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  1. Russian trolls are everywhere these days. It wouldn't surprise me if his officially state sanctioned atlas was missing the Baltic states entirely.

  2. Re:Which billionaire is funding this one? on 'New California' Movement Wants To Create a 51st State (wqad.com) · · Score: 1

    Splitting California's electoral votes is a right wing wet dream.

    Unfortunately for them when they wake up, New California is still a Blue state when you run the numbers, so this attempt to gerrymander the electoral college is doomed to failure.

  3. Re:Router, printer, NAS, and other FQDNless device on Mozilla Restricts All New Firefox Features To HTTPS Only (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    The straw man here is your imaginary world in which "off-the-shelf equipment handles this stuff automatically for him"

  4. Re:Router, printer, NAS, and other FQDNless device on Mozilla Restricts All New Firefox Features To HTTPS Only (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure my 82 year old father in-law will have no problem registering his own domain name, configuring public and private DNS servers and setting up his acme-dns client. Thanks for making life easier for him.

  5. Re:The supposed reason... on LAPD Is Not Using the Electric BMWs It Announced In 2016 (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    Electric cars have far more torque than petrol cars and a lower center of gravity, so in city chases, they would perform better. By the time the supect gets on the highway, the backup will be there.

  6. Re:Wait: A policemen used a police car to get lunc on LAPD Is Not Using the Electric BMWs It Announced In 2016 (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    It's only costing $15 per mile because they are not using them the rest of the time they aren't fetching lunch.

  7. Re:Wait: A policemen used a police car to get lunc on LAPD Is Not Using the Electric BMWs It Announced In 2016 (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but give them a BMW, and they start getting their lunch from fancy-pants foreign chains. Think of the devastating effect on Dunkin Donuts. That is improper.

  8. Re:Router, printer, NAS, and other FQDNless device on Mozilla Restricts All New Firefox Features To HTTPS Only (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    And this helps home routers how?

  9. Re:Router, printer, NAS, and other FQDNless device on Mozilla Restricts All New Firefox Features To HTTPS Only (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    The manufacturer of "every cable modem, WAP, router, printer, switch, AP, IoT device, etc" will include an ACME client (or some other means of renewing a certificate) in the software package that runs the web server in said device.

    Does letsencrypt.org issue certificates for private IP addresses now? Most such devices limit their configuration interface to the internal facing interfaces.

  10. Re:FTFY on The Human Cost of the Apple Supply Chain Machine (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Because there probably aren't that many places they can earn 4000 yuan a month doing work that requires minimal skill. Minimum wage in Shanghai this year is 2300.

  11. You're going to wait until they are 12? My son's school started sex-ed from 4th grade (before that, the younger classes get taught about rights to control your own body and coming forward if others violate that).

  12. Re:Airbus didn't predict the rise of the big twins on Airbus A380, Once the Future of Aviation, May Cease Production (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The data shows that Airbus has grown from 1/5 the market size of Boeing in the 1980s to about the same in the 2000s and 2010s. It also shows that 222 A380s have been sold already and there is a backlog of 95 more, so it is still possible that they at least make their development costs back without having to rely on A320 sales to subsidize it. It certainly doesn't show that ending A380 production early will ruin the company.

  13. Re:Airbus didn't predict the rise of the big twins on Airbus A380, Once the Future of Aviation, May Cease Production (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I suspect there's a fair bit of selective memory involved here. If Boeing did not believe there was a market, why did they scramble to develop the 747-8 in response to the A380? They could have just squeezed more life out of what they had and left Airbus to their fate.

  14. Re:Essentially a human problem on Airbus A380, Once the Future of Aviation, May Cease Production (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Will this be like the old Auckland to Vancouver route, where they had to fly the plane (747 in those days) half empty to make the distance?

  15. Re:Essentially a human problem on Airbus A380, Once the Future of Aviation, May Cease Production (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Boeing bet big on the niche flight model - airlines operating flights out of smaller airports near where the big hubs are.

    Both companies bet on this. Boeing already had a jumbo, and at the same time as the A380 they were working on a bigger version - the 747-8. Both companies also have smaller planes such as the 777, 787, A330 and A350.

  16. Re: Don't be merely evil! on Google Brings Map Service Back To China (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    Their motto wasn't "don't break the law" it was "don't do evil"

    Actually it was "Don't, BE evil".

  17. Re:General lesson - same problem as the Concorde on Airbus A380, Once the Future of Aviation, May Cease Production (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Given that the number one aircraft in longhaul service at the time the A380 launched was the 747-400, don't you think you are rewriting history a bit with your opinion that there was no business case?

  18. Re:General lesson - same problem as the Concorde on Airbus A380, Once the Future of Aviation, May Cease Production (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    It costs no more to fly on an A380 than a B777. The "luxury" models were promotional concepts that Airbus thought up, most are 80% cattle class 19% Business.

  19. Re:Fleeting popularity . . . on Which JavaScript Framework is the Most Popular? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Looking at the figures (0.05%, 0.1%, 0.02%) the correct answer to the headline seems to be none. They are all decidedly unpopular.

  20. Re:With a few minor exceptions on Why the World Only Has Two Words For Tea (qz.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    To me it seems that even "te" and "cha" are so similar when pronounced that both would have the same word originally.

    The clue is in TFS. Cha is the Standard (Mandarin) Chinese word. The same Chinese character is pronounced te in the Hokkien dialect spoken in Fujian and Taiwan where the Dutch traders were taking tea to Europe from. What is interesting is that the Japanese is also cha. Most other Chinese words seem to have come to Japanese from the Hokkien pronunciation (ie up through Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands).

  21. Re:Talk about a captive audience on GM Will Make an Autonomous Car Without Steering Wheel or Pedals By 2019 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    ... Sit in big city rush hour traffic for hours?

    So basically no perceptible change then.

  22. Self parking was one of the first autonomous features available in production cars. It all happens at low speeds, and simply stopping if any input is unexpected is an option. In confined spaces, cameras and sonar are far more essential than GPS.

  23. I vote for the candidate and not the party.

    Mixed Member Proportional representation lets you do both. You vote for a candidate to represent your area, and usually you get a completely separate vote for a party which goes towards allocating how many seats the party will get. I say usually, because there are one or two places where this system is used that automatically allocate the party vote to the local representative's party, but the separate votes are important in cases where the local candidate for your preferred party is a complete arsehole, or the local candidate for the party you don't prefer is actually a good candidate that will do a lot for your community.

    The downside is that the parties control who goes into the extra spots to pad out the numbers to make them proportional, so some politicians end up being not directly elected by the people - in the US there are party primaries, so voters can at least influence this, but in general the pool of voters in primaries is much smaller, and the exact rules for primaries are made up by the party themselves. But this downside is also true to a greater extent for pure proportional representation with no local representation, which is the most popular system worldwide.

  24. You seem to be arguing for a mixed member proportional system - where the overall representation for the state is proportional, but individual districts have local representation. Some percentage of the representatives are local representatives, the rest are party representatives to make up the proportions. The main problem with this is that it allows unpopular career politicians (aka the swamp) to remain in Congress/Senate, since they are not directly elected individually, but carried through by their party to make up the numbers.

  25. Re:Older Chips? on Intel Says Chip-Security Fixes Leave PCs No More Than 10% Slower (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I have an almost 4 year old Sandy Bridge server which I updated 2 days ago to Ubuntu Linux kernel 4.4.0-108 and it still hasn't rebooted. That is just a tad more than a 10% slowdown.