Fearing Job Cuts (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Westlaw and lexisnexis have severe user restrictions or at least did 10 years ago.

    Also older case law which might still be relevant were not in those searches. As records weren't digitized

  5. Re: We all know this is comming on Bankers Publicly Embracing Robots Are Privately Fearing Job Cuts (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Tech is already replacing office staff. 30 years ago you needed 2-3 book keepers for a small but growing office. Now one person with quick books can do the job and still have time to do reporting too.

    Accountants and finance people are being replaced with software that can sort, collate and show data in pretty colors for the executives.

    Why do you need an assistant when the computer can do scheduling and call blocking for you? Cortana, Alexa?

    Why would we do anything about it? The boring repetative business tasks are what need to be replaced. Most of finance, accounting, lawyers, job is doing the same boring shit over and over again. All of that can be automated. Can you imagine if Google could index every legal journal so that lawyers could quickly search case history? That would double the number of lawyers able to practice law instead of bieng research assistants.

    Erp and business logic and tracking have been streamlining businesses for decades and no one calls it Automation.

  6. Re:When AIs write code on Does the Rise of AI Precede the End of Code? (itproportal.com) · · Score: 1

    Alexa and go are not AI. At best they are PI or pattern intelligence. They listen and look for. Code words and process scripts based on those code words.

    Look up Applescript. A simple programming language Apple made. Alexa is less intelligent that Apple script. All that hardware? That's for handling voice regonition after that though it is nothing but keyword scripting language new features get added by simply increasing the number of keywords and assigning them commands

  7. Re:Yeah 'cuz the stock market bubble means no debt on This Is the Week Wall Street Went Nuts Over Cryptocurrencies (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The stock market has nothing to do with government finances.

    That's like saying since you got a raise this year I can buy a bigger house. It makes no sense and isn't related.

    Then again that is common currently idiots looking unrelated topics together and basing decisions off of that. Like autism and vaccines 100% false yet still.beloeved

  8. Re:Slashdot readers should sure hope so on Ask Slashdot: Is Deliberately Misleading People On the Internet Free Speech? · · Score: 2

    If a company can make more money by poisoning the local water table that it's own employees drink from. Then that is exactly what it will do.

    History shows that to be true 100% of the time. Only by introducing regulations and laws to make it more expensive to be dirty rather than clean have companies started doing the right thing. If you need proof of what the do a does had how it affects you that is it. Take a look at any picture of the major us cities in the 1970s vs today. Look at the sky. That foggy scene is air pollution and 40 yards of do a forcing companies to clean up their act has had dramatic improvements to air quality. Let alone water and soil.

    100% of companies do not plan to fully clean up after they close down. Not even nuclear power plants whi cu do not have any where near the funds to safely shut down the reactors

  9. Or it is not a state because the old people of Puerto Rico don't want to be one and the young people who do flee to the USA for jobs.

    If or was a state then a lot of rheijr current issues wouldn't apply including the Jones act

  10. He doesn't understand debt. Puerto Rico can't affgors to repair the existing systems.

    However without repair the power company goes out of business. No power company no debt owed.

  11. Re:Not prophetic, but very accurate on Ask Slashdot: Which Businesses Will Go Away In the Next 10 Years? (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Sort of like Elvis and disco,. It has to fade away two generations later. The generation that lived it, and their kids trying to remember their childhood

  12. Re:More Fake News. SAD! on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Rejects Trump Bias Claims (bbc.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    What bias? Everything the main stream media said about him has proven true. Trump is a man child with no emotional control, prone to outbursts, ignorance and stupidity. He can't even get his own party under control long enough to pass laws. He has to go to democrats to get enough support to push his agenda

  13. Re:And then it will be hidden from the world. on New Antibody Attacks 99% of HIV Strains (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It isnâ(TM)t one reason I like Apple. They keep their products under wraps and mostly secret until it is available in the mass market. I would love it if more products did that as opposed to driving up hype and then disappointing when the final processes reveal fundamental flaws in their hype.

    Works for drugs, science, electronics, sports etc.

  14. Re:You're showing your password to everyone on 'Dear Apple, The iPhone X and Face ID Are Orwellian and Creepy' (hackernoon.com) · · Score: 1

    If they are using ir sensors not only do you have to match physical contours but heat maps as well.

