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  1. Perhaps they won't care which specific 5G chips are in their phones, but they'll certainly care about the inevitable cost inflation that appears when there isn't sufficient competition among chip manufacturers.

  2. Re: Officially ends space station dependence on Ru on SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Rocket Launches First Paid Mission, Lands All Three Boosters For the First Time (cnn.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Either way Russia loses, and that's a great thing.

    It's so nice to have the bulk of the Western world on the same page wrt Russia. Before Trump most of you were Russian apologists going way back, siding with Russia over the US at every opportunity. The Russian invasion of Ukraine was only the latest example; every vaguely plausible rationalization was offered to justify what was obviously just more Russian aggression.

    But now you're so invested in `muh Russia' that Russia no longer gets the benefit of the doubt. It's hard to be a Russian apologist while simultaneously arguing the Russia is destroying democracy and causing your candidates lose their elections.

  3. Those darn Chicago Republicans on Chicago Is Tracking Kids Awaiting Trial With GPS Monitors That Can Call, Record Them Without Consent (theappeal.org) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    All these Orwellian police state tactics instituted by (R) dominated cities....

  4. Re:No, government is. on Are America's Big Telecom Companies Suppressing Fiber? (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    The universality of all of your postal system, electric system and phone system are the direct result of government policy, including both subsidies and mandates. There is no business model that results in a universal fiber network emerging from market forces. That is simply fantasy.

    Don't worry, however. The government will never actually do what is necessary, regardless of our multiple historical precedents. Beyond the urban poor the establishment is totally uninterested in subsidizing a solution because they've concluded that rural whites would be the main beneficiaries.

  5. Re:Everyone's a loser on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not how it works

    That is actually how it works. Neither Congress nor any judges are empowered to indict. The buck stops with Trumps new AG and the AG has already decided obstruction is off the table. There are no outstanding sealed indictments. It's over.

    Congress can try to impeach, although the question of "for what?" is now an issue...

    I encourage them to try. Give Trump another huge win.

  6. Re:Everyone's a loser on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, keep knocking back MSNBC kool-aid.

  7. Re:Everyone's a loser on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him

    Subsequently it also says the decision of whether to pursue obstruction is, therefore, left to the AG and the AG has declined.

    It's over. Accept it.

  8. who for some reason selectively gets all triggered by swastikas and people calling for genocide

    FTFY. PewDiePie's mistake was that he hadn't accrued sufficient progressive grievance monger credentials prior to exhibiting his supposed antisemitism. Competent antisemites have no difficulty once they've properly immunized themselves.

    Rowling doesn't play to the progressive crowd, she trolls homophobes by making hot gay sex canon in Harry Potter.

    It's transparent pandering and it deserves all the ridicule anyone cares to inflict. Besides, what's wrong with homophobia if indulging such sensitivities interfere with displacing deplorables?

  9. What the hell have you seen that would make him alt-right?

    It's objectively easy to find. In the first 60 seconds of the latest PewDiePie video; "Shane vs Cat," which appeared two hours ago there is a graphic of the "NPC Wojak" meme. There is simply no way a meme lord like PewDiePie doesn't know that symbol is hated by SJW groupthinkers. This appears in the context of a "meme review" where he riffs on J.K. Rowling and the history of her various sops to 'progressive inclusivity.'

    Personally I don't believe PewDiePie is particularly "Alt Right." He makes his living being somewhat edgy and irreverent and since the SJW/progressive worldview completely dominates every last square inch of everything, everywhere people like him aren't left with much to do unless they're saying things SJWs/progressives don't want to hear. Today that's all it takes to be branded "Alt Right."

    Maybe he is actually going that way. What are you supposed to do when you find yourself threatened with platforming as an antisemite by a prevailing mentality that can find no fault with Ilhan Omar or Al Sharpton?

  10. There is no 'misconception.' By 'closest' people have the orbits in mind, not the average vector distance. There is a clear rank of orbits from inner to outer and that's all that's meant be 'closest,' this stupid pedantry aside.

    One must instead average the distance between every point

    No one must not. One must stop publishing click-bait tripe like this.

  11. The totalitarian instinct; make them conform to my will! Even if it's a bad idea; make them conform anyway if only to assert power.

  12. Re:Help Me Understand? on Mozilla Announces Project Fission, a Project To Add True Multi-Process Support To Firefox (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't understand why processes are being used to provide security.

    Processes leverage MMU hardware to achieve memory isolation such that each process has a private address space that can't be violated by another process without either compromising the OS or overcoming the MMU (rowhammer/spectre/etc.) You will now argue that the processes in a multi-process browser already communicate, pretending that this communication is unfettered by any limits. It is not. The browser designers control this communication with the intention of defending against compromised processes by dropping unnecessary privileges and minimizing the IPC attack surface.

    why wouldn't they be able to exploit them to communicate with the other processes and cause just as many issues?

    Because the OS and the MMU are specifically designed to prevent unprivileged processes from communicating with other processes. You will now argue that OS's aren't perfect and chips have flaws and so such designs are pointless. You will do this despite the fact that your proposal relies on hypothetical bug free systems as well, as we see here:

    If there aren't any bugs in the code...

