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  1. How to show File Extensions in Windows 10 / 8 / 7

    http://www.thewindowsclub.com/show-file-extensions-in-windows

  2. Re:The real motivation on Green Party Calls For Recount, Wants To Push For Open-Source Voting Machines (nbcnewyork.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not true at all.

    This election was won by poll-shy white women. Look it up.

    Also, look at 2008 and 2012.

    Koch brothers poured money into those elections and lost.

    Look up Clinton's spending vs. Trump's.

    When money is used for a ground game, it works.

    When it's used for ads, people go pee.

  3. Re:Two big problems here on Green Party Calls For Recount, Wants To Push For Open-Source Voting Machines (nbcnewyork.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because open source is brand new and untested and has been proven to be ...

    Oh wait.

  4. When's statute of limitations? on Edward Snowden Loses Norway Safe Passage Case (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Mr Snowden's lawyers have previously said if he were extradited to the U.S., it would be "a foregone conclusion" that he would be convicted and jailed.

    Lawyer says this because Snowden's foregone guilty?

    Need another lawyer.

  5. Re:Grammar ,,, on UK Revises Safe Flying Drone Code (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    ... it is none the less acceptable English.

    Not on my lawn.

  6. My ass.

    It's for government and businesses.

    Bullshit and wild honey are not the same thing.

  7. Australia does it correctly on IBM To Pay More Than $30 Million in Compensation For Census Fail (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    IBM is going to do, in round two, what they should have done in round one.

    Systems are not complete until the hardening is done.

    That won't happen as long as there are no significant consequences.

    Litigation and publication are the proper responses for DDoS and hacks.

  8. Re:Can we swap government officials? on IBM To Pay More Than $30 Million in Compensation For Census Fail (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    According to TFS it was geofencing.

    Let me know if you need that in audio format.

  9. Grammar ,,, on UK Revises Safe Flying Drone Code (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    ... and fly safe ...

    safely

    Few safes weigh 20kg (44 lbs) or less.

  10. Re:Two possible motivations on Right-Wing and Fake News Writers Are Now Going After Elon Musk (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    ... so convincing voters to support corporate policies has a very high ROI.

    The ROI is the survival of the politician, as well.

    Each Congressperson has a built-in delay when pressed for a position on a particular issue, because it takes a little time to come up with the answer that will get them re-elected.

  11. Re:Two possible motivations on Right-Wing and Fake News Writers Are Now Going After Elon Musk (qz.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    This.

    Fossil fuel is (I know it's hard to fathom) more desperate for survival than tobacco was back when, and the IP industry is now.

    I helped litigate tobacco and the conversation went like this:

    Scientists: Your shit is killing people.
    Tobacco: Jobs.
    Lawyers: Your shit is killing people.
    Tobacco: Jobs.

    Rinse, repeat.

  12. Re:So, how often does it explode? on Scientists Create Battery That Charges In Seconds and Lasts For Days (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Capacitors are not like batteries.

    They are batteries.

    They are rechargeable batteries.

    The math and physics for capacitors and batteries, from outside the devices, are the same.

    Capacitors, however, typically have charge/discharge rates measured in fractions of seconds.

    Often, it's in microseconds.

    Batteries have been, until now, much, much slower at both.

  13. ... are so accurate and stuff.

  14. Re:So, how often does it explode? on Scientists Create Battery That Charges In Seconds and Lasts For Days (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    YouTube has many examples of exploding super capacitors, but the devices in this article are too new for us to know how they react to abuse.

  15. Re:Political anti-science tr[i]umphant on Trump To Scrap NASA Climate Research In Crackdown On 'Politicized Science' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not the political system that's broken.

    It's the educational system.

    We're turning out cookie-cutter students who are not learning anything useful to a global market.

    That's the precise reason for the anti-globalization (it's called isolationism).

    "We can't compete so let's just quit."

    This administration isn't even in yet and the voters are having a major baby.

    Again, it's all talk for now. I'm betting nothing changes except the agitation.

  16. Re:Have They Fixed Their Current Problems? on Microsoft Launches Office 365 in 10 New Markets, Eyes Expansion in Nearly 100 New Markets By Next Year (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, it apparently is.

  17. You win.

  18. Mod +1 Insightful from me.

  19. This.

  20. Re:Political anti-science tr[i]umphant on Trump To Scrap NASA Climate Research In Crackdown On 'Politicized Science' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Talk is expensive, but we've seen no action yet.

    This guy is an airhead and it's about time we pegged the meter all the way to the right so we can get this out of our system.

    I say to Trump, "Bring it on. Bring it ALL on. Let's get this shit out here so we can examine it up close."

    Then we can get off the fucking coke.

  21. Re:Politicized Science on Trump To Scrap NASA Climate Research In Crackdown On 'Politicized Science' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Maybe he's a potty animal.

  22. Jzanu was gentle.

    I would have said, "... you goddam major fucking batshit crazy under-educated piece of whale shit."

  23. Creation theory in schools.

    God

    Damn

  24. Re:So, how often does it explode? on Scientists Create Battery That Charges In Seconds and Lasts For Days (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Electronics guy here, and I was thinking along the same lines.

    Capacitors are two plates, very close together, separated by an insulator.

    We attach power up to the two plates and a static charge occurs between the two.

    After we remove the power source the capacitor retains the static charge and would do so forever if it weren't for decay due to leakage across the insulator.

    The "capacity" of a capacitor is directly proportional to the surface area of the two plates.

    The voltage it can hold is defined by the arc-through point of the insulator quality and distance between the plates.

    Sounds like they have all that figured out.

    --

    The advance in battery consumption has bottomed not been on the battery and breakthroughs on the efficiency of the device(s) that needs the battery power have pretty much topped out, as well.

    This method could be a game-changer, but I wonder about factors that would degrade the integrity of the system, especially the distance between the two plates (punctures, blunt force, flexibility) and the shelf life of the insulators.

    Those factors have always been a concern with capacitors.

  25. Re:No, this seems wrong on Google's AI Translation Tool Creates Its Own Secret Language (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Tell that to the Korean translators.