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  1. Re:well, actually on US Airlines No Longer Operate the Boeing 747 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it wont work. It departs from international terminal and arrives at an international terminal. They can not comingle passengers needing immigration check with domestic passengers.

  2. Re:747 not the Only One on US Airlines No Longer Operate the Boeing 747 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
    Most people prefer aisle seat. But there is nothing wrong in preferring window seat.

    Given the data collection ability of airplanes, they may be able to charge you a premium for your window seat while at the same time charging me premium for my adjacent aisle seat.

    They know what each of us want and they will make us pay.

  3. They are disabling all speculative executions. All out of executions will be stopped. Thus, it would fix both Spectre and Meltdown, (I am not an expert, nor do I play one in slashdot). That is my understanding.

    It would slow down code, may be by as much as 30%.

  4. Re:It doesn't help on Opinion: Chrome is Turning Into the New Internet Explorer 6 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1
    Come on. Don't exaggerate.

    I have installed Firefox 57 and it has been working find since

    [NO CARRIER]

  5. But 8 $ is worth a lot there... on Personal Data of a Billion Indians Sold Online For $8, Report Claims (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Based on the purchase power parity calculation and using the McDonald Burger index, 8 USD works out to several billion Indian Rupees.

  6. Amazon cloud services, Google, Azure are players in the cloud where multiple users share the same unknown processor. Would they be affected? Would they have to stop provisioning virtual machines for different users on the same physical sever? Would it increase their costs and reduce profit margin? Or would it reduce their attractiveness and people would use less cloud services?

  7. It was a well known technique used for amusement in USA. Till someone in Karachi, Pakistan decided it would be nice to be a little malicious about it. That is how the C-Brain virus was born, back in 1984-85 time frame.

  8. My very simple rule has better batting average. Around 98%.

    That simple rule: "Mark all news stories as clickbait".

  9. No Shit! Sherlock! on Analysts Expect Tesla To Miss Its First 2018 Model 3 Production Target (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    May be the CEO saying "it is in production hell" clued them on to it? may be? Just saying ...

  10. Re:All their files? on Spotify Files To Go Public (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2
    Fruit flies like a banana.

    Time flies like an arrow.

  11. Killer feature needed on all browsers. on Windows 10's Edge vs Chrome: We're Faster and Win in Battery Face-off, Says Microsoft (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1
    The killer feature that made millions to swtich to Firefox from InternetExplorer was the pop-up blocker, and the pop-under blocker, I still can not all those X-10 video surveillance camera ads.

    Today what we need is a way to simply and cleanly stop all the auto play videos and all the auto play sounds. Google has no interest in developing the feature. NoScript, AdBlock, FlashBlock all have issues on chrome. Even when you set all the possible settings for autoplay video, it still happens.

    If MS wants to get its market share back, it should implement a cleanly pause all autoplay audio/video. People will come back for that feature.

  12. If Microsoft makes an announcement in the forest and there is no one heard it, did it make a sound?

    How sad! How the mighty have fallen!! There was a time Microsoft will make an announcement, hinting at the possibility of someday releasing a product to do X. And boom! venture capital will vanish for any company working on a product that does X. Even companies that have a viable product already in the market to do X, working hard to maintain the foothold and expand will sink. Sometimes Microsoft will deign to buy the dying company at fire sale prices, at other times, it simply would not even bother.

    Now it is pitching it hard. On a brand new Win10 machine the default opening home page will beg you not to install Chrome. The very first url people type in Edge is to find the Chrome browser or Firefox.

    Thousands of developers and companies begged and cried, trying to find anyone who would listen, but in vain. Now it is Microsoft's turn to beg and cry in vain.

    Karma is a bitch. Karma is sweet.

  13. Don't go mucking around with that thing. on The 'App' You Can't Trash: How SIP is Broken in Apple's High Sierra OS (eclecticlight.co) · · Score: 0

    NSA agents will come knocking, for revealing state secrets.

  14. While this funding may allow the publication to continue for a bit longer, I don't see how they're addressing the much more serious problem: many long-time and serious Linux users are abandoning Linux, while Linux is attracting very few new users.

    Reference/citation please.

    However: given your A/C status I suspect that you are a shill paid by Microsoft or similar.

    Just because he/she/it is AC it does not mean he/she/it is really anonymous. The style is unmistakable. The pronouncements are uncanny. Let us just thank Baghdad Bob, Minister of Information, Iraq for kindly visiting Slashdot.

