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  1. Re:Planned obsolescence on With Fuel Exhausted, NASA Retires Kepler Telescope (space.com) · · Score: 2

    It doesn't need that much precision, really.

    Get on a similar orbit. Slow down until it's 100 miles away. Match speed.
    Tap the gas to adjust gradually. When you're getting close, initiate some capture or docking maneuver. You can do either extremely slowly. For a capture, you can extend the arm and wait for mission control to confirm. Then you can open the arm and wait for confirmation. Then you can lower the arm and wait for confirmation. Then you can close the arm and wait for confirmation. Then you can retract the arm and wait for confirmation. Then you can attempt refueling connection and wait for confirmation. Then you can open the valve on the receiver and wait for confirmation. Then you can open the valve on the giver and wait for confirmation. Then you can reverse the process.

    At each step you can pause and wait. And each step gets you to a separate step where you've got more control. You don't need to hit a hole in one from Earth to Keppler. You drive out, use your wedge on the hazards, then pull out your putter once you're on the green.

  2. Re:THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES FOR YOUR LIES KEN DO on Waymo Gets the Green Light To Test Fully Driverless Cars In California (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's referring to SuperKendall (or SuperKendal). I don't know why.

  3. Binding arbitration, okay?

  4. Re: Executive order to amend the Constitution ? on Pentagon Wants To Predict Anti-Trump Protests Using Social Media Surveillance (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    And we have a new SCOTUS bench that may come to a different conclusion for a different case.
    Trump is going to point to sanctuary cities & states for the "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" piece.

  5. Re: Executive order to amend the Constitution ? on Pentagon Wants To Predict Anti-Trump Protests Using Social Media Surveillance (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    No, but the alternative is separating children from their parents.

    Literally the opposite. Anchor babies mean parents get deported and the kid goes into foster care, with some estranged relative, or on the streets. In sanctuary cities / states, anchor babies mean parents get the catch and release treatment. Can't deport them because you're separating families!!!

    If you nix the anchor babies idea then you fix the issue. The parents get deported and the kids go with them. You get to keep families together!!!

    If you don't have enough morals to see why that is unacceptable then you need Jesus.

    Families are separated when parents are sent to jail for other crimes all the time. Why is illegal immigration different? Why do illegal immigrants who do get arrested for other crimes get special catch and release treatment that citizens don't get?

  6. Re: Executive order to amend the Constitution ? on Pentagon Wants To Predict Anti-Trump Protests Using Social Media Surveillance (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump's play will absolutely center on "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" and the interference run by sanctuary cities/states. When someone is aided and abetted in their crimes by the state, they are clearly not "subject to the jurisdiction thereof".

    The primary goal is to bitch slap the sanctuary cities and states who think they can illegally defy the federal government by actively obstructing federal investigations and the execution of due process. (Yes, arrest and deportation are part of due process.) Immigration and the border are absolutely the domain of the Executive branch. Any sane reading of the Constitution will result in Trump getting control over immigration. With Kavanaugh in place, Trump's going to blitz the issue through the courts and let SCOTUS tell the world the plain facts of the matter.

    Once Trump wins on this matter, and I think he ultimately will, will he then deport all the illegal immigrants, anchor baby / dreamer or not?
    I doubt it. My guess is that Trump will make a show of deporting those who have committed crimes (beyond illegal immigration) while the sanctuary cities and states throw a tantrum. For the majority, Trump will let them stay as long as they're properly documented.

    Trump can then play all sides of the issue. The "bad ones" get kicked out, making communities safer and the border is enforced and secured, keeping us safe. The "good ones" are documented and allowed to stay, keeping families together, but stopping chain migration, while allowing for a merit-based path to citizenship. The documentation will have a chilling effect on shit like exploiting illegal immigrants with sub-minimum wages, dodging taxes, leeching off of the welfare system (or outright scamming it), and illegal immigrants committing crimes (catch and release will be replaced with catch and deport). He'll also get to talk about preventing illegal immigrants from voting, which will be a huge deal by the time this shit winds through the courts.

