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Quite a few countries there... And in Venezuela they are starting to use if more and more because of their national currency crapping out..

So yes, there are many legitimate uses for bitcoins... Maybe not where you live, but it's growing so maybe one day..

Myself i pay for a number of services (vpn, web-hosting, funding of some crowd-sourcing projects) online with bitcoin.. None of them illegal, it's just easier and more secure for me to use bitcoin to pay for it.

"Drivers will also get a cut of Uber's "teen fare" which had previously gone exclusively to Uber. "

Wait, what? Uber has been charging a special higher fare for teens... but the driver was (up until now) getting the same amount????

How does that make any sense? If there's a surcharge because teens are in some way harder to deal with-- what, do they damage the cars, or what?-- the driver is the one dealing with it-- the driver should get the surcharge and Uber get zero part of it.

Not much info about the teen surcharge, but here are a few comments. The drivers seem annoyed:
https://motherboard.vice.com/e...
https://www.reddit.com/r/uberd...
https://uberpeople.net/threads...

Wow, looks like Apple have taken the design features of the GNXT text editor and turned it into a phone UI.

i'm only 30 but I didn't get a mobile until i was 16, and that was a 3310. But if I was born later I would use a smart phone as a Kid. Sounds like this "father" needs to visit /r/Phonesarebad. Meanwhile scientists recommend iPads from birth.

Announcement: https://lists.debian.org/debia...

Yeah! https://bits.debian.org/2017/0...

Follow the progress @ Debian micronews: https://micronews.debian.org/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/debian
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/debia...

According to the author of the article, the $422m figure is the average estimated cost per launch, figuring all the cost-plus, launch-readiness extra costs, with one Delta Heavy and several Atlas Vs.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space...

Also, SpaceX are giving launch cost figures for the Falcon Heavy, which are listed on the site as $90m for 8mT to GTO.
Of course it hasn't launched yet so things may change, but you can't say they're not giving these figures.

Of course for a one-off satellite that costs several billion some extra margin of safety might be worth the cost, but when we're talking about something multiple identical units like GPS, it might be cost effective to just build a few extra ones.

Announcement: https://lists.debian.org/debia...

Yeah! https://bits.debian.org/2017/0...

Follow the progress @ Debian micronews: https://micronews.debian.org/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/debian [twitter.com]
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/debia...

As much as I love the idea of an ansible, and while I'm no physicist, I have seen it stated time and time again that quantum entanglement doesn't get you instantaneous communication.

http://naapo.org/WOWCometRebuttal.html

Another detailed rebuttal on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Astro... Well worth reading. Also, take a look at this comment from last year that gives a bit more background info about the author of that study: https://www.theguardian.com/sc...

Several crypto coins have been designed specifically to thwart GPU and FPGA mining.
The Raspberry Pi 3 seems to get 10 Hash/s of Monero mining.
10 H/s of XMR yields about $1.10 per day.

So the cracker isn't getting rich, but they can generate a modest supplementing income. I assume many Raspberry Pi on the Internet are installed and forgotten about. Nobody notices 100% CPU load if the cracker uses nice -n19.

there's an entire subreddit devoted to trump contradicting himself (mostly on twitter).. it is a fucking goldmine. could be where 4 out of 5 late night hosts source some of their material.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Trump...

In contrast, my Lenovo Thinkpad's keyboard cost all but $10, and I replaced it myself in just a few minutes.

That, and they also have a service manual collection detailed enough to hint at potential mods.

I don't see Apple ever letting one of these happening easily. Or even allowing raw logic boards to be in the hands of the "unwashed".

I also don't see them allowing enough documentation for various x220 screen upgrades, keyboard mods for x230's, or even an out-of-spec processor support upgrade for a W520.

Github wanted to host a conference.

Apparently the speakers were chosen "blind", i.e. the proposed topics were put to a panel without any details about who the speaker was who'd be presenting that topic. That way the panel was able to choose the speakers for the event without knowing their names, sex, race, sexual orientation or anything else about them. They were choosing purely on the topics the speakers wanted to present.

Result: a whole lot of fucking white males!

Obviously that's unacceptable, so naturally they had to cancel the conference rather than host a lineup of speakers chosen purely on merit. /s

https://news.ycombinator.com/i...
https://www.reddit.com/r/MensR...

Doh, it seems that the URLs didn't survive the submit, so here they are again:

- reddit comments on gtk+ breaking HiDPI - https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/6cf1dq/what_was_the_most_baffling_problem_in_linux_youve/dhuhuk4/

-bugzilla report - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757142

There is an industry software that gets used a lot called iNews. There's a reddit thread with comments from people who work at news orgs. Vox Media (The Verge, SBNation, Curbed, Polygon) built its own CMS called Chorus. The NYTimes uses WordPress for some of its blogs. And I assume the Washington Post built their own since, well, Bezos.

