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Ask any child of five. And they could have told you this was going to be a problem. I had one of these when I was five and learned a lot about solar.

How are YOUR businesses doing?

Well, I'm invested largely in S&P 500 indexed funds. According to analysts, those are doing about twice as good as Trump's businesses. So if business acumen is your yardstick, you should vote for me long before you vote for Trump.

Statistically speaking, we are currently governed mostly by lawyers. Oh, and the rich. If you are a rich, charismatic lawyer, your future as a politician is bright.

Of course scientists aren't perfectly rational. But do you think they are better at making policy decisions than what we currently have? Or more objective than the topmost 0.1% of the rich who have never depended on a paycheck? Just demanding supporting evidence would be a huge improvement over how policy is currently set: by debates that are little more than an extensive survey of the various logical fallacies, and by forming coalitions of selfish lawmakers who are either getting personal kickbacks or pork for their home district.

Besides, for everybody who is panicking that scientists will lead us to some sort of horror novel society where ethics are forgotten, scientific thinking makes you more moral.

The question isn't whether Tyson's Rationalia would be perfect - it's whether it would be better than our current government which amounts to groupthink among advantaged narcissists. The answer seems pretty clear to me. Let's elect some more scientists and engineers, and let's demand the same burden of proof on policymakers that we expect of middle school science fair projects.

Oh, are you kidding? Now that Snapchat can SAVE the pictures taken with your camera to your very phone... I say it increases the 20 or so billion Snapchat market cap by another 5 at least, basically adds the value of an airline like Lufthansa to the extremely important piece of Internet infrastructure that is Snapchat. I mean pfft, an airline with 268 aircraft (615 aircraft if you count all of the subsidiaries)., 220 destinations, 32.4 Billion Euro in assets, about 32 billion in revenues, 1.67 billion in operating income, 1.69 billion in net income, 5.8 billion in equity, carrying over 106 million paying passengers in 2014...

versus

Snapchat, a 25.8MB phone application, OK? Available in 20 languages! Images that can (supposedly) disappear in 10 seconds, delivering amazing 10 BILLION video views a day.

In May 2016, Snapchat raised $1.81 billion in equity offering

. Eat that, Lufthansa.

I know that as does probably just about everyone on /. but do you remember how much of a deal the news media made about the terrorists using encrypt during their coverage of the attacks. It now looks like since the initial frenzy is over with that and people have it in their mind that it was because of encryption officials were unable to stop the attacks the media come out stating that they used unencrypted communication but that gets a lot less if any air play or only a brief mention in a small article buried on the inside.

It's almost as if they were all getting their stories from the same source... ;)

I know that as does probably just about everyone on /. but do you remember how much of a deal the news media made about the terrorists using encrypt during their coverage of the attacks. It now looks like since the initial frenzy is over with that and people have it in their mind that it was because of encryption officials were unable to stop the attacks the media come out stating that they used unencrypted communication but that gets a lot less if any air play or only a brief mention in a small article buried on the inside.

What it'll do is roughly equivalent to a car alarm, or a deadbolt lock on the front door of your house:

I'm pretty sure that incidents of theft from cars and houses have reduced since car alarms and deadbolts started being fitted as standard respectively. So your point is...?

Sure, you aren't going to solve the problem completely, but at least you can eliminate a few unneccesary deaths that happen purely because guns are so uncontrolled and casually lying around available for children to play with, accidents or grabbing in a rage.

The most destructive arm of the day when the second was envisioned was a cannon. Most of the cannon in the revolutionary war were privately owned in fact. Would you try to claim that a cannon is less destructive than a modern AR-15?

https://answers.yahoo.com/ques...

According to that article, a 12 pounder in the napoleonic period could reasonably be expected to take out 36 people...with a single shot. Not sure why you would think that the arms in the revolutionary war would be less effective than the arms allowed to your average person today, after all, the Orlando night club shooter took out 49 people, heck, that is less than two shots of an old time cannon.

And your idea of sex change among small children is so fucking idiotic I'll not even respond to it.

