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  1. They shouldn't have it at all. on Facebook No Longer Clearly Labels Edited Posts (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    People should be free to change their mind, correct themselves, regret what they have done, ..

    It's stupid the old content is shown at all. If I wanted it left I could had kept it.

  2. Re:Artificial intelligience and smart home market on Creator of Android Andy Rubin Nears His Comeback, Complete With an 'Essential' Phone (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That intelligent smart-phone doesn't seem very intelligent. It doesn't know what's best for itself. Stupid phone / smart home system.

  3. Re:Still won't help with a broken heart ... on Scientists Use Stem Cells To Regenerate the External Layer of a Human Heart (indy100.com) · · Score: 1

    We've had cloning for long.

  4. Re:Mystery solved on New Research Suggests the Appendix Has a Purpose After All (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    So when is the decision of XX vs XY chromosomes made?

  5. Took Nokia up until the mid four millions to get an account?

  6. Re:No, it's definitely a UFO on Chile's Goverment Announces Unexplainable 'UFO' Footage (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2
  7. Re:Can you get cellular data under $20/yr? on Norway To Become First Country To Switch Off FM Radio (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know.

    I was the the Nordic University Computer Club Conference of 2002 where this guy from Swedish University NETworks talked about 10 mbps for everyone by fiber which was something he thought should be done. He estimated the cost to cover about the same amount of people as those covered by the electricity grid = "everyone" except if you do some very unique stuff would cost 50 billion SEK. Today that would be a bit above 5 billion dollar or on a population of 10 million bit below $500 / person. He meant the cost could be distributed over 20 years / the life-time of the fiber which pushes it down to $25 / year + interest (the interest rate on the national debt of Sweden today is about 0.3%.)

    $25 / year is $2 / month. That's a cheap cost for getting everyone fiber connectivity.

    As it work like in this municipality is that they have their own fibernetwork called "Stadsnät" which Kumla & Örebro runs together, if I wanted to be connected to that with my apartment it would cost 75 SEK / month or $8. What then happen is that you have like 10 service providers for that fiber network which offer different speeds and possibly other services such as telephone or TV too. Total cost including the fiber connectivity would be bit above $35 for 100 mbps.

    Market-forces discussed Internet over the electricity grid and people in cities got mostly connectivity through cable-TV-networks and those in more rural areas got through DSL so fiber to everyone never happened and Telia is still running copper cables for telephones and the terrestrial TV network was upgraded for digital TV and a few more antennas was built and Sweden still haven't started with DAB.

    In Sweden you can do quite a bit of communication with authorities over the Internet but for instance you can't vote yet. If they had built fiber to everyone for the cost of a bit above $2 / person and month they could had scrapped the telephone network, the TV antennas, and maybe FM and DAB too / let that be solved over cellular.

    Cellular Internet connectivity seem to be capped at about 50 GB / month or so so it may not be great for a radio you're running the whole time.

  8. Re:Apple is no longer a computer company on Apple's Share of PC Users Drops To A Five-Year Low (infoworld.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And Valve is no longer a game developer.
    They are a gambling site and games retailer.

    Both succeed in their attempts to gain more money =P

  9. Re:how do marketers manage this on AMD Declares Ryzen Will Be a Four-Year Architecture (extremetech.com) · · Score: 2

    It computes, reads and writes data! ;D

  10. Re:'Developed a Clear Preference' For Trump on US Releases Declassified Report On Russian Hacking, Concludes That Putin 'Developed a Clear Preference' For Trump (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Given a chance I'd vote for Trump, Putin or Hitler over the current government and prime-minister of Sweden.

    Compare them to Angela Merkel and then don't come dragging with that BS about equal amount of women as men on all positions and so on. It's terrible. Or well. At-least until women has learned what responsibility and power they have gotten.

  11. Re:Can you get cellular data under $20/yr? on Norway To Become First Country To Switch Off FM Radio (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    How many Norwegians doesn't have cellular Internet connectivity already anyway?
    $30 million for the FM network they say, I don't know what the digital cost but over 10 years that's $300 million for that or $60 / Norwegian. Then you do the same for TV broadcasts. Then you do the same for copper telephone cables. And then you add in the advantage of knowing you can trust that providing IP services is enough and that everyone can use them.

  12. Re:DAB is garbage. on Norway To Become First Country To Switch Off FM Radio (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm mostly suggesting fiber and whatever generation cellular coverage and then delivery of whatever communication or media you want to consume over that.

  13. Re:"Democracy" on Norway To Become First Country To Switch Off FM Radio (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    "But we've got free schools and how would you want to live without health-care (or roads?)" is the typical counter argument.

    Since running a school or health-care somehow is impossible if not publicly funded.

  14. Re:DAB is garbage. on Norway To Become First Country To Switch Off FM Radio (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    One should just use IP and the Internet for everything.

