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  1. This is incorrect. Junk cards will exhibit the behaviour you claim, but genuine full speed UHS-II cards can hit (near) their claimed read and write speeds.

    This F-Stoppers video shows some 1.5GB transfers with times on various cards and readers. 88MB/sec write on a 95MB/sec claimed write speed.

    https://youtu.be/ZlWhvc-UCOA?t=500

  2. Why not have a degradable scaffolding? on Why Your New Heart Could Be Made in Space One Day (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Make it degrade when exposed to a specific enzyme or catalyst after the structure is completed...

  3. Re:No. on Slashdot Asks: Should Android OEMs Adopt the iPhone's Notch? · · Score: 1

    Just remember the original developer previews for Mac OS X had the apple logo where the 'notch' would reside, so I wouldn't put it past Apple.

    https://guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/desktop/firstrun/macosxdp3.png

  4. More Apple screw-ups. on Apple's Redesigned Mac Pro is Coming in 2019 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Tom Boger, Apple’s senior director of Mac hardware product marketing, told TechCrunch. “In addition to transparency for pro customers on an individual basis, there’s also a larger fiscal reasoning behind it...We know that there’s a lot of customers today that are making purchase decisions on the iMac Pro and whether or not they should wait for the Mac Pro..."

    Sounds to me like they want to force people waiting on the sidelines to consider the shitty iMac Pro or the even shittier 2013 Trashcan.

  5. Why didn't they remove the term 'Youtube' on Google Removes 'Kodi' From Search Autocomplete In Anti-Piracy Effort (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 0

    Youtube was a huge source of lots of infringing content too, especially early on. Yet Google went and bought Youtube...

  6. They might ban iRan on Apple Bans Iran from the App Store (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    But they'll never ban iRack.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcjLEwZqcQI

  7. Re:appeal on Electronics-Recycling Innovator Faces Prison For Extending Computers' Lives · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why the hell does he have to remain jailed pending appeal? He is not a flight risk? The judge and the prosecutor are just being dicks in the interim.

    Tells you which side of the bread is being buttered here.

  8. Re:Shocking. on Female Uber Drivers Get Paid Less Than Men, Says Study (recode.net) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    There could be other conflating factors as well, given that women have been traditionally underpaid as well.

    1. Women could be expected to drop their shifts sooner than men to do other chores and family tasks. Men already make more than women for the same labour, so by the same token, women should be expected to do non-paying tasks more than men. This is a self-selecting and cultural bias.

    2. Women could already have fewer and less resources than men, so with less income and capital to start with, they may drop out sooner than men overall. By this I mean a woman's car may not be in a similar condition to a man's car, because she could not afford any better to begin with. Or the cost of fuel is more of a drag on her daily income than a man's, on average. They could control for this by seeing if income and age of the vehicle, and income of the driver are affecting the driver's Uber income, regardless of sex.

    3. Of course the big one that everyone is not wanting to refer to is biology. Women deliver the babies and men do not. Women are expected to be the primary care givers so they are *expected* to be the ones who get the kids etc. How are the women Uber drivers expected to pick up riders getting their children when the driver has to retrieve their own child at the same time? I would guess that countries with strong government mandates in health care and child care have a much narrower gap in pay.

  9. Re:Shocking. on Female Uber Drivers Get Paid Less Than Men, Says Study (recode.net) · · Score: 0

    Typical AC logic. So women are the only people who are allowed to be on Etsy and all CEOs of Fortune 500 companies should all be men?

    The gap is real, and not just between your ears.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2018/01/22/the-countries-with-the-best-and-worst-gender-pay-gap-expectations-and-how-the-u-s-stacks-up/#6c2d600a345c

  10. Re:Shocking. on Female Uber Drivers Get Paid Less Than Men, Says Study (recode.net) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So you've turned a 7% differential in one company to justify ignoring a 21% differential overall in the United States? Good on yah.

  11. Re:How about they work on their xenophobia?? on Japan Wants To Increase Acceptance of Technology That Could Help Fill the Gap in the Nursing Workforce (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/02/news/japanborn-koreans-live-in-limbo.html

    https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/07/national/media-national/japans-resident-koreans-endure-climate-hate/

  12. Re:Sure.... on Foreign Students Have Begun To Shun the United States (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Most international students pay full pop for tuition. Expensive as hell, always has been.

  13. A bank teller tried to screw me around with this before. I had a card that was old so my signature was faded. I needed to do a transaction on the business account and she refused my card saying it was not signed.

    I got in an heated discussion with her saying it is signed, you can see it, it's only faded. She said she could not see it and refused me service again. I got out of the line up and signed the card at the next teller station and got back in line.

