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Oh, I almost forgot to link the topical song.

What happens when a tractor is possessed by the spirit of Nikita Kruschev?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqZGBawsg8k (2 minutes long)

Is it just me, or was every single winner in pwn2own asian? Here's the youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It's not entirely clear what Asian country everyone is from (or perhaps they're Asian-American), but assuming none of them are from the U.S., it should make those in government U.S. cybersecurity a bit anxious, and perhaps give pause to our new-found love of immigration restrictions.

Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers

Even then.. better than nothing.

"Reliable" is relative. The cost of ownership of a Ferrari, and even a 308 requires dedication and planning. http://www.birdman308.com/tuto...

The 308 is one of my all-time favorite cars but if I don't have the time to perform the maintenance myself I would not own one. Especially if it's a steel body prior to 1984. Another favorite is the F355 but that has maintenance headaches, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Actually the Wikipedia article on the National Aeronautics and Space Act has an interesting list of the legislation's priorities, starting with priority #1:

The expansion of human knowledge of phenomena in the atmosphere and space;

Historically speaking the act, which was signed into law in July of 1958, was a reaction to the "Sputnik Crisis" created by the Soviet launch of an artificial satellite eight months earlier in October of 1957 -- an act which filled Americans with awe and a little dread, knowing that a Soviet device was passing overhead every 96 minutes.

So arguably NASA was founded to achieve preeminence in Earth orbit, not necessarily manned space exploration, which isn't mentioned at all in the legislation. Yuri Gagarin's Vostok 1 flight was still three years in the future, and JFKs Rice Moon Speech followed a year and a half after that. That speech is well worth watching, by the way, if all you've ever seen is the "We choose to go to the moon" line.

Manned exploration of the outer solar system wasn't really what the founding of NASA was all about; in fact manned spaceflight has only a single mention in the unamended 1958 text:

... the term "aeronautical and space vehicles" means aircraft, missiles, satellites, and other space vehicles, manned and unmanned, together with related equipment, devices, components, and parts.

The main focus of NASA at its founding was to provide a single agency to coordinate space and spaced-based research, which at the time would have been largely (although not exclusively) Earth-focused.

Well, that is not true... look at phones for an example. Some have the battery nearly impossible even for a regular tech to replace without great risk of severe damage.

What phones? I've replaced batteries in IPhones on more than one occasion. It's not difficult for someone who's even reasonably handy using simple hand tools. This can also been done for only a few dollars at lots of places. Are you literally less technically capable than the guy working the mall kiosk?

And in two years with heavy use the battery has lost half its life and needs replacing for any reasonable runtime. Been there, done that with phones. Been there with my Lenovo non-easily replaceable laptop too.

That's just factually wrong. Please provide any evidence that in two years the battery has lost half it's life. I have lots of anecdotal evidence to the contrary and haven't seen any study that proves that out.

Which Lenovo model? Define "non-easily" replaceable. I could probably replace it in 10 or 15 minutes. Even by your own estimate something you'd only need to do once every two years. This is essentially a non-issue.

Ossum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaIZF8uUTtk

I thought they meant it as in Clayton Bigsby, the black white supremacist from the Dave Chapelle show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Did I hear someone mention tugger?.

It's time for russel crowes fighting around the world

They've got a classic piece of music that all ships should blast at max volume on every speaker they've got as they enter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It's not like they didn't tell us...

Theft is a bigger problem than damage.

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There are people who will be delighted at all the new stuff there is to steal.

Theft is a bigger problem than damage.

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There are people who will be delighted at all the new stuff there is to steal.

Theft is a bigger problem than damage.

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There are people who will be delighted at all the new stuff there is to steal.

Theft is a bigger problem than damage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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There are people who will be delighted at all the new stuff there is to steal.

"fourwordsalluppercase" but it's one word all lowercase.

... just the first BIG ship tunnel as stated in TFA. For the first ship tunnel in Europe, they are a few centuries late: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Mean-while in Sweden:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Kursgesagt has a video I found interesting that touches on some of these things you mentioned.

Exactly this. Everyone on Android is going to be integrating with Google's Assistant - no one is going to work with Samsung's. Especially considering its primary focus is to help users "use the Galaxy S8".

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The probably didn't mean this "Bixby"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I dunno, man. I found this YouTube video quite convincing: Addiction

No others have noticed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

CPUs are whole silicon on a chip platform. This isn't 1990 anymore where they just do math and nothing special from the operating system is needed anymore. Thanks to Tablets and mobile the new thing is to put everything on the CPU.

Actually it was to reduce mobo costs and to do things like allowing the CPU and iGPU to share the same address space for gpgpu.

No others have noticed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

CPUs are whole silicon on a chip platform. This isn't 1990 anymore where they just do math and nothing special from the operating system is needed anymore. Thanks to Tablets and mobile the new thing is to put everything on the CPU.

Actually it was to reduce mobo costs and to do things like allowing the CPU and iGPU to share the same address space for gpgpu.

Case in point... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... It's all a grand charade kids. Don't believe anything not revealed to you by your Creator.

