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  1. I got an iPhone and a Nexus tablet at the same time (years ago). The Nexus stopped getting updates years ago. The iPhone just got a new version.

  2. Re: Too much delta-v? on Tesla Model S Plows Into a Fire Truck While Using Autopilot (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And, thank you. It bothered me when I saw it, but I couldn't remember either. That bothered me even more. So I had to go ask someone.

    Always nice to relearn something you used to know!

  3. Re:Army also Weaseled on the Solder's Creed on NSA Deletes 'Honesty' and 'Openness' From Core Values (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    It also removed the part about putting acting honorably above their personal safety.

  4. Re:Why did they leave "Respect for the law" on NSA Deletes 'Honesty' and 'Openness' From Core Values (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    We already know that they don't respect the law, nor does the FBI, congress, President, courts, governors, police, mayors, and other elected officials / bureaucrats. Hell, I would like to meet an honest drain commissioner.

    You left out bankers, lawyers, pharma reps, CEOs, mechanics and consultants. Hell, I would like to meet an honest fast food franchise owner.

  5. Re:Too much delta-v? on Tesla Model S Plows Into a Fire Truck While Using Autopilot (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Nitpick: Delta-v is change in velocity. However, your earlier condition was predicated on the relative speed between your car and "whatever is in front of you". This is written as V sub (YourCar | Obstacle).

  6. Re:Defense: it was drunk on Tesla Model S Plows Into a Fire Truck While Using Autopilot (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Advertising X and taking it back with a tiny disclaimer shouldn't be something that's taken seriously.

  7. Re:Rupert Murdoch and Quality News? on Rupert Murdoch Pushes Facebook To Pay For News To Guarantee Quality (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Both Russia and Rupert have similar motivations: break up large western countries into fractions. For Russia, it's to prevent opposition to their reforming the USSR (well, in size). For Rupert, it's to better manipulate the populace and make money.

  8. It connects and runs a speedtest automatically.

  9. Re:I gotta say... on Facebook Announces That It Has Invented a New Unit of Time (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a pretty common thing I've frequently seen in the past. The difference is normally it's only done between two framerates. This seems like its being done between many more.

  10. "Hey, jack up prices" is very short term thinking. Gamers are an evergreen market, and it's not worth pissing away the next 30 years of business (if ATI becomes standard instead of nVidia) for a few years of double profits.

  11. Re:alt take: maybe democracy isn't good for societ on Facebook Says It Can't Guarantee Social Media is Good For Democracy (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    How is that different from how it works now? Those who cares about any given issue enough just sends a fleet of lobbyists. I guess it requires more money in the current system, for lunches and fact finding and bribes^W campaign conributions?

  12. Re:Its dangerous: Speculators + Deviation from Des on More Wall Street Pundits Caution Against Investing In Bitcoins (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I've seen some "proof of burn" ideas ,but I'm not sure how else to replace PoW. Any other papers you can show me. Also, what can I do on a blockchain I cannot do without one, other than preventing double spending without a central authority?

  13. Re:Its dangerous: Speculators + Deviation from Des on More Wall Street Pundits Caution Against Investing In Bitcoins (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Creating and maintaining a currency is actually a profit center for most governments.

  14. Re:Its dangerous: Speculators + Deviation from Des on More Wall Street Pundits Caution Against Investing In Bitcoins (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    People keep saying blockchain is the future... and I just don't get it. It's a way of preventing forking, so great to prevent double-spending. But, and maybe this is me being dense, absent (a) a lack of a central authority and (b) a need to have one and only one block of data being definitive, I don't understand why we care. Transacting in currency/preventing double spending seems to suffer from (b) but not (a), and almost everything else seems to be immune to (b), and probably (a) as well.

    I figure if I keep asking, someone will give me the right metaphor, and I can finally grok why blockchain.

  15. Re:Why look behind this curtain in particular? on Facebook Reopens Probe Into Russian Involvement in Brexit (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    This is not sampling bias. It's answering a question that is less general than the question you're asking. To wit, did Russia influence the Brexit election to a large degree? Totally different questions are "Did Russia influence other elections" and "Did France influence the Brexit vote".

  16. Re:Not sure why everyone is so negative about this on Amazon Opens 'Surveillance-Powered, No-Checkout Convenience Store' (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    When my grocery store added self-checkout kiosks, they fired so many people that lines are even longer now.

  17. Hey now, no need to go there on Flat Earther Plans New Rocket Launch, Predicts Super Bowl-Sized Ratings (phillyvoice.com) · · Score: 1

    We were enjoying a fine discussion without bring up bitcoin.

  18. Re:New sales slogan on iPhone X Purchase Leads To Police, Battering Ram, and Handcuffs (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not true. When those Androids were catching fire, people got beaten and arrested over trying to bring phones on their planes.

  19. Re:No, it cannot on Can Machine Learning Guess True Emotions From Facial Microexpressions? (cmu.edu) · · Score: 3, Funny

    the average human adult lies once every 10 minutes. Sounds too high to me

    Sounds high to me too. Now, how I am going to kill 9 minutes and 59 seconds.

  20. Rubber bullets are a "non-lethal" alternative that is lethal unless used properly. It makes sense to ban them, as they lower the imagined cost to shooting someone, without lowering the real risk nearly as much.

    Also, California has stricter gun laws than most states

  21. Re:Stories from a Company Town on Apple and Google Are Rerouting Their Employee Buses as Attacks Resume (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    In areas where property taxes are assessed and collected by a more-local-than-state government, corporations will insist on a 10-20 year break on those taxes. Long enough for the plant to be made obsolete.

  22. Re:Stories from a Company Town on Apple and Google Are Rerouting Their Employee Buses as Attacks Resume (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Given the competition over Amazon's second headquarters and sports stadiums, think this is a pretty common "short sightedness"

  23. Re:Can we ever rely on missile defense? I doubt! on Pentagon Document Confirms Existence of Russian Doomsday Torpedo (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    I've never heard anyone every brag about "marvelous missile defense systems".

    The closest I've every heard have been counter-battery systems, where the missiles/shells origin point is pounded by artillery. But that's just about preventing launch #2.

  24. Re:Only if Puerto Rico gets statehood, too on 'New California' Movement Wants To Create a 51st State (wqad.com) · · Score: 1

    You left out the Northern Marianas.

    Heck, we should let people in American Samoa become US Citizens. American Samoans are stuck with a weird non-citizen designation.

  25. Re:Will fail as well on 'New California' Movement Wants To Create a 51st State (wqad.com) · · Score: 1

    You, the rural area state will just assume half the debt and declare bankruptcy.