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Oldschool keyfob where you need to press a button to initiate transmission/reception that unlocks car doors prevents this. Paired with immobilizer that is part of physical key that you need to insert in the car to start the fucking engine.

Yeah, I know. Not very convenient. Then people should stop whining when their near field communication device ranges are extended by a active range extender antennas and amplifiers that can be put together with $50 budget.

Convenience gets you this: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk...

Does this https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk... look like a fucking Top Gear or entertainment to you?

about a year ago. Does not take long.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk...

Acetaminophen/Tylenol/Paracetamol is NOT easier to overdose on.

Fentanyl has an LD of 3.1 mg/kg in rats, and 0.03 mg/kg in monkeys.
Tylenol has an LD of 338 mg/kg in mice (oral); 1944 mg/kg in rats (oral).

I.e. It is much easier to OD on fentanyl. BUT... and this is the part people don't IIRC...

There ARE more OD's on tylenol than on fentanyl... primarily cause it is so common and cause a lot of those happen with small children, due to their weight ratios being more favorable for an overdose.
BUT... and it's a big one... nearly all those overdoses on tylenol ARE NOT FATAL.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-en...

Paracetamol overdoses

About 50,000 people are admitted to hospital each year in the UK due to overdosing on paracetamol
According to the Office of National Statistics 219 deaths in 2016 were linked to paracetamol, up from 182 in 2012
Pills are usually 500mg, and over-the-counter purchases are restricted
The British Medical Journal says any dose of more than 4g or 75mg/kg over 24 hours for an adult is classed as an overdose
Overdosing on the drug can seriously or fatally damage the liver
Intravenous acetylcysteine is used to treat overdoses and treat hepatotoxicity

Also, if you're munching 500mg tablets four times a day to kill the pain or fever, you're already half way to what constitutes an overdose - though it is clearly FAR from an LD, even in mice.
I.e. People are "overdosing" on tylenol in a very "better safe than sorry" use of the term "overdose".

Meanwhile, DEATHS from overdosing on fentanyl in the US and its analogues has gone up from ~6000 in 2014, ~10000 in 2015, ~19000 in 2016 to ~29000 in 2017.

But have no fear. Trump has the best vaguely human-shaped leftover protoplasm working on it.
And it has already found the cure! Amazingly - it's ice cream and fries! Whodathunkit!

It's really tragic actually...
To think that thousand of lives could have been saved if only someone got those people to a McDonald's in time...
Who knew it was really that simple?

China agrees to buy more US agriculture products. China agrees to make Fentanyl a controlled substance. China agrees to negotiate on forced technology transfer. Yeah, China won on everything, for just a 90 day stay, didn't they?

While this may seem like an obvious conclusion. Many studies and news articles have reached different conclusions.

Personally, I think most of the complaining about millennials to just be old people becoming out of touch, as they always do.

You don't have to conquer Algeria to invest in solar power there. I think exporting solar power to Europe would be an excellent industry for North-African countries.

It may also have environmental benefits for the region.

The problem is, to have successful industry, you need a stable and honest government. Something North Africa lacks.

The French are literally rioting in the street over carbon taxes and the EU elite continue to cling to the comforting delusions that they'll be allowed to run anything in 2050.

1. Military ban
2. Medical practices from DHHS
3. Adoption Laws
4. Asserting they aren't covered under the 1964 Civil Rights Act
5. Considering rollback of protections under AHCA

6. That took 2 minutes of effort and I ignored a lot. Seriously, this isn't hard.

If your daughter has any Chinese blood in her, I'd be very careful about these statements. China treats all people with ethnic Han roots like Chinese citizens when they're in China, which includes all of the relevant responsibilities. Something quite a few naive Westernern born and raised people with Han roots have been finding out over last decades with everything from detention and fines to blocking of leaving China just because their relatives have something Chinese state has interest in.

Here's the latest example which has gotten too big for Western media majors to ignore:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world...

Unfortunately, reality proves that big auto companies never learn, even when the future is right in front of them (Tesla proving that electrical works and has many advantages).

Just today, an example: General Motors announced that it will close 8 plants.

One of the things that help the Daily Mail earn the bottom-of-the-barrel reputation they have is the way they steal anything that could pass for "real" journalism from other publications.

The article you posted, for example, is cribbed entirely from the BBC and Guardian.
https://www.bbc.com/news/busin...
https://www.theguardian.com/te...

None of this is relevant because very shortly after autonomous cars become mainstream, personal car ownership is going to fall off a cliff faster than you can say "autonomous". I fully expect that my child will never personally own a vehicle.

https://www.bbc.com/news/busin...

Faxing is annoying and slow. But it "just works."

