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  1. Related links... on Warner Bros Issues Takedown For Own Website (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History
    The Case Against a Universal Basic Income
    Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14
    PayPal Pulls North Carolina Plan After Transgender Bathroom Law
    Terrorist Attack In Brussels Airport and Metro Station: At Least 34 Dead

    I didn't know DMCA takedowns were that violent.

  2. Re:Here's an idea... on Long TSA Delays Force Airports To Hire Private Security Contractors (popsci.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, airport security is now something I consider before flying.
    And I once chose a 24h bus trip over a 2h flight and airport security was one of the reason I made this choice. Price was similar.

  3. Re:We need to cool the planet on Should We Kill All The Mosquitoes? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And by chance we have plenty of nuclear weapon that may just do this.
    Time to test the nuclear winter theory.

  4. Re:Might want to think about that... on Should We Kill All The Mosquitoes? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Eradicating mosquitoes would be bad news for the insecticide industry...

  5. Unless they changed their policy, they don't allow anyone out of their blocklist.
    However, if you pay and your ads follow their standards, they can put you in their whitelist.

    This is completely different, because you can disable the whitelist just by unchecking a very visible option.

    I switched to uBlock origin but that's for performance reasons. I had no problem with ABP's blocking.

  6. Re:Lipos are dangerous. But they are also tough. on Not Just Samsung? The Increasing Frequency Of Battery Fires (sltrib.com) · · Score: 1

    Your batteries seem to weight about twice as much as my cell phone batteries per Wh. They are however much, much more powerful.
    It seems to match a phosphate or manganese chemistry rather than the more common and more energy dense cobalt. I am no expert though.

    See : http://batteryuniversity.com/l...

  7. Re:Lipos are dangerous. But they are also tough. on Not Just Samsung? The Increasing Frequency Of Battery Fires (sltrib.com) · · Score: 1

    You may be using LFP batteries, which are much safer and support much greater loads than the LCO batteries found in phones.
    The downside is that they have about half the energy density.

  8. Re:The problem is 21 on Stanford's New Alcohol Policy Isn't Based On Much Research (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...
    https://www.thevespiary.org/rh...
    http://www.ias.org.uk/uploads/...

    Feel free to do your own research if you don't like these articles. Unfortunately, if you are looking for peer reviewed primary sources, you will hit a lot of paywalls...

  9. Re:The problem is 21 on Stanford's New Alcohol Policy Isn't Based On Much Research (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    On an individual basis, alcohol is considered more dangerous than MDMA and less dangerous than cocaine. Which, as I understand it, means you are better off taking a MDMA pill (test it first!) than binge drinking but both are better than cocaine.
    On a global scale, alcohol is the absolute worst, because, as you said, it is used a lot.

    Good data is hard to find though, but most of the sources I've seen put alcohol between MDMA and cocaine, among others.

  10. Re:The problem is 21 on Stanford's New Alcohol Policy Isn't Based On Much Research (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Most scheduled drugs aren't that bad actually. For most parts the biggest risks are linked to their illegal nature.
    What many people don't realize is that legality aside, belongs in the "hard drugs" list, next to cocaïne and MDMA. In fact, globally, alcohol is the substance that harms society the most, followed by heroin and crack. In the personal harm / addition potential chart, it is somewhere in the middle.
    You can interpret this two ways : either as a warning against unreasonable drinking or as an encouragement to try "new things", or maybe a mix of both. The rest is up to you.

  11. Re:The problem is 21 on Stanford's New Alcohol Policy Isn't Based On Much Research (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Alcohol should be drunk for the taste, and as a social activity, to reasonable levels, ideally under the DUI limit, even if you are not driving. Not for getting drunk. Wine tasting from an early age during family diners may be good education.

    If you drink to get drunk, even during a social event, you are doing drugs, and a dangerous one.

  12. No it isn't. There are many many devices that can be opened and that are more waterproof than any smartphone will ever be.
    The ports (headphone, usb) and speaker are much harder to waterproof properly.

