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  1. Re:Spy chips that send data on the internet? on Bloomberg's Spy Chip Story Reveals the Murky World of National Security Reporting (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Smart people with real skills will notice extra data on their secure networks.

    Yeah, but the extra data is just George's on-line porn addiction, no big deal. But MAN does he really like Chinese women!

  2. Re:How long before ... on VideoLAN Announces Dav1d, a New Libre and Open Source AV1 Decoder (jbkempf.com) · · Score: 1

    a patent troll magics up some patent relating to AV1 ?

    *I* have a patent on letters, and my wife has a patent on numbers. My son, however, has the patent on mixing letters and numbers so HE'LL be the one doing the suing in this case. Expect a notice R3a1 S00n N0w.

    (Oh nuts, he saw that, I'm in trouble now!)

  3. It's been done before: Blake 7.

    Or how about a character break character while filming and accuse someone of doing something. (It's got to be a female though, since they don't lie.)

    And then we could follow the cast and crew spread to the winds while the accused producer loses everything and ends up on the street, disheveled and homeless.

  4. Watching someone type is one of the most boring things imaginable, no matter who you are.

    Unless you're the piece of paper he's using a quill to write on. Then I imagine it's much more exciting.

    OUCH! Oh no, he's going to scrape and poke me again! STOP it -- you can't erase that, I'm too thin there already. Don't crumple me up like my brothers over there!

  5. Re:Can they build battery walls on Rechargeable Zinc-Air Battery Nears Commercial Release (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Few solar users store the energy locally.

    But *ALL* of them store it remotely.

  6. Opera in its heyday was outstanding. Get back to making a power browser that is setting the trend, not following it.

    AKA a market leader. Here's another market leader, IE (AKA Over the Edge) right now:

    Have you seen them?
    Which way did they go?
    I MUST find them!
    ... soon, and without fail!
    ... for I am their LEADER!

    Link

  7. In the ideal millennial world you should be able to walk down the street naked at 2 am.

    "The world should be my safe space." -- woke millennials.

    Yeah, good luck with that. Come back when you're a little more worldly and educiatized.

  8. did google learn nothing from yahoo?

    John Hammond: Don't worry, I'm not making the same mistakes again.
    Dr. Ian Malcolm: No, you're making all new ones

  9. How do you disable it?

    That's easy: Just Bing It!

    It's just like using IE to install Chrome or Firefox.

  10. Microsoft Store? What's that?

    (I'm just a personal user and not a company anything, so this configuration probably isn't for you.) I've got legal copies of windows, yet I run a Pirated Windows LTSB version (Verified ISO.) It works perfectly fine, I've got control of when updates happen (although it still occasionally full-screen nags), and I don't have to put up with monthly experiments on the GUI.

    I can't purchase things from the Microsoft Store since the app is missing, but I consider that a baseline GOOD thing. My login creds are strictly local without having to touch the internet. Oh, and did I mention that my interface stays stable over time?

    I do like the configuration in 57368280, although that's a bunch of extra work. Also, I *DO* think there's a way to uninstall the Store in normal Windows (or maybe hiding it or its target directories behind special ACLs), just do it before connecting to the internet.

  11. Inside they found plenty of hardware left behind

    'Cuse me, I think I hear my mom calling me. I'll see y'all tomorrow -- sorry, going to be somewhat busy tonight.

  12. I submitted an "interesting" query to Google PopUp (when you hold down the home button and Google Something awakes.) It correctly transcribed the question, and then itself responded with a text query I'd never seen before, something like "Are you sure you want to search for this?" and waited.

    I pressed the button and got the answer I was looking for. I also think I was just added someone's "interesting people and sleepers" database, or at the minimum got some special brownie point attached to my account.

    Who-hoo!! Someone finally noticed me, I'm now a movie star!

  13. Someone upvote this one lots -- I can't.

  14. Manna? Is that you?

  15. Apple Will Judge Call, Email Activity on Apple Will Judge Call, Email Activity To Assign Users a 'Trust Score' (theinquirer.net) · · Score: 0

    The only think Apple needs to judge is the suppliers and their own engineers and PR people.

    How are they going to judge me since I don't have, want, or use an iPhone? Oh yeah: poor. Or even: deplorable!

  16. Re:Vulcan eh on Scientists Find 'Super-Earth' In Star System From 'Star Trek' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Also it has like 8X the mass of Earth and 2X as big. How would gravity be there?

    "The planet is roughly twice the size of Earth". I've looked and looked, and CAN'T find anyone estimating the gravity of the planet. I presume they don't know.

