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  1. Re:Holy hot battery ... on Scientists Deliver a Longer-Lasting Lithium-Oxygen Battery (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Who would want to drive around in a car with some 150C block under the hood?

  2. Maybe Asia, but solar is offline across NA, SA, Europe, Africa and Australia for most of the night, as they don't span enough of the solar footprint - especially in winter months.

  3. Re:I always use my home as an example on Self-Driving Cars Aren't Going To Be So Great Until We Make Our Maps Better (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    My best GPS has no clue was in rural Ohio. Headed to a semi-major town, the maps guided me to smaller and smaller roads until I ended up in a driveway to a barn of an Amish family. I guess they never called to get that changed.

  4. I think the case claiming that was dismissed. And, that Richard Armitage was determined to be the source of the leak.

    Your smokescreen of Dick Chaney is not relevant to the issue of who has the 30K missing emails and the redacted, confidential information in the known Clinton emails.

  5. It means, maybe

    The alternate hypothesis was (rho) < 0.80

  6. Re:I'm totally shocked... on Millennials Set To Earn Less Than Generation X (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We squandered the fruits of that on peak socialism.

    I think you meant to write peak corporate welfare, because at least in US social nets were/are being cut at least since Reagan era, if not earlier.

    Multiple sources, like the US government, report that > 1/3 households are on means tested assistance (e.g. welfare). If you add unemployment, social security and other government pensions, you are at or near 50%. Is that more, or less, than when Reagan cut welfare? Or, was that (Bill) Clinton that that reformed welfare?

  7. Re:Saturation on The Great Tablet Gold Rush Is Over (mashable.com) · · Score: 2

    The Transformer Prime was not a decent laptop replacement. I bought into the hype and purchased one when it first came out. The concept was good, and the battery life was great, But, the tablet OS was useless and the applications were phone apps. Try editing a document or spreadsheet with a phone app. The trackpad seemed to have little use without a real mouse cursor.

    In the end it, like most tablets, was a glorified phone. If all you wanted to do is surf with a crippled browser, play phone type games or watch videos it was fine. But, it wasn't really suited for much else.

  8. Re:Need better corporate penalties on Volkswagen To Pay $10.2 Billion In Emissions Lawsuit (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The government would get money.

    Because the government never does foolish things with the money they receive.

  9. Here in rural Ohio we still have analog and limited HD on our Time Warner cable. No set top boxes required to get analog. Only if you want premium channels, do you need to have a box. We ditched the box.

    With no OTA channels in here, we're at their mercy. This doesn't sound like a positive development.

  10. Re:Echo Owner Here on Google Chirp To Rival Amazon Echo · · Score: 1

    It's clear that not everything is reported back, but it is listening and could report back.

    I'm not going to open the source code and try and determine if there are other keywords beyond "Alexa". And, it is listening and I would expect somehow digitizing all of the sounds to match the keyword "Alexa"

  11. Echo Owner Here on Google Chirp To Rival Amazon Echo · · Score: 2

    I got in early on the Echo and we've yet to find a good use case for it. It's a decent speaker for playing Amazon Prime music and will answer SIMPLE questions. But for the most part, it cannot answer the questions we throw at it. We use Google or Siri in those cases.

    Since it listens to everything said in the room, I'd be less comfortable with Google eavesdropping on my life than I am with Amazon.

  12. Re:Encryption on Email Mishap Leaks Google Staff Data (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem I see with this is that if I select a wrong address, my email will likely assume that's what I wanted to do and encrypt for them.

  13. Re:time for dynamic ssn on Email Mishap Leaks Google Staff Data (thestack.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Humans don't have unique identifiers that are easily accessible. We can use fingerprints, retina or DNA with physical presence, but we need a surrogate key if we want to track people in our digital world. The problem with most surrogate keys is that they have no meaning outside of the system that creates them. A SSN is a perfect surrogate key, in that it has a scope outside of the system (Social Security) that created it. But, that is also it's weakness. Since so many systems (like financial and medical) use this unambiguous key, it can be used for nefarious purposes. Any simple, global, constructed key will have these faults.

  14. Had a student in a DB class - last name "Long" on Names That Break Computers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I could never create his account (last name as ID). It took me some time to realize the parser was picking up on the keyword long. It was decades ago, so I expected things like that were fixed.

  15. Re:Calculus not needed for intro level stats on The Case Against Algebra · · Score: 1

    Do students ever calculate a probability on a Normal distribution with calculus? It's not something I would like to do. That said, other continuous distributions are more easily integrated and can be done for example. But, I've been able to get areas from software and tables for just about anything that matches a real world process or distribution.