"When I turned 14 I stated taking female hormones to start puberty as a girl," Corey continues in the video. "The day I took my first dose was the happiest day of my life.... I am so happy now.

Are you sure it's fucking idiotic?

the problem is that 'traditional' 'news' sources no longer have journalists in them, they only have editorialists. They don't report the news, they spin the news to match their opinions, they use rhetoric to 'guide' your opinions and they don't actually want you to know the 'facts' they simply want to tell you what to think. Kinda like one man shoots up a night club, and instead of being allowed to demonize the religion he says he did it for, we demonize the weapons he had, and by extension demonize anyone in the country who has such weapons. We can't demonize one class, but we can demonize the other, because that is what the 'traditional' news sources say.

It is not about demonizing, it is about finding solutions to the continuous and very serious problem of mass-shootings. Calling Islam evil does nothing about peoples murderous intent, gun control can't do anything about that either however it can certainly help mitigate the worst of the damage possible withing easy, legal reach. Even Bill O'rilly finally admitted that much

Bill Oreilly takes stunning stance

Give me a child until seven: https://answers.yahoo.com/ques... 'Interesting' thing about Minecraft, it captures the attention of small children. Then, they're ready to spend the rest of their lives in the loving arms of Microsoft.

And yet they like many remain oddly silent on the long running accusations of UN Peace Keepers raping with impunity: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

The Swiss just rejected the idea big time.

7 years of failing economy

This is the S&P 500 over the past 7 years. If that's a "failing" economy, I'd sure like it to "fail" more often!

...until the next version comes out next year or a rubber stamping judge approves a new abuse of the Patriot act. These come up year after year until the people get tired of protesting the same bill every fucking year, then Congress passes a version thereof. Why? Why do we keep electing the same scum year after year? What is wrong with the American voter?

Even President Obama admitted that cutting the capital gains tax rate would increase total revenue to the Federal Government.

Your facts are woefully wrong.

America is shedding jobs at an epic rate

No, it isn't: https://research.stlouisfed.or...

The only reason these corps "can't afford" a higher minimum wage is because they need to protect their obscene profits

These restaurants are franchises, so the profit margin of the corporation isn't relevant to minimum wage; what matters is the profit margin of the franchise itself. Franchise profits are often just a few percent.

http://www.heritage.org/multim...

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs...

1978 was due to women entering the workforce in large numbers

Workforce participation by women, actually, declined less in recent years, than that by men. That is, quite indisputably, a sign of decline. Because, contrary to all the talk of "equality", women remain the only sex capable of giving birth — an activity, which takes months and years away from employment. If, despite this, their withdrawal from the labor is slower than that by men, we are in trouble.

the U.S. is lower than nearly all major industrialized nations

None of those "major industrialised nations" can afford to defend themselves from the likes of Russia without our help. Sad but true. Because Socialism sucks — and the more of it there is in a country, the worse off the people.

If corporations returned more of the revenue to the workers

Yeah, sure, blame corporations... Sitting in their corporation buildings, acting all corporationy...

Sorry, but you're just wrong. A "taxi" or a "cab" in the general sense is any vehicle driven by someone else who you pay to take you places. How you book it, how you hail it, how you get in it, and what kind of music you play while travelling, are all linguistic gymnastics.

In addition, any such attempts to make up definitions will vary tremendously across the world. You can read about the official definitions for the UK here. You can read about the US here. A key observation is that the general trend in English is to refer to these kinds of vehicles as a "taxicab". As such, using "taxi" or "cab" would be a reasonable slang abbreviation.

So let's just stick to the facts.

Uber is running an illegal operation nearly everywhere. Do not conflate the problems with the possibly over-regulated taxicab industry by supporting an illegal operation, even moreso one that is extremely well funded and backed by assholes such as Goldman Sachs. I'll gladly shirk the law to fight for a movement that is decent and right, but I will not do so just to line their greedy pockets.

