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  1. Re:Perfect for Satellites... and Nukes on Japan Successfully Launches Solid Fuel Rocket (oann.com) · · Score: 2

    Why are people blaming everything on Trump? He wasn't even elected or running when they started the development on this project.

  2. Can't they just get some vitamin shots for this?

  3. New missiles like the norwegian Naval Strike Missile, the only 5th gen missile in use, has an onboard database with all known ship profiles to make sure that only valid targets are hit. They also communicate and coordinate attacks automatically.

    Basically all your arguments against anti-ship missiles are out-of-date by a couple decades at least.

  4. Re:Nice work jackasses. on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    I don't know if you follow the news but Trump, not Hillary, won the election.

  5. The loss is some 2-3%, so yeah, big issue.

  6. You do realize that you can just get a USB-C to HDMI cable, that is a single cable to connect directly to your monitor?

  7. Re: Wrapup phrase should read on Target Passes Walmart As Top US Corporate Installer of Solar Power (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Electric cars now run on Oil? When did this happen...

  8. Re:Uneducated voters, yay! on Ecuador Acknowledges Limiting Julian Assange's Web Access (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If you think his weakness is in his sentence structure then obviously you're not even half aware of what he's doing when he speaks to convince.

    The link you posted, the transcript in that, has a pretty good cut-off and re-phrasing/restart of sentences such that people stay focused, interested, and convinced.

  9. Re:The story behind the story on Ecuador Acknowledges Limiting Julian Assange's Web Access (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I've had a female start raping me (sucking my cock) while I was unconscious (sleeping, about to wake up), and I am confused. Am I a rape victim?

  10. As someone with a Kindle in the land of the risi.. on Amazon Japan's Manga-Ready Kindle Has 8 Times the Storage (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, as long as I got access to WiFi the storage is not a real issue.

    What degrades my experience is rather the slow page turn and/or lack of caching of pages in both directions. In addition a lot of times you want to zoom in, to see the page of the manga as intended... sometimes it's a full two-page thing, sometimes it's traditional one-page right-to-left-to-down, and sometimes it's a 4-koma top-right-to-bottom-right, etc.

    Basically the real issue is that the Kindle doesn't let you choose a way of viewing a certain book/manga.

  11. Re:Sounds Familiar on Apple MacBook Refresh Could Bring E-Ink Enabled Keyboard (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    As a CTRL key, what else?

  12. Re:I can see the use of this on Accenture Patents a Blockchain-Editing Tool (techweekeurope.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Then you don't really understand what makes blockchains useful as compared to any other kind of system.

    For the cases you pointed out, e.g. when changes need to be made to things already in the blockchain, those should be done as new blocks that revert or modify previous blocks. That preserves both the history and trust of the block chain.

  13. Re:Using bandwidth on Verizon Says It Knows You Don't Need Unlimited Data (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 2

    Bandwidth isn't denoted in 'MB/s * t', it's denoted as 'MB/s'.

    The former is usage, the latter is capacity.

  14. Re:No stories of the drivers asked to go to Chelse on Uber Accused of Cashing In On Bomb Explosion By Jacking Rates (thesun.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Not to mention Uber artificially lowers the price increases during high demand, so if the algorithm was allowed to work properly match the demand and supply curves those people would be looking at 20-30x increases... minimum... not 1.4-1.8x.

  15. Pretty much anything non-shit you buy these days includes support for USB.

  16. Re:So much for being useful for music on Apple Explores the Idea Of Killing Headphone Jack On the MacBook Pro (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    "Studio-quality headphones" -> "Those use USB DAC anyway" -> "BUT WHAT ABOUT CONVENIENCE!!!"

    Nice comment. You are in the running for the special league.

  17. Re:But what would the adapter connect to? on Apple Explores the Idea Of Killing Headphone Jack On the MacBook Pro (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Who would ever use the shitty output from a 35mm jack powered by a laptop's audio output?

    For digital audio there's already support for USB Audio in most decent equipment, and it supports far higher quality than optical.

  18. Wait, you use the headphone jack for desktop speakers? That better be for the optical out else you deserve no respect...

    USB audio is already common enough that anyone using their MBP at home would be able to plug in with no problems. USB audio is in fact superior to both analog and optical.

  19. Re:Surprised I'm still alive! on Sugar Industry Bought Off Scientists, Skewed Dietary Guidelines For Decades (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    It's not the teeth you idiot, it's our large energy-sucking brain and our digestive system.

    Our brain was able to grow because we started to cook food, which allows more nutrients to be taken up from the same amount of food. As we optimized out digestive systems as compared to other primates we lost the ability to produce a lot of important stuff that cooked meat now provides us with.

  20. Re:Law of Unintended Consequences on EU Finance Ministers Line Up Behind $21B Tax Ruling Against Apple (herald-dispatch.com) · · Score: 2

    And... how exactly would Britain be able to help multinationals dodge taxes on profits earned in EU countries?

  21. Re: scapegoat much? on Volkswagen Engineer Pleads Guilty in US Diesel Emissions Probe (fortune.com) · · Score: 0

    He's not a 'scapegoat' unless the jews put goats on cruise ships with fat pensions. The guy isn't a victim, he's a guy getting an early retirement with benefits in exchange for being 'caught'.

  22. Re:scapegoat much? on Volkswagen Engineer Pleads Guilty in US Diesel Emissions Probe (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    The guy is 62 years old, near retirement.

    Most likely there's been agreements made behind closed doors between VW and US prosecutors; they guy gets some kind of deal that involves him not ever going to jail, he also gets some kind of 'severance/pension' thing for his part in this theater.

    A 'guilty' person has been found, what VW did wrong... or the story they agreed on... is now in the legal system and VW will be made to pay their (pre-arranged) dues. And _EVERYONE_ is now happy and the air will be cleaner.

  23. Re:Good. We are all N. Koreans today on North Korea Conducts Fifth Nuclear Test -- The Largest One Yet (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually the reason why no one is doing anything is that despite the posturing of the US and friends, North Korea is a rational actor. Same as Iran.

  24. Re:Oh good. on Apple To Unveil 'AirPods' That Use Custom Bluetooth Chip (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    So basically old-style crank-up mobile phones?

  25. Re:U.S. Corporations need to pay U.S. taxes. on Apple May Bring Back Billions In Profits To The U.S. (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One of the most fucked up parts of being an U.S. citizen is that even if you work, live, breath on foreign soil you still need to report everything to the US tax office.

    Basically the only country in the world that will keep fucking you over even after you try to leave it behind for ever. Glad I'm not a 'citizen'.