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  1. Re:Clinton's desperation on Computer Scientists Believe a Trump Server Was Communicating With a Russian Bank (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    What exactly do you think is suspicious about that?

    You have private server that appear only your overseas bank that's connected to the Russian government connect to for official business, and that change hostnames when someone inquirers about it with your bank? And then suddenly goes dark when more investigating is done?

  2. Re:I've seen things at least that strange on Computer Scientists Believe a Trump Server Was Communicating With a Russian Bank (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    But what he saw was a bank in Moscow that kept irregularly pinging a server registered to the Trump Organization on Fifth Avenue.

    What is on 5th Avenue? I'll give you a hint, it isn't the bank, the server or the domain. Someone go stop the presses, I think we just found the mailing address of Trump's office.

    I took it to mean more that a Moscow-based bank was talking to a Trump-organized bank. Fifth Avenue is used to identify the Trump Organization proper.

  3. A whois typo isn't very conclusive one way or another about a official connection to the Trump Organization.

  4. Re:More like a formidable competitor to competitio on CenturyLink To Buy Level 3 For $34 Billion, Create a More Formidable Competitor To AT&T (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The last-mile problem is the current bottleneck to competition. Remove that barrier by shifting it to a utility, and we then get real competition instead of the 2 co-shitty ISP's a typical city has to choose between.

    Why on earth would you want two or more ISPs to compete over you over a common backbone? That would require competition, something the ISPs obviously don't want. It would also require someone to foot the bill for that last mile infrastructure. ISPs have fought for years to not have to share their lines, nor have a city be able to put in their own lines. It's much better the way it is where one ISP control the area and kick and scream and pout whenever there's an effort to try to modernize the service.

  5. Re:Doesn't even the moderators read the articles? on Crushable Runway Technology Saved Mike Pence's Plane (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Mike Pence was on the plane. It was Mike Pence's plane. It was also his journalist pool's plane. And the pilots' plane. And Eastern Airlines Group, Inc's plane.

    Showing possession doesn't necessarily mean having ownership.

  6. I've seen estimated profit margins for iPhones as high as 69%. Their last quarterly report that was just released has iPhone revenues at $28.2B and "Other products" revenue of $2.4B. Take away from that $2.4B revenue from Apple TV, Apple Watch, Beats products to leave just the revenue from iPod and Apple-branded and third-party accessories.

    The profit margins may be ridiculously high on accessories, the gross profit is still dwarfed by even an extremely conservative estimate of margins on the iPhone.

  7. Re:and if I shoplift a rack full of CD's it's just on Repeat Infringers Can Be Mere Downloaders, Court Rules (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    But in this case, acquiring the song the first time would be the only act of infringement. After that, you're only utilizing content that was previously infringed. You aren't charged with shoplifting every time you listen to a stolen CD.

  8. Re:Isn't this like an ancience technology on XPrize's New Challenge: Turn Air Into Water, Make More Than a Million Dollars (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, go ahead and submit you idea. Building a 9000 m^3 stone mound doesn't seem very practical. And all the other implemented methods on that page with passive or renewable energy sources appear to make only a fraction of the 2000 liters the contest aims for.

  9. Awww, I feel bad on More NFL Players Attack Microsoft's $400M Surface Deal With The NFL (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    The tablets failed to work during a crucial AFC Championship game last January -- again for the New England Patriots...

    Aww, that's so awful for the Patriots. While the tablets may be to blame, it's hard for me to feel too bad for a team with a history of "communication issues" for visiting teams.

    My .02, get rid of tablets, photos, phone calls, headphones, and anything else other than the coaches and players on the playing field and sideline talking to each other in person. They can all carry around clipboards that have Microsoft Surface, Apple iPad, or whatever other brand sticker on the back if the advertising money is that important.

  10. Re:Their stock has been split since 1999 right??? on Microsoft Shares Hit All-Time High As Company Strengthens Its Cloud Grip (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. February 18, 2003 was the only split since their previous "high" Dec 23, 1999.

    I think as long as it's clear that previous stock prices and/or volume data have been adjusted for splits an "all time high" still is valid even if it's not technically the highest price it ever traded at.

