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  1. Re:Maybe Amazon can do some cargo ship innovation? on Amazon To Build $1.5 Billion Air Cargo Hub In Kentucky, Creating Around 2,000 New Jobs (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you put a solar roof on this?

    http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/6...

  2. Re:"Actionable leads" on Running For Congress, Brianna Wu Criticizes The FBI's GamerGate Report (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    There may have been "death threats," but they weren't actually threats of harm, and they were mostly sent by idiots from the chans or other young kids.

    Oh, death threats aren't illegal if they're sent by stupid people? Is that case law somewhere?.

    Your so fucked up I hope you die. I just sent a bomb to your house disguised as a poodle. Not a stuffed toy animal, a real poodle. So, just keep that in mind the next time someone walks by your house "walking their dog". Because, IT'S A BOMB! Ha Ha Ha.

    So, it that a real "death threat"? Or just the usual online crap we all have to read all the fucking time from internet trolls?

  3. Re:Waiting for the alien spacecraft on Scientists Finally Turn Hydrogen Into a Metal, Ending a 80-Year Quest (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the process to make metallic hydrogen, it does not mean that the stuff requires the same pressure to stay in the metallic state.

    It's Hydrogen. Yes it does.

  4. Re:Meaningless on The Doomsday Clock Is Reset: Closest To Midnight Since The 1950s (npr.org) · · Score: 0, Troll

    On the other hand, it's very easy to read your post even though you look like every other anonymous internet persona with a limited intellectual capacity.

  5. Re:Thanks for reminding us on Mark Zuckerberg 'Reconsidering' Lawsuits To Force Property Sales in Hawaii (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    +1 Semi-coherent Rant
    +1 Almost On Target
    +1 Wall Of Text

    Would read again.

  6. Re:30 bps on Mac Sales Declined Nearly 10 Percent Last Year (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Thank you, I was wondering what that abbreviation was as well. Now I'm wondering which economist defined "basis point" to mean "a percent of a percent".

    Maybe it's a metric prefix we just didn't know about.

  7. Re:Just a guess.. on Galileo Satellites Are Experiencing Multiple Clock Failures (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Quality Test #87: Can you bend the circuit card more than 10 degrees? If so, to what degree?

  8. Re: 3D was a thing? on 3D TV Is Dead (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They stopped getting off their arses once they had kids anyway.

    "Tommy, go put it on channel 9. Gunsmoke is coming on."

  9. Re:Didn't think this was in doubt. on Netflix's Subscriber Boom Shows the World is Accepting Internet TV (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I live in south west Florida, which is a flat as it gets. I don't know how far the towers are from me, but I'm at the edge of town, not out in the swamp. The channels come in clearly, except for every few seconds the picture freezes, or part of it has squares that stay the same as the rest of the picture changes. Or it just goes black for 10 seconds.

    I have tried several antennas and they all perform exactly the same, whether the box says 30 miles or 60 mile coverage. Tried a cheap rectangle of plastic, and an expensive one that had to be assembled with parts sticking out all over. Also had a few in between. Same reception with every one. Crappy.

  10. ???

  11. Re:Didn't think this was in doubt. on Netflix's Subscriber Boom Shows the World is Accepting Internet TV (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It wasn't 1080p, but a lot of it was about as good as an analog TV could display.

    So, it was better than digital broadcast TV displays? Because digital TV is crap where I live. We stopped watching live TV a year ago because the reception was so spotty. Netflix and Hulu are good enough.

    My mother still watches TV, but I also just bought her a Chromecast dongle, and logged her into our Netflix account. She has cable internet (not cable TV), so might as well make use of it beyond email and Facebook.

  12. Re:They DIDN'T sign up because of Trump... on ProtonMail Adds Tor Onion Site To Fight Risk Of State Censorship (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    When I read the summary, I was wondering just what " incoming commander-in-chief's expansive digital surveillance powers" exist, that didn't exist for Obama.

    Maybe the new signups are from Meryl Streep and her Hollywood friends, afraid that Trump will read their emails.

  13. If everyone at shopping malls was there buying wrenches, Sears would be in much better financial shape today. Most of the people at shopping malls are simply there to waste their money on the latest fads and cheap baubles, while eating overpriced garbage. My wife makes me participate several times a year, so I speak from experience.

    Just because money changed hands, doesn't mean the goods and services have lasting value.

  14. Re:One bit doesn't make sense on SpaceX Details Its Plans For Landing Three Falcon Heavy Boosters At Once (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You've never heard of Ariel, I take it.

  15. Do you have the same issue with professional sports, network television, and shopping malls? Each is a huge money sink, with not much of lasting value to show for them. Go boycott sports bars showing ESPN next to Disney stores, just leave the adults here alone.

  16. Re:So, fuck you ... on 2016 Was Second Hottest Year For US In More Than 120 Years of Record Keeping (climatecentral.org) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey, I just entered the room. Back off the attitude a bit.

    And who are you to judge my hobbies?

  17. Re:Alexa, order me a drone strike on TV News Broadcast Accidentally Activates Alexa, Initiates Orders (cw6sandiego.com) · · Score: 1

    As if the current POTUS hasn't ordered thousands already.

  18. Re:DAB is garbage. on Norway To Become First Country To Switch Off FM Radio (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    And switching to digital improves that how?

  19. Re:DAB is garbage. on Norway To Become First Country To Switch Off FM Radio (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    He wasn't completely wrong. They should keep the existing FM stations how they are. And nothing in the summary above mentions that the spectrum used is different. It says the decision was "swayed by the fact that digital networks can carry more radio channels." Most of us readers probably assumed it used the same spectrum. Especially since the American system does do that. And we were wrong in only that one aspect.

    And if digital audio broadcasting is anything like the digital TV broadcasting here in the US, digital FM is going to be a nightmare. We don't have cable TV at the moment (the past year so far), and my wife doesn't want to watch local broadcast TV because of the lousy reception. So we have Netflix and Hulu instead of free digital broadcast. With digital FM, I expect Norway is going to see a surge in music streaming, or maybe cassette decks will make a comeback. I still have tapes I can listen to.

  20. And the townspeople rejoiced.

  21. Re:Don't be afraid of the NSA, be afriad of Facebo on Facebook Buys Data From Third-Party Brokers To Fill In User Profiles (ibtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I admit I was not thinking straight on that one.

      In my brain, I was thinking of the private sector anti-discrimination suits, and tying them into the government anti-discrimination suits. Private sector anti-discrimination is of course set by laws, federal and state. The Constitution prohibits various discriminatory practices for governments, or government run institutions like public colleges. Somehow, those two different situations got mingled in my brain in my first post.

  22. I must have slept thru that part of the movie.

  23. Re:Don't be afraid of the NSA, be afriad of Facebo on Facebook Buys Data From Third-Party Brokers To Fill In User Profiles (ibtimes.com) · · Score: 0

    Pretty much, yeah.

    The US constitution restricts the government, remember?

    So I can refuse service to blacks, or refuse to hire women, or put up a calendar of sexy women? Hmmm. Maybe all those companies and bosses that were punished for those actions should call you for expert legal advice.

  24. Re:Don't be afraid of the NSA, be afriad of Facebo on Facebook Buys Data From Third-Party Brokers To Fill In User Profiles (ibtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    And since FB is a private entity there's no pesky Constitution to worry about.

    Yes, because private companies never have to worry about running afoul of Constitutional issues.

  25. I don't use Facebook on Facebook Buys Data From Third-Party Brokers To Fill In User Profiles (ibtimes.com) · · Score: 0

    I don't use the site, so I don't care what they do with your personal information.