Comment Re:This is great for polar launches in particular (Score 1) 132
Circumpolar launches of starlink are done from Vandenberg. It also has a big ocean south of it.
Comment Re:Buy the book not the t-shirt ... (Score 1) 132
Holy crap you are showing the desperation of somebody who is losing their argument.
Yes the DSA talks about ranked choice voting and increasing the size of the house and the Supreme Court and reducing the senate's power and so on. But these are all so moderates and proportional representation have a chance. It is not "marxist" in any way whatsoever, in fact it is the opposite.
I do fear the DSA, if the win, and feel they will still be preferred over extreme-right candidates, will suddenly have amnesia and forget all these promises (since they still help moderates, who would win over the extreme left just like they would win over the extreme right). But you are a fool to say these ideas are "marxist".
Comment Re:I thought Apple (Score 1) 21
Google Maps is *not* putting ads into search results so at least for now Apple is doing worse.
Comment Entropy phase (Score 5, Interesting) 58
Ancient Rome made amazing aqueducts. One day they had built all the ones they really needed and with no new projects for a new generation to learn from, they quickly just forgot how to make aqueducts.
"Big Tech" is now entering this phase. In a generation all innovation will be gone.
Comment Absurd pricing (Score 3, Insightful) 59
900$ for a base model with 256GB SSD is pathetic.
Comment "Mawp..." (Score 1) 123
Iovine, the music executive and Dr. Dre's partner in Beats by Dre, [
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...Yeah, thought so.
Sony MDR-V6 forever, dudes...
Comment Triple it (Score 3, Interesting) 130
Then make it retroactive. Donate the proceeds to the victims of this program who had to train their replacements.
Comment Re:It was never intended to end (Score 1) 96
Most of their revenue is from the cloud, but they still want Linux off the desktop.
MS couldn't give 2 shits about Linux on the Desktop. It's a tiny and irrelevant market share to them.
Not in 2003 it wasn't
Comment Re:PJ must be losing her mind over this! (Score 4, Informative) 96
Does anyone actually have any evidence PJ was a real person and not just a persona created by IBM's PR department? PJ appeared mysteriously, exclusively posting stuff supportive of IBM's position in this case. They never turned their attention to any other litigation. It's awfully suspicious. You'd think a real person who knew that much about the relevant law would have opinions on other cases as well, and you'd expect them to market themselves using the fame/goodwill generated with Groklaw. You'd also think they'd have done at least one interview, or you could find at least one person who's met them. I'm not saying anything posted on Groklaw wasn't true, just that it always seemed like a very successful IBM PR exercise to me.
Her name is Pamela Jones, she was a paralegal. She's done real interviews in the past. She was/is real!
Comment Re:Wrong conclusion. (Score 1) 60
Given that we live in a "market-driven" society, the correct conclusion is that companies are refusing to properly compensate skilled workers.
With executive pay at all time highs and the gap between executive and workers larger than ever, I would agree. This is a failure in the system where boards of directors are not holding executives accountable. The system can't hold for long.
Comment "Policing" Is Doing a Lof of Heavy Lifting Here (Score 4, Insightful) 57
"It is clear Flock has aspirations far beyond ALPRs to become a digital platform for policing," [emphasis mine]
They misspelled, "Orwellian suveillance and harrassment."
Law enforcement officers are already abusing Flock's existing capabilities for stalking. This will not improve matters one iota.
Comment Re: "domestic" (Score 2) 146
It's only local to China in the sense that they choose what {packages/CCP poison} go in there.
For all values of u, Linux is local to u in the sense that u chooses what packages go in there.
Comment Re:The only reasonable move (Score -1, Troll) 146
The baby killers always lie. Absolute scum of the earth
Comment Re:This isn't the EU. He's going to win. (Score 5, Insightful) 309
It would me more like if the police could search your house at any time without one. They come to your house and you flush the toilet and they claim you flushed drugs with no evidence.
We have no evidence the person was involved in a crime, we simply know they destroyed data on a phone.
Comment Re:This isn't the EU. He's going to win. (Score 5, Insightful) 309
The argument is that you have no constitutional protections at the border crossing. Which is complete bullshit, but that's their position. Inovking the fifth amendment to not give up a password should be an option for all citizens at any time when engaging with US law enforcement.
