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  1. Re:And providers will do as they always have done. on Ajit Pai Wants To Raise Rural Broadband Speeds From 10Mbps To 25Mbps (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    WTF? Did someone give the Ajit mod points, FML.

  2. Re:And providers will do as they always have done. on Ajit Pai Wants To Raise Rural Broadband Speeds From 10Mbps To 25Mbps (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Because the FCC's goal under Ajit is not to give people better broad-band, it's to give the big ISPs more money.

  3. Re:Not using FIDO2 until on Microsoft Now Lets You Log Into Outlook, Skype, Xbox Live With No Password (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    WTH? $50!! A USB key that does this shouldn't cost much more than a dollar, it does f*** all.

    But yes, this is not for people who don't know how to keep anything secure, this is security theatre for the morons who can't cope / are too lazy to set up good password management.

  4. "The Open Data Institute is a non-profit private company limited by guarantee, based in the United Kingdom. Founded by Sirs Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt in 2012, the ODIâ(TM)s mission is to connect, equip and inspire people around the world to innovate with data"

    It's Tim and his mate being silly.

  5. Nah, that's the easy bit, getting them to swim in the right direction would be difficult.

  6. Re:Would I allow an employer to do this? I think n on More Companies Plan To Implant Microchips Into Their Employees' Hands (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter who's doing the informing, they aren't lying about what laws trump and the republicans keep trying to pass or the continuous asinine things they keep saying.

  7. Re:Would I allow an employer to do this? I think n on More Companies Plan To Implant Microchips Into Their Employees' Hands (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    So, they didn't vote for Cruz then? To me outside of the US, it looks like you have to be mentally deficient to vote republican right now.

  8. Re:And Bezels should be Charged on Amazon Picks New York, Northern Virginia For HQ2 [Update: Confirmed] (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The level of concrete evidence would need to be higher, doesn't matter if it's blindingly obvious.

  9. Re:And nothing has changed on Amazon Picks New York, Northern Virginia For HQ2 [Update: Confirmed] (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    PS
    https://www.charlotteobserver....
    "Amazon.com this month narrowed down 238 applicants for its second headquarters to 20 cities, but experts say it got something even from the losing bidders: A rich trove of information that can benefit the company for years to come."
    "To dozens of cities across the United States, Amazonâ(TM)s widely publicized search for a âoesecond headquartersâ looked like thousands of new jobs, up for grabs. To Pivot co-host Scott Galloway, it now looks like a âoeruse.â

    https://www.recode.net/2018/11...
    "I lease office space all the time for my businesses and I always tell my real estate agent, âWe can lease any office in the world as long as I can walk there from where I live,â(TM)â Galloway said on the latest episode. âoeAmazon is now talking about having three headquarters, Seattle, Crystal City and Long Island City. The Bezosâ(TM)s also own three homes, and the average distance from those three homes to a headquarters is 6.4 miles."

  10. Re:And nothing has changed on Amazon Picks New York, Northern Virginia For HQ2 [Update: Confirmed] (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The HQ2 contest was a scam all along, Bezels has already decided where he wanted to put the new HQs and indeed Bozos already had residences at those 2 new cities not far from where the new HQs will be. It was a ploy by Beelze' to reduce taxes as much as possible and of course it worked.

  11. Re:Hate monopolies on Amazon Is Kicking All Unauthorized Apple Refurbishers Off the Site (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    I rarely ever agree with trump but he is right on one thing - Amazon is too big.

    Aside from that, Apple is also behaving very anti-competitively with regards to reselling, refurbishing, repairing and maintaining Apple products, they should be slapped down, but I expect they mostly won't be.

  12. A criminal would grab thousands of keys for full price AAA titles and sell them on grey market sites for a quick profit, they wouldn't care if the keys got revoked after an audit.

  13. Re:Hum... Both UK AND Canada? on Zuckerberg Rebuffs Request To Appear Before UK Parliament (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    TBH, I think he has a good point, is he supposed to testify in 200 parliaments across the world?

    What If Indonesia invites him? Or Italy, how about Singapore? Or Iran? Or Uzbekistan? Or Afghanistan? Or Malta?

    And I live in the UK and I don't like Zuck' or Facebook.

