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  1. Why does /. link to Amazon Alexa developer pages? on Telegram's Billion-Dollar ICO Has Become a Mess (amazon.com) · · Score: 1

    Why does the link next to the heading go to "developer.amazon.com/alexa/smart-home/compatible"?

  2. Re:Why would you search for "Reddit" though? on If Fortnite Were a Website, It Would Rival Reddit and Amazon (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 1

    Some people don't use bookmarks or type the a part of the URL to the address bar -- they google the site.

  3. And in Absolutely Fabulous, Eddy called Saffron from inside an iso tank using a phone. Ergo, you could take a phone inside to communicate with the external world!

  4. Re:Correct Wikipedia Link on 60-Year-Old Maths Problem Partly Solved By Amateur (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Wikipedia uses, in its infinite wisdom, the character U+2013 (en-dash) in article names like those. You get the correct link to the article with decoded characters when you copy the link from the tab heading "Article" at the top of the article. It shows the en-dash as %E2%80%93, as it should.

  5. Re:That's head to the Arctic on Russia Launches Floating Nuclear Power Plant That's Headed To the Arctic (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    There seem to be few trees in Pevek, the final destination. There are at least birches, deciduous trees, in Murmansk.

  6. Re:That's head to the Arctic on Russia Launches Floating Nuclear Power Plant That's Headed To the Arctic (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    BeauHD may be an AS.

  7. Re:Zero Cost ??? on AI Researchers Revolt Against a New Paywalled Nature Journal (oregonstate.edu) · · Score: 1

    Cost per article is usually USD 30 or more.

    I checked now, and Nature seems to only offer subscription, which is $199 for Nature itself. American Chemical Society offer 48 hours for $40. Elsevier don't give price without signing in. Science says I can "Purchase Access to this Article for 1 day for US$30.00."

  8. Re:Depends which GPUs you're talking about on GPU Prices Are Falling (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, any of BOINC projects would be better. Think of the benefit to science!

  9. From what I've read, determining eg. the polarisation of one quantum entangled particle, the other changes as well, and it happens faster than if the effect of measuring propagated at light speed. Ars Technica had an article touching on this in 2012. Okay, that was the first I found and it doesn't seem very fulfilling.

  10. Re: Hey Miss Mash... on The Last Known Person Born in the 19th Century Dies in Japan at 117 (kottke.org) · · Score: 1

    Two things: The notion of zero wasn't well known. And people counted eg. years or days, they didn't measure them. That's the reason the Bible tells Jesus rose from the dead on the third day, even though from Friday evening to Sunday morning it isn't three full days. Friday 1, Saturday 2, Sunday 3, ergo on the third day.

  11. See also: Burma and the Rohingya on NYT: Lynchings Around the World are Linked To Facebook Posts (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 0

    It was reported last year and recently that national Buddhists use Facebook as a channel to post things that help to incite violence towards minority Muslims called the Rohingya in Burma. A monk called Wirathu was banned, by the government, from public preaching, and that included Facebook.

    More information:
    A War of Words Puts Facebook at the Center of Myanmar’s Rohingya Crisis
    Rohingya crisis: How we got here
    U.N. Fact Finders Say Facebook Played a 'Determining' Role in Violence Against the Rohingya
    Myanmar: UN blames Facebook for spreading hatred of Rohingya
    Is Facebook playing a part in the Rohingya genocide?
    The Facebook official who oversees the news feed says his team loses sleep over the site's alleged role in violence in Myanmar

  12. Re:Looks like a bot posted this mess of a sentence on YouTube Is Littered With Mass-Produced Videos Made By Automated Bots (hackernoon.com) · · Score: 1

    I love the smell of rewardsâS in the morning!

  13. Re:Here's the thing! on Eating World's Hottest Pepper Sparks Brain Disorder, Thunderclap Headaches (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Or dimethylmercury. If you get one drop on your lab gloves, you're going to die in six months and be convulsing the final months without functioning brain.

  14. Re:But Finland HAVE Euro already... on One of Estonia's First 'e-Residents' Explains What It Means To Have Digital Citizenship · · Score: 2

    Also, April isn't a Finnish first name. The surname Rinne is Finnish.

  15. Re:Exciting? on Fedora 28 Beta Linux Distro is Finally Here (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    It's as exciting as waiting for the next flare-up of inflammatory bowel disease.

  16. Re:Really Slow News Day! on Large Crack in East African Rift is Evidence of Continent Splitting in Two (pbs.org) · · Score: 1

    If you're referring to the Zanclean flood, that is supposed to have happened more than 5,000,000 years ago. Also, Wikipedia says it may have taken 10,000 years for the Mediterranean to fill up.

  17. Unicode strikes again, part deux on Our Devices May Listen More Attentively, Patents Filed By Google and Amazon Suggest (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    "Hey, Alexaâ or âoeO.K., Google."

    That's a difficult phrase, but does it work both Alexa and Google?

  18. Kodi is a word at least in Karelian, Veps, Ludian, Latvian, Swahili and Chichewa! So members of some linguistic minorities in Russia have to press enter when searching for home.

  19. Å/å hås been å possible chåråcter on /.. It's in the ISO-8859-1 chåråcter set åfter åll.

    Åt leåst in comments.

  20. Re:I was expecting a spectacular aurora but... on Media Reports About a Massive Geomagnetic Storm Hitting Earth on March 18 Are Inaccurate, NOAA Says (newsweek.com) · · Score: 2

    There will likely be aurorae tomorrow (or the day after that) but polewards from the arctic/antarctic circle. There is a coronal hole in the Sun (but no sunspots right now).

  21. Re:Here we go again on Are The Alternatives Even Worse Than Daylight Saving Time? (chron.com) · · Score: 1

    That's one part of the Y5B problem. (That's a nice 90's website!)

    More accurately, the Sun is slowly becoming hotter, and so in perhaps 1,000,000,000 years life on the surface of the Earth will be impossible. The Y1B problem?

  22. Re:Race between Texas and California on California Bullet Train Costs Soar To $77.3 Billion, Will Take 5 Years Longer To Complete · · Score: 1
    It seems the Houston station is not going to be in the centre but instead outside I610. That seems non-ideal. Perhaps they thought it would be too expensive to have station in the centre? Quote:

    Houston’s passenger station will be located in northwest Houston just outside 610 between Interstate 10/290. This area was recognized by the FRA as the location with the right combination of minimal environmental and community impact. This route allows the train to follow existing rights of way, while providing high-speed train passengers with easy, efficient roadway access and connectivity with planned transit improvements.

    The current light rail in Houston doesn't go the location of the HSR station.

  23. FFS, editors should really check that there are no âoes in the posts.

  24. Re:Whatâ(TM)s in a name on 'Java EE' Has Been Renamed 'Jakarta EE' (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 1

    They could've picked another place in Indonesia, like Padangsidempuan.

  25. If transferring one zettabyte takes three days, you get something like 3 gigabytes per second, which might be enough for your needs.