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  1. In the industry you cannot afford to stockpile millions of dollars worth of equipment just in case. It's cheaper long run to absorb the price increases (it's not like there will be nothing available) than to sit on aging stock.

  2. Re: Suspicious? on Hacker Adrian Lamo Dies At 37 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    All of them exposed corruption during the Obama regime, this one in particular had the nerve to go after a trans woman and got her locked up in a male prison.

  3. HF sender/receiver on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any USB-C Wireless Video Solutions? · · Score: 1

    They do exist and you can build them yourself.

    The problem is the bandwidth required to transmit your signal. You're talking about bidirectional, uninterrupted 10Gbps over wireless.

    What most HDMI dongles do is convert the signal to lower resolutions (VGA) and compress it. You need a decompressor on the other end but more than possible on 2.4GHz. There is also no bidirectional communication thus it is not "really" a wireless HDMI signal. USB-C is pure data packets, you'd have to find a USB-C to VGA converter, transmitter and then on the other end an upscaler.

    I haven't looked into the USB-C spec but I don't think the sink (receiving end) is supposed to provide any power

  4. Re: Not surprising. on Largest US Radio Company iHeartMedia Files For Bankruptcy (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not that, nobody is listening to premium radio station. IHeartMedia and Sirius bet big on premium digital radio streaming or subscription based radio. They sent me a advertisement for a "deal" for $5/month once (for 3 months, $24.99 after). That didn't pan out for obvious reasons and they got their lunches served by Pandora and the like.

  5. That depends. How much of YouTube is patently false? There are 1.3B videos on YouTube, 13M of them would have to be factually incorrect (right vs left politics and shit throwing doesn't qualify).

  6. Re: charge back when best buy fails will change th on How Your Returns Are Used Against You At Best Buy, Other Retailers (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope, both VISA and MasterCard have official rules for ALL their brand cards. It's the deal you take when you agree to accept MC/Visa cards as a merchant.

    Obviously they can sue, unless the merchant has already gone through a binding arbitration with the CC. Typically though as a merchant, it's your loss unless you can prove fraud and in small claims showing up with an army of lawyers typically is not very pleasing to the judge.

  7. Re:3x3 option code almost mandatory on Google's New 'Plus Codes' Are An Open Source, Global Alternative To Street Addresses (9to5google.com) · · Score: 1

    It depends, perhaps in Thailand but for something to be used it needs to work universally. I can see the usage of the model for eg. drone deliveries across the world, you tell Amazon ship my package to 5N33-1337, I'm in Thailand, now ship to 413Z-4421 relatively more easy to remember and communicate than GPS coordinates but it needs to be useful enough to land my drone, 10m is the difference between a landing spot, a crash or my neighbor.

  8. Re: I want to believe, but on UFO Disclosure Group Releases Newest Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet UFO Encounter Video (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    My assumption would be for the camera to pick up atmospheric disturbances especially of hot objects at distance and the object would thus be dimming and brightening or appear to be shaking, even if the camera was somehow perfectly able to keep track of an object.

  9. Re:"How Your Returns Are Used Against You" on How Your Returns Are Used Against You At Best Buy, Other Retailers (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that people have gotten on the list for returning a single item or having the clerk screw up a return on their order. This system has been going on for at least half a decade.

  10. Re: I want to believe, but on UFO Disclosure Group Releases Newest Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet UFO Encounter Video (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    All it shows is a video of the targeting system locking on an object that is surprisingly unperturbed by the atmosphere. It doesn't vary in distance, apparent size, doesn't shake or anything that would be considered normal when picking up an object, only slowly rotating as if it were locked in a fluid either right inside or outside the sensor itself.

  11. 3x3 option code almost mandatory on Google's New 'Plus Codes' Are An Open Source, Global Alternative To Street Addresses (9to5google.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    3x3m is your average NYC apartment or Indian slum house, you also need to encode elevation and room/apartment numbers in many cases since you could have your code shared by many tenants both in the same plane as well as vertically.

    Also, encode up to 1x1m if this is going to be useful for any modern delivery methods (eg robot truck or drone).

  12. Re:Machine Learning Failure? on How Your Returns Are Used Against You At Best Buy, Other Retailers (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 0

    The only thing that will change a store's policy is by hitting them in the pocket books. You cancel your transaction with the credit card company, it avoids the "store policy" and they're out of the goods, money and $25. I remember when Circuit City was around, bought a shitty $25 printer, they wouldn't let me return it because the drivers for Mac didn't work, it cost them $50 and I still had a printer.

  13. Re:"How Your Returns Are Used Against You" on How Your Returns Are Used Against You At Best Buy, Other Retailers (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    And what's objectively wrong with their position? If the store will give you a refund if you do a song-and-dance, why not! It's the capitalist way.

