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Comment Re:Why on earth?! (Score 1) 96

How nice for you and the other guy.

We were both fans. But allegedly it had a low number of tens of millions of users, but then firefox has a decent number of tens, so the percentages weren't terrible.

It's a collecting information about your activity service. It's not for you, it's for them.

yeah yeah if you're not paying you're the product yada yada.

Cool. But it was also useful to me. The bookmarking and tagging was very useful. The recommended articles were really good. And I shouldn't use it because?

Comment Re:Tell Me Why? (Score 1) 18

Exactly. Why wasn't this reported ten months ago and is only being reported now?

Because this got raised this Monday as a blocker to merging their newest bits to the kernel. If a driver requires both kernel and userspace parts, and no open source userspace part exists, the driver is not allowed into the kernel (see: nVidia).

This requirement was met when Gaudi 1 and Gaudi 2 were upstreamed, but the discontinuance means Gaudi 3 can't go in. Unlike CPU support which Intel prepares years before general availability of the hardware, GPU drivers tend to get upstreamed long after. And some bean counter noticed that all the revenue comes from the proprietary driver, thus they decided to cut the open source one...

Comment Re:Meanwhile, in the US... (Score 2) 36

Sure, just as soon as the taxpayers stop subsidizing petroleum companies. I'm okay with that solution. Let's see what the market decides when the government isn't gifting free land in protected wildlife areas and cleaning up abandoned wells and waging wars to protect oil interests in the middle east. Let's go.

Comment So while it hasn't been proven in a court (Score 1) 28

You can check the Wikipedia article on Trump's sexual assault claims and eight of them involve children.

That's in addition to 20 that at least involved adult women.

Now the first time a woman accuses a man of raping her when she was a child that's bad but he's famous and maybe... The second time you have to start to wonder but again maybe... By the third time we've got a pattern and by the 5th I don't think any reasonable person would not be believing the women. By the 8th he's practically a Catholic priest.

And again this is an addition to the other 20 women who came forward.

I am also not going to buy it that those women are just trying to get money out of him or fame. Trump has well-known mafia ties and lots of fixers that make credible threats. These are the 28 women who came forward despite all that. I think it's safe to say there are plenty more.

The only reason Trump isn't in prison right now is the statute of limitations. He has absolutely been convicted of raping a woman only under New York law it was an adjudicated conviction because of the statute of limitations and it wasn't technically rape because New York law says if you didn't do it with your dick it's just sexual assault. Which is actually kind of fucked up when you think about it.

So yeah Trump's a pedophile. There isn't a single reasonable person who would not come to that conclusion. The fact that he managed to escape consequences isn't going to change that.

Comment The scary thing about them (Score 1) 28

Is Facebook makes 180 billion dollars every year. And most of that is pure profit since they just don't need that many employees relative to that revenue.

That is way too much money for one single person to command.

It's not about some nebulous income inequality bullshit that you hear the left wing go on about at that point you're just being ordered around because somebody with that much money gets to decide what you do and how you live your life whether you like to admit it or not

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