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  1. Re:Well.... on FBI, CIA, and NSA: Don't Use Huawei Phones (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So, what you are saying is that the 96% of the worlds population that don't live in the USA should be suspicious of US products.

    Just look at the number of data breaches, illegal activities by banks, corruption by politicians in the US and you will quickly figure out you actually have no more "rights" in the USA than you do in most of the rest of the world. And any punishment/legal action in the USA means the lawyers will get rich and victims will get about $1 if they are lucky.

    Why do you think they talk about "The American Dream", its because the "American Reality" is so bad.

  2. Re:Er, what are these "values"? on FBI, CIA, and NSA: Don't Use Huawei Phones (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    The ONLY sacred right Americans care about is the right to own a gun. Everything thing else is up for sale.

  3. Re:Er, what are these "values"? on FBI, CIA, and NSA: Don't Use Huawei Phones (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Um it think those values are "We come in peace, shoot to kill" Lets face it, any country that will elect a sexual predator as its leader lacks any moral stance worth emulating.

  4. Wish I had mod points to mod you up.

  5. Whats the energy cost vs other materials ?

    Waste treatment ?, what are the by products, how do we dispose of them properly ?

    Recycling of the finished product ?

    Long term stability over time at different temperatures

  6. or the way it's being held on Original Pixel Phone Users Are Suing Google Over Microphone Defects (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Queue the "Holding it wrong" jokes.

  7. Re:Misinformation on Apple Says the Leaked iPhone Source Code is Outdated (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    ROMs ????, not likely. EEPROM or some other tech yes, but ROMs, no way,

  8. Re:education in the U.S. should be USA first and n on Chinese Companies Hunt for AI Talent at American Conference (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    Its is, but there is simply not enough smart Americans around.

    Hell when about 7% of American adults think chocolate milk comes from brown cows... and captain Covefefe thinks he "like a smart person", you just know you are in trouble.

    And not everything invented in the USA has been invented by an American.

    If you get rid of all the smart people, soon you will be just left with the stupid ones.

  9. Re:what about building out an fiber network so on Now Google Might Make a Game Console and Game-Streaming Service (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    They struck a small snag. They used Google and found 96% of the worlds population does NOT live in the USA. I mean who knew...am I right...

  10. Facebook. ALL I want from you is the ability to keep in contact with friends and family. That is it, end of story.

    I DON"T want my news from you
    I DON'T want you to be eBay
    I DON'T want you to be the weather
    I DON'T want you always trying to get me to join groups
    I DON'T always buggerizing around with my security, I want EVERYTHING by default to be me and MY friends only.
    I DON'T want you suggesting people
    I DON'T to be lied to where you say "your friend was interested in this" and its an advert and they were NEVER interested
    I DON'T tracking me where ever I go
    I DON'T want to have to protect my privacy from you or anyone else
    I DON'T want to play games
    I DON'T want to do retarded quizes
    I DON'T want to share my information with your advertisers
    I DON'T find companies/businesses on FB, thats what Google is for
    I DON'T by anything from advertisers, they are just spam

  11. Re:Google..no skin in the game on Big Backing For 'Universal Stylus' Campaign (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Prevent fragmentation...a bit late for that isn't it ?
    http://www.businessinsider.com...

    Oreo (v 8) is on 0.3% of devices vs gingerbread (v 2.3) 20.6%

    each successive version has fewer and fewer users, what version 9 going to be called " Android 9 "Who gives a toss"

    If this were Windows, over 20% of people would still be running MS-DOS 6.

  12. Re:Google..no skin in the game on Big Backing For 'Universal Stylus' Campaign (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    https://www.businessinsider.co... 2016, over 500 million computers, 8 million chrome books The US market the world market.

  13. Re:Google..no skin in the game on Big Backing For 'Universal Stylus' Campaign (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Google making devices is such as small % of the market you can call it a rounding error. This is simply an attempt to let the tail wag the dog.

  14. Google..no skin in the game on Big Backing For 'Universal Stylus' Campaign (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Google is not a player in this game, and be honest I really doubt they give a damn what gets developed as a "standard" Googles stance has EVERYTHING to do with attacking Apple and Microsoft. From reviews I have read both these companies have good pens/tech and they work very well. This is tech google does not have, so why not force these companies to either share or get labeled as "non-standard" even if that standard is inferior. this "standard" is by companies trying to stay relevant.

