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  1. Re:Businesses will automate anyway on California's $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage May Spur Automation (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Much better: read Player Piano by Vonnegut.

    Reeks and Wrecks, here we come.

    Sam

  2. Re:No amount of evidence is enough on The Arctic Sets Yet Another Record Low Maximum Extent (nsidc.org) · · Score: 1

    You should probably look up the term "frost free days."

  3. Re:My interest depends on cost on Ask Slashdot: Are You Excited About Upcoming 4-inch iPhone or 9.7-inch iPad Pro? · · Score: 1

    Or a Moto X Pure for $300...

  4. Re:Yes it's too much on Is $699 Too Much For a 13.3-inch Android E-ink Reader? · · Score: 1

    I work in science, you insensitive clod.

    The 13.3" diagonal on this thing puts it at the same size as journal page. I would love to have this to read journal articles as my current options are: print everything out (best for me, super wasteful), read them on a computer monitor, or squint a bit at a smallish backlit LCD tablet.

  5. Re:Opening up other risks on Study: Drones Present Minimal Threat To Aircraft (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, now the RC world is experiencing its own September that never ended and as usual it's screwing over those that cut their teeth "the old way."

    Sigh.

  6. Re:High end... on Peter Jackson and JJ Abrams 'Back' Sean Parker's Screening Room (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    This is now how digital watermarking works, at all.

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

  7. Re:"pulling-power to move 2,000x their body weight on 6 Tiny Robotic Ants, Weighing 3.5 Oz. In Total, Pull a 3900-lb. Car (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a little closer if each robot weighs 3.5oz individually (so 1.313 lbs total)... but it still comes out to 2971x... so where did 2000x come from?

  8. Re:Let me get this straight on German Scientists Successfully Teleport Classical Information (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    But I want my own ansible :(

  9. Re:How can anyone talk on the El? on Chicagoan Arrested For Using Cell-phone Jammer To Make Subway Commute Tolerable (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    By shouting into your cellphone, obviously.

  10. In any case, it's not really as simple as "four cores versus two."

    IIRC the Snapdragon isn't symmetrical. Two of the cores are the power-hungry performance cores and two are low power cores that wouldn't contribute under performance conditions.

  11. Yep, another plug for Vivaldi here. It's also been very stable for something still in beta.

    I like my tabs on the bottom, my bookmarks/downloads/mail panel with the Opera-style whole-left-edge toggle, CTRL+N to make a new tab, etc. It's really the only browser that's primary mission seems to be going towards MORE customization.

  12. Re:What about uBlock Origin? on Opera Introduces Native Adblocking, 45% Faster Than Chrome With Adblock Plus (thestack.com) · · Score: 0

    Vivaldi. It puts the Opera back into Opera. Not like this Chrome-skin thing that Opera has become.

    I also was a longtime Opera user and tried to deal with first Firefox, then Chrome after 12.5 started getting stale and it was clear that Opera 15+ had thrown the baby out with the bathwater. And yes, you can at least use Chrome plugins, but nothing so nice as Dragonfly yet:

    https://vivaldi.com/?lang=en_U...

  13. Re:India style on New Smartwatches Allow Students To Cheat On Exams · · Score: 1

    OMG, it's like someone took the classic stress dream and made it reality.

  14. Re:Or just get Pale Moon. on Firefox 45 Will Remove Tab Groups Today, Get This Add-on To Replace It (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Meh, I just totally jumped ship.
    Firefox was buggy, and somehow always feels slow on every machine I try it on.
    Chrome... customization is nil.
    I used to love Opera, so I tried out Vivaldi... Yay! It's like someone took chrome and added the ability to customize the heck out of it (without all the ET-phone-home crap). Thumbs-up... search is over until Vivaldi screws their browser over and then it's on to... whatever is new enough not to have succumbed to developer mind-rot I guess.

    Sam

  15. Re:Not worth it on Another Windows 10 Update Causing Problems (windowsreport.com) · · Score: 1

    This is much easier than Linux, where I type "dnf update" and hit Y to apply all and don't worry my machine will start wasting huge amounts of bandwidth on unwanted crap and nagware.

    I guess Linux just isn't ready for the masses.

    Sam

  16. Re:There's a long history of on UK Gov't Launches Anti-Adblocking Initiative, Compares It To Piracy (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Is NoScript ad-blocking software?

    Because you sure don't see many ads with it installed.

  17. Re:The Angry Mob on Laid-Off Disney IT Workers Decry Offshoring At Trump Rally (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    That's funny you're at a +3 interesting, when Sanders has been talking about H1Bs for years:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com...

  18. Re:Gotta love Boston Dynamics on Boston Dynamics' Next-Gen ATLAS Sheds the Tether (roboticstrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, it was box-based science, but sadly lacking in buttons.

    Unless you want to count the exit door panic bar as a button, but that is clearly a stretch because the box wasn't even needed for it!

  19. Re:STOP HITTING THEM! on Boston Dynamics' Next-Gen ATLAS Sheds the Tether (roboticstrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Damn, that meme is so old school, they tore the school down!

  20. Re:JUST the low end cars? on Cheap, High-Performance Green Battery Runs On Rotten Apples (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    They'll call that "PREMIUM" apple electricity, and it'll be 30% more at the meter :(

  21. Re:We're talking some pretty high power electronic on Camless Internal Combustion and the Digital Age (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Or just use a relatively small air control valve and solenoid. Pneumatics then open the valve. And a hefty spring to close it. If you're being clever, I bet the vented bypass air from the pneumatics could be injected into the cylinder during intake along with the fuel.

  22. Re:Duke Engines on Camless Internal Combustion and the Digital Age (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Also: those huge ring-shaped sliding seals the pistons rotate along... brings back the nightmare of Mazda rotaries all over again.

  23. Re:$300M a year!!! on New Energy Efficiency Standards Take Effect This Week In the US (nrdc.org) · · Score: 1

    You know the standards apply to new ones going forward.

    No one is saying you have to go out and buy all new wall warts, just that when you buy something new that has one, it has to meet the new standard (and thus painlessly phase in).

  24. Re:Download options? on Google Is Shutting Down Picasa In Favor of Photos (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Since your Picasa albums are also in Google Photos, another option is to just go to Google Takeout, check the Google Photos option only, and hit download.

  25. Re:It was dead anyway on Chinese Tech Group Offers To Buy Opera; Board Endorses · · Score: 1

    Yes, that is a nice feature.

    If they would go ahead and add extension support to Opera Mobile like the teased with that developer preview a couple years ago, I would reinstall it... that would get me off mobile Firefox (ugh), which does have extension support.

    Sam