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  1. Re:Where's the news? on A Lawsuit Over Costco Golf Balls Shows Why We Can't Have Nice Things For Cheap (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but patents are supposed to last for a maximum of 20 years.
    I don't play golf, but I imagine the golfballs designed and produced with methods from before 1997 would be sufficient for most golfers.

  2. This must be the most naive thing I have ever read.

    The mechanics of the free market drives automation, and is not equipped to correct for externalities like the level of unemployment that will be the end result of said automation.

  3. Re:Norway switching off FM ? on Norway To Become First Country To Switch Off FM Radio (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    DAB uses a different part of the spectrum. FM will be shut down to save on maintenance, not to make room from DAB.

  4. Re: Y'all know what you need to do on More Unblocking Companies Give Up Their Fight Against Netflix (techspot.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is probably one of the driving forces behind their shift towards original content.

  5. Re:The Saudi government is barbaric on Saudi Arabian Teen Arrested For Online Videos With American Blogger (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    With the exception of Tunisia. They seem to have elected mostly sane people.

  6. Re:Difference between drones and RC planes/chopper on Kentucky's Shotgun 'Drone Slayer' Gets Sued Again (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Generalize much?
    I own several drones, most of them can't use a camera. The one that has a camera is for FPV, don't know if it's even possible to record with it.

  7. Re:Mileage - pinch of salt on Tesla Preps Bigger 100 KWh Battery For Model S and Model X (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    With 90% of the battery available for use, and a typical usage of 180wh/km, you get close to 315 miles (500km).

    Real world numbers for the 100D should be between 450 and 500 km (280 - 315 miles).

  8. Re:weight (was: Re:Meh) on Tesla Preps Bigger 100 KWh Battery For Model S and Model X (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Model S is SIGNIFICANTLY larger than a BMW M3, Mercedes C or Audi A4.

    Model S is wider than the Mercedes S or Audi A8, and about the length of a Mercedes E or Audi A6.

    Drove a A4 for a week this summer, and it was ridiculously small.

  9. Re: So what is YOUR plan? on Newt Gingrich Says Visiting An ISIS Or Al Qaeda Website Should Be A Felony (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    There are lots of moderate Muslims in the US and Europe.

    There's few in the cities in large Muslim countries, and basically none in rural areas.

    Moderates are a small group of the overall Muslim word, but in the West most Muslim are moderate. This has can be traced back to where and why they emigrated to the west.

    This could / will change when / if refugees from more rural areas without higher education makes out a larger part of the Muslim population in the West.

  10. Re: So what is YOUR plan? on Newt Gingrich Says Visiting An ISIS Or Al Qaeda Website Should Be A Felony (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    It's slightly worse than that. ISIS are actively trying to usher in the apocalypse. They believe they are the/a key component in the end of the world.

    Hopefully the desire to usher in the apocalypse is not shared by mainstream Republicans.

  11. Re: So what is YOUR plan? on Newt Gingrich Says Visiting An ISIS Or Al Qaeda Website Should Be A Felony (techdirt.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ISIS' goal with the attacks in the West is to provoke reactions against moderate Muslims in the West, causing radicalization and eventually open war between any Muslim and the West.

    Gingrich plays right into their agenda.

  12. Re:Despite the name it is not autopilot on Second Tesla Autopilot Crash Under Review By US Regulators (time.com) · · Score: 1

    It was not on the center console. It's not capable of video playback.

    Unsafe behaviour doesn't get more safe by disabling safety systems. People do stupid shit behind the wheel every day. If you want to monitor autopilot users, perhaps we should start with something that makes more sense in terms of accident rates by installing breathalyzers in all cars?

  13. Re:Shills, Shills Everywhere... on MSI and ASUS Accused of Sending Reviewers Overpowered Graphics Cards (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The cards defined as gaming cards generated revenues of > $600M for Nvidia alone last year.
    A large portion of that comes from retail cards.

    Even if you're correct, and only 1% know how to install a graphics card (I think it could be 3-5%) - that part of the population represent far more than 1% of computers sold. Gamers buy new rigs every 12-24 months (or at least replace graphics cards). Non-gamers buy new computers every 5-7 years.

  14. Re:Shills, Shills Everywhere... on MSI and ASUS Accused of Sending Reviewers Overpowered Graphics Cards (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The graphics card market is significantly larger than $50 million.
    30% if PCs ships with dedicated graphics cards. The market is > $1 billion.

  15. Re:Isn't that exactly what some want? on Burning All Fossil Fuels Would Scorch Earth, Says Study (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Off by a factor of 100.

  16. Re: Short-term benefit? on Google Books Can Proceed As Supreme Court Rejects Authors Guild Appeal (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It also interferes with their "god given" right to be gatekeepers between the public and the authors.
    Between self publishing on Amazon and Google books scanning, the role of the publishers is challenged.

  17. Re:Middlemen do not like being cut out. on Google Books Can Proceed As Supreme Court Rejects Authors Guild Appeal (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Back when it could take a year or two to get a book in bookstores on the other side of the country, 14 years was considered as the maximum interpretation of limited.

    We have now somehow managed to more than 5-fold increase "limited" while the at the same time cut the distribution time down from a couple of years to a couple of seconds.

  18. Re:YAA (Yet Another Anomaly) on Last January Was the Hottest Global Temperature Anomaly In Recorded History · · Score: 1

    True.
    And if the temperatures were random, you'd see roughly the same amount of broken high- and low- records. We're not.

  19. Prediction on Netflix Decides To Crack Down On VPN Users (netflix.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Netflix will play cat and mouse with the unblocking services for 3 months, then give up and point to their initial statement - it is not possible to enforce.

  20. Yes, absolutely.
    Globalization has to cut both ways.

  21. Who wants geo-blocking? on Netflix Executive Admits a VPN-Blocking Policy Might Be Impossible To Enforce (theglobeandmail.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Netflix wants global license deals for the content, they have no self interest in blocking VPN users.

    Netflix will do just enough to make sure they don't get content pulled by the content owners or jeopardize future content deals. If they can convince the content owners that the VPN problem cannot be solved, all the better for both Netflix and the users.

  22. Re:School lunch probably explains a lot of it on Poverty Stunts IQ In the US But Not In Other Developed Countries (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems my typing was a few steps behind my thinking, sorry.
    The scope of my comment was meant to be malnutrition in children.

  23. Re:School lunch probably explains a lot of it on Poverty Stunts IQ In the US But Not In Other Developed Countries (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure the school meals pay a very large role, they have that in the US as well (but an argument could be made about the difference in nutritional value of the school food...).

    The likelihood of anyone suffering from malnutrition in Australia, Germany, England, Sweden, or the Netherlands are very close to 0%, no matter how poor you are. This is not true for the US. I'm not talking about just getting enough calories, but getting the necessary nutrients to not limit brain development.

  24. Almost all Teslas with the installed hardware was sold with the autopilot feature included.
    Initially it was included in the tech package option - and without the tech package you would not buy the upgrade later.

    The option to not pay for the autopilot is something that was added around the time the 70D was released - with included most of the tech package in the base model - but not the autopilot software.

  25. Re:Let's face it... on Scientists Have Spotted the Signs of Flowing Water On Mars · · Score: 2

    This is why religious indoctrination is child abuse.