  15. I wonder what else the USA is going to "invent" by copying off other countries.

    True single payer health
    The metric system
    Gun Control

  16. Re:And in other news on Verizon Drops Plans To Sell Huawei Phones Due To US Government Pressure (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    "Well it's a good thing the USA isn't making crazy demands like that then, eh?"

    Pulled out of the TPPA, wants to renegotiate NAFTA, and now inching towards a trade war with China, etc etc etc.

    Do you want to check your definition of crazy ?

  17. Awww, look at the little idiot. Its quite cute the way they think everyone lives in the USA. Lots of people live in far better countries.

  18. Re:And in other news on Verizon Drops Plans To Sell Huawei Phones Due To US Government Pressure (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    And yet other countries have free trade deals with them.

    The USA is the 3rd largest trading partner after Australia and China. the new PPTA deal (without the USA) will open up other markets.
    New Zealand has a free trade agreement with China.

    If we had to stop trading with either China or the USA the USA would lose, and that is true for many countries.

  19. Nope, this is Trump doing as much damage as he can before he is impeached.

    After all the spying revelations about the US alphabet soup agencies , the 96% of the worlds population that does not live in the USA don't trust the US an more than they trust China.

    China is already the major trading nation for a large number of countries and it is busy strengthening those ties, where as the US is trying to cut them.

    Any trade war the US gets into will on hasten the decline of the USA and strengthen everyone else. Sure the world will suffer for a while, but thats the nice thing about capitalism, someone else will fill the gap.

  20. US companies are blocked from the Chinese market over spying fears. China applies pressure and US companies find they are blocked from the Asian market, 60% of the worlds population, and the only major market that has real growth potential.

  21. Re:Yeah right on Facebook Will Prioritize Local Stories In Your News Feed (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Facebook cleaner + ghostery + large hosts file makes facebook just bearable so I can keep in contact with various friends and family . Without then its went past unusable many years ago.

  22. Re:Yeah right on Facebook Will Prioritize Local Stories In Your News Feed (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Hence I said "they think they should now" rather than "They are"

  23. Yeah right on Facebook Will Prioritize Local Stories In Your News Feed (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Facebook showed me a "Top 5 places near you" which included a restaurant that closed a year ago.
    Facebook keeps showing me "groups" to join that I have zero interest in, and keeps showing the same ones again and again.
    Facebook keeps showing free flights scams
    Facebook keeps telling me I want to play certain games, or takes quizzes etc and I don't I won't and they can bugger off
    Facebook keeps telling me there are these women in Russia, Ukraine, etc who want to be my friend ..SCAM SCAM SCAM

    So given how completely incompetent Facebook show themselves to be, they think they should now be in between me and my trusted news sources.....
    Yeah, I would trust Kellyanne Conway to tell the truth first.

  24. Re:I only have one question on Dell is Considering a Sale To VMware in What May Be Tech's Biggest Deal Ever (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    NO VM would get bought by someone else.

    What they are doing is making private debt (Dell) into public debt (VM Shareholders) so that the wealthy people who are owed a lot of money by get get it back and the risk/failure is pushed onto small share holders who lack to voting power to stop it.

    At this point, one of the wealthy people who pulled out early will get to buy the only asset worth anything (VMWare) cheaply and make even more money.

    This is why the share market is like a casino. The Wealth (call them the house) always wins, and the huge pool of shareholders who can not get enough votes to stop the wealthy are the victims (gamblers). Its just another way of transferring wealth from the poor to the rich.

  25. Re:Is that price right? on Giant Tesla Battery In Australia Earns A Million Bucks In a Few Days (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    $14 is the wholesale price during peak demand. $28 is the retail price which is averaged over a year "peak" times are typically around Breakfast and Dinner times when people are cooking, however a gas/oil/coal generator may take an hour or two to power up and then takes time to run down, especially from a cold start. Managing large power networks is a complex task where projection of loads, where the loads will be, what peaks there will be etc etc need to be accounted for ahead of time.