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Okay, I know that you like to watch sattelite falling into the ocean from very close, but maybe you should start mooring your observering barge a little bit further away from Point Nemo.

I'm sure it's going to solve your speakers problem.

Just saying.

Re: "Uh, the vast majority of models I've seen are at least resistive, and often gyrokinetic or flat out kinetic instead of fluid. PIC is really popular for astrophysical plasmas, and a lot of the work on relativistic plasmas can't be fluid model at all."

There's an overt disconnect between what you are saying and the relentless onslaught of fluids concepts that appears within the analysis of astronomical plasmas. Whether or not the models in use are technically referred to as "fluids models", what is happening with them is that the plasmas are being modeled as fluids, without reference to electrodynamic plasma concepts observed within the laboratory.

There are by now numerous laboratory plasma physics concepts which generally don't appear in astrophysics papers -- including double layers, plasma instabilities (aka Peratt intabilities), z-pinches, critical ionization velocities, Marklund convection, and of course the force-free field-aligned Birkeland current.

Let's take an example from just this week. If you go to the original paper, it states:

Using numerical radiation hydrodynamical models, we show that the light curve of KSN 2015K is well fitted by a model where the supernova runs into external material presumably expelled in a pre-supernova mass-loss episode.

But, anybody who has spent time working with electrodynamic plasmas in the plasma laboratory should already be very familiar with the ring of vortices morphology, because this exact type of filamentation is what happens for the highest charge-density state of a conducting plasma, known as the z-pinch. In fact, plasma physicists have been imprinting electron beams onto a variety of materials for many decades now, producing this same form in the laboratory.

When people point out the obvious problem of failing to mention the correspondence between the astronomical and laboratory forms, people who honestly should know better tend to totally lose it, and it honestly creates a very anti-science situation where the exactly correct conversations are apparently out-of-bounds.

Personally, I believe that you understand where the disconnect is happening, and are just adopting a defensive posture. Why not be honest with us, and help us to better understand, in your own words, why objects like KSN 2015K and sn1987a cannot be considered the cosmic version of laboratory z-pinches? What physical features -- not just assumptions -- actually precludes such an analysis? An honest assessment would really help to advance the conversation.

More evidence of insufficient management at Apple:

iPhone X Owners Complain About Distortion, Crackling Sounds From Earpiece

It's important that this issue not become off-topic. All that is being theorized is that Apple CEO Tim Cook, like almost everyone, is not sufficiently capable of being the top-level manager of a huge company like Apple.

Is the iPhone X face ID a good idea? Watch a 10-Year-Old's Face Unlock His Mom's iPhone X

Now that it surfaces he is likely Cuban and prone to guile, it appears my instincts were spot on.

Except for the fact that you're flat out wrong, whereas I merely paraphrased in order to fit several different messages (as it changes based on which browser you're launching) into a single terse statement. Microsoft never used that qualifier; they did, however, say Edge is safer than Chrome and Firefox. Funny, I've never seen that popup for IE, Opera, or any other browser that isn't Chrome or Firefox.

But, they did specifically call out those two... then proceed to lose to them at Pwn2Own.

Oh, you've never seen it? I may have paraphrased, because the message is slightly different depending on which browser you're launching, but, well, it happens. In fact, it was reported here back in November.

Because end-to-end secured email is a pain, why not just use WhatsApp or one of the other messaging systems which provide end-to-end encryption?

Exxon has been ordered to hand over their global warming documents. This could blow the whole issue wide open. I wonder if Tillerson was involved in the cover up?

Yeah, I'm waiting on Samsung too. Supposedly it's coming late this year or early next year, but if you didn't want to wait and were on the ball and in the right country you could have signed up for one of the limited number of slots on the Galaxy Beta Program a few months back. Apparently that pushed out a Beta 3 release a week or so ago which focusses on bug fixes and enhancements, so other than a couple of outstanding bugs mentioned in the link we're not too far from release.

Perhaps VP10?

http://www.techtimes.com/artic...

That's hardly pocket-change, but it seems cheap for what would be the world's fastest-known supercomputer.

For comparison, Tianhe-2 (in number 2 spot) cost about $390M to build, and Sunway TaihuLight, the current number 1, went live in June of this year at a cost of $273M.

Motorola tried to make the highly customizable Moto X phone in the US, but failed.

Smartphones that don't have GPS are also a thing. None of my smartphones have ever had GPS.

If you connect to their network, they have a pretty good idea where you are, especially if you are moving.

Next thing you know, some of these people will figure out just how the cellular system works.

