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Well, a good wipe-down every now and then doesn't hurt a monitor.
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Forsooth! The Oracle Speaks! (as in the CS dude)
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You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Every so often, a tweet goes viral showing someone making a beat by wielding two barcode scanners in front of a sheet of assorted line patterns. It's all fun and games until you get the bill after checkout
And by 'fun and games', I mean, 'unce unce unce'
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Cheers!
I've been looking for downsides to barcodes, to convince people to use other tech. This'll work a treat!
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The special orders suggest that the FTC is honing in on the question of how Big Tech companies use acquisitions to amass power and how the data from acquired companies are used. No takies-backsies!
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CNBC said: The commission voted 5-0 to issue special orders to review the past mergers.
Wow.
They really did a bad job of buying off, scaring, and intimidating the commissioners!
Maybe they should start taking advice on how to run a business from honest people.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Maybe they should start taking advice on how to run a business from honest people.
Where exactly should one find such an enigma?
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It comes as no surprise that the guidance computers aboard the Apollo 11 spacecraft were impossibly primitive compared to the pocket computers we all carry around 50 years later. I'm over the moon about this news
But I still don't think anyone's going to land anything based on their USB charger.
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Sure, but the Apollo missions squeezed every microgram of usage out of the kit.
Chargers use prefabricated, multipurpose chips that are cheap to manufacture in huge numbers; they probably don't use a hundredth of the computing power that's available to them.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Chargers use prefabricated, multipurpose chips that are cheap to manufacture in huge numbers; they probably don't use a hundredth of the computing power that's available to them.
So bloatware
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heh. That's one way of looking at it.
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As I was... Bloatware is a feature or capability that an end-user will never utilize.
My new term will be Wastewear which shall be defined as a feature or capability that an end-user cannot use.
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Shirley, but this is just simple economics. Having dedicated chips designed and produced exclusively for (each) charger would probably result in chargers costing five times as much.
Look at it like the Raspberry Pi: the Pi is used for all kinds of things, and probably less than one in a thousand of them uses over half of the Pi's capacity -- but it has made it possible for people to create all manner of weird and wonderful things that they otherwise wouldn't have been able to afford to create.
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Don't call me Shirley
I completely understand the reality of simple economics and am not questioning the reasons for it; it's just an observation.
As for the Pi analogy; what is used and not used is a choice the end user has.
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The study saw researchers make a breakthrough in the control of terahertz quantum cascade lasers, which they say could be used to transmit data at a speed of 100 gigabits. For everyone who predicted, "terahertz quantum cascade lasers", congratulations. Your prize money is available at the door.
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Independant said: a speed of 100 gigabits.
Jeeze.
Let me know if I also have to explain to them what light years are a measurement of, eh?
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They've already made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs, so units are meaningless to them. 
and yeah, they seem to be completely forgetting fiber.
TTFN - Kent
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Multiple confidential documents obtained by Motherboard show the sort of companies that want to buy data derived from scraping the contents of your email inbox. "It's not paranoia if they're really out to get you.": email edition
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This'll make Mr. Wallace soooo happy! 
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You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Don't talk about me as if I'm some kind of conspiracy theorist. Anything that isn't facts, I don't give a f@rt about.
There are a few facts in the article. I suggest you read them, and apply some brainpower to thinking of repurcussions.
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Dude, take a chill pill. I was being sarcastic. I know nothing about you and really couldn't care less what you're about.
As for companies "spying" on my emails, go for it. I don't care about that either.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I don't care either about anyone spying on your emails; but politicians, bankers, lawyers and other criminals people may have the same inconvenience.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I've got bugger all to hide, either, but that doesn't mean I like strangers snooping on me.
In fact, I really don't like it. A lot.
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Good point.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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