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  1. The press release used this too, but the second slide indicates that this is equivalent to 65 GB/s

  2. I also write SEE ID, and guess what? It gets smudged just as easily as a signature.
    Tape, however, prevents that. Kindly consider engaging your mind before commenting.

  3. Re:The fallacy of the "new Alexandria" on On the Google Book Scanning Project and the Library We Will Never See (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Does that matter? Was every librarian they convinced to let them scan their books on the same page? Do Be Evil aside, should they sit on such a treasure trove? At a minimum, it seems to me, an rsync of scans (and ideally the OCR'd data) should be set up with the Library of Congress.

  4. Cover with a piece of scotch tape after signing.

  5. Re:Vermont is an expensive place to service. on How Comcast is Shortchanging Customers In Vermont (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    What bearing does any of this actually have on them complying with requirements they knowingly agreed to? Particularly since they are allowed to comply in whatever cost-effective manner they see fit? They're not bitching about technical challenges, they're throwing up a red herring about free speech.

  6. Re:Amazon gonna fail, and fail badly ! on Amazon Is Testing Its Own Delivery Service To Rival FedEx, UPS (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They're not trying to take on FedEx/DHL/USPS in the general market, they're going for vertical integration.

  7. Not limited to tribes on US Congress Investigates Patent 'Gifts' That Evade Inter Partes Review (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This is not limited to tribes, and not everyone in pharma is happy about it either:

    http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/09/26/more-on-the-mighty-mohawk-maneuver/

  8. Re: Opening themselves up to trouble on Governments Turn Tables By Suing Public Records Requesters (apnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Since you're such an expert, perhaps you can share a few bits of information or links? 1) An unsubstantiated claim is more easily dismissed than not. 2) Why should the many expend effort hunting for something that may or may not exist, when you could share what you purport to know with little effort?

  9. Re:Not like this on Spain's Crackdown on Catalonia Includes Internet Censorship (internetsociety.org) · · Score: 1

    That makes no sense. You cannot have to rely upon someone else to allow you to vote on something. If Wyoming wanted to hold a vote on whether to secede tomorrow, so be it. On the other hand, the results of the vote wouldn't mean much, unless they were willing to go to war. Catalonia, Scotland, Puerto Rico. etc. should be able to vote as often as they want to bolster their peaceable efforts to obtain their goals.

  10. Re:Leftist on A New Way to Learn Economics (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    So everyone that contributes to open source is the product, eh? Of whom? And what are the non-contributing users of the software? You might want to consider the context and implications of such a trite phrase before trotting it out.

    Sibling commenter gwolf makes a very good point, but there are other rationales too. Some people author free text books because the alternatives (as mention in the article) are inadequate. Simply having access to a quality text for their own use is reason enough to create it, and they see no need to lock away from the rest of humanity.

  11. Re:Why is it supported at all? on FTP Resources Will Be Marked Not Secure in Chrome Starting Later This Year (google.com) · · Score: 1

    Because it has its uses, especially with capable clients like ncftp. mget * is much easier and more reliable than building up a list of switches for wget.

  12. Re:New Android on Android O Is Officially Launching August 21 (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe the latest requirements shouldn't be jacked up repeatedly and artificially or just for the sake of eye candy that many could do without. It's based on Linux, and Linux has a long tradition of being able to run on old hardware, it's just all the whizbang window dressing and other bloat that bogs things down.

    I've had to disable the Google Play Store since last fall fall because an update to Google Play Services began eating nearly 100% of my CPU on 3.2. All of the core functionality of the OS is there without it, so why the fuck does it need to run all the time, let alone non-stop? Similarly, although I've tried updates to Mail, YouTube, etc. from the store I've reverted them all to stock because in typical modern fashion, the new ones were more resource intensive with less appealing interfaces and missing features.

