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  1. Re: Are you a Neo-Nazi? on YouTube Is Full of Easy-To-Find Neo-Nazi Propaganda (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    If by flee the room, you mean have photo-ops and call each other by their pet names. Sure.

    The DNC leadership is refusing to denounce the man because he brings in cash and they would have to eat their own words.

  2. Re: Uh??? Move headquarters out of US? on FCC Accuses Stealthy Startup of Launching Rogue Satellites · · Score: 1

    They'll get a subsidiary here to sell it through. Problem solved. Also companies can buy stuff from foreign companies.

  3. Re: fcc? on FCC Accuses Stealthy Startup of Launching Rogue Satellites · · Score: 1

    You cannot enforce US laws on foreign soil to a non-person entity. The US can only enforce its own laws to its own citizens (persons) on foreign soil.

  4. Re: Nazis have lost their meaning on YouTube Is Full of Easy-To-Find Neo-Nazi Propaganda (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you think 50% of the nation is nazi because they voted for Trump, why haven't you started the resistance yet?

    This kind of comment is exactly why the left has lost the common ground. By demonizing everyone you don't agree with, you've lost your cause.

    There are Nazis and their sympathizers, they make up 0.2% of the population. In the world stage they are irrelevant, they have no relevant political presence, party or organization. Muslims and Christians make up the majority of the world population, if they start spouting off their religious nonsense as fact it's actually dangerous.

  5. Re: Automation is good on Most Americans Think AI Will Destroy Other People's Jobs, Not Theirs (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    YOU said: And those 30 years in between have always been a period of violence, upheaval and revolutions.

    Technology has historically speaking continuously destroyed jobs, the 50s to 80s were periods of technological revolutions but so was the 80s-2010s. In the 80s we had computers for scientists but by 2010 we had developed completely virtual (intangible) economies. THAT was a heavier technological revolution, both in technical form (scaling down size and scaling up production) but also in the way we think about an economy.

    And in the end, looking back, the 2000s were way more prosperous than the 1970s for most people. The world continues getting better as a whole.

  6. Careful there, not sure about these particular ones but Intel's current crop emaciates the Samsung even though on paper and synthetical benchmarks (IOPS and transfer rate) the Samsung does better.

    Testing it myself, the Samsung does good until you transfer ~2-3GB and then it drops like a brick to the lower 1000s of IOPS instead of the 100,000 or more it gave you.

    The problem there is that Samsung gives you a good RAM cache (backed up with huge capacitors on their DataCenter models) but once you request synced rates or exceed that cache, the controller lags behind. In the mean time, the Intel continues chugging along at 70-90k IOPS.

  7. Re: What's the power consumption on Qarnot Unveils a Cryptocurrency Heater For Your Home (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Brand new heat pumps these days are efficient down to 20-something Fahrenheit. Mine is 15 years old and the cutoff where it will no longer provide sufficient heat (with a modern smart thermostat controlling the secondary gas stage) seems to be about 30F but then again my house is currently very badly insulated (R13 in the attic).

  8. What's the power consumption on Qarnot Unveils a Cryptocurrency Heater For Your Home (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    To know whether "$3600 + electric bill + BitCoin-conversion" (assuming this is only good for the winter months of 1, maybe 2 years) is better than just heating your house with gas or a heat pump we need to know what the consumption and bitcoin generation speeds.

    My heating costs are about 3c/kWh and BTC is not worth my investment of time and money, but I know most people use gas or electric at much higher rates. Unless this optimized the rate of production, not sure if it's worth.

  9. Re: yeah forget that on Most Americans Think AI Will Destroy Other People's Jobs, Not Theirs (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes they do. Many people choose not to do anything because it is easier.

  10. Re: Automation is good on Most Americans Think AI Will Destroy Other People's Jobs, Not Theirs (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    We would be in a state of perpetual civil wars if that were true.

  11. Re:the online requirement? on Oculus Rift Headsets Are Offline Following a Software Error (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    It works offline but apparently does need to "phone home" during every boot.

  12. Re: Embracing a Cancer? on Ask Slashdot: Should We Worry Microsoft Will 'Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish' Linux? (betanews.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    No respectable developer uses C# or its ancestor VB.

    VisualStudio is a good dev environment for Windows but that's about it, it's what you get stuck with if corporate doesn't want to get you a Mac or Linux machine or insist on running Windows-as-a-Server

    Give me Eclipse anytime, I found VS to be "meh", pretty much along the lines of what Xcode has become (it used to be better).

