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  1. Re:Hasn't the country had enough of this shit? on FCC Emails Show Agency Spread Lies To Bolster Dubious DDoS Attack Claims: Gizmodo (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't get news on your planet, eh?

  2. Re:Hasn't the country had enough of this shit? on FCC Emails Show Agency Spread Lies To Bolster Dubious DDoS Attack Claims: Gizmodo (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    So far all the military leaders are still real military leaders, following real military law that requires they serve the United States.

    And I hate to say it, but so far Justice Gorsuch has not been the right wing nutcase the Republicans wanted, but rather a principled Textualist who rules without regard to politics.

    And he did appoint a few mainstream Republicans who are more honest, but they all quit already. Who would work for him who is honest and competent?

  3. Re:What a difference an agency head makes. on FCC Emails Show Agency Spread Lies To Bolster Dubious DDoS Attack Claims: Gizmodo (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe politicians aren't all the same after all, maybe it does matter which side they chose.

  4. Re:More incompetence than conspiracy on FCC Emails Show Agency Spread Lies To Bolster Dubious DDoS Attack Claims: Gizmodo (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    The Constitution limits treason to acts of war and assisting foreign enemies, so I'd just make it a capital offense as a type of terrorism.

    I propose firing squad by robots. It is the most humane way.

  5. Re:We don't care on Microsoft Sticks With Controversial 'GVFS' Name Despite Backlash (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    They might not care, but time will tell if they "had to" or not.

    At a minimum this makes it controversial to even talk about their technology using their own words for it, that certainly harms their marketing regardless of if they're successful with it in the end.

  6. Re:They killed it off after 2013. on Google Quits Selling Tablets (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I bought a 2013 tablet in 2015, it was still a good buy two years later with only a small price cut.

    Google just doesn't value all money the same. They view money earned from advertising as real money, and money earned from selling real products and services is some sort of taboo blood money or something. If it was unpopular they'd be more likely to keep selling it.

  7. Re:What does this mean? on Microsoft Is Talking About Acquiring GitHub, Says Report (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    At the very least I think it is safe to say this would be good news for gitlab!

  8. Re:What?! on YouTube's Top Creators Are Burning Out and Breaking Down En Masse (polygon.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wouldn't want their gig, but also, I don't want to hear them whine about it. They're free to do it. But it isn't content I want. I wouldn't expect any of the interesting channels to be thinking of it as a "career," but as a way to publish something interesting. If they're not also selling books or products or something else, then they're just volunteer teachers, and they should keep doing it as long as they are happy doing it, and then stop doing it when it starts feeling like a burden. If it pays then obviously it makes sense they would do it more than if it didn't pay.

  9. Re:Full Tard on Intel Wants PCs To Be More Than Just 'Personal Computers' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    If instead of buying tools you agree to rent access to tools-as-a-service then they could.

  10. Re:Hell no on Intel Wants PCs To Be More Than Just 'Personal Computers' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Branch prediction is for gamers, some people have work to do!

  11. Re:Marketing just figured out how to say... on Intel Wants PCs To Be More Than Just 'Personal Computers' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Right, they're saying, in the old days the software was locked to what type of CPU and related technologies you had, that was your "platform." Then things shifted so that platform meant middleware. Then they got rid of most of the middleware and pushed things into portable client-side javascript.

    And so now Intel wants to shift the concept of "platform" back to the PC, and the only new thing they could find that would make it seem reasonable is AI that would need special local hardware resources to lock you in. Which would be a great idea, if the people making use of AI in the market generally were the same people that buy the PCs. Except, end users buy PCs, and companies collecting, collating and selling data about the user want to have AI.

    The only way to close that loop is to sell the PCs below cost as a loss-leader. It worked for X-Box but not cuecat.

  12. Re:They are on Intel Wants PCs To Be More Than Just 'Personal Computers' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    My wife wanted a separate tablet to run unsafe apps on, and the one we bought was only 5% more than the cheapest one. I was surprised when it arrived and had an "intel inside" sticker. I'd have gone with the cheaper one if I had realized, but too late now!

    It's a total dog, I'm so glad it wasn't a primary-device purchase!

  13. Re:Atmosphere? on NASA Spacecraft Finds Methane Ice Dunes On Pluto (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Dwarf humans are still humans, your post seems to indicate that you don't consider a dwarf to be real unless it pretends not to be a dwarf.

