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  1. Re:Echo is a top 5 Electronics Purchase In Our Hou on Amazon Said to Plan Premium Alexa Speaker With Large Screen (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I do all that with my phone while I'm cooking... but I don't need another device because I do all that with my phone.

  2. Re:If you don't like what they pay, don't drive on Uber Drivers Demand Higher Pay in Nationwide Protest (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but it usually hurts the business to get attention. If you can be replaced by anyone with a car and smartphone...

  3. Oh you only need to either sterilize them or send them to a planet. Probably Mars since they'll at least be partially adapted to lower gravity.

  4. Re:One more data point... on Spinal Fluid Changes In Space May Impair Astronauts' Vision, Study Finds (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't the frame be in constant tension if it was spinning?

  5. Re:eating less on Microbiome Changes Drive the Dieting Yo-Yo Effect, Study Finds (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Multiplex microbial assays are becoming less expensive, and computer analysis is always going down. Sure, at first it'll just be the wealthy, but once the techniques are proven what insurance company or employer wouldn't want to help their covered individuals to be healthier? The comorbidities for obesity are not unknown.

  6. So what you're saying is, we need a breeding initiative on the space station!

  7. Re:I don't get it on Apple's Next iPhone Could Have a Curved Screen, Says WSJ (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree that it seems like it would make the phone more fragile with minimal benefit, but a colleague of mine did like her phone with this feature as apparently then the edges of the screen, still being touch screen, are then soft keys for various programs.

  8. Re:Problem is customer service on Walmart Tests Blockchain For Use In Food Recalls (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Nominally, in a fully tracked system, a store could automatically let everyone know next time they check out with their shopper's card or use the same credit card etc.

  9. Re:Roller Coaster on 'Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It.' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'd say most of us are as likely to make six figures riding roller coasters as posting to social media...

  10. Re:Routinely, the only thing I print. . . . on Slashdot Asks: Is Paperless Office a Dream? (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    For some things that doesn't count... you have to physically sign and date it, or electronically sign it with a CFR part 11 compliant software system.

  11. Re:Anybody want to start a cryogenics business? on Terminally Ill Teen Won Historic Ruling To Preserve Body (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    To get business you'll need to not as obviously defraud them... incinerate them with lasers, burn a Blu-ray disk of the 'quantum recording' generated burning them up with lasers, and you'll be set.

  12. Re:Freezing the body? on Terminally Ill Teen Won Historic Ruling To Preserve Body (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Eh... a little rot shouldn't deter somehow dealing with all of the body's cells simultaneously lysing from being frozen...

  13. Re:Really hope they're easy to ship on Elon Musk: Tesla's Solar Roof Will Cost Less Than a Traditional Roof (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That might be a limit of certified installers

  14. Re:Lower costs than a traditional roof? on Elon Musk: Tesla's Solar Roof Will Cost Less Than a Traditional Roof (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh I reread the article and it costs less than slate or terra cotta, not asphalt and so on. You'll see some slate here and there, but not terra cotta here. Still, should interest enough people down south to get it cheaper down the line up here.

  15. Re:Lower costs than a traditional roof? on Elon Musk: Tesla's Solar Roof Will Cost Less Than a Traditional Roof (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    If it really costs less outright then that'd be a game changer, even if you lived at a latitude where the electricity generated would be marginal.

  16. Re:It bears watching on Apple Launches 'Touch Disease' Repair Program For iPhone 6 Plus (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Women's pants don't have functional front pockets, often. As for me, I use it when I'm shopping and needing to check prices online and so on frequently, but otherwise I agree and keep it in front.

  17. Re:Pay to fix a defect? on Apple Launches 'Touch Disease' Repair Program For iPhone 6 Plus (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft replaced my Xbox 360 out of warranty for free twice. While inconvenient that the Xbox was a piece of crap hardware-wise, their response was great. They even provided the box and paid shipping both ways. For consumer electronics, Phillips has replaced all sorts of things for me for free without receipt. Duracell gave me money for a new flashlight and a coupon for a free battery package when one of their batteries swelled inside the light and couldn't be removed. So there aren't companies without flaws, but how they handle them can be very different.

  18. And without the way the electoral college works Clinton would have won. What's the point of your observation? "If things weren't the way they are there would have been a different outcome." Very astute.

  19. Re:Steve Bannon, not a racist? on Steve Bannon Suggests Having Too Many Asian Tech CEOs Undermines 'Civic Society' (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    But racism by Han against other Chinese is recognized as a big problem. Racism amongst blacks in Africa is widely acknowledged, even when the races are even more artificial than usual as in Rwanda's genocide... there have even been movies about it.

  20. Eh? The GOP couldn't lose control of the house, and the Dems winning the Senate wasn't likely, either. If he'd been running for any office other than President, which has an electoral college, he wouldn't be packing his bags to move in to the White House. It'd really be a stretch it to call 'winning on a technicality' some sort of overwhelming groundswell in support. He won fair and square but there's no landslide.

  21. It is relevant in declaring a landslide, however. You can't go around crowing about a public mandate when most of them voted against you.

  22. Lately the foreign call centers seem to be using vocoders to hide the accent. You can only tell they're Indian due to the tempo

  23. Re:'Drip coffee' != 'perfect' no matter how you do on Maths Zeroes in on Perfect Cup of Coffee (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Loose leaf tea gets you more texture/sediment than bagged.

  24. Re:Twitter is now arbiter of truth on Twitter Suspends American Far-Right Activists' Accounts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The newspaper isn't required to print your Letter to the Editor, either.

  25. Re:Irony on Twitter Suspends American Far-Right Activists' Accounts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yeah I enjoy both Oktoberfest and St Patrick's Day. The complaint in my eyes looks more like 'hey, we're victims, too!' Everyone wants to get the moral high ground of being suppressed more, and thusly everyone subverts any potential for real dialog.