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  1. Can the PC version excel do this with PDF files? That should be a lot easier.

  2. Re:The implications are more interesting on China Bans 23 Million From Buying Travel Tickets as Part of 'Social Credit' System (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If the number is 23 million, that is 1.8% of the population, although it might be less because there is probably a lot of overlap between the people barred from flights and barred from trains.

  3. Re:At long last on Tesla Will Close Most of Its Stores, Only Sell Cars Online · · Score: 1

    All car makes have the $2000 upsell. Tesla's problem may be they won't have any more sales people to push the up sell.

  4. Re:The damage has been done on Coinhive Cryptojacking Service Will Shut Down Next Week (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Ads also use a lot of bandwidth and electricity and also have virtually no tangible benefit.

  5. "Who the hell wants to stream only Disney content though?"

    Kids.

    Also they bought Fox to pad out their offerings.

  6. Eliminating electricity from coal would be first priority of any Green New Deal, well before the rail network is electrified and air travel is replaced.

  7. I wonder if someone in 1939 would believe the technological and industrial achievements that would be made by Britain, Germany, Russia, the US and others in the following 5 to 6 years.

  8. "Don't trains also pollute?"

    Trains would obviously be electrically powered by overhead wire, as is common in Europe.

  9. In their quest to defend the free market economy from government interference due to climate change, the Denialists are willing to deny that the free market economy works in order to claim carbon taxes are not effective.

  10. Re:Nations will do anything to stop global warming on Rising Temperatures Could Melt Most Himalayan Glaciers By 2100 (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    My father spent he career working on the problem for the AECL. They published a one foot thick report on storage of nuclear waste in the Canadian Shield.

  11. Re:population decline will not exist everywhere on 'The World Might Actually Run Out of People' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Stable government seems to imply a western democracy when it actually means a corrupt dictator with no major insurgencies as all that is needed to end population growth.

  12. Re:population decline will not exist everywhere on 'The World Might Actually Run Out of People' (wired.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    The number of places like that have grown over the last 100 years. Once it covers enough of the population of the earth, the decline will being.

  13. Re:Google-free android? on Google Play Store Now Open For Progressive Web Apps (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    PWA has always worked in modern browers. This is just a new feature to allow users to find them in the Play Store. If you don't have the Play Store, it has no effect on you.

  14. Re:Turn Off on Google Play Store Now Open For Progressive Web Apps (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    My PWA works without those things (although maps and a few other features don't work without Javascript.)

    https://www.transsee.ca/

  15. Re:Headline is a LIE, article makes that clear on We May Finally Know What Causes Alzheimer's -- and How To Stop It (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    We only have teeth and gum problems because cereals became a staple of our diet only about 20,000 years ago. Not enough time to adapt to the new diet. Animals who eat their natural diets generally don't have the problems we do with our teeth.

  16. It is also what made America have the highest poverty rates in the developed world.

  17. Re:Guess I'll be cancelling my comcast then on AT&T, Dish, Comcast All Raising Cable TV Rates To Counter Cord-Cutting (dallasnews.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    OTA is actually 1080i with MPEG2 compression, but on cable it is often recompressed with lower quality to save on bandwidth.

  18. Re:The problem with DuckDuckGo on DuckDuckGo Denies Using Fingerprinting To Track Its Users (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think a trick questions is the best test of a search engine.

  19. Re:What about original code? on Linux Kernel Developers Discuss Dropping x32 Support (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    One reason Linux has supported so many processors is that most of it has always been in written in C.

  20. There is a big difference between "Billions of Micro-organisms" which is a few grams and "Billions of tonnes of Micro-organisms" from the summary.

  21. Re:An example on Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They're Not Keeping It Secret (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As their most valuable asset, Google has a policy of not selling your personal information. Like you said, Google used the information to match you with the criteria the advertiser is looking for.

  22. Mr. Fusion?

  23. Re:Comdex all over on CeBIT, World's Largest IT Conference, Canned (dw.com) · · Score: 1

    They created WebOS, which could hold its own against Apple, but it came out a bit late and didn't work out.

  24. Ontario, Canada successfully shut down all its coal plants though a combination of renewables, gas generators and refurbishing older nuclear plants.