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  1. Re:I hope they just let him go on Wikileaks Co-founder Julian Assange Arrested in London (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    He's not going to be extradited to Russia or Saudi Arabia, so no.

  2. Re: I hope they just let him go on Wikileaks Co-founder Julian Assange Arrested in London (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    In under 2 dozen words you've shown yourself to be a whataboutist complicit with a bail jumping rapist.

  3. I’m a hardcore Network Neutrality supporter & I really wish NN was a single Issue that would get people to change Who they vote for but it isn’t. Without sufficient Senate support this bill is completely useless grandstanding and affects no-one but ineffectual cheerleaders.

  4. Re:Don't kid yourself on Does India's Anti-Satellite Missile Test Mean The Weaponization of Space? (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah those Russians certainly held back from deploying weapons in space

  5. Re:After reboot and following prompts its fine now on macOS 10.14.4 Mail Client Has Broken Gmail Access For Some Users (apple.com) · · Score: 1

    My only gmail account is for stuff I don't much care about losing & I don't use Google's SAAS stuff so I never setup 2FA. Absolutely no issues after upgrading.

  6. If it’s as trivial as you claim, you (or anyone else) should be able to buy a pair of AirPods and mod them so the battery is replaceable in the screwed in tail — without compromising the weight, breaking the recharging function, making sure the battery has as reliable a connection as it’s current soldered in connection, breaking the tap detection, degrading the microphone at the end of the tail or making the AirPods overly fragile and likely to break at your new screw interface.

    But that’s not going to happen because your “trivial” mod is _much_ more complicated than you claimed because the are all the other constraints you glossed over. Nobody wants AirPods that refuse to charge, easily break, have poorer mic function, no longer react when tapped and weigh twice as much and/or have a tail twice as long so they fall out easier.

    I prefer intra-auricular earphones so AirPods are not for me but your claimed “trivial” mod is bunk.

  7. Re:No rain? on Mars Had Big Rivers For Billions of Years, Study Suggests (space.com) · · Score: 1

    The word "Most" in this context only means over 50%, not 99%.

    The top of Mt Everest has less than a third of the atmospheric pressure at sea level and liquid water can be present if warm enough.

    Thus it is entirely plausible for water to have flowed on Mars after it had lost most of it's atmosphere (but before it lost to the point it is presently).

  8. Re:Petrol Station on French Gas Stations Robbed After Forgetting To Change Gas Pump PINs (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    No it’s not, it’s a Station d’Essence, just like it says in the linked Parisien article. That Total publishes Brit oriented marketing materials does not force translators in the USA to use UK expressions. — let me guess: You voted Brexit, right?

  9. No, Hopefully what they will be abandoning is the hugely expensive launcher and capsule that senator Shelby Has been forcing NASA to use as a means of shoveling tens of billions of pork to his constituants. If NASA were able to at last abandon the go-nowhere jobs programs called SLS & Orion — and if they used an equivalent amount of funding, missions to the moon would indeed be possible.

    The problem is Shelbly.

  10. Re:Totally disrepectful to the earth on First-of-Its-Kind US Nuclear Waste Dump Marks 20 Years (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I would imagine it saying

    You imagining that the Earth is saying anything is the point where you lost contact with reality.

  11. Re:Totally disrepectful to the earth on First-of-Its-Kind US Nuclear Waste Dump Marks 20 Years (apnews.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Manufactured or not, the PU is not more dangerous than the U that it was produced from and as GPP correctly stated the production consumed a significant amount of the U. Natural != innocuous & man-made != poisonous to those who are not attempting to draw over-simplistic conclusions.

  12. Re: Totally disrepectful to the earth on First-of-Its-Kind US Nuclear Waste Dump Marks 20 Years (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    You cannot have it both ways. The shorter the half-life the less time it needs to be stored to become innocuous.

    The nature of half-lives makes the materials rapidly less radioactive. Half is gone in the first period, a quarter in the second, etc. The longer half-lived isotopes draw out the period these materials should be isolated but all the shorter lived materials will have been long been degraded before the 200000 years some are claiming.

  13. My apologies: You meant RT=Rotten Tomatoes. I'm used to trolls trying to use another RT as a reference.
    Sorry for that.

  14. Using RT as a reference automatically gets you classed as someone who doesn't care about being taken seriously in any case.

  15. Only superficially. 75% of 75kWH != 100% of 75kWH in terms of range and performance, and 75% of 100kWH will have a longer lifetime as well. That just leaves your wanting to get a freebie 25kWH which you attempt to justify with "because I want".