Mozilla is breaking thousands of extensions in November including uBlock, and is integrating a clippy clone into Firefox as of version 55. It also moved the refresh button again with no way to move it back.

Mozilla can no longer be trusted as a voice on the web as it keeps crippling a once great web browser. in November we will be stuck with spyware browsers or having to pay thousands of dollars to get a Mac to get the new tracking protection in Safari.

A Chromebit or Chromebox as described here: http://www.androidcentral.com/... coupled with a portable Bluetooth or USB dongle-connected keyboard and mouse should work. We've been playing with these for signage but trying them out at home or at hotel rooms. They plug into HDMI TVs or monitors, and you can even install Ubuntu on them for a full stand-alone experience. (See https://www.reddit.com/r/chrom... for example.) Yes, you can find Windows alternatives, but what's the point?

Wrong forum. Go here: https://www.reddit.com/r/tipof...

Fresh hit usually refers to something like smack or coke or poppers. Msmash, are you dim?

You just have to read https://www.reddit.com/r/tales... to know why this is true

For LSD, 10 - 30g is the recommended microdose amount. . However, this is FAR above the "homeopathy" style amount. A normal tab of LSD is usually 100-150, so this is still 10x higher than most homeopathic doses. LSD is pretty powerful; even a small amount will have effects. The basic idea is not to trip out and travel but just enough to stimulate creativity while remaining in the real world still.

The lack of patent encumbered algorithms in MP3 means two things:

1. 1. The MP3 gstreamer codecs can move from the non-free repositories to free for Linux distributions. So no more complaints from software like Amarok about missing MP3 support libraries on your Linux desktops. That's one less step to setup Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora or openSuse. Even though there are plenty of reasons (CAD software, WMA support, etc) to seek out the non-official or non-free package sources I expect less use.
2. 2. Corporate users will be able to download, integrate and use the MP3 format in their projects with only a cursory approval from legal. I used to see quite a few video game projects use .ogg files and fmod for their sound. I expect to see more of them ship with MP3s instead.

Audio snobs won't stop arguing about the format of the week or FLAC verses DSD or the best bit rates on PCM encoded WAV files.

Mere consumers shall continue on with our plebeian fidelity sound as always.

Online buyers will continue to download low bit rate MP3s to squeeze a few more hundred tunes onto their Zune. Everyone you know will still play studio damaged music through tiny earbuds.

Ehhh, not yet, but I'm loving this subreddit

Speaking of which, anyone out there ever experiment with poppers or battery terminal cleaner?
 
--Beau

Looks like Opera Mini is worse. It includes all the Google spyware that Chrome has plus additional third party spyware:

https://www.reddit.com/r/opera...
http://www.opera.com/privacy/m...

Even the privacy policy for the non-mini versions include pretty vague data collection:

"The information we collect may include: personal data, for example your name, email, IP-address, location; and non-personal technical data, for example who manufactured your device, your screen's resolution, your mobile operator's region and code."

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I have quite a good discussion about Custom Support and MS quarterly earnings here: https://www.reddit.com/r/micro...

ITS has an unusually large gamble involved, even by the standards of Musk's companies. Just to pick issue one of many: it's cryogenic composite tanks. Composites and cryogenics don't play well together; there have been attempts in the past, and they were failures. Musk is wanting to take us from "zero launch vehicles of any size using composite cryogenic tanks" to "by far the largest launch vehicle ever built, fully reusable up to a thousand times (for the booster), out of composites". That's a huge jump. ...

They're also working on insanely high pressure, full flow staged combustion engines with a rarely used propellant mix, used up to a thousand times each with low maintenance...

Ordinarily I'd agree with you. If we were talking about the usual suspects (NASA/Boeing/LockMart), they'd have a pile of paper at this stage and not much else.

But SpaceX has (had) a giant carbon fiber tank which they successfully burst tested to 2/3rds the design pressure back in November, then blew up testing with liquid nitrogen on February 17th 2017. (Judging by the pictures, it failed at the equatorial seam.)

They've built and tested a 1/3rd scale Raptor engine (which I presume you already knew, but other readers might not). It's the first full flow methane fueled rocket engine ever to be test fired, and only the second full flow design in history. (The first was Russia's RD-270, tested back in 1967.)

Having done those things is impressive enough, but the absurdly fantastic part is how rapidly they've done it. They were in Mississippi at the Stennis Space Center in late 2013 to refurbish and modify the E2 test stand to handle methane. Slashdot covered that. They were done with that process April 21st, 2014. Slashdot didn't notice that part. They used that test stand to validate their design and conducted the scale model test firing on September 26th, 2016, just 2 years, 5 months, and 5 days later. And it worked. They were so sure it would work, they didn't even bother with the customary 'burp' test to be sure it would ignite properly. That's a ridiculously rapid development process for any rocket motor, let alone for a design that's been done only once before in history and never for the fuel they selected. For comparison, development of the F-1 used on the Saturn V started in 1955 for the Air Force and it wasn't until 1965 that it underwent a successful test firing without destroying itself, after three years of self-destructive test firings.

