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  1. Re:numb to actual danagers on Coffee Requires Cancer Warning, California Judge Rules (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    This reminds me of the software development process that triaged bugs for fixing the most important ones first. Anything the customer could potentially see, which was almost everything, was ranked infinite.

  2. Come on on Scientists Explain the Sound of Knuckle Cracking (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I've known this for over 20 years -- pressure drops as the ends of the bones are levered apart and it passes some boil pressure point for some liquid or dissolved gas in there, which violently gassifies causing the pop.

    They must have just defined these equations.

  3. Also install beavers on every little creek which will help as they build deep ponds that cut into evaporation compared to wide shallow ones while building up water stores and reclaiming land from scrub.

    This from PBS last night.

    Oh, also the beaver family installs will warm your heart.

  4. These giant companies are trying to virtue signal by banning right-wing things in recent months, no doubt in response to Trump. Many of them (facebook, Google, esp. YouTube) rely heavily on the First Amendment. To achieve market dominance covering everything, and then restricting it, is unsettling but not illegal (nor should, nor could it be. In the US.)

    I wonder if this and their recent problems, amplified by the media, are related. At least the amplification volume and threat of regulation.

  5. Cat got my tongue? That should be banned erotica! on Amazon is Burying Sexy Books, Sending Erotic Novel Authors to the 'No-Rank Dungeon' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm with Playboy. There's something wrong with sexual prudishness holding sway in all these giant Internet companies.

    Religious folk would be happy, while '60s hippies aghast after their efforts at the sexual revolution.

    Two days ago on the CNN home page, the Playboy story was literally right next to the story on Walmart removing Cosmo from checkout line stands, where it has been in supermarkets since I was born.

    Looks like the equivalency of religion and politics, and politics taking over as religion, is deeper, and sadder, than anyone realizes.

  6. Re:It isn't out of the blue on Ask Slashdot: How Did Real-Time Ray Tracing Become Possible With Today's Technology? · · Score: 1

    I recall a Quake demo done with ray tracing in the 90s. They estimated it would take well over a 30,000 Hz Pentium whatever to do it in real time. It looked great, witb light projecting through stained glass windows.

  7. What idiot downmodded this? This is the cleverest joke here all week.

    See, the heat death of the universe is one predicted end of the universe, with all energy so spread out among particles there are no usable delta gradients and all protons have broken down. This is inconceivable powers of ten years into the future.

    So, "Spoiler alert please!" in conjun...ya know what? Just stop modding.

  8. What's with No Award winning half the categories?

    Oh, I remember. There's a war going on between SJWs and conservative authors and fans.

  9. Be careful what you shout for. on Tumblr Takes Down 84 Russia-Linked Accounts (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    They were pushing flaming leftist outrage, presumably to get peoples' mouths louder with stuff that makes conservatives more liky to get out and vote.

  10. Re:We can't send him to trial... on UK High Court 'Perma-Bans' Efforts to Extradite Lauri Love to the US (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That sounds much more fair than sending him to a crazy country that locks up a startlingly large fraction of its own population.

    As opposed to the crazy country that's about to imprison a man for making a joke on the internet?

    Nelson: Ha ha! (Pauses to think) Wait, what country am I in? Oh, whew! Ha ha!

  11. Re:We can't send him to trial... on UK High Court 'Perma-Bans' Efforts to Extradite Lauri Love to the US (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Puritans were Brits, dumbasses. Hold your heads low in shame, not high in feigned superiority.

  12. Re:We can't send him to trial... on UK High Court 'Perma-Bans' Efforts to Extradite Lauri Love to the US (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It would not be denied. Prisoners are required to receive proper and up to date medical care.

  13. Re:We can't send him to trial... on UK High Court 'Perma-Bans' Efforts to Extradite Lauri Love to the US (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    No they wouldn't. You have a right to a speedy trial, and the government doesn't get to delay that for decades because they're too cheap to hire enough judges and so on.

    Let the politicians take the heat for some combo of insufficient spending and too many laws and too much plea bargaining.

    There's a case at the SC right now on whether a (poor) suspect has a right to a lawyer at the plea bargaining negotiations part. From standing in front of a judge accepting it onward, yes, but the negotiations themselves, maybe not.

