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  1. Re:Only surprise is that it has taken so long on ISIS Is Using Exploding Consumer Drones To Kill Enemy Fighters (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Despite what the New York Times editors may have told you, Aleppo is not where Islamic State operates.

  2. Re:In other news... on ISIS Is Using Exploding Consumer Drones To Kill Enemy Fighters (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    The esteemed Mr. Butthead seems to be referencing the law California passed last year against using paparazzi drones to spy on celebrities, which was indeed sponsored by Kevin de León and signed into law by Jerry Brown. Though the quote is of course fabricated.

  3. Re:Is this really a good idea? on NASA To Allow Private Companies To Hook Up Modules To ISS (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I have news for you both: the ISS already has an experimental inflatable Bigelow module attached to it. It's too late.

  4. Re:Space Tourism on NASA To Allow Private Companies To Hook Up Modules To ISS (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    There have already been space tourists who've paid $20+ million. There are enough billionaires out there to support a single room hotel, though not much more than that.

  5. Both true... for some couple named Bill C and Hillary, and some couple named Obama, just not the famous ones.

  6. Re:Not one business to remain! on Toyota Raises Concerns About California Self-Driving Oversight, Calls It 'Preposterous' (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    You just posted that to a business running on a web server in California. Yeah, with a GDP of $2.5 trillion we sure are running short of businesses. Let's scrap all safety rules in a desperate attempt to increase their profits.

  7. Those bicyclists and motorcyclist and walking deaths you're citing as being so much bigger than car deaths are mostly killed by cars.

  8. Nothing kills young healthy people like cars do. Anyway, if you want to risk your life on the road there will always be race tracks and recreational vehicle areas where you won't hurt anybody. We could even keep some back country roads open to you, perhaps... and of course anywhere on private property.

  9. Re:Any decent QWERTY dumb phones left? on Nokia Crawls Towards Comeback With New Phones Announcement (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Why try to squeeze a keyboard onto the phone when you could get a larger foldable bluetooth keyboard?

  10. In a text chat where it's on the screen, I can copy-paste.

  11. Re: Is this real life? on Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Endorses Gary Johnson For President (dilbert.com) · · Score: 2

    From Nader's point of view, thanking democrats for starting smaller unjust wars and sending slightly fewer innocent people to prison and being owned by slightly less evil corporations is like thanking Hitler for not being as extreme as Pol Pot. Why would he do that?

  12. Re: Is this real life? on Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Endorses Gary Johnson For President (dilbert.com) · · Score: 2

    If a third party gets 5% of the vote, they get funding for the next election. That's certainly important, beyond sending the immediate message.

  13. Not true at all. They do care. There's a reason why no major newspaper has endorsed Trump: if the US economy fails, those billionaires lose their fortunes in the stock market. The mainstream media is very afraid President Trump is not sufficiently experienced or competent or stable enough to be trusted with the economy.

  14. You're judging popularity by filling seats? Even Clinton's biggest supporters, or Clinton herself, would have to agree that Trump is a whole hell of a lot more entertaining to listen to.

  15. People wouldn't just vote for him. They'd lavish praise on him for having the guts to cut through all the political correctness bullshit and liberal anti-gun oppression, and showing the nerve to just outright shoot someone. That's the kind of bold, inspired, no-nonsense leadership this country needs to cut through the corruption and change Washington.

  16. Re:What's good for the goose on WikiLeaks Releases Paid Clinton Speech Excerpts, And Threatens To Expose Google (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I have no problem with super-delegates voting at the convention. I have a problem with the party devoting its people and resources all to one candidate and against the other. I don't think it's illegal, but I think the party shouldn't be surprised to discover that it loses them a lot of voters.

  17. Re:What's good for the goose on WikiLeaks Releases Paid Clinton Speech Excerpts, And Threatens To Expose Google (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The "Clinton camp" consisted of virtually all party officials, who should remain publicly neutral for a fair primary. They whole party apparatus is not supposed to be organizing plans for how they can make one candidate more popular than the other.

  18. VR is at least 2-3 years from being truly mainstream, so I can see why google wouldn't be concerned about supporting current devices. 'Course the problem is that they'll cancel it in a couple years because it hasn't dominated the market yet.

  19. Re:Am I the only one around here... on KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS Desktop Officially Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    I just moved from 4 to 5. 5 seems alright now, not seeing any of the glaring bugs I saw in it last year. Not really seeing anything new that's worthwhile either though.

  20. Please not another new desktop search on KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS Desktop Officially Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    First thing I have to do after installing KDE is kill the baloo semantic desktop search indexer to stop it from using 100% of the CPU.

  21. Frankly I think it's more a natural media reporting distortion thing at work, as happens with almost all science articles. To get an article published and make it go viral, you have to exaggerate and conjure an image of something visually dramatic.

  22. Re:Oh, Democracy... on Police Complaints Drop 93 Percent After Deploying Body Cameras (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, it's "that guy needs to slow down to the point where a collision between us won't be so likely kill me." Not an irrational fear at all given the millions of people who've died in high speed crashes.

  23. Re:EM Drive -v ION drive = 1st space robot wars on Revolutionary Ion Thruster To Be Tested On International Space Station (abc.net.au) · · Score: 2

    Name one breakthrough in science which was made by a crackpot -- someone who was dismissed as not being a real scientist, rather than simply considered to be incorrect by fellow scientists.

  24. Re:This is the missing piece on Revolutionary Ion Thruster To Be Tested On International Space Station (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    Voyagers 1&2 are closing in on 40 years, and only their limited power supply will force them to shut down. Granted running an engine that long is likely to be significantly more complex than other instruments.

  25. Re:Nice little box on Linux Mint Unveils New 'Mintbox Mini Pro' Desktop (linuxmint.com) · · Score: 1

    You're obviously paying a premium for small and fanless. If those two things are important to you it's a solid deal, if they aren't then it looks under-powered for the price.