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  1. Shouldn't this be pointless at this point? on Supreme Court Partially Revives Travel Ban, Will Hear Appeal (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If the reason for the ban was supposedly put in place to "address gaps in the government's screening and vetting procedures" and was only supposed to be in effect for 120 days shouldn't there be no need for the ban any longer?

    If they (the Trump administration) figured that they only needed 120 days to fix the "gaps in the government's screening and vetting procedures" and they have been in office for 155+ days then they should already have fixed the problems and the ban should no longer be needed.

  2. Re: How gullible are you? on Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    ... ... and a man who can't admit his mistakes when he makes them isn't fit to lead any organization, let alone the FBI.

    So when should be expect Trump to step down from office? If anyone "can't admit his mistakes when he makes them" in the current administration it has to be Trump.

  3. Re:Where is the FTC??? on Comcast and Charter Agree Not To Compete Against Each Other In Wireless (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    To the ultra right everyone looks like a leftist. :-)

  4. There is a 64bit version of Office. It isn't that common to see it pre-installed in computers but it is available (maybe not on the Windows store but can be downloaded from Microsoft).

  5. Part of the reason that everyone is using it is that it gets side loaded by so many other software installers and then sets itself as the default browser.

  6. Re:It's pretty simple on Energy Star Program For Homes And Appliances Is On Trump's Chopping Block (npr.org) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Military spending is totally out of control yet you don't see that being cut (instead they increase spending). The money that could be saved by not buying military equipment that the military itself says it doesn't need could easily pay for the budget cuts proposed for the EPA (and many others).

  7. In some but not all cases there is a cap on what the government will pay for these drugs. They are large enough purchasers to put pressure on the pharmaceutical companies to keep the price low (one of the reasons US citizens have been known to go to Canada for to fill their prescriptions.

  8. Re:Global warming is a good thing on The Cheap Energy Revolution Is Here, and Coal Won't Cut It (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think they were talking about coal as a power/energy source but rather as a source of carbon (could be wrong though) the thing is that all steel needs is carbon. It doesn't necessarily have to come from coal (renewable sources of carbon would do).

  9. Re:Make America Great on Trump To Overhaul H-1B Visa Program To Encourage Hiring Americans (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually there was never a formal declaration of war with Korea so it would be hard for Trump to use this non-existent declaration to justify going into North Korea. The Korean war was a UN action that Truman sent US troops to support.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/po...

  10. Re:Not exactly direct evidence on Scientists Capture First Image of Dark Matter Web (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Dark Matter does exist and has been photographed (well actually video taped). It has been broadcast on SyFy and Space (Canadian SciFi channel).

    Oh, not that Dark Matter. :-)

  11. Fair competition is only possible so long as the commercial ISP doesn't receive any special treatment, such as favorable regulation, exclusive access to region, ability to get tax money when they feel threatened by a competitor... .

    FTFY :-)

  12. A couple of the big impacts was a massive increase in "reality" TV and the boom that "sports" received. Do you remember any televised poker or professional blackjack prior to the strike?

  13. Re:Want good Internet? Move to a city. on 'Dig Once' Bill Could Bring Fiber Internet To Much of the US (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Ummm, if indoor farms are "far, far, far more efficient, profitable, and easy to control without herbicides and pesticides" wouldn't all "farms" be indoor farms. I''' admit I'm not an economist but from what I know of their theories anything that can lower production costs is a good thing right?

  14. Re:bloviated shit gibbon on FBI Director Comey Confirms Investigation Into Trump Campaign (reuters.com) · · Score: 3

    There is also the fact that Trump is benefiting directly from these trips to his own resort. Do you really think it is a coincident that he is flying to his own resort to play golf every weekend rather than going to a resort owned by someone else?
    How many weekends did Obama spend in a resort he owned during his first two months in office?
    How much government money was funneled to Obama's businesses in the first two months he was in office (which is what Trump is doing by staying at Mar-a-Lago)

    If you really want "major portions of the bloated fed government removed" then you should really be asking for military cuts not cuts to programs that only contribute 0.1% of the national budget.

  15. Re:This is an OS on EU Privacy Watchdogs Say Windows 10 Settings Still Raise Concerns (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    I hate defending microsoft, however the problem is most users won't install an update. even today the average user is to stupid to understand how and why they should update.

    Look at ios and Mac OS . iOS achieves something like an 75% updates installed within 3 months of it being released.
    versus
    andriod or windows xp/7 which gets 25% of updates installed in 6 months.

    The problem with comparing Apple with any other computer company is that Apple fully controls their product line. When Apple pushes an update they know exactly what the base hardware is (since they make it themselves). When Android and Microsoft push updates they have to worry that the update may adversely affect machines made by numerous hardware manufacturers. In Android's case the manufacturer of the device may not even make an updated OS for their older devices and loading Google's base Android OS isn't something many end users can/will do.

