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  1. Re:Google doesn't do this on Russia To Act Against Google if Sputnik, RT Get Lower Search Rankings (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for such a childish answer, it only underlines that you have no sensible counterargument.

  2. >> There is no "they". Jews don't act as a group.

    Wow. Good luck with that whole choosing to live in denial thing.

  3. Re:Google doesn't do this on Russia To Act Against Google if Sputnik, RT Get Lower Search Rankings (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    >> No, they do not distort facts or information

    Exactly what do you think hiding search results is then?

  4. Wait... you actually don't believe that the Jewish people don't have an agenda to control everyone else? Dude why do you think they already totally control Hollywood and most of the media? not to mention a significant proportion of the banking system....
    Furthermore if you think I'm pro-left you're way-off.

  5. Re:Will tarnish Google's reputation on Eric Schmidt Says Google News Will 'Engineer' Russian Propaganda Out of the Feed (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually they are demonstrating that by it not artificially filtering out information, their search engine algorithm is a actually better than their own very misguided social brainwashing agenda.

  6. The media have always been biassed, but not to the point of fabricating news stories based on outright lies, like they are now.
    What especially worries me is when big public information sources like Google, that should be very carefully apolitical, get involved too. Its analogous to your local library burning any books that doesn't agree with the librarian's political party's interpretation of a "politically correct" social agenda, which by the way is EXACTLY what happened in 1930's Nazi Germany.

  7. Be good sheeple and suck it up on Eric Schmidt Says Google News Will 'Engineer' Russian Propaganda Out of the Feed (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    Welcome to 1930's Germany all over again. Your worldview is now completely determined by a bunch of control freaks with a radical agenda masquerading as PeeCee-ism, and level of self-righteous arrogance that makes Kim Jong Un look rational and evenhanded.

    Next up: Google announce they have just activated a neural net that is detecting any/all potential dissente++++

  8. Don't companies even check obvious stuff any more? on iPhone X Owners Experience 'Crackling' or 'Buzzing' Sounds From Earpiece Speaker (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Not just Apple, but It seems clear that many companies are now doing less and less even basic testing of products before they just push them out.
    its not really surprising in itself, As long as they can get away with it, but the really wierd thing I keep seeing is how so many consumers keep coming up with (ususally quite lame) excuses to cover for the companies even blatantly screwing consumers. Its clear that there's some wierd Stockholm Syndrome-like thing happening amongst many consumers where they just don't want to ever face the actual truth.

  9. Volta will be out any minute on NVIDIA Launches Modded Collector's Edition Star Wars Titan Xp Graphics Card (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Your $1200 only buys you maybe 3 months at most of being the fastest card on the planet, after that is just more of yesterdays tech.

  10. Re:Seems dangerous. on Tesla Unveils 500-Mile Range Semi Truck, 620-Mile Range Roadster 2.0 · · Score: 2

    They'll probably have to run special courses for all the BMW drivers who don't even know their cars have them.

  11. Re:Seems dangerous. on Tesla Unveils 500-Mile Range Semi Truck, 620-Mile Range Roadster 2.0 · · Score: 1

    If you watch Musks' presentation he talks about saving battery by convoying. It has nothing to do with not paying for drivers.

  12. Re:Seems dangerous. on Tesla Unveils 500-Mile Range Semi Truck, 620-Mile Range Roadster 2.0 · · Score: 1

    >> they leave a gap between each truck,

    I bet they don't, at least not one sufficient to get a car in.

    The whole reason there's a benefit to convoying is that they are actually drafting, (which is most usually a technique that racing drivers use), that capitalises on gaining efficiency by using the slipstream from the lead vehicle. It requires the following vehicle to be literally inches away from the rear bumper of the of the vehicle in front in order to gain any benefit of the effect at all. So by leaving a gap large enough for a car, they are forgoing any benefit.

  13. Seems dangerous. on Tesla Unveils 500-Mile Range Semi Truck, 620-Mile Range Roadster 2.0 · · Score: 1

    >> but when convoying is utilized -- where multiple trucks mirror the action of a lead truck -- the costs drop to 57%

    So basically they include technology and the desire to form solid lines of trucks that will completely lock out a whole lane from other road users. How is this gonna work when there is an impenetrable wall of Tesla trucks blocking freeway exits and entries?

