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  1. Seismic faults beneath LA on Elon Musk's Boring Machine Completes the First Section of An LA Tunnel (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    While this 'boring' news seems a little bit exciting, one must not forget that there are lots of seismic faults beneath LA, and many of them are unstable

  2. The MoD has lied ! on Britain's Newest Warship Runs Windows XP, Raising Cyber Attack Fears (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is serious !

    Back in 2015 the MoD declared that this vessel would be 'Windows-XP Free'

    Read the article below if you do not believe ---

    https://www.theregister.co.uk/...

  3. Real reason behind the decline in Indian IT jobs is because of the way they are operating - leeching away good paying jobs from other countries

    Leeching is never a good way to survive, as the leeches have to find a host to attach to and leech

    Instead of developing that own IT fields, like USA did, like Europe followed afterwards, like what happened in Singapore or Korea or Japan or even in China - those countries did all kinds of incubators helping creative youngsters to further develop their ideas into fruition - India simply sit there expecting to leech from the Western nations, year after year

  4. 94% of what? on Curiosity Rover Decides, By Itself, What To Investigate On Mars (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Headline claimed that the 'success rate' is 94% Went to read the summary to find out what the 94% is all about but unfortunately it isn't saying much Any clue? SVP?

  5. In the era of Quantum computers ... on Six Companies Awarded $258 Million From US Government To Build Exascale Supercomputers (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    ... are exa-scale supercomputers still vtital?

  6. Spectrum is only one of the obstacles on We Could Have Had Cellphones Four Decades Earlier (reason.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Many kinds of technology were involved into making the cell phone - from hardware to software - and most were simply not matured enough during the 1940's

  7. They keep thinking they can go on getting money from everywhere to support their unicorns

    In the meantime they do nothing useful

  8. Re:No kidding... on Google Searches Show That America Is Full of Racist and Selfish People (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    How do they count people as "racist" exactly? If I say "he is Japanese" is that counted? Now change Japanese to any Race/Ethnicity/Religion that you like. Is that counted as a "racist"?

    ... and who can really claim that s/he is NOT selfish?

  9. " ... focus too much on what might happen, instead of what is happening ... "

    Biggest problem is everyone focusing on what is happening but forget that we, the netizens, have the power to affect the future of the Net

    Without us, internet is just a shell with no participants

    If we can build world-wide network, from BBS-era's Fidonet, to the Net, all by ourselves, without FB or MS or Apple or NYT creating walled gardens, we can, and we must do it again!

  10. Re:Bye Theresa on Theresa May Loses Overall Majority In UK Parliament (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    Weak and wobbly.

    It's worse than that She neglected her responsibility as the home minister to protect the hundreds of underage girls from sexual abuses, and in fact, she is criminally negligence !

  11. Outsourcing and H1-B on Verizon Expected To Cut Up To 1,000 Yahoo, AOL Jobs After Acquisition (recode.net) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What we have is a continuation of disappearance of jobs for Americans AOL might as well call itself IOL (Indian on line), and Yahoo might as well call itself Yihoo, if counting the Indian H1-B holders and the jobs which has been outsourced to India Sad

  12. Re:Intent behind Googling on Wall Street Journal's Google Traffic Drops 44% After Pulling Out of First Click Free (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I only hand my wallet over to my wife

    I don't want to intrude on your lifestyle, but maybe you should let her have her own wallet?

    Since she tells me she is the better half, she get the privilege to use both her wallet, and mine

  13. Intent behind Googling on Wall Street Journal's Google Traffic Drops 44% After Pulling Out of First Click Free (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    "They want Google to treat their articles equally in search rankings, despite being behind a paywall"

    When I Google I look for article(s) that I can read, not articles that I have to hand over my wallet in order to read

    I only hand my wallet over to my wife

  14. Whenever SJW is involved ... on Tesla Fires Female Engineer Who Alleged Sexual Harassment (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    ... there ain't gonna be any good outcome