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  1. Re:Modern Family on Is The Future Of Television Watching on Fast-Forward? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    And consider the time we would save by speeding through the commercials themselves.

  2. The Facebook cloning problem on Google and Facebook May Be Suppressing 'Extremist' Speech With Copyright Scanners (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    One easy application for this fingerprinting and hashing tech would be on FB itself! My name and picture have been getting cloned by scammers with increasing frequency, and it's now up to about once a week. I'm about to delete my Facebook presence, since I use it only for commenting on group sites anyway, now that apologizing to people on my Friends list when they get spam from cloners is taking up too much of my time.

  3. Re:Perfect for Jury Nullification on Austin Is Conducting Sting Operations Against Ride-Sharing Drivers (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why I don't rant about jury nullification. It's just a power that a juror should be able to, given the appropriate circumstances, exercise.

  4. Re:Perfect for Jury Nullification on Austin Is Conducting Sting Operations Against Ride-Sharing Drivers (examiner.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    At voir dire you must never admit to being an advocate of jury nullification, even though it's a power you have as a juror. If you exercise it in a given trial, always have some interpretation of the evidence and testimony, however strained, to use as an excuse. You have the right to be as tricky as the prosecutor is at interpreting the case.

  5. Re:JWST operates in the infrared on NASA Approves Five More Years For Hubble Space Telescope (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Translation: This is gonna be an IR-only telescope because we saved $1000 by not adding a visible-light CCD.

    Because JWST has not yet launched, we could still spend that extra $1000 as a hedge against TMT not being built.

  6. Re: Last useful thing the US will do on NASA Approves Five More Years For Hubble Space Telescope (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    This plague should have stopped bailing you out after WWI

    Then we would by now be stuck with even more arrogant Germans dreaming up insane regulations, but this time with nobody to buy electricity from. At least the French have better cuisine.

  7. Re:Why set timelines? on NASA Approves Five More Years For Hubble Space Telescope (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    "Space shuttle...I miss that bird. Hey, Mr. Trump, once you are elected, please fly a 'very last' mission to HST, bring her back home."

    The Shuttle is long gone, which means that right now we have no way of sending another service mission to the Hubble. I would rather make it an X-prize private mission. It would be like taking one last try at keeping Grandma's Windows XP desktop alive.

  8. The scariest part of his story on From File-Sharing To Prison: The Story of a Jailed Megaupload Programmer (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We keep using the phrase "The US is the world's policemen" without realizing that it is literally true, that even if you are not a US person and you do something that happens to be an offense in the US, even a nonviolent one, the FBI can come and get you in every part of the world.

    This story needs to be trumpeted (or hillaried, if this is possible) in this year's political campaign. This is a lot more serious an abuse of centralized power than those banana regulations in the European Union.

  9. Re:Congratulations on Sweden Tests World's First Electric Road For Trucks (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    Congratulations. You have invented the train.

    What I find really interesting is not the linked article itself, but the one right below it on Scania's new inductively-charged bus.If we can inductively supply power to buses, why can't we supply power to trains in the same way, even if just for urban light rail? Getting rid of the pantographs and that nineteenth-century tangle of overhead wires would make mass transit cheaper and more esthetically acceptable.

  10. Re:We need to stop the abortion. it's just horribl on New Apps Let Women Obtain Birth Control Without Visiting a Doctor · · Score: 1

    We need to stop the abortion. it's just horrible and inhuman.

    Here in Arizona we don't use Bibles to stop abortions. We prefer prenatal carry.

  11. Re:The Amazon of food, huh? on Robot Pizza Company 'Zume' Wants To Be 'Amazon of Food' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Right now, yes.

  12. Re:The Amazon of food, huh? on Robot Pizza Company 'Zume' Wants To Be 'Amazon of Food' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Famous Pizza. Occasionally Pisa Lisa.

  13. The Amazon of food, huh? on Robot Pizza Company 'Zume' Wants To Be 'Amazon of Food' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    How hot will that pizza still be three days later when UPS drops it on my doorstep in Yavapai County, AZ?

  14. Re:Of course the spin is people are... on In the Aftermath Of Brexit, Brits Google About Irish Passport, Meaning Of EU, and Why it All Happened · · Score: 1

    My, isn't the cognitive dissonance strong with this one.

    "... enforce Sharia, why would they?"
    http://www.clarionproject.org/...

    "...rape women that is racist." Yes it was racist, but they did it anyway, in Köln.

    "shoot up malls. This is the EU, not the US." But it happens anyway, because gun laws restrict only the law-abiding. A bad guy can always get a gun. Bad guys with the backing of Saudi princes can have all the jihadist fun they want in, say, Paris.

    "traffic children. Never heard about that. To where would an immigrant traffic children?"
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  15. Re:Of course the spin is people are... on In the Aftermath Of Brexit, Brits Google About Irish Passport, Meaning Of EU, and Why it All Happened · · Score: 1

    Yes, because of the Opium Wars of 200 years ago, China is starving today.

  16. The butthurt at Slate and Salon was palpable on In the Aftermath Of Brexit, Brits Google About Irish Passport, Meaning Of EU, and Why it All Happened · · Score: 1

    These sites took a day off from their usual "Europeans are infinitely wiser than Americans in every possible way" to add "Except for British voters."

  17. Re:Just amazing on Study Finds Password Misuse In Hospitals Is 'Endemic' (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    Any hospital gear that is not airgapped should be painted some warning color, with a distinctive logo for the colorblind.

  18. Re:This was a states' rights vote on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, Britain is not about to start growing cotton and having slaves.

  19. This was a states' rights vote on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's exactly the same issue as in the US: given a steady seepage of power to an unaccountable central government run by politicians and academics obsessed with issues the general public doesn't care about, this sentiment has been building up for years. Then add an uncontrolled wave of insurgents (not 'immigrants' in any traditional legal sense whatever) and you have a revolt.

  20. Re:How Far, How Fast Without Pedaling? on Xiaomi Launches Foldable Electric Bike QiCycle At a Price Of $450 (indianexpress.com) · · Score: 1

    That was a big flop, though. The fire code inspectors came to his new club, took one look at all those stairways fanning out in different directions, and shut him down.

  21. Re:How Far, How Fast Without Pedaling? on Xiaomi Launches Foldable Electric Bike QiCycle At a Price Of $450 (indianexpress.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't knock M C Escher. He was the world's first schoolboy to have to walk to class uphill both ways.

  22. Re:How Far, How Fast Without Pedaling? on Xiaomi Launches Foldable Electric Bike QiCycle At a Price Of $450 (indianexpress.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't this model intended mainly to 'flatten out hills'?

  23. Re:nano-degree class ? on Google Launches Android Programming Course For Absolute Beginners (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "a nano-degree class"

    This course is actually designed to produce the managers of tomorrow.

  24. Okay, now I get it! on Europe's Robots To Become 'Electronic Persons' Under Draft Plan (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    So this is why the Brits are attaching hundreds of thousands of outboard motors to their eastern coastline, to push their island as far out into the Atlantic as possible away from these people.

  25. Re:Dynamo Bikes... on KFC Introduces Meal Box That Doubles As A Smartphone Charger (indianexpress.com) · · Score: 1

    We do this in the UK also.... ...except the power is already in the KFC chicken itself, rather than a lipol batter pack. This project puts free to use dynamo bikes for the public to use. Plug your phone in, then burn a few calories charging it..... ideal if you've pigged out and want to burn at least some of it off!

    This is a far better idea. After the big vote, will you still invite Europeans to come over and ride these?