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  1. Re:Slow day in tech, then? on Why Do Airlines Overbook? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    but is it real random or psuedo random!?

  2. Really cool link!

  3. Just like Google Now... on Google Home Gets 'Beauty & The Beast' Promo But Google Says It's Not an Ad (marketingland.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm guessing those people have searched Beauty and the Beast while signed in to Chrome at some point. And just like Google Now cards, it's an update to a product that showed interest in, so it is brought up with the question of what's happening today. One part Ad yes, but I don't think they would do it specifically for Beauty and the Beast, it may very well be a new regular response with others like: "That console you've been researching is released today" "That TV you price checked is on sale today", "That show you like has a new episode today", etc.

  4. DTS:X and Atmos already out. on New HDMI 2.1 Spec Includes Support For Dynamic HDR, 8K Resolution (techhive.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure what the article is referring to, we've had DTS:X and Atmos enabled Blu-rays and receivers for quite a while already...

  5. It's amaaaazing! on Tesla Autopilot 'Predicts' Accident Before It Happens (engadget.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Just pay no attention to the other non-Tesla cars in the video that were also able to stop on the side of the road without hitting anything...

  6. Re:He'll need to go deep. on Next Big Thing From Elon Musk? It Could Be 'Boring' (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Besides, tunneling deep underground is going to be easier than getting to Mars and just might be a good idea in a couple of years.

    Perhaps his goal is to be able to tunnel deep underground ON Mars in a couple of years?

  7. Trump will follow in Hillary's, Obama's and Bush's footsteps because that what you have to do in politics to enrich your family

    fixed that for you...although Obama possibly less than the others.

  8. Re: he bet on the winner on Peter Thiel Is Joining Donald Trump's Transition Team (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    typically only focus on the swing states

    If you switch to a straight popular vote, you'd have something similar but a switch in locations. Candidates would ignore rural areas and only campaign in cities:

    "The urban areas of the United States for the 2010 Census contain 249,253,271 people, representing 80.7% of the population, and rural areas contain 59,492,276 people, or 19.3% of the population. "
    https://ask.census.gov/faq.php...

    Maine and Nebraska can split their electoral votes....there's no legal hurdle preventing other states from doing the same.

    What's the functional difference between splitting a state via electoral votes vs just counting popular vote? If California allowed splitting the electoral vote, 1/3 of their 55 votes would go red, which is more than most rural states have in total.

  9. Yea of course they used scripts, imagine having to manually start a DDoS attacks from every bot in the net!

  10. Apple finally figured out how to energistically create market positioning benefits in order to monotonectally cultivate maintainable imperatives and progressively evolve synergistic methods of empowerment for credibly synergizing accurate strategic theme areas!

  11. Re:"could not recall" on FBI Releases Hillary Clinton Email Report (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    She can't even sign right, she did dd-mm-yyyy instead of mm-dd-yyyy!
    Maybe she'll claim that makes it not valid...

  12. The old gatekeeper... on Nicholas Carr Says Tech 'Utopia Is Creepy' (cio.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, he does not have a point about old media vs new. "Trust us, we're good gatekeepers, while those other people are BAD!" is not a good argument...

  13. Does this guy even think? on The Most Popular Product Of All Time · · Score: 1

    Somehow not...
    Bread?
    Beer?
    Wine?
    Wheels?
    Bananas?
    Oranges?
    Water?
    Cigarettes?
    Bullets?
    Swords?
    Lumber?
    Paper?
    Bibles?
    Corn?
    Potatoes?
    Pretty much anything that existed before this guy was alive?

  14. Can we ever really know? on 'DNC Hacker' Unmasked: He Really Works for Russia, Researchers Say (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe I'm just not understanding how these investigations happen or what constitutes valid evidence, but how can we ever really know who did a hack like this?
    With VPNs, botnets, address spoofing, couldn't the actual hacker make it look like pretty much anyone else did it? A good hacker wouldn't be found at all, and a really good hacker would cover their own tracks and leave a trail that makes it look like it came from Russian intelligence.