    Seems idiotic given the Founding Fathers didn't prognosticate government abuse with 98% of cases plea bargained under government threat of massive time.

    If the evil King would have done it, they'd have protections for it. The government is trying to shift the worst part of the abuse by kings outside the proper judge-covered activities. Wrong answer!

  14. BFFs Forever and Ever! on Justice Department Revives Push To Mandate a Way To Unlock Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If our government can enter a backdoor for plain old crimes, Russia and China can for reasons why we have a 4th Amendment -- spying on and hassling all who challenge their power.

    These are not things that disappeared 240 years ago. They are chronic problems that will exist forever, and if technology can perma-block bad governments, we should adopt it, not lament it.

    Each notch in the belt of an FBI agent or local police officer represents over 2.5 billion worldwide who live, and don't have to imagine "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever."

  15. Re:If you need cloud hosting... on Sex Workers Say Porn On Google Drive Is Suddenly Disappearing (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    "Sad is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another." -- A wise person

  16. Greedo didn't shoot at all! on Ask Slashdot: Is Beaming Down In Star Trek a Death Sentence? · · Score: 1

    No. In Star Trek they literally beamed your molecules down and reassembled them in-place.

    Reassembly of local atoms using just transferred info is later BS from the same unthinking goobers who tried to reduce V-ger's cloud size to only 2 AU from the proper and awesome 82. (If you were going to change 2 words to "fix it", you ignorami changed the wrong 2.)

  17. It's a beginning on EA Created An AI That Taught Itself To Play Battlefield (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    In mmo games they need to do away with taunt as it is built around terrible AI rather than a human DM. Bury it and the "tank" concept and make weaker challenges that fight a hell of a lot better.

  18. Re:Give up Vid on KeepVid Site No Longer Allows Users To 'Keep' Videos (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    "KeepVid" becomes "Gives Up Ass"

  19. Re:What race? on FCC's New 5G Rules Favor Fast Setup Over Federal Reviews (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Other countries will race ahead because they don't have the arguably pointless emvironmental and historical research required.

    For the cynical, follow-the-money types out there, this is a legal way for politicians to get in the way, to get legally paid via donation to get back out of the way.

    The corrupt DMV person demanding $200 or your driver's license is delayed a few years, so prevalent in many countries, is an amateur.

  20. You're exactly right.

    I took a brief look through the paper. Table 3, glia (rightmost columns) seems to sum up this study nicely. Control group had 817 mice, 3 malignant brain tumors. Highest dose had 409 mice, 3 with malignant brain tumors. Not a significant difference in this entire...

    Cancer incidence had doubled... quite significant.

    A cancer rate doubling is significant.

    An event at a 1 in 250-ish rate occuring 3 times in both 800 or 400 attempts is not an unusual score. 10,000 is a little better, and 100,000 more like it.

    This skips there were 24 test combos leading to the possibility of cherry picking the best combos to report.

  21. Re:Aren't they deploying on existing towers? on FCC's New 5G Rules Favor Fast Setup Over Federal Reviews (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Mainly though shorter range means fewer people in one area which means they can each receive a lot more data per phone. That's the real trick going on.

  22. Conspiracies within conspiracies on Pablo Escobar's Brother Says He Met an FBI Agent Posing As Satoshi Nakamoto (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The veracity of this tale is highly suspect; Roberto Escobar is a well-known eccentric who once claimed to have cured HIV with his knowledge of horses.

    Until the drug companies got to him!!! >:-(

  23. Re:Depends on how old you are on Ask Slashdot: Were Developments In Technology More Exciting 30 Years Ago? · · Score: 1

    Follow the money in both cases. Somebody is profiting from stirring up facebook hate and thus stock drop.

  24. Re:Convinces me Uber is at fault because of 1/R^4 on Police Release First Video From Inside the Uber Self-Driving Car That Killed a Pedestrian (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    That's where robot radar eyes are supposed to shine. Why didn't it detect and prognosticate the blob's motion?

  25. Re:Reaction from abroad on US Spending Bill Contains CLOUD Act, a Win For Tech and Law Enforcement (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    And after all the gun running the Kennedys did to help you over the years, this is the thanks they get?