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Comment Re:Apple pricing (Score 1) 177

In the video at 0:23, he configures the machine from i7 to i9. The price jumps by $300, but the price difference between i9-8950HK and i7-8850H is only $188.

Different CPUs, different sockets. Different sockets means a different logic board. What are the chances the i9 logic board costs more?

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Submission + - Zuckerberg's appearance in front of the EU was an utter joke (betanews.com)

Mark Wilson writes: Yesterday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared in front of members of the European Parliament to answer questions and to address concerns that the EU has about the social network in general, and its use of private data in particular — thanks largely to the Cambridge Analytica data scandal.

At least that was the idea. What actually happened was nothing short of a farce, with Zuckerberg smugly sitting back and choosing which questions to answer, neatly avoiding any he was uncomfortable with. It was little more than a PR-cum-damage-limitation exercise for the Facebook founder... and it didn't really go very well.

Submission + - Second memo may confirm Steele dossier (theguardian.com)

quonset writes: The Guardian is reporting the FBI is looking into a second memo which may independently confirm some or all of the Steele dossier.

The second memo was written by Cody Shearer, a controversial political activist and former journalist who was close to the Clinton White House in the 1990s.

It was handed to them by Steele – who had been given it by an American contact – after the FBI requested the former MI6 agent provide any documents or evidence that could be useful in its investigation, according to multiple sources.

The Guardian was told Steele warned the FBI he could not vouch for the veracity of the Shearer memo, but that he was providing a copy because it corresponded with what he had separately heard from his own independent sources.

Among other things, both documents allege Donald Trump was compromised during a 2013 trip to Moscow that involved lewd acts in a five-star hotel.

Comment Re:Meh (Score 1) 269

Remember, though: the original Star Wars was an homage to the space opera serials of the '30's and '40's. That's why it started at 'Episode IV'. There was no intention ab ovo to make it a franchise. It was more of an inside joke for movie geeks that happened to work out well for them once they realized the marketing potential of the universe.

'Episode IV' was not part of the 1977 theatrical release opening crawl. Those bits were added after the commercial success guaranteed that there would be sequels.

http://www.slashfilm.com/original-star-wars-opening-crawl/

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Comment Re:Quit Screwing Around (Score 1) 228

Abrams? Tarentino? Let's stop playing around and go straight to the bottom of the barrel. if we're going to hire talentless hacks to dig up Rodenderry's skull and do nasty things to his skull, let's go directly to the Master of No-Talent Directing, Uwe Bol.

And then, the coup de grace of all dares, the sinister triple-Bol-dare. Shogun37 created a slight breach of etiquette by skipping the Shymalan triple dare and going right for the throat!

Comment Re:I call B.S. (Score 1) 395

This is not going to be a popular thing to say, well, anywhere, but the ruling party in America loves stuff like the Daily Stormer. I'd like to call them 'useful idiots' but that's making light of them. They're a mix of extremely disenfranchised people and the people who exploit them for gain. Such things have always been useful. Right now we've got a multi-trillion dollar tax cut for the 1% that got ram-roded [sic] through our house and senate and folks like the Daily Stormer helped put the folks in charge that made that happen.

I want to make sure I understand you properly. What you seem to be saying is that anyone who didn't vote for your party - and I'm assuming you were with Her - then you are a Nazi. And that the reason she lost are all of the people who voted for someone else?

You want to know where the problem is, look in the mirror. If you can't honestly accept that not everyone outside of your echo chamber isn't an evil, Nazi sympathizing, racist, deplorable Bad Person, then we're fscked as a society.

Fuck it, mod me down, but as a former Marine, I will sure as shit call out any scumbag who thinks I'm a Nazi because I don't share their precious political beliefs.

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Comment This site used to be about tech and tech news... (Score 0) 231

Now it's all political and how anyone not fully left of center is evil.

So, we have a legislator starting an investigation into whether or not Google is profiting off of, while concurrently harming other companies, and pushing the left's agenda.

This site used to be about the 800lb gorilla using it's market share to force the other companies to toe the line, or die on the vine.

Now , it's all about that left wing agenda and how anyone who disagrees is 'attacking' $favored_company or clubbing baby seals.

Sigh...

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