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  1. Re:No "End of the world"? on How To Watch the 'Super Blue Blood Moon' Lunar Eclipse (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    They're rambling about Trump.

  2. Is there one, single country that has a national health-care program that pays for breast augmentation?

    You're forgetting people who transition to the other sex.

  3. Re:PS remember free means FREE on Amazon's Push Into Healthcare Just Cost the Industry $30 Billion In Market Cap (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    It reminds me of a UK guy the other day saying he can't afford to take the family out to dinner and pay for legal entertainment. The point and the wording were clear. This wasn't just him but the majority in the UK.

    If this were true, we wouldn't have nearly as many restaurants as we do.

    In NJ and the UK things are not very good for employees in similar jobs. Employees are dependent on the state and the state hasn't taken good care of them.

    This is particular pattern I've seen in many unskilled labour markets.

  4. Re:The NHS model and control of doctors' salaries on Amazon's Push Into Healthcare Just Cost the Industry $30 Billion In Market Cap (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    My estimate for two parents (amount of children doesn't matter). The NHS yearly cost is about 1880.64GBP, assuming both parents are earning 16,000GBP each a year. If they're on welfare, they pay nothing.

  5. Re:The NHS model and control of doctors' salaries on Amazon's Push Into Healthcare Just Cost the Industry $30 Billion In Market Cap (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    In the UK for example, it's illegal to "top up" care with private payments if the NHS paid for any of the care during the episode.

    Uh, I have insurance with both AXA and BUPA and they both do this?

    The episode is either all private pay or NHS pay, but never both in the same episode.

    Nope, I've done this for dental work.

  6. Re:The NHS model and control of doctors' salaries on Amazon's Push Into Healthcare Just Cost the Industry $30 Billion In Market Cap (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I recall doing contract job in IT in UK some years back. I had to register in NHS too at the beginning. After 6months I left the country and after 2 more I got a letter from NHS that they processed my data and my insurance card is waiting for me.

    Weird, it took my other-half a week to receive his after he registered and they mailed us to our address, no pick up required.

  7. Re:Great 53rd B-day present 4 me... apk on How To Watch the 'Super Blue Blood Moon' Lunar Eclipse (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    Nie wolno, APK!

  8. Link, The Blood Moon rises once again! on How To Watch the 'Super Blue Blood Moon' Lunar Eclipse (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    Link, Link, be on your guard. Ganon's power grows... It rises to its peak under the hour of the Blood Moon. By its glow, the aimless spirits of monsters that were slain in the name of the light return to flesh. Link, please be careful.

  9. Re:Let's watch on Jack White Bans Cellphones At Concerts For '100% Human Experience' (nme.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't really care for concert recordings, however...

    "Let's watch my recording of the concert I went to!"
    -Nobody ever

    I made one dodgy video recording of a song a friend of mine really liked (the audio was actually horrible in person, it was reverbing horribly; the phone's built in noise enhancement made it better) at a concert I went to last year. Uploaded it to YouTube. YouTube demographics say it's been watching 1.7k times, average view duration is 3:25 (video length is 3:59).

    To be honest, that shows there is a demand for it. Considering I am not a popular YouTuber or anything.

  10. Re:What if there was an Emergency? on Jack White Bans Cellphones At Concerts For '100% Human Experience' (nme.com) · · Score: 1

    It would be exactly the same as it was in the past including the 70's and 80's and most of the 90's.

    I remember having an entire concert interrupted for an hour in the 90s to just inform one person that someone was sent to the hospital. The concert then never finished playing what was promised and refused to refund.

    Wasn't really a great time for me, particularly because I was 17, people were turning violent and the organizers decided to distance themselves.

  11. Re:Net Neutrality on Google Just Broke Amazon's Workaround For YouTube On Fire TV (cordcuttersnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Nice try, but I specifically quoted "Google is doing this because Amazon refuses to sell Google devices.", not anything else.

    Also, AC on another subthread stated:

    Amazon make a variety of tablets and the Google Pixel C (a tablet) is still being sold.

