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  1. Re:I got a flu shot this season on The Flu and Airports (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 0

    It is good you got the shot. You are hereby allowed to resume badmouthing crazy anti-vaxxers.

    Anyone who did not get their shot and who has no legitimate diagnosis counterindicating the shot will be hunted down and beaten with haddocks the next time they go on an anti-anti-vaxxer rant. You have been warned.

  2. Re:Just wait till China offers to buy it! on The Trump Administration is Moving To Privatize the International Space Station: Report (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, you've got the crew chambers and cargo modules, but without any engines you'll have to give up when the first Open Space card is drawn. And no shield or front facing lasers. More than a bit risky.

  3. Re:I have some past in this strange SCADA world on Attackers Drain CPU Power From Water Utility Plant In Cryptojacking Attack (eweek.com) · · Score: 1

    ...and this situation will just continue until either 1) operators realize they need in-house coders and are willing to pay them or 2) Some equipment supplier starts offering contractual guarantees to support future OSes and PHBs start to view that as a product feature and demand it for future purchases or 3) Some sort of OpenSource SCADA movement starts. Personally I don't see #3 as likely, don't think #2 has even entered the minds of the involved parties, and #1 would require a really smart PHB willing to compete in a tight labor market... which is kinda oxymoronic.

  4. ...except for the ones running a browser plugin programmed to autocomplete the captcha, of course.

    (Robots have a significantly harder time making human plugins to their REST retrievers.)

  5. Re:Oil will only go out of style when... on New York's $6 Billion Plan For Offshore Wind Shows That Oil Drilling Really Is On the Way Out (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    Minus the weight of the deisel, plus that of a genset, because power-to-weight ratio of the motor matters too. Also vehicle weight is only one factor in total cost of ownership.

  6. Re:Too Many Modes! on GTA Online Is Full Of Abandoned Modes (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    I clearly remember "heists" not being available unless you signed up and joined a gang.

  7. Re:Too Many Modes! on GTA Online Is Full Of Abandoned Modes (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    GTA Online's matchmaking system was just plain broken about when I stopped playing, and that was before there were that many modes. I have no reason to believe it ever got fixed, considering they let it linger that way for so long. Even the sandbox events were horribly broken... some servers... armored car or airdrop every hour at least... others, you could stay on all day and nothing at all happened.

    That, and the way they made it mandatory to use the associated social website in order to participate in a lot of the activities (dammit I play games to get away from web UIs and cell phones. STOP INTEGRATING THEM.) soured me on the whole experience.

  8. Re:Train Wreck on White House Seeks 72 Percent Cut To Clean Energy Research (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    +1 for civility.

  9. Re:Related: on White House Seeks 72 Percent Cut To Clean Energy Research (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I suspect that most people who voted left in the past are going to start asking questions, like why is the economy doing so good, why did I just get 1k+ bonus, why are there more jobs, why am I getting a tax break.

    Not me. I'll be asking "which Democratic campaign should I donate this bread crust of a tax break to?"

  10. Re: Thank you! on White House Seeks 72 Percent Cut To Clean Energy Research (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Really? You saying all this time Obama was researching a lithium battery?

    https://energy.gov/eere/vehicl... (Until some Trump lackey gets appointed to pull all the useful content off their website.)

  11. And so a new inquiry is launched... on False Hawaii Missile Alert Sent After Drill Recording Said 'This Is Not A Drill' (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...wherein they now try to figure out why the message said "this was not a drill" ... and determine it was because that message was accidentally selected from a drop-down menu.

  12. Re:As I say... on Americans Are Saving Energy Because Fewer People Go Outside (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty much. Bugs, skin cancer, and sneezy tree spooge. (Not that there aren't plenty of indoor air quality hazards, but it's much easier to clean a house.)

  13. those 65 and older were the only group that spent more time outside

    ...simpler explanation: to get away from the smell of mothballs and ben gay.

