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  1. Re: Wait... what happened to the famous pipeline? on Tim Cook To Investors: Apple is Working on Future Products That Will 'Blow You Away' (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    That's such an odd thing. What possible use is there for a rack-mounted Mac?

  2. I'm pretty sure Apple will invent foldable screens any day now.

  3. Actual patents in question? on BlackBerry Sues Twitter For Patent Infringement (reuters.com) · · Score: 1
    Searching for the case reveals nothing but publications reposting the Reuters article. There is a site where the actual case details can be downloaded, but it requires an account that they apparently charges for,

    Does anyone have the actual filing?

  4. The absolute *maximum* that we could resolve even from very high earth orbit is at best something that is no smaller than about 50 meters or so on the moon...

    And I think it's important to point out that this limit is not technological but physical. At a certain resolution you start running into Heisenberg's uncertainty principle which causes refraction to increase as you focus more precise.

  5. How do you get from smartcards to blockchains? I mean, sure, smartcards can store data (in particular, but not limited to keypairs). Blockchains can also store data.

    A common message from blockchain proponents seem to be: “X, but on the blockchain!”. But without actually explaining how X on the blockchain would actually work.

    Are you suggesting that you'd use a smartcard to sign a transaction that in placed on a blockchain? What would that be useful for?

  6. There are very few satellites orbiting the moon. The moon is much farther away from earth than even the farthest earth-orbiting satellites.

    That doesn't mean that the original post made much sense though. I'm not sure what kind of secret activities you'd conduct on the moon that you couldn't just as well conduct in a secret lab on earth.

  7. In the US perhaps on There Are Way Too Many Streaming Services · · Score: 1

    Over here there is at least Netflix, or there would be zero.

  8. Re:Like thaat's gonna last ... on Samsung Shows Off a Foldable Prototype That Merges Phone and Tablet (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    The reason why it's so think may be because its folding radius is actually much bigger than they want to make it seem. So when it folds in, it actually takes which a bit of space inside the device.

  9. Re:Stupid industry fads on 'I've Seen the Future of Consumer AI, and it Doesn't Have One' (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Net PC was not from Sun. I should I know, I worked for them during that era. What they had was JavaStation, which was a neat idea but ahead of its time. That concept is now realised by the Chromebook. Net PC was a Compaq thing, if I recall correctly. However, Wikipedia tells me it was Oracle, so perhaps the Compaq device was called something else.

  10. Re: Hard to understand why this would be difficult on Robot Boat Sails Into History By Finishing Atlantic Crossing (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Would a flat earther believe in relativity though? If simple geometry eludes them, what would they do when being faced with a Lorentz transformation?

  11. Re:Duh on Facebook Is Spamming Users Via Their 2FA Phone Numbers (mashable.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's highly likely that they already have your phone number. Most Facebook users happily share their address book with them, and as long as any of them has your phone number, they will trivially link it to you.

  12. Re: Force the company != force the individuals on Microsoft Fights Search Warrants for Overseas Emails in the Supreme Court (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    That is actually an interesting question. Is it possible for a US court to force an individual to break the law in a foreign country? I'd hope the answer is no, but this is the US we're talking about some you never know.

  13. Re:Open source has changed the world on 20 Years Later, Has Open Source Changed the World? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1
    I have a similar story. One of our major customers were hosting their entire email infrastructure on a single Sun server (it wasn't even a particularly powerful one, it was a 4 CPU machine if I remember correctly).

    They then decided to hire a new IT manager from Microsoft and the first thing he did was to decide to move it all to MS Exchange. They needed 50 machines to handle the same load. With all machined having a hot spare, they ended up with 100 machines to replace one.

  14. Re: Just the fist step on EFF Applauds 'Massive Change' to HTTPS (eff.org) · · Score: 1
    Sure there is: Wikipedia

    That said, places like Google and Facebook already make it very hard to access their services even withouth client certificates. Have you tried just doing a google search via Tor lately?

  15. Re:People don't understand money on The Case that Bitcoin Is a Bubble (economist.com) · · Score: 1
    I think a better way to think about it is that the available money in a system represents (or should represent) the total amount of value that exists in a given system. The "value" can be somewhat difficult to define, since it includes everything that humans would consider "valuable". Of course, this can change such as when aluminium went from being more valuable than gold to being a disposable commodity. It also includes intangibles such as the consulting services I'm doing for a local business.

    In other words, the total amount of a currency is the market cap for the country or region where that currency is used.

    The problem with bitcoin's fixed amount of coins is that the total share of the economy represented by one coin is fixed at one 21-millionth. Simple maths tells us that if this ratio is fixed, then the value of a single coin needs to follow the total value of the system. This means that an economy based on bitcoin will be in a state of perpetual deflation as long as the economy grows.

    Thinking about what a society looks like if you have constant deflation is left as an exercise to the reader.

  16. Re:Ugh, Jony Ive... on Jony Ive Returns To Apple Design Management Role After Two Years (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 2

    The software stated going down the drain before the hardware did. The height of OSX was around 10.5 or maybe 10.6. The height of hardware was around 2011.

  17. Re:Well that's just terrific on Jony Ive Returns To Apple Design Management Role After Two Years (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1
    If you really want Photoshop, then the best solution for you is probably to get a good Linux laptop, and then have a VM with Windows 7 dedicated to Photoshop. Once Win7 is out of support, you can just remove all network connectivity to the VM and stick with the last version.

    Or, you could perhaps use Windows 10 in a VM. If all you use it for is Photoshop, then perhaps it could be bearable?

  18. I've read the sentence you quoted multiple times, and I still can't see anything wrong with it. Perhaps you are unaware of the expression "jumping through hoops"?

  19. Re:Confused.. on Singapore To Stop Adding Cars to City From February 2018 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    In Singapore, most of electric power comes from fossil fuel plants, so electric cars are much less environmentally friendly compared to places which use more renewables or nuclear.

  20. Re:Confused.. on Singapore To Stop Adding Cars to City From February 2018 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1
    They have that in a few places in Singapore and it's not a very nice view: https://www.google.com.sg/maps...

    I think there is a reason why they're not doing more of it.

  21. Re:What does this mean? on Singapore To Stop Adding Cars to City From February 2018 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1
    I live in Singapore and I own a car.

    You can go and buy a car and drive away with it immediately. The resellers buy the licenses (COE) and include it with the car when you buy it.

    This makes the cars incredibly expensive, of course, but as long as you have the money it's not a problem. If you want to see just how crazy expensive cars here are, take a look at the main web site for buying cars: http://www.sgcarmart.com/main/...

  22. Re:Why? Which features? on Mozilla To End All Firefox Support For XP, Vista In June 2018 (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Unicode support is completely broken on XP, and having to work around that to get decent text rendering must be a nightmare.

  23. Re:Did extent of damage finally sink into CEO's mi on Equifax CEO Steps Down Amid Hacking Scandal (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2
    People going to jail over this? I'm glad you are hopeful, but history has shown that this is very unlikely to happen.

    The only reason people went to jail over Enron is because rich people lost money over it. That didn't happen here.

  24. Re:The history of container ships... on Spinning Metal Sails Could Slash Fuel Consumption, Emissions On Cargo Ships (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2
    Amazon also helpfully added the following:

    "Why wait for shipping? Start listening today!"

  25. I could do it in 185 days with my Internet connection (1 Gb/s upload speed). That said, he might not having to done it from his home connection. He could fire up a few AWS instances and rip directly from pornhub from there.