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  1. Re:Um... not to be too picky, but. on More People Bought Physical CDs and Vinyl Than Songs on iTunes Last Year (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    If you go to iTunes and buy a song, you bought it. So yes, you have some mental problems. I have hundreds of songs from iTunes.

  2. Re:Tim Cook does not get it ... on Tim Cook To Investors: Apple is Working on Future Products That Will 'Blow You Away' (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    It can already do that, unless I don't understand what you mean.
    Have an icon on the window, so its contents is "streamed" to a second screen, but the window remains on the main screen, so you can continue using the other windows (even bring some to front etc.) without covering the stuff on the other screen. That way presentations etc. are much more easy.

    Touch screens are extremely useful, especially if you one worked with one.

  3. Re:Why a bus? on Volvo To Test Full-Size Driverless Bus in Singapore (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    even if it's slightly a financial burden to them, because the benefits outweigh everything else.
    In your country perhaps. In Germany no. I hardly manage to drive my car 10,000km a year ... In the town it is close to useless, longer distances in my country for work I do in a train, where I can either work on my laptop or read a book and enjoy a beer in the restaurant wagon.

    Unless basic human nature changes, 'public transit' isn't going to ever be considered 'attractive'.
    Again: in your country perhaps. I'm not driving 12h in my own car when I can take a bus/train over night, or have a plane that only takes an hour. And then there are situations where you are simply lost with your own car or a rented one ... look at Bangkok. Why the funk would I have a car when I can go EVERYWHERE for close to no money with public transport? Or Paris ... or Copenhagen?

    Sure: your answer will be, you are farmer and need a car ... rofl.

  4. Re:Translates to english? on Why 'ji32k7au4a83' is a Remarkably Common Password (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    The original mandarin translates to english as "my password".
    The original mandarin character sequence is coded in the database as "ji32k7au4a83", it is a pidgin transcoding schema. It is related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... but I forgot the name of that transliteration above.

  5. Re:Oh FFS on Scientists Report a Second Person Has Been Cured of HIV (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, he does not understand that gays are not the problem but the solution!
    So many lesbian women out of reach, sigh ... and many are so damn hot! So I'm happy about every gay not restricting the pool to pick from any further :P

  6. Re:Too Bad... on The World is Losing Fish to Eat as Oceans Warm, Study Finds (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Fish on land would basically be fresh water fish.
    And here you had temperature problems, too.
    A trout likes cold water, a Nil perch lies war water, salmons need cold fresh water to breed and eels live in medium warm fresh water but like to breed in the ocean.

    There are plenty of interesting "problems2 regarding fish breeding.

  7. Re:you have multiple accounts on The World is Losing Fish to Eat as Oceans Warm, Study Finds (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, it is funny.

    Modding up your own post is not that easy.

    I sometimes posted as AC after modding, and still my modding got removed.

  8. Re:Um... not to be too picky, but. on More People Bought Physical CDs and Vinyl Than Songs on iTunes Last Year (bgr.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You buy songs on iTunes, are you retarded?

  9. Re:Full autonomy = unicorn mode on Tesla Angers Autonomous Vehicle Experts By Promising 'Full Self-Driving' Model 3 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, 50 years ago some german factories started automating transport of goods inside of the factory. The system is no longer in use. It had kind of rails, but not in the conventional meaning. Just brass lines inserted into the ground. Via induction the car would follow such a brass line and with a purely mechanical computer would change direction at a "road crossing". I don't know how it actually worked or why it got abandoned. I have been in a few factories where you still can see those tracks.

  10. Re:What if he knows something you donâ(TM)t? on Tesla Angers Autonomous Vehicle Experts By Promising 'Full Self-Driving' Model 3 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    There aren't even the correct sensors available for a fully autonomous vehicle.
    Yes, there are.
    And we have autonomous cars since decades, they are just not ready for sale yet. All big German and Japanese brands have autonomous cars, and that is the problem with Tesla, Google, Apple etc. instead of ganging up they develop their own mediocre copies.

  11. Re:"To most autonomous vehicle expert"? on Tesla Angers Autonomous Vehicle Experts By Promising 'Full Self-Driving' Model 3 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Internal builds are used in test cars.
    You need something like 4 million km driven in test cars to be allowed to deploy any software change to cars on sale or update already sold cars.

  12. Re:Many new vehicles are pretty close for highways on Tesla Angers Autonomous Vehicle Experts By Promising 'Full Self-Driving' Model 3 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You forget dozens of things like lane detection, pedestrian detection, sign detection etc.

  13. Re:Many new vehicles are pretty close for highways on Tesla Angers Autonomous Vehicle Experts By Promising 'Full Self-Driving' Model 3 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    regardless of traction so if all you wanted was a straight line stop ABS came with a penalty.
    No it does not idiot.

    Blocking wheels have a significant longer braking distance than non blocking wheels, a no brainer if you had paid attention in your first years physics class.

    In deep snow or on gravel you'd still get better results locking up the wheels today.
    No you don't ... with locked wheels on gravel, braking distance is nearly twice as long as with ABS.

  14. Re:Oh, and so it begins ... on Canada Allows US Extradition of Huawei CFO To Proceed (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    We have plenty of other "propaganda" sites that will tell us why its important
    You have, I have not. I only read /.

