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  1. Re:Investments only go up right? on Students Are Using Their Loan Money To Buy Cryptocurrency, Study Says (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    'Never' is a long time. Kind of difficult if you get a job at a company and they need to send you on a business trip to the US. Or even a business trip that transits the US.

  2. Re:Investments only go up right? on Students Are Using Their Loan Money To Buy Cryptocurrency, Study Says (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    Most countries will fund tertiary education for their own citizens.

    Foreigners get charged the full rate, to stop people trying to do precisely what you suggest.

  3. Re: Self driving car hype on Uber's Self-Driving Cars Were Struggling Before Arizona Crash (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    So Waymo being able to drive 5,600 miles without human intervention is just a lie then?

  4. Re: I've seen that video on Uber's Self-Driving Cars Were Struggling Before Arizona Crash (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you should hate using that phase, because the actual phrase is "toe the line".

  5. People living in shacks tend not to have air conditioning. The traditional forms of construction have relied on it being dry heat.

    It's not very sensible to assume that the amenities you find commonplace are the same all over the world in every country.

  6. Re:Kids search for term, get videos on YouTube Kids Has Videos on How Reptilians Rule the World, Moon Landing Was Fake (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Kids are very suggestable. Even if they can identify a lot of it is garbage, there may be some parts that they internalise and later come to believe as the truth, just through distorted memories and "hearing from someone once". Doesn't take much for 1 kid to tell another kid about this "truth", and the 2nd kid believes it and repeats it everywhere.

    Also I doubt a kid is going to watch a 5 hour lecture, but they might watch the first 5 minutes and take whatever is said away.

  7. I believe under US copyright law you can only use up to 2 seconds of any sound clip under fair use.

    This is often held to be 30 seconds but a quick google shows there is no basis in law for 30 seconds. I can't find anything for 2 seconds, but it was on a youtube video by someone mocking copyright law and the concept of fair use and how it's mostly useless. I assume they did the research.

  8. Re:In 1988 ... on A Brief History of Stephen Hawking (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Er, why would they not put it in a museum somewhere? Sure, 'disable' it, but that's not what you said. Sounds like it'll do a good job of self-disabling within about 5 years if not maintained anyway.

  9. When space flight is much cheaper, as provided by reusable rockets, it makes more sense to put small, cheap satellites etc into orbit.

    When both your rocket and your payload are "cheap", it's less of a big deal when they get destroyed.

    For businesses that have expensive satellites to put up, they can pay a premium to use a brand-new never-used-before rocket. For other run of the mill launches, they can re-use the rockets without doing all of the expensive verification and re-conditioning you talk about, which are things that only drive the prices up.

    In other words, when things are cheap and frequent, failure is less important. When failure is less of a problem, it means you can use systems to make it cheaper and more frequent. It's a virtuous circle, so long as failure rates are acceptable.

    There's an absolutely massive difference in the cost required to engineer something that has 0.0001% chance of failure, vs a system with 1% chance of failure. If the market doesn't like the 1% chance of failure, they won't buy the service.

  10. Author went to Sideshow Bob's grammar school on One Single Malicious Vehicle Can Block 'Smart' Street Intersections In the US (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    "More precisely, it targets V2I (vehicle-to-infrastructure) protocols, and more precisely the I-SIG system implemented in the US."

    Sideshow Bob: Your children are no more than a pair of ill-bred troublemakers.
    Homer: Lisa too?
    SSB: Especially Lisa... But ESPECIALLY Bart.

  11. Re: I don't have anything to do with FreeBSD... on FreeBSD's New Code of Conduct (freebsd.org) · · Score: 2

    Because people with aspergers, which is a lot of people in tech (and on Slashdot, judging by the comments on this article) need concrete instructions they can read, understand and follow.

  12. Story of King Canute needs up update on Trump Administration Wants To Fire 248 Forecasters At the National Weather Service (fortune.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Perhaps in the future, the parable of futility will be President Trump, holding back climate change.

  13. Re: An interesting prospect, but also an edge cas on 'Sinking' Pacific Nation Tuvalu Is Actually Getting Bigger (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, cause as long as your house is 4mm above *average* sea level, everything is fine. Duh.

  14. Citation please.

    I've come across this story a few times, that he's cheated, and this is the first time anyone has ever said that it was a glitch that has been reproduced and it is known how to reproduce it.

    Given that this bunch of nerds spent months debating his case, I suspect that if what you say is true, they would have known about it, and it would have been included in the subsequent articles. Instead of calling him a cheating liar, they'd be saying he got lucky with a rare glitch (which are now commonly accepted and in fact form the basis of speedrunning).

  15. Re:It's better for the animals on Scientists Calculate Carbon Emissions of Your Sandwich (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It is likely that the genetic diversity of cows would drop if we no longer had to farm them, eg specific breeds would likely no longer be farmed and therefore cease to exist.

  16. Except far more people would be upset if you took away their meat sandwiches, than would be upset if you turned off cryptocurrencies.

    That's an important thing to realise. I suspect that in total, meat sandwiches are also contributing more CO2 than cryptocurrencies.

  17. Re: Safe and ethical intelligence... on UK PM Seeks 'Safe and Ethical' Artificial Intelligence (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Anyone who has read Asimov's books.

  18. Sorry, that should be 0.1% ($6.8M).

  19. He's far more likely to get 1% than he is to get 10%. Even that would probably be one of the largest payouts in a court case in NZ in a long time.

  20. Re:Inconsistent on New Study Finds No Link Between Violent Video Games and Behavior (dailydot.com) · · Score: 0

    Most people who play video games where you get a gun and kill other people, never dream of killing people in real life at all (most, especially non-Americans, don't have guns and have never handled one).

    That's quite different from sexism, which many of the above people would indulge in while playing said game - look on youtube for videos of female gamers being harrassed in voice chat while playing games.

  21. Re:Price for hardware? on Tesla Is Last In the Driverless Vehicle Race, Report Says (usnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Lidar cost $70,000 in 2012.

    In 2016, it costs $250. Projections are for it to cost $90 (no date, but guess by 2020?).

  22. Re:This WOULD be relevant, but... on Tesla Is Last In the Driverless Vehicle Race, Report Says (usnews.com) · · Score: 2

    GM hasn't ever positioned themselves as "even mainly a[n] AV maker".

    So obviously they aren't including only companies that have "positioned themselves as even mainly a[n] AV maker".

    They are ranking the companies that are doing anything significant with self-driving vehicles.

    Given Elon Musk promised a cross-country self-driven ride by the end of 2017, I think Telsa qualifies.

  23. Re:Was I supposed to take that as a negative? on Apple Product Delays Have More Than Doubled Under Tim Cook's Watch, Says Report (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps when Cuisinart or Target become the largest company in the world by stock valuation (by a good margin against the #2 company), they too will get this kind of scrutiny.

  24. Re: I prefer random crashing! on Slashdot Asks: How Should Apple Have Responded To the Battery Controversy? · · Score: 1

    How is waiting on an uber or taking a phone call a high performance job?

  25. Re: Heads will roll on Slashdot Asks: How Should Apple Have Responded To the Battery Controversy? · · Score: 1

    No, because that's well documented behaviour of the CPU, and is a temporary state - when the temperature goes down, the CPU speed will go back up.

    These updates by Apple were permanent, and would get more aggressive over time, so your once snappy phone would become sluggish, eventually making you upgrade to a new phone, since you weren't informed that the true problem was the battery, that could be cheaply replaced.