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  1. This means that screen addiction is GOOD on Cell Phone Radiation May Affect Memory Performance In Adolescents, Study Finds (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    The steady trend is toward gazing at a phone held in front of you, rather than holding it against your head. Okay, so instead of brain cancer, today's smartphone addiction is causing major injuries due to unexpected contact with fast-moving objects.

  2. Re:Code in which language on Bing Now Provides Exact Snippets of Code for Developers' Queries (searchenginejournal.com) · · Score: 1

    Coming from Microsoft, it's probably more like Intercal.

    {
    Whoosh();
    }

  3. Code in which language on Bing Now Provides Exact Snippets of Code for Developers' Queries (searchenginejournal.com) · · Score: 2

    Let me guess: it's always C# ?

  4. Re:Terrible - Assange is great on Ecuador Will Be Handing Assange Over To UK Authorities 'In Coming Weeks Or Days': RT (express.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Actually only a small fraction of that flood of "Syrian refugees" is actually Syrian. Are you going to claim that Russia is behind al Shabaab, Boku Haram, and the Bengali slaughter of dissident bloggers?

  5. Re:Or another US concentration camp. on Ecuador Will Be Handing Assange Over To UK Authorities 'In Coming Weeks Or Days': RT (express.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    So there's a German version of Nye County, Nevada!

  6. Re:Terrible - Assange is great on Ecuador Will Be Handing Assange Over To UK Authorities 'In Coming Weeks Or Days': RT (express.co.uk) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Putin's plan of dismantling Europe and hurting NATO lately in his support of separatist movements like Brexit and Catalonian independence. Parts of Europe are practically paralyzed due to being busy with these non-issues. It's no secret that Russia is supporting separatist and right-wing parties throughout Europe.

    So...it was the Russians who sent all those radical Third World migrants to Europe?

  7. Re:safer, but not perfectly safe on Waymo's Autonomous Vehicles Are Driving 25,000 Miles Every Day (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Relax. Your bridge won't become obsolete just because tech has marched on. If you're licensed by the Arizona Board of Troll, those self-driving cars are already using it.

  8. Re:Finishing the summary.... on Who Owns the Moon? A Space Lawyer Answers (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    What the Space Treaty was designed to prevent was the annexation of territory in space by Earthly countries. It has nothing against private developers using resources there and establishing communities of their own, so long as such governments are 'local'.

  9. I love living in the future on Waymo's Autonomous Vehicles Are Driving 25,000 Miles Every Day (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    A world where I can already verbally tell my 2018 Toyota to call Mother. A world where I still have Mother, at age 96.

  10. And even though chemtrail fluid is made from domestic StarLink corn, Monsanto's sale to Bayer complicates the manufacturing process. EU agents have now infiltrated the company and could at any time stumble upon the genetic engineering process by which the corn is used to produce the midichlorian-infused fluid.

  11. Please explain to me again how Capitalism organizes the economy for the most efficient use of resources.
     

    Because if London had true capitalism, Heathrow would have ten runways. That way, British Airways would have a place to stack up all its delayed flights.

  12. The problem with the chemtrail apparatus is not just the tanks, which require lightening the passenger load but the dispenser heads attached to each engine. In-flight turbulence causes the feed to become uneven. That's why in the bad-weather Midwest you get towns that totally swallow the Illuminati conspiracy to the extent that they have Knights Templars parades down Main Street, while the next town over will totally reject the conspiracy.

  13. Re:square cash on Venmo Refuses To Say Why Transactions Are Public By Default (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I've always used Square Cash primarily because of this

    Seconded.

  14. Re:Don't care if it is labelled on Weird New Fruits Could Hit Aisles Soon Thanks To Gene Editing (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Why not have a designated religious process area on food labels? That's where we would indicate halal, kosher, No GMO, etc. Nutrition labels list ingredients, and GMO is not an ingredient.

  15. Re: Just say NO on Weird New Fruits Could Hit Aisles Soon Thanks To Gene Editing (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Wookiefoot made a great song on this "no more junk in my food"
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

    Sample of lyrics:
    Then monsanto owned the farms gm gm gmo and on that farm he had a plant that won't produce a seed monopolize everything that grow....

