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  1. using people for fuel. What else can we do with the 7B on the planet anyway?

  2. That strangely reminds me of one communist leader in the eastern block many years ago - he is giving a inaugural speech for a semi conductor plant, that goes something like this : "Congratulations comrades. With our scientific achievements this year we built a plant for semiconductors, next year we will build a plant for full". Little did he knew what a full conductor is not better than a semiconductor.

  3. Private driver on It's Harder To Get an Uber or Lyft If You're Black, Study Says (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait a second. If I am a private driver, in my private vehicle, and I am not providing a service but just ride sharing, then any and all hailers are hitchhikers. Such as they are hitchhikers, it is my personal discretion who I allow into my vehicle and who do I not.

    Now on the other hand, if I was working for a transportation service, hauling people around is my job, and I wouldn't care less who is in the car as long as they are paying.

    I have so far taken in only one hitchhiker in my car, I was stopped in front of a one lane 2 way tunnel waiting for my direction to be allowed in, and there was a smelly woman in dirty muddy rags by the side of the road. There were some vandals or whatcha-call-em, perhaps hooligans, in the two cars behind me, who got out of their cars and started to harass the woman, so I let her in as she was in immediate distress. Other than that, I see no reason to haul around hitchhikers.

  4. Exclusion on national origin can definitely be included in labor ads.

  5. Re:Shut up, indeed. on Google's AI Created Its Own Form of Encryption (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps because people here actually understand how to design and write algorithms and how those execute.

  6. Re:Handle things on your own. on WhatsApp-Facebook Privacy U-Turn Now Being Probed by EU Data Watchdog (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Somebody mod parent UP

  7. Why TF? on Web Bluetooth Opens New Abusive Channels (dailydot.com) · · Score: 0

    Why, Why? People want their names written with urine on the wall so they invent useless new standards?

    PAN is a perfectly adequate 3Mbps IP transport (actually level 2) between 7 Bluetooth devices and a host. You can run real network there.

  8. Re:Aren't they too power-hungry? on Intel Announces Atom E3900 Series - Goldmont for the Internet of Things (anandtech.com) · · Score: 0

    Yeah, what's the point. At 6 to 12W one can ran comfortably a Haswell U chip. Even the Celerons will have more oomph than the crappy atom cores in this one. Oh.. I get it.. it is more spying via the integrated management engine. Cause in IoT the users are the product.

  9. Who are those guys, never heard of them all, except visualstudio and the VS itself low contrast is optional

  10. Re:non-news is non-news on 32GB iPhone 7 Has 8 Times Slower Storage Performance Than 128GB Model (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 2

    Parallelizing writes is done for wear leveling at chip level. Then the algorithms also take care of the ware leveling inside the chip. It really makes sense with the crappy 10nm TLC/MLC technology we have today that shits out after 150-200 writes. Any manufacturer who isn't doing it, is an idiot and their product should not be bought.

  11. Young lads in Martian Air Defence on Schiaparelli Mars Probe's Parachute 'Jettisoned Too Early', Whereabouts Still Unknown (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    The Martian society salutes you. Job well done.

  12. Re:So, no more usb mouse? on Apple Rumored To Remove Old-School USB Ports On Next MacBook Pro (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    That is a good reason, indeed, I was merely pointing out that you don't HAVE TO use a usb mouse on a Mac. Their USB ports, even when they had them were too few anyway, to use one for a mouse is waste one could rarely afford.

  13. Re:So, no more usb mouse? on Apple Rumored To Remove Old-School USB Ports On Next MacBook Pro (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    USB mouse? I've used Bluetooth mouse with Macs (desktops and laptops) since 08 and never had problems with them. First was an HP model, then a bunch of MS notebook Bluetooth mouse 5000, then another MS model - sculpt comfort, and currently Logitech - M535. I don't use USB or receiver based mice on any of my computers. The Apple produced mice were on the other hand crap, be it magic or apple.

  14. Re:space agency cooperation? on ESA Lander's Signal Cut Out Just Before It Was Supposed To Land on Mars (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Did you misspell "occupation" there?

  15. Yeah, they insulted him with another Note 7. Had it been any other phone, it would have been fine.

  16. I think it wasn't the $900. I think it was adding insult to injury by offering him another Note 7. Perhaps if they gave him a different phone and $900 he would have kept quiet.

  17. Nah, it is more likely to be the probulator from Futurama.

  18. Re:Big news on DNA Testing For Jobs May Be On Its Way, Warns Gartner (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually it costs only $200 and that is with a profit - source: 23andme.com

  19. Re: Brazil beat you by 10 years on China Just Launched Two Astronauts Into Orbit (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Not being man-rated doesn't mean it can't actually take a human into orbit.
    Do you think the rocket Gagarin was on was man rated, or the rocket that took sputnik out was satellite rated?
    No, they weren't yet they did their job. Any country with ICBM has the capability to get a man in space. Now, the length of survival and safe return may be an issue, but in some cases those aren't important. We are 7 milliard people on this planet, some are by definition expendable - unmarried man without children over the age of 35 definitely are.

  20. Considering the number of people having their phones on and out of airplane mode during my flights yesterday, texting and skyping and whatsapping and facebooking, there are at lest 10 heads per flight in a oversold economy cabin of a 737 that will do it.

  21. Re:Where's the Krebs DDOS analysis? on Bruce Schneier: We Need To Save the Internet From the Internet of Things (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    OVH said it

  22. Re:How much bandwidth do these things need? on Bruce Schneier: We Need To Save the Internet From the Internet of Things (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Hard with cameras. They really need to be able to upload to the offsite FTP server as fast as possible

  23. Re: Self Driving and BMW drivers on A Self-Driving Uber Car Went the Wrong Way On a One-Way Street in Pittsburgh (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought the worst reckless proles in Europe were the Golf II drivers with Remus stickers, purple fluorescent lights under the car and aluminum wheels.

  24. In my case I have a set of rules on my router - you send me a packet I don't expect - blacklisted for 1 hour.
    You send me another packet - add another hour to your blacklist time. I have a few IP cameras - they are allowed to connect only to my internal DNS and to my external ftp server. All connections to them, and outbound from them to places I have not explicitly allowed are dropped silently.
    Same for NAS-es as well - no, you can't use UPNP, you can't phone home to mama(facturer), and you most certainly can't get any connection from the outside world. The WD devices are horrible and next to be hacked - they open an openvpn connection and drop untrusted traffic right in your network.. clickety click - no more traffic.

  25. Re:Makes perfect sense on New iPhone 7 Case Brings Back the Headphone Jack (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    What do you mean iPhone users can't put there own music on the device? Are you a retard? That has been possible since the days of the first iPhone. Music was uploaded through iTunes or later on with iTunes Match apple will upload all your music collection (I have tons of songs they don't recognize) to their servers and stream it for you. Now I'm also on T-Mobile so the streaming is free for me (doesn't use my data plan), so I stopped storing music locally, but it is a choice, not like this is impossible.

    On the other hand, I paid quite a bit of money for custom fitted in-ear monitors that come with a cable. The jack is a must, backed by a good DAC, which the 5S has.