  16. Re:Seriously thats how they compare? on Are CEOs Overpaid? Not Compared With College Presidents (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A university president may make $500K, but s/he oversees 5000+ employees, 30,000+ students, a campus of 250+ buildings and an endowment of a billion or more. I'm not sure they should be compared with the set of all folks calling themselves CEO.

  17. Re:Ummm on Can Author Obfuscation Trump Forensic Linguistics? (webis.de) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    English
    Want to obfuscate text? Just run it through a language or 5, then back to the original language using something like google translate. No paraphrasing needed.
    Afrikaans
    Wil teks verduisteren ? Net hardloop dit deur 'n taal of 5 , dan terug na die oorspronklike taal gebruik van iets soos Google vertaal. Geen parafrasering nodig .
    Albanian
    Dëshironi tekstin errët ? Vetëm të drejtuar atë nëpërmjet një gjuhe ose 5 , pastaj kthehet për të përdorur gjuhën origjinale e diçka si Google Translate . Nuk ka parafrazuar nevojshme .
    Arabic
    5 . .
    Armenian
    , . Just 5, Google . .
    English
    You want the text in the dark. Just run it through the language or 5 , then return to the original source using something like Google language translation . A quote is necessary .
    Note: international characters may not show in comment.

  18. Re:Nielsen ratings on Tension Escalates Between Netflix and Its TV Foes (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I got the Nielsen diaries last year as well. I live in a small town about 65 miles from the state capital - so no OTA channels. We have one local PBS station, which they classify in the state capital market. So far so good. But, Nielsen recently put our town in the market of a city in another state (about 70 miles away). So, we cannot legally get our old channels or any local news - the FCC seems to take Nielsen markets as law. To make it more confusing, the commercials for the cable channels (e.g. ESPN) seem to come from a third city 150 miles away. It's such a mess, I sent the diaries back with the $5 and told them to clean up their house before they asked me to take time and help them. If I wasn't afraid of caps on my internet for dropping TW cable, I'd cut the cord.

    We're seeing the slow death of broadcast TV and cable. Until that model is finally buried, I expect a bumpy ride.

  19. Re:Media Center on Windows 10 Upgrades Are Being Forced On Some Users (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If I could find a suitable alternative to Windows Media Center, I'd switch as well. I'm afraid I'll be one of those who switches, reluctantly, on the last day.

  20. Re:WMC? on Windows 10 Launches · · Score: 1

    That's gonna be a show stopper for me. I've installed some of the "alternatives" and the configuration is damn near impossible. And, once it's running the system seems so fragile and unstable that I can't really count on it to finish playing a file, much less record something.

  21. Re:Really? on MenuetOS, an Operating System Written Entirely In Assembly, Hits 1.0 · · Score: 0

    Where are my mod points today?

  22. AT&T Autopay - Ha! on AT&T Bills Elderly Customer $24,298.93 For Landline Dial-Up Service · · Score: 4, Insightful

    AT&T keeps requesting that I enroll in autopay. I've resisted for fear of crap like this.

  23. Re:Create a $140 billion business out of nothing? on How, and Why, Apple Overtook Microsoft · · Score: 4, Interesting

    While there's no denying Apple helped build the sector into $140B (or whatever it is), the real innovation was bringing data to users at a reasonable price.

    I had some lame windows smart flip phone prior to the iPhones coming out. But, it wasn't subsidized by my employer. The browser was garbage, and the email was rudimentary. I lived in fear that something would misbehave and I'd get slammed with $100's of dollars in data fees from AT&T. I bought an early iPhone and lost that fear. Ultimately, the closed ecosystem drove me to Android. Now, I struggle to get to 10% of my monthly data cap.

    For me, opening cell companies to reasonably priced data (by jumping in at the right time and locking in with AT&T) is what Apple did to open the market.

  24. Re:They ARE a utility. on President Obama Backs Regulation of Broadband As a Utility · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia cites a GAO report stating that "Between 1976 and 1990 the paid fare had declined approximately thirty percent in inflation-adjusted terms."

  25. Re:They ARE a utility. on President Obama Backs Regulation of Broadband As a Utility · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You've hit the real problem. Many large ISP have effective monopolies through high infrastructure costs. I would expect that any government regulation would first seek to formalize these, justified by the claim that service and rates would be managed centrally by the government.

    We have, with great struggle, deregulated power and gas in my state. In most options, the prices were lower for competitors delivering service over the same "pipes" as the official, prior monopoly.