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  1. Re: INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY AND ITS FUTURE on Samsung's $2,000 Galaxy Fold Units Are Failing Left and Right With Disastrous Display Issues (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    TL;DR: it's the Unabomber manifesto.

  2. Samsungs Failures will often lead to Apple not doing the same thing. So it may be many more more years until Apple makes a folding phone.

    A better idea than a folding screen might be having a folding device with a clamshell of two screens that butt together precisely when open, like a folding leaf in a dining table, perhaps with the help of mortising guides on the edge behind the screen. Such a device might be designed so that in its closed state only half of the screen is exposed, for use in "phone mode." To go to "tablet mode" one half of the clamshell would rotate to face the other half. Alternatively, it could be designed as a triptych including a physical keyboard that in "phone mode" folds against one half of the screen, protecting it.

  3. An explanation for NDE's? on 'Partly Alive': Scientists Revive Cells in Brains From Dead Pigs (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    We think we know definitively when brain death occurs, but what if some consciousness survives for a time after that? You could be conscious of people around you talking about your death, be they surgeons or bystanders. If unusual circumstances, such as having your supposedly dead body fished out of very cold water, lead you your revival, that consciousness could be the near-death experience that some people live to tell about.

  4. Re:I see a sci-fi movie on the horizon on 'Partly Alive': Scientists Revive Cells in Brains From Dead Pigs (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I remember one that I saw as a kid where they had a pilots brain kept alive in a jar

    In real life, he would just have to go back to his job at Allegiant.

  5. Mod this one up!

  6. Furthermore, back in 2014 we could spell ‘Galt’s Gulch’.

  7. Diesel rigging? on Volkswagen's Former CEO Charged In Germany Over Diesel Rigging (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Is that the web of ropes and tackle that Germans are using now to attack sails to their newest generation of environmentally friendly semis? The diesel engine would still kick in if a truck becomes becalmed on the autobahn.

  8. Plain compressed air would work just fine.

  9. Re:Romainian == Gypsy on The Rise and Fall of the Bayrob Malware Gang (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Roma name was applied when they were falsely thought to have originated in Romania. Though at the time, during the Cold War, that nation was unable to object, today's Romania wants no more to do with them than does any other part of Europe.

    The English word comes from an even earlier era, when they were falsely thought to have come from Egypt.

  10. Re:Why does this need 5G? on Fifty 'Connected Cows' Already Have 5G (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    5G fo the bandwidth that socially aware cows will need to find out that they should honor vegetarians but pee on vegans.

  11. Re:Why not a unified social credit score??? on We're All Being Judged By a Secret 'Trustworthiness' Score (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Why not all countries start using a unified social credit score, instead of credit scores, driver license scores, etc, like China???

    Canada is way ahead of even China on this, with a Social Credit Party that dates back to 1935.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  12. Re: AWS Crazieness... on We're All Being Judged By a Secret 'Trustworthiness' Score (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    ...Sieg heil the homeland, fatherland and motherfingland! AE911Truth Org

    Aaaand right here is an example of a post hosted from mom's basement!

  13. Re:Ummm.... on We're All Being Judged By a Secret 'Trustworthiness' Score (wsj.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    YOU DON'T WANT OR NEED THIS. Your bank is the one on the hook for fraud.

    Ultimately, every banking customer pays for fraud. Businesses don't 'absorb' ongoing costs; they always show up in the fees you pay for service.

  14. He's calling his company FlatEarthX on Flat Earther Now Wants to Launch His Homemade Rocket Into Space (phillyvoice.com) · · Score: 1

    His goal is to send an unvaccinated astronaut in his ship Green New Deal high enough above Earth to circle the south polar region, getting images above the ice wall at the edge of the world in a rocket freshly stickered with No GMO and No Nukes decals. A successful mission would return pictures of the turtles that our planetary disk is resting on.

    Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) tweeted his best wishes for the mission. "My aunt keeps telling me that 'if the Earth were flat like that bartender lady claims, cats would already have knocked everything off it'. Soon we will see who's right!"

  15. Re: end the nonsense on New York City Orders Mandatory Measles Vaccinations in Brooklyn (providencejournal.com) · · Score: 0

    So we are welcoming millions of stupid, plague-ridden illegals from third-world countries into "sanctuary cities" and expect them to contribute more to society than measles?

    The number of illegals who refuse vaccination is not only smaller but a lot less influential than the stupid, plague-ridden Hollywood stars and lefty opinion columnists who use their media presence to spread anti-science paranoia.

  16. Re:The CD and the Damage Done on DVD and Blu-Ray Sales Nearly Halved Over Five Years, MPAA Report Says (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Young's entire argument applies at noticeably low resolutions. There is always a digital resolution at which any given expert will find a digital recording indistinguishable from a clean analog, assuming that such an analog recording exists.

  17. And some of them were undoubtedly wearing Hawaiian shirts.

  18. There’s nothing wrong with PayPal so long as you stay on the buy side. It’s when you start using it to receive money that you fall into the pit of Hell.

  19. Re:Fuck everything, we're doing FIVE boosters on SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Rocket Launches First Paid Mission, Lands All Three Boosters For the First Time (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    The ultimate heavy booster would be one larger enough to lift precision metal smelting and shaping gear to the Moon. Once we have that, the space economy can manufacture its own large components outside Earth’s gravity well.

  20. Now it won't be necessary for people to vote up my previously submitted story.

  21. The Eu and "terrorist content" - LOL on EU Tells Internet Archive That Much Of Its Site Is 'Terrorist Content' (techdirt.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    While the Eurocrats make increasingly insane rules, the real problem is their failure to control the EU's own borders. By letting in an unvetted flood of refugees who did not pass through the long-established immigration process, they exposed themselves to actual terrorists who hid in that stream. Small wonder that the common folk of Britain, France, Hungary and now Italy are rebelling against this policy. Popcorn!

  22. Re:Wow. So Hillary is the entire DoD??? on Wikileaks Co-founder Julian Assange Arrested in London (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody with half a brain accused him of Treason. He's not a US citizen, he can't commit treason against the US, he has no expectation of loyalty to it.

    That's immaterial. The federal government has so many lawyers that it can invent whatever pretext it feels like to charge anyone in the world, jurisdiction-shop for a compliant judge to sign off on the deal, and go after that person.

    Recall that Assange was originally charged with rape in Sweden, rather than treason against what is to him a foreign country. Whatever happened to that one?

  23. Cdn. legal weirdness/Étrangeté juridique on Man Caught Wearing Earbuds With a Dead Phone Found Guilty of Distracted Driving (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 0

    In a country where free speech applies only if it doesn't offend anyone, is anyone surprised that unpowered devices could be considered distracting?

    After all, if a driver were holding a block of wood painted to look like a phone, speaking to such a device would not run the risk of violating the National Campus Speech Code, would it now?

  24. All these Orwellian police state tactics instituted by (R) dominated cities....

    Is this a horrible police state tactic, or a humane alternative to jail?

  25. Re:Third-world country on Are America's Big Telecom Companies Suppressing Fiber? (salon.com) · · Score: 0

    I really dont understand opposition to voter id...

    It’s a tribal thing. Democrats are against voter ID because requiring it would prevent illegal aliens from voting. We of the dark side claim that only citizens should be able to vote. With our other quaint beliefs like free speech and due process, citizen voting is destined for the dustbin of history.