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  1. Don't count your chickens on A Mass of Copyrighted Works Will Soon Enter the Public Domain (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    they still have 6 months to legislate an extension.

  2. Guglielmo Marconi made this in the 1920s on The Pentagon's Ray Gun Can Stall Cars (defenseone.com) · · Score: 1

    and it was strong enough to mess with a car's magneto. Normally I would take this sort of thing with a grain of salt, but my great grandma saw it in action.

  3. Already in production on Autonomous Boats Will Be On the Market Sooner Than Self-Driving Cars (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    eTrac Engineering has been using my system in and around the SF bay since 2008. Since we're talking about innovation, hey, did you hear about bitcoin?

  4. Re:Bigger and better on Original 'System Shock' Code Open Sourced, More Updates Promised (kickstarter.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that for some reason investors don't like a kickstarter campaign that surpasses the goal and then delivers the product with no fuss. That was my experience anyway. I was told "Well, then anyone who wanted one already got one and there's no point in entering production on a larger scale".

  5. But does it report back to the CIA? on Researchers Test Tooth-Mounted Sensor-Enabled Chips (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting to see an old conspiracy theory chestnut to become technically feasible.

  6. Yes, otherwise the pointy haired boss wins.

  7. How do you cut residential wifi? on Bali Plans To Switch Off Internet Services For 24 Hours For New Year 'Quiet Reflection' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    are they going to send people to tell residents to unplug their routers?

  8. Re:Easy fix... just meet! on EPA's Science Advisory Board Has Not Met in 6 Months (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    That's the kind of shenanigans that is really easy to defeat, though. You file an intent to meet, you meet a few days later, you file the minutes for the meeting. The meeting has officially happened and any attempts to deny it would look foolish and not stand scrutiny. At the local level this happens all the time.

  9. Easy fix... just meet! on EPA's Science Advisory Board Has Not Met in 6 Months (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    William Schlesinger and others in the advisory board have a list of people who are on said advisory board, presumably. This list contains contact info, presumably, or conversely the members are well known enough (to one another, at least) that contact info is easy to retrieve, presumably. Send some emails, make some calls, decide on when everyone has time, and schedule a meeting. It can be done in person or via teleconference, most of these people are academics and will have access to decent bandwidth. If a quorum is reached without Pruitt or the political appointees, tough cookies for them, they should've done their job. This is an easy solution that requires literally minutes of time and maybe tens of dollars from everyone involved.

  10. "Fountains of the deep" on Pockets of Water May Lay Deep Below Earth's Surface (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    I wonder how long it'll take for this to make the rounds on creationist websites, and similar silliness.

  11. No worries. We got Jeff Goldblum, Will Smith, and pre-Macbook Apple laptops.... ... for a few years more. OK, start worrying.

  12. Re:A look from the trenches on How Does Chinese Tech Stack Up Against American Tech? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My experience is that it's tough to compete. Not so much because of costs, but because for example my stuff has to be FDA compliant, and theirs doesn't, and they get away with advertising peak power as constant power (or just "forgetting" an extra zero in the product description) and I don't. I'm against tariffs, per se, but it would be great to see more false advertising enforcement.

  13. A look from the trenches on How Does Chinese Tech Stack Up Against American Tech? · · Score: 2

    I am the only US manufacturer of solid state laser cutters, and have to deal with Chinese competition daily. AMA.

  14. Re:pish GAY NIGGER WAS THE BEST DOCTR WHO on Tom Baker Returns To Finish Shelved Doctor Who Episodes Penned By Douglas Adams (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    I'm amazed that this is still going after 20 years, IRC server and all. Seriously I'm not even mad.

  15. Call your congressman on FCC Plans December Vote To Kill Net Neutrality Rules (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Mine is pro net neutrality already.

  16. Didn't they make a movie about this in the 80s?

  17. Re: your sig, Dr. Godwin has said that it's okay.

  18. Re:Prison is for more than just violent people on Net Neutrality Rollback Faces New Criticism From US Congress -- And 16 Million Comments (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    How to deal with people like Bernie Madoff? Have him live on minimum wage. Regardless of what job he actually ends up doing, he only gets to take home $5.75 an hour. Everything else goes to reparations to his victims. Oh, and he has to live within those means, too.

  19. Possibly the wrong audience on YouTube Stars Defend Net Neutrality In Open Letter To the FCC (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Right now, the country is being run by old people. They may or may not have any idea why Youtube content producers are a big deal. They are more likely to recognize "old media" stars.

  20. Re: Nielsen hasn't figured this trick out by now? on TV Networks Hide Bad Ratings With Typos, Report Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Old people. They tend to have disposable income.

  21. Will it come with a 3DO emulator? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  22. Re:not a government issue on A Colorado Group Wants To Ban Smartphones For Kids (apnews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If everyone is "socially maladjusted", then it's society that has evolved in a certain direction, like it or not.

  23. Given the cohesiveness, skills, and interests of the KSP community, I'd give better odds to Take Two's office building taking an orbital kinetic strike than to KSP not surviving.

  24. Kerbal Space Program on GTA V Flooded With Negative Reviews On Steam After OpenIV Modding Tool Shuts Down (kotaku.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Take Two just bought Kerbal Space Program. Are they going to try to put a stop to KSP modding? Would Take Two even survive that?

  25. Re:Illegal treaty. on Elon Musk Joins CEOs Calling For US To Stay in Paris Climate Deal (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sovern? Wow, it's the second new word I learn today. Can you use it in a sentence with covfefe?