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  1. Re:Details matter, as always on China Launched More Rockets Into Orbit In 2018 Than Any Other Country (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed, the Shuttle program was so untenably expensive, they moved forward with a replacement program (SLS) with huge R&D costs that uses the same booster hardware, only with one additional booster segment.
    Oh, wait...
    The boosters were what made it expensive, the Shuttle itself was a cost-saving measure.

  2. Re:ten years can be an eternity on Breakthrough Ultrasound Treatment To Reverse Dementia Moves To Human Trials · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You could buy an ultrasound device on ebay ($100-$1500), and apply it to her head. May need to mod it to increase its output, though. Of course since it hasn't had Stage 1 trials, safety is unknown.

  3. Soon I'll be able to walk into my quantum-dot TV and be teleported to another world. Persona 4 predicted this!

  4. There's zero chance that a 6Teraflop system equivalent to the Xbox One X would be streaming-only. If it were, that'd only require a 10W ASIC (even for 4K60), and they could sell it for 1/4 the price.

    I'm curious if the 'reduced loading times' will come from an Optane cache, these supposedly simulate the benefit of a SSD, even if using a hard drive. Of course this'd require Intel hardware like the original Xbox used, rather than the AMD used this generation. Of course in 2020 when this comes out, it might be cheaper to just use a SSD.

  5. The Xbox Anaconda will have DRM that strangles you to death, then swallows your wallet whole.

  6. Re:I have reasonable confidence when I buy on Stea on Discord Store To Offer Developers 90 Percent of Game Revenues (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Indeed, Steam has been running 14 years now; the Discord app is less than 4 years old. Discord Inc. claims they've raised over $30M in investments... which is a drop in the bucket compared to what Valve and Epic are making from Steam and Fortnite respectively. Ten years from now, will anyone still use/remember Discord? They could crash and burn like MySpace or countless other social networks. Far more likely, they'll get bought out by, say, Microsoft, and get rolled in to Skype or something.

    I'd only buy something on the Discord store if it were DRM-free and I could back it up.

  7. Re:So waht's the restrictions? on Discord Store To Offer Developers 90 Percent of Game Revenues (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Alternately, they'll do what the Playstation Store et al (at least used to) do, and have a 'wallet' that you recharge, making an e.g. $25 credit card transaction, and then deduct those $1 games from that with no further fees. Or they're betting on people buying multiple games at once. That said, looking through their games, I don't see a single one selling for less than $8 (that's not F2P).

  8. Re:"Slim risk", "rare procedures". Why is this new on Neurosurgery Could Spread Protein Linked To Alzheimer's, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    A 'slim risk' is one ambulance-chaser away from a "known risk that should've been mitigated."

  9. Re:pernicious: an apt term for prions on Neurosurgery Could Spread Protein Linked To Alzheimer's, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Can't spell 'pernicious' without 'prions'.
    Or 'Prius' for that matter...

  10. The only way four people can keep a quantum secret is if three of them are dead, or a quantum superposition of alive and dead.
    The death certificates will say "Cause of death: wavefunction collapse."

  11. Re:Stupid Tax on Huawei Executive Arrest Inspires Advance Fee Scams (sans.edu) · · Score: 1

    Someone who admits they don't know and thinks to look up a solution on Youtube is smarter by far than someone who thinks they already know how to solve it (despite not knowing the first thing about it.)

  12. Quantum Privacy on Facebook Filed a Patent To Calculate Your Future Location (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    If we can convince them to use 256-bit values for the accelerometers, they can calculate our velocity to such exquisite precision that they'll no longer know where we are.

  13. Re:I get my news from YouTube on More People Get Their News From Social Media Than Newspapers, Study Finds (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately even the muckraking can be corporate propaganda. How do you distinguish an independently-researched expose, from a paid-for hit piece? What we need are quality independent journalists who are directly funded, without being hampered by an amoral editor who'll bury dirty laundry for a payoff or because it doesn't fit their agenda/biases.

  14. Re:Stupid Tax on Huawei Executive Arrest Inspires Advance Fee Scams (sans.edu) · · Score: 1

    Sometimes, as in the case of Voltaire, lotteries are a subsidy to the intelligent.

  15. Re:Stupid Tax on Huawei Executive Arrest Inspires Advance Fee Scams (sans.edu) · · Score: 2

    Introducing... the Rubik's Chastity Belt!

  16. Re:So glad he said that. on Elon Musk: Tesla 'Would Be Interested' in Taking Over GM's Closed Factories (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    TSLA keeps getting the stick end of the short.

  17. Reboot the Environment on Elon Musk: Tesla 'Would Be Interested' in Taking Over GM's Closed Factories (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    "We're trying to help the environment, we think it's the most serious problem that humanity faces...."

    Actually, Elon wants to initiate a system crash so that the User will reboot the system.
    That's right, Elon Musk is actually Megabyte.

  18. Rise of the Influencers on YouTube's Top-Earner For 2018 Is a 7-Year-Old (usatoday.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I imagine he gets paid tons of money from toy companies to review toys they send him, and someone offscreen prompts him to talk about various bullet-points written up by said companies. Not sure if that's part of the $22 million figure, but ~$50k per paid review is typical for popular influencers.

    Pro boxers can get investigated for a paid endorsement for a cryptocurrency without saying they've been compensated, but randos can make videos on the Youtubes doing the same thing with impunity, and the same agency can only say they're looking into maybe requiring disclosures.

  19. Due to the pandamonium caused by the mauled canister, a whole shift had to go into hibernation.

  20. Re:And so it begins.... on 24 Amazon Workers Sent To Hospital After Robot Accidentally Unleashes Bear Spray · · Score: 1

    They might have to stock their warehouses with robot spray soon.
    What exactly it contains is left as an exercise to the reader.

  21. The affected workers were promptly treated with capsaicin patches for pain relief.

  22. Decrypt This Blockchain! on Australia Passes Anti-Encryption Laws [Update] (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'd really like to see who they take to court to try and undo the encryption on the Monero et al. blockchains.

  23. Re:Great! on An Eye-Scanning Lie Detector Is Forging a Dystopian Future (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    On the downside there'd be a sudden C4 shortage. The CIA will be very cross.

  24. Re:This is dumb. on An Eye-Scanning Lie Detector Is Forging a Dystopian Future (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Adults that are confident and experienced? Damn, I'm moving to wherever you live.

  25. Re:needs motion sensor on Thieves Are Boosting the Signal From Key Fobs Inside Homes To Steal Vehicles (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    A newer Prius doesn't start with a key. A fob is required instead.