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  1. Re:Fuck Foxconn. on Foxconn is Confusing the Hell Out of Wisconsin (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They'd just land in the anti-suicide nets.

  2. Because it's the law? on Netflix CEO Reed Hastings To Depart Facebook Board of Directors (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Because they strive to comply with the law requiring at least one woman, while there is no law requiring at least one man.

  3. There is a huge new building in Utah, with its own 65 megawatt electrical grid, that is ALL hard drives. You'll not get a tour of that though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  4. Re:Good for them. on Internet Archive Recovers Half a Million 'Lost' MySpace Songs (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    I would say that easily 50% of the links I follow from forum posts, aging online articles and other sources these days are dead. The sites are 50% gone, and 50% restructured 2.0 versions that don't have the content or have rearranged the content management system without a thought to links. Also, manufacturers and companies just toss the info and downloads for their products as soon as it doesn't mean profit. Big ups for the Wayback Machine!

  5. Re:$5/mo to RENT a streaming box + remote on Comcast Unveils $5-a-Month Streaming Service Xfinity Flex (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They upped the rental of a $30 cable modem to $13 a month.

  6. Like solitaire on Windows 10 Calculator Will Soon Be Able To Graph Math Equations (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    And it can be ad-free for just $10 a year...

  7. Re:Say isn't this the same city with anti-vaxxers? on Portland City Council May Ask FCC To Investigate Health Risks of 5G Networks (inverse.com) · · Score: 2

    Your link is for the measles outbreak in SW Washington; there's been one case among Portlanders according to the article. You have to understand that on the south side of the Columbia river are mostly sane people, whereas you can literally cross a bridge and be in a culture of jacked-up 4x4s with Trump stickers and gun racks on the back.

  8. Re:Why would I buy this? on Volvo To Impose 112mph Speed Limit On All New Cars From 2020 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    112mph is 180kph. Also the speed rating on "S" tires. With a speed limit, you can outfit lower rated OEM tires and not be liable when someone kills themselves going faster.

  9. Re:I sympathize on Starbucks' Music Is Driving Employees Nuts (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    I stayed in Las Vegas in Wynn, and across the street there's a marketplace with a huge outdoor screen with music. They had this 30 second iPod commercial with insidious music going on repeat 24 hours a day and all night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  10. Big hash power can be directed at small coins on Once Hailed As Unhackable, Blockchains Are Now Getting Hacked (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem here is the diversity of "me too" get rich quick coins which have much less proof-of-work power protecting their block chain. If I've got generic compute power that is 5% of Bitcoin's hash rate, I can point it at any of these other scamcoins and be 95%. There can be only one secure cryptocurrency, unless the other late-comers uses a vastly different and completely computationally incompatible proof-of-work scheme.

  11. Re:No we did not make websites like that in the 19 on '90s-Style 'Captain Marvel' Website Will Have You Nostalgic for Dial-Up (movieweb.com) · · Score: 2

    Key obsolete features were abused early on, defining the 90's web. A web page divided into frames. Server-side image maps. CGI-BIN. Tables with the 3D borders. The ubiquitous single banner at the top of the page.

    The biggest differentiator when you go back to handwritten HTML pages from before the dotcom bubble popped - ones you would have seen using Mosaic on Windows 3.11 even - they were formatted for 640x480 screens and are relatively tiny today.

    https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/...

  12. This also reveals the resume-boosting fraud of being published in journals. Correlate the amount of faculty that gets published to the number of library subscriptions paid out for subscriptions and services that are inaccessible to the general public. Plus, actually using your legitimate access to download journal articles can lead to your death in prison.

  13. The fraud is scholarly research publications who claim to vet the articles they publish as part of the service they offer. It is revealed they do the most profitable and least laborious job possible.

  14. Re:I don't see any reason!... on Google's New SMS and Call Permission Policy is Crippling Apps Used by Millions (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope, only the NSA Kernel SMS backdoor remains

  15. And the scumbag middlemen reselling scumbag provider's customer's info are also liars. "âoeillegal access to data is an unfortunate occurrence across virtually every industry that deals in consumer or employee data, and it is impossible to detect a fraudster, or rogue customer" - it is not illegal, it at most breaks some backroom handshake deal between mobile providers and the tiers of companies that resell data. If you've got some investigative business which are already operate on the fringe of legality (like car thief tow trucks), even if directly adversarial to the customer's interests, you can buy surreptitious continuous location tracking. When questioned in Congress, T-Mobile clearly lied when they said they would no longer share customer data with these resellers.