    You're free to fantasize about bug-free systems, but the purveyors of real software must contend with bugs. Bugs in extensions, third party dependencies, compilers and their runtimes, drivers and every other conceivable thing. Any exploited flaw delivers the entire address space of your thread pooled browser and everything it's doing with no further effort. Process isolation at least offers an impediment to further comprise beyond the exploited process.

    Google was right to design Chrome as they have, and Mozilla has been remiss in taking this long to copy it.

  13. Happy fun ball on Homebrew 2.0 is Here With Official Support For Linux and Windows (brew.sh) · · Score: 1

    Homebrew does not speak or respond to voice commands.
    Homebrew does not have configuration with selections in alpha-qanon distributions
    Homebrew does not have a cape or exhibit any special powers.
    Homebrew does not have any selection to induce Hypo-package virtualization symmetry.
    Homebrew does not require refrigeration.
    Homebrew does not taste particularly good and should not be eaten.
    Homebrew does not emit harmful rays or other quanta with this release and shielding is no longer necessary.
    Homebrew does not tolerate taunting or being dropped.

  14. Or progressive and uses female pronouns by default?

    Either way it's a pretty good troll.

  15. Nevertheless there are still people sticking to the carrion eater theory.

    It is crucially important not to encourage or inspire any degree of "hunter" mentality; it is akin to warlike behavior and inherently masculine. Through several generations of careful narrative shaping we have managed to successfully inculcate the benign scavenger view into the mind of the contemporary snowflake and research such as this is not welcome. So please continue adhering to the orthodox view of vegan primitives, supplementing their diets only irregularly with the barest minimum quantities of meat.

  16. Re:So much for "do no evil" on Google Urged the US To Limit Protection for Activist Workers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Well if you were going to rate evil

    Yeah sure. That's a useful exercise. When you finish ironing out your evil ranking system why not run around in a circle and make chicken noises for a while? Should make for a really productive Thursday!

    Google is a piratic valley cesspit just like all the other valley pirates, except that it has a greater cohort of apologists and naive pink hairs that are still knocking back Google's progressive flavored kool-aid.

  17. Re:The Law on Google Considering Pulling News Service From Europe (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    last and final

    That's pretty naive.

  18. 144 months left on Ancient Climate Change Triggered Warming That Lasted Thousands of Years (phys.org) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ocasio-Cortez just announced we have 12 years until the end of the world.

    millennials and people, in gen z, and all these folks that come after us are looking up and we’re like, the world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change

  19. Governments must have the means to combat asteroid growth.

  20. Re:Two questions. on CERN's New Collider Design Is Four Times Larger Than the LHC (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    the tunnel

    The US has helped dig enough trenches in Europe.

  21. Re: Two questions. on CERN's New Collider Design Is Four Times Larger Than the LHC (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    my new hobby

    There is no place for amateurs in medicine or genetics. Should you beat all the odds and actually come up with something significant you'll quickly learn just how unwelcome your contribution is and how many different tools the medical industry and the governments that fund it have to divest you of your work. If it is even remotely dangerous you'll die a pauper and/or in prison, vilified as a reckless fool.

    Enjoy.

  22. Re:Two questions. on CERN's New Collider Design Is Four Times Larger Than the LHC (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You're not

    I included the incriminating bit of language that discounts the motives of the US. You missed that, and you look like a fool because of it. That's your problem.

  23. Re: Two questions. on CERN's New Collider Design Is Four Times Larger Than the LHC (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Among other things, the US contributed those failing magnets, which caused lots of damage and delayed the start of the LHC significantly.

    Ah yes, the superconducting magnets. The very thing that does the actual accelerating in LHC. Having relied on the US to build — and then faithfully rework — said magnets, Europe has likely not developed a domestic source for such components. This means the most likely path forward is to again rely on the US for FCC magnets.

    Certainly CERN is free to forego further such incompetence on the part of the US, but I suspect this will not be a consideration as CERN lobbies the US for many more billions in contributions; cold hard cash, in-kind materiale, academic resources, etc. So don't be surprised if the FCC achieves most of its particle velocity with US made magnets as well.

  24. Re:Two questions. on CERN's New Collider Design Is Four Times Larger Than the LHC (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    you left this off

    It's literally copied verbatim in the quote I made; line number 3.

    US funding prerogatives are no better or worse than the equally self serving funding within CERN member states. I knew some nasty chumplet such as yourself would emerge, so I carefully included that bit. What I didn't anticipate was a blithering idiot that can't even read.

  25. Re:Two questions. on CERN's New Collider Design Is Four Times Larger Than the LHC (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    I'd assume that it will be paid mostly by CERN member states.

    Well don't do that. The precedent has been to rely on considerable funding and resources from the US:

    The US provided one-third of the cost of each detector, about $165 million to each. A lot of this was built in the US, funding US hi-tech jobs.

    The US also contributed $200 million to the accelerator.

    The US contributes about a third of the cost of running the detectors.

    Pretty good for a mere "observer" state. Doubtless the US will be invited to observe a few billion into Future Circular Collider as well.