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Comment Re:Use it for cracking (Score 2) 57

by Ann Coulter on Saturday August 10, 2024 @08:01AM (#64694330) Attached to: 'Sinkclose' Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections

Every Xbox and PlayStation of the last two generations uses AMD CPUs. If this SMM exploit can be introduced to them then it can be an unpatchable jailbreak.

Comment Calvin (Score 1) 36

by Ann Coulter on Thursday October 27, 2022 @09:38AM (#63002555) Attached to: Extremophiles On Mars Could Survive For Hundreds of Millions of Years

Can we name them Calvin?

Comment Windows (Score 4, Funny) 71

by Ann Coulter on Friday September 02, 2022 @06:07AM (#62845821) Attached to: Underwater Datacenter Will Open For Business This Year

The datacenter modules are more efficient and less error prone because no one installed windows on them.

Comment Goats (Score 2) 74

by Ann Coulter on Thursday March 10, 2022 @02:26AM (#62342847) Attached to: Bringing Back Extinct Creatures May Be Impossible

Can we bring back the long extinct Christmas Island goat?

Comment id Software (Score 1) 73

by Ann Coulter on Thursday January 20, 2022 @08:17PM (#62193271) Attached to: Xbox CEO Phil Spencer On Reviving Old Activision Games

Microsoft now owns Doom, Heretic and Hexen. They are only missing Strife and Chex Quest.

Comment Dunning Kruger (Score 3, Informative) 65

by Ann Coulter on Sunday December 12, 2021 @11:15PM (#62074015) Attached to: An Experimental Target-Recognition AI Mistakenly Thought It Was Succeeding 90% of the Time

AIs can fall victim to the Dunning-Kruger effect. More research is needed. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fciteseerx.ist.psu.edu%2F...

Comment Cox (Score 1) 221

by Ann Coulter on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @07:22PM (#61194562) Attached to: Utah Governor Signs Legislation Requiring Porn Filters On Cellphones, Tablets

The filters should block any mention of Cox.

Comment Re:Too big to fail? (Score 1) 118

by Ann Coulter on Sunday February 21, 2021 @09:44PM (#61088114) Attached to: After a Boeing 777 Rained Failed-Engine Debris on Neighborhood Below, More Planes Grounded

This was mentioned in Airframe. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Comment Re:I don't understand why we're letting this happe (Score 1) 117

by Ann Coulter on Monday February 15, 2021 @12:15PM (#61065734) Attached to: Uber Proposes California-style Gig Work Reforms in Europe

The boiling frog fallacy is an extremely harmful version of the slippery slope fallacy. It is a myth that frogs, and people, will not react to danger. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fte...

Comment FOSS (Score 0) 34

by Ann Coulter on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @05:46PM (#60370519) Attached to: New York Unveils Landmark Antitrust Bill That Makes It Easier To Sue Tech Giants

companies may underprice products to the point where they are even incurring a loss just to drive others out of the market

Free Open Source Software is underpriced and drives competitors out of the market.

Comment Re:Mandatory Code (Score 0) 149

by Ann Coulter on Sunday April 19, 2020 @04:24PM (#59965978) Attached to: Australia Will Force Google and Facebook to Pay for News Content

They can be fined for not linking to French and Australian media companies. Their local assets can even be nationalized if they attempt to shut down all operations in those countries.

Comment Opinion (Score 2) 149

by Ann Coulter on Sunday April 19, 2020 @04:20PM (#59965962) Attached to: Australia Will Force Google and Facebook to Pay for News Content

The president of the News Media Alliance recently penned this opinion. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2020%2F0...

Comment Mandatory Code (Score 1) 149

by Ann Coulter on Sunday April 19, 2020 @03:58PM (#59965894) Attached to: Australia Will Force Google and Facebook to Pay for News Content

Google and Facebook will be forced to link to media companies as well as paying them. They will not be allowed to simply blacklist them.

"The mandatory code would force the tech companies to pay for the content they siphon from news media companies, share their consumer data and be subject to rules on the rankings of news on their platforms, the Australian reported."

Comment Buy Oracle (Score 3, Interesting) 135

by Ann Coulter on Sunday February 23, 2020 @05:21PM (#59758060) Attached to: Oracle's Allies Against Google Include Scott McNealy and America's Justice Department

Alphabet happens to have a market cap of over a trillion dollars. Oracle is around 176 billion dollars. The prudent course of action would be a leveraged buyout of Oracle by Alphabet. They can subsequently scuttle Oracle's the Supreme Court case and make Larry wear a "Kick Me" sign. Alphabet could even lower Oracle's market cap by providing subsidized migration services for Oracle's customers and then threatening to delist them if they continued to use Oracle products.

Comment Turnaround (Score 4, Interesting) 86

by Ann Coulter on Saturday January 18, 2020 @05:57PM (#59633414) Attached to: Facial Recognition Database With 3 Billion Scraped Images 'Might End Privacy as We Know It'

How would cops react if there is a publicly available facial recognition database of cops?

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