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  1. 2011, 2TB for $49 on Analysts Say We Are Headed For a Flash Memory Price Crash (techspot.com) · · Score: 1

    In spring 2011, 2TB drives were advertised as low as $49.

  2. always more on LA To Become First In US To Install Subway Body Scanners (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    California is always so revenue hunry, it's probably designed to sniff out $100 bills.

  3. JEDI banishes the Dark Overlord.,,

  4. Re:Cox literally said "F the dmca!!!" on Record Labels File 'Billion Dollar' Piracy Lawsuit Against ISP Cox (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The proper response to a criminal law like DCMA is "FOAD".

  5. Re:Face ID has no bias, training sets may on Google Executive Warns of Face ID Bias (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Bias? Probably only got those with leg monitors already attached.

  6. Re:Wrong? on Google Executive Warns of Face ID Bias (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's really broken. It missed at least 500 more...

  7. It is not that big a hardware addition to add X ray spec capability. Probably it is a matter of market demand. Xray spec has little medical market value. (Unknown objects? Forensics?)

  8. Re:Honestly, this doesn't bother me... on American Airlines Is Using a CT Scanner To Screen Luggage At New York's JFK Airport (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    This thing bothers me a lot.

    It reduces what you can own and travel in privacy with. Several generations ago, some of my ancestors were stripped of their silver at the border leaving.... Sounds like more of the same coming, and other common govt hijinks.

  9. Price, content on Comic Book Publishers, Faced With Flagging Sales, Look To Streaming (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Prices are a little high, even allowing for inflation.

    Content, thin mags where much content is hmmm to ugh.

  10. A lot of Canadians and Alaskans have found out the hard way that the various USRDA andd.gov guidelines on vitamin D have been total shii.., er, dead(ly) wrong for decades... 200 iu, 400 iu, 600 iu, 800 iu - they're all way wrong.

    vitaminDwiki can set you more straight on the subject.

  11. Properly designed, or at least, not wildly improperly designed, they can't explode.

    In the late 1950s, the Soviets had a massive nuclear waste accident.
    The Japanese had thermal and hydrogen removal issues that didn't work out so great either. Granted they had long standing engineering design and negligence issues, known in the west in the 1970s. Described in the now defunct Nuclear Safety magazine.

  12. The problem often is not the PSA screening per se, it's the prostate snatcher urologist eager to sell his "services" - old fashioned biopsies and surgery. There are many flavors of PSA related tests that can less invasively help enumerate your prostate cancer odds.

    We are at the threshold of diagnostic technologies that are less invasive, and early treatments that are not well recieved by all urologists.

  13. $92-$234 too cheap... on Sucking CO2 From Air Is Cheaper Than Scientists Thought (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 0

    I'm still waiting for our too-cheap-to-meter nuclear power....

  14. Re:More time to get out of the way? on Hurricanes Are Moving More Slowly, Which Means More Damage (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm not clear that Harvey was more water damaging than the hurricanes of 1875 and 1886 that swept from Matagorda Bay across to Houston-Galveston. They were faster in wind speeds and movement and the transient water heights may have been higher.

    I lost ancestors where the water was over 30 feet deep... and I don't think it was as high or higher with Harvey. The "unusual" 1880 storm may have been a slow one more like Harvey. Basically most of any horrific records disappeared when their town was erased, permanently. This was several miles from where Harvey's rainfall records occurred.

  15. Re:More time to get out of the way? on Hurricanes Are Moving More Slowly, Which Means More Damage (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    I'm not clear that Harvey was more murderous than the hurricanes of 1875 and 1886 that swept from Matagorda Bay across to Houston-Galveston. They were faster in every sense and water heights may have been higher. I lost ancestors where the water was over 30 feet deep... and I don't think it was as high with Harvey. The "unusual" 1880 storm may have been a slow one more like Harvey. Basically most of any horrific records disappeared when their town was erased, permanently.

  16. Re:Microsoft should be worth less on Microsoft Is Now More Valuable Than Alphabet (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    older Evil vs newer Evil works for me

  17. China will bring African slavery back in a new form...

  18. sold (out) to how many security services on Facebook Accused of Conducting Mass Surveillance Through Its Apps (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't be surprised if Face Book has a FSBook office, a PLAybook and a FaCIAL book, among many sovereign renters.

  19. Re:Two models of Trump on Bill Gates Shares His Memories of Donald Trump (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    good post Okian Warrior.

  20. Re:The Anti-Trump Drivel on Slashdot is Astounding on Bill Gates Shares His Memories of Donald Trump (cnn.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Although personalities like Trump tend to be shallow in many ways, in this case, I think Gates is engaging in character assassination and probaably misquoting or misreading Trump's questions.

  21. Re: Basically any opportunity on Bill Gates Shares His Memories of Donald Trump (cnn.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    I absolutely don't trust Gates. The man has repeatedly lied and connived the world, a snake and weasel. DJT might "test" Gates some way to see his response either as an intellect, as a biased advocate, or as a useful advisor.

    It is fair for DJT to quiz an involved party about "differences" in vaccines and viruses. I don't expect DJT to be a molecular biologist.

    Gates certainly flunked DJT's loyalty and discretion tests. I do suspect that Gates is engaging in character assassination and misrepresenting his interactions.

  22. Oroville, crime, unsustainable public debt.... on California Bypasses Science To Label Coffee a Carcinogen (undark.org) · · Score: 0

    In view of California's other hazards, recent and future, this is another pathetic imposition from the Moonbeam state.

  23. Yes their Intent is important... on Police Drop Charges Filed Against 19-Year-Old Archivist For Downloading FOIA Releases (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    The Canadian authorities apparently think they are the Stasi.

    Once it was on a public server, without any posted or recognizable warnings, the kid has a pretty solid defense of innocence. If there is some real security breach involved, then they should inform him politely and perhaps firmly, and ask/demand their secret info back (if it still matters).

  24. shuttle cock(up)s on Could SpaceX Rocket Technology Put Lives At Risk? (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    In the NASA scar tissue, there were known problems that NASA mgmt refused to honestly address before launches. In 1986, Challenger's freezeable, frozen seals. On Columbia, falling ice hits were a recurrent source of significant shuttle damage, that they specifically suspected a major hit on the fatal flight. Ice build up is an old problem with several solutions. Finally, NASA had a chance to image the fatal hole on Columbia in space, and didn't....

    Too f'g many critical management failures...

  25. If you take a constant heading as "straight", circling the greater Southern Ocean area below South America and above Antarctica, accumulating a minute of deviation each circuit, you could get over 100,000 miles...