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  1. FPGAs, and the tools to compile code for them, verify the code, and program the FPGAs, is very closed-source.

  2. Re: Year of the Chromebook. on Security Experts See Chromebooks as a Closed Ecosystem That Improves Security (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    So does Apple.

  3. Re:Year of the crapbook on Security Experts See Chromebooks as a Closed Ecosystem That Improves Security (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently the ASR-33 teletypes my school had when I was in high school were 'dumbing down the students' because they were going backwards. We could have had 300 baud glass crts, after all.

  4. Re:A shady no-name Russian app wants to track you, on AI Predicts Your Lifespan Using Activity Tracking Apps (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    It also has hooks to be plugged into your health insurance company.

    Who have now mandated that you wear these sensors....

  5. "whataboutism" is a dog whistle.

    It means somebody is secretly a smarmy fuck.

  6. Re:Teaching kids to be coders is a stupid fad on Apple Trains Chicago Teachers To Put Coding In More Classrooms (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Whoops. I stand corrected. The source code for Swift is here. Looks like it sits on top of Java.

  7. Re:Customers vs Product... on Tim Cook Says Apple's Customers Are Not Its Product, Unlike Facebook (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The 'product' is whatever a company or organization produces to distribute to the public.

  8. Re:Teaching kids to be coders is a stupid fad on Apple Trains Chicago Teachers To Put Coding In More Classrooms (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Where do I find the source tarball? I run NetBSD and swift clearly needs to be incorporated into pkgsrc.

    Or can you only get a binary blob? A development tool that is a binary blob? Get serious. Somebody should be working on making it so the swift compiler and the entire toolchain can be compiled using swift.

  9. Re: Not really Palm on Verizon Plans To Launch a Palm Smartphone Later This Year (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    Mine must have been a later version.

    The best PalmOS device I ever had was a Handspring Visor.

  10. Re:Whats up next, bringing back leaded gasoline? on EPA Prepares To Roll Back Rules Requiring Cars To Be Cleaner and More Efficient (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It was easy. They just needed to make certain both major candidates running were mental patients. Voila: 2016 election.

  11. Handguns are legal in the US. Presumably you live in the US and can go out, purchase a handgun, and contribute to zero population growth by killing yourself.

  12. Re: "handing a victory to car manufacturers " on EPA Prepares To Roll Back Rules Requiring Cars To Be Cleaner and More Efficient (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Consumers are stupid and have proven that they will

    You know what? Fuck YOU to people who label others as 'consumers.' Everybody consumes. There is no special class of stupid-cow-people who you can look down upon, because you are some fucking enlightened-type dude.

  13. What do you think will happen to all those farms if people in cities aren't buying their output?

    They can scale back production, lower costs, and have some nice forest areas in addition to the high quality subsistence crops.

  14. Re:In every gold rush... on Intel Files Patent For Energy-Efficient Bitcoin Mining Hardware (crn.com) · · Score: 1

    The 'California Gold Rush' occurred immediately after President Polk won the war against Mexico that caused them to cede the west coast to the United States.

    We needed Americans out there immediately, pronto. The gold rush was a way to transfer a lot of young ambitious people onto the new territory.

  15. Re:Not really Palm on Verizon Plans To Launch a Palm Smartphone Later This Year (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    I bought one of those, too. Non-removable battery. Nuh-uh. And they are fragile compared to the originals. I still have my Palm 3, working. The newer ones are all dead, unless very actively maintained.

  16. Not really Palm on Verizon Plans To Launch a Palm Smartphone Later This Year (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    They can toss around the Palm trademark if they think it gets them a marketing advantage, but it isn't a Palm if:

    1. It doesn't have a Dragonball (68xxx type) processor.
    2. Won't run for a week or so on two AAA batteries.
    3. Doesn't sync to a Windows PC with an application on the Windows PC where you can zip up the folder and transport the zipfile to any other Windows PC, unzip there and restore to any Palm device by syncing it to the Palm device.
    4, Doesn't have three or four tight apps that do the important PDA functions. Outline, Calendar, Phone Register.

    Palm jumped the shark long, long before they ceased to produce what they marketed as 'Palm devices.'

  17. Back in the late 80's, when it was already a rather obsolete system, I ran 3-Demon on an IBM-PC Junior.

    3-Demon is a wireframe 3-D version of Pacman. It runs pretty good on a PC-XT, but one of the amusing things about playing it on a PC Junior (which among other things lacks a DMA controller) is that the game severely slows down if you turn to face a particularly long corridor.

    3-Demon creates an infinite corridor in a fixed space. With 128K of RAM and no DMA controller (among other limitations).

  18. Re:Teaching kids to be coders is a stupid fad on Apple Trains Chicago Teachers To Put Coding In More Classrooms (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I've bought four or five laptops at WalMart. A desktop. Four or five tablets.

    My local Walmart is in a small midwestern town. I've been to a number of bigger-city WalMarts, but I didn't hang around the front door where the greeter works long enough to witness bag checking.

    It just isn't worth it to build a Hackintosh simply to run a Swift compiler on.

  19. Maybe if they don't like that, they should quit doing and saying deplorable shit.

    Too late for that. The DNC emails were leaked, word is out.

  20. Re:But he still has acess to pr0n, right? on Ecuador Cutting Off WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange's Communications Outside London Embassy (suntimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Pamela Anderson could probably arrange to smuggle in a Sears Catalog in her purse.

  21. Out to where? The border of Ecuador is quite a ways off.

  22. Re:Sometimes a paranoid kook is a paranoid kook. on Ecuador Cutting Off WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange's Communications Outside London Embassy (suntimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Assange helped elect Trump.
    The timing of the leaks makes that clear.

    Assange helped obliterate the Clinton dynasty. I don't have to like him or the other things he has done very much for that to be a big and good thing that he accomplished.

    Just like the fact that Trump helped obliterate the Bush dynasty. Again, Trump doesn't need to do that much more to earn my favor.

    And I am somebody who voted for Clinton twice and Bush twice. The swamp needs draining.

  23. I don't think that I know why they granted him citizenship. But I do know that you don't know either.

  24. If you look at what the situation in South Africa has deteriorated into recently, not being Mandela doesn't seem like such a bad deal.

  25. Re: But will they do it? on Nearly a Third of Tech Workers Are Ready To #DeleteFacebook (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I guess you're right. Sylpheed has a 'facebook' folder that all the facebook junk gets fed into. I just looked and yeah, there are 37 unread messages there.

    Keyword: unread.