User: advocate_one

Re:over-simplification of economy

On: Maximizing Economic Output With Linear Programming...and Communism (medium.com)

Nonsense. Economics is the study of how people exchange goods and services.

Yes, but apparently a 'successful' economy is one which is always growing...

I don't fscking want them in the first place...

On: Google Tests Ads That Load Faster and Use Less Power (bbc.co.uk)

tossers...

I have a LIMITED dataplan... they waste MY bandwidth

Re:Customers exploited & viewed as WHALES is n

On: Apple: Pokemon Go Sets Record For Most Downloads In Its First Week (techcrunch.com)

doesn't beat sex though...

Re:BRING IT TO WINDOWS.

On: Apple: Pokemon Go Sets Record For Most Downloads In Its First Week (techcrunch.com)

Wha.... really? http://www.bluestacks.com/apps... [bluestacks.com] runs fine on windows with an emulator.

Expecting the banhammer to come down hard on those doing GPS spoofing with Pokemon Go running in an emulator, currently they're getting softbans if they move about too far

This works out to

On: Verizon To Disconnect Unlimited Data Customers Who Use Over 100GB/Month

merely 120 movies a month at .7 ish gig a movie? Streaming is now hammering these tosspots who failed to invest in infrastructure (i.e. laying fibre to the home)

Re:Fake

On: 47 Years Ago Today, Apollo 11 Landed On the Moon (foxnews.com)

http://heiwaco.tripod.com/moontravel.htm

Oh dear deity of our choice, you actually believe that crap?

Street Legal?

On: The Flux Capacitor Becomes World's Fastest Street-Legal Electric Car (arstechnica.com)

it has NO wing mirrors

Re:net neutrality

On: T-Mobile Gives Customers Free Pokemon Go Data (theverge.com)

basically collecting monetizable data about your movements and habits

but it's NOT your normal movement and habits though...

Re: Wow, the UK is even more screwed up than the U

On: Theresa May Becomes UK's 'Spy Queen' and New Prime Minister (arstechnica.co.uk)

and whereas an independent commission is responsible for defining constituency boundaries in the UK

supposedly 'independent' yet the boundaries were deliberately gerrymandered recently to make it harder to elect Labour MPs...

Re:Wall of text

On: Theresa May Becomes UK's 'Spy Queen' and New Prime Minister (arstechnica.co.uk)

TL;DR, she's a cunt... a right old school authoritarian one...

Re:TRANSLATION

On: Google To Train 2 Million Indian Android Developers (thestack.com)

About 10% seem to really know their shit,

be afraid then, because that means there's going to be some 200,000 more developers that really know their shit...

Re:Normally I'm pro regulation

On: Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Banned From Owning a Lab (engadget.com)

Regulation ensures that every lab performs correctly

Not just regulation, but an inspection and certification regime as well. Random, unannounced inspections work best of all...

Re:Not all is bad.

On: Why Tech Support Is (Purposely) Unbearable

Amazon does the same... can ring you back or initiate a chat session there and then...

Re:No one wants your telemetry

On: Microsoft Prepares One Final, Full-Screen Get Windows 10 Nag (zdnet.com)

you could always run that program in a VM on Linux...

Re:The FTC is to blame for this

On: Man Who Teaches People How To Repair Their MacBooks Alludes To Apple Lawsuit (gamerevolution.com)

Microsoft only kept Apple alive to provide an alternative to avoid anti-trust issues...

Re:Only problem: This is not a "camera"

On: Micro-Camera Can Be Injected With A Syringe -- May Pose Surveillance Concerns (phys.org)

I'm pretty sure the various three letter agencies would be extremely interested in this for conducting surveillance

Re:uninstall the facebook app

On: Facebook Is Using Your Phone's Location To Suggest New Friends (fusion.net)

but you can disable it and never let run...

Return trips are almost empty...

On: Bigger Isn't Better As Mega-Ships Get Too Big and Too Risky

that's the real problem with this supply chain...

Re:better idea

On: Google To Offer Better Medical Advice When You Search Your Symptoms (cnbc.com)

trying to see a Doctor in the UK is an exercise in frustration in trying to navigate the labyrinthine system set up to manage their 48 hour waiting targets.... you have to be really dedicated to push yourself forward to get a same day appointment... if lucky, you'll get a telephone appointment or else be seen by the practice nurse

They release appointments for the next day at 12:30pm and they go very fast...

Re:Just what the world needs

On: Ultra-Thin Solar Cells Can Be Bent Around A Pencil (computerworld.com.au)

the pencil is used as an example because everyone can picture how tight the bend radius is...

Re:It's not the government's job

On: EU Exploring Idea of Using Government ID Cards As Mandatory Online Logins (softpedia.com)

you do realise if we call them out on this 'preventing fake reviews' thing they'll end up playing the because 'terrorists' and kiddieporn cards...

Re:Way tinier than silicon transisters, wow.

On: Future Phones May Use Vacuum Tube Chips As Silicon Hits Moore's Law Extremes (inverse.com)

stand on a decent rubber mat...

Re:That's just too damn bad.

On: Weary Homeowners Wage War On Waze

and if you motons kept to the posted speed limits, speed bumps would not be necessary... slow the fsck down... kill your speed, not a child...

Re:OEM Rescue Kit

On: Out-Of-the-Box Exploitation Possible On PCs From Top 5 OEMs (arstechnica.com)

mod parent up please... ;)

Re:People In Need

On: Facebook Spares Humans By Fighting Offensive Photos With AI (techcrunch.com)

I'm NOT smoking anything sadly... Facebook deems all female nipples to be offensive unless they are artistically depicted, i.e. not a photograph but a painting or drawing... but weirdly photos of topless men are fine...