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  1. accurate fast cheap

    You know the old saying...

  2. Are they going to acknowledge the prequels? on A Star Wars Boba Fett Movie Is In the Works (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    As far as I can remember, nothing in any of the films from The Force Awakens really acknowledges the events of the prequels. Is this going to change if this gets made? Will we see a flashback to Attack of the Clones? God I hope not...

  3. Re: If anyone from Mozilla is here. on Google Chrome To Remove 'Secure' Indicator From HTTPS Pages in September (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    What do you get out of this?

  4. With our more organcailly-developed road system we just don't seem to ever have this issue. There's usually a main road, with a white dotted line down the middle, and any adjoining roads have a yellow line across them which is "yield." Signs are usually just for speed limits, everything else seems to be conveyed through road markings.

    Then again I live on a small island so it's not even much like the UK itself.

  5. Re:If anyone from Mozilla is here. on Google Chrome To Remove 'Secure' Indicator From HTTPS Pages in September (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    They're phasing out the lock eventually, too.

  6. Show only a lock sign instead in a lock sign plus the word secure.

    If you're going to pedantic, why not go the whole hog and say "What, so every website will be just a giant lock sign?"

  7. Re:If anyone from Mozilla is here. on Google Chrome To Remove 'Secure' Indicator From HTTPS Pages in September (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    Edit: actually it looks like they're eventually planning to get rid of the lock, too. And the colouring is being ditched first, too.

    There'll still be a warning indicator on non-HTTPS sites.

  8. Re:If anyone from Mozilla is here. on Google Chrome To Remove 'Secure' Indicator From HTTPS Pages in September (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    You do know they're only talking about getting rid of the word "Secure", right? Chrome is keeping the green lock icon, which is all that Firefox displays now as well.

  9. and only show a lock icon when the user is navigating to an HTTPS-secured website. From a report:

    "And show only a lock sign" would have been less ambiguous. I see a lot of people confused over what's being suggested here.

  10. Why would you not want to be warned?

    (Disclaimer: we don't really have stop signs here, not the way they do in the US. They've always seemed a bit condescending to me...)

  11. Re:10 billion times colder on NASA's Atomic Fridge Will Make the ISS the Coldest Known Place in the Universe (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter what the units are as long as there is an absolute zero on the scale. Luckily, in this case, there is. It's even called "absolute zero"! What are the chances?

  12. Re:"10 billion times colder"?!? Who writes such sh on NASA's Atomic Fridge Will Make the ISS the Coldest Known Place in the Universe (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    His issue is not with "X times as low as" but with "X times lower than." He thinks these are different. I don't think anyone else would assume they were.

  13. Re:"10 billion times colder"?!? Who writes such sh on NASA's Atomic Fridge Will Make the ISS the Coldest Known Place in the Universe (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    X is Y times bigger than Z.
    X = Z + YZ

    X is Y times smaller than Z.
    X = Z - YZ

    No-one uses that notation. "X is Y times bigger than Z" is synonymous, to any normal human, with "X is Y times as big as Z."

  14. I don't think there's any grand conspiracy here. They probably just edited out the business name and any other "personal" information, such as if the Google Assistant was asked for and gave a number.

    The simple fact that the demo seems awesome shouldn't be cause for suspicion. Well, at least, not this kind of suspicion. What you should be suspicious of is how many such calls were made, and how many of those were as smooth as this one.

  15. Re:So of course, they just ASSUME it is a water pl on Moon of Jupiter Prime Candidate For Alien Life After Water Blast Found (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Hubble imaged a plume several years ago

    From that article:

    We do not claim to have proven the existence of plumes

    Hubble imaged something which might have been a plume.

  16. There's nothing wrong with my reading comprehension. It's my reading itself that needs work...

  17. If the custodians of every major OS

    Windows isn't on the list, but I don't know if that means it's definitely not affected.

  18. Given that Windows - by far and away the most-used operating system - isn't on the list, are we supposed to assume it's safe?

    A confirmation either way would be nice, given the seriousness of the problem.

  19. The stealth startup

    I assume "stealth startup" is code for "we haven't got any money to spend on advertising."

  20. Re:Text installer on Ubuntu Considering an HTML5-Based OS Installer (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    A GUI is exactly what's needed if Linux wants anyone other than nerds like us using it.

    And if done right, a GUI can be much more useable than a TUI even for nerds.

  21. Re:So who is to blame? on Uber Vehicle Saw But Ignored Woman It Struck, Report Says (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Also the video Uber released is highly altered. I drive on that street frequently and it is very well lit.

    That doeesn't mean the video was altered. It's just a shitty camera.

  22. Re:Nobel Peace Prize Winner on Two Koreas Agree To End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I do not think you understand the point I was saying.

    What I don't understand is why you're bringing up Obama.

    I haven't said anything about Obama, yet you seem to think you know exactly what I think of him. Not sure how you managed that. Moreover, you seem illogically focused on disproving all the things I haven't said about Obama.

  23. Re:Nobel Peace Prize Winner on Two Koreas Agree To End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You're really missing the point of what I'm saying, but since I've already said it there's not much point saying it again.

  24. Re: Nobel Peace Prize Winner on Two Koreas Agree To End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    What you makes you think I hold Bernie Sanders's opinion on everything in any high regard?

  25. Re:Nobel Peace Prize Winner on Two Koreas Agree To End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    He's "largely responsble" the same way the poop-flinger in my analogy is.

    Any "credit" he's getting is more about politics than genunely-earned plaudits at this point. Everyone, wonderfully, seems to be grasping the opportunity for peace with both hands, and if "praising" Trump helps that along, no-one in the middle of it is going to upset the apple cart at this point. The last thing the situation needs is someone criticising Trump because fuck knows what he'd do if they did. There are far more important things at stake. Trump got lucky, and long may that luck continue. Doesn't mean it was all some masterplan.