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  1. Re:So itâ(TM)s basically bubble wrap? on Meet the Interstitium, the Largest Organ We Never Knew We Had (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 2

    So weâ(TM)re basically little air bags all surrounded by bubble wrap..

    From which some people gain inner peace by popping bits of the bubble wrap with pins. THIS is what explains acupuncture.

  2. Re:nail simple dictation first on Baidu Shows Off Its Instant Pocket Translator (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Software to wreck a nice beach...

  3. This is an interesting thread of anecdotes about FB possibly listening in to conversations or phone calls, an anecdote being a data point that support the other guy's hypothesis. So why not test the possibility by dropping honeypot terms into daily conversation? We don't even have to wait around for a formal study, because such a finding would be a major coup for any tech journalist willing to devote a week to trying this out. Under iOS at least, any app using the microphone without asking permission first is violating the TOS.

  4. Re:Big mistake! on Uber Ordered To Take Its Self-Driving Cars Off Arizona Roads (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but has there been any testing on a stream of traffic made up entirely of these cars?

    This question arises because many of the minor collisions in stop-and-go traffic occur when one inattentive driver slams on his brakes at the last instant. Even if he avoids hitting the car in front, this action can create a ripple through the line of traffic that leads to everyone suddenly braking, with a larger number of collisions. So let's see what happens when all cars use the same kind of automation as Audi in stalled traffic.

  5. Re:use less energy on Wind and Solar Can Power Most of the United States, Says Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If we start using a lot less energy. Using less is the only clean energy.

    So you're the one writing those physics problems that assume spherical cows grazing in a vacuum?

  6. Re:Everything is possible! on Wind and Solar Can Power Most of the United States, Says Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The ozone hole kills hundreds of thousands of people every year.

    The ozone hole that has been closing up again ever since AC refrigerant was refurmulted?
    https://www.nasa.gov/feature/g...

  7. Re:typical, predictable move on Uber Ordered To Take Its Self-Driving Cars Off Arizona Roads (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    There are several different self-drive systems in beta in Arizona. The suspension only applies to Uber, and because there appears to something strikingly wrong with its implementation. The car should have seen a slow-walking pedestrian in a well lit area.

  8. Re:Legal case? on Uber Ordered To Take Its Self-Driving Cars Off Arizona Roads (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    In most resorts, the class action suite is designed to be a rugged and easily cleanable venue for homecomings and spring break: vomit proof furniture, a punch bowl full of condoms, quick-change sheets, and the usual stack of brochures for 'safety' schools to apply to after your kid gets expelled.

  9. Re:Big mistake! on Uber Ordered To Take Its Self-Driving Cars Off Arizona Roads (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    One of the most frequent minor accident scenarios in freeway driving is when stop-and-go congested traffic comes to a sudden stop. Often we get a series of rear-end collisions at this point after drivers' attention has drifted. Does Audi have any tests on how traffic behaves when all of the cars in a congested area are on Level 3 autopilot?

  10. Re:Not bad but look at this, son. on Elon Musk Says Boring Company Will Sell 'Lego-Like' Kits of Excavated Rock (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They weren't alone. Sodium fluoride is a waste product of the aluminum industry. Toxic waste also purchased for water fluoridation supply. I heard that domestic industry ran out of this so now we import it from China who consider it a dangerous pollutant. (China!)

    This was fake news in 1952, when the Republicans were spreading it. Today it's still fake news, but from the Democrats.

  11. Re:Oh for fuck's sake on More Than 75 Percent of Earth's Land Areas Are 'Broken,' Major Report Finds (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Most of the world's farmland is so "broken" that the problem in most countries is people getting fat. This now includes such historically poor places as South Korea, China and growing swaths of India. The areas that are actually in trouble are for the most part where farmers are being massacred by whatever latest tribe of bloodthirsty savages happens to be radiating from the Middle East this year. Al Shabab and Boko Haram are not environmental problems.

