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  1. Re:Refresh rate limited by electron mobility? on First Transistors Made Entirely of 2-D Materials · · Score: 1

    They are comparing against transistors made directly on the amorphous silicon of the display, which are really shitty but transparent..

  2. Correct forms of skepticism on NASA, France Skeptical of SpaceX Reusable Rocket Project · · Score: 1

    Skeptical about climate change: good
    Skeptical about SpaceX: bad.

    Got it, thanks!

  3. Re:To all who say it's not two-dimensional on First Transistors Made Entirely of 2-D Materials · · Score: 1, Funny

    Why try to explain actual engineering to a bunch of typists?

  4. Re:Not the phone on The Feature Phone Is Dead: Long Live the 'Basic Smartphone' · · Score: 1

    "It's throttled after 5GB/month. "

    Which I already noted. My point is that there are no limitations placed on voice or texts other than the laws of physics. If at a fixed price voice/texts are too cheap to meter but data is worth metering, then the data is more expensive relative to voice and texts.

  5. Re:Not the phone on The Feature Phone Is Dead: Long Live the 'Basic Smartphone' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Data plans are no longer expensive"
    Compared to voice they are. In *your very own example*, voice and text are unlimited while data is throttled.

  6. Forbes NOT reporting on Actual Results of Crimean Secession Vote Leaked · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is an op-ed column, not a news article. Many news organization disclaim all fact-checking on op-eds; I don't know Forbes' specific policy.

  7. Re:Misleading on Actual Results of Crimean Secession Vote Leaked · · Score: 1

    Ask South Carolina. They did not even bother with a plebiscite.

  8. Re:Externally mounted cameras on Norway Is Gamifying Warfare By Driving Tanks With Oculus Rift · · Score: 1

    In which case you are no worse off than without the VR system.

  9. The Show-me Canuck objects to being shown?

  10. Exception handling is hard on U-2 Caused Widespread Shutdown of US Flights Out of LAX · · Score: 1

    When air traffic control seems an altitude of 60,000 feet. that is almost always an incorrect value. On rare occasions it is a very fancy plane.

    If you treat the fancy-plane situation as an incorrect value you create an inconvenience. If you treat the incorrect-value situation an a fancy plane you create a fatality. Which way are you going to bias your exception handling?

  11. Re:Someone tell the programmers on U-2 Caused Widespread Shutdown of US Flights Out of LAX · · Score: 1

    How often is an altitude of 60,000 feet not an error in reporting equipment (either altimiter or transponder)?

  12. The debating advantage of not having a position on Let's Call It 'Climate Disruption,' White House Science Adviser Suggests (Again) · · Score: 0

    The deniers can be satisfied just by disrupting the opposing position, rather than advancing any position of their own. That frees them from the requirements to make consistent or even logical arguments.

  13. Re:And the question of the day is... on Could Google's Test of Hiding Complete URLs In Chrome Become a Standard? · · Score: 1

    Clearly, you have patched your browser to only show IP numbers in URL instead of domain names.

  14. Re:Breaking News: Rand Paul Invents... on Rand Paul Suggests Backing Bitcoin With Stocks · · Score: 1

    "Libertarians do not believe markets should be totally unregulated."

    Explain the existence of the Dallas Accord in the face of this statement.

  15. "wait until these geniuses start trying to fly drones into the aircrafts' flight paths."
    No need to wait. The article says that also happened in this case.

  16. Re:IE 10 broke by DNT lying on Yahoo Stops Honoring 'Do-Not-Track' Settings · · Score: 3, Informative

    From http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft...
    "5. Header Syntax

          The Do Not Track HTTP header, "DNT", must take one of two values: "1"
          ("opt out") or "0" ("opt in"). All other values are reserved. ...
    6.3. Default

          A user agent MAY adopt NO-EXPRESSED-PREFERENCE or OPT-OUT by default.
          It MUST NOT transmit OPT-IN without explicit user consent."

    The standard explicitly allows opt-out as a default

  17. Re:Gun nuts on "Smart" Gun Seller Gets the Wrong Kind of Online Attention · · Score: 1

    Clearly, Belinda Padilla is single-handedly re-writing the laws of New Jersey.

  18. Re:Not for Nerds on What It's Like To Be the Scientific Consultant For The Big Bang Theory · · Score: 0

    "The kind with laughtracks?"

    The quantity of people lying about there being a laugh track on TBBT is so vast it's hard to resist wondering if there is some coordinating power.

  19. Re:Not for Nerds on What It's Like To Be the Scientific Consultant For The Big Bang Theory · · Score: 3, Funny

    My theory has always been that Sheldon isn't aspie, he's just an asshole.

  20. Why the nerds are appalled on What It's Like To Be the Scientific Consultant For The Big Bang Theory · · Score: 1

    There is a certain subset of nerd that cannot cope with the idea that the problems that nerds face in life are a lot like the problems that non-nerds face.

  21. Rookie security mistakes on DreamWorks Animation CEO: Movie Downloads Will Move To Pay-By-Screen-Size · · Score: 1

    One of the most popular seems to "trusting remotely entered data".

  22. Re:Incomplete on How the USPS Killed Digital Mail · · Score: 1

    Even Alfred Laffer does not think were are on the right-hand side of the Laffer Curve, and has never been able to prove that the US ever was.

  23. Re: Chip and PIN on Target Moves To Chip and Pin Cards To Boost Security · · Score: 1

    On the user side, all cards are not only backwards compatible with not only magnetic stripe but mechanical impression on carbon paper.

    On the processor side, presumably Square will have a new unit next year that can read the chip unless they want to absorb the costs of chargebacks themselves.

  24. Re:will everything grow to exclude advanced users? on Book Review: Designing With the Mind In Mind · · Score: 1

    Every single time I've seen "tool experts" complain that the user interface is excluding experts, it ends up that the so-called expert can be objectively measured to be doing things unproductively.

  25. Re:American company on American Judge Claims Jurisdiction Over Data Stored In Other Countries · · Score: 3, Informative

    Stop lying.

    The actual articles says *nothing* about US agencies gaining physical access purely on the basis of a US warrant.

    From the actual article:
    "A search warrant for email information, he said, is a "hybrid" order: obtained like a search warrant but executed like a subpoena for documents. Longstanding U.S. law holds that the recipient of a subpoena must provide the information sought, no matter where it is held, he said."

    So the instrument really is more like a subpoena in that it forces action on the recipient, in this case to retrieve the data from the foreign location. It does not authorize any US official to seize the data from the foreign location without the involvement of the foreign authorities.

    This ruling literally does NONE of the things you accuse it of.