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  1. What is the point? on Japanese Engineer Develops 'WalkCar,' a Mini-Segway · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So it is even more useless than a SegWay which are already useless. Who needs something that can move short distances at walking speed, but can be carried around when walking? Either you can walk or you can't, if you can walk it is useless, if you can, it is also useless.

  2. Re:Isn't this normal? on Leaked Documents Suggests Uber Is 'Losing Millions' · · Score: 1

    Well, then it sucks for them.

    Only for the investors. The founders can sell their overvalued shares.

  3. Re:Viking wankers on The Bog Bodies of Europe · · Score: 1

    So much for the notion that Northern Europe was the birthplace of the Master Race. When these douchebags were crushing skulls and dumping people in peat bogs, down Mediterranean way, they were already engaged in seed and animal stocking (lentils, almonds) and obsidian trade with Melos.

    In the Fertile Crescent, they had already devised incised "counting tokens" (the precursor to the modern day quantum computer).

    True, but who other than Nazi wankers would ever claim that? Nordic civilization is specifically interresting because it is so young and we actually have outside historians documenting before the Scandinavians started writing anything down themselves.

  4. Re:Remember to KISS on The Bog Bodies of Europe · · Score: 2

    Keep it simple stupid.

    Violent deaths found in peat bogs. Guess what the easiest way to murder someone is to lure them to a swamp, bog, other dArk remote area and kill them there. It makes great dumping grounds.

    It is a universal truth. Like prostituion, thievery, and taxes.

    But to then feed them shrooms, hang them, and then carefully place them in a ritual position, before throwing them in?

  5. Re:Why would a graphics driver bug... on KDE Plasma 5 Problem Traced To Bug In Intel Graphics Driver · · Score: 1

    ... cause a crash when desktops are switched? All that does is move windows from onscreen to off and vice verca. What the hell is KDE doing with the X server than means this happens anyway?

    Bugs like that are discovered when you actually starts using new features to render things more hardware accelerated. If no major application used it before, it is common to uncover bugs in drivers. The alternative though is not use new features.

  6. Re:the partial list, for the unititiated. on Reddit Updates Content Policy, Bans More Subreddits · · Score: 4, Funny

    among the list of banned subreddits: /r/CoonTown, /r/WatchNiggersDie, /r/bestofcoontown, /r/koontown, /r/CoonTownMods, /r/CoonTownMeta.

    not exactly sterling content that spurs thoughtful collaboration and debate. It harms the reddit brand, but id argue this is less censorship and more spam control. Reddits purpose is entertainment, social networking, and news. If you want flagrant unsubstantiated and indefensible racism, most routers still manage to handle connection requests to the servers at stormfront and about a hundred other different sites.

    What is CoonTown, it is like Arkham City only with Eric Cartman instead of Bruce Wayne?

  7. Re:systemd made my laptop unusable on Largest DebConf Ever Will Hit Heidelberg In Mid-August · · Score: 2

    When I upgraded to Jessie, it installed systemd, and the laptop started going into suspend all the time. I'd unsuspend it, and it would suspend again 30 seconds later.

    In diagnosing it, I found that using journalctl is much nicer than grepping though the tangle of partial and redundant logs that syslogd generates -- how is it that that particular collective itch seems not to have provoked anyone to scratch it previously in the decades we've been suffering it?

    I also discovered that the laptop's lid switch was stuck in, and needed a squirt of lubricant to get it working again -- for some reason sysvinit/acpi/etc. conspired to ignore that fact.

    One gets the impression that the bulk of people still whining about systemd have either never used it, or have very little real experience of the tangle of string and duct tape that is sysvinit. If whining about Debian, they also seem to be incapable of basic reading comprehension -- One only uses the word "default" when other choices are available.

    Actually that is due to a particular annoying default in systemd, where it suspends if it detects the laptop is closed instead of reacting to the laptop-close event. It is quite frustrating. It default exists because Pottering has a laptop with an power button on the side that can turn it on in his bag, so systemd is configured to shut down on boot up if it detects the laptop is closed even though that makes no sense. He convinced me it just a default though, but I haven't yet figured out where to change it, so far I just open up the laptop before I can power off from the docking station.

  8. Re:Much ado about relatively little yet. on Intel's Skylake Architecture Reviewed · · Score: 1

    The performance increase is going to be negligible until the "new instructions" on the skylake are utilized more in daily software use. Buy today, pay a premium for basically no bump.

    I don't think there are any new instructions in the consumer version of Skylake. As far as I know they are reserving the new instructions for the Xeon models only.

  9. Bad Example on Using Math To Tune a Video Game's Economy · · Score: 3, Informative

    The economy is one of the very few real weak points of Witcher 3. The article doesn't explain in detail what he did, but whatever it was: Don't do that, unless you have an otherwise master-class game to outweigh your mistake.

  10. Re:Cue the smug vegetarians on Want To Fight Climate Change? Stop Cows From Burping · · Score: 2

    If we all went vegetarian and killed off the domesticated cattle, then we'd make a huge difference! Kill a cow today!

