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  1. Re:In other words... on Mother Blames Wi-Fi Allergy For Daughter's Suicide (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Did you read the important part?

    different enough to any device created to distinguish them

    The eyes are the device created to distinguish them. Unless you think the light affects the skin to cause these effects.

  2. Re:Where did I see this?.... Better Call Saul on Mother Blames Wi-Fi Allergy For Daughter's Suicide (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Those are both in the range of 50-75Hz, on average. It should be no surprise that you can see that flickering.

    If you saw flickering in a modern LED light bulb that flickers thousands of times per second, I'd probably be a little more skeptical.

  3. Re:Should've used protection. on Mother Blames Wi-Fi Allergy For Daughter's Suicide (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Just a thought, but most double-blind tests with music files have asked which one sounds better, which is too subjective. If the test played two recordings side by side and asked - "are these the same file or different files" it would be a little more reliable.

  4. Re:Knowing vs unknowing falsehood on Mother Blames Wi-Fi Allergy For Daughter's Suicide (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Just move to West Virginia: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

  5. Re:Inverse square law on Mother Blames Wi-Fi Allergy For Daughter's Suicide (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't send them to drawing school, that's for sure. Or did you capitalize that for some other reason?

  6. Re:There are different classes of people who think on Why Some People Think Total Nonsense Is Really Deep (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you describe two categories of false depth. "Depth" can also be used to describe anything that concisely gives order to data. Or creates a framework that facilitates understanding of a complex idea or process.

  7. Re:A day that ends in "y" for LAPD on Los Angeles Flirts With Pre-Crime (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    And if prostitution was legalized formally those wouldn't be required regulatory procedure?

  8. Re:A day that ends in "y" for LAPD on Los Angeles Flirts With Pre-Crime (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Prostitution *is* legal in the US. As long as you film it and sell the resulting video.

  9. Re: Good idea on Mozilla May Separate Itself From Thunderbird Email Client (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    They both use XUL for the UI.

  10. Re:Next up for sale.... on Companies Want To Insert Ads Into Unicode (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    In case you're wondering, they don't publish their custard flavor of the day as an ical feed, so I am HTTP scraping to roll my own. I discovered this while troubleshooting my code against changes on their site.

    I don't read HTTP headers for every site I visit! Really, I don't.

  11. Re:Next up for sale.... on Companies Want To Insert Ads Into Unicode (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Culver's has sort of done this with HTTP:

    X-Powered-By: Custard, ButterBurgers, and Hospitality

    Culvers is a midwest-based fast food burger chain with frozen custard on the menu.

  12. Re:Would you prefer Chinese labels on buttons? on Companies Want To Insert Ads Into Unicode (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    If the platform supports it, any language selector should show each language name in its native characters/words.

  13. Re:Why emojis/emoticons are in Unicode? on Companies Want To Insert Ads Into Unicode (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    But emoji have no specific implementation. Just look at emojipedia and all the variations across platforms. You can't design on that basis. Though most browsers don't have native support for emoji anyway.

  14. Re:Why? on MST3K Successfully Crowdsources Its Comeback (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    and the movies were worth watching for their own sake, for historical reasons, even if they sucked quite often

    Respectfully disagree.

  15. Re:Question for fans on MST3K Successfully Crowdsources Its Comeback (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    Rewards for backers. The backers themselves are paying for this, so what do you expect to happen instead?

  16. Re:Simple on How Black Friday and Cyber Monday Are Losing Their Meaning (time.com) · · Score: 1

    While most of what you say is true, I got a great Core i7 desktop for only $479. I didn't even have to wait for Black Friday. The CPU that was in it retails for $300 alone.

  17. Re:What 'meaning'? on How Black Friday and Cyber Monday Are Losing Their Meaning (time.com) · · Score: 1

    I looked at a couple of this year's SSD deals from Fry's and Micro Center. Same thing. Insane failure rates or performance degradation problems.

    Just think, HP could have just released updated firmware.

  18. Re: Is Windows10 a thing? on Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 November Update (1511) ISOs (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    But it's not the manufacturer or the quality. It's simply being forced to buy better. It's hard to buy junk from Apple, because they don't sell much of it. You can do the same by spending $1500 on a Windows PC.

  19. Re:Official? Hah. on Finland Releases National Emoji Collection (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    A character can typically be represented by a font, while graphics tend to allow multiple colors.

  20. Re:To name one major example on Google Engineer Warns Against Perils of Buying Cheap, Third-Party USB-C Cables (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    It has a pretty large following in north-central IL. I remember being able to get it there. Never been to the Carolinas, but I've had Cheerwine more than a few times. Given that there's no bottler in IL or any north-neighboring state, I have no idea where it came from.

  21. Re:To name one major example on Google Engineer Warns Against Perils of Buying Cheap, Third-Party USB-C Cables (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not a cola.

  22. Re:Change the interface! on The Return of OS/2 Warp Set For 2016 (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    You didn't have to have the start screen open to get to the charms bar. The same gesture worked on the desktop (or Win+C). Win+I was a direct keyboard shortcut to bring up the settings submenu off the charms bar.

  23. Re:Change the interface! on The Return of OS/2 Warp Set For 2016 (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Not really. There was actually a recognizable power symbol on the start screen. Or was that only 8.1? I seem to remember having to hit Win+I once or twice to power off a machine, but I never used 8.0 to any significant degree.

  24. Re:OS/2 was great on The Return of OS/2 Warp Set For 2016 (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    I could only imagine it's legacy proprietary software with no affordable modern equivalent. I mean, there's still DOSBox and Win3.1, but maybe this is better somehow.

  25. Re:FCC Cost on FCC Fines Another Large Firm For Blocking WiFi · · Score: 1

    Their regulation of frequencies is what allows things like broadcast TV and cellular networks to exist. Otherwise all frequencies would be as badly congested as Wifi. They aren't expected to cover operating expenses with fines on unlicensed spectrum. That doesn't even make sense.

    This is a "TV Tax" of barely over $1/person. Way cheaper than what the UK does to pay for their TV spectrum - even ignoring the per capita difference.