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  1. I'll keep using it on Monsanto Was Its Own Ghostwriter For Some Safety Reviews (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing works better. I'll sneak it in from Canada if I need to.

  2. Gravitational lensing on Can Primordial Black Holes Alone Account For Dark Matter? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Astronomers have observed the gravitational lens effect of dark matter. Dark matter normally surrounds normal matter, but is sometimes found separated. It appears that during galactic collisions, the dark matter can be separated from the normal matter, gas and dust of a galaxy. To do that, dark matter would have to interact with itself in a manner that does not involve gravity. A bunch of black holes would not interact in this way, so it is unlikely that dark matter consists solely of black holes.

  3. Re:Too assertive about dark matter on Can Primordial Black Holes Alone Account For Dark Matter? · · Score: 2

    Astronomers have observed the gravitational lens effect of dark matter in the distant universe. Something is there.

  4. Wouldn't they be obstacle illusions? on London is Using Optical Illusions To Make Cars Slow Down (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Or optical obstacle illusions? Or maybe obstacle optical illusions?

  5. Re:Missing a portion on SpaceX Releases Animation of Planned Falcon Heavy Launch (gizmodo.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!

  6. If that is a major problem we need to eliminate everything with moving parts.

  7. or obtuse?

  8. The Facebook app is an overbloated piece of crap. Will Google+ finally take over?

  9. Re:What was he arrested for? on UK Security Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Outbreak Arrested in US (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    In the US, the person arrested is told of the charges. The charges will also be told to his legal representation. It is not broadcasted to the news.

  10. What happens in Vegas on UK Security Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Outbreak Arrested in US (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    stays in Vegas

  11. Re:Where's the XUL compatibility layer. on Inside Mozilla's Fight To Make Firefox Relevant Again (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The Firefox extended support versions still support XP and Vista, and will for a while.

  12. Re:Tesla already obsolete on Tesla Burns Through Record Cash To Bring the Model 3 To Market (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Solid state batteries also use lithium, they just replace the liquid electrolyte with thin layers of aluminum oxide.

  13. Re:Never understood why FTP didn't work like email on Mozilla's Send is Basically the Snapchat of File Sharing (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Then send it to several people. The server doesn't need to keep multiple copies.

  14. Never understood why FTP didn't work like email on Mozilla's Send is Basically the Snapchat of File Sharing (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    With email, you send a message to someone else by uploading it to your email server. Your email server then contacts the recipient's email server, and transfers the message. The message then waits for the recipient to log in and check for email on the server, and it downloads so he can read it. With FTP, you have to upload the file to a server you both have access to. Why not use the same method as email? Upload the file to your server, and your server tracks down the recipients server and transfers the file. Never understood why FTP wasn't set up that way.

  15. ebay is still a big place to sell your products.

  16. Only if the seller approves. "Enables sellers to offer a refund without taking back an item". I would do that if it would same me the expense of having an item shipped back that I would just then throw away. If I sell you a shirt all nicely packaged, and you open it up and try it on and find it doesn't fit, I don't want it back. It would cost me shipping, and I may not have a way to repackage it for resale. Might as well just have the buyer throw it away.

  17. Can't compete with fracking gas on US Nuclear Comeback Stalls As Two Reactors Are Abandoned (theaustralian.com.au) · · Score: 1

    The cost to start up a new natural gas power plant and run it on cheap natural gas is killing everything else. Even Three Mile Island is going under, not due to safety issues but because they can't find a buyer for the electricity produced. They can't produce it cheap enough to compete. Wind and solar are great, but you just can't put a wind or solar farm anywhere, you need a lot of land. A gas powered plant is fairly small, and can be built near the customers. So, instead of building high tension lines from the mid west to the east coast to provide wind generated power, they are building gas pipelines from Pennsylvania and West Virginia to supply fracking gas to small power plants. They can build and operate these cheaper than established plants obtaining power in traditional ways.

  18. Seeds? on Seed Funding Slows in Silicon Valley (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Wouldn't they be more useful in the San Joaquin Valley?

  19. Knock down barriers to access on Should The Government Fix Slow Internet Access? (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    Large telecoms have no interest in solving the problem. Old telephone rules and wire access prevent anyone else from doing it. All the government needs to do is knock down the antiquated rules and companies will come along and fill the gap. Cable companies started as small rural enterprises extending TV coverage to those to far from cities to receive it over the air. If you let new companies access wire right of ways, they will spring up again.

  20. I can't answer on Do Kill Switches Deter Cellphone Theft? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    My used cell phone suddenly stopped working.

  21. I still use both, well one at least on Apple Discontinues iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    I use a shuffle and a nano at the gym. Unfortunately, I just ran the nano through the wash. I guess I should order a replacement before their gone.

  22. I just go to ebay for chinese on Not Made in America, Wal-Mart Looks Overseas For Online Vendors (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    When looking for cheap stuff from overseas, I just go to ebay. Not always the safest move, but a very good selection. Not sure what Walmart would add.

  23. Re:Probably moot by that point... on New Diesel and Petrol Vehicles To Be Banned From 2040 In UK (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but there are extractable concentrations in very few places in the world. Mostly in the Andes in South America. The rest is spread out so thinly we would need to mine the entire planet surface to obtain a reasonable amount. Lots of it is dissolved in sea water, but there is no effective way to obtain it.

  24. Re:Probably moot by that point... on New Diesel and Petrol Vehicles To Be Banned From 2040 In UK (bbc.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    That will work right up until we run out of Lithium.

  25. Re:Will probably be sunk by icebergs on World's First Floating Wind Farm Emerges Off Coast of Scotland (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.