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  1. Re: Bullshit on Ask Slashdot: Is Beaming Down In Star Trek a Death Sentence? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That’s some pretty extraordinary claim, I’m going to need extraordinary evidence.

    Why don't you just admit that there is no evidence you would believe, and that until Penn & Teller tell you it's OK, there is no amount of peer-reviewed research you will ever accept? It would save us a lot of time with me providing citations and you not looking at them and deciding they're BS.

    https://bioethics.georgetown.e...

    http://www.resuscitationjourna...

    There's lots more where that came from. I just picked this off the top.

    Did you read your own link? Because neither link support the idea of OBE or consciousness existing outside the brain.

    Let me summarize them for you since you took the assertion that I wouldn’t read it: there’s evidence of consciousness after clinical death. The brain does things we don’t fully understand yet. But it’s a huge leap to say that our consciousness exist outside your brain. Here’s a movie analogy, you believe consciousness is like “Dr. Strange” while existing evidence says it’s more like “Jacob’s Ladder.”

  2. Re: Bullshit on Ask Slashdot: Is Beaming Down In Star Trek a Death Sentence? · · Score: 1

    That’s some pretty extraordinary claim, I’m going to need extraordinary evidence.

  3. Because it was already screwed up from the Bolshevik Revolution.

  4. Re:As a businessman... on Largest US Radio Company iHeartMedia Files For Bankruptcy (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Radio stations do not cost $23,000,000.

    The typical value of the spectrum for a radio station (just the rights to broadcast on it) are worth more than $23 million. And then the transmitter, etc...

    Around $100m in the LA area some years ago. That’s the cost of the spectrum of The Sound 100.3 when the station was created. The station was recently sold off for $18m.

  5. Re:And why would anybody in the future care? on A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is '100 Percent Fatal' (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    And why would anybody in the future care?

    Aliens.

    Like the end of A.I. Once we go extinct this will be huge for alien historians.

  6. Re:What is Uber pissing away money on? on Uber Spent $10.7 Billion in Nine Years. Does It Have Enough to Show for It? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Re:What is Uber pissing away money on?
    I can't figure out how they aren't profitable.

    Hookers and blow is my go to answer.

  7. And now it’s gone.... on Google's Slack Competitor 'Hangouts Chat' Comes Out of Beta (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    I look forward to having this service cancel right after I start using it. So to help all Hangouts Chat users I won’t be using it.

  8. Re:Somehow this feels like a bad idea on Facebook Rolls Out Job Posts To Become the Blue-Collar LinkedIn (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    That’s my thought too. Facebook is trying to kill Craigslist again. They have the Facebook Marketplace and now going after the core of Craigslist revenue.

    But if Craigslist is gone, where will I read ads by “hot young women looking for older men”? Or ads for “willing to give up sold-out concert ticket for 1/2 hour of....”

  9. Alternatively, Intel could modify their turbo mode so that it not only limits maximum temperature but also maximum rate of change in temperature. But before I place all the blame on Intel, do these things not contain NVidea GPUs? If so, that is the likely point of failure.

    I think only the Surface Book has the Nvidia dGPU.

  10. I want OpenARM on 'Is It Time For Open Processors?' (lwn.net) · · Score: 1

    We need OpenARM not only because ARM is ubiquitous but so there can be a company called "JOint United Research for National Exascale deliverY" making OpenARM processors. OpenARM by JOURNEY.

  11. Re:Oracle is such a piece of shit... on Violating a Website's Terms of Service Is Not a Crime, Federal Court Rules (eff.org) · · Score: 2

    You probably can do a good product with third world developers if you seek the really skillful ones, but i don't think that companies going to the third world do have skill as any sort of priority.

    While that’s true in theory, I’ve only seen it happen if you keep a really keen eye on those developers. Implement more QA/QC than you normally. The problems with good 3rd world developers there are not a lot of them, they’re not that cheap and they don’t generally want to rewrite or debug their code.

