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  1. Perhaps you should educate yourself, as literally has literally changed definitions due to the public's misuse of the word.

    http://www.merriam-webster.com...

    Definition of literally
    1: in a literal sense or manner : actually "took the remark literally" "was literally insane"
    2: in effect : virtually "will literally turn the world upside down to combat cruelty or injustice — Norman Cousins"

  2. Re:NFL is useing a shity web app over wifi in a po on No New MacBook Airs as Apple Instead Makes Lower-End, $1,500 MacBook Pro (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder if they would see an improvement by switching over to private frequencies or 5 Ghz wifi due to less interference.

    My assumption about the NFL story was also that it is likely the network or app, not the tablets. Both of my parents have surfaces, and I haven't ever heard of any issues like that from them.

  3. Re: I hope Apple knows on No New MacBook Airs as Apple Instead Makes Lower-End, $1,500 MacBook Pro (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    As subk and others mentioned, Virtualization, but also, this is their Pro laptop, not the consumer laptop. You will have people running photoshop, or doing video processing, drafting software, circuit board or chip fabbing. There are many things pro users will use their computers for that the average user doesn't.

  4. Because no one in the US eats any fruit right?

    http://pbhfoundation.org/pdfs/...

  5. While the Internet was invented at DARPA, a US Military Agency.

  6. Also, pagers are allowed in restricted areas. That smartphone likely isn't allowed in a reactor building, but a one-way pager is just fine.

  7. Re:Transparancy on Yahoo Scanning Order Unlikely To Be Made Public: Reuters (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would I vote for another person who leaks classified information and committed treason? I refuse to vote for Hillary because of all the classified information and official records mishandling, why do you somehow think that Snowden would be any better?

  8. Re: Transparancy on Yahoo Scanning Order Unlikely To Be Made Public: Reuters (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    States aren't countries, try driving to Russia.

    The EU is a collection of states that formed a Union in order to better work together. The US formed no Union with Canada and Mexico.

  9. Worldwide, it looks like third place behind the Corolla and Golf/Rabbit:

    https://www.statista.com/stati...

  10. That is cleaner than most cars. Plus, coal is rapidly becoming extinct, so why do you keep bringing it up?

    The emissions from a coal plant powering a Tesla are less than most cars' emissions for the same number of miles. In the US, the Tesla works out to the equivalent to 40 mpg, in other countries it can go into three digit mpg equivalent. This will only improve over the course of the years as the "dirty" power plants are replaced with nuclear, solar, wind, hydro, or worst case, nat gas.

    http://shrinkthatfootprint.com...

  11. 31 miles all electric:

    According to Volkswagen, the vehicle consumes 0.99 l/100 km (238 mpg-US; 285 mpg-imp), giving it a 650 km (404 mi) driving range on one tank of fuel.

    404 miles per tank.

  12. Since when do those laws require intent? I am sure that the Navy Sailor didn't intend to reveal classified information when he took a selfie in a sub's engine room:

    http://www.politico.com/story/...

    No intent is required in classified leakage issues, only the failure to report...which last I checked, Hillary didn't do.

  13. If only Obama would ever negotiate for anything instead of refusing to even speak to the other side.

    Politics is now and always has been about negotiating with people you don't agree with, not shutting them out.

  14. Re:Just curious... on Curious Tilt of the Sun Traced To Undiscovered Planet (spacedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    Nibiru and Planet X are supposed to both pass through the orbit of Earth, this planet is so far out it is doubtful it will pass Pluto's orbit.

  15. Re:Calling all rockets on Consumer Reports Ranks Tesla Model X Near Bottom For Reliability (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I have tried to explain this to people before too, it seems like there are people out there who think 4WD helps in all situations and just don't get that is makes steering worse, and breaking no better. At least those are the ones who get taken out in the first storm and don't have their vehicles through the rest of winter.

  16. Re:Calling all rockets on Consumer Reports Ranks Tesla Model X Near Bottom For Reliability (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I am with you, but my requirement is tow capable. I will trade in my Tundra the day they release an electric that can tow like it (I need at least 8klb capacity with a 200-300 mile range while towing).

