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  1. Since the Constitution requires that patents "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" as the current laws do not do that, Copyright and Patent in the US is illegal (unconstitutional). Too bad the government doesn't agree with me.

  2. Ah yes. The typical American response. "We aren't provably the worst, therefore, we'll pretend we are the best!"

    And no country is contributing to Global Warming the way the US is. Most of the pollution in the "3rd world countries" is from the production of goods for the US (and allies), often by US companies operating on foreign soil to run around regulations..

  3. So, this guy makes $40M and saves it in a manner that nobody that knows him sees him living large. Yet, when he's arrested, there's no money to post bail with. Sounds like the $40M a year number is all lies. Or he lied about being broke so he gets to keep his hidden $40M after he serves 300 years of his 380 year sentence. More likely, he didn't make $0.10, but the messing he did trying to made a Wall Street Insider lose $40M, so they insist he has it, even though they know it was lost $0.01 at a time over 4B trades (as that's how HFT works, just usually the other way).

    The answer is always: Follow the money. Someone has it. Someone is lying.

  4. Re:$$$ Workstations on PC Industry Is Now On a Two-Year Downslide (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a computer 10+ years old. 10+ year old RAM, CPU, GPU. I upgraded the drive from PATA to SSD SATA (on MB), and can run current software just fine, even some new games that fall back to very low "low" settings. The drive made a large difference in load times, making it feel much more snappy.

  5. Re:$$$ Workstations on PC Industry Is Now On a Two-Year Downslide (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    30GHz can't work. At 30 GHz, if you used a speed of light medium (and electrons through copper/silicon aren't quite there), 30 GHz corresponds to 9 mm of travel. You couldn't send the signal in one pin and get it out on the other pin, even under theoretically optimal conditions, let alone practical ones.

    Fuzzy logic and such were considered an option, where the clock was no longer a fixed thing, but it never worked as intended. So the physics could never work for 30 GHz. Someone may have extrapolated to that, but it was simply impossible, and always will be (until CPUs are physically smaller and materials improve), or CPUs stop using clocks, at which a 30 GHz clock speed for reference seems silly, like measuring speed in parsecs.

  6. I download the map cache, and have all the features of a dedicated GPS unit, plus more. And when I visit a foreign country and get a rental car, my regular GPS comes with me and "just works" as opposed to a built-in GPS that can't be moved, or a detachable GPS that can't work out of its home country. A phone is better than a built-in GPS or aftermarket dedicated GPS.

  7. If there's no signal tracking, how does the Garmin work? My phone uses the compass and movement sensors, in addition to WiFi and cellular positioning to cover me when going through a tunnel, and exact to the cm location in a tunnel is irrelevant. There are no turns to make in 99% of tunnels.

    So where are you where there is no signal for tracking? Sounds like a theoretical complaint to support a pre-made conclusion, not something to support either position.

  8. Google offers the option to pull down maps on your route. I can Wi-Fi my maps for a trip, then go driving. 100% of maps needed, without using any data. Great for the cheap 7" WiFi-only tablets.

  9. What is "fall back"? If you map your route with Google, you can select to download the applicable maps, so that you don't need data the entire trip. What fall back do you need from that functionality?

  10. I don't know where you are, but most places don't outlaw using your phone. You just can't hold it while using it. I can text while driving. I would just have to use the bluetooth controller and "type" the text with voice recognition. Where are you that outlaws playing music on your phone while it's in your GPS holder?

  11. They were either idiots, or lying. Those antennas are solely for parking. At least according to the Japanese owner's manual, and people that actually make and sell cars with them.

  12. GPS antennas are either in the satellite antenna, on the rear-view mirror, or front (usually passenger side) corner of the dash, as far out under the windshield as possible. Often a small button, or other cosmetic sign of the exact location.

  13. in-car systems use the vehicle speed sensor and a gyro for the main navigation input,

    Maybe some do, but most don't. They are effectively consumer units, re-badged for their brand. At most a different display to get a custom fit in the car. The only possible benefit to the built-in sensors is that you could put the GPS antenna in a better location than a phone on a dash.