    I will do my pat by eating a large steak tonight.

  11. Re:So 30% of 4% is 1.2%. What is attractive here? on Want To Fight Climate Change? Stop Cows From Burping · · Score: 1

    Well said. Posting to undo wrong moderation.

  12. Re:The Less You know, The More Scared You Are on Answering Elon Musk On the Dangers of Artificial Intelligence · · Score: 1

    I find it interesting that the people raising the biggest alarm aren't AI researchers.

    And they are CEOs of tech companies, who generally are known to be among the least knowledgable of all creatures on planet Earth.

  13. Re:Casino Noise on Silicon Valley's Big Lie · · Score: 1

    capitalism in which the cost of protecting property rights is paid for by taxing economic activity rather than the property rights themselves.

    How do you tax property rights?

    Have you ever owned property? It is quite simple and called property tax.

  14. Re:8 years, and still stuck at 2-4 cores... on 10 Years of Intel Processors Compared · · Score: 1

    Processors ought to have a minimum of twice the number of cores by now. Intel could at least have the decency to offer the option of trading a GPU for more cores.

    (Yes, there are outrageously expensive server parts with more cores...)

    They do. The only Intel "consumer" chips without a GPU are the 6-core EXTREME(!!!) edition.

  15. Re:Seriously reporters, just give up on foreign wo on Munich Planning Highway System For Cyclists · · Score: 1

    Slange is also a hose or tube, and "cykelslange" is the word for "innertube", so it's a pun as well.
    I'm Norwegian, not Danish, but I'll take a stab at the pronunciation:
    Cyglslangen (with cy as in cylinder, gl as in glue, and slang as in the word) shold be close enough.The g is softer though, and there's almost but not quite an e in the transition to the next letter.

    The a sound in slang is different. The Danish 'a' is more like the 'a' as in Khan or aaahh.

  16. Re: Winter? on Will Autonomous Cars Be the Insurance Industry's Napster Moment? · · Score: 1

    Do a search for google car can't drive in rain and you will see that they haven't even been tested in heavy rain because of safety concerns.

    That just means they haven't gotten to that yet, not that they expect it to be very hard.

    If it wasn't an issue they would already be doing it. Of course it is nowhere near the first of the issues autonomous cars have, they are quite far from what people imagine.

  17. Re:How do they fare in colder climates? on Are We Reaching the Electric Car Tipping Point? · · Score: 1

    After the succes of Tesla in Norway they fixed that by adding a heater around the battery that runs if it gets too cold for the battery. If you leave the car in the cold for months without charging it, it will drain, and the battery might need replacing.

  18. Re:Error 1 on Are We Reaching the Electric Car Tipping Point? · · Score: 1

    Gasoline stations don't sell gasoline. The provide it as a service at near-zero margin as a way to lure you in for the high-margin food and sundries in their stores.

    They'll find other ways to lure you in (like adding charging stations).

    Hardly. The cheapest are still the ones without a store.

  19. Re:quickly to be followed by self-driving cars on Are We Reaching the Electric Car Tipping Point? · · Score: 1

    You would have to wait a long time. The first generations of self-driving cars will not be fully autonomous, and nowhere near what you are dreaming of

  20. Anti tracking plugin for Chrome?? on Chrome Extension Thwarts User Profiling Based On Typing Behavior · · Score: 2

    Why would you make an anti-tracking feature for a browser only made to track you? Whatever you do you are still being tracked by default, that is the point of Chrome.

  21. Re:BBC / other state broadcasters? on EU May Become a Single Digital Market of 500 Million People · · Score: 1

    Ever heard the phrase "Divided by a common language?"

    In British English a member of "the government" is not a Bureaucrat with a public service-style salary, it's the Prime Minister and his Cabinet. Where they use "government" we'd use "Administration" (as in: the Obama Administration).

    Actually it means the same in America. Americans are just reallhy of stupid and blame the government for everything even remotely public. You can see this very often for instance with Obama being blamed for the actions of republican Governors.

  22. Re:When? on EU May Become a Single Digital Market of 500 Million People · · Score: 1

    It's this before or after the EU collapses from its inherent fiscal contradictions?

    Mu, that is not going to happen, and is not the case.

  23. Re: Blocked on EU May Become a Single Digital Market of 500 Million People · · Score: 2

    For those bot getting the "joke", GEMA is pretty much the German equivallent of the RIAA in the US.

    They are notorious for geoblocking in Germany videos from youtube which contains content under their licensing rights... Even youtube channels from the artists themselves.

    Actually they are notorious for Google blocking youtube videos claiming GEMA demanded it, even if they didn't.

  24. Re:KDE = My way or the highway on KDE Community Announces Fully Open Source Plasma Mobile · · Score: 1

    I think you are confusing KDE with either GNOME or Unity. KDE is the desktop that allows you to configure it to work however you want it, the others are the ones that do not.

  25. Re:What's its base? on KDE Community Announces Fully Open Source Plasma Mobile · · Score: 2

    Wayland.