The level China is willing to go for a single company is rather scary. And all those subsidies to them by the government, and sleazy operations like what they did in stealing that robot arm should give every country in the world pause. Regardless of the US and China trade deal, Huawei needs to improve its image before anyone should do business with them.

Just joking. But seriously, if your software provider is dictating your business for their own politics you should ditch them ASAP. Who knows what they will ask you to do next.

I do believe Steam needs to reduce their 30% cut from developers. But Epic is an anti-consumer nightmare and I will not promote or back it. Worse yet they are apparently robbing developers by doing an end around to their publishers (publisher gets Epic money, developer only gets cut from games sold with now a reduced market thanks to Epic exclusiveness).

Actually it is not. They have had those since 2011. Here is an old article that gives details on how well they worked:

"From February 2010 through the end of 2012, license plate readers helped the state police recover 529 stolen vehicles and 751 stolen license plates and arrest 229 wanted persons, Geller said. In one recent high-profile case, she said, the readers were used in investigating a string of arsons on the Eastern Shore last year."

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/ne...

These things were awesome and stopped a lot of crime in a short time.

I am all against facial recognition. But cars aren't people. And driving is a privilege, not a right.

Robert can't hide he is a CIS white male no matter what nickname he invents for himself. And those are at the bottom in the Oppression Olympics which the Democrats use to pick candidates. Maybe if there were no women or "person of color" running he might have a chance. Slashdot liking him only makes it worse as it is heavily populated by more CIS white males.

Can't say I've been drawn to Gab (or Twitter for that matter) but having the ability to comment on any site without having to worry about the site censoring it sounds rather awesome actually.

Same thing happened with Netflix and Amy Schumer's show. In that case Netflix removed all show ratings. That these establishments have to retreat from user input keeps making the "trolls" more powerful. Worse yet, removing user interactivity from your online offering is not a good idea generally. Since that Netflix change I stopped watching Netflix though its recommended queue. It quickly started to suck. But watching far less Netflix was not bad for me overall. Hell, I might even cancel my subscription I watch it so little now. Less TV and more money in my pocket.

These are "do you plan to see the movie" responses. Actual public movie reviews are only available AFTER the movie is released in theaters. Boring as hell movie trailers and sexist marketing hurt this movie. I imagine this movie will still do well but it will cast a shadow on future Marvel movies (similar to what Last Jedi did to the Solo movie). Someone at Disney needs fired for this mess.

Why didn't it melt across the expanse instead of just the center? This seems more like geothermal heat, as it is more directed. Climate change heating would have produced channels instead as it would follow currents which would expand across the entire glacier, not just the center.

MIT is notorious for these miracle breakthrough news releases about the same time every year. And the miracles, even many years later, never see the light of day. I should start a website detailing them.

So, this tiny screw problems is this:

"20-employee machine shop that Apple’s manufacturing contractor was relying on could produce at most 1,000 screws a day."

That sounds like a sourcing problem if a shop you try to go through can't produce more than 1K screws a day. That shop should have been producing a hundred times that per day. For 20 people that is 50 screws per day. For an eight hour work day that means, per employee, each screw took close to 10 minutes to make. Were they hand crafting these things?! At half the staff, figuring not everyone is actually producing screws, that is still 5 minutes per screw.

The company has run on a lucky fluke, being top of streaming when no one else was around, but now competent competition is emerging and they are worrying about markets they aren't even in or have plans to enter. It was nice knowing you Netflix.

I like AMD. I support them being competitive. But their new card sucks. They should have went with cheaper memory and getting ray tracing. I'm sure they will get those out in the future but this is just a "well, we needed something to show" card.

Andrew Smith may head the Consumer Protection Bureau, but doesn't personally investigate companies. That is the job of those below him. So the limitation on him investigating companies is meaningless political drivel.

The big media is suffering from upstarts coming from the internet. To compete they have become them. The result is click bait articles and extremist journalism. All the while the enormous, multi-billion dollar media industry tries to paint itself as some form of victim? Right.