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  1. Same state whose governor renegged on Talgo trains on Wisconsin's $4.1 Billion Foxconn Boondoggle (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the same state whose refused to pay for the Talgo trains they agreed to have built for Amtrak lines in their state. Depending on whom you ask it was either for purely political reasons, financial reasons, both, or neither.

    The completed trains were never paid for per prior agreement with the State of Wisconsin. They have been sitting, ready-to-use, waiting for a buyer for years now.

    Wisconsin thinks they can reneg without negative consequences to them because Talgo is not an American company.

  2. Re:possible outcomes on IBM To Buy Red Hat, the Top Linux Distributor, For $34 Billion (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I know you're kidding, but AIX, like Solaris and MacOS X, already have their own suites of tools that provide all that systemd does and more. Solaris, in particular, has had theirs since 2002.

  3. Are we forgetting who contributed the proprietary UNIX code from SCO UNIX to the Linux project?

    I'll hang up and listen for your answer.

  4. Has not been like this for decades, sir.

  5. Re:Wavelength on Sunglasses That Block All the Screens Around You (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Not only was I sporting polarized sunglasses in the mid-1980s, I had a telephoto DSLR lens with a polarized filter.

    I'm not seeing how every single screen could possibly be "blocked" without constantly tilting your head at different angles.

  6. Re: How many mac users are there? on Apple Demands $9 Billion From Google For Default Search On iOS (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    I don't agree that Bing is a "substandard service." Bing gives me far more relevant results than Google on many topics, including computing, DevOps, audio/video, and current events.

  7. Re:First selfhosting copiler EVER! on How Microsoft Rewrote Its C# Compiler in C# and Made It Open Source (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    I dunno, the GCC project has called it bootstrapping since day one. I used the SPARCworks C compiler to build GCC, then the built GCC to build another GCC, and using that GCC to build the final build.

    Same deal on HP/UX, AIX, OSF/1, Amiga UNIX, etc.

  8. I much preferred Seventh Guest on Myst, One of the Most Influential Games Ever, Turns 25 (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I much preferred Seventh Guest. It was a lot more fun and is also puzzle-focused.

  9. Slow down. Where do you live where you can't buy a $30 belt that doesn't last forever?!

  10. To build a web app that uses Angular my build system needs to download and compile 350 megabytes of Nodejs packages. That's only just to build the application. The web app has zero Nodejs on it.

    What the heck is going on?

  11. What do you mean by "Windows 10 Pro Host?" on Linux On Windows 10: Running Ubuntu VMs Just Got a Lot Easier, Says Microsoft (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't the host become a baremetal Hyper V and your Windows 10 Pro instance then becomes a guest? I haven't used Gen 2 Hyper V yet so forgive my ignorance.

  12. Most of us learn this when we are children.

  13. It's about time on Linux Community To Adopt New Code of Conduct (kernel.org) · · Score: 1

    The real shame is that it took him this long.

  14. Re:Stop calling plans "Unlimited" on AT&T Offers Unlimited Plan Deal For First Responders, But It Can Be Throttled (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    That's just where the market went. "Unlimited" means you don't get charged more for using too much data. You can use as much data as you want, but speed will suffer past a threshold. On many plans that threshold is between 18 and 22 GB. I recently visited a resort that included a free WiFi Hotspot device (on AT&T) and it had dozens of text messages on it that said, "You have used [redacted] data for this account, so your data may be throttled in congested areas." It wasn't useless, but it was somewhat slower in some areas.

    The "unlimited" plans really mean that you won't get $15-per-gigabyte overage charges on your data plan. With my family plan, this was a serious source of stress and annoyance by the 20th day of a billing cycle. With this new "unlimited" plan, I don't have to bother with any data plan overages anymore. My family members who used too much data got throttled in busy areas. Seemed fair to me.

    When I'm on a congested cell and have used more than my 22-gigabyte allocation per my plan, of course my data should be de-prioritized, or "throttled" when necessary. That's just common sense and good business logic.

    The real problem is that when you are a first responder, your data should never be throttled for any reason even when you are over your 22 (or whatever) gigabyte allocation. That's where Verizon screwed up, and I don't see how the AT&T competitive plan is that much better.

  15. Re:Is it a large-scale bird grinder? on World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm Opens Off Northwest England (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody says they will "never be 'bird grinders,'" according to the literature. The jury is still out:
    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-many-birds-do-wind-turbines-really-kill-180948154/

  16. Is it a large-scale bird grinder? on World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm Opens Off Northwest England (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Where are we at with these things being large-scale bird grinders or not?