Except when faxes get sent to the wrong place or get hacked

Peace on the Korean Peninsula

Seriously, we're back to just pointing out you're spending too much time sucking Trump off to be anything more than a complete fucking idiot when it comes to reality.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world...

https://www.newsweek.com/north...

https://www.independent.co.uk/...

That is not what peace looks like, except maybe to a sociopath or some worthless piece of shit that's never served.

Apple's latest top-of-the-line iPhone is not experiencing the sales frenzy that prior models enjoyed. Lackadaisical sales seems to be affecting their stock price. Admittedly, both of these can be short-term events or rationalized by pointing to "market conditions". However, an over-the-top approach like Samsung is suggesting seems like a bad idea.

How is using the Trump Organization's server any better than using one in her own home or office?

I cannot believe I am reading this sentence on a site full of people with deep technical understanding.

How is it different? Hillary's server contained MANY classified emails, and was stored in a closet in a bathroom in Denver!!

That means it was never administered with the care at corporate system would be - and indeed as a result, we can be pretty sure almost every state actor had access to the inner workings of the secretary of state. We know for sure the Chinese did. That's just remote access,, since it was stored in a persons home a common burglar could have easily just walked away with the server since it also lacked any of the physical security a corporate system has. Who knows if anyone did just that and cloned the drives, returning the system with no-one even knowing.

But lay all that aside, it also as I said laid bare the workings o the secretary of state. No disrespect to Ivanka but who cares if whatever she was doing leaked? What the wife of a president has to say has vastly less impact than the day to day emails of the secretary of state.

To this day I remain convinced that Hillary should not just have been imprisoned, she should have been tried for treason for her actions regarding state email. It mystifies me how anyone with even the slightest understanding of system administration and/or handling of classified material could feel any differently; it makes me think anyone who feels otherwise has probably been corrupted beyond redemption to be a tool for one particular political force. Why? Why on earth would you sacrifice technical understanding and morality to support such obviously criminal actions? Baffling.

Caveat: I'm an armchair bystander, not a physicist, so the following is just my layman's view.

As a researcher hoping to contribute to a larger project (ITER) you have to choose your focus, this is to min/max your contribution (read: published papers) according to your research budget. This group chose to go for the high temperature numbers, understandably, because it makes for a great press release and helps to secure budget for the next experiment. Their principal engineering contribution seems to be a pioneering use of superconducting magnets.

Ten seconds is actually a decently long time to maintain a plasma, it seems they have in mind to increase that by two orders of magnitude by improving this equipment, but that is still plenty of time to read out a whole lot of data. The last thing they want to do is burn up a lot of expensive hardware on an early test run by running it until it melts. Doesn't make for such a great press release, it eats up the budget and lays waste to the timeline.

You're hardly going to get good technical information from a press release, but there is plenty of good non-paywalled info on EAST out there on the net. From a quick look, I don't know how much heat they are generating from fusion at this point, but since they don't say much about it, I presume it is essentially all from external sources, and improving the external energy injection mechanisms is a major goal of their project. Ignition is not a goal of their project, it is not even a goal of ITER.

See, isn't this a whole lot more interesting than jumping onto the internet and swearing a lot while advertising your ignorance? You could have googled it first, just like I did.

Large metallic meteor impact? Mine it. True fact: pretty much all the gold we mine got here by way of metallic meteor impact. Our own gold supplies having sunk deep into the core before the crust was formed. South Africa got its gold this way. Of course, the crater that did it for them is a bit bigger, just the lava dome in the middle is twice the diameter of this Greenland crater.

They were giving (unpaid) rides with no safety drivers a year ago. I guess you missed that fact, despite me posting this very link for you many months ago.

Don't confuse the US with Russia where Putin runs disinformation campaigns to keep people off the ballot.

*cough* DNC

we need better laws to keep the news truthful

Excuse me? No, we need to keep all channels open, regardless what you think of their content.

You're really on the warpath here, aren't you?

The U.S. was not the first to impose tariffs. Even if you don't like Trump he is 100% correct right when he complains about tariffs from the EU and China being in place for years that are heavily weighted against the U.S.

What you are probably thinking about is reading recently about China raising new tariffs - but that does not mean they did not already have plenty to begin with.

What you and others not familiar with the by now ancient world of tariffs do not realize is, just how weak a hand China has... they will eventually capitulate. Just as Canada did.

China Emits More Carbon Dioxide Than The U.S. and EU Combined
And that is before adding in the new coal plants that China is adding before 2020, which will be more than what U.S. does. China will then emit more than the entire west or what EU combined with 2x U.S..

Bloody gits like you have your head in a bog and do not care one bit about the globe.