  16. Why? Do you? Do you also pay him to post obtuse remarks here on /.?

    As I noted earlier there are legitimate reasons for people to prefer buying the 75kWH capacity that is delivered in a 100kWH package that are not nullified by your wanting a freebie 25kWH upgrade.

  17. Teens with Teslas are already pretty uncommon.

    Teens with Teslas and sufficient knowledge to start mucking around with the car's internal systems without the Tesla shutting down due to unsigned & unrecognized code or know how to get around these checks are going to be exceptionally rare. Not all teens are Bunny Huang (who isn't a teenager anymore either).

  18. Not all ICE cars driven today have a smog-check certificate or ECU's that control ABS or airbags. However, all Tesla's have computers that go much further, controlling the steering, acceleration and _all_ braking, not just ABS & airbags. I'll agree with you that mucking around the computers of ICE cars with computer controlled security features can be a bad idea but with the computers being the heart of Teslas critical driving functions, people doing so approach Darwin Award levels of poor judgement because they can undermine so many of them.

  19. Those purchasing the 75kWH batteries are getting batteries that will last much longer and get 25kWH upgrades in case of emergencies like hurricanes.

    Unlocking the latent capacity permanently is simplicity itself: Pay for the 25kWH upgrade -- Oh but you want it for free... Do you still want a pony too?

  20. You know whats even cooler? Licking your fingers & sticking them in an electrical socket. You should do that right away! Better yet, throw yourself off a multi-story building face first! Nobody cares if it's dangerous, it's cool so you gotta do it...

  21. Changing the injection profile of a ICE car has a very circumcised impact and does not have the same security risks as mucking around the same computers that control the steering acceleration and braking on a Tesla. Do you also play with matches and wonder how people die in building fires?

  22. Re:math not needed on Bees Can Solve Math Problems With Addition and Subtraction · · Score: 2

    I agree that the small sample size is no proof of any malign intent, however, the tiny sample size with no explanation of why the sample size is so small, the use of graphics instead of presenting the raw data and the fact that they never appear to have considered memory being sufficient to explain the results without any claims that "bees can add/subtract" are all worrying signs that the study is worthless.

  23. math not needed on Bees Can Solve Math Problems With Addition and Subtraction · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Memorization of the correct and incorrect answers is all that is needed for the described (too small of a sample size to be considered an) "experiment".

    How far /. has fallen...

  24. Re:Wait before you draw conclusions on US, China Take the Lead in Race For AI: UN (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Gitmo isn't imprisoning "people that the USG does not like". Gitmo is imprisoning extremist terrorists that were foreign combatants that believed in unrestrained terrorist acts against almost every government & people on earth. Even so, almost all of those imprisoned in Gitmo have been released back into their own government's care -- except for the 40 hardest core & those who the USG believes would be summarily executed.

    TFA is about using patents as a means of comparing research which is meaningless when China only enforces "their" patents and ignore everyone else's. That's not anti-Chinese, it's anti-oppressive chinese government.

    Speaking of hypocrisy & double standards, in which prisons would you be disappeared to were you to be Uigur or Tibetan or even a HAN student and expressing your opposition to one-party rule and wanting to vote for open elections? Yeah, that's right, in those Chinese prisons that harvest organs off of the imprisoned. Yeah for you it's better to crush your opposition under tank treads the Tien An Men way and disappear them rather than document them the way the U.S. has.

    You're an apologist for the dictators and oppressors.
    Bye troll-boy.

  25. Re:Wait before you draw conclusions on US, China Take the Lead in Race For AI: UN (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    China also has laws guaranteeing human rights but Tien an Men and their well known "selective enforcement" of their laws _for_ those in power and _against_ dissidents and barbarians (non-Han) prove, those "laws" are of vanishingly small use.

    East Texas was a zealous enforcer of _bad_ patents. Thankfully the USSC's ruling in Oil States Energy Services LLC vs Green's Energy Group and other recent decisions has nerfed most of those going forward.

    China enforces those laws that those in power chose to enforce against those it wants to and ignores the rest.

    Now before you go all whataboutist with the US internment of Japanese US citizens and Kent State and Trump and whatever, The U.S. either made those mistakes in the past or they are being countered by the rule of law -- something which still exists here but not in china.

    So sorry for you that _another_ chinese citizen was picked up for spying on Apple's autonomous vehicle with the intent to sell it to the chinese company he intended to work for.