    You're surely the -ist here.

    Dwarf humans are humans, miniature poodles are dogs, and if you can't figure out that a dwarf planet is still a planet you should just stop body-shaming it and go die in a planetarium fire!

  14. Re:Atmosphere? on NASA Spacecraft Finds Methane Ice Dunes On Pluto (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You probably just don't know your anonymous edits are being reverted.

    Also, stop using numbers. You made those ones up, and that isn't how statistics works.

  15. Re:Atmosphere? on NASA Spacecraft Finds Methane Ice Dunes On Pluto (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Every methane rock in the asteroid belt has some diffuse gas floating around it. The nature of gravity is such that it works that way at low (from a human perspective) mass levels. Any gaseous rock will produce local warming. It doesn't mean they have an atmosphere.

  16. Atmosphere? on NASA Spacecraft Finds Methane Ice Dunes On Pluto (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Or at least, lofted into nearby space before falling to the surface.

  17. Re:Thank you Captain Obvious on Alibaba Co-founder Says Many Americans 'Want To Stop China' From Upgrading Its Tech (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Look at WWII to see how fast manufacturing can be ramped up when there are local buyers.

    It wouldn't be that fast in every industry, but certainly some industries could ramp up that fast! Anything important.

    "Oh no, we don't have enough time to save ourselves," that's a very European attitude, Americans don't even consider it.

    Faster or slower, it doesn't matter if the giant was awake or napping, he's not so easy to kill. ;) Americans know this.

  18. Re:Contentiousness on Alibaba Co-founder Says Many Americans 'Want To Stop China' From Upgrading Its Tech (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Slashdot is infected with Europeans who aren't fluent in any form of English, but have the false belief that if they simply ignore all the syntax and grammar, and use their own language's grammar, then it counts as a mythical language called Continental English. Which is fine, as long as the other person you're speaking to also doesn't speak any English.

  19. notably in the Democratic Party, by way of influencing voters

    LOL, I know, I know, in your Party they prefer to elect politicians without having had to influence any voters!

    z0mg the stupidity of your propaganda is truly astounding, Comrade.

  20. Re: Maturity curve [Re:or...] on Alibaba Co-founder Says Many Americans 'Want To Stop China' From Upgrading Its Tech (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It sounds good, except that it makes clear you have no idea what the physical mechanisms of the "stealing" are.

    They're not as you describe. At all. Get some internet and look it up, Cluestick.

  21. Re:Maturity curve [Re:or...] on Alibaba Co-founder Says Many Americans 'Want To Stop China' From Upgrading Its Tech (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If you can slip someone into the company, sneak up to the golden goose, and get out, that's a corporate success story.

    In the US, any company you try to sell that info to turns you in to the police and you go to prison. If you used it at a company you worked for, you got fired and if anybody found out and the company got sued, they turned the evidence over to the police too.

    You don't even read the business section of the newspaper, do you?

  22. Re:Well, we sure as hell can't innovate ourselves! on Alibaba Co-founder Says Many Americans 'Want To Stop China' From Upgrading Its Tech (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Electric vehicles don't even have an engine!

    The reason that Tesla uses two motors is that axles increase efficiency and performance/weight. There is a huge advantage to having two motors so that you can give different amounts of power to the front and back depending on speed and conditions, but there is very little advantages from having a motor at each wheel. You lose more than you gain for a regular automobile.

    Now, for miniature vehicles like golf carts, town cars, parking enforcement, etc., then you want 4 motors because you have better low-speed maneuverability and you might not mind the lack of quality steering linkage and anti-roll features.

    And probably most drivers don't want "state of the art" ABS, they want "proven-technology" ABS.

  23. Re:False dichotomy -- Math helps Mad Men on How the Math Men Overthrew the Mad Men (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Derp, derp derp derp derp libraaal

    Shut up and get back in the pile. Remember, they tuk yer jerbs!

  24. Re:And we all wonder how Trump got elected. on When Did TV Watching Peak? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    You seem really challenged to understand this word, "representative."

    My advice is to use a dictionary; a useful tool for a whole life, not just some large tome that a teacher once pointed at.

  25. Re:In mother Russia.... on Kaspersky Suits Tossed, Fed Bans Will Continue (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, government petitions YOU!