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  1. Re:Intel already tried something similar on DARPA's Latest Chip Is Designed To Be Bad At Arithmetic (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    No. But it might explain why the Swedish government lets all you slackers get away with abusing parental and sick leave while we immigrants actually show up for and perform the work and pay the taxes to finance your permanent vacations.

    All the citizens of course have the same right to both of them?
    The immigrants work less, earn less, pay less in taxes, use up more of the social welfare, ..

    Your scenario isn't the typical one and complete BS. For all I care ditch the welfare state altogether and both issues will be resolved.

  2. What I don't get is .. on Obama Forms Commission To Bolster US Cyber Security (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    .. the need for all that security for the government but no acceptance for similar security for the people.

    And we call it democracies..

  3. Re: It says it on the thing! on Dyson Airblades 'Spread Germs 1,300 Times More Than Paper Towels' (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    What will you use to keep users from going dead?

    Why would you ever want to do that?

  4. Re:This chip is supposedly great for video process on DARPA's Latest Chip Is Designed To Be Bad At Arithmetic (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    So this is just lossy compression implemented in hardware?

    I've got some lousy hardware - want to make a video?

  5. Re:It says it on the thing! on Dyson Airblades 'Spread Germs 1,300 Times More Than Paper Towels' (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Funny

    But... But... It's the "world's most hygienic hand dryer!" It says it right on the thing!

    It is.

    All the germs which were on your hands are now up to 3 meters away from you.

  6. and /. summaries!

    Front-page algoritm:
    Only ~20% chance this has been posted on Slashdot before so post it.

  7. Re:Intel already tried something similar on DARPA's Latest Chip Is Designed To Be Bad At Arithmetic (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 0

    Explains how the Swedish government calculates the budget and the result of welfare migrants from all over the world.

  8. Modern snap snappers know that only snaps can snap snaps, so give up on your insecure luddite packages and use snappy app snaps! Snaps!

    I want a separate package-manager for every package I install. Surely there's one which does something better than everything else?

  9. Re:Bring back a large screen model on Amazon Kindle Oasis With 'Months' of Battery Life, Redesigned Body Launched · · Score: 1

    Just bought one ... The only downside is the painfully high price.

    I haven't and dito ;D

  10. Re:Bring back a large screen model on Amazon Kindle Oasis With 'Months' of Battery Life, Redesigned Body Launched · · Score: 2

    This is what you want:
    http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/...
    Sony 13.3" 4GB DPTS1 Digital Paper System
    "13.3" Flexible Electronic Paper Display
    1600 x 1200 Native Resolution
    Multi-Touch Support
    4GB Storage Capacity
    microSD Media Card Slot
    Micro-USB Connector
    802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi
    Stylus Pen Included"

    "Easy to use right out of the box and optimized to accommodate 8.5" by 11" documents"
    "Read and annotate documents, create "sticky notes" and highlights, and upload documents wirelessly from Digital Paper, making them available for archiving or sharing with colleagues."

    It's what I want but I also want color =P

    "Oh we won't make a color one until there's color books!"
    It's called magazines, comics, ..

  11. Re:$300 to read books? on Amazon Kindle Oasis With 'Months' of Battery Life, Redesigned Body Launched · · Score: 1

    You're not supposed to... This is a stand alone e-reader for people who want a stand alone e-reader. No one should ever expect to replace an ipad or phone with one. That's absurd.

    He mean the price "is the same" and as such unjustifiable considering what you could get instead / for the money.

    Or at-least that's how I understood it.

  12. Re:Well, "poisoned" on Over 80 Percent of China's Well Water Is Polluted (voanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Or the capitalists would gain efficiencies, recycling inside their own plants to get that number down to 1 gallon per jeans or less. But we don't make the capitalists pay for their polution (here or in China), so they pollute, because it's easier.

    Regardless capitalism isn't the problem.

    The problem is that destroying and using up the earth is so cheap.