  12. Kids, just “Say No” to Oracle on Violating a Website's Terms of Service Is Not a Crime, Federal Court Rules (eff.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Once you’ve used Oracle they got you. If you try to leave, you can’t. If you stay, they’ll screw you more and more everyday. Best thing is not never start using Oracle.

  13. I use this everyday on macOS/iOS. Quicker to reply messages (iMessage/SMS) using a normal keyboard than typing on my phone. A quick FaceTime chat works well too. But I rarely answer a phone call with the Mac because it’s just impolite to put people on speaker without telling them.

  14. Allow epidural on Number of Births in Japan To Hit Record Low in 2017 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    My wife’s friend is Japanese and told us epidural isn’t available during births. She delivered three kids all without epidural. She wanted a boy because the first two were girls. For one, she was in labor for 16 hours. Childbirth is already difficult enough and without epidural that just adds to more reasons to have fewer children.

  15. Re:Is Apple Maps still trying to kill people? on Google Maps's Moat: How Far Ahead of Apple Maps is Google Maps? (justinobeirne.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup. The crocodiles surfs between islands in the Pacific. Didn’t know it either until we went to Australia.

      https://www.sciencedaily.com/r...

  16. Re:Is Apple Maps still trying to kill people? on Google Maps's Moat: How Far Ahead of Apple Maps is Google Maps? (justinobeirne.com) · · Score: 2

    Everything tries to kill in Australia. Apple is just trying to fit in. I mean, even on the nice beaches there are warning signs about crocodiles. I already have to worry about the sharks and now I have to worry about crocodiles too.

  17. Can’t we all just get along on Google Maps's Moat: How Far Ahead of Apple Maps is Google Maps? (justinobeirne.com) · · Score: 1

    I was in Hawaii recently, we use both Apple Maps and Google Maps while driving around. Google Maps will send you down some weird route to save you a few minutes. Some regular streets that were so small I had to move to the side to let cars going the opposite way pass. Apple Maps would recommend staying on the major streets. But Apple Maps suck when it came to finding a business in a business complex. Both Google Maps and Apple Maps will tell you to make left turns or U turns at intersections that don’t allow U turns or unsafe to make a left turn. At least on iOS, I have both options to use Apple Maps or Google Maps.

  18. Re: First Post? on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Alternatives To Android Or iOS? · · Score: 1

    Which Samsung phone? I’m looking at a cheap smartphone when traveling overseas and Samsung phones can be found pretty cheaply.

  19. Costco sells corrective eye glasses without prescription. You just pick them up right there in front of the pharmacy area. They don’t even make sure you’ve gone to the optometrist that’s right there next to the tire department.

  20. I’m surprise more people don’t use BSD. TrueOS is pretty decent as a desktop OS.

  21. I’ll call mine “Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con&rdqu on San Diego Comic-Con Wins Trademark Suit Against 'Salt Lake Comic Con' (deseretnews.com) · · Score: 1

    But it will only be held once a year.

  22. Would have been cheaper to buy the assets and hire the people after they go belly up. I’m surprise Shazam is still around.

  23. I do Netflix, Amazon, and Apple. I used to do Youtube on the Apple TV, and still can (last I checked) by running the app on my phone and streaming THAT to my Apple TV.

    What? I have an Apple TV 3 and Apple TV 4. Youtube is a built-in app, you don't need to stream it from the phone. You do need to stream the Amazon Video from the iPhone to Apple TV until Amazon releases their app (which Amazon promised will be this year, hahahaha).

  24. 1,200 employees!!! on Mozilla Revenue Jump Fuels Its Firefox Overhaul Plan (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Mozilla has 1,200 employees!!! What projects are all these people working on? Because I can't imagine even 600 of them working on Firefox.

  25. Poor ad targeting on Motorola Ad Mocks Samsung Ad Mocking Apple (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    The ad looks like it's targeted at the two people in the world at home with no TV but have smartphones. Any recent smart TV will most likely support Chromecast. Or you know spend the $20 to get a Chromecast instead of the $100+ for the projector add-on.