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  1. I have an idea on China Claims Tests of 'Reactionless' EM Drive Were Successful (popsci.com) · · Score: 2

    So you flip the switch and it goes that way but we have no idea why. I say strap it to a spaceship. That's good enough for me.

  2. Completely stupid on Samsung Could Look To LG For Phone Batteries After Note 7 Debacle (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The batteries weren't defective. Them not leaving room for expansion in the battery cells crushed them until they shorted and that causes thermal runaway. So no matter who makes the battery, they need to design the phone to have the battery expand.

  3. Scientists resistant to something with solid evidence because they don't like being wrong about their incorrect knowledge of how subatomic particle work? YOU DON'T SAY! Through the last 200+ years, scientists have had the cycle of someone saying they're wrong, they resist it, then it's proven right, and they look like stubborn and very unscientific idiots then repeat the cycle. This time around it's even funnier considering we have next to no idea how radioactive decay really works or even seemingly random subatomic particle type changes. I don't think we're even 100% on how isotopes form in the first place. But nooooo, let's shun this "new" science because it's scary and doesn't match what I learned in college. Scientists are soooo unreasonable.

  4. You know why everything Facebook launches is a flop? Because everyone hates them. Cisco has a reputation for costing waaaaaaay the hell too much money for basically everything. So why would anyone let them hold their data hostage for whatever price they demand?

  5. I have an idea on Windows 10 Update Broke DHCP, Knocked Users Off the Internet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll just go online and download the patch...ohhh waaaaait.
    I run a computer repair company and saw this on 2 customer's computers. The fix was inconsistent too. Some responded to ipconfig commands, some didn't.

  6. Maybe I'm remembering this incorrectly but hasn't AMD made basically nothing for the PC since Vishera, or those 220W monster versions of the Vishera CPUs. It's been like 2-3 years or something. How did they go that long without releasing anything?!

  7. Lol no, that's not it on Why China Can't Lure Tech Talent (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The very first thing I ask myself when I apply to a new IT position is "can I breathe the air and drink the water in that city?"
    In China, that answer is no. Also you'll get arrested for doing basically anything. That's a bit of a downside as well.

  8. here's a rule proposal for you on Fossil Fuel Divestment Has Doubled In the Last 15 Months (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Why the hell is it still legal in the US to invest in and own securities based on oil as a commodity. There are exempt items that are deemed too important to have investors screwing with the prices. If I remember one example, it's this little heard of product called food. So why not make it illegal to invest in physical oil or gasoline itself on markets? That'd overnight reduce gas prices, which of course would do nothing to promote green technologies but still.

  9. well duh on PC Market Shows Signs of Recovery (betanews.com) · · Score: 0

    First of all, I sell custom desktops and this is absolutely true. Second, ORLY?!?! People are finally finding out that tablets are slow, unreliable, unrepairable garbage that you can't type on and have self-destructing batteries and the TCO is higher than a desktop over 7 years? I NEVER WOULD HAVE GUESSED! By that I mean I never would have guessed that people would pull their heads out of their asses, not that tablets suck. I always knew tablets sucked.

  10. anyone know this? on India Unveils the World's Largest Solar Power Plant (aljazeera.com) · · Score: 1

    So it cost a good fraction of a billion dollars BUT it's a magical machine that basically spits out money so who cares? Except, does anyone know how long a modern solar panel like the one they'd be using lasts before it expires or degrades or whatever? Or even what the overall maintenance expense is? Because to me solar panels seem like a class AAA rated bond on steroid when it comes to ROI.

  11. Re:The "Mil-Lean-eum" Tower on San Francisco's 58-Story Millennium Tower Seen Sinking From Space (sfgate.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    And is anyone surprised this happened in San Francisco? It's sort of feminist snow plowing 2.0 from equally moronic liberals.

  12. Orly? on WHO: Zika No Longer a World Health Emergency (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Did they ever find out if there was any validity to the claim that Zika has been around for a long time but only recently is being accused of causing birth defects when in reality it's some pesticide or something?

  13. correction on Is Technology A Bigger Story Than Donald Trump? (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    The web of red tape and do-nothing government design is bigger than Donald Trump if I had to specifically pick one thing.

  14. Apple still doesn't have ANYTHING that even comes close to CUDA support and it's been what, like 10 years? I remember when Apple threw up the brick wall to Nvidia then when they invented CUDA, sued them for not making it run on Apple. Ever since the invention of CUDA, Apple is a joke for editing videos. Open CL is a joke. The lack of hardware controls is a joke. Here, you want an apples to apples comparison (no pun intended)? Take however much that overhyped piece of shit costs then build a custom PC for that amount of money and then we'll see what's faster. It'd probably have RAIDed SSDs, M2 SSDs, and a 32GB RAM drive with 32GB usable RAM.

  15. So he called out corporations and their leaders for shady crap that they are in fact actually doing then they responded with lies about innovation and other bullshit to cover it while acting like 2 year olds throwing a tantrum. Yes, California's overtaxed, hyper-liberal welfare state and its massive debt should get the hell out of the USA. Then we'd never have a democratic president ever again. Great idea.

  16. great idea on Facebook Threatens LinkedIn With Job Opening Features (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, please let all the stupid people associate their Facebook account with thousands of pics of them drunk off their ass with their job app so I can not hire them.

  17. Scientists claim to be all about logic and reason and testing and evidence and then they deny something when it's right in front of their face because it doesn't mesh with what can only be called their particular belief system. Absolute lunacy.

  18. better idea on UK Auto Insurer Will Use Facebook Data To Set Premium (thestack.com) · · Score: 0

    Just give them an IQ test and get it over with. That's basically the same thing in a high percentage of cases.

  19. Did you know that there are different kinds of webpages?

  20. This depends on what country's laws you use to compare it. A long time ago I saw a screenshot of an alleged dark web index type thing and a lot of the site descriptions were like survival instructions in case of a government martial law type situation and bomb-making instructions. Neither of those are technically illegal in the US I think but they would be in a ton of other countries. A lot of stuff appeared to be very borderline but then again it wasn't an extensive list.

  21. Yeah, Hillary will go to prison over her emails. That's the impending cyber crisis.

  22. Netflix isn't Hollywood so nobody knows anyone or owes anyone anything. They HAVE TO succeed so they make sure the actors and writers and directors actually know what they're doing. So in other words it's the opposite of "This Is The End," which was a pile of Hollywood favor garbage.

  23. The same as Apple 20 years ago on More NFL Players Attack Microsoft's $400M Surface Deal With The NFL (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember when Apple sold massively discounted computers to school districts back in the day so kids would get used to using them and want something familiar at home? Then of course they were so crash-prone and awful that kids wanted anything other than what they used at school. It looks like MS is adopting the same strategy. I won't discount the lack of technical skills of players and coaches though.

  24. Not if you're a dumb ass Apple customer it won't.
    It needed to be said.

  25. With relativity, it will actually stay accurate for 0 seconds relative to all other mass.