  12. Re:Net Neutrality on Google Just Broke Amazon's Workaround For YouTube On Fire TV (cordcuttersnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Nice try, but I specifically quoted "Google is doing this because Amazon refuses to sell Google devices.", not anything else. 2

  13. Re:Net Neutrality on Google Just Broke Amazon's Workaround For YouTube On Fire TV (cordcuttersnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Nice try, but I specifically quoted "Google is doing this because Amazon refuses to sell Google devices.", not anything else.

  14. Re:Astrophotography on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Forced Subscription-Only Software? · · Score: 1

    For me, it's Photoshop's "Spot Healing Brush". The variants in GIMP, Krita and ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate are inferior and I can't work with them.

  15. Re:Premise is bullshit. on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Forced Subscription-Only Software? · · Score: 1

    You do realize that a chunk of those (except for FOSS) are already experimenting with subscription services?

  16. Re:If they release a subscription free version aga on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Forced Subscription-Only Software? · · Score: 1

    If something happens that causes CS6 to no longer be suitable then hopefully I'll be able to find a competing software package that is.

    You won't, piracy ensures that there are no viable competitors (by perpetuating the most popular, 1st choice software, making it homogeneous). Otherwise competitors would have a chance in surviving in the industry, they simply do not.

  17. Re:Net Neutrality on Google Just Broke Amazon's Workaround For YouTube On Fire TV (cordcuttersnews.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Google is doing this because Amazon refuses to sell Google devices.

    I went to Amazon, searched for "Google Pixel" and the first result was the Google device I searched for.

  18. Re:So, AMD for my new PC? on Linus Torvalds Calls Intel Patches 'Complete and Utter Garbage' (lkml.org) · · Score: 1

    I buy Xeons for workstation loads and high reliability requirements. I am able to disable prefetching/problematic speculation through the BIOS (similar to this), thanks to the extensive functionality that seems to be on motherboard (I've noticed Xeon boards generally have a lot more options generally).

    What is AMD's alternative? In the past it was branded Opteron, but I am struggling to find a modern variant that's comparable to Intel's top end Xeons along with the ability to disable prefetching.

  19. Re:I use this thing called Cash on Google Rebrands All Its Payment Solutions As 'Google Pay' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's legally accepted anywhere for all payment of debts and transactions.

    You'll struggle in Sweden, they don't really take cash payments there in a lot of places. Where I live in the UK, people are likely to refuse payments if you have to pay for something over 100GBP in cash and even then, because of all the different bank notes where I'm in, cash fraud is pretty common, so you may get rejected regardless.

    It has no surcharge.

    Using my Credit card doesn't typically have a surcharge for most transactions.

    It has no interest rate to use it.

    Nor do I have an interest rate to use my credit card.

  20. Re:Lawsuits on what grounds? on Nope, No Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    WRONG. What CEO dumps his stock to the MINIMUM level required in a single year? None.

    John R. O'Rourke III, Richard Smith, Travis Kalanick, Heather Bresch etc.

    Stacy Rasgon

    Never heard of her. I heard of the names I mentioned above though.

  21. Re:It isn't his decision on Nope, No Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    No, let him continue. I want to see where this goes.

  22. As long as they aren't worse security wise, I'd encourage people to consider buying them, if for no other reason to try to encourage some competition.

    There are more eyes on Intel processors than AMD at the moment. I don't know what is worse on the security spectrum.

  23. Try cleaning up a Windows app that installed device drivers

    That's easy, same method since Windows 2000. Open up device manager, choose view, show hidden devices, right click uninstall relevant devices (this will also uninstall the driver).

    and crap in the registry

    Easily done with a tool like ccleaner.

    There's no need to get frothy mouthed about Apple when it's easy enough to contrive similar situations on other platforms

    On Windows, it's a non-issue to solve in my experience.

  24. Re:Welp, time to get a hold of a class action lawy on 'Kernel Memory Leaking' Intel Processor Design Flaw Forces Linux, Windows Redesign (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Design failure caused by negligence? Check.

    Could you explain the exact negligence that occurred here and why it took over ten years for 3rd parties to discover and which 3rd parties should we also hold responsible for negligence?

  25. Simple solution on Germany Starts Enforcing Hate Speech Law (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a simple solution for social media sites. Just automatically take down all posts that are reported for "hate speech" until it has been reviewed. Easily meets the confines of these laws. If politicians find themselves constantly silenced, they're free to amend the law.