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  1. Re:Great.. Methane.. on China Successfully Mines Gas From Methane Hydrate In Production Run (oilprice.com) · · Score: 2

    I guess the danger is that it could slow their move to renewables.

    Also how much ecological damage does it's mining/extraction/refining do

  2. What's so difficult about matching up accounts? I used to that sort of thing all the time.

  3. Re:Seriously?? on US and EU Reject Expanding Laptop Ban To Flights From Europe (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Actually until you elected Agent Orange yes they would. Even Dubya had manors.

  4. Re:Apparently yes... on Can You Copyright a Joke? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I wish Ernest Scribbler had copyrighted his https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  5. Re:Overcrowded Market on Google Will Soon Add Job Listings To Search Results (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah google should concentrate on fixing their borked search engine

  6. What's the problem on Drone Pilots In China Have to Register With the Government (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    It's what most other counties are doing. Given the number of near misses with passenger aircraft recently this is a disaster waiting to happen.

  7. Re:Al again on Big Banks Will Fall First To AI, China's Most Famous VC Predicts (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually AI is already used extensively in the Investment Banking Sector. In this instance a megalomaniac AI System hell bent on exterminating the human race might actually be marginally preferable to the current banking regime as at least the AI System wont be screwing us over for a percentage

  8. Grammar? on European Privacy Regulators Take Coordinated Action Against Facebook · · Score: 1

    European privacy regulators from as number of countries has made

    WTF don't you even proofread this shit?

  9. Lets face it Science Journalism was stillborn.

  10. It's a shame there are no baseline performance statistics it would be interesting to know how much of a game changer this thing really is.

  11. Hope they get some traction from this before the MBA's flush it all down the tubes again

  12. Oh man... the US patent system is beyond broken and useless...

    How dare it grant patents to a company you don't like!

    How dare they patent something their rivals have been doing for 4 years

  13. DRM on MP3 Is Not Dead, It's Finally Free (marco.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Please tell me the DRM is still patented

  14. Re:Why no recovery? on SpaceX Launches Super-Heavy Satellite Atop Falcon 9 Rocket (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Not really. Although the bulk of the cost of launching is the cost of the Stages the cost of the fuel is not insignificant

  15. Trump does something monumentally stupid every day it's just not news anymore

  16. Re:F*ck the Pressitutes on UK Tabloids Doxxed the 'Hero' Hacker Who Stopped a Global Cyberattack (theoutline.com) · · Score: 2

    The UK Tabloids are scum and they have a long history of it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  17. Re:news worthiness on Apple Releases macOS 10.12.5, iOS 10.3.2, watchOS 3.2.2, tvOS 10.2.1 (macworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Surprised they didn't stagger the release! They've made their support lines into a bottle neck so defect resolution/mitigation will be slower because suddenly they are dealing with an update to 4 OS's at the same time. If they had staggered them they'd be able to prioritize.

  18. Re:Exception to butterage on Should You Leave Google Chrome For the Opera Browser? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Wasn't Opera sold to a Chinese consortium? You gona trust it with your data?

  19. Re:Why no recovery? on SpaceX Launches Super-Heavy Satellite Atop Falcon 9 Rocket (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    18,300 lbs is the maximum payload it can deliver to GTO if they don't try a recovery. If they wan't to recover the 1st stage the maximum payload is 10,690 lbs.

  20. Re:This is CYA from Microsoft on Microsoft Blasts Spy Agencies For Leaked Exploits Used By WanaDecrypt0r (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    They're trying to direct the conversation so they don't get all the blame. The reality is, if Microsoft hadn't made the flaw, then this attack never would have happened.

    Utter fuckwittery of the highest order. Yes M$ Made the flaw so did almost every other tech company. The NSA new about it for years, kept schtum then got hacked and now everybody knows and some crook is using it to extort hospitals around the world.

  21. Watching all this unfold I thought it was a publicity stunt for the next season of 24

  22. Re:Only LUDDITES use LUDDITE x86 apps! on Windows 10 On ARM Will Support x86 Apps From Outside the Store (liliputing.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually I just don't want to be constrained by what they say I can have from the App Store

  23. Re:What the heck is wrong with BeauHD on Star Trek Bridge Crew Gets IBM Watson-Powered Voice Commands (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm honestly starting to think that BeauHD is actually IBM's Watson in disguise

  24. Posting under names in alphabetical sequence? Rookie mistake

  25. Re:Sigh. As a US academic this is terrible on US To Ban Laptops in All Cabins of Flights From Europe (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of Golf Resorts outside of America pick one