The phrase "sharing economy" is complete and utter bullshit. Uber is not some grassroots movement that should be allowed to side-step existing legislation because it brings about a greater good for the community. It is a well-planned and strategic attempt to break the established taxicab cartels. I don't think that's important enough to justify breaking the law over, but it seems that you do?

It's easy and it works!
Google (Gmail)
Yahoo
Microsoft (Hotmail)

Microsoft owns Apple stock for a while now. I've not heard Microsoft selling its holding in Apple, but if you find it then you will be right. Keep in mind that these are non-voting shares, but dumping $150 million back in 1997 when Apple was worth about $19 made a huge impact. That deal alone sent Apple stock up $6 and increased the volume from less than 100 million to over a billion. historical prices

For all the people talking about how she's tanked the stock...She came in while the stock was at 15 and a half, and today the stock is at 36 and a half. OK, big surprise, she wasn't able to turn the company into the next Google. But the market cap has climbed from $14 Billion to $34 Billion under watch. I don't think you can call her an abject failure. An abject failure would be losing her shareholders value. Like maybe she sold Yahoo's investments that are the core of its modern business, in order to fund one of her relatively minor pet projects that didn't work out.

Don't all public companies have fiduciary duty (whatever that means) to do everything in the best interest of the shareholders?

Therein lies the rub: it's hard to prosecute on "whatever that means." So, all that we investors can do is vote with our dollars. However, looking at YHOO's major owners, the top ones seem to be S&P 500 funds, which presumably aren't any more activist than S&P itself. I guess that's anecdotal evidence that those of us who are (mostly) stock pickers have a good shot at doing better in that portion of our investments.

A TV pundit recently observed that each CEO of Yahoo has walked away with significant compensation after a short term, yet the stockholders have gotten nada in the form of dividends. And they may not get much when it's eventually sold off, or will get nothing if it goes bankrupt (which is less likely.)

Ironically, I rely on Yahoo's "Finance" section for much of my own stock-picking: its "Key Statistics" page is by far my favorite one-page stock statistic summary. Here are some highlights (read: lowlights) for YHOO itself:

    Profit Margin (ttm): -87.74%
    Return on Assets (ttm): -0.16%
    Return on Equity (ttm): -12.82%
    Trailing Annual Dividend Yield3: N/A

This paints a picture of a company that is losing money (negative profit margin), hasn't managed its assets well (negative return on assets and return on equity), and doesn't treat stockholders well (see ROA and ROE, together with no dividend.) Next, throw in a history of expensive golden parachutes to short-term CEOs and you've got a stock that no one (IMHO) should ever own.

Sadly, those of us who have part of our money in S&P 500 funds have a few bucks that get to go along on this horrifying ride.

Tesla now has about 50 million miles of driving experience with AutoPilot.
Their initial analysis of the data they collect is that you are about 50% less likely to have an accident when AutoPilot is engaged.
This would seem to be proof of their "concept".
Elon reported this during an interview in Norway recently:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mus...

And I wonder how Elon calculated that statistic? He has his own conflicts of interest after all; he needs to sell more shares to get the Model 3 out to get his company profitable and this hype only makes that claim.

But no worries, I'm sure his "50% less likely" claim is based on tried and true safety statistics calculations.

Tesla now has about 50 million miles of driving experience with AutoPilot.
Their initial analysis of the data they collect is that you are about 50% less likely to have an accident when AutoPilot is engaged.
This would seem to be proof of their "concept".
Elon reported this during an interview in Norway recently:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mus...

A billion dollars. Right.
Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream and Donuts are worth around $4.3billion so that's about 4x as big as ISIL.
Your post puts things into perspective but I am not quite sure it's the way you intended.

Full of bullshit.
1) CHF is actually higher than EUR: You need about 1.10 CHF to buy 1.00 EUR: http://finance.yahoo.com/echar...{"allowChartStacking":true}
2) Switzerland have debt and try to reduce it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
3) Swiss National Bank treasury is to manage the CHF speculation and the variation of the revenue or loss change quickly with very high values.

