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  1. Not if he can arrange to be picked up in a US Diplomatic vehicle and taken to the airport to be flown to the US. Do you think they will let him live in Montana ?

  2. I think it's the other way around, they had no agenda one way or the other on who won, they just looked at who they had the most dirt on and rooted for that person. After all, dishing the dirt on the loser makes you a kingmaker, keeping the dirt on the winner makes you a king controller.

    We need a better wikileaks, this one has been hijacked.

  3. It would be interesting to see a whole life estimate, something that takes into account (perhaps) reduced burdens on Milllenials for caring for aging parents if the parents are so rich or increased contributions from parents towards education healthcare or housing. I don't see boomers keeping in the money away from their kids to the same degree that the top 1% keep the money away from the lower 99%.

    It would also be good to see this in a global context rather than just for a small geographic area

    This shouldn't be cast as boomers vs millenials, if society were working properly we would all live to see our children prosper more than we did and not just inside some arbitrary historical border, but for everyone

  4. Re: do what now on Open Source Codec Encodes Voice Into Only 700 Bits Per Second (rowetel.com) · · Score: 2

    Or trump could yell at someone in a tweet

  5. Re:Another choice by application. Steel is machina on MIT Unveils New Material That's Strongest and Lightest On Earth (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    It's also dense, A kg of steel is not a lot of steel.

  6. Maybe "Aba" is an ancient Scandinavian word meaning Right. If so, apparently the new brand already has a bunch of followers.

  7. ideas on Google Boosts Python By Turning It Into Go (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I like that these languages all bring new ideas and are a great learning opportunity; erlang and go have interesting programming models and CSP/actor functionality. But I feel I should be able to enjoy these things in other languages after they have a while to get absorbed, that's not generally the case though, for example I've been reading about using akka in java for a while now and the syntax looks clumsy to my eye compared with erlang and I've totally failed to get my head around scala.

    same thing with improvements in the build/deploy chain. If transpiling to golang is significantly better then I'll take that win, and simply use go as a stepping stone to deploy the python syntax that I like.

    I'm fumbling to say that I think that once several years have passed and a new programming idea has become accepted and proven its worth, them most of the major language syntaxes should grow support for it. There should be a simple CSP syntax for Python, it should be possible to compile erlang for the JVM, to reasonably implement actors in java etc..

    Then I won't have to endure so many eye rolls when I suggest erlang for that highly concurrent system to the diehard python or java devs or to the managers that want nothing to do with anything too shiney

  8. Why the hell would the FBI need an informant. It's not like these operations work in secret - they call people for god's sake. All the FBI needed to do was to wait for a call from "the Microsoft support center" and trace it.

  9. Re:Good, still making progress on New HDMI 2.1 Spec Includes Support For Dynamic HDR, 8K Resolution (techhive.com) · · Score: 2

    But why not simply use 100G ethernet ? If they pushed up the production volumes the price should surely come down and every ethernet application would benefit.

  10. Just let electricity prices vary more dramatically throughout the day depending on supply. People will soon enough adapt. I can remember overnight storage heaters full of bricks that were heated with less expensive off-peak electricity, people will install their own in-home or in-community storage facilities when they get sick of paying the premium for non-solar electricity.

  11. Re:Cops.... so SMART! on Police Request Amazon Echo Recordings For Homicide Investigation (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess the shower in the Bate's motel room just kept running after the stabbing, probably with that shrieky music in the background.

  12. Re:Grab much? on Police Request Amazon Echo Recordings For Homicide Investigation (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    my dad has a voice command TV, it listens to him yell at politicians and hippies, I don't think it actually activates anything, but he feels better about it. Improved technology would allow activation by throwing things at it.

  13. Re:Disassembled.... on China Says It Will Return the Underwater Drone It Seized From the US (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    -new unit tests highlight previous unidentified bugs - fixed now

    -oil changed

    -tires rotated and balanced

    -improved drone returned to the ocean

  14. Re:Keeps pace with on UK 4G Coverage Worse Than In Romania and Peru, Watchdog Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1
    lots of good outcomes beat a few spectacular outcomes

    Britain also does well compared to the EU

  15. it said they woudl not hand over the names to the transition team, it may be a different story in January when they're dealing with the whitehouse or their own director.

  16. If they make nuclear weapons you probably don't want to piss them off either.

  17. Re:To be clear for those not familiar with concept on 'Star In a Jar' Fusion Reactor Works, Promises Infinite Energy (space.com) · · Score: 1

    So... sell the tritium and buy coal

  18. SLC is probably considered to be a border. KLM and Air Canada fly out of there.

  19. Breaking bad was pretty good. If there was no DEA the program probably wouldn't have been made.

  20. I have enjoyed going to the theater for its own sake on quite a few occasions, either because I was with friends at a really good local theater that has beer you can sup while you watch, or when the audience reacts to a movie in a funny way and it's fun to be part of that shared experience among strangers (either because the movie is great or because it's awful). Also, it's my kids intro to doing something naughty (smuggling in snacks) and being discrete about it. Maybe it's a slippery slope and they'll wind up politicians.

  21. Re:Michael Flynn Jr believes it on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    1 nm is a minute of arc at the equator, so a degree is about 20 leagues.

  22. Xrays do somewhat travel through water, maybe this could be used to communicate with a shallow submerged submarine too.

  23. Note to self. Use 900MHz band for Drone control. Of course, if the whole drone is up to something nefarious, maybe I could use an illegal transmitter. The way things are I could probably get more jail time for that than for flying a deadly payload.

  24. Re:Define "non-conventional" on UK Plans To Censor Online Videos Of 'Non-Conventional' Sex Acts (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    It's hard to imagine something for which there is no precedent going back 100s of years, unless we're talking sex with cloned sheep, sex with GMO crops or sex with iphones. Maybe that's why apple keep trying to remove the connectors.

  25. What specific regulations are preventing Apple manufacturing in the USA ? What specifically will be their reduction in tax bill ? Because lacking specifics I'm imagining the regulations that prevent forced labor camps and toxic wastelands, and a tax change that goes from Apple pays something to we all pay apple.