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  1. A manufacturing process is all that remains to accomplish the claims.

    Same is true of graphene. How long have people been working on that?

  2. Re:Explanation of the problem on Big Tech Warns of 'Japan's Millennium Bug' Ahead of Akihito's Abdication (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    If Unicode was at least sane enough, there would be a range of consecutive reserved codepoints. However, 0x337A is already assigned to something else (as is 0x337F if they started going in the other direction). Having a character doesn't matter as much as having a reserved codepoint. You can test without a real character.

  3. Re:Protecting the Native Way of Life ... on Native American Tribe Can't Be a 'Sovereign' Shield During Patent Review, Says Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And if they only sold the patented medication inside of their reservation, there would be no reason for a lawsuit. If the pharmaceutical country transferred the ownership of the patent to Canada, another sovereign nation, they new owner would still be sued.

  4. And more importantly, US companies sue other companies in sovereign nations all the time. Just because it's located in an enclave of the US makes no difference.

  5. Headline bad, summary good on Chrome Extensions, Android and iOS Apps Caught Collecting Browsing Data (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Chrome Extensions, Android and iOS Apps Caught Collecting Browsing Data

    The headline is just nonsense. If Adguard wasn't collecting browsing data, how would they uncover this? The important thing, as in the summary, is the common link they uncovered.

  6. American government has done just the opposite.

    So you're saying Trump speaks bigly and has a soft stick? Sounds about right.

  7. the world loses^H^H^H^H^H gains a dictatorship that abuses human rights

    FTFY

  8. Re:Garbage in, dead patients out... on IBM Watson Reportedly Recommended Cancer Treatments That Were 'Unsafe and Incorrect' · · Score: 1

    And how do you resell services from a data model that contains HIPAA-protected data?

  9. Re:Libraries are free... on 'No, Amazon Cannot Replace Libraries' (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    2. E-readers last dozens and dozens of hours and many feature built-in lighting which means you can read comfortably in all lighting conditions.

    That's great and all, but we may not always have electrical infrastructure. Think of libraries as part of what's needed to rebuild civilization in a major disaster.

  10. Re:Its simple on 'No, Amazon Cannot Replace Libraries' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    If there are little or no people using them, then they are providing little value.

    While true, you have to look at the reason. There are good libraries and bad libraries. A bad library may be worse than no library at all as you point out. But the solution is a good library.

  11. Re:Shadow DOM is a W3C standard on Google Has Made YouTube Slower on Edge and Firefox, Mozilla Alleges (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    And they must have run into some problems with that, right? Problems that apparently were quicker to solve with an older version of Polymer on a temporary basis.

  12. Re:Shadow DOM is a W3C standard on Google Has Made YouTube Slower on Edge and Firefox, Mozilla Alleges (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    Or, they chose to eventually use it and Youtube doesn't work well with it yet. Seems a lot more likely.

  13. Re:Shadow DOM is a W3C standard on Google Has Made YouTube Slower on Edge and Firefox, Mozilla Alleges (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    This is a non-story. They wanted to move Youtube onto Polymer sooner so they did it before Polymer supported a higher version of Shadow DOM than the v0. A good move to be ready for the next version. Chances are good a new version of Polymer will be out before 2019, since it relies on an API that is going away.

    Firefox is blowing it out of proportion simply to get people to ignore the "v0" in the equation. Firefox has been working on adding Shadow DOM support for 3 years and still aren't there yet.

  14. MARSIS on Evidence Detected of Lake Beneath the Surface of Mars (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    They planned on using it to study Martian ice caps, so they wanted to call it ICE/IS. Apparently there was a problem with that name so they called it MARSIS.

    Yes, it's a bad joke. I even tried not to post it, but I wouldn't let myself. I just think MARSIS is a dumb name.

  15. spend more time focused on his investments

    Get back to work, slacker.

    Musk called his boss and his boss made him quit.

    Get back to work, slacker.

    Yes. I can see these after very different.

  16. That's spelled CEO, FYI. A lot of CEOs are.

  17. Re:Precision, please, people on Uber Self-Driving Cars Back On Public Roads, But In Manual Mode (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Now just because light is in the terahertz range does not mean it's not radio. You just need a very directional receiver.

  18. Re:"Redirect" on In Encryption Push, Chrome Flags HTTP Sites as 'Not Secure' (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Due to this, automatic redirects from HTTP to HTTPS are disabled,

    You can check the user-agent string before redirecting and still secure the majority and protect moderately aged browsers. And the rest should be warned heavily what risk they are under.

  19. Re:This is stupid garbage on In Encryption Push, Chrome Flags HTTP Sites as 'Not Secure' (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    They say "not secure" rather than "insecure." It's a fair distinction, that makes more sense in the context. The least of the problems are the wording.

  20. Re:This is stupid garbage on In Encryption Push, Chrome Flags HTTP Sites as 'Not Secure' (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    All it said is whatabout man-in-the-middle. And if it's dry, uninteresting facts - who cares?

  21. Re:celf signed certificates on In Encryption Push, Chrome Flags HTTP Sites as 'Not Secure' (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I've heard of cert-signed ELF's, but not the other way around.

  22. Re:Story claims opposite on Apple Confirms MacBook Pro Thermal Throttling, Issues Software Fix (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Still don't get it?

  23. Missing digital key on Apple Confirms MacBook Pro Thermal Throttling, Issues Software Fix (theverge.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    we’ve identified that there is a missing digital key in the firmware that impacts the thermal management system

    Are they just making stuff up now?

  24. Re:Story claims opposite on Apple Confirms MacBook Pro Thermal Throttling, Issues Software Fix (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Somebody got wooshed.

  25. Re:This is my everyday OS on ReactOS 0.4.9 Is Entirely Self-Hosting, Fixes FastFAT Crashes (appuals.com) · · Score: 1

    Eventually, this can be used for software preservation. Real Win9x doesn't run well on modern hardware - or at all if we move to EFI-only. We're so far from that, you might as well just use Wine for now - but there's a lot of code sharing between the two projects.