  14. Re:A pick-up truck on Tesla Unveils 500-Mile Range Semi Truck, 620-Mile Range Roadster 2.0 · · Score: 1

    I totally agree.

  15. I feel like its going to be a long wait on Twitter Bans, Removes Verified Status of White Supremacists (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm very much looking forward to seeing a few radical left Twitterers getting the same treatment, because I'm sure there can't be any significant political bias at Twitter or any of the other giant CA-based internet companies that are forcing their PeeCee agenda down our throats, right?

  16. Re:I have a question... on Tesla Is a 'Hotbed For Racist Behavior,' Worker Claims In Lawsuit (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I DID RTFA. YOU read it. No mention at all of it being blacks and hispanics.

  17. I have a question... on Tesla Is a 'Hotbed For Racist Behavior,' Worker Claims In Lawsuit (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    >> Vaughn alleged that employees and supervisors regularly used the "N word" around him and other black colleagues.

    I wonder what ratio of the employees and supervisors using the N word were also black?

  18. Re:A major point of open source.... on What Happens to Open Source Code After Its Developer Dies? (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    That leads perfectly into my one major gripe about open source projects.
    The documentation is most usually either absolutely crap, or completely absent.

  19. A major point of open source.... on What Happens to Open Source Code After Its Developer Dies? (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    ..is that has no gating dependencies on the original developer.

    If something is opensource then either it already has other people to keep working on it, or it wasn't filling anyone else's real need anyway, so doesn't matter if it fades away.

  20. Re:I lived in Phoenix for about 4 years, here's wh on Bill Gates Just Bought 25,000 Acres in the Arizona Desert (kgw.com) · · Score: 1

    Complete fact-free crap.

  21. Yeat another rich retirement community on Bill Gates Just Bought 25,000 Acres in the Arizona Desert (kgw.com) · · Score: 1

    There's just nothing for miles around there. Nobody employed will want to live there because the commute will be insane. We've already got at least two such failed experiment communities outside of and both already much closer to Phoenix (called Verrado and Anthem) I guess Gates doesn't do his homework.

    The last thing AZ needs is yet another half-occupied community full of seniors and snowbirds.

  22. When will people learn? on Logitech To Shut Down 'Service and Support' For Harmony Link Devices In 2018 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We only have ourselves to blame.
    Microsoft, Logitech and may other manufacturers KEEP proving that they can and will artificially shorten the life of even expensive products only a few years in, yet people just keep mindlessly buying products containing (often otherwise unnecessarily) nanny-net technology. Our buying patterns are just encouraging said manufacturers to keep getting worse with the blatant abuse on every product iteration.

    We still need to learn as a society to look for, and prefer buying functionally equivalent devices that do not have any unnecessary internet connectivity, because its already freaking obvious that manufacturers already feel free to use that as an attack vector to totally abuse us.

  23. Re:Old compatability workaround on No, the Linux Desktop Hasn't Jumped in Popularity (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Theres much more wrong with it than just the lack of a good package manager.

  24. Old compatability workaround on No, the Linux Desktop Hasn't Jumped in Popularity (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's been a VERY long time since I last checked, but I once found that multiple of the most popular browsers were incorrectly reporting themselves as running on Windows even when they were actually running on Linux. This was apparently being done on purpose for some compatibility/bug workaround or something, but was obviously significantly screwing with the numbers towards favouring Microsoft.

    Does anyone know if this is still the case at all?

  25. Maybe.... on Should Developers Do All Their Own QA? (itnews.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Part of me thinks It shows a remarkable lack of understanding, and part of me thinks it could be very insightful.
    My first thought was that its already very well understood to be a terrible idea to have only the same person who wrote the code production test it too (because they make all the same assumptions in testing that they also used to write it, so miss many test cases). Also that company is now putting high-cost developers on testing that could be performed by cheaper employees. But then.... maybe developers will actually self-improve quicker and even self-select if they now have to be personally responsible for writing bad code and don't have a QA department to hide behind.