Even McDonald's workers need $15/hr ($30k/year)

Most fast food workers don't work even close to 40 hours a week, 30 hours now being the cutoff for being considered "full time" and thus eligible for health insurance. The average is more like 24. So even at $15/hr (ridiculous, I agree), that's only about $18k/yr.

... Siberian mouse ...

I had to google that. Basically, a Russian version of Traci Lords but her sister was involved and was probably exploited.

A point of comparison:
- based on TNT content a hand grenade release between 400 and 800kJ when exploding. (example of source)
- unit conversion: 1Wh battery = 3.6 kJ (and 1Ah or 1000mAh x 3.7 V = 3.7 Wh = 13.3 kJ)

So your garden variety ~3000mAh LiPo "18650" 3.7V cell holds a little bit under 40kJ.
Your laptop long life 9-cell 8900mAh battery pack holds a little bit under 100Wh or nearly 360kJ, about the same ballpark range as a smaller grenade (hence the xkcd comic).

A long-ranged drone's (e.g.) 6s high voltage (= 6* 3.7V = 22V) 16000mah is 355 Wh or a whoping 1.2 MJ.
This drone has a battery that gives of the same range of energy as two hand grenades.

Yup, this is dwarfed buy the combustion of kerosene: 1 liter gives of 37 Mj (or about the same as pile of about a thousand "18650" batteries - fuel is still a denser energy storage than lithium). And the combustion chamber of the jet engine will probably not even notice if a puny little drone battery went "poof" inside.

The thing is, an air-plane is far more than just the interior of the jet engine's combustion chamber.
And there are a lot of parts of that air-plane that wont appreciate the explosion of a drone battery.
Think of it, if you need to test it by throwing chicken at it (ball park estimate: an average chicken weights ~2.5 kg. I use an approximate speed difference of 500km/h. That gives us Ecin = 1/2mv^2 = about 25 kJ of cinetic energy), an air-plane is going to take some damage from the equivalent of 2 hand grenades lobed at it.

A single drone impact won't cause the plane to sustain a catastophic hull failure (as TFA points out, the plane successfully landed safely afterwards), but it's certainly going to do a lot more damage that fowl.
When ingested by the engine, even if combustion chamber won't suffer much, the turbine is going to take quite some damage.

TFA doesn't say what the name means, so after a few minutes on this internet thingy I find:
The robot is named RoboHon, which amalgamates the Japanese words for "robot" and "phone" together.

and an online dictionary gives "terehon", "terefon", "denwa" as translations of "telephone".

So it is named "robophone", slightly mangled by transliteration.

and the signal from the star was presumably modulated (or whatever the correct technical jargon is) by the comet's atmosphere, producing a signal you would not see when looking at either a comet or a star alone.

That would have to be a hydrogen laser, which is unlikely, but a Hydrogen fluoride laser seems possible.

There's No Comparing Male and Female Harassment Online

...but we will anyway. The data doesn't agree with us, so we'll make up bullshit qualifiers as to why harassment against men is less important. Because women get called 'cunts,' we'll ignore the possibility that men receive more harassment because it's more socially acceptable to harass men.

For girls and women, harassment is not just about “un-pleasantries.” It’s often about men asserting dominance, silencing, and frequently, scaring and punishing them.

Ah, sorry young LGBT men; no one cares about the "unpleasantries" of your harassment. Death threats? Abuse? Systematic mistreatment? Catching a case of the deads, whether self-inflicted or because you were taken advantage of by the wrong person? Suck it up or grow a vagina. Oh, but that won't stop us from using you as a shield, oh no. We'll gladly wave your corpse around to strengthen our point that your problems don't matter. I just. I can't fucking even. My toucan. My toucan.

