Comment Re:Can't "buy" Windows 10? (Score 1) 172
No, Home version is $120 and Pro is $200 MSRP
https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...
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Comment Re:The New Calculation of Labor vs Capital (Score 1) 367
Wealth gets concentrated BECAUSE OF government, not in spite of government.
The lawmakers don't make laws that hurt themselves. You can look at the way things are going today and see that is true. We have more laws than we did 20 years ago and, guess what? We have more wealth consolidation. Every law that supposedly helps "the little guy" is actually something that screws the little guy and causes industry consolidation and wealth consolidation. Vendor licensing laws are a perfect example of this. Erect a barrier to entry to "protect the little guy" when all it does is keep the little guy from even getting started.
The lawmakers don't make laws that hurt themselves. You can look at the way things are going today and see that is true. We have more laws than we did 20 years ago and, guess what? We have more wealth consolidation. Every law that supposedly helps "the little guy" is actually something that screws the little guy and causes industry consolidation and wealth consolidation. Vendor licensing laws are a perfect example of this. Erect a barrier to entry to "protect the little guy" when all it does is keep the little guy from even getting started.
Comment Re:The New Calculation of Labor vs Capital (Score 1) 367
I don't believe that resorting to theft is a moral solution.
Submission + - Is Microsoft's .NET Ecosystem on the Decline? (dice.com)
Nerval's Lobster writes: In a posting that recently attracted some buzz online, .NET developer Justin Angel (a former program manager for Silverlight) argued that the .NET ecosystem is headed for collapse—and that could take interest in C# along with it. “Sure, you’ll always be able to find a job working in C# (like you would with COBOL), but you’ll miss out on customer reach and risk falling behind the technology curve,” he wrote. But is C# really on the decline? According to Dice’s data, the popularity of C# has risen over the past several years; it ranks No. 26 on Dice’s ranking of most-searched terms. But Angel claims he pulled data from Indeed.com that shows job trends for C# on the decline. Data from the TIOBE developer interest index mirrors that trend, he said, with “C# developer interest down approximately 60% down back to 2006-2008 levels.” Is the .NET ecosystem really headed for long-term implosion, thanks in large part to developers devoting their energies to other platforms such as iOS and Android?
Comment The New Calculation of Labor vs Capital (Score 1) 367
The effects of the rise of automation can best be described as a loss in the value of labor and a gain in the value of capital.
The implication of this is that people must take action to become capital owners. That doesn't necessarily mean you should go out and buy a robot. You probably won't be able to afford one and you won't be able to gain remunerative work. The solution to this is to buy capital now, in the form of corporate stocks, and to do estate planning to insure that your children inherit your capital ownership because they likely won't be able to acquire it themselves. All inheritance taxes should be abolished.
The implication of this is that people must take action to become capital owners. That doesn't necessarily mean you should go out and buy a robot. You probably won't be able to afford one and you won't be able to gain remunerative work. The solution to this is to buy capital now, in the form of corporate stocks, and to do estate planning to insure that your children inherit your capital ownership because they likely won't be able to acquire it themselves. All inheritance taxes should be abolished.
Submission + - Linus Torvalds Says Linux Can Move on Without Him (bloomberg.com)
pacopico writes: In a typically blunt interview, Linus Torvalds has said for the first time that if he were to die, Linux could safely continue on its own. Bloomberg has the report, which includes a video with Torvalds at his home office. Torvalds insists that people like Greg Kroah-Hartman have taken over huge parts of the day-to-day work maintaining Linux and that they've built up enough trust to be respected. This all comes as Torvalds has been irking more and more people with his aggressive attitude.
Submission + - Man with the "golden arm" has saved lives of 2 million babies (fox13now.com)
schwit1 writes: James Harrison, known as "The Man with the Golden Arm," has donated blood plasma from his right arm nearly every week for the past 60 years. Soon after Harrison became a donor, doctors called him in. His blood, they said, could be the answer to a deadly problem. Harrison was discovered to have an unusual antibody in his blood and in the 1960s he worked with doctors to use the antibodies to develop an injection called Anti-D. It prevents women with rhesus-negative blood from developing RhD antibodies during pregnancy.
"In Australia, up until about 1967, there were literally thousands of babies dying each year, doctors didn't know why, and it was awful," explains Jemma Falkenmire, of the Australian Red Cross Blood Service. "Women were having numerous miscarriages and babies were being born with brain damage."
It was the result of rhesus disease — a condition where a pregnant woman's blood actually starts attacking her unborn baby's blood cells. In the worst cases it can result in brain damage, or death, for the babies. Australia was one of the first countries to discover a blood donor with this antibody, so it was quite revolutionary at the time.
