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Comment Re:Insane (Score 2) 33

My first thought. They must have close to 100 million customers. So this works out to about ten cents per customer. Wow, that's some punitive fine! Just another example of how "capture theory" is the norm in the US these days. The FDA is captured by Big Pharma. The SEC is captured by Wall Street. And the FCC is captured by the Big Carriers.

Comment I've been switching registrars recently... (Score 1) 20

I've been uses Name.com and Google Domains for years. The recent sale of Google Domains to SquareSpace incentivized me to look for alternatives. The advise I got mainly came down to Namecheap and Porkbun.

I moved some domains from Google to Namecheap and it went fairly easily except for one which was a total pain in the ass which required intervention from an online support specialist, and even then it sucked.

I moved some others to Porkbun and it was as smooth as glass. I moved the rest of my Google domains over and have started migrating my Name.com domains over there as well, due to it becoming so pricey.

Comment Re:Not Science either (Score 1) 110

this is the truth behind the microcomputer revolution - everything allowing this thing to be created, then troubleshoot with simple multi-meter (or oscilloscope if you're doing tape, TV-out or audio) was because standards Ike ttl with fairly high-density packages predate the revolution!

it was easy for folks living near computer engineers to collect cheap clearance items, so all you needed to create an apple 1 was in your garage! HP pulled the same trick 40 years previous

Really, realizing the dream of a cheap system took other folks pushing the limits of tech, which is why 6502 cut everything they thought they could get away with, while pushing the limits f process tech ( N-channel Silicon Gate Depletion 5v process)

this, plus reusing masks made for a 10x total
reduction in [price for a CPU overnight (and the tools were similarly simple, high-density, which made the three-chip vcs and 3-chip + ram kim-1!

the only innovation was thew impressive 5-color mode added to the apple II, but that gap only happened because early computer users couldn't be bothered to justify color in the workplace

Comment Re:You can't do this. (Score 1) 159

this is pretty normal wherever any tech product hits the Wall of diminished demand.

massive amounts of embedded micro-controllers for automotive, all the way up to entry-level arm+ Mali chips from Rockchip or MediaTek for sub 200 phones, or 100-ish tablets

other consolidated Chinese powerhouses have included active-matrix displays manufactures (since 2005, once generic displays became "good enough" for most users to kill everything in Korea except pro!) this means everything except oled is now made almost-exclusively in china

other more recent expansions include nand flash,and now that dram has hit a similar density wall, expect takeovers from china

semiconductors are very cyclical, so every-other-year downturns mean a fab/micro design-house near the bottom of its low-margin industry-specialty is always vulnerable to closure or takeover; even smaller Chinese units are just-as-vulnerable as those outside the country:

https://tech.hindustantimes.co...

Comment Re:Netflix is all but deceased (Score 1) 58

no, is more than this:
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over the last year, big service have tried to monetize themselves to stop the bleeding - after HBO and Amazon both cut as metric shti ton of content, and Disney doubled prices while freezing all new series acquisitions, it was pretty easy for the existing powers (hulu and Netflix)To clean-up

WHEN you're The ONLY providers WITH A PROVEN WORKING SERVICE MODEL,ITS EASY TO PERSEVERE LONG-TERM,

Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 87

and then you just end-up with the massive remixing that goes into any desalinization plant outlet (and if you have many concentrated, you make the slurry-effect worse!)

I'd say you could get more out of just improving lithium recycling infrastructure - better to save your seawater for something more-fitting

Comment horseshit (Score 1, Interesting) 52

the problem with trying to distribute advanced engineering degrees is nearly impossible, because you really need talented faculty in a minimum number to entice students

Who the hell want to move to a shithole like Ohio? Even schools in border states like Purdue are still undesirable to most students from the rest of the nation

you have to have demand to maintain hot research faculty, which is essential for anything cutting-edge

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