The first video mentioned in the TFA is: "Bath Song | +More Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs - Cocomelon (ABCkidTV)". Of course, children. YouTube's largest unofficial demographic that will watch anything put in front of them. One popular children channel has 6 billion views.

In 2018 EU decided to end daylight saving time. Or rather let all nation decide for themselves if they want it or not and thus themselves decide which time zone to be in. https://www.bbc.com/news/world...

International news https://www.bbc.com/news/world...

No no no. This is a serious issue. Japan is absolutely famous for its late trains and mass public apologies: https://www.bbc.com/news/world...

Except that you can't find a study that points to sugar rush actually being a thing. Even if what you said had actually occurred (and you have zero evidence that it did), other testing has occurred by scientists who were not funded by the candy industry.

There is no such thing as a sugar rush. There's plenty more evidence where this came from...

https://www.webmd.com/parentin...
http://www.yalescientific.org/...
https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/s...
http://www.bbc.com/future/stor...

English is the market leader because it is the language with the largest vocabulary by a very large margin. With this comes a culture of being very specific by choosing from a large number of words with quite similar meanings (despite the best efforts of many whose vocabulary is very limited).

Many other languages have far smaller vocabularies, and have cultures where being specific is not highly prized. This makes them less suitable for science and engineering,

In my relatively limited experience, Chinese falls into this category. German is certainly less specific than English in matters relating to time.

However, if you wish to deliberately obfuscate, I highly recommend Pidgin English - see https://www.bbc.com/pidgin for the official BBC version. Try using that for your next PHD on thermodynamic processes involving sub-atomic particles (or the benefits of a Vegan diet for Youtube users). I assume you can still claim it was English if you can cite the BBC. No be so, abi?

Some of the first attacks Trump made when he came to power were on scientific programs, and he wants to start having military parades.

This sentence may lead a causal reader to think one of the first things Trump wanted to do was start having military parades, which isnt the case.

~one year after being sworn in, he went to France, witnessed their military parade, and basically said "this is cool; we should do it too, and better".

One of many reports.

Paralysed man walks again after cell transplant

Are Apple and Microsoft competing to see who can be the most incompetent?

Microsoft pauses Windows 10 update after files disappear.

"the origins of so-called jaywalking lie in a propaganda campaign by the motor industry in the 1920s" - https://www.bbc.com/news/magaz... (Jay was a slur equivalent to redneck)

Yeah, sure, we stopped making CFCs...

https://www.bbc.com/news/scien...

Oops, except no, we didn't!!

Didn't they already do this? https://www.bbc.com/news/busin...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world...

the economic right wing own virtually everything. Talk radio is almost completely right of center (with NPR being a bit left on social issues but still centrist on the economy). Same with newspapers when it comes to money. Right of center.

What's more, America is not nearly as divided as the media tells you. 70% of us support medicare for all. You'll find similar numbers for marijuana legalization, infrastructure spending and putting a stop to our endless wars.

Americans are actually pretty well united. Our ruling class figured that out in the 50s. They used hot button wedge issues to motivate a fringe to vote against their interests and gerrymandering, voter suppression combined with our pseudo Democracy (e.g. Senate & Electoral College) to make sure the majority didn't get what they wanted.

But this created a problem. It was now too obvious America wasn't a Democracy anymore. So they bought up the media and started pushing a narrative that we're divided. We're not. Not on the issues anyway. We have a classic tyranny of the minority.

It should be common knowledge, since even Leftist media sources reported on it, but here ya go:
Wikipedia
New York Times
The NY Post
Fox News
BBC
Al Jazeera

Is that enough for you?

The New York Times reported that the Russians and the Chinese were eavesdropping on President Donald Trump's personal cellphone and using the information gleaned to better influence his behavior. This should surprise no one, writes Bruce Schneier.

My $0.02 why I am not surprised: -

Our government does routinely spy on friends

Our friends in the Mideast once returned the favor!

I guess we are getting a taste of our own MO.

Is still not that bad for a 34 mile bridge considering here in the states a single bridge that spans a river can cost close to a billion.

It has been dubbed the "bridge of death" by some local media. At least nine workers on the Hong Kong side have died and officials told BBC News Chinese that nine had died on the mainland side, too.

That is better though than the Hoover Dam of Death (>100), or our own Brooklyn Bridge of Death (24), or the worst construction project in U.S. history the the Hawksnest Tunnel (476-1000). But worker safety standards are higher now, even in China.

Is still not that bad for a 34 mile bridge considering here in the states a single bridge that spans a river can cost close to a billion.

