Comment Otherworld 80's TV series (Score 1) 35
The Otherworld TV series predicted the presence of a Church of Artificial Intelligence. Not a new concept after all.
Comment Just a political move (Score 1) 276
The left in Spain knows that they will lose in the next election polls, so they try a last resort move.
The left tried it in Italy, with "only" 10,000 euros, and they failed the election miserably.
Comment Re:The question ... do gamers want this service? (Score 1) 11
We are racing toward a world of "dumb terminals" - almost a complete 360 back to the old days of the mainframe and terminal - where the end user has absolutely zero control of their purchase - and worse still, is shelling out monthly payments.
Probably you meant 180 degrees.
Comment Re:Stamina therapy? (Score 1) 141
In Italy a similar treatment ended up with being declared as a fraud:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
However, that wiki article for the Stamina therapy used in Italy says: "It was found that the cell preparations did not contain any relevant quantities of mesenchymal stem cells". So the stamina therapy didn't actually contain what it was supposed to contain.
I bet that it will end up the same way. The Stamina therapy also has been associated with the hospital of Brescia. The theorist was not, indeed, a doctor, but he graduated in journalism. So in the North Carolina case it is much different but...
Don't you think that they will take this umbilical cord not to cure people or do real research, but to sell it, a thing that cannot be done? In Italy umbilical cord is donated, not sold, voluntarily and only in certain hospitals.
So I think that they may end up in selling water and, as such, a fraud.
Comment Stamina therapy? (Score 3, Informative) 141
In Italy a similar treatment ended up with being declared as a fraud:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Comment E-.Tron in France (Score 1) 71
They're still laughing.
Comment Trivial? (Score 1) 151
But despite having a three and a half years heads-up, SARS did not choose to port its Flash widgets to basic HTML & JS forms, a process that any web developer would describe as trivial
Ok for the time, however porting from Flash+ActionScript to HTML and JS does not seem like a trivial task to do.
Comment Re:This is why I switched to Epson EcoTank (Score 1) 143
Well the nozzles sometime clog, but the internal procedure to clean them up works great.
The ink is very durable, if you don't print much (like me) you don't have to worry about drying of ink.
There is also aftermarket ink that costs less than the original (although I never tried it).
So if you want to print on the cheap, the EcoTank is the way to go. Laser printer is great for its quality though.
Comment This is why I switched to Epson EcoTank (Score 4, Interesting) 143
No more cartridges, just ink. It costs much more, probably the double of HP printers, but at least I can *just print* without feeling bad for the action.
Comment Windtrap of Dune? (Score 1) 151
It sounds like science fiction here.
Comment Re:Not a woman (Score 1) 280
HAHAHA! The "a" stands for Antonio
Comment Re:Lots of 'em in Japan (Score 1) 280
Actually I should have used better words, there is no such thing as a Woman "black hat" hacker. I am a developer and I obviously have *real* female colleagues, the percentage of "smartness" is probably the same as in men.
And anyway, a man dressed as a woman is not a woman, period. I am not "accusing" him to be a man, just stating the obvious, "Paige" is a man.
Comment Re:Framed, obviously. (Score 1) 280
Actually he's transgender.
https://heavy.com/news/2019/07...
Comment Not a woman (Score 3, Funny) 280
The picture at heavy.com shows clearly that he's a man:
https://heavy.com/news/2019/07...
There is no such thing as a woman hacker.
Tesla Short-Sellers Lose $1 Billion (cnbc.com) 458
An anonymous reader quotes CNBC:
A bullish call from a Wall Street analyst capped off a rough week for Tesla short sellers, with Nomura Instinet advising clients that the electric car maker's shares could rally 42 percent over the next year. The stock rose 1.7 percent Friday and is now up 10 percent on the week. One of the most shorted stocks in the United States, Tesla shares cost investors betting against the company more than $1 billion in losses on Wednesday alone after the stock rallied 9.7 percent. Adding to the short woes, the stock is up 13.5 percent in June and up 21 percent since April. More than 30 percent of Tesla's floating stock is currently sold short, according to FactSet.
Last week long-time Open Source advocate Bruce Perens (Slashdot reader #3,872) argued this is fueling Musk's anger at the press: [A] great many investors are desperate to see Tesla's stock reach a much lower price soon, or they'll be forced to buy it at its present price in order to fulfill their short positions, potentially bankrupting many of them and sending some out of the windows of Wall Street skyscrapers. These investors are desperately seeding, feeding, and writing negative stories about Tesla in the hope of depressing the stock price. Musk recently taunted them by buying another 10 million dollars in stock, making it even more likely that there won't be enough stock in the market to cover short positions. If that's the case, short-sellers could end up in debt for thousands of dollars per shorted share -- as the price balloons until enough stockholders are persuaded to sell. Will short-sellers do anything to give Tesla bad press? You bet.... Musk is stuck with a press that feeds negative stories about Tesla seeded by short-sellers, business competitors and the petroleum industry, and even the U.S. Government...
Musk is far from the only one who suffers from this abuse. I was personally involved while the Linux developers were hounded by bad press for years from Forbes and lesser entities, backed by a large software company we all know (and who is, surprisingly, funding more Open Source these days), based on SCO's unfounded lawsuit. Time proves them wrong, but don't expect them to admit it, nor should you hold your breath for an "I'm sorry".
And on Musk's plan to rate the credibility of news sites, Perens writes that "The world would be a better place if this was done honestly, with integrity, and well. Musk is one who has improved the world by going where conventional wisdom said he'd fail..."
Last week long-time Open Source advocate Bruce Perens (Slashdot reader #3,872) argued this is fueling Musk's anger at the press: [A] great many investors are desperate to see Tesla's stock reach a much lower price soon, or they'll be forced to buy it at its present price in order to fulfill their short positions, potentially bankrupting many of them and sending some out of the windows of Wall Street skyscrapers. These investors are desperately seeding, feeding, and writing negative stories about Tesla in the hope of depressing the stock price. Musk recently taunted them by buying another 10 million dollars in stock, making it even more likely that there won't be enough stock in the market to cover short positions. If that's the case, short-sellers could end up in debt for thousands of dollars per shorted share -- as the price balloons until enough stockholders are persuaded to sell. Will short-sellers do anything to give Tesla bad press? You bet.... Musk is stuck with a press that feeds negative stories about Tesla seeded by short-sellers, business competitors and the petroleum industry, and even the U.S. Government...
Musk is far from the only one who suffers from this abuse. I was personally involved while the Linux developers were hounded by bad press for years from Forbes and lesser entities, backed by a large software company we all know (and who is, surprisingly, funding more Open Source these days), based on SCO's unfounded lawsuit. Time proves them wrong, but don't expect them to admit it, nor should you hold your breath for an "I'm sorry".
And on Musk's plan to rate the credibility of news sites, Perens writes that "The world would be a better place if this was done honestly, with integrity, and well. Musk is one who has improved the world by going where conventional wisdom said he'd fail..."
