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  1. Thin hinges have been reliably failing since the 90's.

    At some point they'll just run stout power and ground in the case and do the display with really-short-range gigahertz wireless.There are probably some niche applications but it may be too small of a niche for Samsung.

  2. Re:Two things are probably true on Mark Zuckerberg Leveraged Facebook User Data To Fight Rivals and Help Friends, Leaked Documents Show (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    ZUCK: yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard
    ZUCK: just ask
    ZUCK: i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns
    FRIEND: what!? how'd you manage that one?
    ZUCK: people just submitted it
    ZUCK: i don't know why
    ZUCK: they "trust me"
    ZUCK: dumb fucks

    "Why did you sting me? We'll both drown!"

  3. Re:DARPA wants encryption for SPYS on DARPA Wants To Make a Better, More Secure Version of WhatsApp (trustedreviews.com) · · Score: 1

    What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

    Getting everybody to use it helps the spies' traffic not stand out.

    But Signal and Wire already exist, so they should fork of those (Signal probably).

  4. Why doesn't TFS say if this affects iOS, lightbulbs, Windows, or Fedora?

    Just SCADA systems, then? FFS.

  5. Outrage on Sunday-Morning Outage Strikes Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As soon as I saw Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp I was primed to read 'outrage' rather than 'outage'.

    So glad I quit that bad habit.

  6. Re:Ooooh, it is round... on Flat Earther Now Wants to Launch His Homemade Rocket Into Space (phillyvoice.com) · · Score: 1

    Why are you trying to confuse these oppressed truth seekers with your fancy words? They can see right through that ploy.

  7. Watch out for Product Switching on Scammers Are Buying Thousands Of Fake 5-Star Amazon Reviews -- on Facebook (thehustle.co) · · Score: 1

    I am seeing a few cases where, for example there's a five-star wood burning tool but actually most of the reviews are about a spice rack from a few years ago.

    Apparently if you've discontinued a quality product there's a market for the old product listing page and its associated star count. For those of us who narrow product results by star ratings it's something to beware.

  8. Re:An antarctic expedition? on Flat Earther Now Wants to Launch His Homemade Rocket Into Space (phillyvoice.com) · · Score: 1

    If you don't hear from him again he fell off the edge.

  9. Re:Don't believe it for a second on Ecuador Complains Julian Assange Was a Bad Housegust, Neglected His Pet Cat (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It makes no sense

    It's plausible - lock somebody in a room for seven years and they start to get depressed and do crazy things. It's entirely possible Assange entered emotionally strong and gradually lost it. Humans cannot live like that, which is why the detention was roundly condemned by many human-rights organizations, not the least of which is the UN as a violation of international law.

    Despite that he muddled on with Wikileaks work while imprisoned. Not as much as I would have liked to have seen, but I'm not volunteering either.

    If the allegations are true, he seems like even more of a victim. I'm sure the allegations are meant to damage his reputation, but a feeling person reading them will merely increase their animus towards his captors.

  10. What a freakshow it must be over there. Their corporate culture permits this kind of crap to make it to production:

    https://arstechnica.com/inform...

    Who is still working at Facebook? The backroom guys who keep those servers running must be mortified to be associated with these bozos.

  11. Re:As a former mechanic... on MIT Says We're Overlooking a Near-Term Solution To Diesel Trucking Emissions (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    More drivers going for four hours to the next depot and then driving back, the driver owned rig a thing of the past.

    We knew decades ago the DoT logbook system was a collusion between government and corporations to put the small operators out of business. Or, at least my trucker friends were always on about it.

  12. Re:Embarrass the EU on EU Tells Internet Archive That Much Of Its Site Is 'Terrorist Content' (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    the EU review committee will end up embarrassed

    Bureaucrats will always seek to maintain the problem their bureaucracy was intended to solve.

  13. Are lithium ion batteries still the best choice for such applications?

    "Depends." I took a look at what I'd need for my house, and it's roughly three PowerWalls at around $20K or a shed full of Ni-C for $30K (plus shed, cabling, and charge controllers). I expect the PowerWalls to be useless in about ten years and the Ni-C option to be useless sometime after 2100AD.