  16. Re:Incremental updates are a lost art at Microsoft on Windows 10 Will Reserve 7GB of Your Computer's Storage in its Next Major Release So That Big Updates Don't Fail (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Which is how Windows 10 "updates" work, your entire OS is nuked and a new installation is installed, with fresh "app store" hardware drivers and game cruft, and barely the settings that the upgrader understands restored.

  17. Re:This is Pseudoscience BS on Possible Superconductivity In the Brain? (springer.com) · · Score: 1

    We seem to equate our understanding of the brain to the machines that are commonplace in the time. No, it's not like a steam engine or water mill any more than it is like a computer or superconductor.

  18. Re:Transistors and AI on Will the End of Moore's Law Halt AI Progress? (mindmatters.ai) · · Score: 2

    The heart has its own pacemaker, it keeps itself beating. The sinoatrial node is in the heart and creates voltages that cause the heart muscles to contract, while reacting to chemical signals such as adrenaline and blood gas levels. The spinal column emits neurotransmitters which only modify the heart's activity level. Many other organs also have the intelligence of their functioning built-in.

  19. Re:I hope CDs stick around on Album Sales Are Dying as Fast as Streaming Services Are Rising (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    That is exactly taking advantage of the dynamic range of CD. Unlike an LP or cassette, there is no technical reason why it has to be maxxed out in volume. In fact, a recording with individual samples that do not exceed -3dB level can go over 0dB analog after oversampling and alias filtering, so it is much better than today's digitally mashed to the maximum volume CDs.

  20. Re:Odd Choice of Target on Breakthrough Ultrasound Treatment To Reverse Dementia Moves To Human Trials · · Score: 1

    Your reading is ill-informed. A "Mouse Model" is a fancy name for a laboratory animal. It is a model because a mouse is also a mammal with a brain, a pancreas, 10 toes..., but there are still dissimilarities in morphology and chemical pathways that may produce results that do not translate to humans.

    Mice are a better "model" of human metabolism and chemical pathways that a flatworm or fruit fly would be. The same large-scale laboratory experiments done on even better "models", such large primates, may be viewed as inhumane.

  21. Re:Par for the course for Logitech... on Logitech Disables Local Access On Harmony Hubs, Breaks Automation Systems (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Like my Logitech Cyberman II 3D controller - bought in 1999, no drivers for any OS after Windows 98.

  22. I think the argument can be made very clear - if a "pixel", which is defined as a "picture element", in your display's resolution specification, can't display the full color gamut, and the pixel unit alone can't be addressed by software independently to display any color from the advertised 16.7 billion colors, with a direct hardware correlation, than it is a lie.

    In a normal display, with RGB-complete pixels that can be independently addressed, the color values of pixels in my PNG or UI command the correct amount of light to be emitted from a corresponding display pixel.

    If you have a RG-BG subpixel display, where RG is a "pixel" and BG is a "pixel", one of your fake pixels is only capable of displaying the colors red and green (and the yellows that can be made from mixing those two); likewise a BG "pixel" can only make blue, green (or shades of cyan between). It would take four subpixels to represent the same sharpness and direct correspondence with the input, making the display specification even more of a mistruth.

    While the eye may not be able to even see pixels at the tiny DPI, and many sources such as 4:2:2 JPG or MPG also have diminished chroma sharpness, it is very clear that this is false advertising. They might as well call every subpixel a pixel if there is no reasonable limit on the definition.

  23. Re:will uber blacklist drivers who sell them? forc on Air Quality in San Francisco is So Bad that Uber Drivers Are Selling Masks Out of Their Cars (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    It's one guy. One stupid picture of one guy offering a Home Depot mask for $5 taped to his seat gone viral, and the echo chamber of lazy news goes crazy.

  24. Re:A Close Encounter... on Ask Slashdot: What Happened To the Prank Apps That Used To Be Popular? · · Score: 1

    You don't have to be so clever. Until XP SP2 actually put a firewall on windows PCs, the C$ hidden admin share was usually wide open with an admin or easily guessable password. Drop a couple embarrasing wav files in the startup folder and send the PC a ping of death to reboot it.

  25. Re:Rent Seeking on Apple Used To Be an Inventor. Now It's Mainly a Landlord. (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Pokemon Go has made $2 billion. Apple takes $600 million of that, not for any innovation other than having a device that is locked down so users can't install their own software without the app creator paying the troll toll.

    Rent seeking is what it's always been about.