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  1. Simple way to fix... on YouTuber Says He Was Accused of Infringing His Own Song (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Apply punitive damages to both Google and the claimant for false notices.

    Make no mistake, all those little "oops, the algorithm got it wrong" add up to a considerable amount of money for the record companies.

    With Google trying to get premium content into YouTube, they are massively incentivised to game it exclusively towards the big premium content producers.

  2. Re:Renewable needs baseline + storage to be effect on Westinghouse AP1000 Nuclear Reactor Starts Generating Power (world-nuclear-news.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Fast Acting.... you mean like a massive battery connected to a wind farm?

    https://www.teslarati.com/tesl...

    https://www.news.com.au/techno...

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...

    Have a nice day.

  3. A band thing? on US Births Dip To 30-Year Low (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Thanos would be pleased.

    A decline in population is a good thing every once in a while. It would solve a vast number of the worlds problems.

  4. Facebook founding feature on Facebook Is Investigating a Claim That an Employee Used His Position To Stalk Women (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    What the employees name Mark Zuckerberg?

    I thought that was the entire point of FB.

  5. Simple way to measure the claim on Mazda Says Its Next-Gen Gasoline Engine Will Run Cleaner Than An Electric Car (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 2

    Put the CEO in a air-sealed room with one of his cleanest cars.

    Start the engine.

    If the gas tank runs out before he dies, I'll believe his claim and buy one of his cars.

  6. Re:Next up - Falcon Heavy!! on SpaceX Completes First Launch of 2018: Secretive 'Zuma' Spacecraft (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    It very likely the reuse saves Space X money, but they aren't passing that on to customers yet, as they no doubt have a rather large R&D expense to recoup. I'm pretty sure Elon has said this at some point.

  7. Obvious troll is obvious on HTC, Motorola Say They Don't Slow Old Phones Like Apple Does (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Of course Samsung, Motorola, and HTC don't do it. Their phones are usually dead due to stale software or manufacturing defects long before the battery starts to degrade.

  8. Re:Where did you read that? on Tesla Is Prohibiting Commercial Drivers From Using Its Supercharger Stations (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    All-electric destroys the service revenue that dealers and manufacturers enjoy. Using hydrogen also maintains the need to dig something up, move it, and then sell it at a floating variable price.

    The car makers are so deeply in bed with the fossil fuel industry that swapping to all-electric would be a very nasty breakup indeed.

  9. Oblig. Troll.. on Tesla Is a 'Hotbed For Racist Behavior,' Worker Claims In Lawsuit (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Elon was born in Africa, now he's American. Wouldn't that make him an African-American as well?

  10. All Access is what? on Star Trek: Discovery Is Returning For a Second Season (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm assuming All Access is a US thing. We have been watching it on Netflix here in Oz.

  11. Lack of need... on Behind the Hype of 'Lab-Grown' Meat (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    So, lets assume that this lab-meat takes off and in short order we grow all the beef, lamb, pork, & chicken in a factory...

    What do we do with all the cows, sheep, pigs, and chickens that we no longer have a need for?

    Do they become endangered or extinct?

  12. Re:In defense of AMP... on 'Why I Decided To Disable AMP On My Site' (alexkras.com) · · Score: 1

    Or as Gruber said before... you could just "fix your fucking web site".

    The only people that AMP benefits, is Google. It's a lock-in tool, plain and simple.

  13. Homeless Shelter on Amazon To Build Homeless Shelter In Its New Seattle Headquarters (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is that what they're calling employee housing nowadays?

  14. Testing... on Linux Kernel 4.11 Officially Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 0

    "Eight RCs later"?? Methinks they need to stay in beta a wee bit longer next time.

  15. "Order me a widget..."

    You just know someone is going to try it. Put out a tv or radio ad, that tells every Echo out there to order a particular item, or at the very least, add it to a shopping cart.

  16. History Forgets.... on Let Us Now Praise MacroMind Director (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Long Live mTropolis!

  17. Re:Qualification Necessary on 'Here's Where Google Hid Chrome's SSL Certificate Information' (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    The average person, is not qualified to read or understand that tab about when it is secure and when it isnt.

    Bullhockey. The average person is absolutely qualified to understand that americanbank.com probably didn't buy their EV certificate from China Internet Network Information Center.

    Google just made it easier for scammers to hide. Heck they may as well just default accept self-signed certs.

    A chain of trust is useless if you make it difficult to check the chain.

  18. Re:And here's today's proof on Researchers Find Roads Shatter the Earth's Surface Into 600,000 Fragments (phys.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    ... completely ignoring the fact that people need the environment to survive. We need air, plants/animals and water. They don't need us.

  19. I'll believe that... on Google Security Engineer Claims Android Is Now As Secure As the iPhone (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    when Google defends a lawsuit to open up a phone due to -reasons-.

  20. Re:Competition.... on Blue Origin Lands Rocket During Launch Escape Test (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Given that Blue Origin are still yet to actually reach space, i'd say it's still their move...

  21. Someone didn't want SpaceCom being bought by the Chinese....

  22. Re:With such good Wi-fi... on MIT Scientists Develop New Wi-Fi That's 330% Faster (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    That's amazing!

    How much did it cost you to lay the fibre along that 40km route again?

    Cost/Benefit... HOW DOES IT WORK???

  23. The timing seems like payback for the treatment Snowden/Asange/Manning has received under a Democratic President.

  24. Re:He is lucky he did not get shot on the spot on Carrying A Gun-Shaped iPhone 'Makes It Much Less Likely You'll Catch Your Plane' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Drive 350 miles in Western Australia and guess what... You're still in god-damned Western Australia. :-)

  25. Re:NASA is risk averse? on First SpaceX Missions To Mars: 'Dangerous and Probably People Will Die' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Don't think that those people selected to go will have to sign a few documents and undergo a few mental evaluations to make sure they really understand that they will most likely die on the mission?

    I would imagine that the direct relatives of the crew will have to sign something similar for the member to be eligible.