    I don't give a shit if anyone agrees with what he's doing or not, or what anyone thinks about illegal immigration. I'm just pointing out his game plan. People love to mock Trump for being an unqualified ass and buffoon. He was a joke candidate the media and the DNC created, up until he won. Oops!

  7. Re: Just wait until they start shooting the Migra on Pentagon Wants To Predict Anti-Trump Protests Using Social Media Surveillance (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Everything he wrote was factual and true. I particularly like how you can't point to anything and refute it.

  8. Re:Adjusting for Inflation? on How To Make More Cash From One Game Than 10 James Bond Films (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know, click the link and then click into each title and look it up.

    My point is the AC's complaint is moot. Even if you take the TOP 10 James Bond films (by gross ticket sales), adjust for inflation, and add them up, we can easily demonstrate that a single video game can generate more profit.

    I don't see why anyone would limit the idea to opening weekends, especially since video games are extremely front loaded and movies have a longer and bigger tail, especially if the foreign release comes after the domestic release.

  9. You click randomly until you're in. The known ones simply stick around longer, on average. You don't need to know which ones they are unless you want to get in faster. It would make sense that the clear and obvious pictures of signs, cars, or store fronts are the known images, and the obscured, cropped, etc. images are the unknown ones. But I don't know how they choose what to present to you.

  10. Slowing User Growth? on Facebook Reports Slowing Revenue and User Growth (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Bullshit! It's accelerating user growth! (In the negative direction.)

  11. Re:Adjusting for Inflation? on How To Make More Cash From One Game Than 10 James Bond Films (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    How To Make More Cash From One Game Than 10 James Bond Films

    Back your claim up with numbers, adjusted for inflation. Note that the source is Bloomberg, who recently released the Chinese motherboard chip hack article.

    The top 10 James Bond films, adjusted, got about 3.6 billion domestically combined. While the big boy Skyfall brought in $1.1 billion worldwide, it cost $200 million to make, at LEAST $200 million to advertise, and the studio gets only a small fraction of the ticket sales. Remember, it's not (1100 - 200 - 200) * percentage, it's 1100 * percentage - 200 - 200.

    While the percentage take on ticket sales is larger in the foreign box office, that's changing. And the foreign box office is only really relevant for the newer films - the ones with the massive production budgets and marketing spends.

    https://www.boxofficemojo.com/...

    Meanwhile, Pokemon GO has pulled in over $2 billion, almost all of it profit. Take away the 30% Google/Apple tax and you're still at $1.4 billion. Development and running costs are another 2 significant figures away.

  12. Re: Does that mean I get to.... on Google Launches reCAPTCHA v3 That Detects Bad Traffic Without User Interaction (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you sure you're not a robot?

    I think you may be on to something...

    go go away for a while

    I'll get you next time, Inspector mark-t!

  13. Re:Does that mean I get to.... on Google Launches reCAPTCHA v3 That Detects Bad Traffic Without User Interaction (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I use Bing and I've never seen such a thing. That sounds ridiculous.

  14. Which is why I just click shit randomly until it gives up and lets me in. The system determines if you're right or wrong only for a small set of the presented images, and for the others it uses your choice to feed The Beast. You only have to get the known images correct.

  15. What on Apple's Dual-SIM Tech Ruins Verizon Coverage (pcmag.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How is this Apple's fault? This is 100% on Verizon. Verizon controls what network a device can connect to. MAYBE Apple's eSIM shit is wonky in some way, but since it works on 2G, that means Verizon can at least get the basic details from the SIM and talk to the device. That means they can associate it with a customer account and can put it on the proper network.

    This is Verizon's fault.

  16. Re:"Sketchy" keyboard, eh? on Apple Announces New MacBook Air With Retina Display, Touch ID and Sketchy Keyboard (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The keyboard is the single most idiotically designed peripheral Apple has produced since their legendary hockey puck mouse.

    As I was reading this, I began to scream about that fucking mouse, and then there you were.

