Dollars to doughnuts that Elno will do his best to eliminate NASA and replace it with SpaceX, granting himself all of their facilities.

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2/3 of these routers are still on sale! You certainly can judge. Fuck D-Link and fuck their trash hardware and fuck their EOLing routers which are still on shelves. None of this is news, though; D-Link has always been and will always be shit.

I had two routerboards which even when they were new were pathetically unreliable. Whether with RouterOS or openwrt they would freeze at least every few days and I had to restart them. I've heard they are better now, but I'm not willing to take the chance.

There are still Microsoft fanboys out there telling people that everything Linux is bad. Most people who think they're computer people actually don't know shit about shit, just like everyone else. They have limited scope, and know nothing outside of it, but because they know a lot within their scope they think they know a lot in general. Most people don't have experience generations of heterogeneous systems like some of us do here on Slashdot, so they have no basis for comparison.

Add to this that actual nerds tend to flock together because it's so exhausting trying to explain to people that they don't know shit, and most people don't actually know a "computer person" who knows anything, because those people don't actually want to talk to them. I long ago got tired of giving advice that wasn't accepted, only to have the same people come to me for advice again on the fucked up situation I tried to stop them from getting into to begin with.

Google also finds value in Chrome because Android has to have a browser, and at the time it was created, the only other browser that would have been usable as a mobile browser was Safari. Google worked with their direct operating system competitor to make WebKit a platform that was good enough as a mobile browser, and used that platform as the basis for Chrome.

The sad reality is that there is no money in web browsers. They're a money pit. Users won't tolerate browsers that inject ads, and for the most part, users won't pay for web browsers, so there's no viable funding source except for the money that browsers get from making Google the default search engine. As a result, Google basically funds development of Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, almost singlehandedly.

It isn't entirely selfless, of course. Without browsers, Google Search wouldn't be all that useful. So keeping browser development going does support Google's interests, but it has nothing to do with ads, except to the extent that ads pay the bills for Search.

I'm really not sure why the DOJ thinks anyone else would want Chrome. The best possible outcome would be Google spinning off Chrome into a separate company, but continuing to pay huge sums of money to that company for the purposes of keeping Chrome from instantly going bankrupt, and I'm really not sure what good that would do anyone. As long as Google is funding it, they'll still end up doing Google's bidding, and I don't see any realistic alternative, because almost nobody but Google has the deep pockets necessary to fund it, and almost nobody else has the motivation to do so, either, as evidenced by ~86% of Mozilla's annual budget coming from Google.

I mean... unless they think they can get Google to finance it with enough money that the resulting company can survive on the interest/stock market gains alone, who in their right minds would take Chrome? It would be as smart a business deal as buying 23andMe.

Don't worry, the DNC has already made sure you don't have to deal with primaries. Trump told the Evangelicals they won't have to vote any more but the DNC has denied people a vote already.

Again, it's always been the case that most artists are not Picasso.

The interesting bit here is the sensor. My phone has a smaller but similar Sony sensor that does multiple exposure stacking, and it's incredible for use at night. Even during the day the dynamic range is exceptional, but at night it really shines with low noise even when taking 4k video.

Some dashcams are starting to get it too, but I haven't seen any really good tests on how well they work yet. They look better but are they better for e.g. capturing number plates?

That's a very narrow view. Some of them will contribute greatly to humanity and to society using the degrees that they got. At the very least they are likely to pay more tax and be less of a burden in old age.

Many countries benefit greatly from education being free.

The arts have always been shit on by philistines. Just because you don't get anything from it, doesn't mean it has no value to other people.

We had the same thing when popular authors started to emerge, being criticized for not doing something productive like praising god or labouring. Then again when professional sports became a thing. These days it's often humanities degrees.

Same way all the other browser vendors do. Take money to be the default search engine, integrate crapware and ads. Maybe install Bonzi Buddy along side it.

The best option would be to spin it off as a non-profit.

You should stop doing that and focus, then. You might make something like sense.

I need help understanding what you think you're doing here, child.

Moving the goalposts, kiddo.

What you said was "Why would you recall a car that isn't used on roads?" and that's what we were talking about.

I'm not surprised you lost track, but do try to keep up with what you said

Sure, that's why I won't buy a router that I can't run openwrt on. I am using a Linksys WRT1200AC, I don't use it for a VPN of course but I do run transmission on it so I can torrent while my PC sleeps. My PC is wired to it and the wifi connects to my ISP's router, which of course I don't trust but it's also a cable modem and I haven't wanted to buy one when theirs works reliably and many have reported problems using third party modems on this network.