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  1. Re: Yay, another prediction! on Global Investment Firm Warns 7.8 Degrees of Global Warming Is Possible (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Death Valley's biggest habitability problem is the lack of potable water, not the temperature.

  2. Re:Yay, another prediction! on Global Investment Firm Warns 7.8 Degrees of Global Warming Is Possible (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    People like to live in warmer climates, but unfortunately people also like to live on the coast and low elevation places like as you've mentioned Florida. Most of Florida will be underwater with significant warming.

  3. I purposely downgraded my internet to 10/1 to save money. I don't miss faster service at all. It would be better for the government to focus on getting broadband to the rural people still stuck on dialup/satellite than to focus on increasing the speed of broadband.

  4. Re:Progress of the Arts and Sciences on Disney To Pull Its Movies From Netflix and Start Its Own Streaming Service (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    People have been clamoring for a la carte cable channel subscriptions. Now we've got it in the form of a streaming service for each channel.

  5. Re:VR? More crap no-one asked for on Firefox 55 Arrives With WebVR on Windows, Performance Panel, and Click-to-Play Flash (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    If it's device-independent, why does the title says "on Windows"?

  6. Do those 14 legacy extensions have Chrome equivalents? If so, presumably you'll be able to install the Chrome version in Firefox 57.

  7. Re:Firefox may not survive WebExtensions. on Firefox 55 Arrives With WebVR on Windows, Performance Panel, and Click-to-Play Flash (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    On slashdot, everyone says they've switched to Pale Moon. Yet in the real world, Pale Moon has 0.02% market share. Would it be wise for Mozilla to do that Pale Moon users want?

  8. Re:Not Skeptical on SpaceX Releases Animation of Planned Falcon Heavy Launch (gizmodo.com.au) · · Score: 1

    The F9H is not necessary to put astronauts into space. Astronauts will go to the ISS on the regular F9 as soon as NASA decides crew dragon is safe.

  9. Re:Animation? on SpaceX Releases Animation of Planned Falcon Heavy Launch (gizmodo.com.au) · · Score: 1

    As for what the actual schedule is, that, I doubt, is a highly kept company secret that only Musk himself and the teams working on the rocket know of. As far as the rest of the world is concerned they're always just about to launch.

    That's a ridiculous assertion. They do not want to keep their launch schedules secret. They want their customers to know when they can expect to launch, they want NASA and the coast guard to know when they're going to launch. It's just not easy, it's rocket science.

  10. Hyperloop was proposed to avoid regulations on 'Elon Musk's Hyperloop Is Doomed For the Worst Reason' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    When Musk originally proposed the hyperloop as an alternative to California's not-really-high speed rail, one of his arguments was that it'd be much cheaper and easier to get permission for. HSR is unable to wrangle permission to build anywhere but empty bits of the central valley because it needs to acquire so much land and rights of way. The hyperloop, he argued, could simply follow the freeways and be built above the center divider. What happened to that notion?

  11. Re:Mozilla has an opportunity on Inside Mozilla's Fight To Make Firefox Relevant Again (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Chrome is obviously using it. Presumably if Chrome is using a password manager that's prompting me for a master password, Chrome is likely using it to manage passwords.

  12. Re:Mozilla has an opportunity on Inside Mozilla's Fight To Make Firefox Relevant Again (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If Chrome "will not allow master passwords to protect saved password databases", then why do I get prompted by KWallet 3 times whenever I launch Chrome?

  13. Re:Andreas Gal is right on Inside Mozilla's Fight To Make Firefox Relevant Again (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Many of us switched to Chrome because it felt way faster and it didn't have chrome (makes your screen feel bigger). We keep using Chrome because momentum until Chrome does something too annoying.

  14. Re:Here is my question? on Ubuntu Will Revert Window Controls To the Right-Hand Side in Next Release (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    Some people just can't remember / respond to icons. Tell them to find it in the taskbar, right-click and choose close.

  15. Re:design by committee is always a bad move sailor on Ubuntu Will Revert Window Controls To the Right-Hand Side in Next Release (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    Giving people options is so last century.

  16. Re:There's your problem! on Being Outside Could Become Deadly In South Asia, Says Study (go.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If you fix the issue of 25% of Indians not have electricity, you've just increased global warming a few more degrees by making them contributors.

  17. Re:California's "bullet train" on Hyperloop One's Full-Scale Pod Reaches 192 MPH In New Nevada Track Test (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't blame the infinitely expensive slow bullet train to nowhere on the government, when it's the people who specifically voted it into existence with a ballot measure.

  18. Re:"Geared to the Living Room" ? on Facebook Is Working On a Video Chat Device (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's what this is really for: video-chatting with your dogs while you're at work.

  19. Re:Anthropic convenience on National Solar Observatory Predicts Shape of Solar Corona For August Eclipse (phys.org) · · Score: 2

    Not so nice for those who have to settle for annular eclipses when the moon is too far away. We need a bigger moon, time to crash some asteroids into it.

  20. Re:Yes, for heaven's sake let's do something usefu on Senators Propose Bill Targeting Websites That Facilitate Sex Trafficking (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    It's single payer, not single provider. The government pays. Various non-profits compete to offer better services for those payments. And of course the rich can still buy extra perks.

  21. Re:People blowing this off need to consider .... on Hackers Can Turn Amazon Echo Into a Covert Listening Device (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're inviting CIA agents to your country's embassy for an evening party, then yes, you should keep a careful watch on your Amazon Echo.

  22. Re:It is going to be more interesting ... on Hackers Can Turn Amazon Echo Into a Covert Listening Device (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you ever ask yourself how google gets information about traffic jams? Every mobile phone is being tracked.

    Only phones that have opened google maps and told it to get their location are tracked for traffic. Pretty easy to avoid that.

  23. Re:Please... on US Senators To Introduce Bill To Secure 'Internet of Things' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The batteries on older phones die after like 3 years. Google doesn;t want to spend money supporting older devices that few people still own and use.

    It's not even just older phones that run years old Android versions. It's brand new low-end phones. Which are the majority of phones on the market.

  24. Re:A non-legislative approach on US Senators To Introduce Bill To Secure 'Internet of Things' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The people with the compromised products don't care, of course. That's why we need a law to prevent people from buying IoT botnets that spend their days attacking the rest of the world.

  25. Re:This is bonkers! on LinkedIn Says It's Illegal To Scrape Its Website Without Permission (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Trying to make it illegal to scrape the data is beside the point -- what linkedin really wants to do is prevent others from publishing the data. Just because you can find a book in the library and the book doesn't fire lasers at your eyes to blind you and stop you reading it doesn't mean you have permission to sell your own book which consists of photocopies of that book with a few small changes.