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  1. Re:Real value: $0. on Hewlett-Packard Historical Archive Destroyed In California Fires (pressdemocrat.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    If they where of serious value, they would have to be stored properly.

    ...or already digitized.

    Yes, that. Could no one at HP put their hands on a decent flatbed scanner?

  2. Re:Bigger priorities on San Francisco Just Took a Huge Step Toward Internet Utopia (wired.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Perhaps they should focus on more basic needs. Eliminating the feces that litter the streets. The horrible roads that are full of potholes. Lowering housing costs. Yeah, Internet... that's the most important thing.

    Governments have lots of people in them. They're actually capable of doing more than one thing at a time.

  3. What soul? on NYT Op-Ed Argues Amazon 'Took Seattle's Soul' (bendbulletin.com) · · Score: 1

    I live in Cleveland. They can have the soul.

  4. Re:Tracking is totally the problem with ads on For Under $1,000, Mobile Ads Can Track Your Location (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    What the user is looked for/at at that moment should be more than enough to make a targeted ad without it being personalised.

    Targeted, but not effective. I recently searched for new bike pedals. For the last three weeks I keep seeing ads for pedals, and shoes, and gloves, and ... Hey wait, I do need some new gloves. That price looks pretty good.

    They do it because it works.

  5. Bad guys with inside access to that information would literally have a 'skeleton key' for hundreds of millions of computers around the world.

    They literally would not.

  6. I'm more shocked to know there's 65 antivirus providers. Is Windows really that bad?

    Yes.

  7. Re:Elon Musk farts butterflies, too? on Elon Musk Says Tesla Could Rebuild Puerto Rico's Power Grid With Batteries, Solar (electrek.co) · · Score: 2

    It's not that there aren't some applications, e.g. pumping water to "reservoirs", running air conditioning, where wind/solar can work fine today. It's that the high reliability and low costs US/Canadian electricity users are used to are VERY difficult to replicate on an island over a thousand fucking miles from the mainland.

    Fixed it for you.

  8. Since when did Chromebooks become bulky? on Google Wants Its New Pixelbook to Win the Laptop and Tablet Battle (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    My daughters both have Chromebooks they use for school. They're roughly the same size as the MacBook Pro I carry for work, and about half the weight. Since when did that become "bulky"?

  9. I often ask the question in return, 'Is the reason you've still got so much to do because you haven't gotten enough sleep and so you're inefficient while you're working?'

    I've got "so much to do" because stuff grows to fill the space it's got. If you're the kind of person who likes to be hectic and busy all the time, you'll do it whether you're awake 16 hours a day or 20.

    Same goes for bosses. We all talk about "getting the work done" but most of them only care about how busy you are - or how busy you look. Very few of them know what's a reasonable amount of work to expect, so they focus on hours and effort.

  10. What is even the point of releasing this kind of news if no one can even tell if it is an improvement on what we already do?

    The difference is now you know we're doing it. Did you know before this story came out how much we were spending on STEM? No? Well you do now. Winning bigly!

  11. To start, Trump is set to sign a presidential memorandum at the White House later today ...

    Holy fuck, he's signing a memo! Shit just got real y'all!

  12. Re:Tomato juice pro tip! on How Flying Seriously Messes With Your Mind and Body (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    How does it compare to Brawndo? Brawndo is pretty good on planes too.

    It's got electrolytes.

  13. ... the groups describe the new standards as "opaque and arbitrary"

    Not arbitrary at all. They're specifically designed to target the advertisers.

  14. Eventually, centralized shopping locations won't be necessary, because there will be 100,000 Bodegas spread out, with one always 100 feet away from you.

    And will each of those boxes have the same inventory? Because at 5 feet wide, they aren't going to have nearly the same selection. They might poach the 20% of bodega trips with the highest-turnover, highest-profit items - the same way oil change shops took that service away from full-service garages - but someone still has to carry the other 80% of the inventory.

  15. Re:Let's see a negligient homicide charge! on FDA Slams EpiPen Maker For Doing Nothing While Hundreds Failed, People Died (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Exactly. Elements of involuntary manslaughter (AKA negligent homicide):

    1. Someone was killed as a result of the defendant's actions.
    2. The act either was inherently dangerous to others or done with reckless disregard for human life.
    3. The defendant knew or should have known his or her conduct was a threat to the lives of others.

  16. ... and No One Knows Why on Twitter is Just Randomly Deleting People's Lists -- and No One Knows Why (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Are they sure no one knows? That would mean it's a bug.

    If this is instead Twitter intentionally purging lists for some reason, then someone knows why, they just aren't saying. That's a really different thing.

  17. Binge Watching *This Particular* Show ... on Binge Watching TV Makes It Less Enjoyable, Study Says (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Try that across multiple different types of shows: Historical realism, comedy, fantasy, action, etc. Was the show created for broadcast or is it a Netflix original?

    This is an interesting finding, but not conclusive of anything yet.

  18. Last time I checked, Comcast used mostly roadside utility poles and roadside underground cabling. All owned by the state and local municipalities. If they want to use the public's property, they have to abide by the public's rules.

    That suggests a fair resolution. Since they no longer like the terms of the contract, then they don't have to build the 550 miles of additional cabling. And in return - because this is contract law, so there's always consideration - all they have to do is remove any existing cabling from public infrastructure.

    Hmm, I wonder how much that would cost them ...

  19. Re:That's what's good about critical thinkers on Mathematician Who Claimed 'P Is Not Equal To NP' Says His Proof Is Wrong (arxiv.org) · · Score: 2

    The fundamental process in science is working from facts to supporting models, and the fundamental process in faith is working from models to supporting facts.

    That's the most concise description I've ever seen of that distinction. Stealing that. Thanks.

  20. I thought Moscow was already setup to handle the ISS in case something happened to Houston. The Russians ran Mir for over a decade I'm sure they can handle the ISS for a few days.

    Our current administration would never work that closely with the Russians.

  21. Re:stretched shifts? on How NASA Kept the ISS Flying While Harvey Hit Mission Control (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    12 hour shifts managing not only the lives of 6 people, but also ~$150 billion in costs (not including human lives currently onboard), and an internationally coordinated project that has taken damn near 19 years. Imagine being the guy who buffed up and destroyed all of that. Goodbye career.

    I don't think people camped out for three days for the chance to work 12-hour shifts because they were thinking about their careers.

  22. Re:Somebody has been watching too many movies on NASA's Plan To Stop A Supervolcano from Destroying The Earth's Climate (news.com.au) · · Score: 1

    this drilling proposal has no chance of triggering a premature eruption

    That's what she said.

    For the first time ever, I think that should be, "That's what he said."

  23. Only disgusting whores do it. They are not sexy in any way, in the vast majority of cases. Only disgusting. The females you would *want* to see naked never would do such things (in public).

    You must watch a lot of porn to be able to speak with authority about what the "vast majority" looks like.

  24. Here in Lake county, CA, homesteaders were paid a dollar a tree to plant black walnuts, in a campaign designed to displace oaks. The walnuts have literally never been a notable economic benefit to the region, as pears and grapes have been, but they are a benefit if your strategy is to permanently destroy a way of life. You can live on acorns alone, but you can't live on walnuts.

    Was driving out the oaks just because acorns could support subsistence, or was there some other reason to replace them?

  25. Re:How is accuracy measured? on Google Says AI Better Than Humans At Scrubbing Extremist YouTube Content (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's be fair, even some humans completely fail to understand parody.

    Yes, frequently even the people who claim to be creating parody.