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  1. Datacaps on AT&T's Silence on 5G Speeds Screams 'Stay Away For Now' (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    With most plans in US having rather low data caps, and with few grandfathered unlimited caps getting throttled above certain low threshold, how is AT&Ts roll out of 5G in any way relevant?

  2. Baghdad Bob now works at Google? on Google Denies Altering YouTube Code To Break Microsoft Edge (theverge.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Baghdad Bob now works as a spokesperson at Google?

  3. Obviously, you wouldn't get non-consensualy tracked by Facebook if you didn't dress that way.

  4. I for one welcome our new Google overlords on 'Google Isn't the Company That We Should Have Handed the Web Over To' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    I, for one, welcome our new Google overlords, replacing Microsoft overlords.

  5. Slashdot will resume after this commercial break on CenturyLink Blocked Its Customers' Internet Access in Order To Show an Ad (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Slashdot will resume after this commercial break.

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  6. Re:So... on People Are Harassing Waymo's Self-Driving Vehicles (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    How is a Waymo car harming you in a way that a human driven car is not?

    Constant surveillance, optimization algorithms that send heavy traffic through neighborhoods, algorithms that follow all speed limits and plug the traffic.

  7. Blockchain is new in the cloud on 'Blockchain Developer' is the Fastest-Growing US Job (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    Blockchain is new in the cloud. If your manager isn't already in on it, he will be shortly out of a job and replaced by another inane MBAonkey fully versed in modern corporate jargon.

  8. They said jobs, so it is at least 10x number of gender studies graduates as 9 out of 10 of these are unemployed and trolling social media full time.

  9. Re:Qualcomm could be in trouble on Apple Is Making Its Own Modem To Compete With Qualcomm, Report Says (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Places like QC you describe don't exist anymore anywhere. Corporate greed and next quarter culture combined with decades of outsourcing destroyed great culture of competence and stability for techies (and everyone else too). Just like Walmart goods, cheaper and replaceable is what corporations now expect out of workers. Drive them hard, 80 hours a week or more, until they quit.

  10. Re:Youtube's advantages on Netflix's Biggest Competition Isn't Sleep -- It's YouTube (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the main advantage of Youtube is that they do a much better job of pushing stuff you want to see.

    Opposite here. No matter what I seem to search for on YouTube they want to radicalize me. If I want a talk on specific subject, they immediately start pushing most extreme versions of expressed viewpoints. Consequently, I make a point to regularly wipe history and cookies on any device where I watched youtube.

  11. Re:Based on historical trends on What is the Future of Office Spaces? (weforum.org) · · Score: 2

    Satrap beating large drum and periodically whipping sla^h^h^hvalued workers greatly increases productivity.

  12. I have a number of classic cars that I drive, and let me tell you - modern car era started during 80s. Anything before that would have noticeable performance and handling drawbacks.

    Generally, you wouldn't want to take 60s era car and daily drive. Not only because of reliability and safety concerns, but generally because it won't accelerate and handle well enough to meet modern expectations.

  13. Re:Better Product on VW Says the Next Generation of Combustion Cars Will Be Its Last (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    With an electric car you don't have to do any of these issues. You just charge and go.

    While there are less moving parts in the electric car, it isn't "just charge and go". There are still batteries, regenerative breaking, electric motors, suspension components and electronics to break.
     
    Additionally, there are other considerations. Like, "did I remember to plug in", "is my car charged", "is it cold outside".

  14. Re:We're fucked on It's the Beginning of the End of Satellite TV in the US (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    You see, last I checked there's a pretty sizeable chunk of the US who can't get cable at all, much less fiber optic lines. I happen to fall into that chunk. In fact, my 4G LTE coverage maxes out at about 8 mb/s. Yeah. You read that correctly.

    Have you tried pole mounted antenna with a booster?

  15. Not going to happen without Nuclear on EU Aims To Be 'Climate Neutral' By 2050 (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    This is not going to happen if they keep shutting down nuclear power plants.

  16. Music industry is obsolete on Music Industry Asks US Government To Reconsider Website Blocking (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    Music industry (i.e. record labels) is obsolete and haven't mattered since artists went digital. Why are they still being listened to?

  17. So they knew and didn't care for many years. It is clear to me that Facebook deserves corporate death penalty. Break it up and sell off assets.

  18. Do you have any evidence to back up your claim that damage is limited to welfare state? From where I stand, Trump is indiscriminate in damaging everything he touches.

  19. You also have to consider how leaky would Made in China deep sea base would be. Last but not least, it would probably end up sending out spam as a part of a botnet in a short order.

  20. Re:Browsers are awful in explaining X509 on Half of all Phishing Sites Now Have the Padlock (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, one step toward addressing this problem is to not just blindly showing a padlock, but also showing identifier on the certificate (i.e. slashdot.org in this case). Additionally, highlighting domain in the address bar (i.e. https://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid....). This way if there are shenanigans (i.e. if I navigate to a site that I think is slashdot.org, but end up at totallylegitsite.ru instead and they have Let's Encrypt certificate), it will be more obvious.

  21. Assuming what you say is true, you still have to ask if reaching such goal is worthwhile trade off? That is, damage Trump presidency doing to US is undeniable. USA is worse-off internally or internationally than before Trump presidency. There is now credible talk of China replacing US as a dominant superpower.

  22. Co-conspirator is appropriate. If that was a bank robbery, Mitch would be a getaway car driver.

  23. Re:Good job web browsers! on Half of all Phishing Sites Now Have the Padlock (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    To be fair, pervasive surveillance isn't a minor problem. Otherwise, spot on.

  24. Browsers are awful in explaining X509 on Half of all Phishing Sites Now Have the Padlock (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    I understand X509 is complicated and most people do not want and do not need to understand how it works. However, all browsers went too far in dumbing down this aspect and we are now seeing consequences.

    For example, when navigating to /. It takes me multiple clicks to determine that it currently uses certificate issued on October 23, 2018, for Slashdot.org, and it uses Letâ(TM)s Encrypt issued certificate (cheap bastards). Why is this information so hard to access?

  25. Re:Here's Trump on Trump Says He Doesn't Believe Government Climate Report Finding in a New Low (apnews.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    He'll do it alright, but that does not mean he likes it. For Mitch kowtowing to Trump is probably much like cleaning the toilet is to the rest of us, we don't like doing it but not cleaning the toilet is worse.

    It doesn't really make any difference what he thinks in private, he is a public servant and his public actions - unequivocal support of Trump - speak for themselves. In supporting Trump he shares responsibility for undermining norms and causing severe damage to US reputation and international standing.

    If there was a crime "Moral negligence causing decline of USA", then Mitch McConnell would be guilty as a co-conspirator.