VR is troublesome in terms of head motions and screen motions but of course if you take the motion out and just go with a fixed view, is becomes the cheapest way to provide a massive screen in terms of viewer viewpoint. So glasses done properly at an optometrist to minimise size, no adjustable lenses, just user specific fit, it hugely expands the use of smart phones. Augmented reality is a part of that, low process, see through the glasses, high process, cameras mounted on the glasses that present an external view.

Could you not imagine lying back in bed, glasses on watching what appears to be a 150" screen, with either really pleasant video https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (just the thing for you next augmented reality business meeting) or even fixed field of view gaming.

See subject & "here 'tis" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEp1nO9Circ/ - ask Derek Simard (Coren22).

* I'm what you'd call an "Agent of the FREE..."

( :) )

APK

P.S.=> This tape will destruct in 60 seconds... apk

Straight to jail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Well ... can you _prove_ that there never was any wiretapping? As in: rigorous, categorical, scientific proof?

No?

Thought so. Absence of evidence can always be conspiracy-theorised away. That means that Pres. Tweety and his trusted staff will be able to keep pushing the story for at least as long as they kept the "birther" story alive. And they will.

I really admire Kellyanne Conway's performance on CNN (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ) where she calmly veers off on a tangent with every question asked and keeps on plugging the message and spreading insinuations. You've got to admire her: smart, courageous, dedicated, and totally shameless.

Besides which ninetynine wingnuts will continue to believe him and Mrs. Conway. Well, such is life.

i forgot routine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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Headphone jack ships via adapter sold with every single iPhone7.

And they make the coolest adapters...

Individual schools in the US have used the Peters maps, Scott said, adding: “We believe we are the first public school district in the US to do this.”

You have got to be kidding me. C'mon! Somebody prove that statement wrong. It can't possibly have taken this long* to start fixing this, can it?

*The West Wing, Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail, season 2, episode 16, (February 28, 2001)

Very good! Nice cut through the partisan, First World Problems bullshit.

If you need a federal government to make you happy, your problem may be something entirely different and far deeper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwvlbJ0h35A

If you need a federal government to make you happy, I think your problem is far deeper than just who was elected President.

And yet the cure is available online: https://www.youtube.com/playli...

Here too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

And yet the cure is available online: https://www.youtube.com/playli...

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Just watched this scishow the other day. It explains why this type of distortion occurs and the trade-offs when you try to correct it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

They just really really try to imply those kinds of the things with the phrase "interfering with the election".

Pretty much - you get them on camera and they suddenly demure when pressed for specifics. Or just lose their shit and start calling a conservative Republican a Russian operative on Fox News. That's from someone with both the means to know specifics (top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee) and motive (he's a Democrat who wants people to blame Russia for his candidates loss).

The entire "Russia did it" farce is nothing more than the Birthering of the Democrats - stupid partisans buying stupid propaganda in order to say the POTUS isn't legit.

Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?....

Here's what I was thinking of... the biggest, hugest correctional vehicle ever built in history... bigger than the Dildozer, bigger than the Ass Blaster... bigger than Donald Trump's hands... bigger and huger than everything ever before in history... it's the US Army's Laser Anal Intruder.

Mathematically you are incorrect.

Milton Friedman published a proof on this with price settings theory. Capitalism benefits everyone. It is a 2 way street a buyer and seller.

Economies serve those who want to make money and those who want to buy products and services. Labor it is those who want to earn money and those who need a service provided.

If you do not like this then go to North Korea or Cuba and see how they live compared to your country. As the money moves through the market faster the higher the wages of those who want to work and those who sell things both benefit. Everybody is greedy man. Of course businesses want to maximize their value. Of course YOU want to maximize your value and work less. Consumers want cheaper products and more of them. The balance is achieved based on scarcity.

Is this true?

BYERS: And, Mulder, listen to this. Vladmir Zhirinovsky, the leader of the Russian Social Democrats? He’s being put into power by the most heinous and evil force of the 20th century.
MULDER: Barney?
BYERS: The C.I.A.
...
BYERS: You don’t believe that the C.I.A., threatened by a loss of power and funding because of the collapse of the cold war, wouldn’t dream of having the old enemy back?
SCULLY: I think you give the government too much credit.
...
BYERS: I’m not talking about the bunch of idiots up on the hill trying to bone the capital pages. We’re talking about a dark network, a government within a government, controlling our every move.
SCULLY: How can they do that?
BYERS: How? I’ll show you how. You got a twenty dollar bill?
...
(Mulder laughs. Scully looks back at him. Byers pulls out the magnetic anti-counterfeiting strip.)
BYERS: That’s just one method. They use this magnetic strip to track you. Whenever you go through a metal detector at an airport, they know exactly how much you’re carrying.

I miss being able to say all of this was "just TV".

Just who defines "truth"?

We do!

Columbia make overpriced clothing

Overpriced and also not wrinkle-resistant, as we can see in this video showing that IT guy himself on a lame EMC storage panel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Put it behind 7 proxies. I hear that works. https://m.youtube.com/results?...