  15. Re:The important question on $30 Unlocked Android Smartphones To Launch in India This Month (factordaily.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course you can have this. Get a phone from Google, not from other manufacturers who load the bloat. Install just one or two really important Apps, like WhatsApp and Duck-Duck-Go privacy enhanced browser, and nothing else. Turn off all the google assist and other random things pushed by Google. Your phone will be great and long battery life.

  16. Re:easy solution, run it to the airport on Hardly Anyone Wants to Ride the Las Vegas Monorail (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Taxi companies will make sure it never reaches the airport. Airport will not let it in, it wants the fees from taxi company.

  17. Interesting mode of communication. on WhatsApp Rings in the New Year with a Global Outage (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    .. "WhatsApp users around the world experienced a brief outage today that has now been resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience," a WhatsApp spokesperson told VentureBeat in an email.

    So... that's what email is good for. To let people know WhatsApp is down.

  18. These tech giants are the biggest employers there. Given the above average pay, their employees could form 80% or more of the people with significant disposable income. Given that, finding less than 100 from each of these companies is a big surprise.

    People who expect 50% of their employees to be women should expect 80% of the johns to be them. If not, these companies are doing a good job, actually. It smells of a shakedown operation by a law firm, fishing for a case.

  19. Beware of the Passive Voice on How Hotmail Changed Microsoft (and Email) Forever (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Mistakes were made. Many dollars were spent.

    The most powerful weapon in the hands of the spinmeister is the passive voice. You can make reasonable sounding statements, keep who did the mistakes and who spent the dollars out of focus, lull the listener into some kind of mental lethargy, ... and then bham! Whack them before they know what hit them.

  20. Re:Trickle down economics doesn't work on AT&T Sheds Thousands of Employees After Touting GOP Tax Plan, Giving Out Bonuses (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Whatever you are smoking, get more of it. It seems to be a doozy.

    If government takes the money it will spend it in America. Even if it is a waste, white elephant boondongle bridge to nowhere, it is money spent in America. Every dollar spent by X is a dollar earned by Y. This will stimulate the economy.

    Give a microscopic tax cut to the actual citizens and give billions to corporations (who are people), they will invest it in India, China, Taiwan and other places. We will be empowering economies to compete with us, while sapping the Americans of the energy to live and consume.

  21. Yes, pirates but not the Caribbean. on How Pirates Of The Caribbean Hijacked America's Metric System (npr.org) · · Score: 1
    Yes the pirates of the corporate offices were the main reason for not changing.

    The rolling mills produce the basic raw materials used in our manufacturing. There are two kinds, the long products (wires and rods) and the wide products (sheets and plates). All of them come in standard sizes, "gauges" or fractions of inch. 12 gauge is 1/12th of an inch, for example. All the nuts, bolts etc derived from the long products, were in SAE. It is a significant monumental change to change all the tooling of all the factories of America.

    Could we have done it? Sure we could have. But it would have cost us some serious money, and the corporate offices were not willing to pay for it, even if the engineers and scientists on the floor were ready for or even begging for it.

  22. No. It wont be. on How Pirates Of The Caribbean Hijacked America's Metric System (npr.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If the United States were more like the rest of the world, a McDonald's Quarter Pounder might be known as the McDonald's 113-Grammer, John Henry's 9-pound hammer would be 4.08 kilograms, and any 800-pound gorillas in the room would likely weigh 362 kilos.

    It would be a 100 gram patty, 5 kilo hammer, or half a ton gorilla. There is no need for precise conversion, and a good easy number is what marketing people and idiom pioneers would choose/use.

  23. I was able to chromecast amazon video... on Amazon's YouTube App on Fire TV Stops Working Ahead of Schedule (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1
    I bought the season of Air Disasters in Amazon. I was able to use chrome cast to go from my chorme browser in my chromebook to the living room TV.

    There were some minor issues, making me stop and restart the cast, but it worked. What does Google mean by support chromecast in amazon prime?

  24. The real money is in pop corn on MoviePass Adds a Million Subscribers, Even if Theaters Aren't Sold on It (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1
    In theatres they make more money in pop corn soda candy sales than ticket sales.

    I am sure lots of theaters will sign up for this plan.

  25. Almost all the internet connected devices in America are made in China, including most of the stuff used by FBI. Which gives more opportunities for mischief? A source code or unseeable embedded device controlling software?