"In Australia, up until about 1967, there were literally thousands of babies dying each year, doctors didn't know why, and it was awful," explains Jemma Falkenmire, of the Australian Red Cross Blood Service. "Women were having numerous miscarriages and babies were being born with brain damage."
It was the result of rhesus disease — a condition where a pregnant woman's blood actually starts attacking her unborn baby's blood cells. In the worst cases it can result in brain damage, or death, for the babies. Australia was one of the first countries to discover a blood donor with this antibody, so it was quite revolutionary at the time.
Comment Can We Ship the Warming to China? (Score 1) 639
If anyone actually believed in the AGW fantasy, the most effective step that could be taken would be to shut down China's industry with tariffs and sanctions and stop shipping coal to China where it causes 200% more CO2 to be emitted than it would being burnt in the regulated US power plants. That would crush the largest and fastest-growing CO2 emitter on the planet. But there is no money in that for corrupt statist politicians and bureaucrats. That's why the push crap that would have little impact like carbon taxes. Doesn't address the stated problem but gives them more power and money.
A little thought will tell us EXACTLY what this is all about.
Submission + - Intel Adopts USB-C Connector For 40Gbps Thunderbolt 3, Supports USB 3.1, DP 1.2 (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: The high speed Thunderbolt intereface standard, which is used for everything from hyper-fast external storage solutions to external graphics cards, has been slow to take off. You can blame the high-priced Thunderbolt peripherals and the uber-expensive cables (at last when compared to your garden variety USB cables).For most people, USB 3.0 is "good enough" and making a huge investment into the Thunderbolt ecosystem has been reserved for those in the professional video editing arena. However, Intel is looking to change all of that with Thunderbolt 3. Thunderbolt 3 once again doubles the maximum bandwidth, this time jumping from 20Gbps to a whopping 40Gbps. While that is impressive in its own right, the truly big news is that Thunderbolt 3 is moving away from the Mini DisplayPort connector and is instead adopting the USB-C connector. As a result Thunderbolt will also support USB 3.1 (which is currently spec'd at 10Gbps) and can optionally provide up to 100W of power (in compliance with the USB Power Delivery spec) to charge devices via USB-C (like the recently introduced 12-inch Apple MacBook).
Submission + - The Bizarre Process We Use for Approving Exemptions to the DMCA (fastcompany.com)
harrymcc writes: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act imposes severe penalties on those who overcome copy-protection technologies. It allows for exemptions for a variety of purposes--but in a weird proviso, those exemptions must be re-approved by the Librarian of Congress every three years. Over at Fast Company, Glenn Fleishman takes a look at this broken system and why it's so bad for our rights as consumers.
Submission + - Oldest Stone Tools Predate Previous Record Holder by 700,000 Years (vice.com)
derekmead writes: Scientists have discovered the oldest stone tools ever found, dating back some 3.3 million years to Pliocene Africa—long before the rise of humans' first ancestors in the Homo genus.
The artifacts were found near Lake Turkana, Kenya, and predate the next oldest tools by a whopping 700,000 years. That is an enormous margin, and it will have far-reaching ramifications for our understanding of how material culture initially arose in early hominin communities. An in-depth analysis of the site, its contents, and its significance as a new benchmark in evolutionary history will be published in the May 21 issue of Nature.
The artifacts were found near Lake Turkana, Kenya, and predate the next oldest tools by a whopping 700,000 years. That is an enormous margin, and it will have far-reaching ramifications for our understanding of how material culture initially arose in early hominin communities. An in-depth analysis of the site, its contents, and its significance as a new benchmark in evolutionary history will be published in the May 21 issue of Nature.
Comment Why Would Anyone Want Gov't Broadband? (Score 1) 289
It would end up being like Amtrak.
Comment Say "Hello" (Score 1) 171
to $4+/gal gas.
Comment Re:Why is Anyone Surprised? (Score 1) 163
Actually, no this isn't statism in practice.
This is what happens when people who like to use the word statism fuck with the system to put power in the hands of corporations at the expense of everybody else.
This is not a natural outcome of having a government.
Power is ALWAYS in the hands of those with money. That is immutable. If it wasn't corporations directly paying for what they want, it would be the company officers and employees.
Greed is part of the human condition, so when you demand that politicians have unlimited power, you end up with unlimited greed. The only solution to this is to limit the power. I suggest starting with a strict interpretation of the Commerce Clause.
Comment Re:So they petition to protect their hard work (Score 1) 163
Is it a democracy when the outcomes are bought by corporate interests by giving money to greedy politicians to influence the outcomes?
I think not.
This is just a corrupt system masquerading as something else.
This is how banana republics operate, but that seems to be where we're going.
No, this is how constitutionally unfettered governments act.
Strictly enforcing the Commerce Clause would about the best first step we could take. But of course, that would interfere with someone's gravy train and is why we won't do it.
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