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  1. Re:Incorrect conclusion. on Your Political Facebook Posts Aren't Changing How Your Friends Think (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    That depends on the geographic distribution of those voters. A relatively minor change in voting in a swing state can change an election but a minor shift in a solidly red or blue state is basically just noise. We have a strange system here.

  2. My trucks tank isn't even 20 gallons. Look, gas has a huge energy capacity per gallon and transferring a liquid into a tank is very quick. Its unlikely we will get EV charging down to that level in the near future. The question is, is it worth taking an extra 10-15 minutes a few times a year that you are going over the range in order to not pay for gas the rest of the time. Certainly a salesman in their car all day would find it onerous but for me, who would probably only need to visit a charging station 5-6 times a year, it isn't really that big of a deal.

  3. I'm sure you will be able to pay for the use of the super charger, they wouldn't build the infrastructure and not let the consumer level cars use it. It will cost you money per charge, sure, but that seems pretty reasonable.

  4. how many people can haul a 4x8 piece of ply in their commuter car? I mean its a real use case for me, which is why I own a truck that I use rarely, but regularly enough during the year to be worth owning vs renting. Most people, however, drive to the home improvement store, rent one of their by the hour trucks to get your project load home and then return for your car... or more likely you just don't buy 4x8 sheets of anything.

    Maybe one day I will have a plug in hybrid truck, but it will likely be a while before my truck needs replacing. In the meantime getting my household's commuter vehicle converted to electric probably makes sense.

  5. Re:Watch the video - he does NOT like Russia! on Trump Calls For Russia To Cyber-Invade the United States To Find Clinton's 'Missing' Emails (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    You could never prove intent.... and besides no prosecutor would ever pursue it

  6. Re:So that makes it OK then on 'DNC Hacker' Unmasked: He Really Works for Russia, Researchers Say (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    violations of campaign finance law

  7. Re:$3B in 1-2 years for Apple... on Apple To Make $3 Billion From Pokemon Go (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    1.5 billion this year against 200 billion in expected revenue. Thats .75% how small of a percentage does it have to be to be a blip. If this were a business unit apple would shut it down to focus on more profitable parts of the company. The watch made 6 billion in a year and is considered to be a failure.

  8. Re:This confirms my previous speculation on 'The Hillary Leaks' - Wikileaks Releases 19,252 Previously Unseen DNC Emails (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 2

    yeah, but these days the plurality of people are independents and not actually democrats or republicans. A fact that both parties like to ignore.

    The 2 party system is a joke

  9. Re:$3B in 1-2 years for Apple... on Apple To Make $3 Billion From Pokemon Go (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Their QUARTERLY revenue numbers are around 50 billion. 3 Billion over 8 quarters... yeah, thats pretty much a blip.

  10. Re:*Urban* Army Special Ops on Army Special Operations Command Ditching Android For iPhone, Says Report (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thats a TACTICAL turtleneck you insensitive clod!

  11. Re:Farange admitted nothing on How Technology Disrupted the Truth (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    You all lost, you just don't all know it yet.

  12. Re:There had to be a first case... on US Regulators Investigating Tesla Over Use of 'Autopilot' Mode Linked To Fatal Crash (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course, tapping the break disables the system (including emergency breaking), removing any benefit it might give you... Makes you wonder what use this system is.

  13. Re:Overreaction? on Thanks To Apple's Influence, You're Not Getting A Rifle Emoji (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Everyone who implements emoji end up designing their own... it has to be a rifle if thats the spec but Googles drawing might differ from apple's or facebooks or microsofts. Any one of them might render it as an assault rife or a musket or some other thing that falls into the category of "rifle"

  14. Re:Not really multicultural on Thanks To Apple's Influence, You're Not Getting A Rifle Emoji (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    There are emoji with different skin tones, they were added a while ago... That the author/editor of the article went with only white ones might say something about them but not about emoji in general.

  15. only if the video contains more data than a person talking... I can read data a lot faster than I can listen to someone speak it.

  16. Re: Missing from all of this: the customer on Apple To Offer iOS Developers 85-15 Revenue Split; Debut Paid App Store Search Ads (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    yeah, nobody pays for subscriptions to consumer grades software.... except for anyone who plays WOW.

  17. Re:Well, it is either her or Trump. on Julian Assange: Google is 'Directly Engaged' In Hillary Clinton's Campaign (infowars.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the odd thing though, superdelegates in many cases are not democrats per say but are actually lobbyist. Lets say that they know that Hillary can't beat Trump... are they better off with Trump, who likely can be bought (despite his claims of incredible wealth) or Sanders, who won't take their money.

  18. Re:Same Would Have Happened to Nokia on BlackBerry Really Struggling In Android Market (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    This is very true... but could they not have managed a cheeper phone than the competition, or a more bullet proof one for the same money? Its hard to say, they certainly had hardware talent.

    You are absolutely right about the whole internal OS thing, that was a mess and it does imply deeper problem but we never really got to see how deep those problems went. It could be that their arrogance would have been their downfall just like it was with blackberry... The fact that they tried to stick with their own OS indicates that this might have been the case... but it could have gone differently and they had the tallent to pivot if someone at the top had the vision to make it happen.

    Blackberry lacked both the vision and the tallent... they were doomed... Nokia was talented, but without vision they collapsed.

  19. Re:Same Would Have Happened to Nokia on BlackBerry Really Struggling In Android Market (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I get where you are coming from but unlike Blackberry I do wonder if Nokia had the design chops to compete. Blackberry made awful phones with stupid keyboards that were hard to use. They were successful for a time because they were the only game in town when it came to a "smart" phone, but they got their ass handed to them when someone (apple) came along and made a real, modern smart phone that was fun and easy to use and gave a mobile web experience that was more on par with a desktop than anything that had come before.

    Once you take away BBM and once the other features that were eclipsed by the existance of another smart phone option there isn't much to like about blackberry.

    Nokia on the other hand made some pretty impressive hardware. I'm not sure if it would translate well to the smartphone world, but if they had been the first out of the gate with a toughened Android phone that could take a real beating they might have been able to compete, its hard to say if they eventually would have been beaten out by other manufacturers but its not like any of their other projects really went anywhere. Hard to say for sure and its possible that the same fate might have befallen them if they had gone the Android route, but their hardware was revered by many while blackberry, not so much.

  20. If they are not spies, and only police... why are they spying on people without due process?

  21. Re:OIG opinions are not binding on FBI Kept Demanding Email Records Despite DOJ Saying It Needed a Warrant (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    So when do we put these spooks in jail for their crimes?

  22. Re:Bill Clinton doesn't agree on It's Time To Ignore Petty Politics and Focus On 'Transformative' Tech: Eric Schmidt (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Some of it is Bush's fault. Much of it is Clinton's fault, no wonder he would rather badmouth Obama than take a hard look at the policies that created the crash in the first place

  23. Re: Scientology not Science on Elon Musk: 'One In Billions' Chance We're Not Living In A Computer Simulation (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    What makes you think this is the first run?

  24. Re:Swift 2.0 on Apple Releases First Preview of Swift 3.0 (macrumors.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Apple stated when Swift 1.0 was released that it was a work in progress and that there would be a flurry of updates coming and that, while they would maintain binary compatibility, they would not be able to maintain source compatibility as they changed and streamlined the language. Anyone using swift is well aware of this.

  25. Re:Swift 2.0 on Apple Releases First Preview of Swift 3.0 (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, the newer language should be experiencing much more flux as it is developed. Which, by the way, is exactly what apple told developers to expect.