  14. Re:"How Your Returns Are Used Against You" on How Your Returns Are Used Against You At Best Buy, Other Retailers (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The problem is not taking advantage of the system, the problem is that many people are unaware of their rights and these lists are typically turned abusive rather than stopping actual 'fraud'. It's easy to end up on the list because you returned a number of high value items and you otherwise don't frequent the retailers for high value items.

    On the other hand you can always initiate a chargeback on your credit card. AutoZone once attempted to refuse me a refund. Sold me a set of wipers where one wouldn't fit and they wouldn't take it back because "store policy" (I opened the package and only then noticed that they sold me the wrong length for one side). I told the manager: sure, I'll just contact my credit card company and get the purchase voided. Instantly changed their tune.

  15. Re:charge back when best buy fails will change the on How Your Returns Are Used Against You At Best Buy, Other Retailers (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty much ANYTHING is a valid reason for a chargeback, as long as you've made an attempt to resolve the issue, the CC company has a list and refusal to refund IS specifically listed.

    The best thing that Best Buy can do with this list, besides inserting it in their corporate rectums is actually refuse purchases using this list, they're not required to sell to everyone, although such list could also bite back (hey there's an awful lot of black people on that list, that's racism, good luck in court Best Buy).

  16. Re: Racism at work on Trump Issues Order To Block Broadcom's Takeover of Qualcomm (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on how you classify "substantially". If it was truly "substantially" different, people with Down's wouldn't even be anything near human. A single chromosome when each 46 have 3 billion DNA base pairs is a "slight" difference which was my point.

  17. Re: Jokes aside I gotta kind of wonder on Trump Issues Order To Block Broadcom's Takeover of Qualcomm (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There is a good reason those people weren't on the list. Both ATF and FBI are currently the Democratic operations arm as evidenced by their investigations in both Hillary and Trump. They need to keep the narrative that guns are bad going and the best way of doing that is by sowing fear that someone might use them for evil.

  18. Re: Racism at work on Trump Issues Order To Block Broadcom's Takeover of Qualcomm (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Genome differences are minimal between orangutans and humans too, doesn't make us the same species. Genome differences are also minimal between people with autism, Down syndrome and people susceptible to various cancers, this doesn't make their outcomes in life their choice, upbringing or society's fault.

  19. How do they measure? on JavaScript Rules But Microsoft Programming Languages Are On the Rise (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    There are different lists and get completely different results. Just because a lot of stuff is being talked about doesn't mean it's being used, it just means it's difficult to use and whoever tries needs a lot of help (eg. anything Microsoft)

  20. The H264/5 and VP8/9 patents do cover more than just that particular codec. They cover each other and also other codecs, even the open source ones. Releasing any codec these days is rife with patent issues.

  21. Re:AV1? on Netflix's Secrets to Success: Six Cell Towers, Dubbing and More (variety.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The problem is that only high-end devices are just getting H.265 support and even then it's pretty spotty as to actual implementation and performance. If the industry keeps coming out with new codecs at this rate, we are going to have to adapt our chips to be more flexible, perhaps even programmable in the hardware decoder area which brings with it a whole slew of issues, both physical (heat, size and cost) as well as in software (does every piece of software get to upload its own decoders, if so, how, what if we need more or different versions).

    H.264 and VP8 is easy to find these days, VP9 and H265 is slowly but surely coming, releasing a brand new codec today will take 5 years to get it in the majority of high-end chip fabs and another 5-or-so years to go mainstream with at least 15-20y more years of having to have both available.

  22. Musk always has something to offer as a solution when he makes these kind of claims. Whether it's SpaceX, Tesla or PayPal, his entire business history shows he always has a solution in the starting blocks before he starts highlighting a problem.

  23. Re:He seems proud of it. on MoviePass Wants To Gather a Whole Lot of Data About Its Users (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    The thing is, nobody cares, nobody sees any negative effects of these practices and as long as it stays like that, they will be happy to support cheaper goods in exchange for private data.

  24. Or perhaps he got to talk to some engineers and the cost to be able to lift up/down cars and transport them through tubes is another row of zeros on the already ludicrously expensive proposal to dig tunnels everywhere.

    There is a reason there are no fully privatized or profit turning subways to be found anywhere.

  25. Re: Actual stats? on YouTube Is Full of Easy-To-Find Neo-Nazi Propaganda (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You can say the same about the far left. The message is hard to find and get out through any platform.

    I have never run across Nazi content on YT, but the occasional Sarkeesian-type or Muslim rant does get promoted in a feed. Reporting them as extremism doesn't seem to work, I just ignore them.

    The problem with YT right now is the demonetization of random content. If enough people don't agree with the content the creator doesn't get the money YT collects. It makes YT a pretty penny, but when game reviews and tech people complain that their content isn't generating money because some asshole decided that the cleavage within a game hurts their sensibilities and thus all reviews and play through needs to be banned, you generate a problem.

    And in most cases you simply move on to another monetizing platform (eg Patreon or Twitch or Vimeo) and/or you galvanize a lot of people into making anti-antifa content which then snowballs.