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  1. Re: 10 years in prison is excessive... on Student Used 'USB Killer' Device To Destroy $58,000 Worth of College Computers (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would you even try to bring the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act into this? The computers are probably lab PCs that almost certainly had no data of value (and might have even been re-imaged on a daily/weekly basis). This is just property damage. If there's any abuse involved with the CFAA, though, it's usually in using it as a threat on just about any crime that touches a computer.

  2. Re:Also, how does it harm children? on Online Pornography Age Checks To Be Mandatory in UK From 15 July (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Not if you have good aim.

  3. Re: Does anyone think this was a good idea? on Samsung's $2,000 Galaxy Fold Units Are Failing Left and Right With Disastrous Display Issues (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe they should have specified "fail before mass manufacturing."

  4. Re:No need to fold the display *itself*! on Samsung's $2,000 Galaxy Fold Units Are Failing Left and Right With Disastrous Display Issues (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    You could even have the border pixels' light go a diagonal path and the bezel made out of some fiberoptic wires next to each other.

    This screen is already OLED - you don't need any fancy work with a backlight.

  5. Re:Lets get some Conservatives in here to deny it on Microplastics Are Blowing In the Wind (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 2

    Those are made of chocolate, not plastic. The US doesn't allow non-food objects inside of packaged food.

  6. Re: Lets get some Conservatives in here to deny it on Microplastics Are Blowing In the Wind (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    They capitalized Conservative. You didn't. That's exactly how this works - it's a name for a group of people. And the name refers to conserving/preserving specific things. Next you're going to complain that members of the Teamster's Union are bastardizing the name because literally none of them are driving horses.

  7. Re:I'll give you a huge hint on Microplastics Are Blowing In the Wind (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Straws aren't that useful unless they're going into a plastic or paper cup. And then the cup is a far bigger problem. Most paper cups have polystyrene lids in addition to the straws. We could get rid of plastic cups/lids/straws entirely without crippling anyone's economy. Anyone whose life is changed by a change to fast food cups really has no kind of life.

  8. Re:Why this one? on T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Is In Danger of Being Rejected By DOJ (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Sprint's not bad. Their coverage isn't as good, but considering they charge barely more than half what the two major carriers charge they have done better with their infrastructure money dollar-for-dollar. The merger with Sprint would at least give them both a better position - neither have the vestiges of old Bell that the other major players have and so they're both less likely to be abusive.

  9. Re:Equal consideration under the law? on T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Is In Danger of Being Rejected By DOJ (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Preventing a monopoly is a separate and faster process than slowing one or breaking one up. Monopolies are technically legal if not abused. They would have to be shown to be abusing their monopoly position to get broken up.

  10. Re:super speed SSD is not really needed bigger is on What To Expect From Sony's Next-Gen PlayStation (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Write cycles are going to be low since games are basically write once + patches. You can easily get away with QLC, which is pushing 1TB down near the $100 mark at retail for even M.2 (at SATA speeds).

  11. Re:Are companies allergic to numbers greater than on What To Expect From Sony's Next-Gen PlayStation (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    A 5 and an S look too similar. They don't want it to look like PSS when abbreviated. Didn't stop Samsung from having an S5, which looks more Nazi than urinary.

  12. Re:Why remove infrastructure? on Google Fiber To Pay Nearly $4 Million To Louisville In Exit Deal (wdrb.com) · · Score: 2

    Why keep it? It's just a huge headache that won't last through another winter or survive resurfacing. And it only covers a portion of the city.

  13. Hotel and hospital have literally the same root. Word variations diverge in meaning over time quite a lot. In either case, treachery and treason are not literally the same word. Neither of us spelled the two words the same for starters. My guess is you wouldn't pronounce them the same either.

  14. Re:National bill, please on Amazon and Google Fight Bill That Prohibits Secretly Recording You (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump's derangement has an impact on a lot of things.

  15. Re:So let me get this straight.. on Flat Earther Now Wants to Launch His Homemade Rocket Into Space (phillyvoice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's hard to refute international flights that go over the North Pole constantly. So that had to be the middle.

  16. Learn the difference between treachery and treason.

  17. Wrong definition on Is Microsoft Quietly Lobbying Against Right-To-Repair Legislation? (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    which would prevent Microsoft from penalizing customers when they open up their devices

    That's not right to repair. That's settled case law under the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act. Right to repair is about availability of parts and documentation.

  18. Re:Software to limit functionality? on Tesla Ends Online Sales of $35,000 Model 3 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The incremental hardware cost is nothing compared to the R&D costs that they have to recoup with every sale. This is something common across the industry from Boeing to Intel. It decreases production costs overall.

  19. Re:For those times when SSD RAID is too slow on The Black Hole Image Data Was Spread Across 5 Petabytes Stored On About Half a Ton of Hard Drives (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    16 Gbps sustained records. (By way of comparison, an all-SSD RAID might get you about one-quarter that speed.)

    That would be a pretty small raid of SSDs. A single NVMe SSD will hit over 3000Mbps

  20. They were all dead on New Human Species Found In Philippines (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Talk about burying the lede. They've been dead for thousands of years. An important detail.

  21. It's almost like a parody of cord-cutting. $10/mo. for a set top box? Are the cable/satellite companies even this bad?

  22. If you trust them. Haven't they been known to "match" slightly different versions of a song? I don't use i-devices, but I do meticulously maintain my metadata and album art and wouldn't want that all replaced with something worse.

  23. throwing an error I didn't even know existed (something about reaching the max size that version of checkdisk can check, and to run the check within Windows instead, I believe).

    Probably a hard drive over 32GB on FAT32 upgraded when the last hard drive died. And that drive probably had to be formatted on another newer computer. The last time I replaced a hard drive in a computer that old, I just stuck a CF card on an IDE adapter to get a smaller capacity and make life easier.

  24. The fact is that you can take most programs that ran on Windows 3.11 and run them on Windows 10

    Only if you restrict yourself to 4GB of RAM and use 32-bit Windows 10. That software is 16-bit and can't run when the CPU is in 64-bit mode.

  25. I would normally agree with you. But I can't think of a single situation outside of the Internet where there are unilateral contracts with such massive numbers of people. Nor where a business is able to effectively collect and perform experiments without any knowledge of the subjects. Boxing yourself in with language that's too specific might prevent it being applied to future tech, but this definitely seems like it applies to interconnected tech exclusively.