    I have the room for a shed but I could also put that extra $10K into more solar panels. Also, the opportunity cost of building the shed, maintaining it, and tying up the money for ten years might lean towards PowerWall. Then again, if Tesla goes out of business (I hope not, but...) the generic battery stack won't ever require esoteric replacement parts, so it's possible the lifetime of the PowerWalls could be far less, depending on business conditions.

    If you have the room and capital and are risk-adverse, don't get the PowerWall. If I were in a townhouse and only had $10K I'd get a Powerwall. Or put a deposit down on a house with real property - there's also the zombie apocalypse factor (i.e. $21T debt).

  14. From the summary I can't tell if I'm supposed to mock Google for re-inventing message boards or mock Google for re-inventing e-mail.

    Don't waste the effort. Google products go away after 18 months anyway.

  15. Re:Vulnerabilities in key exchange on Dragonblood Vulnerabilities Disclosed in Wi-Fi WPA3 Standard (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    thousands of people representing multiple large organizations came together to produce a closed source standard everyone hates.

    How does the IEEE allow the WiFi Alliance to keep developing these things in secret?

  16. No matter what condition your body is in, you should do your best to pay attention to the road and keep other people safe (what you do to yourself doesn't matter that much).

    A deaf person and a hearing person should both use all of their available senses.

  17. Waiting for Duplicate Post on Scientists Reverse Memory Decline Using Electrical Pulses (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    If ever a story deserved a duplicate post tomorrow morning, this would be the one.

  18. Re:We are still coming out of an ice age on 390 Billion Tons of Snow and Ice Melt Each Year As Globe Warms, Study Suggests (usatoday.com) · · Score: 0

    Those "far leftists" want the Sahara to keep desertifying to protect their coastal cities in Europe and the US. The bankers are heavily tied up in that mistaken investment. Not my problem if you stupidly built a skyscraper in a geologic lowland.

    Oceans rise and fall, old cities are abandoned and new ones are built. Humanity survived Meltwater Pulses 1a and b, and it will survive this one too.

    But the elites will tax your ass back to the stone age if they believe it will protect their investments for just another few years After all, for them there's no dowmside, so one should expect that behavior among people of power. Accepting it is another story.

  19. One person here is well-versed in microcomputing components and has good earning potential.

    Another spends his time anonymously attempting to troll on /.

    It's easy to tell which has trouble dating women.

  20. Old Apps on New Apps Fight Robo-Calls By Pretending To Be Humans (nola.com) · · Score: 2

    I started using Jolly Roger almost two years ago:

    https://tomwoods.com/ep-937-ho...

    They work well with SIP.

  21. Re:Confusion on The Swedish DJ Who Invented Industrially-Manufactured Pop Music (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Perfect.

    There are a lot of people here who consider themselves smart while simultaneously always feeding the trolls (with pageviews/ad impressions).

  22. Fishing on Making Video Games Is Not a Dream Job (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I hear lots of kids say that they want to be game developers because they like to play games and they need a job when they're adults.

    These same kids may enjoy fishing too (some of them get outside...) but very few have aspirations of becoming commercial fishermen. Somehow they know that's a very rough job that's not for most people.

    *Anybody* considering a career really needs to think through the work/life balance and pay, from clerk to physician, and do their research. Somehow I don't think most gamers ever do that when they decide to go to school to be a game dev.

    I've told a few high-schoolers about EA Widows and they were really surprised to hear it.

  23. Re:Well that was predictable on Google Cancels AI Ethics Board In Response To Outcry (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    He got power way after those incidents and his handlers knew about it long ago.

    Is he a racist bag of dicks? Maybe. Some people change, some don't. Politicians tend to have little remorse.

    But there is a clear cause and effect from when he started talking publicly about "post-birth abortions" happening to harvest tissue from infants to when they released this file to take him out.

    Very interesting that he survived it - now he has more power and his handlers have far less.

  24. Yeah, this is the company that refused to sell the $35 Chromecast because they found it to be too much of a threat to their crappy service. Who knows what they'll block on their network.

    I'll get Starlink, thanks.

  25. Re:Collection will not stop on 'It's Time To End the NSA's Metadata Collection Program' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    "Rights" are what you're willing to fight for.

    Keyboard warrioring doesn't cut it.