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  1. Re:Nexflix is live vs offline (office apps) now yo on Microsoft Removes Device Install Limits For Office 365 Subscribers (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You can download Netflix content to some devices for offline viewing. I've not used that but I have used Amazon Prime's offline viewing and if I recall you have to 'refresh' once a month or so. I doubt anyone who cares about Office 365 goes more than a month without connecting to the internet, if they wanted to do something similar.

  2. Re:And yet the show goes on ... on Google Debunks Trump's Claim It Censored His State of the Union Address (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone just needs to do a deepfake of Pence conspiring to depose Trump over a scene from House of Cards and that might resolve that! Although I suppose Sessions has shown that if you call his bluff on Twitter shaming he doesn't do much.

  3. Re:Researchers Say! on Emails While Commuting 'Should Count as Work', Researchers Say (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That should be, what counts as work according to federal labor law counts as work for the company. These sorts of things can get messy with non-exempt staff.

  4. The doctored one had the wrong font, they explained it in the article.

  5. Re:And yet the show goes on ... on Google Debunks Trump's Claim It Censored His State of the Union Address (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    What're the Dems going to do unless they can take congress? The establishment Rs already rolled over for fear of being primaried, they won't turn on him unless Fox News does.

  6. Oh no, the budget the WH has presented each year would've destroyed my whole sector of the economy. Luckily congress has been ignoring those proposals for the most part. Not knowing what you're doing can be quite dangerous.

  7. Re:The false drives out the true on 'It Is a Challenging Time for the Internet: We Must Not Let It Be Undermined' (internetsociety.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure that's true, even though it might help some people leave religion. Certainly religious modes of thought incorporate into other things, like arguing the minutiae of scifi canon in various fandoms and the like. You even get ingroup/outgroup exile and violence with doxxing and swatting and the like.

  8. Re:The false drives out the true on 'It Is a Challenging Time for the Internet: We Must Not Let It Be Undermined' (internetsociety.org) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's why we ended up with Protestantism being like it is, with a bunch of divergent, potentially exclusive Divine Truths. So while it is sort of banal, and easy to dismiss as naval gazing, by analogy arguing about the facts of the news and state of the world in the same way could be a bit more damaging than whether you can get a communion wafer or not.

  9. Re:Covert Ageism on Is Your Email Address Holding You Back? (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Ha, yeah that was my reaction... if I gave you my Hotmail account email address I don't care if you're judging it or not, you've already been judged.

  10. Re:3D printed guns are not a real problem on After Court Order, 3D-Printed Gun Pioneer Now Sells Pay-What-You-Want CAD Files (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah it is one of those things where you can see why it would worry people, but it is pretty silly when there are places online that'll tell you how to mod a relatively easy to acquire AR15. No one is going to storm a federal armory with 3D printed weapons when perfectly legal and effective WWII era combat rifles are relegated to target shooting and the occasional deer. Now if they start 3D printing Predator drones and cruise missiles en masse then we'll have a stickier wicket.

  11. Re:Why should China help US pharma take the lead.. on China Has Withheld Samples of a Dangerous Flu Virus (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    This is why we should be investing more in modernizing flu vaccine manufacturing. If the next super flu is also highly infectious to chickens, they will be culled and burned.

  12. Re:Dumb Question on Internet Groups Urge US Court To Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It gives the home field a competitive advantage. Whether that is a problem or not will correlate with your stance on NN, but it is pretty obviously violating the idea of NN.

  13. Re:Why didn't the US discover this, too? on China Has Withheld Samples of a Dangerous Flu Virus (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    The normal flu pattern is for the new pandemic strain to emerge in the Asian bird population and then make its way here to the US. Without getting it from China it is hard for us to manufacture enough of the vaccine in time.

  14. Re:Dumb Question on Internet Groups Urge US Court To Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The most cited example I've heard is that AT&T is not metering streaming content they own from buying DirecTV. T-Mobile has some non-metered options, but I believe theirs is NN-friendly vs promoting in-house content.

  15. Re:actual, real improvements yet ? on Scientists Deliver a Longer-Lasting Lithium-Oxygen Battery (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 2

    Scientists come up with cool stuff, like molten salt batteries that operate at 150C; blame the engineers if they can't make it into anything useful!

  16. Re:Looking for some illumination on this one.. on Encrypted Communications Apps Failed To Protect Michael Cohen (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the efforts that were put into hiding the payment are where you may have crimes, not that someone was paid to be quiet. The thing that is making everyone nervous is the items seized probably point to all manner of crimes.

  17. Word on the street is that the CEO of the National Inquirer just got immunity for testimony in the Cohen investigation. Even if paying hush money isn't a crime in and of itself, you can certainly do things that are crimes in the course of it, e.g. fraudulent loans and so on.

  18. Movement (e.g. walking) drives lymphatic circulation, and your body walls off problems with granulomas of white blood cells, not fat.

  19. Re:Something I've been wondering on Poor Sleep Alters Metabolism and Boosts Body's Ability To Store Fat, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It's more comfortable to imagine that other people's failings and problems are due to their agency, because it means you can avoid them. If I eat vegetables every day I won't get cancer like that sucker! Also, since it is his fault, he doesn't deserve my help! We also blame our own failings on contingency, so when we do get cancer it was because of unavoidable stray gamma rays and not from drinking ourselves to sleep with plastic jug vodka every day.

  20. Re:Mechanical Turk on Driverless Startup Zoox Suddenly Removes CEO · · Score: 1

    If the latency to offshore tech support offices was low enough, that might actually work if the 'autopilot' was good enough that it only needed minimal inputs.

  21. Re:That's the trouble with science on Florida's Gulf Coast Battles Deadly And Smelly Red Tide (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Yes, they also hate it when people change opinions based on new evidence ('flip floppers'), whereas to scientists that's 'not being an asshole'

  22. Well, let's see... 36 states have implemented it, so you probably have, at minimum, 36 entry points to compromise the whole thing. That's a lot more than a single point!

  23. Re:happening for thousands of years on Florida's Gulf Coast Battles Deadly And Smelly Red Tide (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Of course, wildfires are natural and yet we budget to control them. See also, flooding, hurricanes, tornadoes. As with red tide, wildfires and flooding in particular are impacted by human activity so we can even budget for more than repair.

  24. Yes instead of nuking humanity, Skynet will eventually accumulate all wealth into Office 365 subscriptions and then we all starve when the farming industry collapses and we get Dust Bowl II. Our gaunt selfies will be saved indefinitely in our OneNote books while drones helpfully deliver cardboard covered in license keys to empty housing units.

  25. Re:happening for thousands of years on Florida's Gulf Coast Battles Deadly And Smelly Red Tide (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Yes, the lake is diverted into the river which goes over to Sanibel. You can see the map on Wikipedia if you're curious; this is all a ways south from Sarasota. My understanding is that the link from the lake to the river was manmade. You can also easily Google articles from all the times the lake has been drained by that river, I did so before posting to check my spelling. Sanibel hadn't been hit by the red tide quite yet when I was there, but they're inundated with dead wildlife now.