  12. Re:Oh for fuck's sake on More Than 75 Percent of Earth's Land Areas Are 'Broken,' Major Report Finds (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    COUGH* Fake account *COUGH

  13. Remember the Granatelli STP turbine race car? on Netflix Banned From Competing At Cannes Film Festival Due To Lack of Theatrical Releases (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    It competed at Indy in 1968 and lapped the entire field before crapping out right at the end with a minor mechanical problem. But because all the pricey Offenhausers driving the other Indy cars immediately became obsolete, the official response was to ban turbines at Indy in future years. That was the moment when the US yielded world domination of automotive technology to Asia.

    Cannes used to be one of the great festivals for indy films. This decision makes it the Indy of the film world.

  14. Spotted the trans theory majors! on Students Are Using Their Loan Money To Buy Cryptocurrency, Study Says (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously the students "investing" in imaginary currency are not econ majors. Whatever their concentrations, they will soon be broke, out of school, no job prospects, and hoping that the STEM students will create the tech that will one day fund their Universal Basic Income.

  15. Non gender specific people, start your hashtags! on Cops Are Now Opening iPhones With Dead People's Fingerprints (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Abdul Razak Ali Artan had mowed down a group of people in his car, gone on a stabbing spree with a butcher's knife and been shot dead by a police officer on the grounds of Ohio State University,

    Attention, you millennial ornate hexagonal crystals of dihydrogen monoxide! For how much longer are we going to let people ride around in these personal weapons of mass destruction, wielding kitchen utensils that can kill silently at any time? The UK is taking knives away from people now, and so can we. #CarsKillKnivesKillBusesForAll

  16. That's why I didn't add the twist that Clueless AC did.

  17. More relevantly, I’ve had my suspicions about the anti-science movement. One wing denies climatology, and the other wing denies all the other sciences.

  18. So instead of the search that everybe uses billionsif tnes a day, you home in on a nice engine advertised as not being particularly good, but PRIVATE. Enjoy your pot of honey.

  19. Re:And then a hero comes along on Flat-Earther's Steam-Powered Rocket Lofts Him 1,875 Feet Up Into Mojave Desert (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    He had a dream and he put his life on the line for it and shot himself into the air on a homemade goddamn rocket. It's the unifying concept of Westward, Ho! except he was already in California and couldn't go West any more, so he turned a goddamn mobile home into a goddamn launch pad.

    I congratulate him on finding the only adventurous activity, crazy though it may have been, that one can still get a permit for in California.

  20. Re:Cheaper / easier option on Breakthrough Study Reveals How LSD Dissolves a Person's Sense of Self (newatlas.com) · · Score: 2

    Zurich is an oddly appropriate choice, since the world's first LSD trip in 1954 occurred in Basel.

  21. The theme I liked best was the idea of aliens softening Earth up for attack by messing with terrestrial politics, crippling society with defeatist anti-scientific movements like the Maoist Cultural Revolution.

  22. Your wish is granted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    Bryan Singer directing.

  23. Book 1 is just the warmup. The trilogy ends with the heat death of the universe.

  24. Steampunk rocketry on Flat-Earther's Steam-Powered Rocket Lofts Him 1,875 Feet Up Into Mojave Desert (latimes.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    His big mistake was burning pine in the firebox. Next time, a longer-burning hardwood like well-seasoned hickory will improve the specific impulse of his Engine For Raising Aeronauts By Fire. I commend him for trying this approach for high aerial flight and not simply giving up after learning that Czar Nicholas had cornered the entire supply of cavorite he had intended to buy on the London commodity exchange.

    I also recommend that should he achieve high altitude, he thoroughly seal his gondola with oakum and gutta-percha, to prevent the escape of too much air.

  25. Why are Australians so concerned about privacy? on 'How I Went Dark In Australia's Surveillance State For 2 Years' (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    This is a serious question. Whenever a US data privacy debate pops up online, Australians seem to weigh in with Europeans in calling privacy a paranoid American concern. When the government told them to turn in their guns, they did so in concern for the greater good. Why not agree to have their movements tracked and their telephony metadata archived? It's for the greater good too, isn't it?