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  1. You stole my comment!

    It isn't my fault that your speculative execution and prediction thinking leaked your post idea for everyone to see.

  2. Matching Firefox release version number with a same-number donation to Pale Moon could turn into serious money very quickly.

  3. Yes, couple days to respond is a hit job and not a responsible disclosure. However, if AMD and Intel get into "flaw disclosure" wars, the only winner will be consumers. This is not a bad thing.

  4. Business case for this does not exist on Amazon's Alexa Is Coming To an Office Near You (axios.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What would be the rationale for putting Alexia into any business that would justify initial purchase and deployment costs? What about control of proprietary information? What about control of legally sensitive information?

  5. I find it deeply ironic the the hive of SJW and villainy that are FB and Twitter single-highhandedly created right-wing ideological fever swamps.

    Before social media, it was mostly contained to a bunch of old senile people protesting with "Keep government hands off my medicare". Today, these cooks have a POTUS and SJWs gave them tools to do it.

    Hahahaha.

  6. Re:more powerful and engaging experiences on Next Big Windows Update Will Bring Hardware-Accelerated AI (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They are still working out the bugs out of shilling AI.

  7. more powerful and engaging experiences on Next Big Windows Update Will Bring Hardware-Accelerated AI (zdnet.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "more powerful and engaging experiences" is a euphemism for spying on users.

  8. Re:404 Not Found on China Bans Letter N From Internet as Xi Jinping Extends Grip on Power (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Shouldn't this be "404 ot Found" ?

  9. but honestly, who wants to pay for single payer healthcare? I mean, the cost alone is -$17 trillion

    But this is COMMUNISM! Dying sick and broke somewhere under the bridge is a God given and constitutionally protected right! Freedom! America, F--k Yeah!

  10. Re:More like $15-$25 vs $500-$1000+ on Passengers Who Call Uber Instead Of An Ambulance Put Drivers At Risk (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Getting sick in US often means bankruptcy, nearly certain if you are under insured. So extra $1K for an ambulance ride on top of $100K+ for a short hospital stay won't matter - you are about to be bankrupt and homeless anyways. Better ask them to drop you off at the nearest bridge, so you can jump off it.

  11. Re:Forcing electric cars on German Cities Can Ban Diesel Cars, Court Rules (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    There are many things that stopping me: a. lack of a death wish, b. aversion to misery, c. gainful employment with standards on tardiness and appearance.

    Well to address that:

    a. You just said you have your own bikelanes.
    b. Exercise releases endorphins. You should try it. Know what is miserable? Being stuck in traffic.
    c. I'm not sure why that is relevant. Cycle in your suit, it worked just fine when I didn't have a shower at work. ... which I do, so now I just get changed when I get to work. If you can't keep up appearance with a bicycle, you're doing it wrong.

    It is easy to spot a demagogue when one argues that it is safe and desirable to ride a bike in the snow anywhere near traffic. Hitting ice on a bike is deadly - you can easily wipe and you can easily wipe right into road traffic that can't easily stop to avoid you, because there is ice on the road. Then there is slush that gets kicked up by your own wheels no matter what. Then there is frozen chunks of rock-hard compressed snow that you have to avoid.

    If where you live there is no winter, then riding year round is possible. This is not the case here.

  12. Also stick dying-from-cancer pictures next to it, like they do with cigarette packs. Why? Because micro-transactions are cancer.

  13. Re:Forcing electric cars on German Cities Can Ban Diesel Cars, Court Rules (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    EVs are better in the cold weather than fossil cars.

    You forgot that a) heating interior takes a lot of energy, and unlike ICE you can't use waste combustion heat b) batteries lose charge when cold, and/or must be heated to operate. a+b means that you electric range was just taken out behind a shed and shot.

  14. Re:Forcing electric cars on German Cities Can Ban Diesel Cars, Court Rules (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's nothing stopping you from cycling in the snow. Get some decent tires a good jacket and go for it. According to you you'll have an entire lane to yourself.

    There are many things that stopping me: a. lack of a death wish, b. aversion to misery, c. gainful employment with standards on tardiness and appearance.

