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  1. Re:What is resident evil? on Resident Evil Getting Rebooted Into a Six-Film Franchise (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    It was the first time I saw lasers turn into a grid and cut someone into waffle cubes.

    That was a fun little scene.

  2. Re:What is resident evil? on Resident Evil Getting Rebooted Into a Six-Film Franchise (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure it was an a list movie. More of a B+.

    It had decent effects, but was pretty damned campy.

    No super high dollar stars either.

  3. Re:Not Deadpool on Resident Evil Getting Rebooted Into a Six-Film Franchise (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd argue even less than irobot, at least irobot vaguely had to do with the theme of AI and its implications.

  4. Re:Ah yes, the good old standby... on Resident Evil Getting Rebooted Into a Six-Film Franchise (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Will he finally not be in school?

    Seems unlikely.

  5. Re:A Corny but Lovely Series on Resident Evil Getting Rebooted Into a Six-Film Franchise (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    I made a pair of 2d glasses (well two pairs, out of 2 pairs of 3d glasses).

    It's made it much easier to find showings.

  6. Re: Enable The Government To Use Its Own Encryptio on Microsoft Announces 'Windows 10 China Government Edition', Lets Country Use Its Own Encryption (windows.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Could be both.

    Fear of US back doors, wants Chinese back doors.

    I suspect though that it will end up being less secure wither way. Less tested for attack however they implement it.

  7. Photo-voltaic roof handles some of the cases of can't install a charger, but not all.

    I'm very skeptical of 5 minute charge anytime soon.

    I'm not electric car skeptical though, I think most of the arguments against are over pessimistic, but I think arguments for are very suburban middle and upper middle class focused.

    A LOT of people cannot install chargers at home, which makes electric far less convenient than petrol, even if today's best charging tech was deployed at every petrol station in the country.

    Electric cars need 3x the range of petrol cars, or charging speeds need to triple before they can replace petrol cars for condo living, apartment living, or street parking people, and that's assuming instant infrastructure build out.

    It won't be until that infrastructure exists for a few years (and the skeptics start to get on board) that petrol cars will fall under 50% new car sales is my prediction, and considering it doesn't exist yet, 8 years seems crazy.

    I think only range and price will be addressed by 8 years from now (mid $20ks, unsubsidized 300 mile range), there's still how to make them useful to the huge percentage of the population that doesn't own where they park.

  8. No, a lot more than that.

    For mushrooms for example, 3 grams is a pretty serious trip, 2 may be a normal dose.

    But even 0.75 is a very notable effect, energy, some warm feelings, still recreational.

    A micro dose would be about a third of that, no directly noticeable effects, but hardly homeopathic low amounts.

    I'm not weighing in on if it's any more than placebo, but I'd think 1/3 of obvious effects KS definitely doing something. It'd be the equivalent of a beer (if three is where you feel a buzz, but not drunk.

  9. I think the article is saying for sale, I'm still sceptical though.

    They're not a good fit for a lot of people.

    I'd be shocked if 50% of the population lives in a place where an overnight charged is even possible to install (for the car owner).

    That means long charging in a network of charging stations I don't see being dense enough by then.

    Long as in 4x the time it takes to fill a tank.

  10. Re:I have thousands of songs on MP3 Is Not Dead, It's Finally Free (marco.org) · · Score: 1

    I used some KDE app that interfaced with the various commandline tools.

    Konvert I bet.

    I actually went FLAC to MP3 as FLAC ripped way quicker at the time (less CPU), then then I could run the MP3 conversion overnight.

  11. Re:So what about those cheap tablets out there? on Netflix Says No To Unlocked Android Smartphones (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    People that already have them won't notice that they don't have the newest version, and people that buy them in the future will blame the super cheap tablets.

  12. Re: But it's rooted... on Netflix Says No To Unlocked Android Smartphones (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    TFS mentions Netflix 5.0

    You probably didn't get the upgrade because your phone is not compatible.

  13. So, if I say I make 50,000k (basically average) one penny is 1 5 millionth of my income.

    netflix makes 10 billion. divide by 5 million I get $2,000 being a penny to them.

    This is actually closer to 2 million for a network show (5 seasons * 20 episodes/season * 20k/episode).

    It's more like paying $10 for those napkins (or I'm orders of magnitude off).

  14. Re: If you want to kill streaming. on Streaming Services Will Pay Writers More Under New Writers Guild Pact (deadline.com) · · Score: 1

    So, the world is a closed system?

    You can't think of anything, anything at all, that may be adding to it constantly?

  15. Except now adays it will be easier to share via the cloud than learn about firewalls and computer addresses.

    Especially with drop box, google, one drive, facebook (for photos) being established ways to share files with people.

  16. I think there is some truth to the idea tha fields that have this far been resistant to automation are part of the problem.

    Medical and education being examples. In theory, worker pay should go up more than inflation, in most fields, this is done by splitting the productivity gain of automation between workers and owners.

    In fields where productivity does not increase, to keep pace with pay (essentially to be at the same percentile of income) the cost needs to basically go up at the exact t same pace of wages, not productivity. This makes those services relatively more expensive.

    If education or medicine could get away with half the people (especially education, where salary is a huge percentage of the overall cost), it would almost certainly lead to lower prices. Education has in fact gone up in price overall with pay for people with graduate degrees.

  17. Re:Are AMD chips scrutinized as well? on EFF Warns Most Of Intel's Chipsets Contain 'A Security Hazard' (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    That doesn't mean it should be that way.

    Your statement and GPs are not even slightly contradictory.

    I believe the EFF thinks people should be able to do so with a car too (right to repair).

  18. Doesn't the radio antenna receive photons as particles though?

    I know camera sensors do (thus the noise in low light, not enough photons to override the randomness).

  19. Re:Rewarding bad behavior on WanaDecrypt0r Ransomware Earns Just $26,000 In Ransom Payments (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure a simple flag could be used to never delete old copies too.

    It would open up a DoS by writing nonsense over and over, but it would protect fully from ransomware.

    Some filesystems allow other drives to hold the snapshots too I think, you could essentially have unlimited space if you kept rotating in new external drives. For a home system, that would essentially be free.

  20. My bank limits me to $500 at a branch, ATM and $350 at other ATMs

  21. Re:Similar to bittorrent? on HBO's 'Silicon Valley' Joins The Push For A Decentralized Web (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    I was thinking freenet, does that exist still?

  22. From what I can tell you're just flat out wrong about NYC.

  23. Re:Tech-rich people need to do more consultation on Elon Musk Posts New Video of 'Boring' Equipment and Company's First Tunnel (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Crescents

  24. Re:Tech-rich people need to do more consultation on Elon Musk Posts New Video of 'Boring' Equipment and Company's First Tunnel (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    An unoccupied sled could probably run under the occupied ones in the credentials under the road.

  25. Re:Tech-rich people need to do more consultation on Elon Musk Posts New Video of 'Boring' Equipment and Company's First Tunnel (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    How does the fast sled to road transition happen at faster than 5mph? That's the bottleneck I see for through put.

    1 car every 30 seconds is not more throughput, even at light speed. It's less latency.