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  1. Butter and eggs are good for you.

  2. If you already have the trees, taps, and buckets, then collection is free.
    40 to 1? Are you trying to make maple bouillon cubes?
    And it's not hard to control at all. A simple double boiler will do for any small batch. Periodically check on it for the desired consistency and to make sure the bottom pot still has water in it.

    What next? No one should bother making jam because picking fruit off the trees, cutting it up, and boiling it down is too labor intensive and too hard to control?

  3. Re:Ok, this climate change thing just got real on No More Pancake Syrup? Climate Change Could Bring an End To Sugar Maples (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    About 2 years ago.

  4. Re: And 2018 has been the coldest one on record on 2017 Among Warmest Years On Record (npr.org) · · Score: 0, Redundant

    there are hundreds of thousands of years of data

    Nope. There's a few decades of very rough guesses for temperatures that far back. We have at best about a century of actual data with even weak assurances of precision or accuracy. Accurate, rigorous data collection only goes back a few decades, and the nutjobs running the scam love "adjusting" that data and tossing out the original data.

    If you can't show your data was accurate or reliable, you can't use it. You don't get to adjust it to what you think it should have been because you later noticed an issue with your instruments.

  5. Re:2018 making up for it on 2017 Among Warmest Years On Record (npr.org) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Uh, did you miss the story on Slashdot a week or two ago where some shitlord (in TFA) literally declared that "scientists" are now allowed to blame individual incidencts such as a hurricane, a hot day, etc. on climate change?

    Global warming nutjobs like yourself constantly commit the flagrant foul of declaring any and all data points in your favor.

    Hot day? GLOBAL WARMING!
    Normal day? Weather is not climate!! GET EDUCATED!!!
    Cold day? SEE! Global warming makes things more extreme!
    No major hurricanes since Katrina? Weather is not climate!!`1!
    Finally, a hurricane? OMG! This hurricane hit New York City, our sacred fucking cow!! But it wasn't a hurricane when it did, so let's have the media trump it up as SUPERSTORM SANDY!!
    Finally, a normal hurricane season? OMG! GLOBAL WARMING IS MAKING MORE HURRICANES AND MAKING THEM MORE EXTREME! SEE?!?! This weather IS climate!!!
    Data doesn't match the narrative? Adjust it! Correct it! Assault anyone who questions our methods or exposes our bullshit! THEY'RE ALL RACIST SEXIST REDNECKS!

    Fuck off.

  6. Re:Poor Programming on The World's Top-Selling Video Game Has a Cheating Problem (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    And an example of the ridiculous kinds of hacks that Chinese players ruin everyone's games with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  7. Re:Poor Programming on The World's Top-Selling Video Game Has a Cheating Problem (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    PUBG is dogshit on every technical level: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  8. Toys for Thugs on LAPD Is Not Using the Electric BMWs It Announced In 2016 (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Did anyone think they'd be anything but taxpayer-funded toys for thugs?

  9. Re: Gamer phags on The World's Top-Selling Video Game Has a Cheating Problem (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Gettin a blowjob ain't gay.

    It is when you're blowing yourself.

  10. Re: About time on The World's Top-Selling Video Game Has a Cheating Problem (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for your input, Kaiba. What's next from you? "Screw the rules, I have money."?

    China has a law about this shit. This shit negatively impacts millions of people, is part of an illegal industry, negatively impacts businesses, etc. This is a tamer version of the US's CFAA, because China is using on people who are actually guilty.

  11. Re: Just kick the hacker countries off US servers. on The World's Top-Selling Video Game Has a Cheating Problem (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Has Donald Trump been sent to prison?
    Has he been convicted of anything?
    Has he been put on trial for anything?
    Has he been charged with anything?
    Has any evidence for anything been put forward?
    Have a bunchy of angry little shits bitched and moaned and hashtagged and faked news?

    I don't support Trump, and I voted against him. But you fucking losers are pathetic! You're grasping at imaginary straws.

  12. Re:Poor Programming on The World's Top-Selling Video Game Has a Cheating Problem (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't know how bad PUBG is. It's not a question of how a player saw you, it's a question of how their bullet traveled through 2 buildings and a mountain to find your skull.

  13. Re:Poor Programming on The World's Top-Selling Video Game Has a Cheating Problem (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    A PUBG match has 100 players, and many die off in the first few minutes. It also only runs at about 10 Hz on the server.
    Even if you only enforce checks 1 of the time (for performance considerations), you'd find a whole lot of cheaters you could deal with later.

  14. Re:Poor Programming on The World's Top-Selling Video Game Has a Cheating Problem (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Windows would be part of the geometry. You know where they are.
    Same goes for doors that are shut/open/blown off.

    You don't have to do all of this at all times for all players. PUBG is particularly awful at basic server checks. Even just checking line of sight when firing or imposing a max distance on shots would be a huge improvement. Currently, a cheater can ride around in a buggy and one shot an entire server regardless of where they are. Behind a building? Dead. Behind a mountain? Dead.

