Comment Re: Color me surprised... (Score 1) 202
Democratic-Capitalism. It takes the greediest and most dishonest and forces them to keep each other in check
Not just history but the present is replete with counterexamples. Cartels abound.
Comment Re:This is good to slow bot/scraper abuse, IMHO (Score 1) 67
at least reddit is making steps to make it difficult to steal. I was really upset when I found there were sites serving my deleted posts in an easy to search format. Again...I guess I should have thought about that...but they are stealing from me and from reddit in my view.
wank wank, flonk flonk.
I remember a time when Slashdot was peopled mostly by humans who looked down on copyright law in general as a farce. Those were better times in a lot of ways, and this is only one of them.
It's like if a musician gives a performance in a park for free. You have the right to watch. You have the right to record on your phone. You don't have the right to make money off their performance....that's both illegal and very unethical.
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Everything is coercive.
Comment weird (Score 1) 31
Who came to defend the honor of the fire stick?
Comment there is one fix and you won't do it (Score 4, Insightful) 67
The fix is to come up with a news reader with cryptographically managed identities (not verified, just consistent) and go back to USENET with it. This does everything valuable that social networking does, but without the malevolent overlord.
Comment Re: "From scratch" (Score 1) 44
This is what I came to say. Starting with elements is as close to scratch as we get, and they didn't go there
Comment what (Score 1) 25
I get why someone would purchase these services from Google, I even get why people who drank the Redmond kool-aid get them from Microsoft. I don't understand who would be stupid with to get them from Facebook but also have enough money to pay for them
Comment Re:Isaacman is not immune to the disease (Score 1) 23
This, though for the most part, you don't need the whole rover — only its brain (and perhaps its communications electronics). The situations where you need the whole rover involve figuring out how to get it unstuck. And the more experience they have at running the things around on Mars, the less likely that becomes.
Comment Re:Will the AI-fueled SSD-crisis be over in 2028? (Score 2) 63
It doesn't matter when games have to be installed and they require massive updates which also need to be stored somewhere. Games don't play from discs anymore anyway, maybe they stream some video from them.
Comment Re:Famine or Feast? (Score 1) 20
Isn't this an article about adding a lot of new capacity?
No.
Comment As One Does (Score 1) 23
I wonder what other nuc-u-lar powered devices we can chuck up there?
Comment Re: Not a bright idea (Score 1) 202
Citation needed.
Comment Re: Color me surprised... (Score 1) 202
Which system doesn't?
Comment heh heh (Score 1) 84
My personal mod troll is SO MAD I EXIST.
Rent free all day, all night. They never stop thinking about me.
Comment Re: Color me surprised... (Score 0) 202
Seriously, this is not kindergarten.
Then why are you only demonstrating a child's understanding of the situation? A malignant state in decline having massive manufacturing capability is not a positive thing.
Comment Re:Bloated, laggy, non-intuitive interfaces (Score -1, Flamebait) 31
I'll never buy one again anyway because they destroyed mine with updates. It was always laggy, but it became basically unusable.