Verizon has been shrinking in recent years because they can't manage everything they own. Sold off Dominican Republic, Venezuela, and most of New England was sold off and they turn over more and more of the former Bell Atlantic / NYNEX region to FairPoint Communications. They've stalled FIOS rolled out and New England areas are exploring more municipal broadband to shake off Verizon's slow speeds since FiOS expansion is done. WHY would Verizon waste more time on content when they're soo badd at it? They even let Yahoo manage their content at http://verizon.yahoo.com/ On the other hand, Apple would be a BETTER company for Yahoo.APPLE could turn YAHOO around. Just look, Apple has a browser Safari. They can integrate more of Yahoo around Safari. Apple also owns no search engine BUT has search technology SIRI. They can revamp Yahoo! Search (which is a bit outdated), from the ground up and integrate SIRI into it. Not only that, they could make this revamped Yahoo/Apple/SIRI search as the default for Safari. This means the Yahoo ads network would also become more valuable as this would bring more value to the acquired Yahoo asset they bought. Note- Apple could probably do all this alone but Yahoo is literally a turn-key opportunity for more eyeballs. It has Yahoo News, it has Yahoo Widgets and all those staff member's therein can be put to work building widgets for Apple Watches, iPhone, and Apple TV and rebranding Yahoo-TV as Apple TV and so on. Yahoo's radio/broadcast app business can also be re-purposed for Apple iTunes /Beats content. This ads network could be Apples, they could pick apart Yahoo Search and redevelop it brand new with SIRI integrated. They could merge the Yahoo TV business/Yahoo widgets with Apple TV, plus Yahoo has an Internet Service with Verizon, British Telecom, AT&T, and Rogers Cable that Apple could earn revenue from. And they'd have content with customers. PLUS Yahoo messenger could be rehabbed completely and made into an Apple messenger.

http://fortune.com/2015/08/20/...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news...

The servers where BB gave the local government the keys to everything.....

This mostly sounds like BB trying like hell to stay relevant.

Less than trying to stay relevant, more like trying to stay in business, and not declare chapter 11 or 7 (or whatever the Canadian Equivalent is)

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=B...

On some BMWs in the '90s it was impossible to open the car by any means from the inside if it was locked from the outside. Here are more reports. I believe most of those are due to worn mechanisms, but that's hardly uncommon.

My car isn't supposed to be that way, but the mechanism has stiffened up enough that it would be a real problem if you are mechanically disadvantaged by a rod.

Interesting;y, before the mandated change, the door NOT opening if you pulled the inside handle while it was locked was seen as a safety feature to avoid people (especially children) falling out while in motion.

Shareholders:

https://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh...

There is a difference between investing all of your profit per car into increasing production capacity, and actually losing money on each car. Tesla's profit margin on the Model S is 25%. They invest all of this and more in building their production line for their lower cost Model 3, as well as in battery production. The losing money per car meme is GM and fossil fuel industry FUD.

No, it really isn't. You need to understand the difference between gross and net profit margin.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?...

Tesla lost $888 million dollars last year.

They spent $718 million on R&D, but you couldn't back all of that out, some R&D would be required to keep the Model S up to date with features, laws, etc.

Tesla's Model S currently boasts a gross profit margin of around 25%.

That is a quote from your link. Gross profit margin ONLY takes into account the cost of goods sold, the actual cost to build each Tesla Model S, not counting the overhead of the company itself existing. It doesn't count the front desk girl, the CEO's pay, the cost of the phone lines, etc. It is just the direct cost of putting the cars together.

The reason it is a useful number is that it means that if Tesla builds another 10,000 cars, they SHOULD be profitable per car, even if the company as a whole isn't.

Even if they weren't investing in anything else, the company would NOT be profitable. It just doesn't work that way.

Cost of Goods sold is not the only expense... You also have to subtract general operating expenses...

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=T...

Tesla lost $6.93 dollars per share last quarter

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?...

Net Income after expenses for all of 2015 was ($888,663,000)

So Tesla lost nearly a billion dollars in 2015.

Even if you back out R&D costs, it is still a negative, and you couldn't back them all out, since even if they had no plans beyond the Model S, some money must continue to be spent each year keeping the car current and legal.

Cost of Goods sold is not the only expense... You also have to subtract general operating expenses...

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=T...

Tesla lost $6.93 dollars per share last quarter

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?...

