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  1. Re:As opposed to outdoor air? on A Quarter of Americans Spend All Day Inside, Survey Finds (washingtontimes.com) · · Score: 1

    people are living longer and longer in the USA; indoor air for the win!

  2. Re:Maybe Password Strength should be a Data Point on Smarter People Don't Have Better Passwords, Study Finds (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    no, study only proved the students don't give a shit about the security of their school's email accounts. maybe smart people give even less of a shit about things that are extraneous in life than "normal people"....

  3. Re:I hope more people will do this on 'Biohacker' Who Injected Himself With DIY Herpes Treatment Found Dead (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    people die in trials and from FDA approved drugs that are later found to be very harmful. They are in the pockets of big pharmy and serve their interests.

  4. Re:always amused at sound bite "muslim majority" on Tech Conferences Moving North as Trump Policies Turn Off Attendees (financialpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Even rational non-Trump supporters know the reason. The list was made of countries having poor traveler vetting process. The list was made during the Obama administration. participation in 9/11 not the critera

  5. Re:Time Cryatal? on Yale Physicists Find Signs of a Time Crystal (yale.edu) · · Score: 1

    Who's on first!

  6. Re: not buying any more new computers & gadget on 'Next Generation' Flaws Found on Computer Processors (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    the 100% percent secure computer is one that no one can access and no one knows where it is

  7. The recordings are nice, but since it's a text to speech application I'm thinking it would be easy to give it some words with ambiguous pronunciation choices depending on context that would trip it up, even though a child could properly choose the correct words.

  8. Re:always amused at sound bite "muslim majority" on Tech Conferences Moving North as Trump Policies Turn Off Attendees (financialpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Having citizen that participated in 9/11 attack was not criteria for list made during the Obama administration. Maybe you should read what the criteria was. It certainly was *not* being muslim, or maybe Kim Jung-un (N. Korea the 8th country I didn't mention) converted to Islam when I wasn't looking.

  9. Because the highest risk countries, identified during the Obama administration, are different than your list.

  10. well it's a type of electrostatic discharge that makes EMP along with many other things including antimatter, light, x-rays, acoustic shock wave, etc.

  11. You're talking about a movie of a character vs. one in the room with you. Tarkin was voiced by a real human, yes?

  12. always amused at sound bite "muslim majority" on Tech Conferences Moving North as Trump Policies Turn Off Attendees (financialpost.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    The fact is that people almost all muslim countries on earth can travel to the USA. The ban is on a handful of countries that are rife with radical terrorists. If we were banning muslim countries we'd have banned the other 43 countries. idiots

  13. Re: bad solution to real problem on The 2017 Hugo Awards (thehugoawards.org) · · Score: 1

    Hugo is for both sci-fi and fantasy. I'd rather those weren't lumped together, but here we are

  14. Re:10 PRINT "FIRST POST" on It's the 40th Anniversary of Radio Shack's TRS-80 (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    yes 6800 series a great architecture. but I was just saying the Z80 was great chip for me and many others, principles applied well to later chips, we used library for floating point but none of us had interest in sound or animated graphics at the time. The floating point library was sufficient and calc time irrelevant.

  15. Re: Study is dead wrong - waste on Cats and Dogs Contribute Significantly To Climate Change, Says UCLA Study (patch.com) · · Score: 1

    I always thought of pet as another kind of family immediate member besides "parents, children, grandparent, etc." Judging by grief upon death, they seem to be between grandparents and uncles/aunts in closeness for most people.

  16. Re:10 PRINT "FIRST POST" on It's the 40th Anniversary of Radio Shack's TRS-80 (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    The 6502 was cost reduced inferior chip from the point of view of capabilities of architecture and instruction set compared to the Z-80. A science teacher and a few of us students formed a computer club. We sold boxes of "TV Time Popcorn" and bought a TRS-80 Model 1 and the assembler package. So I (and one other member) learned and only programmed in the Z-80 assembly, we couldn't be bothered with BASIC, though the other two members and teacher did mainly that.

  17. Re: Study is dead wrong - waste on Cats and Dogs Contribute Significantly To Climate Change, Says UCLA Study (patch.com) · · Score: 1

    Even taking absolute carbon numbers, the pets are two orders of magnitude smaller in contribution to carbon emissions than humans. In short, the study was made by morons of the highest caliber.

  18. Re: Bullshit much? on Luxembourg Just Passed A New Asteroid Mining Law (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    How funny, you're imagine the highlighted words in a treaty have the common meanings you imagine and so then exclude mining. No, law and especially treaties don't work that way. Mining is fine, actually been done already by a certain point of view.

  19. Re: Where is the void on 'Windows 10 Is Failing Us' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Not over priced for the professional, what my employer pays for my MacBook pro is negligible compared to their cost for say my insurance or what I'm allowed to spend on training or for that matter the software...just doesn't matter

  20. Re: Terrible news on NASA Finds Evidence Of 10 New Earth-sized Planets (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    We could accelerate a craft to 5% C or more with existing fission tech. Such a craft would have to be unmanned though, the tech we have could not support nor protect humans for a century long trip

  21. Re: Making American Great Again on Lowe's To Lay Off About 125 Workers, Move Jobs To India (go.com) · · Score: 1

    "Obamacare" (a modified Republican plan that gives more money to healthcare big players) is fiscally unsound being based on incorrect assumptions, and so it will collapse unless changed. Obama back pedalled on promise of robust public option so it is not in any way a step toward socialized medicine.

  22. Re: Midnight shed shopping. on Lowe's To Lay Off About 125 Workers, Move Jobs To India (go.com) · · Score: 1

    125 jobs doesn't seem enough to have an article or whine about what Trump did or didn't do. It's less than rounding error talking of national IT employment.

  23. Re: Making American Great Again on Lowe's To Lay Off About 125 Workers, Move Jobs To India (go.com) · · Score: 1

    You imagine 125 jobs means anything at national level? You are a dullard.

  24. Re: Hmmmmmmm on Scientists Develop Technology That Burns Natural Gas With No CO2 Emissions (scienceblog.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    A very few wealthy have governments in their pockets, and so for example we have corporate fascism as the form of government in the United States. It is a bad thing.

  25. Re: It was a hard way to make a living as it was.. on Self-Driving Cars Could Cost America's Professional Drivers Up To 25,000 Jobs a Month (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That is not the kind of place where most trucks dock. Only need to take care of the 80%