  14. Re:If Trump did his thing on United Nations Says Earth's Ozone Layer Is Repairing (bbc.com) · · Score: 2
  15. Wrong universe? on United Nations Says Earth's Ozone Layer Is Repairing (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Is this UN report an old report?

    Because:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/1...

    What is unclear from the article is how much new CFCs are being released relative to pre-ban amounts.

  16. Re:Threadripper has the pci-e lanes to drive muilt on AMD Reveals Zen 2 Processor Architecture in Bid To Stay Ahead of Intel (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Except multiple cards rarely works well for gaming, many games don't support SLI at launch and gamers aren't the kind who like to wait a couple of months just to see if maybe their system gets supported. So SLI is niche even amongst gamers who would happily fork out for it. Not to mention that even when SLI does wortk it often doesn't scale well for anything other than benchmarks.

  17. Re:OMFG on Have We Really Wiped Out 60 Percent of Animals? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Except we're not making earth more liveable, we're risking exterminating ourselves also.

    Stop biodiversity loss or we could face our own extinction, warns UN -
    https://www.theguardian.com/en...

  18. You must be living on a different planet to the rest of us. You really have to be hugely ignorant to say that statement, there is very little wilderness left on earth for example - what is left is typically not arable land.

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com...

    Not to mention the global mass-genocides of other species caused by humans.

  19. Tell me about it, give any solid arguments against nuclear and there's a good chance you'll get modded as troll.

    The risk gets shunned, and even after 3-mile island, Windscale, Chernobyl and Fukushima, nuclear proponents complain about the cost of safety measures. They like to insists then that nuclear is cheap although it wouldn't stand a chance without subsidies and then exclaim that renewables are expensive even though they can pretty much compete without the subsidies now and unlike nuclear, renewables get cheaper every year.

    If you point out that cheap nuclear fuel is in short supply they will then proceed to espouse massively expensive methods like nuclear re-processing or ocean reclamation of uranium (requires huge resources).

    And still no-one has come up with a good way to get rid of the waste cheaply and safely. No, not reprocessing, I said cheaply.

  20. Oh come now, you're not going to let highly relevant facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory are you. Might have to mod you as troll.

  21. Melted, Most north pole sea ice now melts and refreezes every year, the average length of time any ice lasts before melting again has diminished drastically over the last few decades.

  22. I agree, they wasted time and money asking 2 million people a stupid bloody set of questions. I'm guessing they know fuck all about autonomous vehicles systems because if they actually know anything then they might have been able to ask some useful questions.

    Here's some more interesting questions:

    If a $2000 lidar system can see ahead 500 yards and a $1000 lidar system can see ahead 250 yards, should the manufacturers be allowed to just install the $1000 system.

    Or

    Should the government be mandating what distance autonomous vehicles needs to see?

    Should autonomous cars be allowed to drive in rain or snow when they've mostly only been tested in dry conditions?

    Should reporting of sudden stops and crashes of self-driving vehicles be automatic with crash / stop data being transferred to police automatically or should it be left up to the autonomous cars company to make reports manually?

    Etc, I bet there's a hundred more questions like this which you could ask, the more you know about autonomous systems the more questions you could potentially ask.

  23. UK says get lost, we'll cross anywhere we like, it's perfectly legal and expected. (excludes motorways). We don't have 'jaywalking' laws here.

  24. Re:No fucking way on Should Parents End 'Screen Time' For Children? (indianexpress.com) · · Score: 1

    FML "working in factories during industrial revolution"

    Are you saying that was a good thing!!!!!!!!!

  25. Re:A lot of the arguments seem hopelessly simplist on Authors of Controversial 'Seattle Minimum Wage' Study Revise Their Conclusions (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 1

    "The government should spend money on things like infrastructure that improve private sector productivity when the economy turns around."

    Easier said than done, if companies knew how to improve their productivity then why wouldn't they already do that. And for infrastructure, in the developed economies we're just that - fully developed, there's not much infrastructure than can be built that isn't already build with regards to being more productive, it's a case of diminishing returns.

    Why do we bust? Isn't it the banks screwing up every time and interest rates swinging too wildly. The economy suffers when banks won't lend, if businesses can't invest because the banks won't lend then building infrastructure will simply increase public debt to no avail.