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  1. Market value is not for TODAY value only on Uber Accused of Cashing In On Bomb Explosion By Jacking Rates (thesun.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Market value also represent the earning potential future. Which is why despite being very profitable a company which announce less profit for the future despite still being positive will drop in value, and a company which lose money but has a potential gigantic future market will still be highly valued. Heck look at amazon. So aprt of the action value is representing the value of its assets but aprt of it is a gamble on nwhat it will earn in the future.

  2. Remove their license on Uber Accused of Cashing In On Bomb Explosion By Jacking Rates (thesun.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    "How would you make the uber drivers go into an area they don't want to go into, if it isn't by offering them more money?? Armed police?"

    In germany taxi can be driven by anyone there is no medaillon, insurance is special but open to eve4rybody havign a taxi driving license. But you have to answer yes to all taxi call, even if it means going to an area you don't want to AND failure to comply can lead to license removal.

  3. One up on Religion In US 'Worth More Than Google and Apple Combined' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It isn't even that people pretend have special knowledge , but that they use it to impose their will and opinion on other. "I don't like abortion, none shall have one" , "I don't like gay marriage , no gay shall get a marriage license" etc...etc... Frankly everybody can have a wrong view on the universe for all I care, and think the moon is made of cheese and the milk jug answer their prayer , but once they try to change laws or impose their religious opinion on others, that is when they step too far.

  4. It is not a government imposed censure, but a company which decided on their private turf to censure it (as an aside I think personally that that argument misses that some speech will be censored by most if not all private company and the effect is as good as government censorship).

    In the very end this is a private entity which can do whatever on their turf, including censoring swear word, sex stuff, certain political parties, or heck any instagram not starting by a vowel.

  5. pipe dream on Can Humankind Establish a Supply Chain in Space? (arxiv.org) · · Score: 1

    "The actual escape energy from Earth is 62.5 MJ/kg = 17.375 kWh/kg = $1/kg at wholesale electric rates, about what I pay for potatoes. We just have been terribly inefficient about how we get to space." that's the price of fossil fuel. Which don't cut it for launch in space. If you got an efficient process to go up in space at those price I am sure you can tell NASA, ESA, Elon musk and many other, they will be interested. Hint : there isn't any or we would be jumping on it.

  6. Not the same environment on Can Humankind Establish a Supply Chain in Space? (arxiv.org) · · Score: 1

    The moon has dust storm, space not so much. So solar cell which are fine rated for twenty years may not do so well on the moon surface. So that means you need to add dusters to your panoply of robot. And satellite are engineered to have a finite life : and we so then can decay them safely once they don't have enough propellant anymore. And then the "abundant" resource still have the problem they must be refined in low gravity, and then sent back (yeah the usual "use them to build more stuff in orbit" has no relevance. In the very end you want to send back stuff down earth because that is what bring money. And until we found a way to have human living long in space, then keep stuff up there and build thing bring nothing). So I doubt the plan has leg today (and I doubt it will have any leg in the life time of my descendant which will have more serious problem on the surface with AGW, water source, and possibly fuel).

  7. you don't detect black hole on visible spectra on New Research Reveals Hundreds of Undiscovered Black Holes (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Grit does not emit x ray on a constant basis. And it did, then it would isotropically do it , so we would see black hole everywhere no matter the orientation of our observation instrument ;).

  8. "Whatever they do is doomed to failure. " I disagree : an example of easiest policy is that after a number of strike of refusing a black sounding name or whatever person to imemdiately relist and offer , then you get delisted and black listed from air bnb. Then implement a certain percentage of probe. Results : racist are not compelled, but if they want to keep being listed they have to or risk being out. Now whether airbnb WANTS to implement such a plicy is different.

  9. As usual the attacks should not work on Leaked Demo Video Shows How Government Spyware Infects a Computer (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "a fake Adobe Flash update installer pops up, prompting the user to click install. Once the user downloads the fake update, he or she is infected with the spyware."