    My knee-jerk reaction was "twice the gravity" as well, but I think it's going to be 4x the gravity, because of radius and size and all. (inverse-square law.) In any case, here's an article about launching rockets from larger, heavier planets. Link, pretty link. It's not a happy story. At 10.4g, rocket mass is one fifth of the mass of the planet.

    A modern design, larger rocket than the Saturn V, with modifications to increase the T/W ratio could probably make it to orbit on a 2x radius, 8x mass Earth.

  17. Re:Anyone have a handle on what this actually does on Senate Passes Music Modernization Act With Unanimous Support (billboard.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, the senate passed it so its safe to assume its pretty horrible for the American people. ...

    Is it sad that this is EXACTLY what I thought as I was reading the summary?

  18. Re:Maybe not all of europe on EU To Stop Changing the Clocks in October 2019 (dw.com) · · Score: 1

    Set the clocks where ever it makes people happy, just stop changing them.

    Great -- let's set all of the clocks to 5PM local time and never let them change again!

    (WD40 for when is should move, and Duck Tape for when it shouldn't.)

  19. Really? on Vulnerability in WebKit Crashes and Restarts iPhones and iPads (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    apply a CSS effect known as backdrop-filter

    Just display the text. DISPLAY. THE. TEXT. That's all I want in a browser (well, accepting forms too I suppose, that is fairly handy.)

    Movement and special effects and such are for movies. If I wanted blurry text I'd take off my glasses.

  20. Re:So, move somewhere else on 58% of Silicon Valley Tech Workers Delayed Having Kids Because of Housing Costs (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The solution is obvious: move somewhere else. There are plenty of tech all across the "flyover states."

    Good God, don't encourage them; Keep your SJWs there. I just read on slashdot earlier today a smug guy laughing that "Everyone is moving out of CA? SURE they are."

    If I hold a door open for a lady and she starts screaming about it, I'll slug her because she certainly ISN'T a lady. To quote my mom: "I'll give you something to scream about."

  21. How do you keep the RF from crossing zoning boundaries?

    The exact SAME way you solve the "only good people can use crypto-backdoors" problem: LEGISLATION! It's glorious, wonderful, and more is better.

    As a matter of fact, let's pass a law requiring more legislation. After all, we have to do something to prove our worth. You wouldn't want us to actually work or understand things for a living, would you? That'd be cruel and inhumane -- and bothersome.

  22. Space Loss Leader? on SpaceX Says It Signed First Private Passenger To the Moon (nbcnewyork.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    it's booked the world's first private passenger to the moon.

    BAH -- you can charge peanuts for that. The real charges appear when you want to return to Earth.

  23. walk over for 'a polite conversation' on San Francisco Gets Its First Cashierless Store (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    a store attendant will get a text and walk over for 'a polite conversation

    That's great, but how fast can they RUN?

  24. Way back when, when we first had cameras, that was the saying. Because it was really hard to make a convincing "wrong" photo. (Early: One, Two, Three, Four.

    And then came along tape, and audio editing, and auto-tune and computerized voice editing. And Hatsune Miku, who not only doesn't exist, her VOICE doesn't even exist: She was created by taking vocal samples [which] all contain a single Japanese phonic that, when strung together, creates full lyrics and phrases. Video. The people with glowing green sticks, though, are real.

    And now with movies have placed people's heads on other's bodies, never mind body-doubles. The trick is that's it's becoming better, cheaper and more widespread to create. (And I *SWEAR* that people are more gullible now-a-days than they used to be. Or maybe it's because things just move so much faster.) So we're back to a century or so ago: just because there's an audio/video of it, doesn't mean it's HAS to be true.

    No worries though, since you're innocent until proven guilty, which has worked so well with MeToo and everything else in the last few years. We'll all just have to have a 2-way shoulder mounted camera that does a real-time blockchain video feed to verify where we are all of the time and that it's really is US in the video.

    Now if blockchain would only run at Visa-level transaction speeds instead of a slow 8mm Movie Motion Picture Camera. Oh, and that's 7 BitCoin transactions system-wide and not just per camera. The limit for Litecoin is 56 TPS and the limit for Bitcoin is 7. Visa: 24,000 TPS (Link. And far be it your mounted camera loses WiFi/Cell connection or runs out of power.

  25. So there are people out there who will view this animation and will need to be told that it is not real?

    There are (supposed to be) people who view 3rd person satellite video action around Jupiter and Saturn and the actual landings on Mars and think they're real. I don't know if they're being a troll or not -- but I don't THINK so. :-(

    NOT the first person in-view scene, but a 3rd person view far away. (Listen to all of the sounds -- this is obviously a faked launch!)