  17. Re:It has two Thunderbolt 3 ports (not USB-C) on Apple Announces New MacBook Air With Retina Display, Touch ID and Sketchy Keyboard (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The ports are physical things. They're USB-C ports that support Thunderbolt 3. Thunderbolt 3 is a protocol that rides on top of PCIe and just wrangles together a whole bunch of other shit (from USB to video to networking) under one tent. I never saw the need for it. Just use external PCIe! Yes, the cables are short, but so are TB cables. Yes, the cable will either be thick or expensive, but TB cables are expensive too, so...? With External PCIe, ANY PCIe device works. No need to implement an extra expensive controller on the host and device.

    The whole push for Thunderbolt was supposed to be that it would go over OPTICAL. When TB 1 hit the end user market, Intel said the copper cables were a stopgap for now, and they'd get us on optical (with power!) soon. Still waiting! Oh, sure, you can spend 10-20 times as much to get an optical TB cable, but you're stuck on TB 2 not TB 3, you won't get power, and all it is is a standard networking fiber bundle with a built in converter at both ends so it can plug into your copper host and device.

  18. Re:Too expensive, too close to the MBPro on Apple Announces New MacBook Air With Retina Display, Touch ID and Sketchy Keyboard (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    128GB PCIe-based SSD

    Configurable to 256GB, 512GB, or 1.5TB SSD

    My guess is $100, $200, and $500 extra for each step.

    I checked the order page. It's $200, $400, and $1200 extra! LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!

    Hey, Apple! Look at this! https://amzn.to/2DbTKBd
    High end NAND + controller + board + per unit pricing (not per millions like you contract for) + retail markup is less than 28 cents per GB. Even the most zealous Apple fanboi who believes your SSDs are magical, custom parts will have a time with you charging about 3 times the going (single-purchase, retail) rate for a component included in large volume systems.

    WTF?!

  19. Order page with pricing for config options confirms it's an 8th gen Core i5. (Not that it makes much of a difference, as the 9000 series "9th gen" products are barely any different from the 8th gen.)

    So it's some variant of the i5-8200Y.

  20. Processor

    1.6GHz dual-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz, with 4MB L3 cache

    Intel ARK doesn't list such a beast. This is either something like an i5 9200Y or, if the ship date is anytime soon, a custom bitch based off of the i5-8200Y. https://ark.intel.com/products...

    Either way, it'll be suuuuuuuuuuuuuuper slow. At least the 4MB cache implies that it has HyperThreading. Intel tends to give you 2 MB of L3 cache per core when HT is enabled, and 1.5 MB of L3 otherwise.

  21. Re:If you can indulge a bit of off topic ranting on Snap CEO Hired Chief Business Officer, Then Changed His Mind (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    None of those are salary negotiating questions. Further, I won't even go to an interview unless they tell me a salary range ahead of time. (Not that it matters anymore - in my state the law says employers have to post the salary range when advertising a job.)

  22. Re:If you can indulge a bit of off topic ranting on Snap CEO Hired Chief Business Officer, Then Changed His Mind (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Things I always ask in an interview, because no one fucking tells you if you don't explicitly ask:

    Is this a full-time, permanent career position?
    Is this a new position, or an existing position?
      - If it's an existing position: Is it already vacant? If not, will there be overlap with the current person in the position?
      - If it's a new position: Is it an additional position in an existing role, or is it a new role entirely?
    Do you do 9-5? Or is it 8-5 with a 1 hour lunch?
    Do you have options for working remotely, either occasionally or on a regular basis?
    Where would I be working? This office, or a satellite/branch office?
    Is it salaried, or hourly? How is overtime handled, and how often is that offered/expected?

  23. It takes a week jsut to get people's paperwork in order.

  24. According to the NYT who has access to his employment contract, Google's on-retainer legal department, and everything relating to the issue at hand? Or just according to the NYT?

  25. Like.... wing-nuts exist. They're nuts. They exist on both sides.

    You don't know much about fasteners, do you?