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Comment My son has a chromebook for school (Score 4, Interesting) 46

...which he absolutely hates. It's made with bottom of the barrel parts. Small screen with bad contrast, underpowered CPU, low RAM, bad keyboard. it's slow to browse the web, slow wracked by latency to do even basic things. Local apps are very limited.

I'm not saying it isn't possible to make these a lot better, but it seems schools buy them because Google created a cheap eocsystem with somewhat standardized parts like screens and chargers, centralized security controls which allows the school to sandbox devices easily and sufficient webified versions of basic desktop apps as to be workable in a school setting. Nothing about them is "good for students". It's all about being good for school boards pockets.

Comment Re:1Password has one advantage over other PW manag (Score 1) 27

They compromised a session key of an insider, which could give them access to whatever internal tools they have, which could allow exfiltrating vaults. If they are secured with poor keys (which is likely for most people) they could be offline cracked.
This seems pretty bad, they don't appear to know what was actually accessed internally. The timeframe before they reset sessions was fairly short (a couple of days?)

Comment Re: I wonder who we can blame... (Score 1) 56

In case it isn't obvious, it's because you can't (and no one would want to) buy a mobile plan that only covers NJ.

Italy is also tiny compared to the US, plus you don't know how deep they've taken LTE/5G there in rural areas. For all you know, there's shit service in rural areas of Italy.

Comment Re:Too many new vehicles are dangerous (Score 1) 247

While we're offering anecdotes on Tesla reliability... My 8 year old Model S has had all four door handle motors replaced and the main screen computer flash chip replaced, but aside from that, no other warranty work in over 8 years. Clearly, YMMV, but I think after about 2014, the Model S became a lot more reliable than early examples.

Comment Re:The complaint isn't the prices (Score 2) 67

Right, so we're going to coordinate a 300 million person boycott of practically all live entertainment for weeks or months until LiveNation lowers their prices? If they controlled say 10% of venues I could see this working, but they have exclusive contracts of practically all major venues in the country.

Comment Re:That's nice, except... (Score 1) 158

He's been successful at getting the government to bootstrap his pet projects for free. It's not like Elon Musk invented cars and rockets, he has hundreds of very smart people who actually made all of that stuff work.

The whole Twitter debacle has exposed Musk as basically an autistic midwit, and demonstrates what happens when you give someone like that 100 billion dollars. Instead of curing cancer, he bought a thing so he could make millions of people read his thoughts on the Super Bowl.

Comment Re:Never a Sign That Things Will Get Better (Score 1) 35

> All of that was about causing enough confusion to blunt resistance to awful features, preventing the public from even giving a name (like "Vista" or "8") to the problem.

Well maybe that's the intention, but if there's no name or number associated with any the version of the product, then the product itself takes on the ire of the user base.

Comment Re:WTF are they on about? (Score 3, Interesting) 136

This was exactly my conclusion after thinking about it for all of 15 seconds. I've never heard of this film, I have no love or hate for the machine learning algorithms and have absolutely no skin in this game in any way. The fact that the originals are in no way harmed by the edits (and may actually act to preserve the originals, since the edits are *much* less interesting on their own without reference to the originals) seems to make the case that this is much ado about nothing. Case closed.

Comment Re:Extinct (Score 1) 35

There we go. You never let me down Slashdot. Just when you'd think the topic is as positive and uncontroversial as it gets, someone has to rain fear and doubt on the parade based on armchair speculation without a shred of evidence or that they have a clue what they're talking about. Congrats on being 'that' guy!

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