  13. Re:Dishwasher safe on 'Repeatable Sanitization' is a Feature of PCs Now (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Panasonic Toughbook?

  14. Re:Turn Location Services Off on MoviePass CEO Proudly Says App Tracks Your Location Before, After Movies (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure if the app would work under those conditions. Also more people have Androids, there the only choices for apps are "root access".

  15. They give you a lot of money for said data. You basically get unlimited, free movie tickets.

  16. Re:How is this different to dictatorship? on Europe Plans Special Tax For Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Welcome to Merkel's Europe. My grandfather used to say, whenever a German is in charge the organization starts looking like the Third Reich. He was complaining about his HOA in Spain but he was quite right, dictatorship and an air of supremacy still runs in Germany's ethos.

  17. First image not that clear on Do Neural Nets Dream of Electric Sheep? (aiweirdness.com) · · Score: 1

    I see a bunch of "things" in the foreground in the grass. If I knew nothing of sheep farming besides a vague description and was only given a split second to decide, I would label them as animals/perhaps sheep as well.

    Given that most neural net imaging these days will split off the color and brightness channels from the image to 'recognize' something, I can see where these blurry pictures get some weird tags.

  18. Re: Didn’t we tacitly know this already? on New LTE Attacks Can Snoop On Messages, Track Locations, and Spoof Emergency Alerts (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    The Stingray only costs $100k because it is sold to governments. It really is a $50 SDN.

  19. You mean a decent project management tool on Ask Slashdot: Best To-Do/Task List Software? · · Score: 1

    I was recently looking for a good todo app as well, turns out what I really needed is actually akin to a project management/list management/mind mapping tool.

    I need a mind mapping list with dependencies and resource management. Project management tools are too ridgid (no wonder nothing ever gets done by PM's) and mind mapping tools just become an unmanaged web of semi-interconnected things.

    Ideally I would have something that takes speech and associates it with the right "project"

  20. Depends on the way you interpret the data, the $3.37 figure comes in from the worst case scenario of figuring in mileage and maintenance costs, sales taxes and "no-work hours" etc as a direct cost to the Uber driver. Eg. if one Uber driver does 2 rides in a day before and after their 'day job', the $3.37 number would have that as "10 hours worked, 2 rides".

  21. Re:Be a little more innovative or sell for less $ on Amazon's Jeff Bezos Called Out On Counterfeit Products Problem (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Then sell it for $10.70 or $9.99. Really, this company is making a piece of formed plastic that would take me all of 15m in a CAD program and I'm not even a CAD designer. You can get a shipping container or about 100,000 units for $2000 shipped to your nearest port or get it 3D printed for ~$5.

    The problem here is the company is trying to rest on its laurels after it had one successful product. As history has proven, to run a business, you need to keep innovating and selling new products. This company would basically be Apple after the Apple II saying "we're done, we shipped a computer, everyone else should stop trying to sell knockoff home computers"

  22. Re:Wrong sides? on Supreme Court Wrestles With Microsoft Data Privacy Fight (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The judiciary is not supposed to be in favor of anything, they're supposed to interpret the law as they are written. In that context, "conservative" judges typically seek to abide by the letter of the law and "liberal" judges seek to reinterpret and make up new laws.

  23. Re:Such a shame to fight over privacy rights on Supreme Court Wrestles With Microsoft Data Privacy Fight (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft and Google could've prevented this by doing what Apple and a very small few other cloud providers does: We don't store data unencrypted and we don't have access to our customer's keys. They would've missed out on the advertising dollars but hey, you pick your battles.

  24. Re: Absurd on Supreme Court Wrestles With Microsoft Data Privacy Fight (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Then someone in Ireland has to file suit and they can come up with damages. Given the deed will already have been done, the only thing that can be done is restorative at that point.

  25. Re:Demand is Still Rising... on After Rising For 100 Years, Electricity Demand is Flat (vox.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We are literally outsourcing power generation by outsourcing production. We have "bettered" the environment game not because we implemented "green" policies, but because we moved large swathes of power consumption out of this country.

    Steel production is a big user, we moved virtually all steel production to China hence moving the power generation issue. Same goes for most factories, moving it to South America and Asia moves the power generation and production issue.

    We are not 'forcing' them, they are bettering themselves and their population in the process, but that comes at an expense of energy. Luckily FOR ALL OF US China is bringing a decent amount of nuclear generators online