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  1. Re: Desktop Notification? on Google Is Removing the Desktop Notification Center From Chrome (chromium.org) · · Score: 1

    If you don't like it why did you enable it?

  2. Re:What if I don't want to own a car? on Why Self-Driving Cars Should Never Be Fully Autonomous (roboticstrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Umm, yeah isn't that exactly what I said?

  3. Re:Why should? on Why Self-Driving Cars Should Never Be Fully Autonomous (roboticstrends.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're only telling the car where you want it to go, and it's figuring out all of the correct maneuvering to get there safely, what's the point of making you micro-manage the operation? Just let me tell it where I want to go, and it can wake me up when I get there.

  4. Re:What if I don't want to own a car? on Why Self-Driving Cars Should Never Be Fully Autonomous (roboticstrends.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We're probably already there, in general human drivers suck.

    The current problems with Google's cars are not safety related, it's the limited range in which they can operate. Over time the range will increase without needing to make compromises on safety.

  5. Re:Not surprising on Porsche Chooses Apple Over Google Because Google Wants Too Much Data · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As of Monday they can. But on any Android version older than Marshmallow it is not possible.

  6. Re: hey, CBS doesn't promote Fox, either on Amazon To Cease Sale of Apple TV and Chromecast · · Score: 2

    I had the same experience with trying to try out Amazon Prime videos. I gave up before I got to watch a single video, and I didn't renew after my Amazon Prime trial ended because of video being not worth the effort. Mission accomplished, Amazon?

  7. Re:Oh God on Talking Science and God With the Pope's New Chief Astronomer · · Score: 1

    Maybe you're right, but it's irrelevant since I don't have a say in the matter.

  8. Re:Oh God on Talking Science and God With the Pope's New Chief Astronomer · · Score: 1

    Sure, and it's entirely possible that in a controlled situation quantum behavior could have observable effects at larger scales. The evidence would indicate that the brain is not the sort of controlled environment where this could be true.

  9. Re:Oh God on Talking Science and God With the Pope's New Chief Astronomer · · Score: 1

    If God is outside of time then him knowing everything would no more contradict free will than me knowing what someone choose to do in the past does. Just knowing the result of a choice doesn't mean the choice was never made.

    That said free will doesn't exist, so it's a pointless argument.

  10. Re: "If you think you already know everything... on Talking Science and God With the Pope's New Chief Astronomer · · Score: 1

    It's not scaremongering if the risk is real and not exaggerated. And if the Democrats are doing the right thing for the wrong reasons (which is not proven) who cares?

  11. Re:Am I the only one who noticed? on Light-Based Memory Chip Is First To Permanently Store Data · · Score: 1

    You're the only one mentioning bit rate.

  12. Re:Am I the only one who noticed? on Light-Based Memory Chip Is First To Permanently Store Data · · Score: 1

    What would be wrong with just a straight clock rate to clock rate comparison between the two?

  13. Re:Faster..? on Light-Based Memory Chip Is First To Permanently Store Data · · Score: 1

    Light has one natural advantage, in that it doesn't have mass and so it goes at the speed of light. Electrons are not that fast. It's more complicated though, since both electrons in a conductor and photos in a fiber are slowed down by various amounts depending on the medium. It's very possible that the photos in a photonic chip could be substantially faster than electrons in an electronic chip.

  14. Re:Doctor what's wrong with me? on The New Technique That Finds All Known Human Viruses In Your Blood · · Score: 1

    We don't know what most viruses do yet. Detect them is the first step towards understanding what they do.

  15. Re:An honest question on US Restarts Hunt For Gravitational Waves With Advanced LIGO · · Score: 1

    Random wave superpositions would not cancel out. Sometimes they would cancel out and sometimes they would reinforce each other.

  16. Re:Silly story... on This Is What a Real Bomb Looks Like · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sorry you're wrong. Leaving a suspicious looking object unattended is a completely different situation from carrying something around in your bag and telling people it's a clock when asked.

  17. This is not news on Ahmed Mohamed, His Clock, and the Curious Turn of Events · · Score: 1

    Not that it matters, but in the first article that I read on this story when it first happened it said exactly this, that he took apart an old clock and reassembled it.

  18. Re:Don't take yours in. on Volkswagen Ordered To Recall 500K Vehicles Over Its Own Malicious Programming · · Score: 1

    The sewage treatment plant has to add water to the sewage when people start to conserve too much

    So what? Unless you know the exact state of liquid intake at your local treatment plant I'm guessing they have a better idea of how much is too much than you do.

  19. Re:Don't take yours in. on Volkswagen Ordered To Recall 500K Vehicles Over Its Own Malicious Programming · · Score: 2

    Yeah, pulling heavy loads is exactly what Jetta's are known for.

  20. Re:Don't take yours in. on Volkswagen Ordered To Recall 500K Vehicles Over Its Own Malicious Programming · · Score: 1

    A CPU that runs cooler and uses less electricity? Depending on your needs that may indeed sound pretty nice.

  21. Re:Defective. on NYU Study: America's Voting Machines Are Rapidly Aging Out · · Score: 1

    If they are only used for one day every 2 years? Yeah I think a pencil can survive 10 days of usage.

  22. Re:In Canada... on NYU Study: America's Voting Machines Are Rapidly Aging Out · · Score: 1

    I'm in the states and where I live we do the exact same thing. It works wonderfully, and because you don't need any expensive voting machines there are no shortage of voting locations. It's never taken me more than 20 minutes to vote, and that includes the time spent walking to the polling place and back.

  23. Re:Autonomous "Driving" needs to be truly driverle on Philosophical Differences In Autonomous Car Tech · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People aren't good at driving and make bad decisions in emergency situations as it is. Now you want the person to have 99.99% less experience behind the wheel, and yet be capable of doing the right thing when a tricky situation is suddenly thrown at them with half a second notice? Are you sure you don't see the problem with this?

  24. Re:Maybe on MIT Physicists Have Finally Cracked Overhand Knots · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I just learned the same thing last year. It's amazing what a little difference makes.

  25. 14 years ago only? I think you should check your count. The drug war has been taking away people's freedom and abused to take their property for far longer than 14 years.