  14. Re:Long write-up... on Longest-standing Video Game Record Declared 'Impossible,' Thrown Out After 35 Years (polygon.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How about: "Jesus fuck, it's a game. A GAME, not a secret recruitment test to pilot alien spaceships for real. Play it for FUN and don't take it so seriously."

  15. Re:Killing Net Neutrality was fine.... on FCC Chairman Slams Trump Team's Proposal To Nationalize 5G (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The most obvious solution to having the best of both worlds is multiple competing government programs who must offer good deals, or get reamed out and restructured by congress... with lots of firing in the least productive one after some predetermined review period expires. Sort of like a certain reality TV show... oh what was the name of it... just can't seem to remember. But that policy cannot sell, because unlike in the private sector, once the government gets involved, "redundancy" suddenly becomes a four letter word among voters.

  16. In response Strava implemented a "home area" wherein your data is not submitted, leaving something like half a square kilometer of ambiguity around where the rider's home is.

    ...except to people who have (hypothetically) bought the stolen database of people's home areas on the dark web.

  17. Re:BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!! on Fitness-Tracking App Reveals Locations of Secret Army Bases (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Here's an even more secure option

  18. Re:Or just cut back on pointless Bitcoin 'mining' on Giant Tesla Battery In Australia Earns A Million Bucks In a Few Days (electrek.co) · · Score: 2

    No doubt... and a competently designed smart grid would allow even less pointless appliances to dip their power usage for short periods of time. However, as renewable penetration increases I think this problem will end up being solved mostly on the supply side with storage solutions... there are less cats to herd and the need for longer and longer term reserves will continue to grow for some time.

  19. Well, the product is meant to deal with abnormal circumstances, so that metric may be a bit off the mark.

    $50 million was the initial cost estimate. AU has not revealed the final negotiated price.

  20. Re:Dictatorships on Ask Slashdot: What Kind of Societies Will the First Mars Colonies Be? · · Score: 1

    Well, my money is on the first few being whackadoodle cults... and also suffering that imminent demise relatively soon after establishment.

  21. Epigenetics is more "nurture/environment altering the activation of genes you already have" which could explain a subset of the observed effect, but probably not the entirety.

    Like most, this study needs a lot of followup work before it should be taken very seriously. But it is an intriguing twist. You can say "nurture" because there's no direct cause in the child's DNA, but, at the same time, the correlation is with the parents' DNA, not other factors, which would argue for "nature" on the part of the parents, with the unanswered question of how much is simply correlated induction from culture/older generations.

  22. Just uttering the phrase "Apple's pacemakers" contributes to the total annual number of heart attacks... stop it!

  23. Re:WTF is he trying to Say? on Tim Cook: Coding Languages Were 'Too Geeky' For Students Until We Invented Swift (thestar.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, I guess that makes sense. Because using "let" as a declarator/initializer is about as math-geeky as you can get, so I had no clue what he was talking about.

  24. Re:Bogus scale on The US Drops Out of the Top 10 In Innovation Ranking (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, we did have great productivity.

  25. Re:This is huge on Engineers Design Artificial Synapse For 'Brain-on-a-chip' Hardware (mit.edu) · · Score: 1

    Based on some other comments on another threads, you can't have a qubit without cryogenic cooling, so apparently this is ruled out automatically.

    Science has done a good job of eliminating a lot of possibilities proposed earlier for possible mechanisms of quantum cognition (there's still at least one possible loophole they are trying to close WRT Posner clusters). But then, science did a great job of ruling out levitating things in a static magnetic field prior to properly sussing out the details of diamagnetic materials (not Earnshaw's fault, just there was an area of physics yet to be plumbed out.) I doubt many scientists would qualify the cerebral environment as being particularly well charted out. What we have so far proven is that none of hypotheses which we can generate given our current knowledge have panned out, withstanding those lingering loopholes... or in other words, if such a thing does exist, we don't have the basis to explain how it works yet. That's a far cry from ruling it out.