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  1. Re:It's not that hard to stop on 'Get Windows 10' Turns Itself On and Nags Win 7 and 8.1 Users Twice a Day (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep. They're jerks and this is stupid. Though hiding KB3035583 is (for now) enough to stop the nag.

  2. Re:It's not that hard to stop on 'Get Windows 10' Turns Itself On and Nags Win 7 and 8.1 Users Twice a Day (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It's still working for me. Would you like a screenshot of my Win7 tray with no Win10 nagger?

    That's why I commented. I don't know why people are bothering with the registry to disable a program they can just not opt to install.

  3. It's not that hard to stop on 'Get Windows 10' Turns Itself On and Nags Win 7 and 8.1 Users Twice a Day (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Just uninstall the update and hide it.

    Of course, it will be unhidden in a month or so, but just check your updates before installing them and hide it again.

    Okay, that is actually pretty tedious, and MS are jerks for putting us through it. But it is doable.

  4. So that's why ... on Panasonic To Commercialize Facebook's Blu-Ray Cold Storage Systems (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    So that's why it takes so darn long to load each page when I scroll down through my old pictures!

  5. Public access is the issue on Entering the Age of Body-Worn Police Cameras (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    public gets access to some much-desired accountability.

    The problem is that the public may not have access. In many places, the video is only accessible by the police.

  6. Re:Geez, read a book on Seymour Cray and the Development of Supercomputers (linuxvoice.com) · · Score: 1

    And aren't these the same?

    Firstly, within the CPU, there were multiple functional units ... which could operate in parallel; so it could begin the next instruction while still computing the current one ....

    Secondly, the CPU itself contained 10 parallel functional units ... so it could operate on ten different instructions simultaneously.

  7. Re:It's a catenary curve on Structural Engineer On the Fallacies of Movie Bridge Destruction (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Oops, news to me.

  8. It's a catenary curve on Structural Engineer On the Fallacies of Movie Bridge Destruction (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    These main cables form a parabola

    A cable hanging under its own weight forms a catenary, not a parabola. I presume that still applies when you hang a roadway from it.

  9. We can math on Ubuntu Is the Dominant Cloud OS · · Score: 1

    more than twice as popular ... as all other operating systems combined

    That's just a dramatic way of saying “>67% market share.”

  10. Re: Can the enemy actually shoot down the F35? on F-35 Might Be Outperformed By Fourth-Generation Fighters · · Score: 1

    There is (now?) a video of an F-35 performing a vertical takeoff and vertical landing in the comment you replied to.

  11. Not only were rockets working, they had been in practical use for centuries.

    Maybe this would be correct if we said “outer space rockets” specifically. The principles were pretty well understood, but we couldn't yet build one.

  12. Radio silence on NASA Funded Study States People Could Be On the Moon By 2021 For $10 Billion · · Score: 1

    It's amazing that humanity has gotten here: that to find radio silence, we'd send people to the far side of the moon.

  13. Quote of the day on Boeing Patents an Engine Run By Laser-Generated Fusion Explosions · · Score: 2

    Sustainable fusion reactions aren't quite reality yet.

  14. HoloLens? on Oculus Announces Partnership With Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I thought MS was building this stuff in-house. What happened to HoloLens?

  15. Sounds like a job for 8pen on The Challenge of Getting a Usable QWERTY Keyboard Onto a Dime-sized Screen · · Score: 1

    I used 8pen for a while. I found it to be about a wash against Swype for ease and speed, but it would seem to be very well suited to smart watches.

  16. Re:With the best will in the world... on Audi Creates "Fuel of the Future" Using Just Carbon Dioxide and Water · · Score: 1

    I'm sure Audi means that the synthesized fuel is functionally or practically identical, meaning same flash point, detonation point, emissions, etc. So why can't they say that? “Chemically identical” means you can put it through GCMS and get the same results, and I'm sure that's not the case.

  17. Re:With the best will in the world... on Audi Creates "Fuel of the Future" Using Just Carbon Dioxide and Water · · Score: 1

    Audi's statement is absurd. Extracted and refined hydrocarbon fuels are a complicated blend of probably hundreds of different chemicals, with their proportions varying by source and refinement process.

  18. Paywalled FT article on Patent Case Could Shift Power Balance In Tech Industry · · Score: 2
  19. Innumeracy on $1B TSA Behavioral Screening Program Slammed As "Junk Science" · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile, HOORAY! we're spending less than a quarter of that on real science education. I don't think people parse the numbers in news reports, when they get this big.

  20. Well, duh on FAA Says Ad-Bearing YouTube Drone Videos Constitute "Commercial Use" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If Haynes has monetized his channel, then any filming he does for it is commercial filming. YouTube videos are a full-time job for some people.
    If he owned a plane, took a camera on it, filmed stuff from it, and got money when people watched the film, that would be commercial flying. This is no different.

  21. Sounds like the setup of an Asimov story on Should a Service Robot Bring an Alcoholic a Drink? · · Score: 1
    A perfect fit for the I, Robot universe: a conflict between the first and second laws, plus a question about the depth of the robot's understanding of its actions.

    1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
    2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
    3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

  22. Re:I refute on Study: Peanut Consumption In Infancy Helps Prevent Peanut Allergy · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Dumb question on Study: Peanut Consumption In Infancy Helps Prevent Peanut Allergy · · Score: 1

    scrap their knees

    I'm with you overall, but I'm gonna say, let the the kids keep their knees.

  24. The SD poster's theory on The Science of a Bottomless Pit · · Score: 1

    Slashdot summary:

    in theory, it should be possible to construct one

    Actual article:

    Yet, despite the pressure and temperature gradients all the way down, despite having a liquid, molten outer core and a radioactive nickel-iron-cobalt inner core at over 4000 F, lets assume youve gone and physically created created something that will stabilize your cylindrical shaft going right through the Earths center.

  25. Created? on Jaguar and Land Rover Just Created Transparent Pillars For Cars · · Score: 2

    nothing on these augmented displays will look right except from the driver's perspective

    And only from one head position!

    Every time some concept car âoeinventsâ video-cameras-instead-of-mirrors, I wonder whether it's occurred to anyone that mirrors show a different view depending on the position of the viewer. Is that so fundamental that we just forget it entirely?