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  1. I haven't found any good live options yet, but the PBS NewsHour is freely available every night.

  2. Re:Syndex blackouts on 76% Of Netflix Subscribers Think Netflix Can Replace Traditional TV (cordcutting.com) · · Score: 1

    I got the MLB TV package free from T-Mobile, and yeah all of the local games are blacked out. Also, there is no pre or post game show. The stream quality is fairly good I'd say. It is expensive though, there's no way I would have actually paid for it.

  3. Re: 24% of Netflix subscribers like sports on 76% Of Netflix Subscribers Think Netflix Can Replace Traditional TV (cordcutting.com) · · Score: 1

    Which cable companies are those? AT&T chargers a minimum of $20 fee more for TV +$15 for the mandatory equipment, and that's the crap package with mostly just OTA stations and no HD. If you want HD you're looking at a total of $45 to add on basic TV. If you actually want useful stations that's another $20-30.

  4. Re:Entanglement for dummies. on Can Quantum Entanglement Create Faster-Than-Light Communication? (mit.edu) · · Score: 1

    The problem is it's already been shown that the particles don't have any hidden state as your coin halves do. As I understand it is more like having two coins which always come up on opposite sides when flipped. It really is weird and difficult to understand how it's possible, all we know if that it is. Regardless, it's still useless a far as communication goes.

  5. No, it clearly can't no matter how many marbles you have.

  6. Re:Well yes duh on YouTube To Roll Out 6-Second Ads That You Can't Skip (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Redundant

    They aren't making their business model your problem. If you object to the ads which are part of their business model then you are making it your problem.

  7. Re:cool. So where is door from others to here? on Stephen Hawking Suggests Black Holes Are Possible Portals To Another Universe (scienceworldreport.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do we need alternate explanations for Hawking Radiation? We've never even observed the stuff, we just think it exists based on our theoretical understanding of black holes. If we don't think it's created the same way now, who says it needs to exist at all?

    Also our previous understand of Hawking Radiation had it decreasing with the size of the black hole. With this change it seems the opposite would be true.

  8. Mas can't move through space at the speed of light, however space-time itself can move faster than the speed of light and carry the mass with it. That's what happened during the big bang, and why distant galaxies can be observed receding from us faster than the speed of light.

  9. Re: Why not? on AMC Drops 'Texting Friendly' Theaters Idea (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm accustomed to having access to my phone, but that doesn't mean I am going to use it during a movie. I payed $15 to watch a movie, not to sit in a dark room and send messages to people.

  10. Re:Where is the bar? on After 150 Years, the American Productivity Miracle Is 'Over' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Google's Go program didn't learn to win at Go by programmers telling it how to do it, it learned by playing a lot of games and gradually improving. Same way people get good at Go.

  11. Re:Virus-laden water on Dyson Airblades 'Spread Germs 1,300 Times More Than Paper Towels' (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You can assume the hands were rinsed of the person is using a drier, but you can't assume they used soap.

  12. Google has had a screen reader called TalkBack for blind users pretty much forever. I'm not sure how well it works with this new capability though.

  13. Your Galaxy devices have had the ability to scroll the screen and push buttons using your voice? Every phone has had voice commands, but a fully voice operated interface I've never seen before.

  14. Huh? It's not trivial so we may as well give up? That's a weird dichotomy you've set up there.

  15. "Once proven, it is trivial to scale up to whatever level is required to make it commercially viable."

    Yes, just look at all the commercial applications of graphene and carbon nanotubes out there thanks to how trivial they are to mass produce.

  16. Re:At least Flash is easy to block. on Microsoft Edge Will Start Automatically Pausing Less Important Flash Content (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    So your pages go from annoying to completely non-functional. Sounds like a big win!

  17. Re:He just happened to have one handy? on Architect of China's Great Firewall Embarrassed After Needing To Use VPN (shanghaiist.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Or his personal computers where he works are outside the GFW, so he didn't realize the pages were blocked.

  18. Re: Standard C library... on TSA Paid $1.4 Million For Randomizer App That Chooses Left Or Right (geek.com) · · Score: 2

    Good luck studying that for weeks when the seed is different for every device and probably resets daily.

  19. Re:Bloomberg fail on How To Hack an Election (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    This is true. In fact the same thing is often said about Conservatives in congress. They are nice, likeable people when you get to know them. And yet the policies they support are still abhorrent and completely fitting the hateful racist redneck dogmatic intolerant violence loving hillbillies stereotype.

  20. Re:The future of dosage? on Refrigerator-Sized Machine Can Print Pills on Demand (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    As someone who has to give his cat 3/4 of a pill twice a day, this would be a very welcome change.

  21. No, those are the people who believe politicians, or those who understand the unfortunate math behind the US voting system.

  22. Re:Quantum computing in layman's terms on Fredkin Gate Breakthrough Brings Quantum Computing Within Closer Reach (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The words "peek" and "poke" are fundamental to basic programming from three decades ago. What modern languages use those terms?

  23. Re:No kidding? on One of Silicon Valley's Most Esteemed VCs Says Startups Are 'Mostly Crap' (vanityfair.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Meh, I meant to say startups, not VCs. But still true either way.

  24. No kidding? on One of Silicon Valley's Most Esteemed VCs Says Startups Are 'Mostly Crap' (vanityfair.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Didn't Sturgeon already tell us this 75 years ago? Ninety percent of everything is crap, including VC's.

  25. No ones saying to take the podcasts away