    Got the same teller and she refused me *again*, I guess because she wanted to be right. At that point the manager came over and asked what was wrong. After looking at my signature and looking at the account, the manager got all ashen-faced because the business did millions with them each year, but I was only in a t-shirt and jeans and did not regularly come in. But I was one of the signing authorities for the account.

    They then let my transaction through. Wasted an hour of my day, over a lousy signature.

  14. In a world where everyone is connected, privacy becomes the valued commodity.

  15. Re:Except it was fake news from media companies... on Facebook Sold Ads To Russian-Linked Accounts During Election (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you go to a pizza parlour with a rifle as well?

    Anonymous account spewing nonsense without citations is just more fluffery.

  16. Re:My problem with AMD on AMD Looks To 'Crush' Intel's Xeon With New Epyc Server Chips (extremetech.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    AMD made some huge mistakes but Intel was blatantly anti-competitive/abusive against AMD and got fined in the US, Europe and had to settle with AMD for billions of dollars.

    https://www.extremetech.com/computing/184323-intel-stuck-with-1-45-billion-fine-in-europe-for-unfair-and-damaging-practices-against-amd

    AMD wasn't exactly partying like they ruled the world, the deck was stacked against them by Intel when AMD had a superior product.

  17. Re:Does Apple still have a QA department? on The Behind-the-Scenes Changes Found In MacOS High Sierra (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    HFS+ uses largely single-threaded data structures which require catalog file locks that that make it hard for multiple processes to access the same data at once.

    This is probably why you're seeing corruption, and why HFS+ pretty much sucks as a modern file system.

  18. But not faster. Kids' last minute homework projects etc. Last minute printouts of a map or location off the grid...

  19. Re: Thanks Obama on Intel To Invest $7 Billion in Factory in Arizona, Employ 3,000 People (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump DOES get credit for this, Intel lobbied hard to get Dodd-Frank repealed and Trump is going to do so. Intel gives credit to Trump for jobs while Intel gets to buy conflict minerals again.

    https://boingboing.net/2017/02/08/leak-trump-will-allow-us-comp.html

    +1 for big business. -1 for the good of humanity. Fits Trump's intentions perfectly.

  20. Re:The first for 60 minutes on Western Digital Unveils First-Ever 512Gb 64-Layer 3D NAND Chip (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Damn that Samsung copies everything so fast!

  21. Re:Ultimate hardware dongle for killing hacintosh on Apple Developing Custom ARM-Based Mac Chip That Would Lessen Intel Role (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    No, Apple has went back to calling the latest release MacOS Sierra. OS X "version name" is no more.

  22. Re:Sweet! on Inventors Revolutionize Beekeeping · · Score: 1

    I think you could, since harvesting/robbing is not invasive now, and a harvest yields kilograms of honey, you could probably go outside in your fluffy robe and turn the handle and dribble some honey on your toast, close the tube and wander back inside.

  23. Re:Center sharpness is not as important on Samsung's Advanced Chips Give Its Cameras a Big Boost · · Score: 1

    Looking pretty decent. Not crap on first look, but more investigation needed.

    http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2014/12/one-single-samsung-nx-1-test

  24. Re:Countdown timers are only for pedestrians? on Unintended Consequences For Traffic Safety Feature · · Score: 1

    This is because your country probably doesn't have *red light cameras*. The issue here isn't the countdown timer, it is the fact that no one wants to get a red light infraction fine.

    Thus the people braking are afraid of 'running the red' whilst the normal flow of traffic is disrupted. It is this attempt to change behaviour that is causing all the accidents. Longer yellow lights cure the anxiety of braking early to avoid the fine, yet municipalities have been evidenced to shorten the duration of yellow lights. Why? Because it generates more revenue for them and the camera operator company.

    Just follow the money and see where it goes. People are injured 'in the name of safety' when this is another side effect of the corrupt nanny state.

  25. Re:The government only does stupid things on The New York Times Pushes For Clemency For Snowden · · Score: 2

    Isn't that the whole point of having a democracy that is free and transparent? Doing illegal acts on a large scale and lying about it *needs* to be reported, especially when the bad actor is your own government. And if the government will not do anything about it internally, then it needs to be taken to the public.

    Otherwise governments have no disincentive to act against the individuals that the government is supposed to 'protecting'.

    Snowden did not reveal any operatives' names nor did he leak the data to the public wholesale, the data has gone to accredited journalists and the evidence has shown that the NSA has likely violated the law many times and tried to do end runs even against the limited court monitors that it did have.

    Don't cut off the hand that pointed out the gangrenous foot. The NSA has a big ethics problem, and it needs to be reformed. Hope and change and all that.