  16. Re:Interesting, the DNC chose Signal on Republicans Are Reportedly Using a Self-Destructing Message App To Avoid Leaks (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Admittedly I didn't read the article but from the summary:

    Trump administration members and other Republicans

    So if that is the case then yes they are talking about the White House.

  17. Re:Because Climate Science is inherently political on Bill Gates Warns Against Denying Climate Change (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    No one has proven that top down economics works either but it is uses as an excuse " to control our behavior, our society, and our politics."

  18. Re:Oh for goodness sake on Vinyl Record Production Gets a Much-Needed Tech Upgrade (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Too be honest, I wouldn't mind going back to a CRT (except for the size and weight problems) so I could get rid of all the bad artifacting in highly compressed video. Maybe 16k video will fix this but at this point some of the digital video out there is terrible.

    Not sure how leaded gasoline got mixed into a discussion on digital vs analogue. 8-)

  19. Re:Makes me wonder... on Vinyl Record Production Gets a Much-Needed Tech Upgrade (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm temped to take that bet. I'm quite sure in 80 years there will still be vintage CD players that can play vintage CDs just like there are currently vintage record players. The supply of those vintage CD players may be limited but (just like the current vinyl trend) if there is enough demand some one may still produce new CD players as well.

  20. Re:The issue is leftist naivety. on Ask Slashdot: Can US Citizens Trust Government Data? (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    While those in the political center and the right will question all governments and their leaders, those on the left will obey with complete obedience those who they are told to support.

    I'm not so sure that those on the right "question all governments and their leaders". It sure seems that Trump followers are drinking the cool-aide on everything he says. Even the outright lies that he has made.

  21. Re:I've spent a lot of time in retail on Amazon Just Got Slapped With a $1 Million Fine For Misleading Pricing (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    This isn't about MSRP but OSPR (Ordinary Selling Price Representation).

    I know the linked article mentions MSRP but the quote they have:

    “The Bureau’s investigation concluded that these claims created the impression that prices for items offered on www.amazon.ca were lower than prevailing market prices,” Canada’s Competition Bureau said in a statement. “The Bureau determined that Amazon relied on its suppliers to provide list prices without verifying that those prices were accurate.”

    only mentions “prices for items offered on www.amazon.ca were lower than prevailing market prices,”
    "Prevailing market prices" are not MSRP.

  22. This assumes that eating food with baking soda will release CO2. While most of the uses of baking soda is for leavening (which does release CO2) there are other uses of baking soda that doesn't release the CO2. This ingested NaHCO3 could be converted by the body into non-CO2 molecules.

    Also, once the CO2 from coal burning is converted to sodium bicarbonate it could easily be buried so that it would meet your definition of captured. This would be a waste of a perfectly good product though.

  23. I think you may have some other problems. I have used it since upgrading to 10 with no problems. I have also installed it on client machines when Windows 8 rolled out (why they removed the start button then is beyond me) and they haven't had any problems with it.

    Sure this is just my experience as well but from other posts here it looks like your experience is in the minority with respect to Classic Shell performance.

  24. Re:Data Speed and Cost on Canada's CRTC Declares Broadband Internet Access a Basic Service (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    In Canada the major telecom companies (telephone, cable, satellite, wireless) collude like a mafia don's wet-dream. We pay outrageous rates for data regardless of its delivery method (cable, fibre, wireless, satellite) for slow download and even slower upload transfer rates. I recently augmented my cable ISP service with wireless ISP as a connectivity backup. In general, the wireless Internet service is no worse than the cable Internet service although the same price gets me 5 GB wireless and unlimited cable. The wireless service has tiers so as I use more than 5 GB I pay about CAD15.00 more for each upstream tier. If I dumped my cable Internet service then streaming videos (CraveTV, YouTube, and education / professional training) would get expensive pretty fast. The area in which I live is urban but not sparsely populated compared to Montreal, Toronto, or Vancouver . There should be plenty of wireless bandwidth available to enable the wireless carrier to decrease the cost to the consumer; the service is HSPA+ (on a good day) and most (95+%) of my Internet usage is education, professional training, and career related. I am willing to pay CAD75.00 per month for true unlimited data (wireless) and based on past usage the typical bandwidth "consumption" tends to be less than 50 GB a month. Today the 50 GB costs CAD110.00.plus taxes and fees. By the way, CAD75.00 is the current 10 GB data usage price plus taxes and fees.

    So where exactly do you live that you think Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver are "sparsely populated"? :-)

  25. Sorry, I didn't mean meet as in gather in one place just in the sense that the US electorate gather on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November to vote (I suppose though if I amtrying to get all factual I should be more precise as well). ;-)

    The only thing I was really trying to address is that the Electoral college hasn't actually finalized the election yet (I attached the link so that I didn't have to be exact). :-)

    The media starts talking about the electoral results on election night since (so far) the electoral college has always followed the results of the general election.