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  1. Re: It's simple on British Startup Strip Mines Renters' Private Social Media For Landlords (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So you say that breaking at least four contracts (the Terms of Service of Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter forbid exactly what Score Assured demands) is a way to demonstrate "good character"?

  2. Re:Not normal on British Startup Strip Mines Renters' Private Social Media For Landlords (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I guess that there are many other problems Score Assured is facing. I don't know what they mean with "full access to your profile", but for instance, for Facebook this is a breach of contract. The Terms of Service explicitely state in chapter 4.8, that you are not allowed to do so. The other sites have similar rules.

    So how long a company will stay afloat whose business it is to get people to violate contracts?

  3. Re:god no on Four Newly Discovered Elements Receive Names (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Informative
    This is simply wrong. Many apparently greek words aren't of greek origin, but also the greek took over words from other languages. Case in point: the peach. The word comes from the old french word pesche (modern french: pêche), which comes from middle latin pesca, which in turn comes from classical latin persica, which originally was malus persicum, which derives from greek mêlon persikón, which in turn comes from the old persian word Parsuwash, which in turn was an Old Persian speaking tribe in the Iranian Highlands.

    Just because your own knowledge of a word ends with the greek origin doesn't mean that the word itself didn't enter the greek language itself as a foreign word.

  4. Re:FTFY on Four Newly Discovered Elements Receive Names (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The -ium is not required, albeit abundant. Except Helium, none of the noble gases has one, they all end in -on, same as Carbon or Boron. All halogens end in -ine. Neither do Bismuth, Zinc, Manganese, Nickel or Cobalt end in -ium. Iron (Ferrum), Copper (Cuprum), Lead (Plumbum), Silver (Argentum) and Gold (Aurum) just have the -um, not the -ium.

  5. Re:Elements named after locations on Four Newly Discovered Elements Receive Names (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Replying to undo mis-moderation.

  6. Re:Interesting rant on North Korea Restarts Plutonium Production For Nuclear Bombs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Informative
    Why does the completely misguided idea of George Soros aiding Hitler arise again and again? Just because he said in an interview, that the strong bond between him and his father during the early 1940ies made this time his most happy time in life, despite Budapest being ruled by the pro-Nazi Horthy regime and the constant danger of deportation? And indeed, George Soros was also lucky as the deportation of the hungarian jews stopped when Miklós Horthy ousted Döme Sztójay and installed Géza Lakatos as the next head of government and the Minister of the Interior Béla Horváth ordering Hungarian gendarmes to use deadly force against any deportation effort, thus the jews in Budapest were not deported, differently than the jews everywhere else in Hungary.

    There were even rumours spread George Soros would have been a member in the Hitler Youth, which is completely impossible with George Soros being hungarian, and the Hitler Youth being solely for german (and after the Anschluss also austrian) boys -- no exceptions made, especially not for an hungarian jew living in Budapest. Hungary, despite being dominated by Hitler Germany, was still a country on its own, and german civil organisations like the Hitler Youth or Kraft durch Freude didn't have any sub-organisations in Hungary. It's clear that those rumours are put into the world purposely to discredit George Soros, as they are completely unfounded and don't hold up to reality.

  7. Re:What I think? on Universal Basic Income Programs Arrive (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If you give everyone $1,000 a month, then you simply cause prices to rise.

    This would only be true for goods where there is no real competition. For other good, no. About everyone can afford cheap food, but prices for food don't rise, as there is fierce competition between farms for things like corn or wheat, which are not easily sold on local farmer markets. For those goods, demand will not rise, as you can only eat that much sausage-in-a-bun per day. Same with cheap clothing, also here you won't see rising prices, as there is no increased demand for cheap t-shirts or underpants. It has been shown that if the basic needs are barely met, additional money does not flow first into better foods or clothing, but in consumer goods like electronics and in stimulants like drinks and tobacco, where is also fierce competition between suppliers.

  8. Here, the lunch break does not count to your work time. So take whatever time you want, but bill it accordingly. Only restriction: You have to have at least 30 min of a break after 6 hours of work. A coding slave with a 9-5 job thus clocks up 7.5 hrs per work day. If you want that two hour lunch break, that's fine. But you have to come in at 8.30 am and leave at 6.00 pm to get the 7.5 hrs scheduled worktime.

  9. Re:Pollution on World's Longest, Deepest Rail Tunnel Opens In Switzerland (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    And there is a second aspect. The tunnel runs without much height difference, thus the energy necessary to pull a train first up the mountain and than the energy necessary to brake the train coming down the mountain won't be used. The tunnel tracks instead are mainly flat and can be run in with constant speed. The old Gotthard rail tunnel is much shorter, was built on higher elevation and needs extensive ramps with many bends and loops through the mountains to get to.