    I've seen those gold digger shows on TV, the latest version is in the jungle.
    Why should we remove trees, dig up the earth, rinse it and rinse away much of the soil and so on just to look for a few gold flakes?
    To them it's likely mostly an issue about whatever it's worth the fuel and their time but what should all that destruction be free?

    I've earlier read about mercury and how some use mercury to get gold and for them it's efficient and the mercury are cheap but to actually remove / try to limit that spill of mercury cost a lot. The mercury they buy and spill out has a price which is very wrong.

    Our earth isn't free and not worth anything, set a correct price on it and things will change.

  13. Re:Well, "poisoned" on Over 80 Percent of China's Well Water Is Polluted (voanews.com) · · Score: 1

    The water may be a bit polluted, but the market is healthy. Would you rather poison the market with stifling regulations instead? Probably not.

    I live in a different country with a much waster government and welfare system but you can either regulate it (as in ban pollution and use of un-renewable resources for instance, many persons are ok with laws and law enforcement at-least?)

    Or which is worse but mostly due to how wealth accumulate but likely powerful enough you just need to set the right price on pollution and taking resources.

    If 1 liter of fresh water did cost $1 or if 1 kg of CO2 release cost $5 things would be different.

    Seem like it may take around 2000 gallons to make a pair of jeans, the price above would quickly make such jeans something most people would never ever wear.

    Now since water is used for food I'm not really for it and here we've got cheap water, I mostly picked the price because it was still cheaper than bottled water and some people buy (or need) that so it didn't seemed unreasonable but would still change the usage enormously!

  14. Re:A statement of intent is not an actual plan on Despite Lean Space Budgets Russia Is Headed For the Moon (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    .. as such the expectations may be that US act in the interest of the world / act like world-police and trying to fix the world and not in its own interest.

    It's what the Swedish government would had done if they ruled USA (be happy they don't.)

  15. Re:A statement of intent is not an actual plan on Despite Lean Space Budgets Russia Is Headed For the Moon (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    US is just serving their own interests, just like Russia is, I wouldnt expect either of them to do otherwise

    I'm from Sweden.

    http://www.viewsoftheworld.net...
    http://www.viewsoftheworld.net...

    2005-2013: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpb... 2013: https://warewhulf.files.wordpr...
    Beginning of 2014: http://gatesofvienna.net/wp-co...
    Beginning of 2015: http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/6...

    Can't find a similar image for 2015 (that's what I'm googling for but yeah.. it didn't become prettier.)

    Our "elected" "leaders" and "representatives" of "the people" and the "nation" currently focus mostly on trying to get Sweden into the UN security council or whatever it is and then I guess they focus on trying to make it into EU or UN politics. Fuck the Swedes for all they care, it's all about what they can force the Swedes to do for the citizens of any other country.

  16. Re:A statement of intent is not an actual plan on Despite Lean Space Budgets Russia Is Headed For the Moon (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Russian military has been under funded for sometime now, had to take a serious cut this year. And about Syria, Russia pretty much wanted to get rid of their old arsenal, old missiles, old non-smart bombs. Nothing Russia used in Syria was modern and they did not have spend any significant money on the expedition (with Assad pitching in when required).

    So why haven't superior USA spent much more and solved the issue?

    Yeah, that's right, because democracy, human rights, self-rule and dictatorships doesn't necessarily matter all that much as long as the relationship of those in rule and the US is a good one.

  17. Re:I have Cerebral Palsy. on PlayStation Employee Designs Custom Controller For Gamer With Cerebral Palsy (9news.com.au) · · Score: 0

    I don't have any physical disabilities but when I can I like to throw a pretty large share towards SpecialEffects (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKLNrCivOzw) and the other disability gamer charity whatever it's called over at Humble Bundle.

    Because I think that's a worth-while cause and that disabled people should be allowed to play games too (likely may be even more important there.)
    The same goes for games at hospitals.

