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  1. Re: uh, what? on Netflix Blocks Many IPv6 Users Over Geolocation Difficulty · · Score: 1

    You know how trivial it is to spoof the GPS on your cell phone? PCs would be even easier.

  2. Re:This is why we need Windows Phone! on Julian Assange: Google is 'Directly Engaged' In Hillary Clinton's Campaign (infowars.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Microsoft was selling secrets to the NSA before Google was even founded. Where do you think the NSA got the idea to start Google anyway?

  3. Re:That's just too damn bad. on Weary Homeowners Wage War On Waze · · Score: 1

    Autonomous cars could potentially navigate with waze. A driver can be a jerk. Can a car be a jerk? I guarantee an uproar when cars are driving themselves through neighborhoods.

  4. Re:That's just too damn bad. on Weary Homeowners Wage War On Waze · · Score: 1

    It's not illegal everywhere. Hands free is typically ok.

  5. Re:That's just too damn bad. on Weary Homeowners Wage War On Waze · · Score: 2

    If someone uses your road continuously for several years they have very good grounds for an easement. You should protect yourself by posting signs stating permission to pass is revocable.

  6. Tesla doesn't have the same engineering model. Most car manufacturers have internal cultures that prize these simple lightweight solutions because they need to design for incredibly low margins. They hire tons of EEs to write software who've never been formally trained in network security. They implement custom unproven protocols for EVERYTHING. Basically everything we've done to make the internet work they ignore and think they know better.

  7. Re:Finally on Seattle App Summons Help When You Need CPR (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's see...what else is useful? GPS navigation, email, mobile payment, slack and let's not forget the most useful one of all: the /. app that /. was too cheap to write.

  8. Re: Luddites? on Universal Basic Income Programs Arrive (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If jobs are about fulfilling a purpose in life then creating jobs is about making people feel productive. It doesn't matter that they actually are productive.

    Somehow I feel like education is the better alternative than fake jobs. Clearly it can make people feel productive. if everyone is educating themselves clearly the competitiveness of our educational system has to change and appeal to a nation with huge educational gaps.

    I was just watching the other day that video of a girl being ask "if you're going 80 miles per hour, how long does it take to go 80 miles?" and I don't think her response was as atypical as you might think. There should be a school for everyone and an incentive for those falling through the cracks well into adulthood to use them. I know similar systems have been tried, but never with the overabundance of production that extreme automation provides.

  9. Re:32-bit visual studio on Microsoft Declines To Make a 64-Bit Visual Studio (uservoice.com) · · Score: 1

    You know what's insane? Loading 70-80 projects in a single visual studio solution because Microsoft thinks all development needs to be monolithic. I mean sure I've had rather complicated type systems chew up memory like there is no tomorrow. Yes compilation takes memory, but the build system shouldn't.

  10. Re:Alas, another solid reason to build an 18-in fa on Flat Lens Promises Possible Revolution In Optics (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The diameter of the lens allows you to collect more light, so how does a tiny glitter sized lens collect enough light to be usable? I'm a little bit naive when it comes to the physics, but it seems to me that considering there's less light on the focal plane those sensors will have issues with noise.Isn't that why professional lenses haven't really changed in size decades?

  11. Re:fucking flash player on Flat Lens Promises Possible Revolution In Optics (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So why are they maintain that useless flash? Maybe someone over at the bbc is still using ie6.

  12. Re:I have no idea what this is. on CoreOS Launches Torus, a New Open Source Distributed Storage System (infoworld.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    My understanding is it's basically an open source way of creating something like a file system without any bottlenecks, so thousands of containers can use it all at the same time.

  13. Yeah, we know.

  14. Re:So that's how they're doing it on Report: Average American Will Use 22GB of Mobile Data Per Month In 2021 (mashable.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Buy a nexus. It's not their fault you don't buy their phones.

  15. Re: Extrapolating on Report: Average American Will Use 22GB of Mobile Data Per Month In 2021 (mashable.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Really 50GB? Hello 2005, welcome to 2016. Yep we have a black president.

  16. Re:It costs millions now... on We Need To Build Industrial Zones In Space In Order To Save Earth, Says Jeff Bezos (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Two words: Space elevator. By the time any of this is feasible our understanding of physics and engineering must improve.

