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  1. Re:It's official, you all live in a Dictatorship on All 12 Member Countries Sign Off On the TPP (freezenet.ca) · · Score: 1

    It's called an oligarchy.

  2. Re:The Republicans are destroying our lives on All 12 Member Countries Sign Off On the TPP (freezenet.ca) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Clinton and Sanders are both against the TPP. Not sure why you're spewing anti-Hillary stuff here.

    Clinton was in favor of the TPP until recently when she realized she has to be against it to win the primary. There's every reason to think she'd be for it again if elected.

  3. Re:Mars is impossible on Congressional Testimony Says NASA Has No Plan For the Journey To Mars (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps for a 300 lb person the Mars gravity would healthier than Earth. They'd instantly be a slim 100 lbs with reduced stresses. Time to recruit overweight astronauts?

  4. Re:Mars is impossible on Congressional Testimony Says NASA Has No Plan For the Journey To Mars (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Nobody knows if gravity will actually be a significant problem for Mars or even the moon. We know it's an issue for micro-gravity (though we've got people living in it over a year anyway), we don't know about 1/3 or 1/6 gravity.

  5. Re:Volunteering leaving is a bad thing. on Yahoo To Fire Another 15% As Mayer Attempts To Hang On (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think there's a human being on the planet who can't recognize warning signs at Yahoo.

  6. Re:legalism is a crap philosophy. on Homemade Speed Trap Made By Former UVA CS Professor (cvilletomorrow.org) · · Score: 1

    Generally speed tables, to be specific, rather than conventional speed bumps.

  7. Re: Good Video Outlining Technical Challenges on France To Pave 1000km of Road With Solar Panels (solarcrunch.org) · · Score: 1

    Did you miss the part where I said an order of magnitude? $50 or even $75 is insignificant compared to other costs, like rent food and especially medical bills.

  8. Re:Yes, and the fastest way to China, on MIT Team Tops Hyperloop Design Competition (google.com) · · Score: 2

    Da planet core? Count mesa outta dis! Better dead here, den deader in da core... yee guds, whata mesa sayin?!

  9. Re: Good Video Outlining Technical Challenges on France To Pave 1000km of Road With Solar Panels (solarcrunch.org) · · Score: 1

    The poorer Will likely have to choose between using electric or eating or medical care which might reduce population too.

    If you're poor (source: am poor), it's easy to keep your electricity bill around $25 a month. Show me a medical bill within an order of magnitude of that.

    It's the wealthy who really have to worry about electricity prices, because they can afford large houses and energy-guzzling appliances. Tiered rates play a role too of course.

  10. Re:Why this is special on Apple Developing Wireless Charging For Mobile Devices (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps a more interesting application than the charging-on-any-desk-that-has-an-iMac would be a car which charges any phone present in it.

  11. Re:Apple is doomed on Apple: Losing Out On Talent and In Need of a Killer New Device (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Apple is doomed in the same way that Microsoft has been doomed for decades. Very profitable doom with very significant market share, but if you're not on an exponential growth trajectory then people think of you as as a stale relic.

  12. Re:The problem tends to be one of education on A Legal Name Change Puts 'None of the Above' On Canadian Ballot (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    It could be very difficult to keep the random 500 people from accepting bribes. It's actually a lot easier to monitor congressmen for corruption, at least they're around for 2+ years.

  13. Re:Linux: the BET of operating systems on AMD: It's Time To Open Up the GPU (gpuopen.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that AMD has been talking about open GPU drivers for so many years, and yet nvidia is still the more reliable choice on Linux to avoid driver headaches.

  14. Re: Fools think this is horrible. on EFF: License Plate Scanner Deal Turns Texas Cops Into Debt Collectors (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    If you've never had a parking ticket, you're simply lucky that everywhere you've parked has been well-labeled and unsurprising.

  15. Re:GDP Grew 6.9% in 2015 on China Likely Cut GHG Emissions In 2015 (greenpeace.org) · · Score: 1

    Certainly the official numbers can't be trusted... however, from your search results: "He estimates the true GDP number is likely 1% to 2% growth." So probably still not a recession.

  16. Re:No comparison on Blue Origin Launches and Lands the Same New Shepard That Few In November (blueorigin.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's hard to overstate the difference between 100km freefall tourism (without the tourists yet but let's presume they'll be easy to add) and putting payloads into orbit. The delta-v to orbit is about six times more.

  17. I started reading slashdot in '99. I can't recall a time when the editors ever appeared to read summaries before posting them. And before Dice and startswithabang, it was ohnoitsroland. All along people have been insisting that slashdot used to be great back in the day but the standards are gone. I don't believe there ever were standards. Take it or leave it. I still enjoy it.

  18. Re:Where is deniability? on Utah Bill Would Require IT Workers To Report Child Porn (ksl.com) · · Score: 1

    Rather than risk losing good employees who accidentally discover something and fail to report it, most companies will strengthen their policies to ensure that their employees do not discover anything.

    Which is actually a very good result protecting innocent people from all manner of privacy invasions as well, so yay for the law I guess.

  19. Re:Not very on At How Much Risk Is the US's Critical Infrastructure? (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Russia and China could simple destroy all US cities with regular bombs, so who cares if they can knock out the power grid with an EMP bomb?

  20. Re:Insanity. on The Russian Plan To Use Space Mirrors To Turn Night Into Day (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    If we're talking about lighting intensity similar to a full moon or several moons, as in the article, then it does in fact get very dark when clouds cover the moon.

  21. Re:And the bad news? on Russia Forming Space Alliance With Iran, May Fly Iranian Astronaut (examiner.com) · · Score: 2

    If you count proxies, there's really no debating that the USA has funded more terrorist organizations, whether you think it's justified or not. Of course the CIA is more discreet, but they eventually declassify it.

  22. Re:Insanity. on The Russian Plan To Use Space Mirrors To Turn Night Into Day (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Keep in mind that you can't stop maintaining the street lights and you'll have to use them a lot of nights, because space mirrors don't work when it's cloudy or foggy.

  23. The fact that there's no likely mechanism for a Linux user to acquire such a trojan is a much more important difference. On the very rare occasions I install something from outside the repositories, it'll be carefully vetted.

  24. Re:Cool but silly idea on How Amazon's Drone Deliveries Will Work (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Or you can just let them leave the package on your porch, like most of us do already.

  25. Re:until the thieves steal the drone on How Amazon's Drone Deliveries Will Work (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    I've never had a package stolen, and they're often left at my door for a day. Just don't use the service in thief-dense areas.