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  1. Re:Back assward on Trump Slams EU Over $5 Billion Fine on Google (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The US does not understand capitalism. Hence they do not understand that monopolies kill capitalism. That is the real problem here.

  2. Re:EU has always been tough on US companies. on Trump Slams EU Over $5 Billion Fine on Google (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless Germany decides to align itself with Russia?

    You should not listen to really, really stupid people that spread rumors like this. There is no risk of that happening anytime soon.

  3. Re:I don't agree with Trump about much... on Trump Slams EU Over $5 Billion Fine on Google (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I hardly think this is unreasonable.

    EU legal experts disagree with you. You lose.

  4. Re:I don't agree with Trump about much... on Trump Slams EU Over $5 Billion Fine on Google (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The rules in the EU are different and there are good reasons for the rules used there. Google decided to ignore these laws for more than half a decade. Now they are paying a price for it. What do you not understand here?

  5. Re:At this point it doesn't matter on Google Warns Android Might Not Remain Free Because of EU Decision (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    What do I need an utterly dumb "AI" assistant for? Or has the younger generation become so infantile that they need this?

    Incidentally, I use search engines all the time. They are not obsolete and will not be for a long, long time.

  6. Well, you're one of few. Android has struggled to make inroads into real profit because Apple has a more solid ecosystem.

    Here is a hint: The whole "mobile phone" thing is critical infrastructure. If you make more than modest profits off critical infrastructure, you are doing it wrong.

  7. Indeed. For Linux distros, this works reasonably well already. The only sane thing is to eventually go to the same model. That would also fix the update-problem that Android has.

  8. Re:Could they make two versions? on Google Warns Android Might Not Remain Free Because of EU Decision (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If they want to to pay another few billions to the EU every month, sure.

  9. Re:As usual, they are decades late on Microsoft Is Making the Windows Command Line a Lot Better (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Did I anywhere say anything about "like" or "dislike"? I do not think so. What about you learn to read?

  10. This is really, really old news... on Hackers Account For 90 Percent of Login Attempts At Online Retailers (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    And has no surprise-factor at all. Basically anything that accepts log-ins from the Internet gets between a few and a few 1000 every minute. This may or may not get better with IPv6, but with IPv4, the whole net is scanned all the time.

  11. Re: What if.. on EU Regulators Fine Google Record $5 Billion in Android Case (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    That is not how this works.

  12. Re:As usual, they are decades late on Microsoft Is Making the Windows Command Line a Lot Better (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And sometimes they will be right. Your point?

  13. Re:As usual, they are decades late on Microsoft Is Making the Windows Command Line a Lot Better (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is nothing wrong with using a GUI when it is efficient for the task at hand. There is a lot wrong with calling yourself an "IT expert" when you cannot use or are severely limited on the command line.

  14. Re:In other words: Still pretty useless on D-Wave's Quantum Computer Successfully Models a Quantum System (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This thing is not really one QC. It does not have the special powers that a real QC would have or rather it does not have them in the size of bits it has. It really is just several much, much smaller QCs in parallel and that is, due to the nature of a QC, only as useful as the small ones and they are pretty useless. QC computations cannot be subdivided to run on smaller QCs, quite unlike digital computations.

  15. As usual, they are decades late on Microsoft Is Making the Windows Command Line a Lot Better (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Still, it seems MS can eventually recognize what works. This will give all those GUI-only IT "experts" fits, of course.

  16. In other words: Still pretty useless on D-Wave's Quantum Computer Successfully Models a Quantum System (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Seriously. This thing does not have global entanglement. That makes it useless as a QC.

  17. How utterly pathetic is that? It is 2018, people, wake up!

    Sure, I know that they are listening in (and probably recording) everything anyways. Bit no encryption opens this up to any somewhat capable attacker as well and that is just not acceptable. Even if I am fine with the GeStaPo (i.e. NSA, GCHQ and their like) getting all my Skype voice recordings, I am not fine with JRandomCriminal being able to do the same.

  18. Re:"misdemeanor amount of marijuana" yielded this? on Judge Jails Defendent For Failing To Unlock Phones (fox13news.com) · · Score: 1

    That is how it works in a police-state. If you do not roll over on command (however much ridiculous), you get fucked.

  19. You mean one should buy Cisco instead with minimally more sophisticated backdoors?

    But I admit, I do not have a good solution for most people. Personally, I use a Linux box as a router, and people with some technical skills may use something with pfSense, but ordinary users are pretty much screwed at this time.

  20. With a good ad-blocker, they just feel absent on Digital Ads Are Starting To Feel Psychic (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    When I turn the ad-blocker off, I just stop to want to surf the web anyways, so I do not even feel guilty...

  21. Re:Credit where credit is due on 'A Lot of Hoped-for Automation Was Counterproductive', Remembers Elon Musk (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Very much so. Only those that can admit personal failures can improve. The more accurately, the better. In this egocentric age in the west, this quality has indeed become rare, and even much more so in the "leaders". This is probably the single key factor for his success.

  22. "Because we were huge idiots..." on 'A Lot of Hoped-for Automation Was Counterproductive', Remembers Elon Musk (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    And that is why Musk is successful. He may only be a mediocre engineer, but he is not only able to learn, he is able to be brutally honest with himself and that puts him far ahead of the crowd.

  23. Re: Phrasing on Systemd-Free Artix Linux OS is Looking For Packagers (artixlinux.org) · · Score: 1

    You are missing the mark. The root-cause for that is lack of independent insight on your part.

  24. Re: Phrasing on Systemd-Free Artix Linux OS is Looking For Packagers (artixlinux.org) · · Score: 1

    Still missing the mark. Pathetic.

  25. Re: Phrasing on Systemd-Free Artix Linux OS is Looking For Packagers (artixlinux.org) · · Score: 1

    Well, on the plus side, the only situation where they need to claim "no evidence" is when the evidence is so strong that admitting its existence makes them automatically lose their case, because they cannot refute it. In a sense the continued claims of "no evidence" just confirm the evidence is very strong indeed.