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  1. Re:Newsflash: plastic is toxic on Study Suggests BPA-Free Plastics Are Just As Harmful To Health (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So use ceramics instead. Oh, the glazing often contains poisons. So wood should be good, right? Many woods are contains large amounts of toxins and/or poison, this as they are produced to protect the tree. The list goes on.

    Many plastics are actually a much lower "danger" than the alternatives so you are wrong, always has been.

  2. Re:Personally on OnePlus 6T Trades the Headphone Jack For Better Battery Life (techradar.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll help you out: "one of the only features" "feature phone" -> it isn't the only feature he uses, he wants a phone.

  3. But they aren't the same! Your Hard Working American would love to control the Parasite like a Master controls the Slave.

    Look for instance at the master-slave flip-flop, the slave is completely controlled by the master. It doesn't describe a hierarchy as such but that the slave is completely controlled by the master. It isn't a child flip-flop that is under the parent flip-flop, it is directly controlled by the master.

    That's the standard technical use of the term, don't know if it applies for this Python thingy as I simply don't care enough to check. Meh.

  4. Why should one rationalize it? And why do you think there are only two choices?

  5. Re:38% seems nuts for an adaptor on Google Replaces Its USB-C Headphone Adapter With a More Expensive Version (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    While you call them the same they aren't the same. The D cell is a battery, the phone "battery" is actually an accumulator or secondary battery.
    One kind is one use, the second is designed for repeated charging and a longer lifetime.
    If wanting to make skewed comparisons why not use aluminum-air batteries for comparison? Much higher capacity, still one use.

  6. What definition of keyless entry is this? on Tesla's Keyless Entry Vulnerable To Spoofing Attack, Researchers Find (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing of what I can imagine have been invented by or pioneered by Tesla. Keyless entry have been used long before Tesla existed, so?

  7. Price, audio quality*, latency**, battery life, battery efficiency compared to wired headphones, selection of headphones etc. Lot to detest for the wise, but wires can be a PITA sometimes I admit.

    (* playing music on many software/hardware combinations: lossy compressed audio -> decompression -> PCM audio -> lossy compression -> wireless transfer -> decompression -> PCM audio -> DAC/amplifier -> physical transducers. Observe that the two types of compression used are often using different algorithms+parameters shaving some quality out of the audio)
    (** look at the above path and realize both decompression and compression adds latency with the wireless link adding some extra)

  8. Re:Commercials on NASA May Sell Corporate Naming Rights For Rockets, Spacecraft (al.com) · · Score: 1

    Wanting to be an astronaut I can understand but being a sick astronaut?

  9. There are many PS/2 software stacks that recognize hot-plugging, but it's a hack and can kill some PS/2 type connectors/controllers.

  10. Re: It seems like Apple wants us to ditch adapters on Someone With an iMac, iPhone, and iPad Might Soon Need Three Different Headphone Adapters (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    So new Bluetoothâ(TM) headsets are magical? That's not my experience, they are still generally crap for general purpose audio. They work to some degree* sucking battery power and increasing latency to provide sub-optimal audio quality.

    (* still not well. High-end Bluetooth headphone couldn't connect to multiple devices each supporting required or better specifications (audio codecs that were of course proprietary, base Bluetooth version, OS supporting Bluetooth and Bluetooth audio as verified with mono headset). It worked for the owner on the owners own device so that's good I guess)

  11. Re:It seems like Apple wants us to ditch adapters. on Someone With an iMac, iPhone, and iPad Might Soon Need Three Different Headphone Adapters (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. Designated listening position(s)*, dampening materials on the correct locations to create a close to perfect acoustic room. The door naturally have to be closed, moving around verboten as would be moving, talking or burping. Combine with very expensive speakers expertly directed to the listening position and preferably a dedicated concrete room for the sub-woofer one can get good results. And don't forget the cables! Of course real golden ears use only virgin silver, ultra-pure and cryotreated with extra effort spent to find the optimal direction of the cable (metals are directional as all _real_ audiophiles know).

    Or one could get a pair of good headphones that remove the complications of positioning, dampening, movement or even how to place cables. Heck one can even afford to spend some extra money on silver cables or magical stickers if one is so inclined.

    (* multiple positions would make it obviously sub-optimal but a few so called "audiophiles" would allow such things)

  12. Re:Wow, they are taking their time on Sony To Source All Its Energy From Renewables By 2040 (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    So you think the individual electrons have to be excited by purely renewable sources for this so be a valid statement? While in a way technically correct it is completely irrelevant in practice. By ensuring they want to pay for the creation of renewable power matching their total power consumption they help skewing the market towards renewable energy - so even if there are a number of electrons that "are dirty" the effect is the same as if each and every one came from a renewable source.

    In this case technically correct isn't the best kind of correct.

  13. Re:Why this "war on passwords"? on Worries Arise About Security of New WebAuthn Protocol (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    So why exactly didn't the hypothetical person store the paper (or a copy of it) in a secure place instead? Bank, at home hidden or in a safe?

  14. Re:It was suicide on Creator of TempleOS, Terry Davis, Has Passed Away (osnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Accident != suicide

  15. Re:The nightmare continues on Trump Ups Ante on China, Threatens Duties on Nearly All its Imports (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The rotor unfolds after birth. Miracle of nature.

  16. Funny, my CLI doesn't support the fewer command?

  17. Unlike you people he have a job - and a life.

  18. I think what we all want to know is on Elon Musk Takes a Fatalistic View Toward AI (youtube.com) · · Score: 1

    ... if the AI will be a pedo? Musk is skilled in detecting those things I hear.

  19. Re:Worth so much more than $1 million on NASA Is Offerring $1 Million To Turn CO2 Into Sugar (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes one can use it to store energy but how exactly can the stored energy be extracted later? Fermentation to alcohol and then a combustion engine alternatively fuel cell is the only reasonable one I can come up with.

  20. I'm not racist and I don't see the problem with this. If someone robs a bank and is described as dark skinned should one then be forbidden to include that as a search criteria? Should people that are obviously not fitting the profile of the suspect still be harassed as you can't enter some type of information into the system?

    Criticize racial biases all you want but don't go around bullshitting.

  21. Re:Next step on Theranos To Close Shop (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1
  22. But taxation is theft!

  23. Sure there is a point but we haven't passed that yet. Wouldn't it be nice to have a 15" screen in a traditionally 14" sized chassis? Or a 18" screen in a 17" chassis?

  24. Re: What a scumbag on An Abusive Silicon Valley CEO Is Going To Jail (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    While I agree with your post the repeated â(TM) is making me insane.

  25. Re:Why not use Rust? on How Linux's Kernel Developers 'Make C Less Dangerous' (hpe.com) · · Score: 0

    And as usual your comment is utterly stupid... Are you actually a troll going for the long game?