Net Income after expenses for all of 2015 was ($888,663,000)

So Tesla lost nearly a billion dollars in 2015.

Even if you back out R&D costs, it is still a negative, and you couldn't back them all out, since even if they had no plans beyond the Model S, some money must continue to be spent each year keeping the car current and legal.

Exxon Mobile is still quite profitable.

And oil is expected to rebound next year. As it is, consumption has been picking and there have been quarters where there hasn't been enough production to match consumption - imports are increasing.

The Rockefeller's charity will come out fine.

paid actors, in American greenbacks. Who the hell wants Rubles? Beats working in the brick yards, wouldn't you agree? But you go ahead and keep strokin' your Muslim thing there. They are the flavor of the month, after all. Monkey see monkey do. You all should listen to yourselves. Bunch of bloody parrots you are. Playing both sides, letting the Saudis and Israel be the middlemen, hardly provides the plausible deniability you crave.

If you want to stop terrorism, you must identify the issue, and then directly address that issue.

Very simple. Stop financing and arming them. Our second best 'ally' in the region is doing this.

It's not bigoted because being Muslim is a choice.

So is getting paid. Pay your servants a bit more and maybe they won't look for greener pastures.

That root cause is Islam, which must be banned.

Nice troll Mr. Trump!

My bad, it's not arsenic that is making ground water carcinogenic, it's cadmium.

From the Associated Press:
http://news.yahoo.com/solar-in...

Solyndra, the now-defunct solar company that received $535 million in guaranteed federal loans, reported producing about 12.5 million pounds of hazardous waste, much of it carcinogenic cadmium-contaminated water, which was sent to waste facilities from 2007 through mid-2011.

If Google AI you can beat Lee Se-dol at Go, can it beat the IRS and Her Majesty's government at Tax Evasion? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... http://www.theverge.com/2016/1... http://www.thelocal.it/2016021... http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi... http://news.yahoo.com/italy-cl...

Wow, this is some stupid shit here.

Bernie is a democratic socialist. His ideal country is Denmark, or maybe Norway, and his plan is basically to copy those countries. Maybe you're an ignorant American who's never even looked at a map and probably thinks Sweden and Switzerland are the same country, but the Scandinavian nations have the highest standards of living in the world today, so they're doing just fine with their socialism.

It's unbelievable how many retards think Denmark is somehow akin to Cuba or Russia.

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

For one, I think most Americans aren't interested in turning America into "The worlds largest public sector (30% of the entire workforce on a full-time basis[24]) financed by the world's highest taxes". High income taxpayers there pay some 60-70% of their total income to the government. You don't have to view it as Cuba/Russia to find it very distasteful. For America, that's one hell of an extreme shift, whether you think it is or not.

For two, Norway is the second largest oil producer next to the Middle East. If you think America can support the kind of social excesses common to oil rich places like Dubai, you got another thing coming. And so do they: http://news.yahoo.com/oil-slum....

there's also links for http://www.bbc.com/news/world-... and http://news.yahoo.com/brazil-p... in the TFA: the way you speaks appears is an Instituto Lula PR only...

Horoscopes are always recycled. Otherwise how would they ever get it right?

Horoscopes are always right. If the one you read doesn't seem to apply that day, it's because your ascendant is more potent so you need a customized chart to understand how it applies to you. The problem could also be that your Chinese sign is confusing things, especially if your elemental aspect (Fire, Earth, Air and Water) in both traditions don't match. The celestial forces are complex and mysterious, only a certified astrologist can decipher your destiny.

Also, horoscopes are based on recurring astronomical events. Until there's a new planet or star significant enough to impact people's destiny, there will be a limited pool of possibilities; how those events are interpreted to individually reach the millions of people who have the same signs requires the expertise of a certified astrologist.

One last point: did you know that on the Yahoo portal, the horoscope is found in the Women section? How sexist is that?

https://www.yahoo.com/style/ho...

Thousands of years of cosmic wisdom now crammed between makeup tips and "should you break up with him" tests. Thank you Marissa.