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  1. Re:Fukushima was older than Chernobyl on Six Years After Fukushima, Robots Finally Find Its Reactors' Melted Uranium Fuel (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    This safety of CANDU comes at a cost.

    Seems like money well spent.

  2. Re:All signs point to the license agreement on Even New Phones Are No Longer Guaranteed To Have the Latest Version of Android (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Damn. I just sprayed milk and Oreo bits all over my screen.

  3. Re:"Consumer": one who doesn't or can't create on Even New Phones Are No Longer Guaranteed To Have the Latest Version of Android (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    correlated with the unsuitability of a flat sheet of glass for creating works longer than a paragraph.

    If only they would give us a lumpy sheet of glass. Then we could really get stuff done!

  4. Re:Goodbye TV on FCC Approves Next-Gen ATSC 3.0 TV Standard (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    A decade and a half ago? Maybe he's this guy.

  5. Maybe the real problem is that it's extraordinarily expense for the average person to get a university education in the US. To adjust for this, some tax breaks were added. Now that gets eroded so they can pay their "fair share". The net result is a less educated populace. Not a good long-term result.

  6. Re:So much for Apple's [incredible] design... on The iPhone X Becomes Unresponsive When It Gets Cold (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You're holding it wrong?

    You're holding it in the wrong place.

  7. Re:So much for Apple's [incredible] design... on The iPhone X Becomes Unresponsive When It Gets Cold (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    And BTW, is this the same company so many praise for its unparalleled attention to detail?

    No kidding. Maybe they should do a joint venture with Samsung. When the screen becomes unresponsive from the cold the phone spontaneously combusts. Problem solved.

  8. Re:Try police work not phone unlocking on iPhone Encryption Hampers Investigation of Texas Shooter, Says FBI (chron.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    hus they don't ask Apple for help since that removes the ability to whine about it.

    Not only didn't they ask for help, but Apple reached out to them immediately and they refused the help . Perhaps because they had been waiting for an opportunity to complain about encryption.

  9. Re:He emailed people he sabotaged to brag? Wow on Man Who Sent GIF of Laughing Mouse To Employer After DDoS Attack Is Now Arrested (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I doubt Trump is worth as much as his mouth said he was.

    Of course not. If he actually had the amount he was saying then he would claim at least twice that. So it's impossible for him to have the amount he claims, no matter what it is.

  10. Re:I don't have cable TV on Star Trek: Discovery Will Return On January 7th, 2018 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd tell you, but posting it has a cost: time. That's why I'm never gonna tell you.

  11. Re:They're Trying To Milk Subscriptions on Star Trek: Discovery Will Return On January 7th, 2018 (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Try reversing the phase. You'll enjoy it more.

  12. Re: When Will This Work On Republicans? on Human Mini-Brains Growing Inside Rat Bodies Are Starting To Integrate (inverse.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    as someone with too high of an IQ to be swayed by ideological (as opposed to logical) arguments

    All humans are swayed by illogical things. Though you can mitigate it, there's nothing you can do to prevent it.

  13. Re:I've been hearing the same argument since 2011. on The Bitcoin Bubble (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    * It isn't manipulable --

    What's stopping a bunch of people from "painting the tape" - that is, making higher and higher (or lower and lower) transactions amongst themselves? Is there a mechanism? I really don't know.

  14. Re:I've been hearing the same argument since 2011. on The Bitcoin Bubble (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    When a single btc will be worth $70k, those idiots will still spew their usual nonsense.

    That's the thing about bubbles - it's very hard to predict when they bursting will actually occur. Even the guy who made billions of the 2008 bubble damn near went broke first because he was too early. You say it's going to $70k. Why? I'm not saying you're wrong, but please do show your work.

  15. Re: This is coming a lot faster than most think on Alphabet Is Finally Taking the Driver Out of Some of Its Driverless Cars (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    That kind of communication isn't being added any time soon.

    I started with the word "eventually". And I don't know why you find that laughable. It all will happen.

  16. Re: This is coming a lot faster than most think on Alphabet Is Finally Taking the Driver Out of Some of Its Driverless Cars (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Not just snow, but snow clearing equipment. They stop and wave you on and you drive around them. Not sure how an automated car will do that.

    Eventually the snow plow will also be automated and they will talk to each other. All cars will. This eliminates surprises, blind spots, stalled intersections, etc.
    And then of course once that's all ironed out, the cars go 3D and fly, all communicating. No more snow plow issues because no more roads. All that asphalt-covered land gets reclaimed.

  17. Eight times as much as, not eight times more than. A technical site should at least know how to compare quantities. Eight times more means nine times as much.

  18. If Facebook is more trustworthy than your lovers then you've really made some poor choices in your life.

  19. Re: We should all avoid taxes on 'Panama Papers' Group Strikes Again with 'Paradise Papers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The only tax shelters the non rich have seem to involve giving money to rich people. Hmmmmm

    You don't claim any deductions on your taxes? Not even the standard one? If you do, then you're avoiding taxes. No giving of money to rich people is involved.

  20. Re:My Casio never let me down on Apple Watches Were Crashing When Asked About the Weather (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    There's a pretty big gap between "serves no purpose" and "does not solve a core problem". And they will keep getting better to the point where it will seem foolish to not have one.

  21. Re:Devs should do QA on Apple Watches Were Crashing When Asked About the Weather (macrumors.com) · · Score: 2

    To be fair, Apple hasn’t cornered the market on time-related bugs. Android’s had them too...

    There may not be a professional programmer alive who hasn't ever had a date/time bug. Still though, it always seems just a little bit silly that they surface in shipping code.

  22. Re:Just a free Pandora user here. on Pandora Loses 7 Million Listeners (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    Three words: Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

    Or Tony, Orlando, and Dawn. Though admittedly I never did figure out which one was Orlando.

  23. Re:We should all avoid taxes on 'Panama Papers' Group Strikes Again with 'Paradise Papers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Now that tax avoidance is proven to work we should all do it.

    We do. Claim a deduction? That's tax avoidance. It's built into the system. If you don't like a particular avoidance then change the rules.

  24. Re:Any language is "effective" by your standard on Many US States Consider Abandoning Daylight Savings Time (newsweek.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    What makes English easy to use and understand is that it is so very redundant.

    And it's not tonal. Mispronounced words are easier to understand, and tone can be use to convey meaning even when the vocabulary is lacking.

  25. Re:Daylights savings causes miscarriages? strokes? on Many US States Consider Abandoning Daylight Savings Time (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Humans aren't that fucking fragile. I don't believe any of this "harm" shit.

    Jet lag is very real, and it gets worse and worse as one ages. It seems unlikely that there's zero effect at one hour, but then it suddenly kicks in at larger amount of time. If so, then there's some effect. Perhaps trivial in most younger people, but a greater effect with age.