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  1. I don't know which is worse. Treating "TB" as trillion bytes or using a figure from 2004 and assuming it's even in the same order of magnitude of 15 years later.

  2. Re:Bio/Medical Fields on Is Statistical Significance Significant? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    That's just a narrow definition of statistics. Gathering that data falls under "statistics" as well.

  3. I'm sure they're trying most of that. But riding on coattails is a great way to cut your marketing budget. They probably aren't even near ready.

  4. Now the preservation argument is more important than ever. That is, assuming they end up having anything of cultural value.

  5. trobador wouldn't be in the English dictionary (troubador is). Maybe Catalan. Does your dictionary attack include Catalan?

  6. Why keep the list? I would, to help set better security standards.

    You can flag bad password choices just by storing hashes.

  7. Re:Bio/Medical Fields on Is Statistical Significance Significant? (npr.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Statistics in medicine are inherently messier. We don't clone people to do experiments and they don't intentionally kill people. You don't get clean control subjects.

  8. Re:p-hack? on Is Statistical Significance Significant? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The wait is over - YOU did!

  9. Re:Just about on MoviePass Brings Back Its Unlimited Movie Plan (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Stop putting limits on the definition of unlimited. It should have an unlimited number of definitions.

  10. Re: checklist that all pilots are required to memo on Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    I'd love it if people were more willing to be methodical when the situation demands it, but most pilots will not get out a paper checklist while in the middle of a nosedive.

  11. Re:checklist that all pilots are required to memor on Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    All memory can end up being lost. Part of the problem is that autopilot has gotten too good. This both lowers the hiring standards for pilots and has also left them out of practice.

  12. Re:How much did Google make off those ads? on Google Fined Nearly $1.7 Billion For Ad Practices That Violated European Antitrust Laws (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't be silly. If I was in a class action lawsuit, I would at least have a $10 check or some coupons to show for it.

  13. Re:Oh? on MoviePass Brings Back Its Unlimited Movie Plan (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    I think that's the secret. Read the terms and they'll probably deduct the full movie ticket price straight from your bank account if you get a ticket that you shouldn't have been entitled to.

  14. Re:The EU vs advanced US innovation on Google Fined Nearly $1.7 Billion For Ad Practices That Violated European Antitrust Laws (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Invest in the USA and enjoy the freedom to grow your brand globally.

    The USA. That never broke up huge monopolies in the telecommunications or computer operating system or oil industries.

    No, the US is not 100% behind "free market" and all the dangers it entails.

  15. This was my assumption as well. Correlating factors.

  16. Re:5400RPM HDD in base systems WTF?? on Apple Finally Updates the iMac With Significantly More Powerful CPU and GPU Options (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    $50 would be for a good SATA SSD. NVMe is faster. Much closer to $90 for one that performs to the same specs. The Apple tax being double that sounds closer to normal.

    Splitting the filesystem across two drives has always been problematic - as has some sort of hybrid/RAID approach. For one, even putting the user folder on the secondary drive could slow down files that should be fast - email archive, database files, and OS X has an additional user-level Applications folder. Way too hard to give a simple, consistent user experience.

  17. Ephemeral Media is a sad future on Google Debuts Video Games Streaming Service Stadia (polygon.com) · · Score: 2

    In a world where you can own no remnant of things you pay for, it's only the parent companies that can archive and preserve culture.

    The root cause of this trend might be the flood of info we are exposed to daily, whether it's Facebook or Twitter or Youtube, but the end result is a complete loss of any permanence.

    I can still pick up a Super Nintendo game and play it - long after the parent company has abandoned the hardware. In fact, that company still continues to sell some of the games, but only in a form that has a limited lifespan. Now what do I have after paying for Google's gaming service for years upon years? I have nothing. If a company wants to pretend a game never existed, there is no one else to preserve it.

  18. Re:5400RPM HDD in base systems WTF?? on Apple Finally Updates the iMac With Significantly More Powerful CPU and GPU Options (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Admittedly, I'm using "NVMe" as a shorthand for any protocol that operates directly on the PCIe bus.

    However, "Blancco" (owner of former DBAN) seems to think it's NVME after all.

  19. Re:5400RPM HDD in base systems WTF?? on Apple Finally Updates the iMac With Significantly More Powerful CPU and GPU Options (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm pretty sure that Apple uses only NVMe type drives. Even among the SATA SSDs, Kingston is cheap junk. An accurate price comparison is maybe $50 for a quality baseline, but the read/write speeds are way lower than you would get in NVMe, so that's not even a fair comparison.

    Still, $200 should get you close to 1TB of high performance NVMe in any brand (ok, so the 970 EVO is over $200).

  20. Re:Listen for Mother Nature's tornado siren on Hacked Tornado Sirens Taken Offline In Two Texas Cities Ahead of Major Storm (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Advance warning systems can give you up to 15 minutes to seek shelter. If you can clearly hear a freight train, it's probably too late.

  21. Don't blame 9/11 on those terrorists piloting the plane. Blame the airlines for insecure cockpits.

  22. So now you want pacemakers on non-secure networks? They are already better than that.

  23. Re:Cop can stand by the side of the road. Every 5m on Nevada Lawmakers Want Police To Scan Cellphones After Car Crashes (apnews.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't see horns being used that much. If you're hearing them often your probably just not paying attention. You can usually see the opposing traffic's lights turn from yellow to red, so if you're paying attention there are plenty of clues.

  24. Re:Going to be a problem either way on Nevada Lawmakers Want Police To Scan Cellphones After Car Crashes (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    So I state that it's near-zero difference, but you really think it's worth ripping into it anyway? And kids are more easily distracted because they need more brain power to drive - their input filtering isn't good enough yet. They're barely keeping up without additional input.

  25. Re:Going to be a problem either way on Nevada Lawmakers Want Police To Scan Cellphones After Car Crashes (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Near-zero. Passengers quiet down when something crazy is going on outside the car too. They at least have some situational awareness.