SpaceX have definitely set themselves some very hard tasks, but their demonstrated ability to actually get to the test article stage, and from there to the production stage, and to do so quickly, is unmatched in modern times.

Comments started being posted on 4/28/2017, right away a comment about astroturfing the fcc showed up on a liberal sub-reddit. Without a doubt a dumb liberal false flag, the comments had to be so repetitive,stupid and that it was anti-Obama thus no-one could disagree that it was right wing trump nut-jobs (wink, wink) astroturfing https://www.reddit.com/r/esist...

There's a real reason USB 3 can be a problem.
Don't we all remember this?

https://plus.google.com/+BensonLeung/posts/LH4PPgVrKVN

https://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus6P/comments/3robzo/google_spreadsheet_for_usbc_cables_with_benson/

Then GOP USA=Sudan & Somalia.

First of all, Sudan has (almost) nothing in common with Somalia — if anything, Sudan's government is too authoritarian. The below applies to Somalia only:

They have no government at all and anarchy

Somalia's problems stem from having a Collectivist government in the past — they are simply at the more advanced stage of what Venezuela is facing.

Both countries are a libertarian paradise.

Wrong. Yours is such a silly meme, it has been debunked numerous times.

But you knew that already — your aim was to portray my argument about Venezuela equally invalid as yours. Well, they don't compare. Because unlike Somalia, Venezuela was repeatedly and actively praised by the very same people calling for the US to "accept progressive principles". Hugo Chavez was a darling of the world's Socialists. Heck, some of these morons continue to adore Maduro!

When I asked DogDude, what would President Sanders do differently from El Presidente Chavez, he got all indignant and would not answer — nor would any other Sanders-sympathizers I've encountered. But Republicans and Libertarians would list a multitude of differences between Somalia and what they would do, given a chance.

As I said, whatever is wrong with the US healthcare, "adopting progressive principles" is not a solution. It would by like treating a headache with suicide.

538 - hahahahaha

It like the old meta-joke where people know all the jokes so well, they give them numbers.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes...
http://www.realnothings.com/fa...

It's a copypasta, Lester. Smaller type'a troll.

https://www.reddit.com/r/copyp...

I'm going to go out on a limb here and state that progressives don't encourage actual anarchists. Most of us are older than 15.

Likewise, I'm not really accusing conservatives of being defined by the immigrant hating, pro-violence, alt-right movement. Both parties will have wing-nuts and extremists which take ideals too far. I mean, if you want a flavor of reddit right-wing hate-mongering, here you go.

It was never the Federal Government's business what a school kid was eating for lunch.

Nope. Turns out Civil Rights matter(somebody passed the 14th Amendment, perhaps while you were sleeping), and in Brown v. Board of Education, and related cases, the court found MASSIVE amounts of discrimination based on race, including the quality of the school lunches. Or even existence.

Furthermore, given that pretty much every state considers it an obligation to provide a system of education (to be honest, I don't know of any that don't, but I'll accept that some might not explicitly phrase it in their constitutions, nonetheless, it is a clear majority, making it accepted by consensus), the Federal Governmnent is obligated to ensure effectiveness, because it must ensure that the States meet their own obligations. That's in the Constitution.

In fact, speaking of treaties, the US has made several with Indian tribes which obligate them to those tribe's school-age kids, the US Congress is responsible, by the Constitution itself, for the District of Columbia (which has school kids), the US military dependents include many school kids which the US government is obligated to serve, by regulation enacted through the Constitution, and there's also the Foreign Service, who are clearly in the position where the Federal Government is obligated to them.

So not only are you wrong on moral principles, you're wrong on legal principles, and your absolute claim is wrong on technical facts.

Sorry, Kohath, I know you love your soundbites, but it's easy to destroy your thoughtless and ill-considered rhetoric, because you know what? You're really just quite stupid. At a basic and fundamental level, you're stupid, and let the mindless indoctrination you've been subjected to, drive you into showing off your inanity, as you recite the mantras of the Sovereign Citizen movement.

That's what Reddit is for, after all.

Reddit is way ahead of you, making 3D sculptures from 2D photos was already on topic four days ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/tales...

we're lucky this got announced early, so there have been efforts to save this data:

Github repo

list of mirrors

another one

more

even more

Could you remind me how many people SpaceX has killed? Boeing and Lockheed have certainly killed people in the past.