It isn't specifically designed to track us, but it has to know where we are. Even on a flip phone.

Obligatory Florida Man story http://www.techtimes.com/artic...

They just tracked him using the cell phone towers.

I'm seeing Slashdot Man conundrums with a cell phone jammer on a drone.

They approve of the jammer, but they have to shoot down the drone.

I know it sounds weird, but there is a lot of marketing that can be done to people concerned about greenhouse gases.

There is also a prior interest, as we can already turn a departed loved one's remains into a diamond. http://lifegem.com/

Do the phone companies keep records of detailed triangulation data for every customer, and if so, how often is it polled? Most likely, all they have is the cell tower the phone was connected to at the time, and a typical tower has a range of about 1km, a bit less in built-up areas.

I don't know how long they keep them, I suspect a fair while because the storage of all the records doesn't take up a huge amount of space, and there was a case of a Florida man (isn't is always Florida man?) http://www.techtimes.com/artic... but you take a triangulation of three towers receiving the phone, and there you have it. In a built up area that requires more towers, in principle you'd be more accurate, but you are dealing with signal strengths and propagation effects, so that little over a kilometer accuracy is about the best they can do.

Examples of Symantec's Reputation at Slashdot to reinforce your point: "Google Found Disastrous Symantec and Norton Vulnerabilities That Are 'As Bad As It Gets' " https://it.slashdot.org/story/...; "Symantec Antivirus Products Vulnerable To Horrid Overflow Bug" https://it.slashdot.org/story/...; "Antivirus Software Is 'Increasingly Useless' and May Make Your Computer Less Safe" https://it.slashdot.org/story/...; Adding a cherry on top, that at the time (1st quater of 2014) Symantec's senior vice president Brian Dye said anti-virus is dead. http://www.techtimes.com/artic....

Samsung has sold millions of these things. Three of them have caught fire. That makes the odds of a device catching fire less than 1 in 1,000,000. Business Insider says that 17 cars catch fire every hour. Where are the cries for recalling cars?

I'm going to keep a copy of your post for safe keeping. This "what about y" device is constantly being invoked as justification for everything from mass surveillance to red rum so often in so many different contexts it usually makes me cringe/sigh Al Gore style whenever I encounter it.

Boldly inquiring about cries for recalling products that catch on fire takes it to a whole new level.

http://www.reuters.com/article...

http://q13fox.com/2016/09/30/s...

http://abcnews.go.com/Business...

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http://jalopnik.com/5935974/fi...

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http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/01/...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04...

http://www.popularmechanics.co...

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http://www.streetdirectory.com...

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2...

If you want to hear cries from victims themselves click keywords and enter fire. http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/o...

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"After the adjustments were made, the Virginia Tech study estimates that human-driven vehicles find themselves in 4.2 crashes per million miles, as opposed to self-driving cars that find themselves in 3.2 crashes per million miles."

So automated driving was, in late 2015, already (4.2-3.2/4.2) ~25% safer.

6 million Surface tablets, ~20 million XBox Ones, ~20 million Windows Phones (I thought that would be more like 20 total). That means a majority is desktop/laptop sales and "free upgrades".

The strange part is the 200 million in 6 months. I'm not entirely sure how that was done, nor do i have the time to really dig into it. Maybe ATM's and POS registers have been upgraded?

I wouldn't be worried about his fines, I'd be more worried about the consequences of shooting at an aircraft in federal airspace.

That's a federal crime that could net you up to 20 years in jail.

The S7 is between $600 - $900 dollars depending on what CPU and radios you get. Samsung sticks some markets with their crappy home-built processor and others get the Snapdragon 820. Different carriers also certified different S7 phones... http://www.techtimes.com/artic...

The 64GB iPhone SE is $500 with a CPU that is on-par with the best Samsung S7. If you want a fast small phone, Android really sucks.

The 6s and 6s+ are about $100 more than equivalent speed variants from Samsung... but they are getting refreshed in a month so you can expect them to be cheaper/faster than Samsung at that time.

Rural suicide rates are higher, and the difference is increasing.

It looks like this is an area that the car sensor's do not see. Similar to this accident. http://www.techtimes.com/artic... The solution I think is to turn off autopilot until they put in sensors that see higher in front of the car.

Muhahahah.

It's coming for everyone.
http://www.techtimes.com/artic...
"WHO Warns Of Upcoming Obesity Epidemic In Europe"

I've said for years that it's not an "American" thing, it's an affluence thing.

Especially given the evidence that the birth defects were caused by insecticides.