It has been dubbed the "bridge of death" by some local media. At least nine workers on the Hong Kong side have died and officials told BBC News Chinese that nine had died on the mainland side, too.

We could do the same if worker safety weren't an issue either. And let's also remember their cost of capital is much less, too. And then there are none of those pesky job killing environmental regulations that protect people's health and the local environment. Of course, destroying the environment also destroys jobs in the fishing and tourism industries for examples; so environmental regulations preserve jobs in the end.

Mercantilism can go far but in the end, it bites you in the ass right up to the bung hole.

the "wrong" sort shouldn't be allowed to vote. They won't say it out loud though. They hide behind euphemisms. Most commonly they say that voting should take some work because if you're not willing to put the effort in you shouldn't be voting. This starts a discussion about how hard it should be to vote and distracts from the basic issue, which is voter suppression. It's a very effective straw man argument.

What it comes down to is conservatives want to keep progressives out of the political system. America's entire system is built to do that. It's why we have a Senate and Electoral college. We don't like to talk about it because we preach Democracy heavily. For some folks they can't even wrap their heads around how little actual Democracy exists in America.

Do you remember what your grade school civics classes taught you?

The United States is not and has never been a "Direct Democracy". It's a representative republic designed to weigh the interests of populous areas and less populous areas equally with one another.

The senate and electoral college achieve that means and it's by design from the onset. Heck, it wasn't until 1913 that we switched the selection of senators to the popular vote. Previously state governments voted on who their senators would be.

This system is why America is a large and powerful country where you have the right to move to any state you feel like with varying industries, culture, and weather.

The second America does away with those protections is the second this country fractures into small entities. And to be honest, i'm starting to believe that's what many people like yourself want.

the "wrong" sort shouldn't be allowed to vote. They won't say it out loud though. They hide behind euphemisms. Most commonly they say that voting should take some work because if you're not willing to put the effort in you shouldn't be voting. This starts a discussion about how hard it should be to vote and distracts from the basic issue, which is voter suppression. It's a very effective straw man argument.

What it comes down to is conservatives want to keep progressives out of the political system. America's entire system is built to do that. It's why we have a Senate and Electoral college. We don't like to talk about it because we preach Democracy heavily. For some folks they can't even wrap their heads around how little actual Democracy exists in America.

I lived in Finland for more than 5 years, and have a real soft spot for Finns & Finnish culture even now. There's just very little superficial BS involved, & I found that extremely refreshing.

I also agree about the Finnish sense of humo(u)r: Finns can be drily hilarious like no other people on Earth.

And yup: the language is tough. It's really cool, though: it can sound very mellifluous, but someone swearing well in it could frighten a Klingon. It was a big influence on Tolkien's Elvish language, Quenya. The influence on Tolkien of both the Finnish language and the national epic, the Kalevala, is something a lot of Finns are actually very proud of. There's a BBC article about it here:

https://www.bbc.com/news/magaz...

You have to keep pro-Brexit Facebook ads in perspective:

• The UK government spent more than Vote Leave's entire legal spending limit on a pro-Remain leaflet
• They enlisted Obama to state (incorrectly, it turns out) that the UK would be at the "back of the queue" for a trade deal
• They enlisted the IMF to state (incorrectly, it turns out) that a Leave vote would result in a recession by 2017
• Serious consideration is being given to a second referendum to overturn the first, which would never have happened if the result had been the other way — even if the EU continued its rapid evolution into a superstate
• much more

This level of gaming the system clearly dwarfs a few Facebook ads

Correct, and it has been part of the 'active measures' for a long time:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world...

It will probably not go away, and neither will the accusations against Facebook, as they are in the interest of the business model. FB will gladly 'admit' to the effectiveness of their advertising products in the media.

it's all bullshit. it's way too hard to fake an ip address and act like the post is coming from a different country, i.e. russia or china.

Correct, and it has been part of the 'active measures' for a long time:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world...
It will probably not go away, and neither will the accusations against Facebook, as they are in the interest of the business model. FB will gladly 'admit' to the effectiveness of their advertising products in the media.

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin

I took a look at that page and--wow!--you just can't make this stuff up. There, at the top of the page, was this gem:

One financial consultant and economic analyst for Nigeria don give five reasons why di kontri still dey among poor kontries for di world

Could've been worse...

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin

The research, carried out by green campaigners CoalSwarm, suggests that 259 gigawatts of new capacity are under development in China.
...
The report says that at present China has 993 gigawatts of coal power capacity, but the approved new plants would increase this by 25%.

Windy has been saying and showing proof that you wankers are adding lots more coal plants than the US has, and yet you call him a liar.
As I earlier, when your boss is done buggering you, you can then lick his knob clean.