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Comment Re:Maybe not profitable (Score 1) 164

Who modded you insightful? What wasn't well known in the '90s is common knowledge now.

VCs don't want a return. VCs want flop after flop so they can get their fees. They aren't the ones investing. They're the copper wire scrappers of Silicon Valley. They do billions of dollars of damage and get a few percent of the damage cost in return.

Capitalism at its finest. Making America great once more.

Comment Re: We need to keep perspective here (Score 0) 74

Awwww, did somebody trigger you by insulting your TV star great leader?

We know Russia collusion was real. We know about the ads. We know about the voter fraud. That you suggest a fake president can be put into power by another country and then we get "magical prosperity" out of it is an insult to our collective intelligence.

What's next? Gonna post a doctored video? Go back to infowars where you came from.

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You are welcome on my lawn.

Comment And this is why I am for public transportation. (Score 5, Insightful) 262

No matter how you look at it, having a human in the loop is a setup for failure. Public transportation yet again solves this problem in addition to just about every other problem you can think of.

Hire a well-paid, attentive train driver, hold him to the flame, and be done with it.

Comment Re: Please Say You Weren't Surprised.... (Score 1) 71

Don't feed the trolls.

Unfortunately, Greece was the early birthplace and will be the early deathplace of capitalism. They are a somewhat isolated country (few natural resources) in a first-world region and will serve as a testbed of many things to come that will fail. These drones are just a gasping breath of the government trying to make due what is right--namely taxing enough of one of only two industries that can keep the country afloat--and collect enough revenues to sustain the countries.

This is in reality no worse than the IRS auditing credit card companies for fraud. I have family in Greece. Trust me. The people running the tourism industry are the one percenters. They need to pay their fair share.

Comment Re:So.... (Score 4, Insightful) 179

Indeed it does. Just last night Chrome auto-updated itself to 69. I was running an older version for two or three years (had very good reasons to) and had all the auto-update garbage turned off, developer mode turned on, and the like. I rebooted my machine, and out of nowhere was this candy coated new Apple-like interface.

This is when I immediately uninstalled Chrome, filled in their "survey" that it automatically takes you to, and installed Firefox. I was very pleased to see that Firefox gives you the option off the bat to use an address bar as an address bar. There's nothing like a bait and switch "feature" hijacking all your address data, phoning home under the guise of offering lame suggestions, and performing a search if you mistyped and didn't get a FQDN right.

I won't be going back any time soon.

Google: Be Evil. (TM)

Comment Re:You scratched it! (Score 2) 42

Worse yet, a "2D antenna" is going to have "2 problems" which make it impractical:

  • 1. The material is not a perfect conductor. As such, putting, oh, I don't know, a nanowatt (just making up numbers) will melt the antenna.
    2. The material is not a perfect conductor. Lossy materials cause lower gain on the receive end.

Food for thought. Yes, I read the article.

Comment Re: I *LOVE* TRUMP! (Score 5, Funny) 95

Sorry to threadjack your beautiful ASCII art, but I found a more important issue to raise.

"Before stealing 100 battery-powered GPS-tracking devices, one of the thieves also grabbed a beer out of the office refrigerator -- and cut themselves -- leaving behind both fingerprints"

BOTH fingerprints? I'm envisioning lobster-like theives here. Are we sure they weren't exposed to mutagens whilst raiding other laboratories!?

Comment Re: fun game out of context, totally apropos: (Score 3, Insightful) 780

Unfortunately, this kind of fury is sometimes needed to keep developers in line in the FOSS world. But only when the project is something as important as the Linux kernel.
Linus has always had a handle on his fiery pasdion. Theo de Raadt has not and always let his ego get in the way.

Do not apologize, Linus. Without your might, Linux will go the way of Windows 8 within a few short years.

Comment Re: I'd propose a trade (Score -1) 570

Jones, Horowitz, Stone, Molyneux (almost) to name a very few of outright BANNED accounts. Of course, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube have been demoting posts and shadow banning users and have been locking all these secrets away as etherial hand-tuned algorithms that the public is forbidden any knowledge of. There is your proof, Miss Mash. Now where is your proof on this bizarre Russian conspiracy theory you've been hawking for the past two years? C'mon, cough it up, ma'am.
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