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  1. Re:How is this different from arbitrage on the NYS on Congress Passes BOTS Act To Ban Ticket-Buying Software (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    they buy when no one else is willing to, then later sell when no one else is willing to

    Yeah, right. With a few hundred milliseconds of time between the buy and the sell.

    How generous of them to make the sacrifice of taking that risk, to the benefit of us all. /s

  2. Re:How is this different from arbitrage on the NYS on Congress Passes BOTS Act To Ban Ticket-Buying Software (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    He has different cronies than the harridan. His aren't necessarily Wall Street Speculators.

    Not all rich people are alike.

    Trump isn't 'essentially good' or anything ridiculous like that, but his entire wealth hasn't come from political maneuvering and cronyism like his election opponent's wealth. He plays a different game.

    We shouldn't kid ourselves that it is in all ways 'better' but it's definitely not the exact plan of the Wall Street speculators. The harridan's plans were.

  3. Re:How is this different from arbitrage on the NYS on Congress Passes BOTS Act To Ban Ticket-Buying Software (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It depends a great deal on the impedance of the current pathway. 12 volts into a short blood path might draw enough current to matter. Through a skin barrier, 12 volts is below the threshold. But into a catheter relatively low voltages can have a significant effect. Fibrillation 'doses' of current are in the microamperes.

  4. Re:It will work, but not how you think on Nintendo Offers Up To $20,000 To Hack the 3DS (silicon.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    People doing it for the challenge probably will continue to do it, then. I can sympathize with them. Many times defeating the copy protection on an 'entertainment' device or game is more fun for nerds than playing the actual game.

    So it's not a lose-lose for the hacker having their fun finding and refining the exploits.

  5. Re:Don't help them until they support homebrew on Nintendo Offers Up To $20,000 To Hack the 3DS (silicon.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Unless you add a bluetooth controller, there is no comparison between smartphone games and actual handheld games like the 3DS. Kneading your fingers against flat glass will never be a replacement for a handheld with real buttons.

    The fragmentation of the bluetooth controller market, along with the iOS/Android separation, keeps mobile gaming fragmented and weak.

    Just mho, of course.

  6. Re:Do they really have a piracy problem? on Nintendo Offers Up To $20,000 To Hack the 3DS (silicon.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Considering you can download an entire collection of every Nintendo DS game ever produced and run any of them off of flash in an R4 cartridge, they probably want to prevent that from coming to be for the 3DS.

    There is nearly zero incentive, except for collecting purposes, to search out old DS cartridges to play. An R4 cartridge costs less than a vintage DS Pokemon cart and can hold the entire Pokemon DS collection.

  7. If Fuckface von Clownstick manages to inadvertently goad China into invading Taiwan

    He didn't and he's out of office in less than two months now.

  8. On the subject of gold, it always strikes me that the people running expensive advertising campaigns to convince us that "it is time to buy gold" are making THEIR money in that time period by selling gold.

  9. What will all those liberal arts majors do to find employment when there is no Federal Money to pay them to 'care' for the poor and needy??

  10. FitBit products die wether you charge them or not.

    They produce very poor quality devices.

    I bought my Pebble Steel after my FitBit died. Now the bastards have chased after me to fuck me over some more. It was only $99 so I am not out that much. They had better not pull the app from the Play Store, but I suspect they will as soon as they can.

    FitBit is the new Sony in my world. Or the new Iomega.

  11. One less gadget to make you angry that it exists.

    You should see somebody about that problem.

  12. What FitBit bought was a collection of enemies. If I see a FitBit product that has fallen on the floor at a store, I will step on it in a fashion to damage it, if possible. Oops, sorry.

    Not that you have to actively do anything to damage FitBit products. They have an abysmal quality record and die on customers all the time.

    They're kind of the Iomega of wearables.

  13. A dog without a laptop is you in the shower.

    Or is your laptop waterproof?

  14. Re:Incendiary Deep Learning on Apple To Start Publishing AI Research To Hasten Deep Learning (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    You can't leave threads alone that don't have politics in them, eh?

  15. "additional diagnostic capability" on Apple Says Air Exposure Is Causing iPhone 6s Battery Problems (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Surveillance? Now, when Microsoft does stuff like that, the shrieking commences.

  16. Re:Blue Voice of Death? on Windows 10 'Home Hub' Is Microsoft's Response To Amazon Echo and Google Home (mashable.com) · · Score: 0

    How about a mic that isn't open. I.e. you have installed a physical switch on it.

    Is that still possible?

  17. Re:Init alternatives on Devuan's Systemd-Free Linux Hits Beta 2 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    That's updated concrete chemistry. Not really updated cinder blocks.

    The xterm code that ran on a SparcStation 1 is essentially the same code as the xterm I can run on a modern 64 bit Intel box. The 'cement' is updated but the design of the 'binary' remains nearly the same.

    My 'ignorance of technological progress'?

    The Windows NT registry repurposed as a binary registry to blight Linux is 'technological progress?? I think this whole discussion topic would only have two or three comments on it if that were true.

  18. Re: When will people wake up to the truth? on Devuan's Systemd-Free Linux Hits Beta 2 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I ran Slackware for years, and tried Red Hat at 4.3. It was fairly good. Then they released 5.0. I started using NetBSD shortly thereafter and really haven't looked back. Slackware is a good way to learn enough unix to bootstrap up into a BSD.

    I don't hate Red Hat, nor do I hate Microsoft. They are both companies, with a product or two they sell.

    I first ran Linux on a computer in my apartment in 1994. A '486 with a 300MB ESDI drive.

  19. Re:These wackos are cows with guns on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    He was a nutcase, just like in this instance.

    Apply Occam's Razor.

    One nutcase, wound up by online trolls.

  20. That reminds me of the graybeards who would hang out in the back rows of the auditorium at LUG meetings in the mid 90's.

  21. Re:"self investigate" == alt.right on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's agreed this was one nutcase, then.

    No story beyond that. Except fake news stories claiming the one nutcase with a gun is anything more than that.

    When you use the word 'Jethro' that's your dogwhistle of anti-white-trash racism, correct??

  22. Re:"self investigate" == mental illness on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    No.

    Occam's Razor.

    It's an individual nut with a gun.

  23. Re:Use their stupidity against them on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The only people I know of who spell America with a 'k' are left wing fanatics who've believed too much fake news.

  24. Re: Fake News? on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So angry, they are.

    He's all of our President in late January.

    Elections have consequences. I remember a community organizer saying that.

  25. So you're one of those people who is gullible and believes Jon Stewart's fake news?

    Don't be so hostile about it.