    Personally I'm not very fund of giving money to charities in the US and in the UK which do local things because I as a Swede feel that the people in the US and UK are rich enough to be able to take care of their own citizens and they aren't the people who need help the most, I'd rather have my money going towards the poorest really. These people may need the help (Just as the fund raiser which bring people with a permanent illness or possibly one which will kill them with one event which they will enjoy) and be unable to afford things themselves even if they live in a richer nation but still, kinda if you're not generous enough to take care of your own / each other then maybe you aren't the ones who deserve it the most either. Now the charities usually don't play out against each other but yeah, water for people in regions with long traveling distance and poor access, education, vaccination and health-care and so on are things I may rather spend money on than the American Red Cross and local support in the US.

    However I do feel that charity and generosity towards each other may bring more of the same and I know in the US that more people help economically and with time than say in Sweden on their own spare time and with their own money whereas here it's done in an enforced collective way through taxes and then people expect that to solve any issues instead (possibly a more fair solution but the distribution is unfair and stupid. I've rather help 2 000 children in Afghanistan go to school (~400 SEK / person and year) than have one young Afghan man come here (~1 900 SEK / day) to finish school and upgrade his life.)
    Anyway, I imagine that if I help families with say children with cancer in the US those people and their community may be grateful and help support others in their way too so I don't see it as a complete waste.

    (Wish HB was less US and UK centric and happily help bring controllers for disabled people so they too can play games :), though to be fair wouldn't it be best if society provided this just as with hearing aids and IMHO visual aid too (I wear glasses myself)?)

  18. Re:Oh my ... on Despite Lean Space Budgets Russia Is Headed For the Moon (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Now what sanctions are we going to impose for this one? Putin must be stopped!

    Freeze his assets in Siberia! (and in the Arctic and on the Moon and in the future on Mars and ..)

  19. and they told me straight where I could go.

    It's a shell with C like syntax!!

    Not the resting place of spin-idling terrorists and CTs alike!

  20. Re:And this despite lower gasoline prices on Tesla Says Model 3 Had 'Biggest One-Week Launch of Any Product Ever' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    In this nation the electricity has been ~50% nuclear + 50% hydro-power more or less as long as that has been possible.

    Now there's some wind, biomass, solar, fossil and garbage thrown into that mix but I guess around 90% are still that way.

    It could had been better though. It could had been even more nuclear power (it has been but more still) and less of some of the others and possibly hydro-power too (ups and downs with that one.)

  21. Re:Not anymore :( on Fallout 4 Wins Best Game At Bafta Awards (bbc.com) · · Score: 1
  22. Re:And this despite lower gasoline prices on Tesla Says Model 3 Had 'Biggest One-Week Launch of Any Product Ever' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Good luck driving a 20 year old Diesel into any city in Germany, Sweden, or Holland. You can easily buy a Tesla from the fines alone.

    The progress-backwards anti-white I'm-not-a-communist-fascist-socialist-but-yes-I-am everyone-is-equal-fuck-men-applaud-all-black would want it banned by then completely.

    I'm totally fine for using electric cars but it would be nice if someone with an old one could actually drive it.

    As for the pollution at-least it would be much less then than now. Also if they hadn't been so much against nuclear power from the beginning ..

  23. Re:Captcha cracking using AI is a losing battle on Google ReCAPTCHA Cracked In New Automated Attack · · Score: 1

    80% accuracy rate is better than I have with some of them.

    Some are simply too hard.

  24. Re:And this despite lower gasoline prices on Tesla Says Model 3 Had 'Biggest One-Week Launch of Any Product Ever' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    A gas car you can keep going for 15 to 20 years.

    Unless it's banned before then / Swede.

  25. Re:Apple sold 13 million iPhone 6s/6s+ in 3 days on Tesla Says Model 3 Had 'Biggest One-Week Launch of Any Product Ever' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple sold 13 million iPhone 6s/6s+ in 3 days

    325 000 * 35 000 = 11 375 000 000

    For the iPhone 6 the prices seem to have been $199-$499, say the most common price was $300.
    13 000 000 * 300 = 3 900 000 000

    Even if you assume Apple sold as fast the rest of the week that's 3.9*7/3 = 9.1 billion which is still less than 11.4.