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  1. Re:Stop with the anecdotes on 'Chiropractors Are Bullshit' (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    So what ? If you want to do a statistical analysis on the matter go ahead. In the meantime, you will not prevent people from sharing their experiences.

  2. Compliacted way ? on Apple's New iPhones May Miss Out On Higher-Speed Data Links (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Since when dual-sourcing has become a "complicated way" ? Multi-sourcing is a rather common way to operate in the electronics industry.

  3. Re:Glad to see a little sanity on Le Pen Concedes Defeat To Macron In France's Post-Hack Election (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The main difference between the elections in France and the elections in the US, is that there was a choice between 11 candidates on the first turn, four of which have had a score above 19% .

  4. Re:Well there's your problem on Tesla Recalls 53,000 Model S, Model X Cars For Stuck Parking Brakes (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The point is that when the car is not able to move on its own power, you can still disengage the parking brake and push it. Unless it's an electric one.

  5. Re:I find this thoroughly unsurprising on Despite Well Known Risks, Survey Finds Most People Use Smartphones While Driving (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    You must never take public transportation.

  6. Re:Maybe beers don't even need fixing on Can We Pollinate Flowers With Tiny Flying Drones? (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    I am by far not an expert on bees, but I can at least check the references.
    The linked article says...

    Statistics compiled by France’s Ministry of Agriculture underscore the multi-factorial sources of bee health problems. The most frequent causes of bee loss reports received were found to be: ‘pathogenic infections’ (diseases)–by far the largest source of which was varroa mites; bad beekeeping practices; starvation; and phytosanitary products. Probable or definite pesticide ‘intoxication’ were among the least frequent loss report causes–and, of course, neonics are only one of many classes of pesticides to which such losses can be attributed.

    So let us check the original source. Curiously absent from the article synthesis, is the colony collapse disorder (referenced as "Phénomène de désertion"), ranking as the second most frequent cause of bee loss - which is precisely the subject the source is discussing (and playing down). If the other parts of the article are as well referenced as this one, this does not bode well for the credibility of this source.

  7. Re:Not alarming on Galileo Satellites Are Experiencing Multiple Clock Failures (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It is totally alarming. Redundancies are not supposed to kick in so early in the program. Such a failure rate is off scale compared to the reliability targets of a space equipment.

  8. Re:Tin Whiskers? on Galileo Satellites Are Experiencing Multiple Clock Failures (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Pure tin solder is prohibited on most space programs.

  9. Re:CIA inside job on Galileo Satellites Are Experiencing Multiple Clock Failures (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    ESA contracts are fixed price. Even if there are no penalties, you do not gain any benefit by being late: actually, you do lose money as you spend more for the same payout.

  10. Re:Hands on Whell? on Tesla Avoids Recall After Autopilot Crash Death (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I do not want to have a pointless argument with you, but this is a quite dangerous way to adjust the mirrors in any location in which motorcycles are allowed to lane split. Same for locations in which there is a significant number of bikes on the road. The fact that the link you provided only shows cars around is telling...

  11. Conservative choice on Mozilla's New Logo Reminds Us that It Is, In Fact, a Web Firm (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    This is probably the most conservative choice out of the different logo designs that were proposed. Personally, I preferred "the eye" and its connection to the former Mozilla Dinosaur.

  12. Technically, Mac OS X is not FULLY closed source.

  13. Re:Capitalist potemkin village on SpaceX Gets the Green Light To Resume Rocket Launches (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    It's shit but it's cheap ? What the hell are you talking about ? There is a good reason neither Europe nor the United States has currently the capacity to send people on orbit - it's not an easy engineering problem.

  14. Re:3d fails about every 10-15 years. on Ask Slashdot: Why Did 3D TVs and Stereoscopic 3D Television Broadcasting Fail? · · Score: 1

    Like many things, you can probably get used to it.
    Playing first person shooter games induces headaches for many people at first. The display would make the brain think that your head is moving around, while the vestibular system says the contrary. With time, most people get used to the discrepancy.

  15. Passive glasses are cheap.They are sold at something like 2 € in the theatres around here. I thought it was the most commonly used glass technology on 3D TVs.

  16. Re:There's a reason Apple is successful... on Samsung To Reveal This Month What Caused the Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone To Catch Fire - Report (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It seems you are confusing Apple customers with Apple cultists, and are also confusing the real world with the echo chamber of the internet. In both cases, it's not really the same number of people.

  17. Re:Buy a Zoe instead - affordable electric on Audi Cars Now Talk To Stop Lights In Vegas (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    - an electric motor is dead simple and much cheaper than the mechanical complexity of an ICE (it's just a glorified spool of wire, attached to a fixed ratio gear. That's why Tesla can afford to slap a 2nd one on their 4-wheel drive vehicle (the xx"D" series), and that's why most european high speed train can afford electric motors on each of their wagon.)

    Interestingly, not on TGVs which are among the most common high speed trains in Europe (470 trains). These trains have power cars at both ends.

  18. Re:Filter or not on ESA: European Mars Lander Crash Caused By 1-Second Glitch (space.com) · · Score: 1

    This is not as simple as that. The inertial sensor is not outputting bogus or noisy data that can be easily discarded from previous data. It is saturating because the actual acceleration or rotation of the spacecraft is higher than any value the sensor can measure. Any integration algorithm used to compute the position of the spacecraft, including a Kalman filter or not, is going to have trouble in those conditions. Of course, there are methods to estimate what could be the correct measurement value during sensor saturation, but they are far from being a silver bullet.

  19. Re:So let me get this straight.... on Shazam Keeps Your Mac's Microphone Always On, Even When You Turn It Off (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The audio waveform being analysed does not have to come necessarily from the device itself.

  20. Software bug, or... on Bad Code May Have Crashed Schiaparelli Mars Lander (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    From what is written in TFA, it could be a software bug, but it could be as well a sensor fault. It's probably too early to figure exactly what happened. Nevertheless, it is likely the best to present it that way for now, as a software bug is easier to fix than re-designing the sensor suite.

  21. Probably nothing would happen, according to recent research.

  22. Re:So the bureaucrats have solved all the problems on Germany Calls For a Ban On Combustion Engine Cars By 2030 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Your general message is sound, however I think your numbers might be quite off. For instance in the Paris region, 44% of the commuting is done by public transportation, and 43% by car. I'd be surprised if it was so different in industrialized areas of the Netherlands (I've been there a few times, and as you say, the trains are packed full).

  23. Is there really a paradox? on The Psychological Reasons Behind Risky Password Practices (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As written in the summary:

    My personal favorite: password paradox. "The survey revealed that the majority of respondents understand that their digital behavior puts them at risk, but do not make efforts to change it," reports Help Net Security.

    But among all the accounts that people have, how many of them are really worth of effort to reduce the hacking risk? I'd think a lot of people reuse the same passwords on many sites, because they do not really care if they are hacked on most of their accounts. Actually, this is kind of hinted at in TFA:

    Additionally, consumers prioritize their password strength based on which accounts they believe need to be the most secure. Respondents indicated that they create the strongest passwords for financial (69 percent), followed by retail (43 percent), social media (31 percent) and entertainment (20 percent).

    That would seem to indicate that if people reuse many passwords, they still don't use the same one for their bank and for facebook... It is strange the TFA asked people if they thought their accounts had values to hackers, but didn't go as far as asking the surveyed people what value they perceived themselves in their accounts.

  24. Re:Because there's no advantage on Digital Wallets Have Yet To Catch On, JPMorgan Executive Says (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    In a lifetime, getting his wallet stolen is still quite a rare event.