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  1. Re:Because, if you are like most people... on Mathematicians Solve Age-Old Spaghetti Mystery (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    Small pumpkin (like baseball size), small house. No problem.
    Pour cup of water on sidewalk. Now walk on it. You're "walking on water".
    ???

  2. Re:The past is the past on FCC Says Net Neutrality Rules Will End On June 11 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Mis-read the chart. My eyes jump a line when reading the customer service column. My bad.

  3. Re:Unfortunate on ZTE Shuts Down Main Business Operations After US Ban (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I hate my ZTE (Max XL). Yes, it has a huge screen - that was my motivating factor for buying it.

    But it crashes about every two-three days, the touch screen is very flaky (completely unusable if it's charging), can't switch between two apps without it fulling killing one, and it can't even handle streaming media over bluetooth while google maps is open. $40 Kyoceras have better stability.

    I would not recommend a ZTE to anyone.

  4. Re:The past is the past on FCC Says Net Neutrality Rules Will End On June 11 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    To be fair, Comcast may very well have the best customer service among major ISPs, which is not so much a testament to Comcast's superior relations as it is to how incredibly shitty customer service is across the industry.

  5. Re:Except they do on Zuckerberg: Facebook Doesn't Use Your Mic For Ad Targeting (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Was your wife facebook friends with any of those coworkers? A possible non-recording explanation is that one of those coworkers looked up the restaurant (either during or after the meal), and then FB pushed the ad to said coworker's friends (or maybe just those who it knew had been in close proximity over the last couple of days).

  6. Re:Big Falcon Rocket on Elon Musk Explains Why SpaceX Prefers Clusters of Small Engines (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Gen *Y* is the Millennial generation. Gen Z is the "little shits" turning 18 now.

    Boomer 1946-1964
    Gen X 1965-1981
    Gen Y/Millennial 1982-1998
    Gen Z/Post-Millennial 1999-2016(?)

    Give or take a couple of years on either end of the ranges depending on what specific cultural element you are judging the generations by. (The defining characteristics of a post-gen-z generation aren't yet known, so we don't know when to draw a line on gen z.)

  7. Re:Maybe if they try something different. on Circuit City Is Coming Back (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Payload did not separate on Rumors Swirl That Secret Zuma Satellite Launched By SpaceX Was Lost (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    The second stage is autonomous. The current F9S2 does not have a long enough battery life to support extended duration missions. This is one reason why the current Falcon 9 cannot do a direct GEO launch -- it doesn't last long enough to do the circularization burn.

    Longer-endurance batteries are scheduled to fly something this year.

  9. Re: Technically it met its goals on Rumors Swirl That Secret Zuma Satellite Launched By SpaceX Was Lost (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    During STS-51-A Discovery retrieved two satellites and brought them back to earth for later relaunch.

    Hubble servicing missions included boosting it to higher orbit.

  10. That was beautiful.

    Half those lines are going into my fortune file.

  11. Re:Are Space-X launches now getting cheaper? on SpaceX Successfully Landed the 12th Falcon 9 Rocket of 2017 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    (stage 2 might undergo more re-design once they start re-using it ; first landing attempt will be with FH test )

    Do you have a source on that? I've seen speculation along those lines, but never anything official (or even suggestive of that from an official source.)

  12. Re:This reminds me on Elon Musk Proposes City-to-City Travel By Rocket, Right Here on Earth (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    That's a Saturn V/STS/SLS crawler-transporter. It's not used for Falcon.

    The Falcon 9 is moved from factory to launch site using a much more basic/standard trucking rig, on the highway (See Core Spotting for pics of it on the road.) When it gets to the launch site, it's placed on the transporter-erector-launcher (TEL) and mated to the second stage (which is also road-transported) and payload. The TEL moves it from the horizontal integration facility (HIF) to the actual pad.

    SLC-39A The current sat image of SLC shows the TEL in a horizontal position at the pad (with no rocket on it). The HIF is just outside the ring around the pad. The track between the two is visible, as is the old rotating service structure from the Shuttle days.

