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  1. Re:Makes my mind go on Playing Tetris Can Reduce Onset of PTSD After Trauma, Study Finds (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    PTSD isn't just "a flashback". Clinically significant PTSD is far more persistent than what you're describing.

    if you playing Tetris has a deleterious effect on you months or years after your game i'd roll my eyes less at your lame joke.

  2. Re:Too Late? on BitTorrent To Refocus On What Made It Rich - uTorrent (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    seedbox providers have more-or-less standardized on rTorrent/ruTorrent (RIP Torrentflux). What is going to make the next version of uTorrent preferable to what's already there?

    I guess this product's not for you, and the <<1% of torrenters that are in the market for seedboxes.

    for the vast majority of torrent users, they're going to continue to use utorrent on their desktop at home, and they're going to find their torrent client by googling it, and continue to torrent on public sites. Don't need to thumb your nose at those users either, because it's the huge, cheap, local hard drives in all those home computers with crappy connections, running shitty utorrent that comprise the long tail catalogue of filez on both public and private sites.

  3. Re:Plenty of precedent! on Court Fines Canadian $26,500 For 'Unconscionably Stupid' Balloon-Chair Flight (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Lawnchair Larry happened in California. This is a Canadian court that rules on Canadian jurisprudence.

  4. Re:I see what's coming. on Court Fines Canadian $26,500 For 'Unconscionably Stupid' Balloon-Chair Flight (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Lawnchair larry did his most notable work in California. this judge presides over a Canadian Court under Candian Law and has to rule on Canadian jurisprudence, and not American folklore.

    Hence the statement it's 'unprecedented", as in there has likely been no comparable case before a Canadian court.

  5. Re:5000$ fine and 20000$ donation on Court Fines Canadian $26,500 For 'Unconscionably Stupid' Balloon-Chair Flight (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 3, Informative

    if he gets a donation receipt from the charities, he will be able to claim a tax credit. He chose to split his donation to the veteran's food bank, and the Canadian Legion Poppy fund, also a veteran's organisation.

  6. Re:Countering cheap threats on A US Ally Shot Down a $200 Drone With a $3 Million Patriot Missile (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Dutch police, French military train eagles to dispatch drones. Don't know if that's cheap, but certainly birds of prey are low tech, autonomous interdiction systems possessing a stealthy radar cross section the size of an eagle.

  7. Re:Bad assumption on America May Miss Out On the Next Industrial Revolution (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    off the top of my head, archie, veronica, jughead, excite, altavista, and primitive web search all predated Yahoo. also now dust.

  8. Re:We know... on Study Suggests Potatoes Can Grow On Mars (phys.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful
  9. sorry i fucked up back there on Windows Server on ARM Is Finally Happening, And It Should Worry Intel (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    sorry i was incorrect - the ARM parts were the Opteron product line, and the Zen chips are x86.

  10. AMD busy fighing last war on Windows Server on ARM Is Finally Happening, And It Should Worry Intel (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    luckily AMD recently pulled their ARM server Zen line turned back to X86. guess they wanted to shore up that 1%.

  11. Re:Bios settings on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Best Protect Client Files From Wireless Hacking? · · Score: 1

    for OSX you can remove IO80211Family.kext from /System/Library/Extensions to stop the wifi drivers from loading.

    However, Typically i'd just go into system preferences and remove the wifi interface from the network settings. OSX will make no attempt to land there if it doesn't have a network interface.

  12. it's only gong to get worse. on College Network Attacked With Its Own Insecure IoT Devices (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    looks like now the spell check has been hijacked and is searching for seafood restaurants.

  13. Re:Money to be made... on Excessive Radiation Inside Fukushima Fries Clean-Up Robot (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    I think you should be able to survive for several minutes at least.

    That's easily enough time to keep the hallway clear by spending those minutes finding somewhere else to die.

  14. Re:Clearly on 86 Percent of New Power in Europe From Renewable Sources in 2016 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting
    it's already happened. China, Germany and Japan already have more solar generation capacity than USA. China, Canada, Brazil have more hydroelectric installed capacity and production than USA. China also has surpassed USA for installed wind generation capacity.

    with regards to the actual R&D, German companies can take credit for industry standard wind turbine, PV, and inverter technology.

    It would be nice for a change....

    Let us know when you are willing to make a change.

