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  1. It's two obvious items where we can swap spending a trillion dollars for 100 million dollars (0.1%).

  2. Wouldn't a vacuum be the opposite of a pressurized system?

  3. Bombing Muslims or Going to Mars on NASA Finally Admits It Doesn't Have the Funding To Land Humans on Mars (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Pick one, we can't afford both.

  4. Re:Enjoy being sued on Amazon May Give Developers Your Private Alexa Transcripts (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Phew! As long as the Amazon Corporation is safe.

    PS - I'm willing to settle the damages for $1.

  5. Re:Is this legal in "All - Party Consent" states? on Amazon May Give Developers Your Private Alexa Transcripts (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    What if it is my responsibility to inform my guests?

  6. Re:Is this legal in "All - Party Consent" states? on Amazon May Give Developers Your Private Alexa Transcripts (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you certain you didn't click through user agreements that waive those rights? The fine print is so small and changes so frequently I doubt anyone here could even answer if the agreements from Amazon cover this.

  7. Re:/* PLEASE NOTE on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Read Code? · · Score: 1

    I pretend Sam Kinison is reading it to me during a code review. OHHOHHHHH

  8. Re:Javascript === on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Read Code? · · Score: 1

    It could be worse, you could pronounce it as "treequals".

  9. How Do You Read Code? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Read Code? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I try to give each function a different characteristic voice. I use a high pitched voice for smaller functions.

  10. Re:1st amendment doesn't mean anyone has to listen on Twitter Users Blocked By Trump Sue, Claim @realDonaldTrump Is Public Forum (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're @xyz and you block someone they won't show up in other people's feeds that are subscribed to @xyz. If they managed to do #maga or whatever then they will still show up in those feeds if people have also subscribed to those keywords.

    If you can read without logging in, then great. I see an overlay asking me to log in that I don't know how to remove. Maybe the technical problems are solved, if so, then nevermind.

  11. Re: SUCK A CHOAD, BEAUHD! on 24 Cores and the Mouse Won't Move: Engineer Diagnoses Windows 10 Bug (wordpress.com) · · Score: 2

    I was kicked off the high school varsity team because I couldn't answer a pop quiz on operating system architecture.

  12. Re:Love is a complex subject on AT&T Pretends To Love Net Neutrality, Joins Tomorrow's Protest With A Straight Face (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    I was wondering the same thing, always I thought corporations were faceless>

  13. Re:1st amendment doesn't mean anyone has to listen on Twitter Users Blocked By Trump Sue, Claim @realDonaldTrump Is Public Forum (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's one thing for a public figure to block comments on his personal account. But it's another entirely to block people from viewing otherwise public posts from account when he is also making policy statements.

    The whole block posting & viewing thing on Twitter is a technical design flaw and I bet if he only blocked them from posting but allowed them to keep viewing that there wouldn't be anywhere near the controversy.

    The consequence is we could potentially have the President of the United States barred from posting on Twitter until his term is up. The President doesn't necessarily have the same rights to free speech with his personal account that a regular schmoe has.

  14. Re:GPL Does Not Work That Way on Ubuntu Is Now Available On the Windows Store (windowscentral.com) · · Score: 1

    Choosing to support Open Source is not the same as using a Free Software license. And by "support" I did not mean "legally required to release source", if I did I wouldn't have used the word support. (the press release used the word support)

    There are already OSI approved licenses from Microsoft such as Ms-PL and Ms-RL. With the Ms-RL (Reciprocal License) being like GPL in that it is a Free Software license, but unfortunately incompatible with GPL according to GNU

  15. Re:Peak Oil Consumption is Nearly Upon Us on World's Cheapest Energy Source Will Be Renewables Within Three Years (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Crude may be cheaper, but refineries have a lot more control over the prices of their products. The supply of crude may be high, but the supply of gasoline depends entirely on what the refineries choose to produce.

  16. Re: How to sell me the Rift on The Oculus Rift Still Isn't Selling, In a Worrying Sign For VR (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    No, in the US we usually work out ways to avoid paying sales tax. The states are working hard to fix that, but there are still working loopholes to avoid paying tax on mail order goods. Also it's hard to compare sales tax, because every state and often every county has a different tax rate. And some states have no tax. And there is no federal sales tax. Very high sales tax in the US would be anything over 10%, typical is around 6%, my city is 9.25%.

  17. I didn't realize you had a gun to your head to fill up your car with gas. My apologies.

  18. Re:I can quit Facebook anytime I want on Facebook Messenger Globally Tests Injecting Display Ads Into Inbox (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll stick to MMORPGs, I prefer to pay for my addictions the old-fashioned way.

  19. Re:Remember that movie, Idiocy on Facebook Messenger Globally Tests Injecting Display Ads Into Inbox (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I pasted it from IMDB, so I blame them for getting the quote wrong. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt05...

  20. Re:Oh, pleeeeese! on First Object Teleported From Earth To Orbit (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Uh, I see photons all the time. I would have trouble seeing without photons.

    Photons are quantum objects, but not physical objects. This is because the latter consists of matter and therefor has mass.
    "Tangible object" is less rigidly defined, and one could probably make a case either way for photons being tangible.

  21. Re:A photon is not an "object" on First Object Teleported From Earth To Orbit (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 2

    It should not surprise you. Both the words "artificial" and "intelligence" are deep philosophical questions.

    Given that artificial flavors are often quite distinguishable from the original they are trying to emulate, I am willing to accept that artificial intelligence is not equivalent to human intelligence or even mammalian intelligence. But I still expect there to be some reasonably high bar for what is intelligence even if it is artificial. Systems that employ problem solving and machine learning even if lab-controlled training is reasonable to refer to as A.I. in my opinion.

  22. Re:A photon is not an "object" on First Object Teleported From Earth To Orbit (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Since most people get it wrong on how solar sails work (and I'm not going to explain them here). Instead let me give you an alternative example where force can be irrelevant to mass. Repulsion of magnets is the example I'd use. The mass of the magnet doesn't matter, rather it's the strength of the magnet. If you've played with simple magnetized iron compared to neodymium you know there is a huge difference that doesn't appear related to mass.

  23. Re:Remember that movie, Idiocy on Facebook Messenger Globally Tests Injecting Display Ads Into Inbox (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?"

    Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree.

  24. I can quit Facebook anytime I want on Facebook Messenger Globally Tests Injecting Display Ads Into Inbox (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Drug addicts say this all the time, so it must be true.

  25. Re:What about real pollution? on Only 100 Companies Are Responsible For 71 Percent of Global Emissions, Says Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    When I'm 80 years old, I won't like to breath air that is 100F and 95% humidity. No matter what the CO2 content is. If CO2 and Methane resulted in the air being that hot and my retirement home to be hit by floods 3 out of the 10 years, then that's not ideal for me.

    Absolutely you need quite high concentrations of CO2 to be directly toxic to human being or really to vertebrates in general. If you failed to catch on to my earlier posts, you lack the ability to see nuance in environmental topics or identify secondary threats.