  13. Re: Actually you can on Pepe the Frog's Creator Is Sending Takedown Notices To Far-Right Sites (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Weird Al also clears his songs with the original artist first...

  14. Re:Donations wanted! on Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    For less than the cost of a cup of coffee per day...

  15. Snopes could do better though. Consider what Snopes wrote as their claim:

    Claim: Hillary Clinton successfully defended an accused child rapist and later laughed about the case.

    And now consider this claim, which is actually closer to several of the rumors and the implications of the claim:

    Claim: Hillary Clinton volunteered to defended an accused child rapist, successfully got him freed, and later laughed about the case.

    I would agree that this claim is mostly false.

  16. And putting it at the bottom, instead of the top, so the reader has to go through the facts.

  17. The average career for a third round or later draft pick is only something like 2-3 seasons.

    For every Peyton Manning there are 50 Joe Shmucks in the league. Most of them know it, too.

    I work with a guy who got a degree in CS while playing D-I (Big Ten). He was undrafted, but did receive an offer to be part of a practice squad ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ), which he turned down in favor of starting a job related to his degree.

    The idea of the "dumb jock" is largely a myth in today's professional sports climate. A lot of athletes do seem to have problems communicating clearly, but this should not be mistaken for stupidity.

  18. Re: Rumor on Fact-checking and Rumor-dispelling Site Snopes.com Held Hostage By vendor (savesnopes.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No, nothing so obviously as pizzagate. Snopes is very subtle when they politicize things.

    Sometimes they debunk the spirit of the claim, rather than the facts (which may be true). Sometimes they invalid a claim by pointing out that some details are wrong, even though the origin of the claim is generally true.

    Here's an example of the first: "Claim: Hillary Clinton successfully defended an accused child rapist and later laughed about the case." http://www.snopes.com/hillary-...

    The stated claim is 100% true, yet snopes calls it "mostly false". She got the defendant a better deal and later laughed about it on film. Also notice the claim does not match the URL ("freed" versus "successfully defended"; they do not mean the same thing.) Now, Snopes has all the details on why this particular event does not make her an evil person, but lists the claim as "mostly false".

    By labeling a claim "mostly false" that is 100% factually true (even if the spirit of claim is false), they are inserting their own biases into the discussion and not merely presenting facts. They are also throwing red herrings unrelated to the original claim into the mix to make the "mostly false" claim more defensible. They are editorializing.

    (Disclaimer: This is neither an anti- nor pro- Hillary Clinton post. This is merely a convenient example that I could remember off the top my head.)

  19. No, that kind of coke is a well-documented appetite suppressant.

  20. Re: Slashdot editors have apparently also invented on Facebook's AI Keeps Inventing Languages That Humans Can't Understand (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1
  21. Wernher von Braun says Hallo...

  22. Re: What about the Y2K38 bug? on Trump Orders Government To Stop Work On Y2K Bug, 17 Years Later (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    On the plus side I can look forward to some good paying contracting gigs to fix these issues.

    This is pretty much my retirement plan.

  23. Re:Sue Islam for killing innocents. on PayPal Sues Pandora Over 'Patently Unlawful' Logo (billboard.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you mean the Provisional IRA, not official IRA.

    1922 Original IRA - 1969 Provisional IRA - (1994 Continuity IRA, 1997 Real IRA)

    Basically, one generation ages, settles, and makes peace, and the next cries Betrayal! and takes up arms. And I say that as someone generally sympathetic to the Republican cause.

  24. Re:Wow, didn't know the homosapiens were scientist on Ancient Cannibals Didn't Turn To Cannibalism Just For the Calories, Study Suggests (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    But it is good for you - a mix of fats, proteins, and sugars, plus high levels of calcium and magnesium, all frozen so your body knows it hasn't spoiled.

    The problem isn't the ice cream. The problem is eating a day's worth of Calories in ice cream in one sitting.

  25. Re:The key phrase here is on 'Longest Living Human' Says He Is Ready For Death At 145 (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    They could use tooth enamel.