    This is an example of what anti-science liberals call a research study.

  16. Re:Optical Space Telescopes are Now Obsolete on ESO's Very Large Telescope Now Delivers Images Sharper Than Hubble (eso.org) · · Score: 1

    The JWST will be launched eventually, when we stop scewing around and give it to Elon Musk.

  17. Re: Science-hating liberals strike again on ESO's Very Large Telescope Now Delivers Images Sharper Than Hubble (eso.org) · · Score: 1

    The TMT was a multinational effort with no US taxpayer input, and has been fully funded. I'm still hoping that because China is one of the partners, that it will eventually be built in the Tibetan plateau, where there are already qualified sites for large telescopes in the future.

    Spain has offered to host the TMT, but they don't have the high-altitude sites that would be appropriate for anything this size.

  18. Re:It’s time to privatize our manned space p on Chinese Space Official Seems Unimpressed With NASA's Lunar Gateway (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody thought there was a large market for launch services either, until the private sector came in and slashed cost below the wildest expectations of economists, as competition tends to do in every line of business. Each lowering of the price level has caused new demand to magically appear.

  19. Whatever the outcome of this ship salvage, I really hope that railway project gets built. The one peaceful way to demolish North Korea and unify the peninsula would be wide-open free trade. Once the NK common folk see what they have been missing all these years, North Korea will dissolve faster than East Germany.

  20. It’s time to privatize our manned space prog on Chinese Space Official Seems Unimpressed With NASA's Lunar Gateway (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    NASA has to be excessively cautious in planning any manned program because of the political fallout they get after any accident. JFK was canny in making Apollo a quasi-military Cold War effort within which it was possible to take elevated levels of risk. Washington would be totally unable to repeat anything like this in today's political climate.

    If we want a lunar base we will have to call in a certain South African entrepreneur or whichever commercial competitor can take the risks necessary do the job.

  21. Science-hating liberals strike again on ESO's Very Large Telescope Now Delivers Images Sharper Than Hubble (eso.org) · · Score: 1

    That VLT was intended to have a Northern Hemisphere companion, the Thirty Meter Telescope, to be located in Hawaii. The two similar instruments could have cooperated to cover the whole sky and to perform long-baseline observations in the band where they overlap. But the anti-science community now classifies large research telescopes as evil infrastructure, like nuclear plants. Back in the Nineties they tried to kill off the newest large scopes here in Arizona, but we ran them off before they could do any damage. Unfortunately they found an undefended blue state to nest in.

  22. Re:Wasn't Hubble broken anyway? on ESO's Very Large Telescope Now Delivers Images Sharper Than Hubble (eso.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    IIRC the mirror was ground with gravity present. Then under zero G conditions it sprung back to an unanticipated shape.

    No, Perkin-Elmer simply screwed up. And amazingly after finishing a 72-inch mirror and sending it into high orbit, they didn’t think of running the Foucault figure test that every amateur astronomer who has ever ground a mirror knows To do.

  23. This is an old, old controversy on Should the Word 'Milk' Be Used To Describe Nondairy Milk-Alternative Products? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The unique double-ended quartz crystals found in upstate New York nave traditionally been called “Herkimer diamonds.” Diamond dealers have always objected to terms like this as being misleading.

  24. This is a total non-story on Bye Siri, Says Apple AI's Last Remaining Founder (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    It’s about one guy retiring. Meanwhile, in iOS 12 Siri, which up to now has been a voice macro system for Apple stock apps, will be opened up for third-party use. This is when thing will start to get interesting.

  25. Re:Alternatives to Google. on EU Regulators Fine Google Record $5 Billion in Android Case (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    I've always felt it unethical to use the products of a company that makes money from advertising

    Because Google makes money from advertising, it doesn’t have to charge its search users. Watching advertising, or giving up demographic information, is your trade for free stuff, just as TV was in the days of broadcasting.