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  1. Re:Technically yes, ethically does not have to be on 'It's Always DRM's Fault' (publicknowledge.org) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. I also try contact the author directly when I really appreciate a CD or a book and pay the full amount as a Paypal donation.

  2. Re: JavaScritp is still JavaShit on 'State of JavaScript 2018' Survey Announced (stateofjs.com) · · Score: 1

    I suppose that you have no idea how to use a sarcasm detector. ;)
    I don't want to touch this turd of a programming language with a ten foot pole.

  3. Re: JavaScritp is still JavaShit on 'State of JavaScript 2018' Survey Announced (stateofjs.com) · · Score: 1

    There's no integer in Javascript, only doubles.
    No integer => no integer disaster ;).

  4. Re:Four legs good, two legs better! on Google Removes 'Don't Be Evil' Clause From Its Code of Conduct (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Monsanto, too.

  5. Re:Anybody hear "Yarry"? on 'Yanny vs. Laurel' Reveals Flaws In How We Listen To Audio (theproaudiofiles.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Indeed. I only hear 'Yelly' or 'Yarry' when the slider is on the far right. 'Laurel' everywhere else.
    The only possible, objective conclusion is that people hearing "Yanny" are complete morons.

  6. Re:Jeez, $20 bucks for a skin? on Free To Play, Expensive To Love: 'Fortnite' Changes Video Game Business (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Hell yeah. I've got a full-time job and a kid. I bought a Switch with BOTW a month ago, and my profile tells me I've played it "130 hours or more". I didn't sleep much, though!

  7. I guess you're more correct, then. :)

  8. If you look at TFA (Figure 9), the longest straight line that can be taken *on land* indeed starts in Portugal. You're both correct.

  9. Just sayin': a few years ago, AI was supposedly "decades away" from beating the best Go players.

  10. Re:The collapse of the USSR on Once Written Off for Dead, the Aral Sea Is Now Full of Life (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yes, the much more intelligent capitalists would never build huge cities with golf clubs, water shows and huge swimming pools in the frickin' desert, right?

  11. Weird on How Amazon Became Corporate America's Nightmare (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    50 comments should be here. I don't see any. Weird.

  12. Stating with Firefox 61 -- expected to be released in June 2018 -- websites won't be able to use Firefox to access data from sensors that provide wanking and nose-picking information.

  13. Indeed. It's a massive expenditure of energy, but at least it's not for high frequency trading or bitcoins!

  14. Re:Now THAT is amazing on Voyager 1 Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years (nasa.gov) · · Score: 1

    That's a pretty high horse you've got here!
    You might have understood those concepts but you do a poor job of communicating it.

    Electricity is heat.

    This sentence is quite simply 100% wrong.

  15. Re:Now THAT is amazing on Voyager 1 Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years (nasa.gov) · · Score: 1

    Electricity is radiation!

    Electricity is heat.

    You don't seem to understand what "is" means. Electricity is linked to radiation and heat, but electricity is neither radiation nor heat.

  16. Re:"2.4 kilowatts per hour" on Tesla Owners Are Mining Bitcoins With Free Power From Charging Stations (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It turned the USA from an energy importer into an energy exporter.

    No it did not: https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs...

    The "shale revolution" merely postpones the withdrawal symptoms, it doesn't help to cure our oil addiction. And it surely doesn't help fighting climate change either.

  17. Re:"2.4 kilowatts per hour" on Tesla Owners Are Mining Bitcoins With Free Power From Charging Stations (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Or, you now, "contant 2.4kW".

    And sadly, this mistake is so common that it really isn't just a typo anymore.

  18. Re:The units hurt! on Tesla Owners Are Mining Bitcoins With Free Power From Charging Stations (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    To be fair, units are also wrong in TFA (and in the replies you've got).

    1 kWh = 1000 Wh = 1000 * W * 3600s = 3 600 000 Ws = 3 600 000 J = 3.6 MJ

    So 57.6kWh/day ~ 207.4 MJ/day

    Here's a way to to convert energy/day into average power:

    207.4MJ/day = 207.4 MJ/(3600 s * 24) = 207 400 000 / (3600*24) * J/s = 2400 J/s = 2400 W

    The average power is 2.4 kW (not 2.4 kW/h as in TFA!). Which isn't suprising, because it's been calculated as 16 * 150W.

  19. "2.4 kilowatts per hour" on Tesla Owners Are Mining Bitcoins With Free Power From Charging Stations (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    2.4 kilowatts per hour

    Really? Seriously, WTF people? What happened to "News for nerds"?

    PRO-TIP: If you're using Power/Time as a unit, you're probably doing it very wrong.

    Climate change and peak oil are huge problems, they're coming at full speed and we're still not able to write correct units for power and energy?

  20. Re:Seems Legit on Unsent Text On Mobile Counts As a Will, Australian Court Finds (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    My great-grandmother had 3 children. She told each of them, separately : "You're my favourite child, you'll get everything", but didn't write down any will.
    She died 16 years ago, her children are still arguing today.

  21. Re:Look at the time investments. on Java Coders Are Getting Bad Security Advice From Stack Overflow (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    It's true, long gone are the days of getting 1000 upvotes for telling that the result of "1 / 2" is 0, not 0.5.

    Still, I started regularly writing answers on SO less than a year ago. I got more than 30000 points, got a golden Ruby badge and I'm close to getting it for Python. After that, I'll finally be able to write some productive code again :D

  22. Re:Seriously though on New Antibody Attacks 99% of HIV Strains (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    A function can be increasing but bounded : 1-1/x for example.
    It means that solar panel efficiency can always keep on improving while still being stuck below 50% forever. No need to achieve 105% ;)

  23. Re:You could have just said "it's black" on NASA's Hubble Captures Blistering Pitch-Black Planet (scienmag.com) · · Score: 1

    A black planet? The proper term is African-Jupiterian, you insensitive clod!

  24. Re:"Heat energy" is also light - just infrared on NASA's Hubble Captures Blistering Pitch-Black Planet (scienmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Are radio waves light? Are gamma rays light? I couldn't find a proper definition of light expect for "visible light". Didn't you mean electromagnetic radiation?

  25. OMG, users are being spied on by an app! Quick, delete it! Do continue to use Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Verizon products, though.