  17. I'd like them to be OLED on Samsung Plans To Overhaul Its Smartphone Strategy at the Mid-range Price Point (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd like them to be OLED. I recently decided upon the affordable Galaxy J7 V 2nd Gen since I'm not a heavy mobile user. When I got to the store I realized that it wasn't OLED and changed my mind.

  18. AOL mail was rehosted to the Yahoo mail platform on Yahoo, Bucking Industry, Scans Emails for Data To Sell Advertisers (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    In related news, AOL mail was rehosted to the Yahoo mail platform quite some time ago.

  19. Re:How about DC? on After 60 Years, 1,900-Mile-Long Interstate 95 Is Almost Finished (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    We cancelled most of our intercity interstates and built our Metro.

    There have been many recent changes to improve through-traffic on the severely truncated I-95, though.

    I like the huge and empty interchange where I-95 meets the I-495 north of DC. It's like the builders left the stubs and unnecessarily huge bridges there out of spite.

  20. You took the New Jersey Turnpike. It suddenly loses its "I-95" label after the Delaware Memorial Bridge where you start to see occasional "To I-95" signs all the way until Exit 7A for I-195.

    We frequent travelers know to use I-295 north of Memorial Bridge, not I-95, therefore, this new project doesn't really matter to us, either. Nobody who travels this corridor regularly would ever take I-95 in Pennsylvania north of Delaware. We take I-295 through New Jersey. The reason that I-95 even swoops over to Philadelphia is political.

  21. It was intended to replace US 1 in New Jersey on After 60 Years, 1,900-Mile-Long Interstate 95 Is Almost Finished (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Interstate 95 was always intended to be built along the right-of-way of US 1 in New Jersey between Princeton and New Brunswick. Driving in the area you can see where property along US 1 was condemned and cleared in anticipation of I-95, but the highway construction never happened due to local opposition.

    This "re-routing" is a bit more than re-signing a 20-mile-longer route over existing interstates that we were already using over the past 30 years to bypass that missing segment. We would take I-295 from the Delaware Memorial Bridge, take I-195 eastbound, and then join the New Jersey Turnpike northbound where it formally takes on the I-95 designation. It was not labelled I-95 south of I-195.

    Along with the re-labeling of these roads there are a lot of new roadway, bridges, and interchanges as well to optimize the dangerous merges. I-295 will revert to become a kinda-Philadelphia-bypass (a.k.a., "half-assed Beltway and southern bypass") as originally intended. The "new" I-95 will ultimately become this haphazard zig-zag highway that nobody wanted with an extra twenty miles more than the originally-proposed route through Princeton. But, at least they can say "I-95 is finally completed."

    Meanwhile, the New Jersey Turnpike express lanes, a.k.a., "dual-dual" configuration, have been extended far south of the Exit 7A I-195 interchange.

  22. Re:The true cost of mining on Nvidia Is Giving Up On the Cryptocurrency Mining Market (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I have struggled to understand the environmental impact of cryptomining, but I took a hard look at physical gold mining companies like AngloGold and Barrick.

    By far, the cryptomining "industry" produces far fewer greenhouse gases and resource consumption (by electricity) than traditional, physical gold mining.

    In short, it's a wash. Both are equally damaging to our environment. At least cryptomining doesn't scar the landscape like physical gold mining does.

  23. Nobody didn't see this coming on Nvidia Is Giving Up On the Cryptocurrency Mining Market (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody didn't see this coming, unless they were wildly misinformed and/or stupid.

  24. When you need to access old HP iLO and Dell DRAC on Firefox-Forking Browser 'Pale Moon' Releases Major Update 28.0 (palemoon.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is great when you need to access old Java-based HP iLO and Dell DRAC remote console interfaces. It also helps with the occasional elderly IPMI interface that only works with a similarly old Java-based remote console interface. It is worth keeping around so you can save a trip to the data center to maintain your legacy hardware.

    Palemoon is why we have open source.

    I used to keep an old CentOS 7 VM with a very elderly Java-enabled Firefox ESR browser to access near-end-of-life servers with obsolete iLO and DRAC. With Palemoon, I don't have to do that anymore.

  25. Re:You don't call a JPEG a "Jay-/f/eg" on Will JPEG's Next 'Privacy and Security' Features Include DRM? (davidgerard.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    I'm typing this in a real computer, you dotard.