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  1. Re:This never works on Microsoft, Chip Makers Working On Hardware DRM For Windows 10 PCs · · Score: 1

    Large file size means slow transfer rate on typical limited internet connections. And most of us still don't have 8 TB disks, and even if we did that'd fill up pretty quick with TV series at 1080p.

  2. Re:Here's to hoping they don't find oil on Yellowstone Supervolcano Even Bigger Than We Realized · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just wait for winter, it'll snow a lot at Yellowstone and that should put the volcano out.

  3. Re:Good on Drone Killed Hostages From U.S. and Italy, Drawing Obama Apology · · Score: 2

    Neither Obama nor anybody in the US else bats an eyelid at the tens of thousands of innocent civilians accidentally killed by the US in recent wars. Innocent civilians only matter if they're on our side. We're willing to be careful for Americans to make this as rare as possible, but shrug at killing the locals.

  4. Re:Reasons why people become hostages on Drone Killed Hostages From U.S. and Italy, Drawing Obama Apology · · Score: 1

    Lahore isn't exactly a war zone. It's just a dysfunctional city with a ton of crime, and a lot of westerners who don't get abducted for every occasional one who is. A quick google estimates there are 1,250 Americans alone in Lahore and 5,000 in Pakistan at the moment.

  5. Re:Instead... on 'Mobilegeddon': Google To Punish Mobile-Hostile Sites Starting Today · · Score: 1

    Does google's mobile site test tool say to make an app? No. Does it say to make a separate mobile edition? No. It strongly advises everyone to make a responsive site design and use CSS media queries to adapt to different screens. You could say they have a vested interest in making web browsing on a phone be a pleasant experience, but so does everyone else.

  6. Re:Instead... on 'Mobilegeddon': Google To Punish Mobile-Hostile Sites Starting Today · · Score: 1

    Google does not even recommend making a mobile version, let alone enforce it with rankings. Their advice to webmasters is to make a responsive site that adapts well to all screens. If your site isn't responsive enough to be readable on mobile then it doesn't belong at the top of mobile search results.

  7. Re:Instead... on 'Mobilegeddon': Google To Punish Mobile-Hostile Sites Starting Today · · Score: 1

    Of course the sites are only demoted for mobile searches. It's amazing so many people here have assumed the change affects desktop searches when google has been very clear all along that it only affects mobile searches (and only phones, at that -- tablet searches aren't affected).

  8. Re:$100 billion for 150 miles? on Maglev Train Exceeds 600km/h For World Record · · Score: 1

    All the liberal democrats I know in California, including myself, voted against the high speed rail. SF and LA voted for it. It'd be useless to the rest of us even if it could be built on schedule and budget.

  9. Re:You no longer own a car on Automakers To Gearheads: Stop Repairing Cars · · Score: 1

    15-20 year old cars don't fail smog checks unless they were already the big polluters of their day or they're broken. My '98 Ford Escort has never come remotely close to failing a California smog test, nor did my '91 car before it.

  10. Re:Matlab on Swift Tops List of Most-Loved Languages and Tech · · Score: 2

    Are you saying that if they were overwhelmingly female that they would appreciate MATLAB more?

    Possibly, since women are much more likely to be math majors than comp sci majors and nearly anyone who studies math learns MATLAB.

  11. Re:Sounds like upper middle class housing developm on George Lucas Building Low-Income Housing Next Door To Millionaires · · Score: 4, Informative

    In Marin, the rest of the world's upper middle class is low income.

  12. Re:Matter/antimatter annihilation on The Origin of the First Light In the Universe · · Score: 1

    And that remains an unsolved issue in physics. The presumption is that some process in the annihilations resulted in ever so slightly more matter than antimatter.

  13. Re:Loon. Sounds like Zune. on Google Ready To Unleash Thousands of Balloons In Project Loon · · Score: 1

    A tax-free government funded entirely by mandatory advertising brain implants that show you a mental video ad once a minute.

  14. Re:Argentina? on Microsoft's Role As Accuser In the Antitrust Suit Against Google · · Score: 1

    There are of course many factors for Argentina's decline. Protectionism is one but political instability was more fundamental. Found this in depth analysis that also points to lack of investment in education as the primary predictor: http://economix.blogs.nytimes....

  15. Re:0.6? Are you serious? on GNU Hurd 0.6 Released · · Score: 1

    The version number is a poor argument. Enlightenment was at 0.16 when I was in college 15 years ago and 0.19 today, but progress has been made and people still use it. The problem with hurd is it's not in a realistically usable state yet.

  16. Re:Youngest ever? False. on A 2-Year-Old Has Become the Youngest Person Ever To Be Cryonically Frozen · · Score: 1

    The problem is, that the Blue State abortion fanatics refuse to establish even a baseline, because they know that once that line is drawn in the sand, it can be argued for movement.

    Every single state in the country has established a baseline. None of them allow aborting while in labor when the mother's life isn't in danger. Almost none allow it when close to labor. So-called abortion "fanatics" show themselves to be the exact opposite of fanatics, in that they're happy to draw and re-draw and debate the line and acknowledge that it's a matter of degree rather than a black and white date.

  17. Re:Hasn't this been proven to be junk science? on A 2-Year-Old Has Become the Youngest Person Ever To Be Cryonically Frozen · · Score: 1

    If they weren't, the whole concept of a will would be out of the window.

  18. Re:Hasn't this been proven to be junk science? on A 2-Year-Old Has Become the Youngest Person Ever To Be Cryonically Frozen · · Score: 1

    You're not helping develop the process by paying big money to a scammer who uses an already-developed process. Leave that money to medical research in your will, and donate your organs which can actually already save lives today.

  19. Re:Not fully junk on A 2-Year-Old Has Become the Youngest Person Ever To Be Cryonically Frozen · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If the money spent on cryogenic freezing were donated to cancer research, more cancers might be treatable by now.

  20. Re:Not fully junk on A 2-Year-Old Has Become the Youngest Person Ever To Be Cryonically Frozen · · Score: 1

    The slightly reduced likelihood of revival is because of the very very obscure chance that the girl might be discovered to be still alive after all if not frozen. That negligibly above zero chance is greater than the chance of reviving today's cryo patients whose biochemical information has been destroyed by freezing.

  21. Re:Larger landing area on Longer Video Shows How Incredibly Close Falcon Stage Came To Successful Landing · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't the falcon heavy have more control over the acceleration rate when using the same engines, simply because it's heavier with 27 engines instead of 9? To control the rate of descent, just select the number of engines to fire.

  22. Re:Larger landing area on Longer Video Shows How Incredibly Close Falcon Stage Came To Successful Landing · · Score: 1

    I doubt anything is soft enough to tip over a 70 meter high rocket and not result in damage while falling.

  23. Re:Protected class? on IT Worker's Lawsuit Accuses Tata of Discrimination · · Score: 1

    Why would you assume it's a lawsuit to try to help a particular race, like white people? Presumably it's about the 80%+ of the world, comprising many races and ethnicities, who aren't South Asian.

  24. Re:Delivering the Mail on Gyro-Copter Lands On West Lawn of US Capitol, Pilot Arrested · · Score: 1

    Typically in these cases he'll be charged with terrorism, threatened with the death penalty, and then take a plea bargain for a $500 fine.

  25. Re:photo too blurry on New Horizons Captures First Color Image of Pluto and Charon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Since Pluto-Charon is essentially a double planet, I'd expect the tidal forces to be significant. Of course nothing with keep anything from freezing on the surface, just deep inside.