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  1. Re:44% larger risk on Debris From India's Anti-Satellite Test Poses Threat To ISS, Says NASA (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    You have to also consider that objects 2-4cm, which they can't track, can have significantly different trajectories because their smaller mass, they likely have much higher velocities from the explosion.

  2. Re:"infected travelers bring the disease" on Measles Cases Top Last Year's Total · · Score: 1

    May illegal immigrants are coming from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. Not sure of their vaccination rates, but I'm sure it's not good.

    https://www.reuters.com/articl...

      and these are just the ones they catch. Others are disappearing into society, going to schools and using emergency facilities when they get really sick.

  3. Re:Why can't they assess the situation better? on What Happens When Police License Plate Readers Make Mistakes? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I once was pulled over by one of the license plate readers, but it wasn't actually misread, a cop had fat-fingered the entry and put in my plate instead of the real criminal. He walked up pretty calmly for a chat. The suspect was Hispanic, so he knew right away I wasn't the person they were looking for. The car also didn't match the make/model which also probably helped. I had to call around to a few different police stations to track down where the warrant came from to fix it, that was fun.

  4. Re:ridiculous on Amazon Will Pay $0 in Federal Taxes on $11.2 Billion Profits (fortune.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

        Didn't Amazon not make profits for like the first 10 years or so of their existence? How much money did they spend building out their infrastructure?
      Don't they get to write off all those loses from capital investments over that period?

          I haven't reviewed there financial statements, but I can see how this would easily be true...

  5. Re: Tracking on Digital License Plates Are Now Allowed in Michigan (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Or, you could just look at the odometer which correlates perfectly with milage.

  6. Re: Try making money by repairing iPhones on Tim Cook to Investors: People Bought Fewer New iPhones Because They Repaired Their Old Ones (vice.com) · · Score: 1

        Yes, so they have two options.

      1. Start gluing all the parts together to make it hard and use the U.S. government to go after and seize imports of older parts from China.

      2. Lower your repair prices.

        Guess which option they chose?

  7. Dang, just ordered a new SSD drive on Researchers Make RAM From a Phase Change We Don't Entirely Understand (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    ... I knew I should have waited.

  8.       Instead of jamming, they would probably inject some errors, i.e. Selective Availability, so systems would still 'think' they have a good signal.

  9.     With all the spamming for APK... I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot anti-virus.

  10.     Amazon changed the terms of the deal. I would revoke the incentives entirely... Jeff offered to take 50% of the offers.. how nice of him.

  11. Re:I don't get this on IBM To Buy Red Hat, the Top Linux Distributor, For $34 Billion (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure how much legs the whole 'hybrid multi-cloud' actually has. Our company looked at the RedHat platform and decided to jump to straight cloud. We'll be running some small IAAS software on-prem for a brief period while we transition. We'll see how much lock-in they can get for the customers that do buy into it.

  12. Safety irrelevant if it can't perform on The US Grounds All F-35 Jets (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    http://theconversation.com/wha...

    Total and complete waste of money, but most on here probably already know this.

    'Hugh Harkins, a highly respected author on military combat aircraft, called that claim “a marketing and publicity gimmick” in his book on Russia’s Sukhoi Su-35S, a potential opponent of the F-35. He also wrote, “In real terms an aircraft in the class of the F-35 cannot compete with the Su-35S for out and out performance such as speed, climb, altitude, and maneuverability.'

    'Pierre Sprey, a cofounding member of the so-called “fighter mafia” at the Pentagon and a co-designer of the F-16, calls the F-35 an “inherently a terrible airplane” that is the product of “an exceptionally dumb piece of Air Force PR spin.” He has said the F-35 would likely lose a close-in combat encounter to a well-flown MiG-21, a 1950s Soviet fighter design'

    'Robert Dorr, an Air Force veteran, career diplomat and military air combat historian, wrote in his book “Air Power Abandoned,” “The F-35 demonstrates repeatedly that it can’t live up to promises made for it. It’s that bad."'

  13. Re:Bloomberg! Bloomberg! Bloomberg! on New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in US Telecom: Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    We know NSA has been installed USB port wireless control chips in motherboards for some time.

        Corporate espionage. Some of these are target rich environments, but spend a lot of money on traditional security. This gives them a back door to many premium targets without having to infiltrate each one with a spy with enough an access level to get the same type of information.

      I'm just surprised it isn't more widespread. Or is it?

  14. It gets worse when you then having zombies running around.

  15. Re:STOP ME IF YOU HAVE HEARD THIS BEFORE! on Engineering Firm Plans To Tow Icebergs From Antarctica To Parched Dubai (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 1

    My guess is pure economics. How many ships would it take to transport in water form? As opposed to just converting at the final location. The different in ice loss vs the additional transport cost would seem to be minimal. I'm skeptical of the 30% estimate, but haven't really dug into the maths on these schemes.

  16. Re: Or, they could buy them in Canada... on Trump Tells Apple To Make Products In the US To Avoid China Tariffs (thehill.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

        You left out the biggest question in my mind...

      "Trump didn't offer Apple a place to find the millions of laborers needed to make their products"

      Millions of laborers? Huh?

  17. Re:I haven't bought a bundle phone since the '90s. on In UK, Consumers Are Now More Aware That They Can Ditch Their Phone Bundles, And Are Increasingly Doing So (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The problem with those carrier resellers is they have lower priority on the network. AT&T has level 2 priority for their pre-paid Go Phone plans, and tier 3 priority for Cricket Wireless reseller. If you go to a concert or sporting event, you're basically toast.

  18. Tax Scam on Judge Guts FTC's $4 Billion Lawsuit Against DirecTV (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    For many years, they also would tax your total, then apply your various credits (free box, etc), but not reduce the tax. It skimmed millions per month from subscribers. I considered filing a class-action-lawsuit, but noticed the arbitration clause would prevent it.
          I did notice after complaining about it on a customer service call one it actually stopped a few months later, probably coincidence.

  19. Alexa, please send email attachment to Bobby.
        Done.

  20. I've done some decent editing with Kdenlive.
    https://kdenlive.org/en/
    When looking around myself, it came highly recommended.

  21. What about a VPN router? Eventually, you'd get the full key, just not sure you would know the bit order?

  22. Re:Excuse my Schadenfreude on Zuckerberg 'Sold More Stock Than Usual', Faces Lawsuit From Angry Investors (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    There are various option trading strategies to make money and limit your loses.

    For example:
    https://www.investopedia.com/t...

    "A straddle is an options strategy in which the investor holds a position in both a call and put with the same strike price and expiration date, paying both premiums. This strategy allows the investor to make a profit regardless of whether the price of the security goes up or down, assuming the change in the underlying stock price is significant enough to move past either of the strike prices and offset the cost of the premiums."

  23. Re:this doesn't solve any moral dilemmas on Scientists Take Step Toward Creating Artificial Embryos (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    But, who is going to pay the child support?

  24. You left out NSA from your list

  25. I'm fairly convinced Texas moved to the bold simple white font to aid the digital toll camera readers. Probably law enforcement plate scanners as well.