  17. Re:Unlimited Population Growth on We Need To Build Industrial Zones In Space In Order To Save Earth, Says Jeff Bezos (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Actually population growth freezes itself when you educate people. Look at Japan. Low immigration and low birthrate has lead to population decline.

  18. Re: All money is poker chips on Miami Money-Laundering Case May Define Whether Bitcoin Is Really Money (ibtimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Your landlord could easily exchange gold for rent. At some point your landlord needs to pay taxes. It's really more about taxes. We all pay them. We all benefit in some way from taxes. The government uses dollars to cover it's debts. Think of a dollar like an IOU. The government collects these IOUs in taxes everytime you have economic activity and in turn the government provides an environment for you to carry out economic activity. They have to issue IOUs to provide services that create an fair environment to conduct business. For example judges, police and prison keep you from robbing a bank. Fiat currencies value is derived from the amount of trust everyone has in the system. It's a bit more complicated than how I "feel" about a currency since trust is a little bit more objective than feelings are despite feelings playing a huge roll in the value of a currency. If you do the numbers you can figure out if a currency is undervalued or overvalued.

  19. Re: All money is poker chips on Miami Money-Laundering Case May Define Whether Bitcoin Is Really Money (ibtimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Poker chips are backed by the USD. You can trade them back regardless of the current value of the USD for the value of the chip. Fiat currencies aren't backed by anything. Their value can change when the government wants to. Casinos need to have cash reserves to cover their chips on the floor.

    Similarly a gold based currency would need to back each dollar with gold in a reserve.

    The problem with a poker chip is it's backed by a fiat currency instead of a commodity like gold and money derives value from the amount of trust you have in it and it's convenience in exchanging it for goods and services.

  20. Re:Bitcoin doesn't make sense as currency on Miami Money-Laundering Case May Define Whether Bitcoin Is Really Money (ibtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    What gives a crypto currency value is trust. People pay for this trust through bitcoin mining and transaction fees. The more miners the more trust you have because it takes more to manipulate the currency.

  21. Re:All money is poker chips on Miami Money-Laundering Case May Define Whether Bitcoin Is Really Money (ibtimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Poker chips are money. You trade poker chips for goods and services in an isolated market (the casino). Its not a fiat currency because it's backed by the USD which is a fiat currency. You are depending on the trust in the casino to preserve the value of the currency. It's money alright whether or not the government treats it the same as the USD or other foreign currencies is a different issue.

  22. Re: Mobile chips are the future of VR.. on ARM's New CPU and GPU Will Power Mobile VR In 2017 (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    I think you don't understand an SoC.

    The mobile GPU has an added advantage over a desktop PC. More bandwidth between host memory and device memory. The GPU is basically connected to system memory controller. With desktop GPUs it will always take time to DMA all your data over a PCI express bus. That's great for precaching all your rendering data on the GPU, but it kinda limits how you can design your VR application. It will definitely evolve into Augmented Reality. You'll need a lot of memory bandwidth to combine to real world with the virtual world.

  23. Re: yawn again on How The IoT Will Change The Chip (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I've met plenty of embedded engineers that "discover" concepts that are considered common knowledge to all the agile developers that I know. There's an incredible amount of cross pollination going on. Embedded engineers now need to learn what a REST interface is and software engineers need to learn what debuncing a GPIO means and what an H-bridge does. It's more fun to look at this story from multiple perspectives.

  24. Re:I only trust artificial stupidity on Study Indicates Americans Don't Trust AI (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    You're missing the point. Trust is earned. I don't care if machines figure out natural language. I don't even trust some of the most advanced human intelligence because all humans make mistakes. It's simply too risky to trust someone who's mistakes can cost you big. Intelligence isn't enough. AI really hasn't advanced to the point where it can mitigate risk on its own. We have to think about the risks and explicitly train it properly. One could argue that truely trusting an AI requires some form of sentience on the AI part to know what is right and wrong.

    I love AI when it has very little potential to kill me or ruin my life.

  25. I assumed this was already a default on Systemd Starts Killing Your Background Processes By Default (blog.fefe.de) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    A multi-user system shouldn't allow unpriviledged users from consuming resources indefinitely. It's too easy to starve a system or resources. I think that's one of the reasons behind the isolation dockers provides in the first place. Shut down the container and everything gets cleaned up.