  13. I suspect some of it comes from the linux coding style rules, which requires tabs.

  14. Re:Spaces are for people who don't understand tabs on 400,000 GitHub Repositories, 1 Billion Files, 14TB of Code: Spaces or Tabs? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Elastic tabs are not perfect, there are some cases where it messes up the formatting. For example if you make an "alignment" tab followed by an "indentation" tab on the next line.
    The idea behind elastic tabs is that the tab character is like a column delimiter in a table. However it has to use heuristics to know when the table starts and ends. The way it is done works most of the time but that's not 100%.

  15. Re:C programmers clearly some kind of deviants on 400,000 GitHub Repositories, 1 Billion Files, 14TB of Code: Spaces or Tabs? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    And go programmers appear not to have space bars.

    ... but they appear to have a lot of space drinks.

  16. Re:Because they're going with HTC, on Google To Drop Nexus Brand Name, Move Away From Stock Android (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Can't you just freeze that crapps. They will still be there but inactive : no launcher button and no background task. They will still take a bit of space but if they are in /system and you don't update them, it is probably won't affect you in any way.

  17. Re:INBOUND vs OUTBOUND on Europe's Net Neutrality Doesn't Ban BitTorrent Throttling (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Limited speed internet is relatively uncommon in Europe (or at least in France). You usually get whatever maximum speed your line and the ISP network can support. Yes, it means that 1 Mbps ADSL and 1 Gbps fiber can be at the same price.
    BitTorrent is hard on the network so throttling it reasonably can make things work better for everyone. Basic QoS stuff.

  18. Re:My old phone had a replaceable battery on Sony To Boost Smartphone Batteries Because People Aren't Replacing Phones (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    My current phone has a replaceable battery and I still think it is a good idea.
    Yes, I can change my battery easily, in fact I already did, but why wear down batteries if there is no need to.

    An option to limit the charge to ~80% would be great, most of the time I end the day with 40-50% left and have access to a charger anytime. 100% would be for the less common times I use my phone heavily or away from a power source.

  19. Because the software doesn't know who is a thief and who is a legitimate user. It only track authentication errors.
    It is probably legal but Apple has to be careful before implementing it especially if it is on by default.

    For example, imagine you are drunk, you try to unlock your phone and fail (because you are drunk). The phone takes a picture of you and sends it to where you don't want drunk pictures of you to end up. If it is the default behavior, I think you can claim some invasion of privacy.

  20. Cutting staff in half just because the results are disappointing...
    Is professional misconduct punished by drawing and quartering or something?

  21. Not sure Microsoft is to blame on Windows 10 Computers Crash When Amazon Kindles Are Plugged In (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    There are millions of Windows 10 installations and millions of Kindles. So unless everyone's Kindle crash when they connect it I'd wait a bit before blaming Microsoft.
    It can be caused a faulty USB controller, a bug in some driver (which may or may not be by Microsoft) or some kind of coincidence.

    What may have happened (it has already happened to me) is that some driver was updated and now make use of a previously unused feature of the hardware. However, there is a batch of hardware where using this feature results in some kind of undefined behavior, causing the crash.

  22. Re:Aircraft? on World's Largest Aircraft Crashes Its Second Flight (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually it is an IFO.

  23. In accounting, when you add up the numbers, the result must be exactly zero, not 0.0000000001.
    It is not for saving pennies, it is for verification purposes. If there is a penny missing, it means that there is a mistake somewhere. It may be a small rounding error, but it may also be several million dollar mistakes (or fraud...) adding up to one penny.

  24. Re:show me the money $$$$$$$$ on Hey Google, Want To Fix Android Updates? Hit OEMs Where It Hurts (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Because otherwise a Samsung phone would be like any other Android smartphone.
    They don't want that, for two reasons. First, they don't want to compete with similar looking but much cheaper alternatives. Second, they don't want give too much power to Google.
    They want people to buy "a Samsung", not an Android phone.
    In fact, Samsung seems to be ready to leave Android at any time, probably as a way to keep Google in check. They have their own OS, their own app store, replacement apps for most of Google offerings and a dedicated userbase.

  25. Re:Does "not feeling old" mean minimalized? on Hey Google, Want To Fix Android Updates? Hit OEMs Where It Hurts (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why I finally bit the bullet and went Nexus with latest phone. Unlocking bootloader done within twenty minutes of getting it. No need for hacks to enable tethering. Root without having to use an exploit.

    Like most Android phones as long as you don't buy them from your carrier.