With their utter failure to have any meaningful presence in the mobile phone world, Microsoft is using Cyanogen to infiltrate:

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Sorry, the normal user is really only three steps above an ape banging rocks together.

Windows learned this a long time ago and dumb down the interface as well as hid all the underlying stuff. Linux is just late to the party. It is still Linux, sure the user interface is dumbed down to the point for a monkey could operate it.

As to 2 years old, I chose it because it was not the most recent article. Recently chrome books hit 51% market share in the education market and that is what all the current stuff is about.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
http://www.pcworld.com/article...
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You just appear butt hurt because your tech toy is making inroads to mainstream usage. Keep playing with your Linux distros, the average user wants simple and Linux, with the help of google and others, are providing it. You dont like Chromebook, or android? Then dont run it. Just remember, Linux is the kernel and anything with a Linux kernel is "Linux" it may be be GNU Linux, it may not be a desk top, but it is still Linux whether you like it or not.

Leslie Corrice's Hiroshima Syndrome is the best all-round source. Corrice's site is an amazing work, he has collected into one place facts as they became known, and news coverage of the events. He is particularly attuned to distortions, exaggerations and certain scenarios that have been delivered to the press chosen for their dramatic description despite a laughably low probably. And unlike just about everyone else, he strives to segregate his news reporting from his own commentary.

Some no-hype and anti-hype information sources compiled by The Actinide Age,

What actually happened, written clearly by a radiation professional and teacher, Les Corrice ... Putting Health Risks from Radiation Exposure into Context: Lessons from Past Accidents Professor Geraldine Thomas, Imperial College London, April 2011 ... Also quoted in New Scientist ... The D-shuttle project comparing negligible radiation doses internationally in 2014, and its published open access paper ... Real-time radiation monitoring network for Japan. See if you can find a reading higher than this ... Internal radiocesium contamination of adults and children in Fukushima 7 to 20 months after the Fukushima NPP accident (all below detection limit in 2012) ... in Proceedings of the Japan Academy ... Radiation dose rates now and in the future for residents neighboring restricted areas (after 2012, will not cause detectable health impacts) ... in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ... Will Boisvert confirms that wild claims of Japanese thyroid cancers in 2015 are based on bad science. Dr Jonathan Kellogg summarises the academic criticism ... Tim Worstall confirms that wild claims of a single Tepco worker developing radiation cancer is mere anti-nuclear opportunism ... Articles on the mental health impacts of long term evacuation in Medical News Today and Tech Times, and the cited 2015 Lancet study ... Ocean contamination in 2012(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) and in 2015(Scientific Reports) --- already comparable to natural radioactivity ...

Apple released a fix for this issue days after it made the media.

Oh dear ... AC, it appears you're right:

http://www.techtimes.com/artic...
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Sorry, 110010001000.

Apple released a fix for this issue days after it made the media.

Oh dear ... AC, it appears you're right:

http://www.techtimes.com/artic...
http://www.techtimes.com/artic...

Sorry, 110010001000.

Invalid argument.

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Everyone is wrong occasionally.

I seriously doubt a major 15 minute segment would be wrong in any central and fundamental facts. And in this case, it's not.

You'd need to show the areas he said charge for public defenders actually do not charge for public defenders. Which you did not do.

Put it this way... you were wrong sometime in the past year about something, so your current argument is invalid.

It's just as invalid a technique when I do it to you as when you did it with john oliver.

there is absolutely no reason why it shouldn't be able to install a new version on older phone

And you're oh so right. There is no reason you shouldn't be able to. With about 2 minutes worth of research, you'll find that you can, actually.

http://www.techtimes.com/artic...

I think you are mistaken. I think they cannot force you to cough up the password without a warrant or court order. I think this because I once gave an invited talk on this very subject to a law enforcement symposium, and an FBI agent supported by his pals in both the feeb and regular law enforcement told me this. Now, I'll bet he is a more authoritative voice than you are. If anything, I imagine it has gotten easier to force a password since then by legal coercion.

You know who is an even more authoritative voice than said "FBI agent"? Federal Judge Mark Kearney http://www.techtimes.com/articles/89960/20151001/your-phone-password-is-protected-by-the-fifth-amendment-authorities-cant-make-you-unlock-it.htm/

... clearly none of you have even tested a build of win10 because you are still whining about non-existent issues.

