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  1. I think it could actually do that too.

    and email.

    it could barely internet though, even though there was a modem (I never had it on a proper network, so I don't know how it did with that, and I don't think there was any wifi back then.

  2. I could send faxes from my Newton.

  3. Re:Good job on Google's New Public NTP Servers Provide Smeared Time (googleblog.com) · · Score: 1

    As I read it, the worse is 1/2 second (slowly fades to a half second behind, then leap second puts it a half second ahead and is slowly fades to match).

    Since the Unix timestamp ignores leap seconds anyway, this seems like a very reasonable approach.

  4. Re:Mobile websites & apps suck on Buying Stuff On Your Phone Still Sucks (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The worst feature I find on mobile sites is the fact that instead of paging you just keep scrolling to view items.

    Then when I click on something to add to cart and click back I need to scroll for two minutes to get back where I was on the list.

    Why they don't let me load all on one page, or page through the items like on desktop sites is beyond me.

  5. Yes there is. For example amendment V for example.

  6. More likely a coupon for half price of a bottle from the same company.

  7. Re:government regulations on No Evidence of Aloe Vera Found in the Aloe Vera at Wal-Mart, CVS (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Awesome, I'll sue them about the $2.00 bottle, that'll definitely be worth it.

  8. Re: government regulations on No Evidence of Aloe Vera Found in the Aloe Vera at Wal-Mart, CVS (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it still fall under the FTC, as it's false labelling?

  9. You're really optimistic.

    His actions aren't matching his words, so I am not.

  10. Re:Fold a shirt in 10 minutes? on Panasonic Invests $60 Million In World's First Laundry-Folding Robot (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I'd take the punishment.

    It was more satisfying to have personal agency than to not be punished.

    perhaps an asswhooping motivated you, but not everyone is the same, plenty of people are completely unmotivated by asswoopings.

  11. Re:Fold a shirt in 10 minutes? on Panasonic Invests $60 Million In World's First Laundry-Folding Robot (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I think studies show that women spend nearly as much time on domestic chores as ever.

    Yes, washing without a machine was a long and laborious task, but it may shock you to learn that people didn't wash 1-2 full changes of clothes a day in the time before the washing machine.

  12. Re:futurist on Stephen Hawking: We Might Have 1,000 Years Left on Earth (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    The population bottle neck was 70,000 years ago, we are effectively the same as them.

  13. I don't buy that argument across the board.

    It'd be true in a truly open and free market, but government granted monopolies (IP protections) allow certain things to be priced not in a way that just surpasses break even enough to be worth it, but instead at the highest price people are willing to pay.

    Yes, at the supermarket, a corporate tax is passed along, but not for something like a drug company.

  14. Re:futurist on Stephen Hawking: We Might Have 1,000 Years Left on Earth (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    We're really adaptable, I would think a population collapse wouldn't eliminate humanity personally.

    Civilization will likely end, but I doubt humanity.

  15. Re:Two seat sports cars on Tesla 'Easter Egg' Makes the World's Fastest Car Even Faster (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    My pick-up only has 2 functional seats.

  16. Re:PLEASE...make a sports car again!! on Tesla 'Easter Egg' Makes the World's Fastest Car Even Faster (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I always wanted to do a V8 conversion on my focus, and get 1 inch bigger rims for the rear wheels (which would have been the drive wheels).

    I think it would have been beautifully subtly powerful.

  17. Re:Most annoying feature ever? on OnePlus 3T Smartphone Featuring Snapdragon 821 Launched (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2

    Every phone (and stand alone camera) has this as an optional feature.

    Similar to flash, HDR, a filter, etc.

  18. Re:Why has it taken [all] this long? on Red Hat Announces Fedora Will Support MP3 Playback (fedoraproject.org) · · Score: 1

    I believe one of the circuits has basically said that they're invalid using the supreme ruling.

    But I guess yeah, money until its firmed up. I'd think redhat has a lot to gain their though.

  19. Re:Does Tesla actually make a profit? on Are Tesla Crashes Balanced Out By The Lives That They Save? (eetimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably marginal profit per vehicle even without subsidy (lots of r and D mean not profitable as a whole)

    Almost certainly better for CO2

  20. Re:Why has it taken [all] this long? on Red Hat Announces Fedora Will Support MP3 Playback (fedoraproject.org) · · Score: 1

    Haven't software patenta essentially been struck down in the US?

  21. Re:Still waiting on General Motors To Lay Off 2,000 Workers at Two US Plants (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not entirely disagreeing, but the conspiracy discourse seems even worse on the web at large.

  22. Re:Still waiting on General Motors To Lay Off 2,000 Workers at Two US Plants (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I enjoy the political stuff. /. brings relatively intelligent people with different opinions to discuss the stuff that matters.

  23. Re:This is totally Trump's fault! on General Motors To Lay Off 2,000 Workers at Two US Plants (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure this was happening either way, but they didn't want to announce until today so that Trump couldn't say "see, Mexico, blah".

    This closing has nothing to do with the election though.

  24. Re:Because it's my choice on Telco CEO: Consumers Have 'Double Standards' Over Data Privacy (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Also,

    When I choose to give google my info I benifit.

    They know where I am because I'm ok with the trade of telling them where I am in exchange for what Google Now does with it, or Google Navigation. They have access to my email because they give me free very robust email.

    What do the phone companies want to give me? a piece of the money they make? let me chose?

  25. Re:And to think the DNC wanted to face Trump... on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I knew a few people that did that in 2000 for Bush, everything old is new again, and the youth learn their lessons to be replaced by new youth.