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  1. Re: Not Likely To compete with Big Boys. on Self-Driving Cars Could Cost America's Professional Drivers Up To 25,000 Jobs a Month (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    A trucker has to sleep. A self driving truck owned by a trucker can work all the time between servicing

  2. Attic? It's on my bookshelf next to me, and 34 years old. Useful for several classes in college and every now and then since.

  3. Emulator that had the performance of a 100Mhz Pentium, hilarious history

  4. Re: Ok... on Xbox Project Scorpio's Full Specs Revealed (eurogamer.net) · · Score: 1

    It can but then does 640x480 8 bit color at 4 fps and restarts the rendering module for anything needing more than 16 separate colors.

  5. Re: So What? on What If You Could Eat Chicken Without Killing a Chicken? (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    2nd derivative of population growth makes it clear we'll peak around 2075 and then decline, so no worries , just engineering problems not any resource constraints despite any scary hooplah you may have read

  6. Re: One bitcoin is worth more than gold to idiots on One Bitcoin Is Now Worth More Than One Ounce of Gold (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    A stack of hundred dollar bills is more useful than Bitcoin in any store near me. Does that change Bitcoin value? Some countries use gold in markets on the street, been there done that.

  7. Re: Fake News on World's Only Sample of Metallic Hydrogen Has Been Lost (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Until they hit the Pentium division bug, which has caused the massive recent bumblebee die-off

  8. Re: Fake News on World's Only Sample of Metallic Hydrogen Has Been Lost (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And none of the researchers believe they can't make more. It's only a delay in metallic H research. "sadly", what drama queen wrote that slop?

  9. Re: Radiation wrecks robots? on Excessive Radiation Inside Fukushima Fries Clean-Up Robot (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    The NRA made them (mark I design, U.S. has them at 16 locations ) put in venting system in 2012 to prevent the type of explosions FD had, but I wouldn't want to live within 150 miles of one of those old boil jobs!

  10. Re: Radiation wrecks robots? on Excessive Radiation Inside Fukushima Fries Clean-Up Robot (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    in the West we have containment buildings, Chernobyl did not. In the West Fukushima's plant design would not be allowed at such a location without two crucial changes.

  11. Re: Wow! on China Is Now the World's Largest Solar Power Producer (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, this is a gnat fart's less in hurricane of China's carbon emissions, I'm always amused China's foreign coal ramp up that is in progress to support their manufacturing plants in other countries is also conventiently ignored

  12. You insult COBOL, if written to be portable COBOL apps can run everywhere and for decades, unlike Java which breaks its API with minor point releases Signed, Fed up J2ee server admin

  13. No, economics. There aren't enough electric cars in the USA to justify that and won't be for a decade. Other countries like China and some European countries could justify that perhaps. If it was profitable here someone would do it.

  14. The weekend ranches my friends in Texas have are just land with animals for investment grazing on them. No buildings much less outlets. Basically a camping trip to monitor and move animals, have vet stop by, etc. But that's far removed from Tesla normal use case...

  15. Re: Retaliatory measures based on no evidence. on US Announces Response To Russian Election Hacking [Update] (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Votes of parasites wanting handouts from the rest of us. Thank goodness for the electoral college

  16. Re: Over/under: Invasion of sovereign nation or tr on US Announces Response To Russian Election Hacking [Update] (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the U.S. CIA destabilized the Ukraine government, and Putin sent aide to autonomous Crimea to protect the majority, ethnic Russians. They joined Russia, big surprise there

  17. Re: oh, great on Google Responds On Skewed Holocaust Search Results (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Some evil people in Africa took advantage of the fact there was a market

  18. Re: oh, great on Google Responds On Skewed Holocaust Search Results (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    When I was young there were about 3 million, now there are about 100,000. In ten years most of those will be dead, maybe 20,000 left

  19. Re:Why is this newsworthy? on LibreSSL Unaffected By DROWN · · Score: 1

    OpenBSD team does produce better and new SSL code, you should research before asserting nonsense https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  20. js crapware fad of the month on Google Says Angular 2 Will Support Python, Java (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    no one values a stable web platform any more? they have to use lastest fad thing?

  21. Re:Where is bash? on Microsoft Publishes OpenSSH For Windows Code (msdn.com) · · Score: 1

    Cygwin is extremely useful when someone is forced to have a Windows machine but needs to work with Linux, BSD and Unix systems. Having the bash shell alone is reason enough to use it, let alone command line scriptable ssh, scp, sftp etc.

  22. oh? I think winding two or more sets of insulated wires around an inductor might be a way to push power through the air while altering EMF level for devices that need it at a different level, in a very efficient manner. We could call such a device a pusherformer.

  23. Re:You're the problem on Bad Programming Habits We Secretly Love (infoworld.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's n00b level confusing for the maintainer, arithmetic three pronged IF are still supported for the true ForTran (-- and note old skool spelling yo!) connioseur: IF (J-3) 204, 512, 123

  24. Re:They already are on Microsoft Publishes OpenSSH For Windows Code (msdn.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    very funny, windows only does posix 1 which is 1990. you must be confusing window's level of posix compliance with something that is actually useful.

  25. red cross CEO makes over $1M on How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars For Haiti and Built 6 Homes · · Score: 1

    there are people who would do better job at a tenth the pay 'nuff said