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  1. Will wonders never cease

  2. Re:Facsimile. on The Fax is Not Yet Obsolete (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    3. Small offices. These offices usually exist because they fill some small special niche market. There must be hundreds or thousands of these (hard to count all of them) just in any small city. 4. Travelling offices. It is much easier to carry a fax and plug into the pay phones at a truck stop to get documents from an office than getting email on your phone and trying to connect wirelessly to a printer. Just an example of something complicated being very simple and effective, even though everyone around rolls their eyes. 5. Fun! As soon as you hear the fax machine pick up with its endearing tone, everyone gathers around to see what will come out. Page after page, what page is next? It's endless fun just wondering what will happen next. Need I give more of the endless set of examples that come to mind?

  3. Re:Call Northside 777 on The Fax is Not Yet Obsolete (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure if fax can be classified as an analog technology, but until recently, analog was still the highest quality in every way. It still is the highest quality, although digital movies, etc. finally became the standard, even in theaters. Exhibit 1: Audiophiles and their turntables, which were considered obsolete for many years. Turns out digital music just isn't that great, and may not be for many years. Fax machines have many features that are way better than any digital technology.

  4. Re:Whatever replaces systemd on What's the Next Big Thing in Tech? It's Up To Us (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Before you starting writing code, understand the problem you are solving. Think about how people use tech.

    Understand what they do on a regular basis. What bugs them the most about their day?

    What do they care about? Do they have pets? Do they give to charities?

    What do they buy for a snack at work? Why do they make their bed a certain way?

    Why do they walk down one aisle and not the other?

    What did they want to be when they grew up? What is their favorite color?

    What do they pause and look at when they are walking past a particular place?

    What is the culture where they grew up? Do they rinse and repeat or just rinse?

    How long does it take to brush their hair? When do they decide what shoes to wear? At the door or before that?

    Answering questions like these will give you a much better idea where to put tech. Does tech belong everywhere? Behind every gadget? Inside every smart device, splashed all over your iWatch? Ask these questions and that's where the profit begins

  5. It's pretty bad. There are critics who say some species would literally have died out had the environmental agency not taken the limited steps it took over the past couple years

  6. Where have I heard this before? What do we know about immigrants? Ah yes, they are not allowed to work and predatory lenders target them. This should be a very informative program.

  7. Re:Randomisation on Rowhammer Attacks Can Now Bypass ECC Memory Protections (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Who uses ASR for high performance PCs? That slows down your CPU - instant memory fragmentation. Is that a corporate thing? "Hi, IT guys? Can you stop by my computer every few minutes and restart my apps because they get slow"

  8. It's all bullying. Nothing New. No Wonder you need a cyberfortress these days

  9. I'm 99% sure this happened last year and the major unions agreed to a deal to do more staffing. After all, Amazon kind of sort of needs them on Black Friday but not during most of the year. They agreed to more staffing, but not to specific jobs or worker control of hierarchy

  10. Re: More fake space missions from NASA on NASA Will Land InSight on Mars With Cunning -- and Lots of Cork (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh look. A Mars mission with an excellent chance of success, well-planned, by NASA. Whoda thunk it? Detractors will of course point at any detail gone wrong because they don't want NASA to succeed. smh.

  11. Re:So they won't cooperate with the NSA? on US Asks Foreign Allies To Avoid Huawei (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Always Huawei. Is Huawei the only telecom device company in the known universe that they deserve this level of attention?

  12. Re:Same reason military hands out medals on High Score, Low Pay: Why the Gig Economy Loves Gamification (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    You could make the medals out of solid gold and they still wouldn't pay the debt we owe to a veteran. That's why they are cheap and shiny. To make it obvious that a medal isn't good enough but that we care anyway.

  13. Re: You people need to STOP BULLYING ME... apk on YouTube is Testing Having Two Skippable Ads Back-To-Back (cnet.com) · · Score: -1

    Is he using his handy dandy bully pulpit?
    What is that hosted on?
    GNU of course! With 32 1.44GHz massively parallel cores

  14. Re: Don't hire the unlucky! on New Web App Uses Machine Learning To Analyze, Repair Your Technical Resume (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no evidence of these creatures, only the Great Pumpkin is proven to exist.

  15. isn't this due to cross-site AJAX calls being disabled in Javascript and then subdomains didn't cross-link right so people turned it off?

  16. Re: And here is a different idea on Retaliatory Cyber Attacks Are Only Way To Stop China, Says Former FBI Director (afr.com) · · Score: 1

    This makes about as much sense as using a DOM object to cut the crusts of a peanut butter sandwich

  17. Re: Half-Life Celebrates 20th Anniversary With Fan on Half-Life Celebrates 20th Anniversary With Fan-Made 'Black Mesa: Xen' Trailer (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    But can I watch it on GNU Linux?

  18. Some fans were hoping for a series to tie in to the movies but they decided to focus only on movies. That is what I heard on the gamers paradise grapevine, anyway. Itâ(TM)s all good.

  19. Minus the profanity I agree

  20. I enjoy imagining all the gloating going on

  21. Re: Amazing Opportunity on Mars Opportunity Rover Appears To Contact Earth; Turns Out To Be a False Alarm (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    NASA is a victim of its own success. Rover was never supposed to be operational at this point. The fact that it is makes it seem like engineering blunders abound when its just a happy surprise if one hears anything. I suspect there are probes/sattellites nearby that rover can communicate with but they can't relay anything to NASA. They could send a team to repair rover, or perhaps some of the communication sattellites between earth and mars can be set up as a relay. There are a couple of sattellites launched in the last few years that might be able to handle a relay. It is very difficult to change a sattelite's mission post launch but it has been done before, not even by NASA, and not even by the european space agency. Of course, seems very likely it will take some top shelf analysis.

  22. Re:Why did so many people die in this fire? on Bill Godbout, Early S-100 Bus Pioneer, Perished In the Camp Wildfire (vcfed.org) · · Score: 1

    If you say so. I figured it started from a small campfire or a small housefire. If you're implying that something much bigger happened and you can back it up, I'll believe you. All the police reports are available in multiple locations. Unless someone is hiding something or just sending out bullshit info you should be able to make a case.

  23. Re:and not a one gets an amazon job.. on Virginia To Produce 25K-35K Additional CS Grads As Part of Amazon HQ2 Deal (loudounnow.com) · · Score: 1

    Can't wait. Or can I?

  24. Re:Price isn't the issue on Netflix Says It Will Test Lower-Price Subscription Plans (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If someone doesn't subscribe what does it matter how good the content is?