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  1. Re:Law Professor Explains Why Never Talk to Police on iPhone X Purchase Leads To Police, Battering Ram, and Handcuffs (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    This +1000, someone with mod points needs to upvote the parent. You do not talk to police, ever. Certainly not without your attorney present and definitely not without it being recorded. The police are not your friend. They do not want to help you out. They want to get a conviction and close a case.

  2. Re:Next up - Falcon Heavy!! on SpaceX Completes First Launch of 2018: Secretive 'Zuma' Spacecraft (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    NASA's "Space Launch System" (SLS) was commissioned in 2011 and scheduled for it's first flight in 2018. It's projected payload to low earth orbit is supposed to be 150,000-290,000 lb would be greater than the 140,700 payload of the Falcon Heavy to LEO. The maiden flight for the SLS is scheduled for no earlier than Dec 19, 2019, which translates to 2020 if they are lucky. The Falcon Heavy is set to fly THIS MONTH. The current competition for a Falcon Heavy is a Delta IV Heavy which is flight proven (9 launches) and can take 63,470 lb to low earth orbit.

  3. The US did not ratify the Paris Agrreement on 61 Mayors Commit To Adopt, Honor and Uphold Paris Climate Accord After US Pulls Out (curbed.com) · · Score: 0

    Congress never ratified the Paris Agreement. In fact, Obama never sent it to Congress for ratification. there is nothing to "withdraw" from...we were never in it.

  4. Rotten Tomatoes didn't stop DC Comics on Movie Studios Are Blaming Rotten Tomatoes For Killing Movies No One Wants To See (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    28% rotten Batman v Superman had horrible critical response and netted $330 US boxoffice $873 million worldwide.

    25% rotten Suicide Squad earned $325 million in the US and $725 million worldwide.

    The truth is that audiences will go see your movie if they want to regardless of the critics. Pirates has been on a steady decline since the first movie and no one really cares any longer and a raunchy adult comedy spin on Baywatch completely ignores why it was so popular in the first place.

  5. The US did not ratify the Paris Agrreement on The US Is the Biggest Carbon Polluter in History (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Technically, the US isn't a party to the Paris Agreement because Congress never ratified it.

  6. It's all in a slogan on Hillary Clinton Rips 'Bankrupt' DNC Data Operation (axios.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "I'm with Her" is what lost her this race. It highlights a self centered, corrupt, egoist. It was basically all about Hillary, Hillary, Hillary. "She's with me" would have been a far better slogan. Push a narrative that she is with the people and understand what the common person is going through. Instead of Hillary and her campaign shouting "Me, Me, Me", they should have been shouting "You, You, You"...and that's why Trump won the union states and beat Hillary. One would think that Bill Clinton's spouse would have gotten better advice. His "I understand your pain" approach in 1992 was as brilliant as Hillary's 2016 campaign was stupid.

  7. Something tells me the company didn't care what sort of damage they did to Patel's year end financials when they canned him. Turnabout and all that. Maybe next time the company will consider using something as simple as two factor authentication to make something like significantly more difficult.

  8. Why Now? on NSA Risks Talent Exodus Amid Morale Slump, Trump Fears (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    With Snowden and Binney and Drake before him...why now? It's not as if the stuff that these folks are being asked to do is changed in any appreciable way.

  9. Re:Musk as an advisor on Tesla's Battery Revolution Just Reached Critical Mass (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Tesla certainly does, SpaceX does not as their rockets fall under military arms regulations. My apologies for the imprecise grammar. https://www.inverse.com/articl... Although there are procedures to allow SpaceX to hire foreign workers, that would require permission from SecDef or SecState.

  10. Musk as an advisor on Tesla's Battery Revolution Just Reached Critical Mass (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that Elon Musk is one of Trumps economic advisors...not to mention with Tesla's entire manufacturing in the US, including the massive Gigafactory as well as SpaceX employing only American citizens...I'm pretty sure that Trump is getting a good amount of advice that isnt' just big oil.

  11. already exceeding expectations on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    He's been sworn in for almost an hour now and no nuclear war....exceeding expectations.

  12. Automated Writing on Half the Work People Do Can Be Automated, Says McKinsey (techinasia.com) · · Score: 2

    It's already happening. Some sports reporting has become automated! http://www.houstonpress.com/ne...

  13. Re:Couldn't secure financing? on The Flying Lily Camera Drone is Dead, Buyers Will Be Refunded (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    My guess, they a) couldn't get the price per unit low enough and b) folks looking at them didn't see the product that was advertised and didn't want to risk sitting on a bunch of unsold or returned inventory. It's easy to see there was a market there, which is why you can now buy quad copters with the functionality promised by Lily...but just because there is a market doesn't mean the Lily team had executed well enough to bring their product to market. Clearly, they had not.

  14. Re:64% blame Bush on Donald Trump To Tech Leaders: 'No Formal Chain Of Command' Here (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Bush inherited a growing economy" Fascinating. It's as if the recession that starting in March of 2001, just two months after Bush took office never happened. Glad to see Bush haters are "all-in" on fake news. It's a tribute to Bush that recession was so shallow and quick despite the attacks on 9/11. That said, there is no doubt that part of the response to that recession directly led to the recession that started in Dec 2007, so there is that.