  15. strange new world of marketing on Tostitos' Breathalyzer Bags Can Detect If You're Drunk -- Then Call Uber · · Score: 1

    Basically Tostitos has an interesting viral marketing campaign happening during the superbowl. since Tostitos purchases are likely to peak at televised events like superbowl, a novelty, subvertizeing has been inserted into people's snacks. they're betting people will pick a bag up for snacks and not immediately throw it into the trash, but keep it around the house until at least a few beers are consumed. I think that's a deviously clever way of keeping even the bag branding intact in someone's house during the big game. during and aftewards we'll get superbowl related social media photos etc. with how drunk people made their bags.

    lots of comments are already devoted to making fun with how useless it is, or how drunk you have to be before you blow into a bag. However, when things don't make sense sense, they usually make marketing sense, and i think Tostitos has thoughtfully put together a marketing campaign that would reach more people than paying for some overpriced superbowl ad.

  16. in the same boat on Microsoft Says It Is Winning Its New War Against Macs (cultofmac.com) · · Score: 2

    why don't you Make Your Macbook Pro Again?

    I am in the same boat; i use OSX and have been looking for a replacement for my 2011 MBP. I think this is the closest i'll come to getting an upgrade without switching to a windows platform. still having a hard time with soldered ram and ssds though. maybe apple will come to their senses in the near future, and think about prioritizing function over form in the future.

  17. Re:Key Feature on Scientists Finally Turn Hydrogen Into a Metal, Ending a 80-Year Quest (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Neither of these are metals.

    i agree. But the article states: "the sample turned reflective, a key feature of metals".

    The article does not state: "the sample turned reflective, a key feature unique to metals"

  18. f.lux/night shift have been beneficial for me on Apple is Bringing Night Shift Mode To Its Desktop OS (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    I've been using f.lux on my desktops and also the apple nightshift feature on IOS. it acts as a reminder that i should start winding down for bed, rather than forgetting and just working through the night by mistake. While i can disable the function any time (e.g. working on colour photos), i have anecdotally been sleeping far better with orange-shifted, slightly dimmed screens, because i do know when it's time to sleep, and the colour shift happens over the period of a couple hours so i naturally taper off shitposting, rather than just passing out at 5am after glimpsing the sunrise again. over the past couple years using f.lux I have greatly reduced insomnia, and have noticed i do go to sleep faster, and return to sleep faster if i happen to view a screen in the middle of the night.

    I am glad this is being included on OSX becuase more people will benefit from this feature.

  19. Fleshlight XP on Scientists Create 3D Bioprinter Capable of Printing Living Human Skin (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I have a feeling David Cronenberg will be shifting from cult to mainstream in the future.

    Also, get ready for the next generation of fleshlights with feeding instructions.

  20. Re:350,000 accounts, only posts from Windows Phone on Researchers Discover Massive Networks of Fake Twitter Accounts (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    In other news, Installed smartphone marketshare of Windows Phone software dropped to "Steve Balmer Only"

  21. I've Sold Dog Collars to Brockway Ogdenville and N on The Mind-Reading Gadget For Dogs That Got Funded, But Didn't Get Built (ieee.org) · · Score: 2
    the article is SEO for NEUROTECH, page source is loaded with NEUROTECH mentions in the text body and source (neurotech)

    No More Woof sums up the current state of neurotech products intended for consumers

    Why didn't they just save us all some time; instead of sugarcoating vapourware and trying to be all hip and NEUROTECH, call it SNAKE OIL like we have been for hundreds of years already.

  22. Re:Battery life on apple products on Consumer Reports Updates Its MacBook Pro Review (consumerreports.org) · · Score: 1

    . I wish they would spend more time on testing and fixes before they release an iOS and less time on removing important features.

    Thank you for enrolling in the ad-hoc public beta of 10.2 and submitting this bug report. but seriously, i I still haven't gone to 10.2 yet, and it's the small reports like these that help inform what i'd be stepping into.

    As Apple + minor version releases have been historic minefields and i use my apple stuff for work. Unless OSX or iOS versions contain patches for major security issues or flaws, usually i wait it out until someone else has had a chance to test for me. for 10.2 i didn't think getting a new set of shiny emojis was worth the risk of finding out first hand what Apple's fucked up this time.

    Again, thanks for Taking One for the Team.

  23. spread of bioinvasive plants on US Military Seeks Biodegradable Bullets That Sprout Plants (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    packing viable seeds in with biodegradable shell casings seems like a terrible idea from a biodiversity/bioinvasive ecology perspective. The bullets packed with these seeds would undoubtedly be used worldwide without care for native species.

    I can see they're trying to greenwash as hard as they can, but seems like someone missed a couple lectures in environmental studies.

  24. Does this streaming use the bittorrent client? If this is relying on mobile devices to seed and peer, Can't wait to max out all 4GB of monthly mobile data 10 minutes into the next Walking Dead premiere.

    'piggybacking on the bandwidth of users' is not such a problem if it's a desktop app, but how does that work for mobile users with tiny data caps (e.g. all of canada)

  25. Only Uber could lose a PR fight with the DMV.