  13. Re:What a BS on Can Elon Musk Be Weaned Off Government Support? (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    >Any amount paid to a buyer to discount a seller's products is in effect a subsidy to the seller, since they are able to sell their product for a higher price than if it didn't have the subsidy.

    Nyet. A tax credit is a negative sales tax. In a sales tax the burden is shared by the vendor and the customer. The benefits of a tax credit would also accrue to both the vendor and the customer. The split depends on the elasticity of demand, consult your favorite information repository for the term "tax incidence."

  14. Side-effects are effects other than those desired.

    As for the mechanism, the research indicates that the compounds interfere with sperm's ability to swim powerfully, which is necessary to enter the egg. The interference is non-hormonal and has no side-effects.

  15. Re:What's wrong with email? on Managers Should Start Texting Job Candidates, Says Study (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't know, but many companies don't even bother to send confirmations/denials by email, I cannot imagine they'd be any better at doing so with SMS.

  16. Re:It's pretty simple on Energy Star Program For Homes And Appliances Is On Trump's Chopping Block (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Yes, the efficiency levels for most classes of appliances vary greatly. Some factors that matter for a washing machine:

    Did you know that some models/parts of the country, even on the cold water setting the washer will run a heater to get the water up above ground temperature? (Think about the alternative when doing laundry in Minnesota in the winter)

    Is it using a shitty electric motor, or does it have a reasonable efficiency rating?

    If a washing machine does not spin dry effectively, it increases the energy used to dry the clothes. Efficient water extraction is credited to the washer,

    http://products.geappliances.c...

    Dryers have CEf (combined energy factor) and most other appliances have plain EF (efficiency factor).

  17. Re:Look at Android on EFF Says Google Chromebooks Are Still Spying On Students (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    1. Simply turn GPS off except when needed.

    2. Since when? I run ICS at have disabled the Play Store because an update to Play Services a few months ago began eating 100% CPU, however in the process of isolating this I uninstalled and disabled multiple things including Play Store without issue (other than no app updates, or easy way to install apps without reenabling the store).

    5. Never seen any such thing.

  18. Re: Xians hate science as their... on A Wikipedia-Style Tree of Life Emerges · · Score: 1

    Get a clue. Chi(-Rho) has long been used as shorthand for "Christianity" (itself a recent notion), to wit: Xmas.

  19. Re: Executive Orders Need to Expire, and Quickly on The Executive Order That Led To Mass Spying, As Told By NSA Alumni · · Score: 1

    GP did not place blame on a party.

  20. Re: shoot the admins on Time Warner Cable Experiences Nationwide Internet Outage · · Score: 1

    Well done you.

  21. Tested on "MythBusters" Drops Kari Byron, Grant Imahara, Tory Belleci · · Score: 2

    Adam mentioned a shift in fromat in a Tested video a while back, this seems to fit along with that.

  22. Re: Let's get this out of the way... on Wikipedia Medical Articles Found To Have High Error Rate · · Score: 2

    Osteopathy itself is pretty wacky, but the trend is for schools to fall more in line with the practices of conventional medicine. It's also worth noting that osteopathic schools have a tendency to accept more non-traditional students e.g; late career change, or non-scientific undergraduate degrees.

  23. Re: Just Tack on a Fee on Driverless Cars Could Cripple Law Enforcement Budgets · · Score: 1

    How the fuck is this insightful? Taxes serve many purposes, what makes you think they are all imposed because they can be?
    Ideally they serve as a usage fee (fuel tax directed towards highway maintenance) or disincentive against social harm (emitting pollutants), etc.

  24. Universal Representation on Lessig Launches a Super PAC To End All Super PACs · · Score: 1

    What we really need is universal representation. I just finished a brief booklet—"Reinventing Congress for the 21st Century" (1st ed., 2nd ed.)—that makes a compelling case, depsite some quaint notions about CDROMs and video cassettes.

  25. Graph of episode ratings on Why Darmok Is a Good Star Trek: TNG Episode · · Score: 2