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  1. Re:$4 million over 20 months? Pshhh... on Google Fiber To Pay Nearly $4 Million To Louisville In Exit Deal (wdrb.com) · · Score: 2

    cover removing fiber cables and sealant from roads

    Can anyone figure out why the city would want them to remove the cables and sealant? Some other outfit could come along and make use the already laid cable, no?

  2. Re:Why does this need 5G? on Fifty 'Connected Cows' Already Have 5G (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Not sure what 5G has got to do with this. Not a lot of detail, but I can't think of anything that wouldn't work on 4G, 3G or 2G for that matter.

    Dairy farms do indeed already have this kind of thing and have for years. Maybe the carrier is just doing animal testing on its new product?

  3. Re:executives are mainly American and Canadians on China's Largest Stock Photo Provider Attracts Fire Over Use of Black Hole Image (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    When America and Canada sends its people, they're not sending their best. ... They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems ...

    You mean the executives who were born and raised in China, bought a US or Canadian citizenship and then immediately went back to China? They got it just so they can skip out more easily when the crackdown comes.

  4. Su once used calipers and head spanners to the measure the heads of 867 Chinese men and women to see if the results could be explained by differences in the gene

    Wasn't this a thing in the 1800's? "Craniology" or somesuch.

  5. Re:Liberals = shit on Apple Music Caught Censoring Pro-Democracy Music In China (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Look back over last 4 years and see EVERY liberal calling me a racist, bigot, homophobe and you not ONCE calling them out.

    Referring to your history while using AC makes no sense. Going by posting history it is the AC who is the biggest racist, bigoted, *phobe ever. As for politics, AC is radically marxist, libertarian to the point of anarchy, and a totalitarian theocrat all at the same time.

  6. Re:Wonder what else you could grow in this on Startup Sells Pot 'Grow Fridges' That Are Tended By Robots (nj.com) · · Score: 1

    Given how well this works fo ra fussy plant like pot, I wonder what other plants it could be tuned to grow with high productivity?

    How well can it grow potatoes on Mars?

  7. Re:Seconds instead of minutes? on Verizon Begins Rolling Out Its 5G Wireless Network In Chicago, Minneapolis (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You think only a 'very' short movie could be less than 7.5GB? Fuck man, what formats do you use?

    4K RAW ?

  8. Time to move all serious astronomy to the far side of the moon.

  9. Re:cameras are not allowed in hotel rooms or apart on Airbnb Has a Hidden-Camera Problem (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 2

    cameras are not allowed in hotel rooms or apartments.

    They are allowed in hotel lobbies, elevators, stairwells, and hallways. Is an Airbnb's living room area under the same category?

  10. Re:Solution looking for a problem? on Trump Administration Dims Rule On Energy Efficient Lightbulbs (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I also have a highly used vanity that burned out a Philips in 2 years - the three incandescent bulbs still in it outlasted the Philips

    The secret to keeping CFL or LED bulbs from dying when used in frequent on/off areas is to just leave them on. We have a rule that the restroom light once turned on by the first user in the evening stays on until bedtime. The mini candle-flame shaped CFLs installed there have lasted long enough that I've lost track. It's the flipping on and off that kills them early. Since they only use 5 watts, leaving them on a few hours is not a problem.

  11. Re:because they SUCKED! on Intel Says It Will Stop Developing Compute Cards · · Score: 1

    Nothing was planned for expansion.

    It looks like the worst part would be a windows based laptop or point of sale system would immediately complain that UEFI prevents the same installation booting up on an all new CPU/memory configuration.

  12. Amazon streaming has sublet too many movies on As 'Subscription Fatigue' Sets In, the OTT Reckoning May Be Upon Us (adweek.com) · · Score: 2

    57 percent of consumers said it frustrates them when shows and movies disappear from their streaming libraries.

    No kidding; Amazon has taken to moving off a lot of both shows and movies to linked providers so now one would need to pony up extra $$ for five or six other services to get the same old selections.

  13. Re: checklist that all pilots are required to memo on Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The article is worded poorly. The thing about a piloting checklist is... it's a checklist. As in, a real list on a laminated paper. The important thing is not that the pilotd memorized every item on the list but that they know list X is the one to go down when problem Y occurs. That's the real training failure here.