As someone who has a Windows 10 box, I'll agree that it's not a dream OS for stability, but it still has a large number of issues that people keep hammering. Not convinced? Here are a few articles about Windows 10 data collection from PC Mag and ComputerWorld. How to regain some privacy at Polygon and Techtimes. Finally, that Microsoft doesn't see (or care) about the privacy risk for all this data collection. Nor have they explained what is being collected, for what purpose, how it is being stored, and who has access to it. I had to add rules to my home router to block traffic to MS's servers, something I doubt the typical user would do.

On top of that, there's plenty of issues even with games. MS took down GFWL in favor of their store. However, older GFWL games will install the old software automatically, and give you some interesting crashes (SSF4:AE and SFxTekken both crashed miserably and forced a reboot). Other games require reinstallation or reacquiring of assets through Steam (Saints Row 4 is one). Some are unable to play fullscreen (Xeodrifter is one example). Some will simply only run when the planets are aligned (DmC: Devil May Cry starts as a service for some stupid reason... I rarely get the actual game).

Don't be a fuckwit, his first sentence said that the Apple Watch is the most used by a large margin. It doesn't change the fact these are expensive niche status symbols most people don't want. The sales numbers are so low the suppliers are losing money, and that's with practically free China labor, they still can't break even.

Apple Watch is almost as big a failure as Google Glass, it's a solution to a problem that doesn't exist, many millions of dollars ventured to create a product people don't want.

Because LEGO Dimensions appears not to be coming to PC.

"The PC has stopped being the primary computing device of most people meaning that if they don't make it big on the mobile front they'll be irrelevant in the long run."

Agreed. But I think Microsoft will not "make it big" with mobile software.

Products that face low sales because of abuse and foolishness:

Windows: If you have Windows 7, why get a new version? At some point the version you have is enough. Apparently there aren't any new features in Windows 10 that are attractive to customers. Apparently the new features in Windows 10 are all anti-customer.

Google is becoming more and more abusive: F.T.C. Is Said to Investigate Claims That Google Used Android to Promote Its Products.

Apple iPhones: What will the future iPhone 7 have that the iPhone 6 doesn't have? Digital Turnip Twaddling? At some point people will stop rushing to buy new iPhones.

Apple watches? Now that Steve Jobs is dead, Apple no longer releases easy-to-use products. Apple now does the Microsoft thing and releases buggy products that it slowly fixes. Articles:

Verdict: "... there's a learning curve you have to overcome..."

Seven problems facing the Apple Watch

Apple Watch: Issues We Know Of And Possible Fixes.

Opinion: One month later, fixing 15 early Apple Watch problems seems straightforward

These 8 problems with the Apple Watch are 'infuriating'

9 of the biggest complaints about the Apple Watch so far

8 Infuriating Problems With The Apple Watch

Yes, it tells the time. The watch shows text messages on an iPhone so that it isn't necessary to take the phone out of a pocket. But, does that justify paying $500 or $1,000?

Would you want your company to suffer the destruction of reputation faced by Apple?

Seven problems facing the Apple Watch

Apple Watch: Issues We Know Of And Possible Fixes.

Opinion: One month later, fixing 15 early Apple Watch problems seems straightforward

These 8 problems with the Apple Watch are 'infuriating'

9 of the biggest complaints about the Apple Watch so far

8 Infuriating Problems With The Apple Watch

Upon re-reading, there is a statement regarding the drone becoming a danger after being shot.

But if that's what the government is worried about, the drone was a danger before it was shot too -- it doesn't take a shotgun shell to make a drone become a hazard.

No government is worried about people shooting guns in populated areas. Drones are a hazard, but that is a separate issue.

Sure, I can understand laws against shooting, but to claim that he shouldn't have shot the drone because it could fall down and hurt someone ignores the problem that drones *already* fall from the sky even when people don't shoot them.

Upon re-reading, there is a statement regarding the drone becoming a danger after being shot.

But if that's what the government is worried about, the drone was a danger before it was shot too -- it doesn't take a shotgun shell to make a drone become a hazard.

No government is worried about people shooting guns in populated areas. Drones are a hazard, but that is a separate issue.

Upon re-reading, there is a statement regarding the drone becoming a danger after being shot.

But if that's what the government is worried about, the drone was a danger before it was shot too -- it doesn't take a shotgun shell to make a drone become a hazard.

That's a pretty arrogant statement given you are demonstrably oblivious to how broadly your statements don't apply. Apps don't automatically record what I do: If I run 10km on the treadmill the app doesn't know that (though most fitness trackers have a pretty inaccurate attempt at guessing based on the step counter, which is terribly inaccurate in any wrist-worn device), and for bench/curls/dips/flys/etc it doesn't know how much or how many reps. Additionally most don't track essential fitness variables like blood pressure, blood oxygen level, respiratory rate, etc.. Most are also really inaccurate when it comes to measuring calories burned.

wow. first, i did a typo and meant 8.3. the last jailbreak was for 8.1.2, so very few were at risk. but just yesterday the 8.3 jailbreak was released! so I take back what I said. http://www.techtimes.com/artic...

