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  1. Re: Change != Improvement on Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Build 18290 With Start Menu Improvements (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    Did you seriously just ask why I am concerned about a process I didn't want to run and I didn't ask to run and isn't vital to the system? Other than the fact that just this March, a Windows update caused the Store app to run at high CPU for some users? It's not like Windows updates are getting better and have fewer issues. MS has had to pull updates 3 times in October alone.

  2. Seems to be a trend on How Restaurants Got So Loud (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Some of it is to save money and practicality in addition to design choices. For example, many recent newer places I've visited don't have carpet or rugs and opt for tile or concrete because it is cheaper and easier to clean. On the other spectrum, some restaurants have started to use glass tile/wood for the walls instead of drywall and paint.

    A growing trend with some places is the open kitchen. If you've ever worked in a restaurant, kitchens are loud and were never designed to be quiet. But back in the day, the kitchen was behind walls that separated from the dining experience. With an open kitchen, you see and unfortunately hear everything.

  3. Re: A Lifter? on First Ever Plane With No Moving Parts Takes Flight (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Where are the 100 year old planes that have been using this technology again? Or did you exaggerate your claim?

  4. Re: lol...Blind Signatures on Richard Stallman Criticizes Bitcoin, Touts a GNU Project Alternative (coindesk.com) · · Score: 1

    By pop-sci media you mean multiple computer scientists who questioned DWave's claims of performance You didn't answer the question: How can DWave's be actually 1000+ bit quantum computers if multiple encryption schemes that the world uses would be broken?

  5. Re:Call me when they roll it back on Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Build 18290 With Start Menu Improvements (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I think many people would like MS to just release patches for stuff they broke in the last patch first before launching new features no one asked them to make.

  6. Re:Change != Improvement on Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Build 18290 With Start Menu Improvements (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    The vast majority of running services are manually triggered. Just because the user doesn't explicitly start something doesn't mean they aren't needed by something.

    I have never once used the Store. Yet it keeps running with multiple processes. Calculator for some reason keeps running. From what I can tell you have to manually turn OFF the new Win 10 Apps (but you can't turn off Store). They will launch in the background and keep running until that time.

  7. Re: Drowning? Here have an anvil. on 'General Motors, Sears and Toys R Us: Layoffs Across America Highlight Our Shredding Financial Safety Net' (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The same scenario happened to Sears. In addition to the huge debt from their LBO, Sear experienced increased costs as their store rent rose tremendously after the LBO. Why? Because the new CEO and major private equity holder sold practically all of Sears land holdings (which included store properties) to a shell company he owned then raised the rent on the same properties. He was making a great deal of money gutting the company.

  8. In the case of Toys R Us specifically their problem was about pure greed and capitalism. This indepth piece argues the leverage buyout in 2005 was really the demise of the company. While Toys R Us was threatened by online giant Amazon, the fact that most of Toys R Us' profit had to go back to paying their LBO debt was the main reason they could never compete. There was no money for capital investment like updated intrastructure. There was no money for hiring talent, etc. All money went to private equity debt.

  9. Re: lol...Blind Signatures on Richard Stallman Criticizes Bitcoin, Touts a GNU Project Alternative (coindesk.com) · · Score: 1

    Except for the fact that people in the industry don't count DWaves as "computers" but consider them calculators. DWaves cannot be used in any general computing problem. For instance they can't break encryption. They only are used for very specific computations. If it were true that DWaves are 1000+ bit computers many forms of encryption would be broken by now.

  10. Re: A Lifter? on First Ever Plane With No Moving Parts Takes Flight (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I asked specifically which "planes" have used this propulsion. You responded with things that are not airplanes. It would be the same as when the first jets came out: "We've been using fires since the caveman days. What's new about this?" Just the implementation. Just the fact it's not really been done before. Just details that matter.

  11. Re: Good idea on Germany Proposes Router Security Guidelines (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I've read the manual to my car provided to me by the manufacturer. Please tell where it shows me how to change my transmission. I'll wait. For that level of repair you can buy a service/repair manual from the manufacturer; they do not come with most cars. There are also 3rd party manuals which also detail these kind of repairs. Again they do not come with the car.

