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  1. "Canadians do not have any kind of backbone."

    Well you guys make Molsen.. oh wait, looks like we fucked that one up. For that, we're both sorry.

  2. "whether one or more major carriers" on FCC To Probe Whether Carriers Gave Inaccurate Broadband Coverage Data (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I bet for the later.

  3. They're = their damn autocorrect

  4. They're usage is more family friendly than the majority us of internet usage.

  5. Can you blame them? on The Latest Crop of Instagram Influencers? Medical Students. (slate.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you were going to owe $200k (or more) before your first job, what would you do? If they have room on their plate for this, and still have ability to earn, more power to them!

  6. The only thing this proves... on A Sleeping Driver's Tesla Led Police On A 7-Minute Chase (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    is that the driver was too exhausted to be driving in the first place. And, that had he not be driving a car equipped with as an intelligent a safety system, there would have been a substantially higher probability of injury, loss of life or property.

    " calls this proof that Tesla has wrongly convinced drivers their cars' "autopilot" function really could perform fully autonomous driving... "

    Those of us who know better call this FUD.

  7. "things your browser loads when you surf to a page?"

    I've recently been required to view web pages without Ublock enabled. It amazes me how much JoeSixpack will allow others to waste his resources, without even talking about latency before the resource is viewable.

    It's reprehensible.

  8. "canâ(TM)t see how this could possibly go wrong..."
    Ah... here's how..

    Microsoft Silverlight

  9. A monopoly implies that there's no alternative resources for consumers. The playfield is populated with players with equal funding/resources. If and when consumers find better value elsewhere, they will gain users. Currently we see consumers using Google. If you don't like it, do better than them. Otherwise STFU and man up, this world rewards those that do better than others for a reason.

      Just because someone plays better ball than everyone, doesn't mean there's not equal opportunity for an even better player to shine.

  10. "That is, the first row is for whomever wants to bid top price."

    That's complete bullship. If you are referring to the ads that are plainly marked, well yes their placement is there because of compensation. As far ranking past ads, it's done by the algorithm. The algorithm attempts to provide the most useful, relevant and high quality result for every query and is constantly being updated.

      Besides, they're a company not a utility. As far as a company is concerned, they pretty much do better than most (look at the market cap).

  11. Relevant results are landing pages that provide high utility, functionality, and are trustworthy for the majority of users entering said query for the users location.

      It's really not complicated. Ads are plainly marked. If the service doesn't provide useful results, you are free to use other indexes. Contrary to popular belief, if Google didn't exist the majority of the network would still be (and is) indexed, one way or another. Google IS NOT the network, just the crutch Joe Sixpack has become dependant upon.

      People need to get over their dependency of using one provider for all services. Whereas the said provider does a pretty good job, there are just as useful alternatives for all services they offer.

    tcp/ip .. the cat's outa the bag

  12. We're kinda used to it, Obama started the trend.

  13. Posted March 31, 2018https://slashdot.org/comments on 'Windows Isn't a Service, It's an Operating System' (howtogeek.com) · · Score: 1
  14. The usage of the words "Chinese" and "developed" in the same sentence is sufficiently descriptive of the utility of the linked resource. Useless!

  15. I hereby claim copywrite and trademark privileges to the above work. All rights reserved. Please enquirer directly for permissions or use licensing.

    "a sound and extensible systematization of transient execution attacks"

  16. Re: Copyrights Hijack History on Couple Who Ran ROM Site To Pay Nintendo $12 Million (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    "basic concept of ownership"

    That's when you have something that if someone takes from you, you are deprived of possessing or using. That's the "basic concept".

      If someone uses your brain-fart it doesn't deprive
    you from usage.

  17. Come on dude, we know its your porn collection.

  18. Re:Finally! on Waymo To Start First Driverless Car Service Next Month (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    " drivers will be placed in the cars when the service launches, and the cars themselves will be heavily modified Chrysler Pacifica minivans."

    For christ's sakes they're not just going to be drivers, they're going to need to be ASE certified mechanics.
    After all, they're driving fucking Chryslers! The only less reliable vehicle is a Fiats (oh yea forgot they are Fiats).
     

  19. Re: Disinformation... on What Your Phone is Telling Wall Street (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    The issue is GPS is permission based and the phone must be able to "see" the birds, and have network connectivity

    "aren't enough towers to triangulate a phone's location"

      The phone is constantly polling cells providing sending signal strength. Even if there's not sufficient signal to use, the network shares that information in order to make a handoff unnoticed. Triangulation of analogue signal was used extensively in WW2 with very accurate results.

    These days history is in the logs, and it's trivial to know position even more accurately in real time.

  20. Re:Retire on what? on When No One Retires (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    " maybe even short the market?"

    You can't sell short and cover in a 401k. And most benefit plans have a fairly limited amount of funds available. All you can do is exit your position and get the days closing value.

  21. Re:Extremely thin on useful detail on Police Decrypt 258,000 Messages After Breaking Pricey IronChat Crypto App (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    "used something called "ironchat" they deserve what they got."

    Exactly! It would have been much cheaper, and just as secure to use triple ROT13. Cause it's 3x betterer.

  22. Re: The reality is..... on AMD Reveals Zen 2 Processor Architecture in Bid To Stay Ahead of Intel (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    "So you are complaining"
      No, I'm not complaining. I'm just stating a fact that it trades at a much, much higher value than either the industry or Intel (@10.93x). I've been rooting for AMD since my DX40 was priced better and outperformed intel's chip/set.

      But, they've always underperformed as a company. From their pricing, it looks like there's quite the hope they won't blow it yet again (how many times is it now?). From a historical standpoint, and at this point, I don't see any value in them as an investment.

  23. The reality is..... on AMD Reveals Zen 2 Processor Architecture in Bid To Stay Ahead of Intel (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    "The move is a follow-up to"...

    Attempt to justify a PE ratio of better than 43x when the industry avg is 17x!

  24. All your Winamp downloads... on How Llamas Could Help Us Fight the Flu (pbs.org) · · Score: 1

    ..don't seem so PC now, do they?

  25. GM and "connected"? on GM Is Getting Into the Electric Bike Business (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    How about Rbike. You buy it and pay us for the right to use it (or anything)!