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  1. Re:Too Expensive on YouTube TV Costs $50 Per Month After Another Price Hike (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Why wasn't this in the OP?

  2. Re:What's the SQL look like? on LA County Is Using An Algorithm To Clear 50,000 Pot Convictions Faster (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    They call me Semi. It's short for ; drop tables

  3. Re: Erosion on Mars Had Big Rivers For Billions of Years, Study Suggests (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Yet it still managed to blot out the mars rover in short order.

  4. Re:They need to dig more on Mars Had Big Rivers For Billions of Years, Study Suggests (space.com) · · Score: 0

    What's an assault rifle?

  5. Years after the rivers dried up followed by countless millennia of wind erosion we can still see them as if it was relatively recent. Not filled with sands, not eroded away, perhaps even enhanced with the edges smoothed a bit. What does that tell us? It would be neat to have a computer simulation to reverse the erosion to see what it may have looked like before.

  6. How hackable? on 750,000 Medtronic Defibrillators Vulnerable To Hacking (startribune.com) · · Score: 1

    Can we turn them into something useful like tac-welders?

  7. Studios leaked it. (Maybe? ) on Flood of 4K James Bond Leaks Further Point To iTunes Breach (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    Studies have shown that "pirated content" actually increases sales. By leaking it, not only can they benefit from increased revenue, but they can also extort money from "illegal downloaders".
    How can an end user know whether a copy is authorized? Obviously they haven't been given permission to distribute it, so seeders beware, but leachers have no way of knowing until it has been downloaded especially with all the fragmentation in streaming services.

  8. Re:Mandatory Arbitration will Kill the Suit on Wells Fargo Sued By 63-Year-Old Pastor They Wrongfully Accused of Forging Checks (nj.com) · · Score: 0

    The dumbass boomer still banks there.

  9. This is why a Chevy volt can be quiet on gas on Scientists Have Discovered a Shape That Blocks All Sound (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Like the diesel electric trains, the Chevy Volt (IIRC), is only powered by electric motor. The gas engine only provides electricity to the motor/batteries, thus allowing it to operate at the most efficient engine speed when the battery is low. Since it only operates in a very narrow range, the exhaust can be finely tuned for that frequency. From what I have heard though, there is still room for improvement in this area... I'd really like to see a Sterling engine version though

  10. A way to post comments to slashdot containing unicode characters

  11. Yes, but they will only get the usual suspects... not criminal masterminds like Caesar Sosei

  12. Re:6 song rotations = justifiable homocide on Starbucks' Music Is Driving Employees Nuts (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Only if one of the songs was Easy Street and you use a crossbow

  13. Re:I sympathize on Starbucks' Music Is Driving Employees Nuts (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of The Walking Dead when Daryl is stuck in his prison cell. Here is a 10 hour track to replace it for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  14. Re:What about Poppler? on Researchers Break Digital Signatures For Most Desktop PDF Viewers (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Xpdf, evince, mupdf,... lots of open source viewers missing

  15. Or... for the same price on Huawei Unveils the Mate X, a Foldable 5G Smartphone That Costs $2,600 (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    You could buy 50 $50 phones and some duct tape to get a giant redneck foldable super computer tablet.

  16. Re:1st grammar _then_ entomology on How Badly is Google Books Search Broken, and Why? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    I love how you purposely avoided ending your sentence with a preposition or splitting infinitives .... That being said, I should avoid posting with autocorrect turned on - it didn't like etymology.

  17. 1st grammar _then_ entomology on How Badly is Google Books Search Broken, and Why? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe master writing intelligible sentences before worrying about entomology. ... "How badly broken is... " reads way better than "How badly is ... broken" . Holy crap. I am a native english speaker and this whole article was tedious to read.

  18. Re:runaway washing machines? on Lobbyists Demonize 'Right To Repair' Legislation (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    Samsung washing machines do that from the factory. I don't remember what model it was, but some of the top loaders could flail about until they unplugged, destroying everything in its path.

  19. Next version USb3 on Scientists Discover a New Kind of Magnet (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    I suspect the hard drives based on this would be 10x faster if they used USb3 instead of USb2.

  20. How many degrees off of true north is it when the poles reverse or at what rate of change? Has that even been determined using the Atlantic rock layers? If not, it could be good to know.

  21. It's Highly Addictive!

    FYI Slurm is a fictional soft drink in the Futurama multiverse. It is popular and highly addictive.

  22. Re:fake news again . on Scientists Create Super-Thin 'Sheet' That Could Charge Our Phones (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Dual use as the antenna?

  23. To paraphrase South Park... on Wireless Tech Company Finds Way To Charge Drones In Flight · · Score: 2

    Tesla's did it. Tesla's did it.

  24. Re:Correction... apk on China Successfully Lands Spacecraft On Far Side of the Moon (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Radio telescope without all of the interference from earth. Freedom from satellite surveillance... plenty of reasons

  25. The systems are so old, you need to physically get a person in there with punch cards... or a template, one hole punch, scissors and some plastic.