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Comment $99,000 ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE. PLEASE REMOVE POST. (Score 5, Informative) 262

Even the company's own PR *back in NOVEMBER* says that $99,000 figure is not true.

A publicity officer with the firm told China Daily on Friday that claims by many internet users that the manufacturing price of each YKJ-1000 missile is only 700,000 yuan ($99,000) "are not true".

Chinese State News: https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/...

Comment Why the f*ck should this be a subscription? (Score 1) 31

Why the FFFF should this be a subscription? Elon is desperate for Twitter to have cash flow every month, but FB doesn't need to do that... You don't STOP becoming who you say you are... Just charge a $100 one-time fee, I bet they would net a lot more revenue and it would be a "we're better than Elon" moment for them.

Comment Re:Don't use Google's cloud (Score 1) 74

Right after Alphabet decided to actually stick with the google cloud offering (for however long they actually do) last year, they bought out Alooma and made it google cloud only. Well, we were depending on going with Alooma for basically all our ETL orchestration and Data Integration orchestration. I won't say who "we" are, but its sort of a big deal to anyone in the United States who cares what kind of government you have and I'm super pissed about it.

Also another side of "we" IS on Google cloud for their data warehouse and I'm so pissed off they went that way because of course they'll just fold it one day when they decide its not worth it to compete. And so then it's going to be a disruptive pain in the ass, especially for the hundreds of staffers I'll have to retrain to use Redshift or something else later who are learning google's bullshit query language for big data.

Do no evil, my ass.

Comment Re:USA government already ahead of industry on thi (Score 1) 232

We have RFID tags in our passports already, so they are already moving us towards electronic IDs. It's a foregone conclusion that the type of ID done for international flights will eventually crop up in domestic travel as well, for better or worse.

I microwave any RFID they dare to put in my papers. So should you.

"oh? no workee? I have a magnetic personality. Electronics just fail around my person."

Comment It's sort of like Rule 34. (Score 1) 374

What's the next hottest crack target? THIS. Obviously it will be owned, and abused for spam.

Either that, or it will be owned by a ~11yo and everyone, everywhere will get "an urgent message form the president" which is actually a picture of his thing. * or hers; equality.

Is there a rule # for this? Surely there is? If it has eyeballs, it will be spammed, or porned.

And somewhere is Rule #1337: If you build it big enough, it will be cracked in an inversely related fractional amount of time it took to 'perfect'.

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