    The problem as usual is that people are not educated in security. Anybody being a minimum of paranoid would refuse to install a plugin like that froma random web page. Heck flash would probably not work from a random web page.

  10. Because you only factor ariane 5 and NÂ launc on Satellite Owner Says SpaceX Owes $50 Million Or Free Flight (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    In reality the people working on the Ariane family have a far longer experience at launching a sat, and THAT count for a lot. SpaceX may have quite a few launches, but nothing on the historical track records various space agencies have. Number of launch is not everything.

  11. They can try the scare as much as they want on Apple May Bring Back Billions In Profits To The U.S. (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    0.0005% tax threat loss is not worth being scared. Even ireland can eat that one.

  12. A life without steak ? on Can Cow Backpacks Reduce Global Methane Emissions? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Look you can be vegan or whatever if you want, but I think I'll take the risk and eat my juicy barbecued steak. As for the methane : it contribute only roughly 25% of the warming that CO2 does. The reason are simple : the half life of methane in the atmosphere is short and the quantity of methane are 1/200 of those of CO2. And then enteric fermentation is barely above 16% of total methane emission (all farm animals counted, not only cows). Coal mining , oil drilling and treatment is above that , about 19%. Then there are other sources, rice cultivation (12%), waste treatment and landfill (12%), burning of biomass (9%) look up wiki if you wish for more details and more importantly : the sources of citations. Sure we should keep in check, as long as we don't concentrate on "cow" and follow other venue , like reducing coal and oil CO2/Methane emissions.

  13. xkcd is funny but does not always present reality on Being Lazy Is a Sign of High Intelligence, Study Suggests (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Think about it, our modern world mostly exists because of the huge automation processes going on.

    I concur with the GP, if a problem is being repeated, then I seek solution on how to automate it. Over the year i automated a lot of stuff from testing, to revenue accounting. I also learned to always foresee additional cost equal to the initial development, over the next ten year, as debugging or maintenance, and when somebody ask me to automate stuff I ask them to sign it off with the knowledge and understanding of that maintenance cost.

  14. If true fuck them on US Finds New Secret Software In VW Audi Engines, Says Report (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Look I know my local economy would suffer a lot (I live in germany) but there is a limit. This seem to be outright fraud, just after another scandal ? That reek of corporate corruption to the highest level. And no excuse : after a first software cheat was found, an audit should have uncovered any further cheats. This can only have had the tacit or implicit high level complicity.

  15. That old urban legend ? on BBC To Deploy Detection Vans To Snoop On Internet Users (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The "detection van" urban legend has existed for decades. But OK, let us think about it : how much cost that tech and how much would it cost to *sweep* around single family home ? How much that would give back in money ? keep in mind the beeb license is "cheap" 150 pound per year and at worst they can only ask you, or make such hoax to try to convince people. Not sue you AFAIK. And that's not even counting if such evidence would even be acceptable. And that's single home family. not try to imagine that's a multi home dwelling. This is the license van hoax for this decade apparently.

  16. This has NOTHING to do with worker right on Britain's Scientists Are 'Freaking Out' Over Brexit (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    The article is about sciences grant, collaborations. Let us say you had a lab in Frankfurt wanting to have a 5 year collab on a subject, and they have the choice between an UK lab and a swedisch one. Which one do you think would be safe form them to take ? Excately : not the UK one. And to add , let us say you are a researcher in UK getting an EU grant. What hapenned afterward ? *maybe* the rgant runs to tis end, but afterward ? Well here you go . no more EU grant and now the Uk has to give more grants to *keep* the same funding amount of science, and the collaboration is not as easy anymore. What this has to do with worker right ? Nothing whatsoever.