    So, are you saying that the X does poorly offroad? It is AWD, with a low center of gravity, it should do decent in most off road situations? Is it a ground clearance issue?

  17. Re:Calling all rockets on Consumer Reports Ranks Tesla Model X Near Bottom For Reliability (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    On top of all that, I would like to point out that the Jeep Wrangler always shows up high on their list of unreliable vehicles, while being a highly popular vehicle. Some level of unreliability seems to be acceptable to people in general, after all, doesn't the reliability of any car line go down when they release a new model. The X has been out for less than a year, how reliable was any model of car its first year?

  18. Re:Calling all rockets on Consumer Reports Ranks Tesla Model X Near Bottom For Reliability (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I've always wondered about that particular insult. I can't say the hair on my neck grows all that fast, and frankly, aren't big beards currently in fashion?

    I have no idea what a neckbeard even is, is that a beard that grows out of your neck, or a neck length beard? Are Gandalf and Confucius now neckbeards?

    I personally don't believe I have something that could be called a neckbeard, but I just never understood the insult to be an insult at all.

  19. It looks like TFS has this wrong though. Dendrites don't reduce a battery's capacity, but lifetime. Reducing the production of dendrites extends how long until the cell fails, which increases the total lifetime, not the capacity. This is good to make batteries that don't need to be replaced as often, which helps reduce the TCO of any battery powered device, including cars.

    Also, for those doubting what you say above, I find the best thing is to point them at the facts:

    https://www.quora.com/Is-it-tr...

    Batteries have increased density quite well over time, it is just the push for smaller phones and faster processors eats the improvements so that it isn't as obvious to end users that the batteries are improving over time.

  20. Re:Will he be extradited? on American 'Vigilante Hacker' Defaces Russian Ministry's Website (ksat.com) · · Score: 1

    Is Russia going to press charges? That is a first step for extradition. Also, as others mentioned, an extradition treaty is a nice first step, but Russia doesn't want that, as then the US could extradite the people hacking from Russia.

  21. Re: "Tacit approval"? My nose! on American 'Vigilante Hacker' Defaces Russian Ministry's Website (ksat.com) · · Score: 1

    Considering Powell actually turned over his emails as official records as required by law, I think by now we would know if any of them were classified, wouldn't we?

  22. Re: "Tacit approval"? My nose! on American 'Vigilante Hacker' Defaces Russian Ministry's Website (ksat.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you calling James Comey a liar?

    https://www.fbi.gov/news/press...

    From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification. Separate from those, about 2,000 additional e-mails were “up-classified” to make them Confidential; the information in those had not been classified at the time the e-mails were sent.

    The FBI also discovered several thousand work-related e-mails that were not in the group of 30,000 that were returned by Secretary Clinton to State in 2014. We found those additional e-mails in a variety of ways. Some had been deleted over the years and we found traces of them on devices that supported or were connected to the private e-mail domain. Others we found by reviewing the archived government e-mail accounts of people who had been government employees at the same time as Secretary Clinton, including high-ranking officials at other agencies, people with whom a Secretary of State might naturally correspond.

    This helped us recover work-related e-mails that were not among the 30,000 produced to State. Still others we recovered from the laborious review of the millions of e-mail fragments dumped into the slack space of the server decommissioned in 2013.

    With respect to the thousands of e-mails we found that were not among those produced to State, agencies have concluded that three of those were classified at the time they were sent or received, one at the Secret level and two at the Confidential level. There were no additional Top Secret e-mails found. Finally, none of those we found have since been “up-classified.”

  23. Re:YEEE-HAW! on American 'Vigilante Hacker' Defaces Russian Ministry's Website (ksat.com) · · Score: 1

    Especially interesting considering Putin himself admitted that there were troops in Ukraine before the elections that he had been denying:

    https://www.google.com/search?...

  24. Re:YEEE-HAW! on American 'Vigilante Hacker' Defaces Russian Ministry's Website (ksat.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you have some kind of proof of that accusation? There are pictures of the Russian troops and equipment in Ukraine, it should be trivial to get ahold of pictures of the US special forces you claim are in Ukraine.