  11. Re:Worst keyboard ever on Razer Acquires THX, the Audio Pioneer That George Lucas Started (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Razer's marketing is full of hyperbole, often bordering on outright lying. Many of their statements are obviously made to be misinterpreted so as to make their products appear to be more interesting than they really are.
    They are a dishonest, shameful company.
    Never mind that their products are more flash than quality.

    They are the Bose of computer/gamer hardware.

  12. Re:Cable Packages, Duh on Viewers Only Watch 10% of Pay-TV Channels: Nielsen (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Couldn't that be said for every ranking program and channel?

  13. Re:Cable Packages, Duh on Viewers Only Watch 10% of Pay-TV Channels: Nielsen (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't understand how ratings work then. Ratings used to be based on watching diaries that people would write down what and when they watched. Now they usually use a people meters. As such, places like barber shops, bars, restaurants, etc are not included in TV ratings and so underrepresent the actual number of people that might be viewing.

  14. Re:Cable Packages, Duh on Viewers Only Watch 10% of Pay-TV Channels: Nielsen (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    You forgot the biggest, most useless pile of shit ever on TV: ESPN.

    And yet 4 of the top 10 shows on cable TV are on ESPN. For being a useless pile of shit, a lot of people still watch it.

  15. Re:How the fuck? on Court Rejects Massive Torrent Damages Claim, Admin Avoids Jail (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't. But it's a lot easier to pay off than a $3m fine that was asked for.

  16. Re:they won't be C-stores on Amazon Eyes Its Own Convenience Stores In Addition To Drive-Up Grocery Sites (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    If Amazon operated it's c-stores as a separate corporation but still wholly owned by Amazon, would that still count as a nexus for sales tax purposes for Amazon the online retailer?

  17. Re:...what about the drafthouse?.. on Netflix CEO: Movie Theaters Are 'Strangling the Movie Business'' (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Or I could just yell that, and then rewatch whatever it is when I'm sleeping on the couch that night.

  18. Re:...what about the drafthouse?.. on Netflix CEO: Movie Theaters Are 'Strangling the Movie Business'' (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    We have a Cinema Grill near our house. Awful food and drinks, old chairs, and below average theater. But it was the first in the area to offer an alternative to just rows of traditional seating...I think even before stadium seating made it here.

    A Regal theater several years ago added motorized recliner stadium seating. That's typically the theater we go to now. Ton of space, chairs you can set to exactly the angle you want, and even if someone has their cell phone screen on you don't notice it because you're reclined. You still have people that might talk, but you can't get rid of that...even at home (yeah I'm looking at you wife and kids).

  19. Re:Every Patent is Expressed Through Language on Prominent Pro-Patent Judge Issues Opinion Declaring All Software Patents Bad (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    By extension, nothing can be patented. Any idea or concept which is currently patented is expressed through language.

    I disagree. With a traditional patent of a physical item or process, it's the item or process that receives the patent. The description just, well, describes it. With a software patent, the description is what is being patented, not the physical manifestation of that description in circuits, electrons, inputs and outputs, etc that the computer uses when it executes the instructions.

  20. Invoice would be good. Check would have the same issue as bill. Bill also works if it were say a utility bill or a repair bill. It's ambiguous in the context used because a bill also refers to a note or a piece of paper currency, as in a dollar bill. Since a $100,000 banknote does exist, although never used for public transactions, saying he received a $100,000 note is unclear what exactly he received...was he suddenly a rich 12 year old? Or suddenly serious in debt?

    It could have also been rephrased such as as "received a bill for $100,000".

  21. Re:Did it make Apple's developer docs usable again on Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store (kapeli.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Did it make Apple's developer docs usable again?

    There used to be an app for that!

  22. Re:Ideal targets on Smartphone Reseller Cheated Customers Out of Millions, Feds Say (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    So no one ever upgrades phones because they want a different screen size, or more storage, faster processor, or a feature their currently functional phone doesn't have? It's ALWAYS just about having the latest as sign of status, right? Never a legitimate need to upgrade.

  23. So basically what you'd get if you merged the Matrix franchise with Inception.

    To quote Neo, "Whoa."

  24. It's not highly creative tax accounting. When you pay little or no taxes, it makes you smart. Or at least I think that's how it goes lately.