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  1. Re: He is not wrong tho on Trump Accuses Social Media Firms of 'Silencing Millions' (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Fox can choose to not broadcast \ report any news that doesn't fit their world view, and so can Twitter.

    Fox is the company that is generating the content of the new reports that they broadcast (they tell the news anchor what to say). Twitter does not create the content of user's tweets, so it is not the same. A correct parallel would be if Fox were a public access TV network, then they would not be the ones creating the content.

  2. Re:Poached with money on Ask Slashdot: Why Did You Quit Your Last Job? · · Score: 1

    Let me restate then, if you want to keep me, you need to pay me at least equivalent to what other employers are willing to pay.

    Why do they need to keep you if they can hire someone else for less money?

  3. Since this uses placement of Hydrogen atoms to determine bit state, does that mean it could be wiped out by static electricity, similar to how you can bend a stream of water using a statically charged balloon?

  4. Re:Why even bring sea level into the story? on Study Suggests Buried Internet Infrastructure at Risk as Sea Levels Rise (eurekalert.org) · · Score: 1
    According to TFA,

    Many of the conduits at risk are already close to sea level and only a slight rise in ocean levels due to melting polar ice and thermal expansion as climate warms will be needed to expose buried fiber optic cables to sea water.

    They are talking about cables that are buried underground. Right now, if you need to service the cables, you just dig up the ground to get to the cables and service them. If the ground in which the cables are buried is underwater, it makes it more difficult dig them up and service them.

  5. Re:Cheap service, cheap results on 'Why You Should Not Use Google Cloud' (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    But where did he get the coconuts? Coconuts are a tropical tree, and I don't think a swallow of whatever continental origin can carry one.

    Suppose two swallows carried it together?

  6. I wonder though if its more likely to be related to other hobbies, such as cycling, or running where people drink coffee along with a physical task that involves a coffee break.

    Who is going to get all hot and sweaty doing a physical activity, and then go drink a hot cup of coffee as a refreshment? That is a rather silly idea. Caffeine actually increases your thirst.

  7. Paid for by Starbucks.

  8. Re:California knows how to party on California Lawmakers Pass Bill To Give Consumers Broad Privacy Rights (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    So why does a house you can build just about anywhere for $250,000 cost $1 Million in California.

    That statement is not true in all of California, mainly only for the bay area. As long as there is a housing shortage in the bay area (which there is) and as long as companies pay high salaries (which they do) you will have people with the means and willingness to spend a million on a house.

  9. Re:So they act like APK on What's Up With ProtonMail Outages? (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Where can you get this magical order of a magnitude greater than 200 Gbps connection you claim? I'm in one of the largest exchange points on the west coast, and they're just now rolling out 100 Gbps ethernet.

    You could have 20 100 Gbps links. That would give you 2Tbps.

  10. Re:I see on What's Up With ProtonMail Outages? (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    The group didn't cite any reason outside "testing" for the initial and uncalled for attack on ProtonMail

    As opposed to, er, "called for" (justified?) attacks?

    As opposed to paid-for attacks, which is what their system is intended to be used for.

  11. No, the question is why is the cardholder name, card number, and card expiration date stored on the booking system at all? Only keep the data as long as necessary to effect the transaction.

    For convenience of course. That way when you go back for another reservation, you don't need to type out all of those annoying numbers again.

  12. Good for them, but damn the average person is a complete idiot.

    Just proves there are thousands of suckers born every minute.

  13. Re:I remember a lot of people defending Uber on Uber Driver Was Streaming Hulu Just Before Fatal Self-Driving Car Crash, Says Police (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Furthermore, this is an area with an average of 1.25 miles between marked crosswalks. Are you saying you would have made the half-mile hike to the next crossing?

    If you bothered to check, you would have seen that the place where it happened was about 300 feet from a crosswalk.

  14. Re:How does outsourcing account for it? on The US Startup Is Disappearing (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    Wageworks is a company that provides benefit consulting to companies. They are not an outsourcing contractor, so neither of these examples are really correct unless you are talking about the people at the startup that manage benefits.

  15. Simple solution on A CO2 Shortage is Causing a Beer and Meat Crisis in Britain (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Cut down more of those pesky CO2 sucking trees. That ought to solve the problem.

  16. He is preparing for the bugger invasion.

  17. Re: Lower court ruled against Apple on The Supreme Court Will Decide If Apple's App Store Is a Monopoly (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    So anyhow - I guess you don't like Unix? If you know your way around MacOS, you know your way around Linux.

    I have to disagree with this. I understand your point that Mac OS is built on Unix, but 99% of what the average user would do with a Mac involves the graphical interface. Most Mac users don't even know what the Terminal program is, much less how to use it. The Terminal is the only way that Mac remotely resembles Linux from a user perspective.

  18. Re: Lower court ruled against Apple on The Supreme Court Will Decide If Apple's App Store Is a Monopoly (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Would it be legal to sell a pair of scissors with long unreadable legal contact a sesor controlled device that disabled the scissors if you used them paper not made by the company?

    There is not a long unreadable legal contact that you need to read to know that you can only buy apps from the App Store. Maybe if you had bought the original iPhone 1 before the App Store was created, then you would have an argument about being forced into something you didn't agree to. But now, after 10 years of existing, anyone who buys an iPhone knows that you can only download apps from the App Store, so parent's argument is valid.

  19. Re:Cludge fix? on Apple Is Testing a Feature That Could Kill Police iPhone Unlockers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    With apple cash horde, just buy them out. They have cash to spare.

    So that the founders now have a ton of cash to go and build the next, more advanced unlocking box.

  20. Couldn't have said it better. Alphabet can create as many companies as it wants. Same people, different names.

    But it won't be the same people. This new company can hire only people with the types moral attitudes that won't have a problem building military drone AI software.

  21. Re:Alexa add big hairy balls to my shopping list on Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant Can Be Controlled By Inaudible Commands (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Because not everyone lives in an area where online grocery delivery is available. Shopping lists are not obsolete yet.

  22. Re:Oops! We left it in murder mode. on Uber Vehicle Saw But Ignored Woman It Struck, Report Says (engadget.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think you mean kill mode

  23. Sadly, this is probably true. If it was anyone who didn't work at Google, this would not be a story.

  24. Re:Or... Ford cedes sedan market to Tesla on Ford To Stop Selling Every Car In North America But the Mustang, Focus Active (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Teslas have a ~300 mile range. Unless you are driving more than 150 miles each way to work, you can just charge it at home.

  25. At no time was that information ever sold, traded, or given away... we used it only to make the software better... and in no case did we ever actually track "who" was proving the information.

    I am willing to bet that all of the software programs you worked on were one that users paid for? That business model does not work with Internet software and websites like Facebook and Google. Their software offers users a service for free, and so they need to somehow make money to stay in business. The way they do that is with Ads. The way they make the most money off those Ads, is by learning about what people like, so they can show you the ad that is most likely to make you click on it, earning them money.