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  1. Called it 2 doctors ago... on Doctor Who's 13th Time Lord Announced: Actress Jodie Whittaker (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...And I'll call this one for the record: next will be a minority, the following one will be transgender.
    There will never again be a white, male Dr Who.

  2. Of course the results are biased on Artificial Intelligence Has Race, Gender Biases (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    ...most criminals are men.
    Isn't that simply TRUE?

  3. Re:Of course, the utility is limited when... on The Audi A8: First Production Car To Achieve Level 3 Autonomy (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    That should be enough, really. :)

  4. Riiight.... on EFF Officially Appeals Tim Berners-Lee Decision On DRM In HTML (techdirt.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "EME offers a better user experience"

    Is this like one of those "up is down" or "black is white" postmodern things?

    Because as far as I can tell, EME seems more like a scheme to lock DRM into browsers ?

    Or am I misunderstanding?

  5. Re:Of course, the utility is limited when... on The Audi A8: First Production Car To Achieve Level 3 Autonomy (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    ....because the other thing the Germans are famous for?

    A complete lack of a sense of humor.

  6. Of course, the utility is limited when... on The Audi A8: First Production Car To Achieve Level 3 Autonomy (ieee.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... the Germans will *still* order it with a manual transmission.

    Because you HAVE to have a manual transmission if you're a real driver.

  7. it's not a geopolitical game.... on Kaspersky Lab Says It Has Become Pawn in US-Russia Geopolitical Game (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    It's not a GEOpolitical game between the US and Russia.

    It's a POLITICAL game between the US media and the president they despise.

    The current climate of Red-Baiting media is hilarious or pathetic, when one considers the great lengths the media went to excoriate McCarthy for his seeing 'reds under every bed'.

    Putin's precisely the same flavor of Russian tyrannical leader that they've had since, well, the Czars, no matter what the theme of the day has been (eg monarchical or communist or post-communist...). NOTHING new there. He ACTUALLY *invaded* and occupied/occupies a neighboring country...and this got LESS press coverage in the US than the Red-Scare bullshit of today. That it happened during Obama's watch might have had something to do with it.

    And yes, the idea that Kaspersky has never worked for/with the Russian intel agencies is as unbelievable as the idea that McAfee or Norton have never worked for/with the NSA/CIA/FBI. That's why this is *nothing* news.

  8. Re:A photon is not an "object" on First Object Teleported From Earth To Orbit (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Photon: (waves)

  9. Re:Washington Policy Center on Seattle City Council Unanimously Approves Income Tax For the Rich (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Just because they say it, doesn't mean they're wrong. That said, I see no mention of the word income in the whole WA state constitution.

  10. ...either the city council are made to look foolish when it's found unconstitutional after many piles of city money are spent fighting in court.

    Or, failing that, the "rich" move like 2 miles thataway into another city.

    And what will the result be?

    Loss of property tax income to the city of Seattle, as fewer high-rollers will want to live there, depressing prices of the highest-value properties.

    I think it would be hilarious if the city had to cut funding for the indigent because of this.

  11. It sounds like a good chip; does AMD still have a heat-intolerance problem? Dunno if that's ancient history now, but as my systems end up running in rather warm environments, Intel's downstepping (rather than frying) when over-warm was really a fantastic feature.

  12. Really? Where are you?

    NPR says about 11cents for MN average.
    http://www.npr.org/sections/mo...
    (ok that was 2011)

    According to Xcel energy themselves: https://www.xcelenergy.com/sta...

    Energy charge per kWh:
    On-peak time
    June through September $0.20077
    October through May $0.16454
    October through May with electric space heating $0.10912
    Off-peak time:
    All months $0.03015

  13. Now they have. I'm -1 Troll. :)

    It's like a badge of honor, here.

  14. Re:not really like that on Former Oculus Exec Predicts Telepathy Within 10 Years (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    But what was the *dead salmon* thinking, Mary Lou?

    http://blogs.discovermagazine....

  15. If... on State Prison Officials Blame An Escape On Drones And Cellphones (usatoday.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    If a drone can fly over the fence and drop tools to a prisoner, how intrinsically different is that than basically THROWING the tools over the fence?

    Sure the drone is a lot more accurate, but heck of a lot noisier too.

    I smell excuse-hunting here; this guy already escaped them once (how is it that every jackass with a DWI can get an ankle monitor, yet a prisoner IDENTIFIED as a successful escapee doesn't have one?). On the second escape, they're looking harder to CYA than to find him.

  16. No, but I do think it's entirely possible that the company that is building the panels is getting billions in subsidies, that equates to thousands per panel, sure. (Or other billions are being dumped into other firms that are part of the production chain upstream of your retail purchase.)

    Don't think government would be that stupid? I do, particularly in pursuit of politically-motivated eco goals like:

    http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/2... cash for clunkers, where the U.S.government spent $24000 per car to give people $4500 rebates

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik... - a half-billion dollar dunno into renewables for fuck-all result.