  12. Re: lol...Blind Signatures on Richard Stallman Criticizes Bitcoin, Touts a GNU Project Alternative (coindesk.com) · · Score: 1

    Which computer is several hundred? The current record is Google's 72-bit system as far as I know.

  13. Re: lol...Blind Signatures on Richard Stallman Criticizes Bitcoin, Touts a GNU Project Alternative (coindesk.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed considering that the largest quantum computer is Google's 72 but system, I would add exaggeration to that list.

  14. Re: Good idea on Germany Proposes Router Security Guidelines (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty most people don't understand the dangers of open ports and will never need them. This sets the basics of what is required by default. The user is free to bypass the basics. I don't think that forcing people to learn about topics is the most productive. It would be like required everyone who buys a car to know how to change their transmission.

  15. Re: A Lifter? on First Ever Plane With No Moving Parts Takes Flight (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Let me say this slowly so you can understand: An airplane is a vehicle that flies through the air on its own power untethered. Every single thing you posted is TETHERED TO THE GROUND thus it is not and never will be an airplane.

    So when you say "These things have been around for like 100 years." you are clearly ignoring they are not the same thing. Would you have said same thing when the Wright Brothers made their maiden flight in 1903 because gliders existed centuries before? Or would you have recognized that their machine was a milestone in flight.

  16. The problem with a credit score is that it relies on a history of borrowing. When related to immigrants, many of them have lower credit scores simply because they don't have a verified history of borrowing. Many immigrants use cash and when they borrow it is with friends and family and not institutions. Using a credit score to judge whether immigrants will go on welfare is flawed in this regard.

  17. Your credit score indicates how likely you are to pay back what you borrow based on your history

    FTFY. Certain groups of people simply don't borrow. For example many immigrants (legal and illegal) pay cash. Older generations grew up with the notion that you didn't borrow unless you had to borrow, etc.

  18. Only if their credit history reflects their entire finances which it does not if an individual does not rely on credit. Some people simply don't borrow because they don't need to borrow. You see this with older generations where checks are used instead of credit cards because the individual grew up with the notion that managing their finances meant never borrowing.

  19. Re: A Lifter? on First Ever Plane With No Moving Parts Takes Flight (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Funny the date on those videos do not say 1918. So are you lying again?

  20. Re: A Lifter? on First Ever Plane With No Moving Parts Takes Flight (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    How many planes in the last 100 years have been propelled with no propeller or jet engine? Did you fail to read the summary?

  21. And what are you basing that prediction upon? Do know any details of the suit that has not been reported?

  22. Re: sounds like a joke on Court Again Rules That Cable Giants Can't Weaponize the First Amendment (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    In my world if someone does racist things, I'm going to call it racist. If they have a ton of black friends doesn't mean that they are not still racist. Again racism isn't a binary thing. Also the point you might be missing is that ESN has to prove racism. If ESN has documentation that Charter executives called ESN personnel racist names the court can deem that's racist.

  23. That is irrelevant to the suit. The suit is about whether Charter discriminated against ESN not what the customer wants in terms of programming.

  24. Except none of that is what ESN is alleging. ESN is alleging that it is racism that was behind Charter's decision not to carry their channels. This ruling says that the lawsuit can go forward so that ESN can present evidence to the court about these business dealing, and ESN must prove their allegations to win. The ruling also says that Charter can't use the First Amendment as an automatic defense anymore than any business owner can claim First Amendment defense to justify refusing black customers.

  25. Re: Civil Rights applied to cable television? on Court Again Rules That Cable Giants Can't Weaponize the First Amendment (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    The ruling doesn't say that Charter must carry ESN channels. The ruling says that ESN can continue with their lawsuit to prove to that was racism and not other business decisions. And ESN must prove their allegation. The ruling also says that Charter can't outright claim any decision is protected by the First Amendment.