  15. Re:Crapping up somebody else's living space on German Cities Can Ban Diesel Cars, Court Rules (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    The point is that diesel cars crap up other people's living spaces.

    This is an emotional knee-jerk (and diesel has PR problem). Modern internal combustion engines (diesel or otherwise) are not significant source of pollution when emission control equipment is functioning as intended.

  16. Forcing electric cars on German Cities Can Ban Diesel Cars, Court Rules (cnet.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The end goals of these bans is to force all-electric cars, then force everyone on public transit because owning an electric car is at this point harder than internal combustion one.

    It snows heavily for 4+ months of the year where I live. Yet, municipality is converting roads and parking spaces into bike lanes, that are unused and unusable a portion of the year due to snow. To me, this is politically driven insanity.

  17. This has become a nation of schizophrenics. I'm not able to believe that both this woman's sob-story and James Damore's sob-story are both true. At some point in the information pipeline, data is being distorted, or wholesale invented.

    The issue here is that women are also human, and are capable and willing to lie, abuse other people, and use their physical characteristics to get what they want. So there are bad actors out there who are not men, and modern feminism ideologically unprepared to deal with this realization.

  18. Whenever I get a "warning" about malware on my device, I assume that the message is a scam where someone wants to charge me to "fix" my device or wants to install malware on it.

    In this specific case, it just Zuk wants to scan your PC to find out what kind of porn you are into.

  19. Re:Oh FFS here we go again.. on President Trump: 'We Have To Do Something' About Violent Video Games, Movies (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Never mind that numerous studies...

    What makes you think that people that ignored numerous studies on climate, economics, and many other areas are going to act differently in this situation?

  20. Re: He never wrote any pro-diversity posts on Former Google Employee Files Lawsuit Alleging the Company Fired Him Over Pro-Diversity Posts (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You Googlers with your diversity over sanity screeds and pushes created a situation where someone like Tim could exist largely unchecked. I wouldn't care if this was some generic CaliCorp, but Google has substantial cultural impact on tech culture everywhere.

    When diversity is a priority, being Trans and Disabled puts someone in an entirely separate class. Tim could get away with almost anything, and it is surprising he got fired at all even after very egregious and appalling behavior. Disadvantage person my ass, he is using his social privileged status to shit all over other people for no good reason.

    This is inevitable consequence of abandoning merit to promote diversity - you end up with useless or worse people that get in the way of doing good work and getting along.

  21. Re:Waiting for the next /. how-it-went update on Intel Has a New Spectre and Meltdown Firmware Patch For You To Try Out (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Let me know how it goes, everyone! I'll see you all in therapy...

    The meeting is in the next room to the "Patch Tuesday Support Group", down the hall from "Dependency Hell Anonymous", right?

  22. Re:Telenav is betting you won't mind much on The Car of the Future Will Sell Your Data (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    Congratulations! You win 20% higher premium.

    This is a small overshoot in a good trend. The higher premium may make you to skip the breakfast in paper wrapper in the drive through in the morning. Your insurance rate will go down. You'll also be healthier. Your health insurance rate will go down.

    Seriously what world do we live in where people eat in their cars.

    The kid of free world where people can still choose to abuse their bodies and make all kinds of bad personal decisions. The authoritarian alternative may offer better nutrition but is much worse for your mental health. Especially if you are not the 100% conforming type of person.

  23. Re:Telenav is betting you won't mind much on The Car of the Future Will Sell Your Data (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    For example: You go through drive-through every morning - you must be eating breakfast while driving to work. This leads to distracted driving. Congratulations! You win 20% higher premium.

    They already do it, with the smartphone you carry with you in your car.

    If my insurance asks me to install a tracking app, I will dust off my old Palm Pilot and ask for Palm OS app.

  24. Re:Telenav is betting you won't mind much on The Car of the Future Will Sell Your Data (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    My premiums went up by 25%, so I switched insurance companies.

    This is working as intended. Insurance companies are not there to cover you, but to use any pretext to increase premiums and deny coverage. Giving them any data is against your self-interest.

  25. Re:This feature will be a non-starter for me on The Car of the Future Will Sell Your Data (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    In US Magnuson-Moss would limit warranty-voiding to modified features.