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  1. Re: It helps the economy too on EPA Increases Amount of Renewable Fuel To Be Blended Into Gasoline (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Increasing corn subsidies to red state farmers is a progressive cause? I mean, it could well be. I'm no expert. Still, it sounds like yet another transfer of wealth from the middle class to the rich.

  2. Re: And it doesn't matter. on Will Trump Protect America's IT Workers From H-1B Visa Abuses? (cio.com.au) · · Score: 1
    But we are a nation of states....and the balance needs to be kept on that level, not on pure population levels in very isolated regions.

    Given how the US claims to promote democracy around the world, surely there should be at least one politician democratically chosen by the vote of every US citizen. The President is the only elected official who represents the nation as a whole, rather than merely a region thereof. Seems like an obvious choice. States already get equal representation in the Senate, which is a strong check against an overreaching Executive. If Trump exceeds the left's expectations, he'll easily win the popular vote come 2020. Let him announce he'll adopt the cause after he takes office, and maybe some of the protestors will go away.

  3. It's hard to make farming robots farm farms, and better to make farms farming robots can farm. To use a car analogy, self-driving cars are hard. Self-driving trains are easy.

  4. Automation is slavery redux on Slashdot Asks: Will Farming Be Fully Automated in the Future? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The question ought to be rephrased "Should we allow it?", or better yet "How should we deal with the inevitable?" Advanced automation is reintroducing slavery, and the slaves grow more capable each day. In the antebellum US, there was a dirt-poor inbred white farmer underclass that couldn't compete with slaves. Eventually the slaveowners used them as infantry.

  5. Re: You know, just saying they can't bend the inte on UK Plans To Censor Online Videos Of 'Non-Conventional' Sex Acts (betanews.com) · · Score: 2
    [...] cloning audio cassettes [...]

    Are they trying to censor aural sex now?

  6. I work with touch screens daily and if they "break" it's usually no touch at all or a segment of the screen is non-responsive.

    I worked with SAW (surface acoustic wave) touch screens on casino gaming machines ten years back. Things are finicky as hell. Even a sneeze could cause an intermittent touch anywhere on the screen.

    Do we know what type of screens were in use on the machines in question?

  7. Re: I for one.. on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You misspelled "Reptilian."

  8. Re: A poor craftsman blames his tools. on Are Flawed Languages Creating Bad Software? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    There are not many platforms where de-referencing a null pointer can lead to anything good. Dereferencing a null pointer on a C64 gives you the DMA I/O direction for each range of addresses. Any other examples?

  9. Re: Micro$slop requires virtualization? Really? on Windows 10 Will Soon Run Edge In a Virtual Machine To Keep You Safe (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Sand boxing is great and fun and wonderful. Virtualization just seems overkill, like taking your AR-15 into the morgue to make sure everyone's dead.

  10. Next week on Cisco Blamed A Router Bug On 'Cosmic Radiation' (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    A White House health report addressing "partial data traffic loss" on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton contends that a "possible trigger is cosmic radiation causing SEU [single-event upset] soft errors." Not everyone is buying: "It IS possible for bits to be flipped in memory by stray background radiation. However it's mostly impossible to detect the reason as to WHERE or WHEN this happens," writes a Redditor identifying himself as a former [technical assistance center] engineer...

  11. Plainly the free charging stations are bleeding money. Selling customers their own free charging stations is a better business model.

  12. Re: Why landfills? on A Shocking Amount of E-Waste Recycling Is a Complete Sham (vice.com) · · Score: 1
    In 10,000 years our robot overlords will have new gold seams to send human labour into to exploit!

    ftfy

  13. Re: Epipen cost: $30, regulatory costs: $30 mil+ on Hackers Offer a DIY Alternative To The $600 EpiPen (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Maybe the nurse could read the directions in advance, although I bet it's already covered in nursing school.

  14. Re: Nice try at historical re-writes on Computer Specialist Who Deleted Clinton Emails May Have Asked Reddit For Tips (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    [...] spitting on troops returning from Vietnam..... Contemporary source? Newspaper account, police report, personal letter, note in a personnel record? As far as I can tell, there is no documentation of this happening at the time. Only after John Rambo complained about the spitting did veterans start remembering it. Memory is notoriously unreliable.

  15. Re: Thelema on Religion In US 'Worth More Than Google and Apple Combined' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Internet-style atheism has this unfortunate habit of going on to argue that any religion which presents myths as myths isn't really religion. If you reject the literal resurrection of the Biblical Jesus, you are not a Christian in any religious sense, no more than your religion is Judaism if you reject the notion of ancient Semites literally encountering a deity (and/or Ancient Aliens). One cannot maintain disbelief and faith simultaneously. They are literal antonyms.