  15. SNAAAAAAKE! on Russia Is Building a Nuclear Space Bomber (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the next Metal Gear, we need a super top secret mission to take it out.

  16. T-Mobile Tuesdays on T-Mobile Gives Customers Free Pokemon Go Data (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Someone has a bone to pick with T-Mobile...the free Lyft ride and Wendy's frosty have absolutely nothing to do with Net Neutrality or adding Pokemon Go data to binge on. They are weekly gifts through their T-Mobile Tuesday giveaways which they've had for I don't even know how long, but long before now.

  17. Re:At this point, I'm voting for brainless on FBI Director: Guccifer Admitted He Lied About Hacking Hillary Clinton's Email (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm starting to think we should require "None of the above" to be an option on every ballot. If it wins, redo the whole election!

  18. Re:looks VERY slow on Canadian Man Invented a Wheel That Can Make Cars Move Sideways (nationalpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Heh, good eye, didn't even notice that! That is so slow!

  19. Re:Polls on Putin Says Panama Papers Part of US Plot to Weaken Russia (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh wait, you can't. Putin ordered his assassination in a pathetic attempt to silence the work he and others had done showing the systemic corruption in Russia.

    It's only corruption if you thought the purpose was to be fair for everyone in the first place. It's just business as usual for everyone in on it!

  20. Another reason for the new Playstation on Sony's Ultra 4K Streaming Service Launching On April 4; Titles Priced At $30 (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Another reason they are releasing a "4K Playstation", to try and get you into their flashy new streaming service.
    Although no mention of bitrates and if it compares to the UHD discs, price is the same as the disc.

  21. Re:Not yet used and additional notes on Next-Gen Ultra HD Blu-Ray Discs Probably Won't Be Cracked For A While (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Not sure where you got the info that Blu-rays are uncompressed, that is incorrect. Regular HD BD uses h.264 and these new UHD BDs use h.265. Source files for UHD HDR feature videos are somewhere in the 8 TB range, and get compressed down to about 50 GB to go on the disc.

  22. I have very little interest in 4K quite frankly. I feel I need it about as much as a five blade razor.

    the upgrade to bt.2020 HDR color space is actually a bigger gain than the resolution bump. I recall reading that SDR displays can show about 25% of the visible color spectrum, but these discs on an HDR display can show up to 75%. Of course everything from the camera filming the movie to the TV displaying the content needs to be able to handle that along the way...

  23. Not yet used and additional notes on Next-Gen Ultra HD Blu-Ray Discs Probably Won't Be Cracked For A While (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Some notes from someone in the industry...

    The 'enhanced' version is not yet used, everything out so far is using the basic AACS2, it is unknown exactly when the enhanced will be available for use. Knowing how past AACS requirements have never materialized, I actually wouldn't be surprised if this never really takes off. Also Fox is really the only studio I know of that is interested in this. They are also the only one I can think of that uses BD+ regularly, and are more technically minded than other studios.

    Streaming is no where near the quality of these discs. Someone posted that Netflix streams 4k at about 16Mbps, while the video on these discs will be over 100. Also the bigger aspect of video on the UHD discs is bt.2020 HDR color space, which I don't think Netflix does yet. M-go is the only place I know of that has similar quality video, Fox tries to use the same encode on the UHD BD as they do for their "Vidity" downloads on there. Also if sound is important to you, I don't think anyone streams Dolby Atmos or DTS:X audios.

  24. Blu-Rays are a bloated format, especially with H.265 on the scene now.

    UHD Blu-ray uses H.265 for video...

  25. Re:That one time Seagate didn't send out SMART dat on Backblaze Dishes On Drive Reliability In their 50k+ Disk Data Center · · Score: 1

    Should work just as you would expect, from my experience with FreeNAS. If there is a boot drive with errors, it will use the good copy or whatever parity it has to boot up and inform you of a bad boot disk. If there are no more good copies then it can't boot. You can do all the normal scrubs on them to catch drives going bad.