This is me sucking on the dick of truth: B====D ~ ~ ~

The fault of that lies in Congress.
Spend Middle East War money on NASA and science and it goes a lot faster.

You cannot successfully argue against war itself as a waste of human resources or a needless monetary expense. Sure you can philosophize and get a show of nodding heads in peacetime, but then something awful happens and someone shouts "Remember the Maine!" or "Hitler will invade the UK, then Mexico!" or "Let's get Bin Laden!" and all is moot. Inquiring line items is useful... such as whether ~$60 billion disappeared while out-sourcing the supply line or whether airlifting $40 billion in 'unmarked bills' into Iraq was a great idea.

Be sure to tune in C-SPAN today [Sunday] at 4:00pm ET to see how many senators believe the Patriot Act is a good thing. But I'd bet my bottom dollar that all the NSA rhetoric will center on so-called 'call metadata sharing agreements' with nary a word about full content backbone taps which are the greatest threat.

Government spending is a mysterious process. When it is time for the Fed to mint virtual money for Quantitative Easing, bail out banks by easing their losses, or the Federales to finance wars by raising the trade deficit ceiling and selling bonds to the Chinese we are awash in Magical Unicorn Money. When it is budget time every cent is haggled or omnibussed. Clearly this beast has two heads.

But you have to get more specific than 'military spending'. Pick something, anything and try to start a grass roots movement to attack it. Or better yet, just spend your time 'selling' space exploration in all of its forms. Neil deGrasse Tyson wasn't completely joking when he suggests that a militarized space race with China (or rumors thereof) would jump-start the process. A new Cold War would certainly unlock that Magical Unicorn Money. It may seem odd but weaponizing space is actually a good idea.

But there is something I call the 'Pizza Delivery Syndrome', where someone desirous of something, say a Space Program, will seize upon a money-factoid such as this

cite "Consumers spend around 33 billion U.S. dollars in quick service pizza restaurants each year in the United States. Takeout pizza constitutes the largest share of spending within this category at nearly 15 billion U.S. dollars annually, followed by pizza delivery at around ten billion. This is perhaps unsurprising considering more than 20 percent of U.S. consumers eat takeout or delivered meals at least once a week. While older generations appear less dependent on such services, around 40 percent of 18 to 54 year olds felt that takeout food was essential to their way of life as of November 2014..."

and create, out of thin air, some hypothetical world where every one who desires a pizza is visited by a Fairy Godmother who smiles and asks, do you really want that pizza or could we all fulfill mankind's most glorious dream? Your wish is my command. In this scenario they always choose the pizza, statistics show. It serves as foundation for acerbic commentary on the wretched excess of modern humans. This is a dead end because (on the whole) people would rather talk about pizza than space.

Ask not what pizza lovers can do for you.
Ask what you can do to send pizza into

All you can eat internet is going to drive up prices.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
http://nypost.com/2015/02/12/n...
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http://www.nerdwallet.com/blog...

I'm about 6 months into driving a Passport.
I am pretty happy with it, I do like the larger screen when I need to read spreadsheets, email is well thought out, the "keyboard + touchpad" is clever.
Haven't noticed it crashing like my last android (HTC One).
Some Android apps easily available from the Amazon app store.
Built-in map navigation was hard to use, adding google maps helped.
The only thing I really miss is having the Uber app... but I'm getting by with traditional taxis (which is fine for work travel mainly, so I don't miss uber... much).
It does have a learning curve; worth taking an hour or two to learn ui-gestures and keyboard shortcuts.
*shrug* which is fine for me, I don't expect power tools to have zero learning curves.
I bought unlocked through Amazon, apparently you can see them in AT&T stores as of Feb 2015 (haven't looked myself, just passing the note along in case you are ever out phone shopping in person to try "look and feel."

No, we're far from having cars that drive as well as humans. It's such a large open research problem that we just got a 32-acre fake city to help develop driverless cars.

And you are fucking lucky that people took proactive measure to curb ozone depletion.

I am, actually, surprised, your kind has not claimed credit for the global warming slowing/disappearing already...

It would've been rather nifty of you to explain the failure of all predictions to materialize: "See, we warned you, thanks to our efforts we are still living above water!"