  14. Re:When are we gonna find out what crashed them? on Boeing 737 Max Jets Grounded By FAA Emergency Order (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    No.

    Addis Ababa... subtropical Africa climate...

  15. Note that Trump's budget released yesterday calls for a cut in education funding. This affects the working class. The rich can afford private schools. The masses get dumber, the rich get more powerful. When will it end?

    The federal government's spending on primary education is a very small fraction of what state and local governments spend. However since it is 100% marginal income cash it is used as nothing less than a carrot approach to dictating national policy, "Common Core", "Race to the Top", "No Child Left Behind", etc. Schools would chase NONE of these programs if it weren't for the few extra % the Feds kick into their budgets. Are these programs that get endlessly griped about really affecting the working class and making the masses so much smarter?

  16. PCs need to have the "Bluetooth radio supports Low Energy Peripheral Role"

    OK so this is a nice technical exercise but really if I'm within BT range of a PC there's no way I want to poke at an Android phone screen instead of using the PC's keyboard and mouse.

  17. Web teen angst on Tim Berners-Lee Says World Wide Web Must Emerge From 'Adolescence' (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Tim Berners-Lee: World Wide Web, you must emerge from adolescence
    WWW: I didn't ask to be born!
    Tim Berners-Lee: ...
    WWW: You're not my real parent anyways!

  18. Re:Just pick a damned time on Trump Endorses Permanent Daylight Savings Time (thehill.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Then again, I'm sort of a diehard UTC person. College caught me that who cares what time you wake up on the clock. Especially with the global economy I know business meetings across 4 timezones and all their nuances would go a lot smoother if we just set UTC meeting times.

    China has all one time zone - it's rather strange to fly west 4 hours and not change your watch. And the sun comes up at 3 am. Although their mentality about it is that Beijing is the center of their universe so everyone is on that city's time.

  19. Re:Just pick a damned time on Trump Endorses Permanent Daylight Savings Time (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    DST was originally to benefit farmers whose workday was dictated by daylight hours. Since that's not an issue anymore we don't need DST.

    You've confused DST with traditional long summer break school year calendars.

  20. Re:Diabetes is scary on 23andMe Plans New Genetic Test on Risk of Getting Diabetes (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    * Dumbfucks who can't stop stuffing their mouths with food. (Type II)

    Sorry, no, while type 2 is brought on by poor eating habits, it is not from inability to stop stuffing one's mouth. Yes, fat people have it but they would probably even if they just less of the crappy food they prefer. It is high carb and/or high sugar ratio food with lack of exercise. Alcohol in particular has a lot of the kind of sugar bad for people at risk. It's not the being fat that does it, it's the kind of food that people who end up fat tend to eat.

  21. Also would like to point out to your readers that it's a well-established practice of some businesses to schedule workers for just less than 'full time' so they can avoid giving them benefits.

    And when did that start, exactly? Right about the time legally required benefits added up to more than it was worth for the employers. Did a lot of good, didn't it, requiring those benefits? Now people are still getting the same benefits pre-required (none) and getting paid less for working less hours! Genius!

  22. From all reports Holmes was a fairly brilliant CEO (she could convince people to give her lots of money)

    OK but fundraising is only brilliant for CEOs of charitable organizations and early startups. And you seem to have not heard the part about the corporate jet and the huge mansion paid for by the company. The wild spending kind of cuts back on the usefulness of fundraising ability.

  23. Re:Maybe you should have thought of that... on Paris Street To 'Shut Out Instagrammers' · · Score: 4, Funny

    Seems like a rapper could easily afford some house paint.

    Yes, but rapper paint only comes in gold.

  24. Re:Seven percent less likely means correlation on Decade-Long Study: Measles Vaccine Doesn't Cause Autism, Even in High-Risk Kids (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember the Disney Measles outbreak? Yep, vaccine strain that caused the outbreak, not wild strain

    See, this is the problem with the anti-vaccine information. You've got it exactly backwards. Measles vaccines (in the US) are for the 'A' type measles strain while the Disney outbreak was a 'B' type strain. And the vaccines are made from actual measles viruses one might catch, not some artificial strain as your "vs wild strain" seems to imply.

  25. This must be some other Android Auto... on The Volvo Polestar 2 Is the First Google-Powered, All-Electric Car (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    ... than the one in my car, which just displays the map from my phone and plays some music.