  17. Youa re not supposed to joke as a candidate on America Uses Stealthy Submarines To Hack Other Countries' Systems (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Well at least not that sort of joke. There are certain joke which makes relationship with other country difficult, or makes you look like a fool, and you should avoid as a candidate for the highest office. this is one of those. If you want to see others , see Borris Johnson. Note that nominating such a person may be a political sign , a finger shown to group of people, I leave it up to slashdotter to decide which groups. But as a candidate for POTUS you should pretty damn fucking check what sort of joke you do, and joke about catastrophe or attacks (e.g. 9/11, pearly harbor), jokes about foreign president or countries, or jokes about attacks (be it physical or cyber) are certainly not something one should do.

  18. That sound wrong on Florida Regulators OK Plan To Increase Toxins In Water (washingtontimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The maximum allowed concentration in the table I see is 190000 microgram of 1,1,1âTrichloroethane per liter. That's 190 mg.Liter - 190 *grams* per cubic meter of water. Stay away from that water.... I hope i read that wrong or somebody bungled that. That seem way too high. Heck the PEL (although it is in gas form) is around 350 ppm, or about 1.9 mg per liter of gas (1900 mg per cubic meter). Somebody knowing the vapor pressure (100 mm Hg at 20ÂC) fancy calculating how much would go in the atmosphere near the river at such high quantities ?

  19. Re:well well well on Clinton Campaign: Russia Leaked Emails to Help Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you demonstrate that ? Heck for starter how do YOU know that the dumps trully represent what was sent ?

  20. It depends on the number of backups on Yahoo Ordered to Show How It Recovered 'Deleted' Emails (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    It really depends on how often the backups are done, and how long they are kept. I remember for an old mainframe system they were done hourly, but with only 7 days kept. Other will have a lower frequency. But usually they are not kept forever, are usually overwritten as a sort of rolling backup. Now I could be wrong and yahoo could be saving a few terrabyte forever on regular basis but it sounds dubious as there is no commercial interest for this, this is why most ISP and firms fought plans to be forced to keep backups of some data , including logs, for a long time. It cost a lot of money. So yes delete are not committed retroactively, but after a while they become a de facto reality.

  21. easy answer on Amazon Isn't Saying If Echo Has Been Wiretapped (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Amazon Isn't Saying If Echo Has Been Wiretapped " that means they were told to not say it has been and they decided to not lie. There is no reason whatsoever to not tell they were not wiretaped.

  22. if you got nothing to lose on The Case Against a Universal Basic Income (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Then you got NOTHING to lose. On the other hand those who have something HAVE soemthing to lose. tritte isn't it ? But it reflects that once a huge part of the population get rationalised away by automation, well guess what ? Assumign you are one of those "not mediocre not abusing" folk (already holding that kind of thought is all kind of wrong for a variety of reason but i disgress), then suddenly you will become a prey for those who have nothing to lose. Societal network will debgrade and it will end in blood and revolution. You can't have a huge part of the population left dropped and hope they will go lie in the street die for you.

  23. Reflash back to factory ? on Microsoft 'Patch' Blocks Linux Installs On Locked-Down Windows RT Computers (fossbytes.com) · · Score: 1

    I am not used to tablet OS, but I am assuming that they have an EPROM for the "current" OS and a ROM for the original one. I could be wrong. If it is the case cannot you simply reset back to factory build with factory OS and still exploit the vulnerability ? If it is the case why is there outrage ?

  24. multiverse isd not a theory on Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    It is the interpretation of the mathematical measurement of the wave. There are many different interpretation and the Copenhagen one is the one I use (parsimony does not need multiple universe - wave function just collapse). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... until falsification through experiment of one or the other it is all a question of taste and how uch you want to use parsimony in your interpretations.

    But again : all those are multiple interpretation of a mathematical artifact, the measurement. That those guy in with their book do not seem realize that and place it on the same level as string theory shows they are themselves "out there".

  25. Juvenile on Kentucky Anonymous Member Indicted Three Years After FBI Raid (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    They only got 1 to 2 years because they were 16 and 17 and were tried as juvenile (not adult) and so got only up to the point they reached adulthood. The other guy was 18+ at the time of the fact. This is the difference and explain everything.