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  1. Numbers on Why Do Airlines Overbook? (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    46,000 were involuntarily denied boarding, according to data from the Department of Transportation -- less than 0.008%.

    It may be less than 0.008% but it's still forty six thousand human beings.

  2. You can 3d print a beautiful part with a complex hollow or honeycomb shape designed to keep material costs to the absolute minimum, but how do you inspect it?

    We can make transparent aluminium, surely we can make transparent titanium.

  3. Re: That's what you do on McDonald's Is Now Accepting Snapchats As Job Applications (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 2

    Now maybe I'm not understanding correctly but shouldn't forged papers be made of some kind of metal, not paper?

  4. The report notes that the hybrid inks are "made of gold and silver particles..."

    If you thought ink was too expensive, you ain't seen nothing yet.

  5. Re:Hey GM, how about that EV1? on Tesla Tops GM by Market Value as Investors See Musk as Future (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You could not buy them because GM made a very limited number of them and you could only lease them. GM set themselves up for failure and you're swallowing their lies and repeating them.

  6. Re:Hey GM, how about that EV1? on Tesla Tops GM by Market Value as Investors See Musk as Future (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    I wish Nissan would just skip the whole "let's make the car an Internet-connected, entertainment center, self-driving A.I." parts and just make a low-cost electric car with a decent range.

  7. Re:Hey GM, how about that EV1? on Tesla Tops GM by Market Value as Investors See Musk as Future (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    GM is viewed as pathetic because they had their own electric vehicle two decades ago and decided to crush them all despite people wanting to keep them. They had their chance to start the revolution but it got killed from within the company.

    The fact that they're making electric vehicles again just seems pathetic and hypocritical.

    However, I do wish them luck because electric vehicles or even hybrids are still a better option for most people.

  8. Re:Madoff is small time compared to Musk on Tesla Tops GM by Market Value as Investors See Musk as Future (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Tesla has cars on the road, it's not vaporware company. His other companies are also progressing with their goals too.

    If you want to talk about something that took a lot of people's life savings and that was completely legal, let's talk about the fucking banks. Not only did they ruin people's lives but they also got more money for bailouts. Banks, the very place that's supposed to be about managing money, fucked everyone and got more money on top of that. I wonder why the people at the top didn't get the firing squad.

  9. Re:Hey GM, how about that EV1? on Tesla Tops GM by Market Value as Investors See Musk as Future (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2
  10. Re:So what's the range of the full size prototype? on Electric Vertical Take-Off Aircraft Successfully Tested By DARPA (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    We keep re-defining "reality" every day. Maybe you're the one who's lost touch?

  11. Re:Electrical AND 3D-printed? on Electric Vertical Take-Off Aircraft Successfully Tested By DARPA (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if it's a model doesn't it qualify for the term "aircraft"?

  12. Re: Stuff from our past, when we grew up... on Die-Hard Sysops Are Resurrecting BBS's From The 1980s (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Pepperidge Farm remembers.

  13. Re:More US warmongering on US Strikes Syrian Base With Over 50 Tomahawk Missiles (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Canada would be selling weapons too, but our 18 soldiers need their guns.

  14. It will allow Netflix to get more customers because as you say some people have slower connections and also because people switching to H.265 means less bandwidth required on their end too.

  15. Re:We knew it was coming... on New Destructive Malware Intentionally Bricks IoT Devices (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 0

    What about a garage door opener that was bricked and a woman got killed because she was being chased by a maniac and her garage wouldn't let her in?

  16. Re:Sledgehammer approach. on New Destructive Malware Intentionally Bricks IoT Devices (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    If DRM has taught us anything, it's that the law is on the side of the weak-ass locks.

  17. Re:Apple's Response on Apple Taken To Court For Refusing To Fix Devices (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    How are we even supposed to repair anything if everything is glued down? In Macs even components like CPU and RAM are soldered to the motherboard.

  18. First of all, unless he has a strange habit of changing his encoding parameter from one file to the next then it means he's playing files he got from different sources and not files he encoded himself.

    Second, your theoretical "slightly less shitty device" that can play things a hardware decoder IC cannot play means software decoding, which means a more powerful CPU, a higher power draw and more heat dissipation. Not important for something the size and cost of a PC but extremely important for a tiny box like a Roku or Apple TV.

  19. Re:Fuck Roku on Roku Has Hired a Team of Lobbyists As it Gears Up For a Net Neutrality Fight (recode.net) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't know why people think H.265 means 4K.

    I care about H.265 because I could get the same quality from less bandwidth, or better quality from the same bandwidth.

  20. You want "acceptable CODEC support"? Then encode with parameters that are compatible with hardware decoders.

    Myself, I think Apple went mad with their damn "touch" remote on their 4th generation Apple TV, so my next unit will be a Roku - hopefully with hardware H.265 support because I'm pretty sure Netflix is going to use that one day.

  21. Re:Actually iOS is safer, more likely to get patch on Android Devices Can Be Fatally Hacked By Malicious Wi-Fi Networks (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Except 79% of iOS users have a patch available right now, 10.3.1.

    Is there really 79% of iOS users that have a device that can run iOS 10?

  22. Friendly reminder to blink and breathe.

  23. Re:I wish I could trust "academic experts". on We're Creating a Perfect Storm of Unprecedented Global Warming (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    "I'm lactose intolerant you insensitive clod." - Habicht (paraphrased)