    Don't bring latency into it - if PUBG card about latency they'd implement a ping lock (or even just a region lock). But as it is you can go onto a server with 300 ms ping or 5000 ms ping and just fuck around ruining everyone else's experience. Further, the netcode is awful and the tickrate is abysmal - 10 Hz or less!

  15. That's why I use Bing.

  16. Re:Another example why 'alerts' are useless on Days After Hawaii's False Missile Alarm, a New One in Japan (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I had emergency alerts enabled where I work. I very quickly disabled them.

    The first issue is that the vast majority of the alerts were not relevant to where I worked, but were for a neighboring area.
    They quickly implemented a filter to let people subscribe to 2 different lists to try and separate those out. They still bled over.

    The second issue was that the vast majority of the emergency alerts were for non emergencies. I don't like being awoken at 3 AM to hear about an attempted bike theft or an alleged altercation between 2 drunk kids or a report of someone maybe carrying a rifle (which is perfectly legal, and turned out to be absolute bunk anyway).

    The third issue was that when there was an actual emergency, the alerts didn't come out until hours after the fact. Twitter / Snapchat / Vince / Facebook etc. had all the info as it was happening. News crews were thee in minutes. The alert system designed to keep me safe? Absolutely worthless. So I disabled them entirely.

    Then a few months later they forced them on for everyone and I had to go in and put in fake info to disable it.

    The same shit is true with amber alerts and whatnot. I turn that shit off. I'm sorry, but the odds of me being in a position to help find a child at 3 AM, two counties over, in a "dark colored truck or van" are pretty low. I similarly don't need to be warned about thunderstorms or flash floods or whatnot. I can see that it's raining, thank you. I only have the imminent/critical/whatever option enabled. That too was going off frequently (and with false info a few times) during the California fires, and was being sent to people miles away.

    These systems are more of a nuisance than a help. Fuck em.

  17. Re:Once is happenstance... on Days After Hawaii's False Missile Alarm, a New One in Japan (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    A communications disruption can mean only one thing!

  18. Re:They're seeing what happens on Days After Hawaii's False Missile Alarm, a New One in Japan (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    They're real alerts. NK is firing missiles, but we're shooting them down with lasers (from satellites, not sharks).
    We can't pull the plug on the alerts without revealing our hand. And there's always the possibility that we fail to zap one.

  19. Re:They're seeing what happens on Days After Hawaii's False Missile Alarm, a New One in Japan (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Hanlon's razor [wikipedia.org]: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

    That's just what a malicious actor wants you to think.

  20. Re:The Plan. on Turning Soybeans Into Diesel Fuel Is Costing Us Billions (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Liar. There's a reason corn is used to make liquor. It's the best choice. It's cheap (sudsidized or not), it ferments easily, requires minimal processing, etc.

  21. Re: The Plan. on Turning Soybeans Into Diesel Fuel Is Costing Us Billions (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    Dude, solar is now the single cheapest way to generate power in the US, with no subsidies.

    Stop living in 1995

    Nuclear and hydroelectric are the cheapest, by far.

  22. Aurora is the B2, you clown.

  23. Re:Don't tell me... on America's Fastest Spy Plane May Be Back -- And Hypersonic (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Here he comes,
    Here comes Speed Racer!
    He's a demon on wheels.
    He's a demon and he's gonna be chasin' after someone.

    He's gainin' on you so you better look alive.
    He's busy revvin' up a powerful Mach 5!

    And when the odds are against him
    And there's dangerous work to do,
    You bet your life Speed Racer
    Will see it through.

    Go Speed Racer!
    Go Speed Racer!
    Go Speed Racer, Go!

    He's off and flyin' as he guns the car around the track.
    He's jammin' down the pedal like he's never comin' back.
    Adventure's waitin' just ahead.

    Go Speed Racer!
    Go Speed Racer!
    Go Speed Racer, Go!

  24. Re:Always recording? on Google Home and Chromecast Could Be Overloading Your Home Wi-Fi (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    What were the consequences of violating copyright en masse by scanning every single book they could get their hands on and reproducing them online?
    What were the consequences of illegally collecting location information of users?
    What were the consequences of "accidentally" mapping out the location of every WiFi AP without consent?

    I dare you to name one negative consequence Google has faced and balance that consequence against the action itself and its benefits to Google.
    Feel free to do the same for Amazon, Facebook, etc.

  25. Re:Always recording? on Google Home and Chromecast Could Be Overloading Your Home Wi-Fi (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Fact: You have absolutely no clue what that little black box is doing.
    Fact: It's designed to be always on and always listening.
    Fact: It has enough processing and storage on board to listen to everything, record only when it wants (filtering out silence), analyze it to convert it to text or simply compress it to 6 kbps or less (see Opus), then send it off later as part of its expected data stream (after you say "Okay, Google") via an encrypted connection you have no way of looking into.
    Fact: They're remotely updateable. Even if you trust Google today (you fool), one update later and you're fucked, one national security letter and you're fucked, one remotely exploitable vulnerability and you're fucked.

    PCAP isn't going to show you shit. The thing will filter, compress/textify, encrypt and send later, stowing away on an expected data transmission.