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  1. sounds like a shakedown on US Pays Farmers Billions To Save The Soil. But It's Blowing Away (npr.org) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    farmers want an increased government handout so they hold the land to ransom. They already expect their children to be bequeathed jobs for life. If they exacerbate the soil erosion they reason the gov. will just give them yet more money to truck the soil back from wherever the wind took it.

  2. I dare say that for a "small fee" the TSA will add you to a list of privileged passengers that can carry laptops aboard, clearly their current preferred program was not earning them enough.

    If this results in making phones bridge some of the functionality gap with laptops I'd be happy, I can't say I like carrying it around even when I can carry it aboard.

  3. Re:What's a Laptop? on TSA May Recommend Stowing Laptops In Cargo For US Domestic Flights (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    a large hairbrush

    a book

    a wadded up shirt

    The genius is they can now ban anything carried by passengers, thank beelzebub the terrorists could never invent a timer to set something off in checked baggage. Or maybe they just need to wait for someone to check a galaxy smartphone

  4. I don't know what the news organizations use, but governments have some pretty big data sets and they use platforms like ckan and OGPL.

  5. trains are fast enough in the UK on Hyperloop One Reveals Its Plans For Connecting Europe (engadget.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    They can always run the existing trains faster, they just don't like the wear on the tracks.

    If people want the hyperloop experience they can always just make one of the cars a lot smaller and take the window out.

    Come to think of it, if the train cars rode closer to the rails and were half the height they could probably just run the whole train 50% faster

  6. Presumably there will be an up-charge for "premium traffic control".

  7. Re:Yay, new features! ... Wait a minute... on Microsoft Leak Reveals New Windows 10 Workstation Edition For Power Users (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Evidently windows can do this, it just reveals that the other versions up until now have been deliberately crippled to prevent it.

  8. Alice Bob etc. on Congressman Proposes Organizations Should Be Allowed To 'Hack Back' (engadget.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So if Mallory hacks bob, who turns around and mistakenly hacks Alice, who then fights back until Bob and Carol are destroyed. Whom does Carol Sue ?

  9. roll your own crypto on What To Do If the Laptop Ban Goes Global (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Roll up keyboards are available. I would have thought that a "crypto" feature could be built in, so that you can open the app from your usb drive on an untrusted PC using normal keyboard mode, then turn on the crypto and then type into your app once it has started with the app decrypting the keystrokes as you go.

    They can log all the keystrokes they like then, I'm sure it could be made relatively difficult to marry the keystroke up with the screen output and really sensitive things like passwords are typically not echoed back anyway.

    Sure there are other ways to snoop, but a keylogger seems to be the biggest fear in this thread.

  10. would they listen on A Lake On Mars May Once Have Teemed With Life (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    ...and did those life-forms listen to warnings from their scientists about global warming ? Hell no - I think there's a lesson for all of us here.

  11. shoulda coulda on Java 9 Delayed Due To Modularity Controversy (infoworld.com) · · Score: 2

    they should have adopted osgi, maybe with a few tweaks to allow selective inclusion of the standard library components. It's a perfectly reasonable approach that has a proven track record, tooling support and is not significantly more onerous that the idea of modularity is intrinsically.

  12. Re:I'm not suprised... on Trump Announces US Withdrawal From Paris Climate Accord (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You make it sound like we cut them a check, the foreign aid is more like those dodgy valuations on donations to goodwill that people put on their tax returns.

  13. Re:Fuck off america on Trump Announces US Withdrawal From Paris Climate Accord (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What happens when the remaining signatories to the climate accord decide to implement a 5% carbon tax on all products imported from countries that are not substantially meeting their obligations under the deal. One man's climate treaty is another mans trading block. I don;t care if we're in or out provided that we're making substantial efforts to clean up our environment, but if we're out then we don't get to say how the block operates.

  14. Re:How about more seating space instead? on Your Face or Fingerprint Could Soon Replace Your Plane Ticket (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    If they feel they can get away with even less space they'll charge the same ticket price and improve their profits. You're not getting what you paid for, you're getting the minimum they can get away with giving you.

  15. Re:What "Obama Climate Legacy"? on Trump Is Pulling US Out of Paris Climate Deal: Sources (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    except that as usual in recent times, the economy recovered under dem leadership as opposed to cratering under the reps.

  16. Re:When Hillary criticized Trump in the debate on Trump Is Pulling US Out of Paris Climate Deal: Sources (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I personally think almost everyone left and right has believed it for at least the last 5 years, it's just that it became partisan.

    It's always easier to tear up an agreement than to reach one, what alternative plan is being proposed here aside from poke the other side in the eye ?

  17. Re:Revulsion is and will remain an issue. on Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google Lobby Against Texas 'Bathroom' Bill (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    You can like what you like, you can accept what you accept, but in the end your lack of maturity will limit how far you get in the real world. So either grow up, or stay home and fume prudishly while you imagine yourself surrounded only by sufficiently good looking people that fit your fucked up definition of "normal".

  18. no need for AI on Startup Uses AI To Create Programs From Simple Screenshots (siliconangle.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm pretty sure code generators have been able to accept input from graphical layout editors for a while. Just what is this AI "inferring" ?

  19. airline bans on Asus Goes Big On Slim Laptops at Computex (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    maybe they should ask the (worthless) TSA what the maximum allowable volume for carry-aboard electronic device is and then figure a way to distributing the functionality of a laptop into a few small devices that fit inside that limit.

    think "man with the golden laptop"

  20. 100% of the risk to him. 100% of the $10 transaction which is no big deal to C. I don't see them accepting 100% of the risk to the customer or even the bank.

  21. Re: You just keep swallowing that MADD juice on Study Finds Magic Mushrooms Are the Safest Recreational Drug (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The dangers posed by illegal labs are a problem that might be addressed by legalization, but I mostly associate meth use with addiction and people fucking up their lives and the lives of those around them by running their health into the ground and turning to crime to fund their habit.

    I know the same could be said for some other drugs, maybe even alcohol though I doubt in such a high proportion of users.

    What would you say has to be legalized to make meth and other highly addictive drugs an insignificant problem ?

  22. Re:You just keep swallowing that MADD juice on Study Finds Magic Mushrooms Are the Safest Recreational Drug (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I just can't see it being a good idea to make meth legal and available in the same way as alcohol or, now, weed. If the arguments about legalizing drugs are valid, then we should start seeing a drop in demand for meth now that weed is less illegal right ?

  23. Re:You just keep swallowing that MADD juice on Study Finds Magic Mushrooms Are the Safest Recreational Drug (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Not all drug laws are absurd, Meth for example is a menace. I think the problem is that drug laws are abused to crack down on $peopleIwishToDiscriminateAgainst rather than being targeted to minimize the burden drugs place on communities.

  24. This was self reported, presumably they did not report in after landing so weren't included in the stats.

  25. Re:Intelligence isn't everything on Researchers Find Dozens of Genes Associated With Measures of Intelligence (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I would think that common sense in terms of having a good general set of priorities for dealing with unfamiliar situations is probably trainable and seems a reasonable thing to develop

    But too often the people I hear complaining about lack of common sense are those that deride actual experience and knowledge of what to do in a given situation

    present company excepted of course