  15. Re:Google, Motorola, Intel . . . on Every US Taxpayer Has Effectively Paid Apple At Least $6 in Recent Years (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I would hope any form of "repatriation holiday" would be linked to an investment requirement. A good proposal would be... "You may repatriate foreign profits to the US tax free, contingent on an equal investment being made in US capital projects".

  16. Re:This doesn't sound right on Long-Range Projectiles For Navy's Newest Ship Too Expensive To Shoot (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This isn't private industry, this is government contracting. I'm not sure we are quite ready for private industry to have it's own armies...but I guarantee you that if they did they wouldn't be spending it on pie in the sky weapons systems like this one.

  17. Re:Does Not Compute (hey, that says DNC as well) on Google's AI Can Now Learn From Its Own Memory Independently (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 0

    Would mod up if I had some points....this is insightful, not funny.

  18. Re:Extremely ignorant on Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Endorses Gary Johnson For President (dilbert.com) · · Score: 1

    Which means he doesn't admire and want to be like them (Trump & Putin) and it also means they haven't been bought and paid for by them (Clinton and anyone that has given money to the Clinton Foundation).

  19. Clinton is perhaps the least credible candidate on Tech Billionaires Are Asking Scientists For Help To Break Humans Out of Computer Simulation (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Clinton is perhaps the worst candidate there is. Consider the following facts:
    • The next President will inherit a $20 trillion debt and a $600 billion (and growing) annual deficit.
    • The US and the world are due for a recession.
    • When that recession hits the budget deficit is epxected to balloon to $1.3 trillion BEFORE any attempted stiumulus.
    • The federal reserve has maintained near record low interest rates and will not have lowing interest rates as a weapon to fight an economic slowdown (unless you consider negative interest rates).
    • in 2019 (assuming no recession), it is projected that entitlements + defense + interest on the debt will exceed tax revenue leaving discretionary spending (thinks like Dept of Ed, HUD, National Parks, etc to be completely funded by debt).
    • by 2023 (assuming no recession), it is projected that entitlements + interest on teh debt will exceed tax revenue, meaning everything else including defense will be paid for with new debt.

    What will Clinton due when faced with this reality? We'll see massive deficis, more debt, negative interest rates and monetization of the interest rates. We'll see the same stuff that Bush did after the .com bubble and that Obama did after the great recession, except that with 100% of debt to GDP we simply don't have the resources we did then. Having Clinton peddling the same old tired solutions is going to lead to a lost generation of economic growth, the type that Japan can't break out of and that much of Europe is now entering.

    Sure, Clinton seems reasonable and what not, but she is perhaps that most dangerous candidate due to her economic policies. They simply aren't going to work. ,

  20. The man in the mirror on India Records Its Hottest Day Ever As Temperature Hits 51C (123.8F) (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    I’m starting with the man in the mirror // I’m asking him to change his ways // And no message could have been any clearer // If you wanna make the world a better place // (If you wanna make the world a better place) // Take a look at yourself, and then make a change // (Take a look at yourself, and then make a change)

  21. Password Security on Burr-Feinstein Anti-Encryption Bill Is Officially Released (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The single biggest threat this law creates is the need to have passwords a company can decrypt. If a court order requests the password of an account, a company is required to provide said password. This means you must now store your user passwords in a method you can decrypt. Nope, nothing wrong with that! I guess Senator Burr was getting jealous of all the attention the NC GOP was getting from HB2 that he wanted to try and upstage them.

  22. Re:Revenue != earnings on Red Hat Becomes First $2 Billion Open-Source Company (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, they do give all their software away for FREE! In that respect, earning $2 billion and a 15% margin is a miracle ;) They have also been growing 20% year over year for some time so a lot of those potential earnings are reinvested into the company/aquisitions.

  23. Trees as weapons on DARPA Wants Ideas On Weaponizing Off-the-Shelf Tech (ieee.org) · · Score: 2

    Beginner: * Break off a branch from a tree. This is called stick. Hit someone with it. Advanced: * Produce a straight staff from a tree. File down the point of one end, or attach a flint or metal pointy traingle to one end. This is called a spear. In close quarters you may stab someone with it in a jabbing motion. At a distance, you may throw it. Be warned, if you missed you just armed your opponent with a spear. Expert: * Produce a straight staff from a tree and fashion into a bow. Use the sniwes from an animal you slayed using your club or spear and fashion a string you can use on your bow. Produce minature spears that you can use to shoot from this bow. Bows make excellent weapons to be used at a distance before your opponent can get into throwing range of a spear or melee distance if they have a club. As you can see, Trees are very dangerous and can be used as weapons. We should cut them all down.

  24. Re:Robo Rally on Ask Slashdot: Math-Related Present For a Bright 10-Year-Old? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If I had any mod points, I would boost this up. Robo Rally is a fun game. I would also go with other games that are math intensive, but not math focused. Something like Formula D, Ticket to Ride, Ka-Ching

  25. Re:fighting carbon pollution? on Obama Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Exactly! At best this oil will cost more to produce (Obama's goal) and will end up in more pollution (the opposite of what Obama wants to achieve). It also has the side effect of encouraging Canada to build more refineries to process this oil and build their own pipeline to the their coast to ship it and get thus eliminate a bunch of American jobs. Bravo, Mr President!