    Though I have not played with that to test it.

  15. I submitt to you. The iPhone 4, the G4 cube, etc

    Apple has always hd these gaffs. I personal wonder if the iPhone X and the G4 cube suffer the same fate. Loved by some hated by many and anniversary products are usually pretty crappy.

  16. Re:Even More Simple on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If a Hyperloop Train Failed? · · Score: -1

    Ah but you are talking about 1 psi difference. Vacuum will be zero psi And implode back to 1 psi.

    So that's easy to design for. Also the air rushing back into the line will slow cars down. How fat is questionable but air is pretty fluid so it shouldn't be bad. I would expect a nice gradual slow down.

    The real question what happens if a car or train jumps the tracks. That is highly speculativel.

  17. Re:How do Dems/The Left on Illinois Tests A Blockchain-Based Birth Registry/ID System (illinoisblockchain.tech) · · Score: 1, Troll

    The party pushing national of is tepunlicans and has been for 12+ years now. Or did you forget that realID is a republican plan? And it is liberal states that refused for most of the last 12 years to implement it. Also it is republican states that want to prove identity to vote. Forget that all states make you register to vote months in advance anyways.

    Republicans are all for a religious police state. As long as they are the ones In Charge of the religion and police. Believing otherwise is hypocritical. Then again republican are hypocritical.

  18. Did you read the summary? They picked websites like web based games and video which people will interact with the page for 20-30-60 minutes at a time and are already a heavy CPU draw. To hide it.

  19. Re: Can ads get any less timely and useful? on Every Major Advertising Group Is Blasting Apple for Blocking Cookies in the Safari Browser (adweek.com) · · Score: 1

    The annoying ones are I searched for diamond engagement rings on my tablet. She now gets ads for diamond rings on her phone tablet and computer because we share an IP.

    Everything one of us searches for ends up as an ad on all devices.

  20. Vending machines with variable products and a list of which products are stored closest to you.

    So a vending machine plus. Or maybe a super vending machine. Though I think super vending machine should go to those awesome Japanese car vending machines were you park you car and it stores it in the building.

  21. Re:Another landing? Boring. And that's awesome! on SpaceX Rocket Launches X-37B Space Plane On Secret Mission, Aces Landing (space.com) · · Score: 1

    You forgot doing that on the edge of a hurricane.

  22. Re:exempt automakers from safety standards??? on House Passes Bill To Speed Deployment of Self-driving Cars (go.com) · · Score: 1

    The better question is how are state right government republicans pushing a federal government regulations on what is normally a state level?

  23. Re:Drugs on US Employers Struggle To Match Workers With Open Jobs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Just because you are not addicted doesn't mean that everyone is the same way.

    Lots of people can easily control their alcohol intake safely too. Yet there are still plenty of people who just can't stop drinking without help.

    Stop assuming you are the average on the curve in every topic and assume something's you can do that others struggle with.

  24. Re:On the Job Training on US Employers Struggle To Match Workers With Open Jobs (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It gets better outside of tech.

    We want a bachelors degree with 5 or more years experience in unique field and the pay rate is $40,000 to $45,000.

    Do they realize that a bachelors degree is 4 times that amount? Nope we set our wages in 1990 and haven't adjusted them since. This is the bigger issue companies want to pay 1990 wages in 2017. Changing that is the difficult part.

  25. Re:GPS can only send location (and time) informati on Dealership Remotely Disables A Car Over A $200 Fee (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's just it they keeping lowering the entry credit scores to increase sales. Home sales are down to 1% down payments to increase sales of homes. The problem is with normal life debt the average salary of $50k a year isn't enough to purchase the average home price of $200k. So the banks and realtors are doing tricks to keep their sales up. Again. Except this generation has so much college debt in order to get a salaryabove $50k a year that they can't buy a home until they are 40 under the smart 20% down payment.

    The same reason is why trade jobs are struggling. Trade jobs basically top out at 50-60k a year and that is just barely above poverty level in major cities and lower middle class elsewhere. We need a huge salary bump. Not a minimum wage bump but a median wage bump. That is something that hasn't happened in 40 years. And it is starting to drag the economy down.