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  1. Newport Beach alone is worth more than that on Broadcom Buying CA For $19 billion (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Broadcom Buying CA For $19 billion

    But financial analysts say that San Francisco, with its mounting urban problems, is dragging down the value of the rest of the state.

  2. Re: Amazing stuff on Software Beats Animal Tests at Predicting Toxicity of Chemicals (nature.com) · · Score: 2

    Liberals do not hate science. Conservatives tend much more to hate it and believe in literal interpretations of the bible instead.

    Liberal haters of science: Anti-vax, No GMO, No Nukes, No TMT. Feelings expressed as endless protests, lawsuits, food labeling propositions and other actions designed to stop science and its applications in its tracks.

    Conservative haters of science are the creationists. Their feelings are expressed as..feelings, which you occasionally see expressed on websites. Have you ever seen an instance - just a single instance - of creationists preventing public infrastructure from being built? If you have, please let me know.

  3. Re:Amazing stuff on Software Beats Animal Tests at Predicting Toxicity of Chemicals (nature.com) · · Score: 0

    This is replacing the suffering of millions of animals today. Truly useful.

    Now liberals will have to think fast to come up with another reason for hating science.

  4. Re:Trump will not be charged with this. on Ex-Apple Worker Charged With Stealing Self-Driving Car Trade Secrets (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Most other things though are looking good. That punk ass traitor will die in Federal prison and never make it to his multiple state sentences.

    Actually an incident like this plays precisely into Trump's view of China. Watch his tariff program go into hyperdrive.

  5. Re:Forget 5C, how about higher differentials? on High-Power Thermoelectric Generator Utilizes Thermal Difference of Only 5C (newelectronics.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I hear the "hum" of a new industry preparing to get it's...feet...wet.

    Followed by the flesh-cooking sizzle of users with wet feet running electric appliances.

  6. The EU are trying to avoid a Microsoft Windows situation on mobile phones.

    The Microsoft Windows situation went like this:

    1. MIcrosoft was falsely accused of 'monopoly' because at the time of the accusation a large majority of computer users happened to be running Windows.

    2. In a Kurt Vonnegut-style attempt to settle the dispute, MS was made to cripple its virus detection by pulling it out of Windows and replacing it with a motley band of third-party antivirus systems. The best of these merely sucked, as opposed to fatally bogging down PCs.

    3. Other operating systems sprang up in competition with Windows and, finding that Microsoft was not actually emitting any special radiation that prevented people from using competing systems, began to draw off market share.

    4. Windows still has a majority of users, but nobody cares any more because the other operating systems work so much better. People use Windows because it comes "for free" on their new laptop and because they have to run their legacy software.

  7. Re:John Fogerty, anyone? on YouTuber Says He Was Accused of Infringing His Own Song (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What the Fogerty case established is that your musical style is not ‘alienable’ by sale of one particular song in that style.

  8. I’m distinguishing between regulations affecting communications as a whole and municipal permits, which are the impediments often controlled by existing providers and used to keep new providers from getting in. The best way to prevent these arrangements from occurring is...high-level regulation.

  9. I’m sure it won’t be ‘easy’ to change the number, but the one market I can see for this device is criminals who will take advantage of the first successful hack.

  10. Telecom is not one of the markets being held down by regulation, though. I see a constant flow of innovation. The problem is a dearth of competition in the last mile.

  11. Re:Who lives at the North Pole exactly? on Delivering Amazon Packages To the Top of the World (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Who lives at the North Pole exactly? Or did someone's PR team shoot their load five months too early?

    Becvause of thinning polar ice and the elves” recent unionization vote, the toy manufacturer you’re thinking of has already relocated to Shanghai.

  12. Re:Replace Postal Service on Delivering Amazon Packages To the Top of the World (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    In Arizona we have one Indian village deep in the Grand Canyon that has its mail delivered by mule every day. No extra change.

  13. Re: Not Enough! on Westinghouse AP1000 Nuclear Reactor Starts Generating Power (world-nuclear-news.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    No the US free market is choosing wind

    No, the subsidy farming market is choosing wind.

  14. Re:Scare quotes "opened" - Ooooooo on BYD Claims New Battery Factory Will Be 'Largest In the World' (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    I have a pair of these too. A little bulky, but great for road trips, because I don’t have to keep stopping to recharge my devices. And when we do pause for dinner, Denny’s lets me plug my butt in for a while.

  15. The trial had one odd side effect on Scientists Use Caffeine To Control Genes (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    the team engineered a system to treat type 2 diabetes in mice with sips of coffee, specifically Nespresso Volluto coffee

    Without even being asked to, the mice coded a small but functional operating system for Raspberry Pi. Though it was quickly infested with catware, it did basically run.

  16. Rule one in IT on Ask Slashdot: Have You Ever 'Ghosted' an Employer? (linkedin.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't burn your bridges, especially if you're the troll.

  17. Nothing really new here on We've Reached 'Peak Screen'. So What Comes Next? (wral.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    We used to bitch about having to run programs on our desktops so we could bring printed contact and route map information into the field when we needed them. Now we do the same thing on our portable screens. No, we're not becoming zombies because we look at our screens when we need info on the fly any more than we all became addicted to comics in the Thirties or TV in the Fifties.

    We already use voice assistants as macros as an alternative to calling up multiple apps successively. I can go into Contacts, select Joseph Blow, tap his address to bring it up in Maps, and then tap the sequence to go into voice navigation. Or I can say, "Hey Siri, navigate to Joseph Blow!" without looking at the screen.

    iOS 12 will open Siri up as an API for third-party apps. This will mean a lot more voice macros replacing screen time. Time for a moral panic over Peak Mouth.

  18. Re:Not really needed on The Quest To Find Nuclear Fuel On the Moon (businessweekme.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a lot of potential energy in thorium, but sitting around waiting for it to be developed is only slightly less nonproductive than sitting around waiting for fusion.

  19. Re:If Wishes Be Horses on The Quest To Find Nuclear Fuel On the Moon (businessweekme.com) · · Score: 1

    And when we do get fusion power, the flat-earth lobby will still think up reasons to be against it until their oil company money runs out. Let's not sit around waiting for fusion.

  20. Re:Seems odd on Study Suggests There's No Limit On Longevity (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Wasn't there a grand total of one person who survived beyond 115?

  21. Re:This is a surprise? on America is Falling Behind On Its Paris Climate Pledge (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    I am also wondering how much these coal companies contribute to the antinuclear movement. The dark money that nobody wants to follow.

  22. Re:We were already behind on America is Falling Behind On Its Paris Climate Pledge (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Our switch from coal to gas was putting us ahead of most other countries at the time, but there is a limit to how much carbon we can save that way.

  23. Re:This is a surprise? on America is Falling Behind On Its Paris Climate Pledge (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Germany, in particular, has almost bankrupted itself paving the environment with wind turbines, as well as those solar panels that collect mostly dead leaves, and has managed to actually increase its carbon emissions as it switches its industrial baseload from nuclear to coal.
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/j...

  24. Re:It's the World Cup. on Comcast and Xfinity Facing a Nationwide Outage [Update: Company Confirms] · · Score: 3, Funny

    Homer: I've watched thousands of hours of soccer, I almost saw a goal.

    As opposed to our game, which combines two great American things: violence and committee meetings.

  25. Re:Not just control of IP; control of INFORMATION on How the EU Copyright Proposal Will Hurt the Web and Wikipedia (wikimedia.org) · · Score: 1

    Obviously you were not a history major.