"There's a massive IQ test on the Internet today. If you think the president was asking Dr. Birx about injecting bleach or isopropyl alcohol into coronavirus patients -- because it sounded that way to you -- you failed the test."

Who here at Slashdot passed the test? Certainly not the person submitting this story.

Also, the exact words used in the summary do not seem to match the ones Trump used. Be careful everyone, lots of people mean to deceive you these days.

Just a detail: there is no atmosphere.

Possible they are considering solar "wind" as something like atmosphere?

It's not a compromise if he gets everything he wants,

I see you do not know how compromise works, unsurprising given who you back.

The way it works is, Trump says - "OK, How about in exchange for the wall funding you also get all of these Dreamer extensions you would love?

That is where, the Democrats, were they reasonable humans, would say something like "How about 3 billion more for border security, only some of which may be used for new fencing, and the Dreamer extension you mentioned".

See how that works? Each side proposes what the other gives up, generally in smaller increments until the two sides meet in the middle. You know, like people have been doing since the dawn of time?

But instead., you have Trump saying, "how about this comp..." and the Democrats screaming "NO NO NON ONON NEVER NO".

That indeed is not compromise, but it's the Democrats refusing even to consider offers now... do you want a year long shutdown? Because that's how you get a year long shutdown.

He doesn't lack a store of trust because of the accident, he lacks the store of trust because he's a thief.

So a guy who is highly desired by TWO companies for his autonomous driving knowledge cannot be "trusted" to have managed to drive cross country in one?

I wouldn't trust him very much in terms of a contract, but he obviously has the TECHNICAL skills to do what he claims. And there is video of course.

Like I said, what he did was not even that TECHNICALLY challenging, so it's more likely than not he did what he claims - despite how he may have treated employers he worked for.

Why would you want to be stuck with the ADC built into a mid-range phone?

I guess if you only ever spend $15 on ear buds that may be fine.

iOS12 despite being less than a month old, is on something like 50% of active devices now - who else achieves that kind of patch rate?

Most users will never even look at basic patch notes, much less security info. The people it might disincentive are maybe 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000001% of the user base.

Maybe.

That said I totally agree they SHOULD say when a security bug is fixed so at least everyone has a better idea of what has improved without testing.

the reason things won't happen is because people will fight to resist the oppressions

That's the said thing really. Pai has in fact saved us from the real oppressions, but people like you will never acknowledged that because now the weight of them will never be shouldered by you and the rest of an oppressed populace.

Meanwhile, can you predict one negative thing you think will come to pass in the next five years because of the supposed lack of network neutrality? I'll bet none of them come to pass in a lasting manner.

"Appleâ(TM)s Irish tax arrangements have allowed it to pay tax at a rate of 3.8 percent on $200 billion of overseas profits"

From this article.

So that is 7.6 *billion* dollars in taxes that Apple has paid to the EU in taxes.

Not to mention, that for every expensive Apple device sells, the EU is of course collecting a tax of taxes (VAT) atop that as well. All just because Apple has physically located a store there. The taxes collected alone on sales must be many more billions.

Again, just for Apple having a store located in that country or city.

Do you seriously think the tiny impact of Apple having a store in those countries is not more than offset by the taxes already paid? Apple has paid for roads, security, and far more out of the very large amount of money Apple has collected and paid in taxes.

Conservatives only attack people on an ideological basis, I don't see anything in the rules that would stop any conservative videos I've seen.

Nope, instead you are going to see a lot of content pulled from notable racists like Hillary Clinton, who can't help but blame problems on an entire race of people.

Remember kids, being color-blind means just that - don't place blame on people based on the color of their skin! Everyone has different pasts and experiences, such that you cannot categorically treat them as as a group instead of individuals.

Let's say that all of that were true, what's your argument? That they don't deserve clean water

First of all, I guess not because the PROTESTORS have polluted the water far more than the pipeline ever would have. If you are supporting the protestors you are supporting the POLLUTION of the local watershed.

But the main point is this - they were not REAL protestors in that they did not care about that which they were supposedly protesting for. They were just another group backed by some large corporate slush fund and/or government entity trying to slow down pipeline expansion so some foreign oil money could hold on a little while longer to the profits they enjoy.

SOME of the people there probably even believed in what they were protesting for. But the group that ran the protest sure did not, and the end result went DIRECTLY against the stated goal of the protest - to protect the water supply of the reservation. Instead they befouled it and killed of vast acreage of grasslands in the area (which is still polluted BTW, they only carted the surface layer of trash off, not whatever sank deep into the soil). The poor people that did believe were simply tools, as so many are these days *cough*like you*cough*.

Had they ACTUALLY cared they would have had a smaller protest with more limited people which would have been just as effective. Had they ACTUALLY cared they would have followed the "leave no trace" principle which those of us who care for the environment know by heart, and rotated the site along with removing all waste and vehicles. Instead they did none of those things and left a scar on the land that will linger for centuries. You go and cheer that scar, you go ahead and cheer the befouling of the planet, I cannot.

I'll let you have the last word since you are plainly set on ignoring the obvious truth (corroborated by many sources who live in the area) and instead supporting some remote oil baron while telling yourself a lie so you can feel good about it. Disgusting.

It seems quite stupid to me to keep anyone off the "open web" (whatever that is), because you gain a lot more from operational slips as to what they are up to, than you lose from recruiting value the group in question gains from running a website.

Why is it HTC's responsibility to patch it? Why not a global patch from Android.

Who is "Android"? Do you mean Google?

If so, why should they be responsible - after all, HTC is the one who took a build of Android and customized it for your phone.

In fact between HTC and Google, really HTC *should* be responsible since they are the ones that customized it in a way that you could not just take straight patches from Google.

The problem is of course, that none of the phone makers are serious about security at all (they are making noises, but I'll bet it's just to placate the howling internet). So not only do they not patch Android themselves, they don't want to do the work to even fold in the fixes Google makes.

What would be refreshing is to see a handset maker that really took ownership of the whole system. Sure they would build on Android to start, but they could do so much more - they could have their own security QA team looking for problems, fixing what they found and responding to security vulnerabilities even faster than Google.

They could contribute that work back to Google even, safe in the knowledge it wouldn't even help competitors since they are unable to incorperate Android patches.

Samsung *could* be that company. It's a mystery to me why they are not... they also are making noises about being serious about security but there has been so much hot air in the past around Google and phone makers cooperating "for real" that I refuse to take any statement at face value.

I find it the hight of irony that Apple would be so blatant in their copying of hardware and calling it "inspiration"

Do you find nothing rather silly about your remark given that Apple is not selling a smart-watch nor has said they are going to?

I mean, Apple-Haters have kind of ignored reality before, but never have stopped to the depths of complaint that something that doesn't even exist is not innovative.

What the FUCK ever happened to science?

Well apparently "science" decided to hide data behind paper walls, making it accessible to a small elite.

The plan backfired when they couldn't pay the storage dues - any loss of data falls on them, and them alone, for us not being able to simply mirror the data to hard drives around the world.

Frankly I am not sure much of value was lost, the secretive sorts also tend to be the people fabricating data/results, and with records this old who can say what is true from what was studied?

I totally agree Google should fight back.

I just think it's bullshit to complain about Apple's abuse of patents because they seek to ban SOME devices from ONE manufacturer, while Google seeks to prevent the sale of EVERY Apple computer and iOS device.

If you're going to be mad about patent abuse be mad consistently, is all I ask.