  14. Re:Amazing insight, Nielsen on Viewers Only Watch 10% of Pay-TV Channels: Nielsen (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    This has been a complaint since the '80s. Sports fans had to buy "expanded" cable to get channels they didn't want, just so they could get ESPN. Disney Kids only comes with premium, so you have to buy the most expensive package with 200 channels to get that one. And you can't buy HBO with "basic" as well, so those wanting to watch The Sopranos or True Blood or whatever, couldn't get HBO without expanded basic or premium (depending on the company).

    A La Carte channel ordering would not cut revenue, but would break the monopolies by the distribution companies.

  15. The rapist was convicted. And Clinton never laughed about it. She laughed at an unrelated thing in a long interview that also included questions about her previous legal career.

    The accusation as written was wrong about every fact in it except the age of the victim. The only time Republicans have ever cared about a victim.

  16. Re:They should bring back the replaceable battery. on Samsung Orders the Global Shutdown of Both Sales and Exchanges of Galaxy Note 7 (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    No, they design non-removable batteries for cost/weight/waterproof/performance reasons. Technical reasons. Complaining about 3rd party accessories is a marketing excuse that's unrelated to the design goals. When the device catches on fire, they cross their fingers that they can blame it on a 3rd party charger, cable or battery. Allowing those *reduces* their risk and liability.

    Because when the sealed battery in a brand-name device catches fire, the brand loses $55B (or so, speculation is out there, and growing as more replacement "safe" phones burn up).

  17. Re:Who wants either of them in power on Clinton Responds To WikiLeaks During Debate, And Blames Russian Hackers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    He confessed to a crime. I'll take it as he gave it. That you protect him doesn't change facts, no matter how much you'd like it to.

  18. Re:Who wants either of them in power on Clinton Responds To WikiLeaks During Debate, And Blames Russian Hackers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    But saying you have done it is.

    Or are you defending Drumpf by saying that everything he says is a lie, so any confessions made must be lies too?

  19. Re:Who wants either of them in power on Clinton Responds To WikiLeaks During Debate, And Blames Russian Hackers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Many mean it literally, as he wasn't convicted. Most don't know the difference.

  20. Re:Who wants either of them in power on Clinton Responds To WikiLeaks During Debate, And Blames Russian Hackers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    He stated he grabs them. That's assault. He has multiple allegations of rape against him at the moment. Some likely politically motivated. He has past allegations of rape that he effectively admitted to, and settled with a payoff to avoid a criminal trial.

  21. Re:Who wants either of them in power on Clinton Responds To WikiLeaks During Debate, And Blames Russian Hackers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Bill Clinton was impeached. Being impeached was hardly "immune" from it.

  22. Re:Serious question on Clinton Responds To WikiLeaks During Debate, And Blames Russian Hackers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    but why would the hackers leave anything behind?

    When you are too dumb to understand something, you should probably refrain from commenting on it in public. Most hacks leave behind "code". When you hack a system, you generally install additional backdoors, so that you can get back in if someone notices and blocks the first. You make directories, and run scripts to scrape data to send off the system. Lots of "code" gets left behind from a professional hack. If they have unlimited time and are worried about getting caught, they can clean up after themselves, but if they aren't worried about getting caught (behind multiple VPNs and such) and are short on time, they'll leave being something. And that will be found later.

    Apparently, only ignorant idiots are voting for Trump. Learn what hacking is before you make stupid comments about it.

  23. Meanwhile Hillary laughed about a very real rapist of a 12 year old she got off scott free.

    Never happened. I guess the litmus test for voting for trump is mental illness. Anyone with severe brain damage might vote Trump. But that's all.

  24. Yeah, but he timing is that he took the $1B loss from his incompetent management, then deducted it, then bankrupted it. So he deducted a non-loss. If he takes a $1B loss and doesn't bankruptcy it away, how many billions did he wipe in his 6 bankruptcies (yes, I know, they were corporate, not personal, but for billionaires, that's the same thing).

  25. Where's Stein? Or are you only listing the 3rd party candidates you like?