  15. Re:Coming soon: screen lag? on AMD Debuts Radeon FreeSync 2 For Gaming Displays With Stunning Image Quality (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought it signaled the monitor "refresh now" when it had a whole image rendered.
    I don't know if normally without V-sync just one buffer is used and if that's the one sent to the monitor and if the graphics card start render onto that and if so that would mean that what has already been drawn there which eventually get sent to the screen would be more up to date than if you waited until the whole scene was drawn or whatever one always let it render completely and use two buffers and switches which is the one the monitor gets and if the tearing only happen when the monitor is fetching an image and you do a buffer switch just then (I also don't know if a monitor fetch image data the whole time or just a part of the time of the period an image is shown.)

    Anyway, the alternative to G-sync and FreeSync if you don't want to have tearing is to use V-sync instead, if you don't hit the frame-time on double-buffered V-sync your refresh rate drops to half and if you don't even hit that then it drops even further, if you use tripple buffered V-sync then I don't know how it looks on the lag front from that but the images which are shown on the screen will be shown with the picture periods of the monitor and those fixed time points which of course add latency between when the image was actually rendered and when the monitor is capable/willing to show it.
    With G-Sync and FreeSync however the monitor will draw when the image is done rather than at some fixed periods meaning the latency there will be lower.

    So what G-Sync and FreeSync grant you is LOWER latency for whole images because the monitor is ok with waiting with an update / not follow a set refresh rate. You get a smoother experience and you don't get any say jumps between 60 and 30 Hz for the frames you see but can get say 45 if that's what you graphics card can deliver and you still get no tearing.

    However you can of course turn of both G-Sync / FreeSync and V-sync and go back to tearing and just render as fast as you want and have the monitor fetch whatever is available as fast as possible too, but then you get tearing.

  16. Re:Thanks, Obama! on Amazon's Digital Day is Like Cyber Monday But For Downloads (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    The society of the white man:
    So hated yet so attractive.

  17. Re:Systems are too complex on Ask Slashdot: Is Computing As Cool and Fun As It Once Was? · · Score: 1

    http://store.steampowered.com/...
    http://www.lexaloffle.com/pico...

    Later is in a current Humble Bundle, the former has been on Humble bundle before. I have additional copies.

  18. Re:Ah, I was wondering when it would begin on Steam Is Down (steamstat.us) · · Score: 0

    To be fair whomever call themselves anonymous at-least here in Sweden is über-socialist and likely globalist-fascists if there's any such thing. It would had made most sense to me if an anonymous hacker group with a political agenda was very liberal I guess..

    Not that I think it's Anonymous who bring down Steam so on this subject it's totally irrelevant. They are very Swedish left over here though.

  19. Re:How is Steam counted? on Worldwide Gaming Market Hits $91 Billion In 2016, Says Report (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Likely download though not necessarily free to play, I don't know where they count all the "gambling" aspect of ValveÂs own products though (the skins and hats.)

  20. Re:What a waste! on Worldwide Gaming Market Hits $91 Billion In 2016, Says Report (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Games allow people to vent their emotions, instead of using violence.

    Talk for yourself!

    I always leave the games of CS when I enter CT side or when we've achieved the first win by a successful plant ;D

    The biggest waste is government. They are parasites on society.
    The biggest drivers of economy and innovation are happiness and freedom.

    I have no way to factually check that but I wish it was true and that I could preach it =P

  21. Re:What a waste! on Worldwide Gaming Market Hits $91 Billion In 2016, Says Report (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    The money was just used to perform a transaction.
    They wasn't wasted.
    You're free to argue the wrong product has been produced though but obviously those paying the $91 billion didn't think so.

  22. Re:Germany has way more problems than Facebook on Germany Threatens To Fine Facebook Over Hate Speech (go.com) · · Score: 1

    plenty don't have the educational standard

    Supposedly 5 of 58 "doctors" qualify.

  23. Re:Germany has way more problems than Facebook on Germany Threatens To Fine Facebook Over Hate Speech (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you The Golden One?

    I'm the most important person in my life.

  24. Re: Germany has way more problems than Facebook on Germany Threatens To Fine Facebook Over Hate Speech (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Any meaning there, or just more threatening vagueries since you lost the argument?

    How can I lose an argument where my post was the first one with no follow up posts? There haven't even been any competition.

  25. Re:Germany has way more problems than Facebook on Germany Threatens To Fine Facebook Over Hate Speech (go.com) · · Score: 1

    There definitely is.

    There definitely is no true "good moral" or "best society."
    We all have opinions about what we'd prefer
    Multiple persons will claim their's the best but they can't all be right.

    I didn't block you. I've consistently argued in favour of freedom of speech and not silencing views I disagree with.

    Still what the SJWs and socialists and Islamists live and breath is threats and censorship rather than accepting an open discussion.

    See, there is an objective truth. You can simply review my posting history. It's not a matter of opinion, it's a matter of fact.

    For whatever you block people maybe (can't even be done on /., moderate down can of course), but there's no truth (though I have my strong beliefs..) (or at-least universally agreed on best) way to run a society. Personally I would prefer free individuals, others would prefer an empowering collective, and still others would prefer whatever Muhammed said.