Comment It's depressing (Score 1) 468
To know with certainty so many of the comments here would be exactly reversed if it was Jared Kushner's laptop.
Comment coercion (Score 2) 313
If the coercion aspect is true, it doesn't matter what the contracts said. Coerced contracts are generally not enforcable.
So that's the key point in these cases.
Comment Yeah, none of this is going to happen... (Score 0) 395
And they know that.
So what's the point, really? What are they really doing with this?
Trump Ups Ante on China, Threatens Duties on Nearly All its Imports (reuters.com) 326
U.S. President Donald Trump warned on Friday that he was ready to slap tariffs on virtually all Chinese imports into the United States, threatening duties on another $267 billion in Chinese goods on top of $200 billion in imports now primed for levies in coming days. Reuters: The moves would sharply escalate Trump's trade war with Beijing over his demands for major changes in economic, trade and technology policy. China has threatened retaliation, which could include action against U.S. companies operating there. Hours after a public comment period closed on his $200 billion China tariff list, Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that he was "being strong on China because I have to be."
"The $200 billion we are talking about could take place very soon depending on what happens with them. To a certain extent its going to be up to China," Trump said. "And I hate to say this, but behind that is another $267 billion ready to go on short notice if I want. That totally changes the equation." [...] The $200 billion list, which includes some consumer products such as cameras and recording devices, luggage, handbags, tires and vacuum cleaners, would be subject to tariffs of 10 percent to 25 percent. Cell phones, the biggest U.S. import from China, have so far been spared, but would be engulfed if Trump activates the $267 billion tariff list. Further reading: Apple says Trump's China tariffs are going to hurt the company.
"The $200 billion we are talking about could take place very soon depending on what happens with them. To a certain extent its going to be up to China," Trump said. "And I hate to say this, but behind that is another $267 billion ready to go on short notice if I want. That totally changes the equation." [...] The $200 billion list, which includes some consumer products such as cameras and recording devices, luggage, handbags, tires and vacuum cleaners, would be subject to tariffs of 10 percent to 25 percent. Cell phones, the biggest U.S. import from China, have so far been spared, but would be engulfed if Trump activates the $267 billion tariff list. Further reading: Apple says Trump's China tariffs are going to hurt the company.
Comment Time to put up, then (Score 1) 164
He should donate all the money he made from the rage-fest that is Reddit, then. I'd suggest a charity that assists victims of the poison reddit has spread.
Comment Of all the the attacks on bitcoin (Score -1, Troll) 172
The pretend alarm over its energy usage is the most amusing.
Comment I have a strong preference (Score 1) 370
For platforms being platforms and interfering with their users as little as possible.
Comment Remember (Score 5, Insightful) 260
Keep your opinions to yourself if you don't want to be targeted.
Comment Re:160 million copies!? (Score 2, Informative) 203
Your Rowling figure is off by a considerable amount. Last estimate was 400+ million copies.
Comment Re:fork it (Score 1) 439
Yep. Forking is clearly the right response to this.
And watching the fork pass the original.
Comment Re:not smart (Score 2, Insightful) 439
Absolutely.
Any such system will kill Wikipedia dead.
It's like they don't understand why they are successful.
Ah well, someone else will it right while they fail.
FBI Issues Code Cracking Challenge 222
coondoggie writes to tell us that the FBI has issued another cracking challenge for a new cipher on their site. Tens of thousands responded to a similar challenge last year. In addition to the challenge, the FBI is also offering a few primers on the subject. There are a number of sites offering cipher challenges, but it's funny to see the FBI encouraging such behavior.
Comment Re:Need another choice... (Score 2, Informative) 399
I suspect this is poker humor.
In poker jargon, a Set is three of a kind. More specifically, it usually refers to three of a kind with two of those three being a pocket pair with one on the board.
You can make your own jokes from here.
Gaffes That Keep IT Geeks From the Boardroom 652
buzzardsbay writes "Yes, it's all in good fun to point out the mismatched belt and shoes and the atrocious hairstyles, but honestly, I'm committing three of these errors right now! Is that why I can't get a key to the executive washroom? Or is it my rebellious attitude and pungent man-scent that's keeping me down? The shocker in here was pigtails on women... I love pigtails on women!"
Seagate Offers Refunds on 6.2 Million Hard Drives 780
An anonymous reader writes "Seagate has agreed to settle a lawsuit that alleges that the company mislead customers by selling them hard disk drives with less capacity than the company advertised. The suit states that Seagate's use of the decimal definition of the storage capacity term "gigabyte" was misleading and inaccurate: whereby 1GB = 1 billion bytes. In actuality, 1GB = 1,073,741,824 bytes — a difference of approximately 7% from Seagate's figures. Seagate is saying it will offer a cash refund or free backup and recovery software."
Slashdot Top Deals
ASCII a stupid question, you get an EBCDIC answer.