If you're referring to the AMOS 6 ground failure, ignoring that part of the whole point of flying a stack unmanned as much as you can before you fly it manned is to shake out any problems, is that a manned mission would have almost certainly survived that. Unless the launch escape system failed, despite the drama, that was an eminently survivable. How do we know this? Because AMOS-6's hypergolic propellant tanks didn't ignite until the satellite hit the ground. AMOS-6 had the fairing as some extra protection, but on the other hand, the satellite itself isn't nearly as durable as a crew dragon.

The launch escape system ignites within milliseconds of a failure being detected and almost immediately reaches full thrust, accelerating away at 10gs. Here's a graphic of Dragon's abort test superimposed over the AMOS-6 failure. Things like this are the very reason that launch escape systems exist. NASA's last manned space vehicle lacked such a system entirely. And while their design for the Shuttle ultimately wasn't chosen, you know what? Lockheed's proposal didn't have one either. And it had a strong impact on influencing the final Shuttle design outcome.

And Manchin is a DINO, anyway. He votes with the GOP most of the time, after all.

On the bright side, he is one of the biggest primary targets for groups like Our Revolution and Justice Democrats, who are trying to rid the Democratic party of these kinds of corporate lackeys...

http://thehill.com/homenews/ca...

https://www.facebook.com/Prima...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Sande...

https://decisiondeskhq.com/qui...

to sequester the CO2 in the trees

You're not getting it. It takes energy to do this. In one form or another. Electricity has to be generated for the heating elements to get hot enough to create charcoal, or something has to be burned near enough to make it hot.

Even then it's pointless as the process to make charcoal to begin with requires an atmosphere starved environment. There's no CO2 to absorb, and produces other harmful elements.

They mean well, but they are just as ignorant as the fat cat paying their salaries. In the meantime I am certain someone has something to *sell* you to save the planet.

http://www.customs.go.jp/ccl/e...

https://www.reddit.com/r/asksc...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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(*)> THIS IS WHY GETTING YOUR SCIENCE FROM THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY IS BAD (*)

In "about:config" change "fayout.frame_rate" from -1 to 60 (or whatever your monitor runs at). For some stupid reason, Firefox renders as fast as your CPU can handle 100% of the time.

fayout.frame_rate = -1 means "refresh at device rate", not "infinite refresh rate" (that's what = 0 does). So setting it to 60 should have no effect on a typical system. See developer comment here.

Never played it. But Planetside 2 is great! And free! And struggling because they moved all of their devs to H1Z1.

So much salt...

Yeah, this is a choice between the possibility of malware vs. the certainty of it.

(The real right answer is "Linux," of course. And the other right answer is to avoid the newer Intel chips that are infected with the Intel Management Engine backdoor and the newer AMD chips that are infected with the Platform Security Processor backdoor to begin with.)

It also means that there's still wiggle room for those who are certain that it doesn't exist

I found this post on /r/space pretty convincing. It's hard to argue with so many independent observations.

ThatOnePrivacyGuy on /r/privacy manages That One Privacy Site, including a handy VPN section:

https://thatoneprivacysite.net...

Unlike most other VPN reviews, this one encourages community discussion and appears to be impartial.

ThatOnePrivacyGuy on /r/privacy manages That One Privacy Site, including a handy VPN section:

https://thatoneprivacysite.net...

Unlike most other VPN reviews, this one encourages community discussion and appears to be impartial.

ThatOnePrivacyGuy on /r/privacy manages That One Privacy Site, including a handy VPN section:

https://thatoneprivacysite.net...

Unlike most other VPN reviews, this one encourages community discussion and appears to be impartial.

Yes and no. Distros that require NVRAM still don't work without modification because the UEFI implementation still doesn't have any. (I talk to the guys doing the firmware on pretty much a daily basis.) But Windows runs now on machines you wouldn't have expected. I had a CB3-111 "Gnawty" and was one of the first to attempt to run Windows 10 on it. It didn't so much run, as walk with a limp. It was a very unpleasant experience. Nine months later, they've got all that sorted out and it runs fine (up to the limits of a 16GB eMMC), but I already sold the Gnawty and bought a Peppy (C720), which was well-supported even then, including OS X on the i3 model. since the lead developer of the Chromebook coreboot project said "get a C720, they just work", then I figured just maybe I should get a C720 rather than fighting with "free" hardware. I have no regrets, except that the Peppy is not fanless like the Gnawty. It rarely makes enough noise to matter, though.

Here's one of the places they hang out.

Android with Bluetooth keyboard: PC because it can run AIDE.

The a Chromebook is also a PC, because it can also run AIDE, which I found out with Google. You could have, too.

even reddit mods nixed the original posting of the video (in /r/videos)

https://www.reddit.com/r/video...

https://www.reddit.com/r/undel...

but *supposedly* not because of caving to corporate interests but for showing "police brutality" and "assault and/or battery"