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  1. Re:Please don't on Ask Slashdot: How Should a Liberal Arts Major Get Into STEM? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Because being a lawyer is a bad idea *eye roll* you apparently don't know who writes the laws....

  2. Re:Greenland part of Canada on Denmark Makes Claim To North Pole, Based On Undersea Geography · · Score: 2

    RTFA

  3. Re:No one gets the oil! on Denmark Makes Claim To North Pole, Based On Undersea Geography · · Score: 1

    Actually global warming. Easier access and higher oil prices make it financially profitable to drill in the Arctic.

  4. Re:'reasonable' move. on Google Closing Engineering Office In Russia · · Score: 1

    Yeah it has nothing to do with Russia's stringent censorship laws designed to control the Internet activity of the general public and corporations....*eye roll*

  5. Re:What about the states? on Google Closing Engineering Office In Russia · · Score: 2

    Right because the U.S. is..."Russia, alongside China, is known for stringent censorship laws designed to control the Internet activity of the general public and corporations. " Try again Potsy.

  6. Re:Growing Isolation on Google Closing Engineering Office In Russia · · Score: 1, Funny

    Putin's balls are dangling from your chin....

  7. Citizens Arrest? on Once Again, Baltimore Police Arrest a Person For Recording Them · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Arrest the cops for violating your rights?

  8. Ummm.... on AI Expert: AI Won't Exterminate Us -- It Will Empower Us · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "To say that AI will start doing what it wants for its own purposes is like saying a calculator will start making its own calculations."

    That's the very definition of Artificial Intelligence, computers that can think for themselves. You thought you were making super sophisticated computers? You sir do not know what Artificial Intelligence means.

    Whether or not AI is even *possible* is up for debate. Make no bones about it, a computer that can become self aware and can make decisions, can make decisions that can be harmful to people.

  9. Re:Probably on Tesla Wants Texas Auto Sales Regulations Loosened · · Score: 1

    By selling their cards through a middle man? Yeah real competitive.

  10. Re:You mean Democrats, 40 years each way on Tesla Wants Texas Auto Sales Regulations Loosened · · Score: 1

    So you're saying Rick Perry and George W Bush were powerless to change those laws with a Republican majority in the state capital. Got it...

  11. Re:I look forward on Tesla Wants Texas Auto Sales Regulations Loosened · · Score: 1

    LMOL I didn't realize lobbyists were constituents. Nice one Potsy.

  12. Re:Texas Anti-Regulatory Climate on Tesla Wants Texas Auto Sales Regulations Loosened · · Score: 2

    I know right...what happened to not picking winners....so it's a case of "Do as I say, not as I do."

  13. Re:Are they really that scared? on Why Elon Musk's Batteries Frighten Electric Companies · · Score: 1

    FTA: "“The mortal threat that ever cheaper on-site renewables pose” comes from systems that include storage, said Amory Lovins, co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a Snowmass, Colorado-based energy consultant. “That is an unregulated product you can buy at Home Depot that leaves the old business model with no place to hide.” "

  14. Re:um on DOJ Launches New Cybercrime Unit, Claims Privacy Top Priority · · Score: 0

    Actually they do because we the people authorized them to do so. When a member of Congress authorizes a federal agency to act in that capacity they are acting on your behalf. That's what a representative government does. You might not like it but it does not mean that federal agency is engaging in an illegal behavior. Now if you want to change what they can do or raise the threshold by which that can do something, you can by working through your representative.

  15. Except, it's a Wormhole on How Astronomers Will Take the "Image of the Century": a Black Hole · · Score: 1

    Supermassive Black Hole At The Centre Of The Galaxy May Be A Wormhole In Disguise, Say Astronomers https://medium.com/the-physics...

  16. Re:Lord, save me from buzzwords on IoT Is the Third Big Technology 'Wave' In the Last 50 Years, Says Harvard · · Score: 1

    Because he's infallible and not trying to sell you something? More importantly does he have some peer reviewed research to support that premise or is he just pushing a book? Reading this does not instill confidence that he is making any great insights or than spouting more nonsense buzz words. https://hbr.org/2014/11/how-sm...

  17. Re:LOL on How Intel and Micron May Finally Kill the Hard Disk Drive · · Score: 1

    Because my computer will boot up 1 second faster? Wow.....performance gains are to be had with memory, size and speed.

  18. Re:Sure, but speed... on How Intel and Micron May Finally Kill the Hard Disk Drive · · Score: 1

    Because you're doing what that requires the speed? Boot up? Other than gamers or people who actually use their computers for computing purposes - most users don't care about speed.

  19. Re:LOL on How Intel and Micron May Finally Kill the Hard Disk Drive · · Score: 1

    LMOL yeah sluggish. Considering how long SSD capacity has been stuck at 320 MB, I would not say they have been progressing fast. Couple problems with HD, the OS not being able to see sizes over 2 TB. EFI was a recent development and not all systems run them. Then there were density issues. Those two seem to be overcome.

    Wake me when I can get a 1TB SSD for $70.

  20. Re:LOL on How Intel and Micron May Finally Kill the Hard Disk Drive · · Score: 1

    They have 5 today as well. Western Digital Black drives have 5 year warranties.

  21. Re:LOL on How Intel and Micron May Finally Kill the Hard Disk Drive · · Score: 1

    What, speed? That's the only advantage.

  22. Re:What about long-term data integrity? on How Intel and Micron May Finally Kill the Hard Disk Drive · · Score: 1

    Indexing? Think again. The OS does alot of writing to the HD. So depending on how you have you system configured, it could minimal writes or alot.

    But HD failure is huge with SSD. Once it dies, good bye data. Regular HD, you can recover data. Long term data storage is not for SSD.

  23. Re:Duh on Researchers Say the Tech Worker Shortage Doesn't Really Exist · · Score: 1

    Actually we don't. Every country limits foreign workers. That's a fact. A Visa is not a green card. H1B was created to help a perceived "shortage" of tech workers. As such there isn't a shortage, thus we can reduce the number H1B Visas issued not increase.

  24. Re:Duh on Researchers Say the Tech Worker Shortage Doesn't Really Exist · · Score: 2

    Perhaps you want to take your head out of your ass. We're not talking about someone working an McDonalds for minimum wage. We are talking about engineers. You know going to college for 4 years spending $40k for your education and the being told you can't find a job because some company decided to hire someone from India under the pre-tense of not being able to hire someone locally.

    FYI H1B Visas certainly haven't curbed CEO pay. Makes one wonder why you can't get a guy from India with an MBA to run a company at a 1/3 of the pay.

  25. Re: It's still reacting carbon and oxygen... on Coal Plants Get New Lease On Life With Natural Gas · · Score: 1

    Yeah because Congress listens to environmentalists....*eye roll*