  15. Re:Motorola tried this with us over Y2K on Police Department Accused of Updating Their Radios With Pirated Software (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    and our mobile data terminals (MDTs) were not Y2K compliant
    This does not make sense ...
    Everybody working 3rd shift on 31 December 1999 were instructed to log off just before midnight and sign back in just after. Everything worked just fine. The MDTs continued working properly for years until they were eventually replaced.
    Then obviously it had no Y2K problem.


          if (XX99 < YY00) ...

    Works completely different if XX and YY exist or not and one is 19 and one is 20 ...

  16. Re:China's right: US has no jurisdictional authori on Canada Allows US Extradition of Huawei CFO To Proceed (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, being gay is not (well, no longer?) a crime in the US, so I would assume an extradition request made on that basis would fail. (But IANAL.)
    Well, just saying, but using gay and IANAL in the same sentence looks rather weird to me :P

  17. Re:China's right: US has no jurisdictional authori on Canada Allows US Extradition of Huawei CFO To Proceed (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I am reminded of an incident that happened a few years ago. A US citizen (I think) wrote something online that insulted the royalty of another country (Thailand IIRC). That US citizen subsequently went to Thailand as a tourist, and was arrested at the port of entry. I'm not sure how the case ended.
    While Thailand has laws like that, the case is most likely a myth.
    How the funk would a Thai court know who exactly wrote that insulting comment? What passport he has, how he looks like?

    And King Rama IX pardoned EVERY case of "insult to royalty" himself. So your citizen is save home since a while.

  18. Re:Oh, and so it begins ... on Canada Allows US Extradition of Huawei CFO To Proceed (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It is world politics, leaded by the US, so it is *important*.

  19. Re:U.S. Executives Should Avoid Visiting China on Canada Allows US Extradition of Huawei CFO To Proceed (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    But your larger point stands. It looks very much like there is something to the charges.
    There is nothing to the charges.
    No company in China is obliged to follow a trade embargo the mighty US of Assholes decided.

    Heck: the EU is founding a new bank under leadership of UK (yes, despite BREXIT) France and Germany to secure money transfers and ongoing projects between Iran (yes, the Mullas) and the EU.

    It is time that americans simply stop fucking up the planet. Stop your brain dead embargoes on NK, Venezuela, Cuba, Iran ... and help with humanitarian help. And stop trying to force other countries to agree with your brain dead view of the world.

    E.g.: USA and SK always make a sea maneuver in front of NK during the rice harvest season. In Asian countries it is custom (and required) that soldiers help during rice farming. The death and starvation in NK is a pure USA made problem, and you idiots wonder why everyone hates you?

  20. Re: Wait... what happened to the famous pipeline? on Tim Cook To Investors: Apple is Working on Future Products That Will 'Blow You Away' (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Some universities ran supercomputers build out of rack mounted Macs ...

  21. They have such a PC already, I believe it is called a Mac Pro.

  22. We want a 17" (or more!) Mac Book Pro, call it Expert Book if you want.
    With:
          o perhaps a touch screen
          o build in iOS emulator, to run some apps
          o enough ports, and not silly removal of ports so we need dozens of dongles, removing the SD card slot e.g. was just plain stupid, my old 17" even has a PCMCIA it is super useful
          o RAM ... a Pro should have RAM
          o true function keys - if you want add a glowing touch bar on top of it, I don't mind
          o a fullscreen mode that works again, not the silly one we have at the moment
          o perhaps: display the content of one window on a external screen/projector (I have dozens of ideas like this and wonder why no one does that)
        o oh, and a SIM card slot would be nice, it simply sucks to pair the Mac with a Phone to have mobile internet (yeah, not a priority, I bought a mobile hot spot long ago).

    And as people are complaining about the non useable keyboards at the moment, perhaps you want to go back to the 2014/2013 keyboards?

    I'm basically at the point joining the Hackintosh community ...

  23. Re:Weather is not climate! on Australia's Hottest Summer Beats Previous Record by 'Large Margin' (brisbanetimes.com.au) · · Score: 1

    You were fine up to clouds. Clouds reflect sunlight back into space [slashdot.org], so more clouds = global cooling. So you see, it's not as simple a line of reasoning as you think it is.
    It is winter there ... so some idea about clouds coming from warm oceans reflecting more sunlight making it cooler is completely irrelevant. Insert comata where you wish.

    Don't try to pass off cold weather events as evidence supporting global warming, because anyone with an iota of common sense will call out your BS.
    Yes, because they are idiots. Idiots != common sense. The change in climate pushes the arctic vortex south over north america: hence it is colder in central north america, what you idiots call "mid west". And because the oceans are still warm enough to produce enough rain/snow you have more snowfall ... so much to common sense. If the vortex was not there, it would not be cold. If it would not be cold it would not be snow. If global warming had not shifted the arctic vortex .... and so on. Very simple line of principles and logic.

  24. Re:Weather is not climate! on Australia's Hottest Summer Beats Previous Record by 'Large Margin' (brisbanetimes.com.au) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Record snow falls in the mid west are a result of global warming.
    Or how do you think the snow got there? Hu? It is winter!!! But the ocean is still warm, hence it creates clouds, hence they snow down.
    Can't really be so hard to grasp simple principles.

    100 years ago, the ocean would have been colder: hence less snow.

  25. Re:This wuz all planned! on Amazon Stops Selling Press-to-Order Dash Buttons (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The button itself is not illegal. The headline is wrong.
    The praxis to exchange the "programmed product" by a similar one is illegal. E.g. you have set it up to give you toilet paper of brand A and they send you some of brand B ... that is illegal.