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  1. What is the sufficient amount?

    Here's a tip: do something about something that matters and stick your moronic childish worries about some words up your ass.

  2. Named after the year everyone else got this basic functionality from their server OS.

  3. If you're working in security and using an email client that renders HTML then screw you - you deserve everything you get.

  4. What're the costs associated with disposing of this number of batteries as they reach end-of-life? Are they recyclable? Anyone got a good link to info on this?

  5. Yeah, they built a huge database of moves and then they read it back while playing. That's exactly how humans play these games, isn't it?

    For bonus points, they embody that database in a format that they can't interrogate in any useful way outside of actually playing the games.

  6. OK. I see. So it's the old "confusing terminology" trick that industries pull? Like USB 2 "Full Speed" was slower than high-speed.

    Or in other words: fraud.

  7. I don't see why people not using their broadband would be a concern.

  8. Re:Jesus tapdancing Christ, stop with this shit on Sea Levels May Rise More Rapidly Due To Greenland Ice Melt · · Score: 2

    And the facts are that nothing has changed much.

    Your facts are out of date.

  9. Good on Sea Levels May Rise More Rapidly Due To Greenland Ice Melt · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Washington D.C. is very near sea-level, isn't it?

  10. Never heard of it on Google Is Shutting Down Its Allo Messaging App, Says Report (9to5google.com) · · Score: 1

    Was it any good?

  11. Re:Public or private on NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants (eater.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope. You pay them and they give you coffee. At no point are *you* legally in debt to *them*; they normally owe you a coffee.

  12. Re:How is cashless legal? on NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants (eater.com) · · Score: 1

    Legal tender refers to paying off debt. A sales transaction doesn't count as briefly going into debt and then paying it back. In fact it's generally legally regarded as the opposite: you're supposed to pay first and then receive the service although in a shop the timeline can be obscure but you're normally required to pay before leaving.

    If you owe me £500 I can't insist that you pay me off by working for me or some other arrangement if you say you want to pay cash. In the UK, legal tender is further limited depending on the size of the debt, so I can't offer to pay off that £500 in pennies, it has to be folding stuff.

  13. If you don't want to be treated like shit, don't travel on a shit airline.

  14. I didn't actually say that, although what you say is unfortunately true.

    China, however, takes it to a new level where the subjects of the Government are reduced to the level of slaves who must publicly thank their masters for a beating because it is supposedly good for their morality.

  15. Where, when the state causes you harm you have to thank them or find yourself checking in your "organ donor card" early.

    Don't support, buy from, sell to, or tolerate China.

  16. Sedate on Nearby Star Is Sun's Long-Lost Sibling (syfy.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I make that about 27mph on average, so this star could move around town without getting a speeding ticket. Not least because it would obliterate the town and the whole planet.

  17. "Bill Godbout was one of the earliest and most influential supports of the S-100 bus in the mid-1970s."

    Most machines of that time were using little bits of plastic or even metal supports, so he was really thinking outside the box. Or maybe /. needs editors that know how to edit.

  18. Pretty well the first criticism of C++ was that it lacked automatic garbage collection and proper array objects (or any objects at all, really). How long ago was that?

  19. Go fuck yourself.

    Thanks.

  20. Re:Pulling your assumptions out your arse. on Better 'Nowcasting' Can Reveal What Weather is About To Hit Within 500 Meters (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    You presume that because that is what you WANT to be true. It isn't. Instead of assuming, go fucking test. It requires work and ill show you you are wrong, neither of which you want to accept so will not put the effort in to.

    I think you've posted to the wrong thread. This is an argument; you probably wanted "abuse".

  21. Re:Interesting Thing About Tariffs on 'Why PC Builders Should Stock Up on Components Now' (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Remove the barriers to competition and let the free market sort it out. This isn't a something the government should be meddling with.

    If your government isn't meddling in (i.e., defending) human rights then you need a new government. Check your Declaration of Independence for details.

  22. Absolutely. And I suspect that is the source of the claim in the post - it's based on areas with relatively predictable weather. The UK sits on the meeting point of at least three major weather systems (Atlantic, Arctic, and Continental European) and is much harder to predict than, say, Kansas.

  23. Re:Interesting Thing About Tariffs on 'Why PC Builders Should Stock Up on Components Now' (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    No local sources for PC cases? Are you living on Rockall?

  24. Re:Interesting Thing About Tariffs on 'Why PC Builders Should Stock Up on Components Now' (pcmag.com) · · Score: 2

    Even if you support tariffs against China for their poor regulations and human rights these tariffs are stupid. It costs billions of dollars to make a new chip foundry. Do you seriously think anyone will build one in America before the president after Trump (whether that's in 2020 or 2024) undoes these tariffs?

    Well, if you support tariffs against China for their poor regulations and human rights maybe you should vote for the candidate who won't undo those tariffs.

  25. Not written by a Brit on Better 'Nowcasting' Can Reveal What Weather is About To Hit Within 500 Meters (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    "It's not unusual to get 10-day forecasts with a reasonable level of accuracy"

    A UK 10-day forecast consists of the words "The sun is likely to come up; you may or may not be able to see it."

    5-day forecasts are generally little better than flipping a coin to see whether it will rain or not. 3-day isn't too bad and 1-day forecasts are reasonably good for much of the summer and winter; in spring and autumn they're pretty rough.

    None of which prevents the Met Office from showing weather maps with a ludicrous level of precision completely unmatched by their accuracy.