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  1. Re: Goodbye Windows. on New Intel and AMD Chips Will Only Support Windows 10 (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah. This is why anyone is dumb to lock themselves into Microsoft's 'ecosystem'.

  2. But why do deniers hate their kids? That's the part I don't get. Particularly the cynical ones who make a living off denying climate change by taking money from the Koch brothers and others.

  3. Sure. But let's subsidise an energy source that isn't toxic for longer than humans have been farming.

  4. Re: In need of a solution on New Mexico Nuclear Accident Ranks Among the Costliest In US History (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    So the private contractors who operate the facility reported it as what sounds like a small non-explosion that is still going to cost $2 billion to clean up. Glad it wasn't a not-quite-as-small non-explosion.

  5. Re: No more nukes on New Mexico Nuclear Accident Ranks Among the Costliest In US History (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Solar and wind, backed by grid-scale battery storage (as China is already doing right now) make getting rid of nuclear a no-brainer. Cested interests in the US are preventing it from moving forward in whole host of areas, from climate change to energy to reducing bureaucracy to improving democracy. The renewable solutions to energy supply are already there. Just open your eyes and see them. Unfortunately, that seems to be more than too many Americans can manage to do.

  6. Re: Impossible... on How the H-1B Visa Program Impacts America's Tech Workers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    It's also happening in Australia and New Zealand, though Australia's stronger union's are putting up a better fight. The recipe seems to be: kill the union's then bring in check, throw-away foreign workers. Americans should be matching in the streets. Turn the TV off and stop gaming for a few days and have a look at what's really going on around you.

  7. Re: The skill they need to teach in IT school... on How the H-1B Visa Program Impacts America's Tech Workers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't worry. Before long the cheap foreign workers will be replaced by automation. Just a reminder that whether you voted Democrat or Republican they would both outsource your job. But at least the Democrats would be slightly embarrassed when you confronted them with the fact.

  8. Re: Incomplete title... on Your Political Facebook Posts Aren't Changing How Your Friends Think (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    The tone you identify is a signal for the frustration felt by someone as they watch others, who don't listen and can't be told, do really stupid stuff. Like smoking. Identified as a major health hazard and cancer causer 65 years ago. Yet people still pay money to look old faster, degrade their health faster and die a horrible, anxious cancerous death that takes years. If you can't get people to stop being THAT stupid, then we haven't got a hope regarding climate charge.

  9. Yes. Because it's the same fuel that powers everything else. You can't single or cars for higher pricing.

  10. You can pull into an electric charging station and leave 20 minutes later on an 80% charge they'd good for 3 times what you typically drive in a day ( as per the study). Ok, it took 10 more minutes to be zero emissions from a vehicle that requires virtually no maintenance (no air filter, oil or oil filter, no gearbox and no transmission fluid, no radiator, fan or fan belt, no alternator belt, no belts at all....and you don't need to buy gas. That's easily worth an extra ten minutes today. Besides, I'm having lunch while it charges. I don't even notice. I drive an electric car. The charging issue just isn't an issue when you factor in all the other GOOD stuff an EV has over an ICE (internal combustion engine) car.

  11. Re: Boarder Agents on Canadian Fined For Not Providing Border Agents Smartphone Password (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    In Canada you can't be compelled to give evidence against yourself. This is the case in most Western countries. Whether this applies to keys to locks or passwords to computers or smartphones, I'm not sure.

  12. Re: Civil Forfeiture on US Seizure of Kim Dotcom's Assets Will Stand, Says Appeals Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's....piracy.

  13. It would at least handle most situations and be unlikely to divide by zero.

  14. Re: #BlackLivesMatter on Using a Bomb Robot to Kill a Suspect Is an Unprecedented Shift in Policing (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed. The evidence is beyond dispute.

  15. Maybe he knows something we don't know. Like... They have managed to compromise - somehow - almost every encryption method out there. Or he wants us to believe they have. Around and around we go on that one.

  16. NSA Back doors upstreamed too? on Microsoft Has Created Its Own FreeBSD (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    Is anyone scrutinizing the code they upload for backdoors? It's no secret that Microsoft Windows is a key part of the NSA's surveillance tool set.

  17. At least Google isn't backing Trump on Julian Assange: Google is 'Directly Engaged' In Hillary Clinton's Campaign (infowars.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently Google is doing what it can, in the context it finds it self in, to prevent evil. They should have backed Sanders, but they couldn't see him coming back when Clinton was the only game in town for Democrats.

  18. Re: Netflix 4K only on Smart TV on Ask Slashdot: Why Do You Want a 'Smart TV'? · · Score: 1

    *cough" bit torrent *cough* You're already paying for access to the content.

  19. Re: Armed robberies can't happen in Europe! on Mugger Arrested After Victim Spots Him On Facebook's 'People You May Know' (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    "find" should be "guns"

  20. Re: Armed robberies can't happen in Europe! on Mugger Arrested After Victim Spots Him On Facebook's 'People You May Know' (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    The flaw in your logic is that only the good guys can access the "defensive" weapons. Allowing big knives or find just makes it more likely they will be mis-used... and your end up with the gun insanity currently prevailing in America, Syria and Libya.

  21. Re: My intro to operating systems on Upcoming OS/2 Release Will Be Called ArcaOS 5.0 (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Notes replication over dial-up was far better than Exchange's at the time (1999-2003). Remote workers trying to work collaboratively found it much easier to do it with Notes. I certainly did. My lead office was in Hong Kong and I was in New Zealand. With Exchange, syncing over a 56kbps dialup VPN connection was glacial. Hours. But Notes could do it in a handful of minutes. Once broadband came along fewer people cared how awful Exchange was on networks.

  22. OS/2 was great on Upcoming OS/2 Release Will Be Called ArcaOS 5.0 (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    I used OS/2 from v2.0 through to v4 ("Warp"). But once IBM made it clear it had given up on the desktop, I have up on IBM. The deal sealed when it became impossible to install OS/2 4 on new hardware. Plus it's a 32-bit OS.... I went to Linux (and then ChromeOS and Android flavours). I see ArcaOS 5.0 lacks USB3 support? OK. I might try it on an old laptop, but for sheet usability Remix OS offers me the same thing, more or less, as well as access to virtually all Android apps.

  23. Microsoft executed a fatally flawed plan and it is the innocent workers in Finland who suffer. This feels to much like the old feudal days where the Lords made the calls but it was the peasants who suffered. Americans may be used to that, but in recent decades Europeans have mostly moved beyond such a lack of accountability.

  24. Re: I know who to blame on Mars Is Coming Out Of An Ice Age (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course the sun affects climate. No one has ever said it doesn't. But so do people. The one does not exclude the other. The science makes that very clear. Solar output is a known quantity. The warning being seen on Earth cannot be accounted for by solar output alone. Why do people struggle to understand this?

  25. Re: And then those employees burn down your restau on Former McDonald's USA CEO: $35K Robots Cheaper Than Hiring at $15 Per Hour (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    Not at all like that. Buggy whip production wasn't automated. Buggy whips became obsolete. A totally different thing.