    And before you go after the source of the information in the original item about subsidies, understand that the data came from the Washington Times...an organization quite a bit more credible than...well, you.

    In your specific example, it's made in China...one might further calculate the astonishingly low pay rates in China as a subsidy, knowing the Chinese government is more about keeping people employed than making a capitalist-style profit. Hell, Sunforce might be owned by the PLA as far as we know.

  17. bullshit on World's Cheapest Energy Source Will Be Renewables Within Three Years (qz.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    You cannot subsidize renewables at 400x other sources, and then claim they're "cheaper".

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/20...

    According to the WT, coal gets subsidies to the tune of about 50 cents per megawatt hour of production. Solar gets $230 per megawatt hour of production, or about 460x the subsidy.

    That idea that renewables will be cheaper than coal is simply politically motivated bullshit.

  18. Re:Age of Consent on Oregon Raises the Smoking Age (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    No, because the willingness of young people to do stupid crap and be easily led is useful to a country as military drones.

    More logically, it should suggest that the voting age should be raised to 21 however. I'm sure we'll have the Clintons support on that one.

  19. Re:The audiophile's choice in phones on RED Launches a $1,200 Smartphone With a 'Hydrogen Holographic Display' (phonedog.com) · · Score: 1

    You'd think at $1500 per cable, they could afford spell-check:

    "...
    Triple-Balanced Geomtery
    Proper ground-reference conductor prevents using the shield as an inferior ground-reference conductor.
    "

    Yeah.

  20. PUBLICLY AVAILABLE data, people on Privacy Watchdog Sues Trump's Election Committee Over Voter Data (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.npr.org/sections/th...

    "The letter, sent Wednesday to all 50 states, requests that all publicly available voter roll data be sent to the White House..."

    They're asking for otherwise-PUBLICLY AVAILABLE information. They're not asking for secret stuff (why would the states have that anyway?).

    Isn't it getting a little tiresome to misinterpret everything Trump does as malignantly as possible?

  21. They never learn on Google May Face Another Record EU Fine, This Time Over Android (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    You'd think after Venezuela companies would learn that it's risky doing business in an area where a socialist government sees their earnings simply as a piggy-bank to be raided whenever their own shitty economic fallacies collapse? When the kleptocracy says "they have many billions, they won't miss a few" it's time to take your toys and go home.

    Ultimately, such economies are going to have to face that either they play nice with the rest of the world, or the end result is that they're going to be shut out and have to depend on their local crappy replacements for the goods and services no longer available to them from better companies elsewhere in the world. Galileo: only 33 years after GPS! Quaero instead of Google. Nokia instead of iPhone or Samsung. Sailfish instead of Android? Enjoy.

  22. Re:Can't Blame Them on Amazon and eBay Images Broken By Photobucket's 'Ransom Demand' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, actually it isn't hard to blame them.
    First, it's a PHOTO SHARING site. So what precisely were people doing? Using it to host images.
    Second, it ran for years (a decade?) hosting images FOR FREE.
    Third, IIRC you have to provide an email to have an account, there is ZERO reason they couldn't send out ample, repeated warnings to people MONTHS in advance.

    To all, there are a TON of other photosharing sites like imageshack, imgur, etc. Abandon shitty photobucket and their $ demand.

  23. Re:rule of law on Court Blocks EPA Effort To Suspend Obama-Era Methane Rule (pbs.org) · · Score: 0

    So you believe that government agencies must follow the regulations they set out?

    OK, just to make sure you're intellectually consistent and not simply a political hypocrite, could you please link your post where you made the same point when the Obama-era immigration officials simply decided to 'not enforce' a number of immigration laws on the books? That seemed like a rather arbitrary, political abandonment of regulation without your stated "public debate"?

    Or when you posted against Mr Obama's rule-by-executive-order (which I don't recall having 'public comment, input, and published reasoning' periods) anytime in the latter 6 years of his presidency?

  24. Next test on Tylenol May Kill Kindness (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Is it just painkilling meds doing this?

    Is this result ALSO seen to any degree with say, aspirin, ibuprofen, etc?

    That's the real question.

  25. Re:Corporatism on Ends, Means, and Antitrust (stratechery.com) · · Score: 1

    First, you'd think someone whose been here a while would be more grown up than to toss around that bullshit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Second, to your actual point:
    https://mises.org/blog/poor-us...

    http://www.dailywire.com/news/...

    http://www.heritage.org/povert...

    "...The average "poor" American lives in a larger house or apartment than does the average West European (This is the average West European, not poor West Europeans). Poor Americans eat far more meat, are more likely to own cars and dishwashers, and are more likely to have basic modern amenities such as indoor toilets than is the general West European population.

    "Poor" Americans consume three times as much meat each year and are 40 percent more likely to own a car than the average Japanese. And the average Japanese is 22 times more likely to live without an indoor flush toilet than is a poor American...."