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  1. A Pentium II alone drew more power than the charger for a Pixel can even theoretically supply, and you'd still need more power for the rest of the computer around that Pentium II.

  2. a). No, none of the 30% that goes to Apple is used for publishing or performance royalties.
    b) Spotify pays higher royalties to labels than radio. The problem is that labels pay out lower royalties to creators for plays on Spotify than on radio, so if you don't own your own label you get paid less.

  3. It's a day one patch. There are no prior incremental patches, so this is just the diffs from the previous version.

  4. Re:Have we seen Peak Amazon? on Amazon Closing All of Its 87 Pop-Up Stores As Its Retail Strategy Shifts (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    "The lack of success of the Whole Foods acquisition seems much more disturbing in Bezo's World."

    Lack of success? Whole Foods' revenue was up 6% in 2018, versus 1.2% for the grocery industry as a whole.

    I'd love to have the kind of "lack of success" that is five times the growth of my industry.

  5. Streaming already pays higher rates than radio to the labels. If artists are receiving lower rates form the labels, I think I see where the problem is.

    (As always, the trick is to wrap your labor with a corporation.)

  6. On the other hand... Vladimir Putin? Billionnaire. Donald Trump? Billionaire. Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum? Billionaire. Sebastián Piñera? BIllionaire.

    Socialists, capitalists, democracies, monarchies... it's as if your hypothesis has no predictive power.

  7. The value of a currency is the effort you are willing to put into stealing it.

  8. Re:Minor Requests on Microsoft Open-Sources Windows Calculator (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I've seen what programmers do with floating point arithmetic. This was the only safe option.

  9. Re:Buy then digitize on More People Bought Physical CDs and Vinyl Than Songs on iTunes Last Year (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    A digital signal is just the limit of an analog signal as gain goes to infinity.
    An analog signal is just the limit of a digital signal as frequency goes to infinity.

  10. Why yes, that oneprivacysite.net *is* useless on How Can You Decide Which VPN To Trust? (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    From the site itself: "My data simply reflects what is officially and publicly avaiable[sic] for a given service on their own official website."

    No attempt is made to independently verify claims of the VPN providers. But just because someone is running a shady VPN service doesn't mean they would LIE about running a shady VPN service, right?

  11. Re:news for nerds with limited reading comprehensi on US Bars Lithium-ion Batteries From Passenger Aircraft Cargo (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Packed batteries not contained in equipment are prohibited from passenger luggage. Batteries contained in equipment are allowed in cargo. Luggage and cargo are being treated the same.

  12. Re:I saw an interview with a kid on Senate Confirms Former Coal Lobbyist Andrew Wheeler To Lead EPA (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    'IT' might be tough, not 'I'

    fscking typos...

  13. Re:I saw an interview with a kid on Senate Confirms Former Coal Lobbyist Andrew Wheeler To Lead EPA (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    "The only jobs in his town were at the mine and at Walmart. "

    They may be the only jobs in town, but they won't be *increasing*. He's basically replacing the next one or two people that die.

    "but then he'd have to move"

    I moved across the US for my previous job. I moved back for my current job. I was applying for jobs in Europe. I might be tough, but that's no excuse to dangle the hope of terrible jobs *that aren't even coming*.

  14. Re:news for nerds with limited reading comprehensi on US Bars Lithium-ion Batteries From Passenger Aircraft Cargo (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "Luggage hold is not cargo hold."

    It's literally the same hold.

  15. Re:So much for electric powered aircraft on US Bars Lithium-ion Batteries From Passenger Aircraft Cargo (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The rule is specifically about packed batteries not contained in equipment. It would not apply to batteries connected to the airplanes other systems.

  16. Re:Shame... on US Bars Lithium-ion Batteries From Passenger Aircraft Cargo (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "The proper response would have been to ban all Li-Ion batteries from passenger aircraft holds and cargo aircraft. "

    The issue is specifically batteries shipped when not contained in equipment. So you are trying to get a regulatory ruling from a agency unrelated to the field that is unrelated to problem that the agency was tasked to address. That's pretty much the definition of an improper response.

  17. Re:Original announcement on US Bars Lithium-ion Batteries From Passenger Aircraft Cargo (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    For those who would prefer to see the actual Interim Final Rule rather than a press release you can go to https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/site...

  18. Re:This is what people voted for on Senate Confirms Former Coal Lobbyist Andrew Wheeler To Lead EPA (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Folks who wonder that have never been without a job for 12 months and counting"

    I was unemployed for 19 months. What I did during that time is look for a *different* job.

    The confusing part is why they are fighting for jobs that aren't coming back even if coal comes back.

  19. Re:The Important part missing from TF Summary on Cryptocurrency Wallet App Coinomi Caught Sending User Passwords To Google's Spellchecker (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    "This doesn't seem deliberate, just incompetent."

    Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

  20. Re:Error in the number on Astronomer Finds Potential Furthest Object In Solar System · · Score: 1

    "all planets have some space debris in their respective Lagrange points."

    Lagrange points are gravitationally dominated by the primary and secondary body of the system. Therefore, objects at Lagrange points are not evidence that a planet has not cleared its orbit.

  21. "The comic wasn't called Captain Marvel. The character was"

    I did not claim otherwise.

    "at least in my day (60s 70s maybe 80s)"

    There were no new books with the Shazam Captain Marvel character published between 1953 and 1972, by which time the Marvel Comics Captain Marvel was in print thus all the DC books were under the name Shazam,

    No one sufficiently versed in the subject to remember the history of the name is going to be expecting a Marvel Studios movie to be about a character from DC comics.

  22. "Most of the people who have heard of Captain Marvel probably think "Shazam".

    The superhero of Shazam hasn't been called Captain Marvel since 1953. You will have to some data to support this claim.

  23. But in this case we know we're only getting the assholes' view because good-faith audience reviewers are not rating movies that are not released yet and which they could not possibly have seen.

  24. Re:Does anyone actually care about rottentomatoes? on 'Captain Marvel' Review Bombers Have Dropped Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating To Lowest Among MCU Movies (comicbook.com) · · Score: 1

    The point of Rotten Tomatoes is that it 1) aggregates multiple sources 2) from both professional reviews and regular movie goers. There are interesting differences between which movies are critical darlings and which are fun to watch,

    However, in this case the the audience score should be completely set aside, since the movie is not released yet so those ratings are almost all guaranteed to be bogus.

  25. Re:Chinese films have lots of Americans... on Netflix Buys Rights To Stream Chinese Sci-Fi Blockbuster 'The Wandering Earth' (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Ming-Na Wen is the world's most famous Portuguese action hero.