  10. Re:This is all well and good on WWII Code-Breaker Dies At Age 95 (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    See, and I come from a slightly different social background, and here, women especially in computer science, physics and math are much more common. So apparently, you raise your daughters so differently from us, that you don't have that many women in STEM. And here is the point: What are you doing differently, and why do you think your way of doing things is somehow normal?

  11. Re:Movies are not real life, but... on Study Indicates Americans Don't Trust AI (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    You definitely watch the wrong movies. Or too many movies of the same theme. Counter example: Futurama. Another counter example: Hitchhiker's Guide.

  12. Re:I only trust artificial stupidity on Study Indicates Americans Don't Trust AI (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Voice recognition is AI. Connection the term "weather" with the location given by GPS and requesting the weather report is AI. So you were saying?

  13. Re: It's a tram/train not a bus on China Unveils 'Straddling Bus' Design To Beat Traffic Jams (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry for the mangled link. On my mobile device, there seems to be no preview button.

  14. Re: It's a tram/train not a bus on China Unveils 'Straddling Bus' Design To Beat Traffic Jams (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Here around, we have the concept of a railbus. It's technically a bus except it doesn't have a steering wheel, and it runs on rails.

  15. Re:Popular Mechanics? 1930s? on China Unveils 'Straddling Bus' Design To Beat Traffic Jams (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure to have seen similar concepts in 1960ies tech magazines too. Yes, the idea of having a second layer for traffic on the same roads has some appeal, but I'm convinced that, except for some proof-of-concept tracks, it will not be used.

  16. Re:of course it will burn.... IF on Burning All Fossil Fuels Would Scorch Earth, Says Study (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Germany is a net exporter of electrical energy. Only in times of high demand and low local production, it imports electrical power, mainly from France (12 TWh in 2015) and Czechia (6 TWh in 2015). There is always the claim floating around that Germany imports power from Poland's coal plants, but in 2015, the whole energy import from Poland was just 16 GWh, while Germany in the same time exported 10 TWh (or about the 600fold) to Poland. You can read the whole here at Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems. They have very nice graphs about Germany's electrical power installations. You can also see that Germany's coal plants mainly replace each other as in some years, plants get decommissioned and the next year, new plants start production.

  17. Re:The remaining 1/3 will turn off the lights. on HPE To Spin Out Its Huge Services Business, Merge It With CSC (cio.com) · · Score: 2
    The remaining HPE will be manufacturing the big iron like the SuperDOME and the ProLiant servers.

    The HP Inc. builts printers and end user equipment.

  18. Re:Why not include the financial sector? on Apple, Microsoft and Google Hold 23% Of All US Corporate Cash Outside the Finance Sector (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Because it is the actual task of the financial sector to hold cash. And the financial sector thus has lots of regulation to follow how to handle the cash.

  19. Re:of course it will burn.... IF on Burning All Fossil Fuels Would Scorch Earth, Says Study (phys.org) · · Score: 5, Informative
    I can't see any support for your argument that Germany was increasing coal sourcing.

    By 2015, the growing share of renewable energy in the national electricity market (26% in 2014, up from 4% in 1990) and the government's mandated CO2 emission reduction targets (40% below 1990 levels by 2020; 80% below 1990 levels by 2050) have increasingly curtailed previous plans for new, expanded coal power capacity.

    ... taken verbatim from the source you cite.

    A few month ago I looked through all available data for Germany's coal plants, and I found that since 1997, no new coal plant has been licensed, and all coal plants that are under construction now were already licensed before 1997. And all of the current coal plants under construction are to replace older coal plants, but will not increase total capacity.

  20. Really? 25 Gbit/sec wireless over 37 km?

    There is quite a difference between sending data via fiber optics over 10,000 feet or wireless over more than 20 miles.

  21. Re:APIs are not code on Declaring Code Is Not Code, Says Larry Page (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Just because the single elements of some work are not copyrighted, it does not mean that the specific arrangement of those elements can be copyrighted. The letters of the latin alphabet aren't copyrighted either, but several sequences of them (called poems, novels, articles...) definitely are. While I get your idea, you have to argue more carefully.

  22. Re:Now we need the same for the C-USA on China Fakes 488 Million Social Media Posts a Year To Deceive Its Citizens (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Corporation don't even try to convince you that you have a right to elect their board of directors. They name the price for the priviledge to vote and call it "price per share".

  23. Re:KATAMARI DAMACY 2017 MODEL on Google Patents Self-Driving Car That Glues Pedestrians To The Hood In A Crash (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    As per TFA: with a thin coating over the glue. Until the coating breaks due to an impact, the glue stays sealed.

  24. Re:1 Test "only a matter of time" on Superjet Technology Nears Reality After Successful Australia Test (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    32 planes built, 12 of them lost, none due to enemy fire.

  25. Re: LOL on EgyptAir Flight 804 Missing (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    In this case so far, the reports hint at a birdlike shape and a screeching noise. It could be a stork, it could be a bat flying up when an old, unlocked door moved in the wind.