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  1. Re:Why would you want a ship that can go 50 klicks on China Has Launched the World's First All-Electric Cargo Ship (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    The reason is that it boat will deliver coal to seven current coal plants and probably more on the way and those coal plants are on different sides of the water. A train would require bridges and other infrastructure, hilly area, so the boat is the easiest way.

  2. Re:Idiot commentator on Bitcoin Nears $17,000 After Climbing About $4,000 in Less Than a Day · · Score: 1

    It depends on who you are. If you write about finances and economic theory you most defiantly want to see it crash because it will allow you to gather some data and test some theories.

  3. Re:Man, I am old on Airlines Restrict 'Smart Luggage' Over Fire Hazards Posed By Batteries (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    It is luggage where just the piece of luggage takes up 1/4 or more of your weight allowance.

  4. Re:The sleeping elephant in the room on Earth Will Likely Be Much Warmer In 2100 Than We Anticipated, Scientists Warn (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    Since you are using power and using computer clearly indicates that you also don't believe there is a real problem.
    As large groups environmental scientists have pointed out, we are already at or have surpassed the tipping point and YOUR continual use of resources is the problem.

  5. Uber is still going by the illusion that they drivers are not employees so it is reasonable that contractor(aka driver) provides the car and phone.
    However with dominoes the drivers are employees so I would expect they cannot say if a person has a phone much less a smart phone.

  6. Re:Por que no los dos? on Russia Wants To Launch Backup DNS System By August 1, 2018 (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure why your browser would be doing DNS lookup.
    However if you were to query this russia DNS and some other DNS server and came up with different results then you would know either: 1) that one DNS has a different value, 2) That the address requested has load balancing IPs and you got different addresses, 3) that someone did a man in the middle attack and gave you a different address and if you are really worried that this is a possibility then you should be using DNSSEC.

  7. The government won a lawsuit for $14.8M and then auctioned off the rest. From what I could find the few they have are being sold to the people living in them.

  8. Re:1/3 or 54%??? on A Third of Americans Still Buy and Rent Videos (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    The 54% is the percent that rent or buy over all sources, so physical and streaming.
    the 1/3 or 26%(dont ask on that one) are from physical such as DVD or blu-ray.

  9. that is not correct. There is a collector market for kinder egg items, also mcdonald's toys, and they have placed different values on various prizes. Kinder tends to get away from it because that market is so small no one cares.
    The better example would be card collecting games like magic the gathering which requires you to purchase packs of cards with the hopes of getting a good card.

  10. Re:Umm... TF2 had it for years, folks on Belgium Denounces Loot Boxes as Gambling; Hawaiian Legislator Calls Them 'Predatory' (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Overwatch: you get loot boxes for each level, for playing certain types of games or can purchase them. You can also purchase the item straight out for various prices with in game coins. In game coins come as items in chests and when the chest contain an item you already have, a duplicate; recent changes made this rare so getting coins is harder. They only contain cosmetic items, nothing that gives boosts or benefits in game play.
    Battlefront II(star wars the recent one) gives you loot boxes on leveling or purchasing. These boxes contain new abilities, cosmetic items, and crafting parts. The abilities come in variety of items or effects you can apply to your character. The top level items can only be crafted, so you have to have a lot of crates to get the best things or play alot of hours to get enough free ones. Since they are not cosmetic or if you want to play Hans Solo or any of the movie heroes it does make it possible for a person to lay down some money or $2100 for everything and "pay to win"

  11. CD Projekt Red also came out with Gwent which requires you to purchase card packs with random cards, the very definition of pay to win and gambling.

  12. If that is the case is "Magic the gathering" and similar card games also gambling?
    Buying the packs could be considered pay to win, since you purchase enough packs you are get better cards while make it easier to win.

  13. So we are going back to laws that prevent this. on Ajit Pai and the FCC Want It To Be Legal for Comcast To Block BitTorrent (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Under Title II it is allowed to block bittorrent. Title 2 is not net neutrality and it is foolish to push for it.

    We are not going back to ISPs blocking bittorrent(when was that?), we are going back to the clinton rules that ruled they could not; in addition we now have ISPs being required to document if they are going to block ports or traffic.

  14. First it was liquor and tobacco were bad for you now it is also sugar. How is anyone to live a vegan lifestyle?

  15. Re:Not Pyramid? on MoviePass Reveals Annual Subscription For $6.95 a Month (slashfilm.com) · · Score: 1

    Most theaters love moviepass for the reasons you give, AMC is the except and for other reasons.
    The claim of the pyramid scheme is that moviepass is having to pay those full ticket costs with them paying out more for a single ticket then I am paying for the monthly pass so they have to be getting money from some source. If you go by the pyramid scheme then that would be the people who signed up after I did.

  16. Re:First they try to hook you, on MoviePass Reveals Annual Subscription For $6.95 a Month (slashfilm.com) · · Score: 1

    So do this up front payment and lock your self into the price for a year. Other wise continue to pay the $9.95 a month.

  17. Re:What kind of disgusting name is that? on Tesla Is Rethinking the Rest Stop For California Road Trips (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Not the fries. In/Out burger fries are terrible, thin and dry.

  18. So how does the motor vehicle department running your ISP help?

  19. Re:Fake News on The Crisis in Local News (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Since inauguration day to October it was 12

  20. Well based on the email you could give it to Hillary and provide hours of training but she would not be able to understand how it works.

  21. locked box could be carried off. Box would need to be secured to something.
    Also box would need to be big to handle the boxes I receive.

  22. Re:device with no UI for post-install timezone cha on Many US States Consider Abandoning Daylight Savings Time (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    So a boon to the economy as people have to throw away all the unpatchable IoT and replace them with ones that can handle a change in the timezones.

  23. Re:Sigh - It is not farmers on Many US States Consider Abandoning Daylight Savings Time (newsweek.com) · · Score: 2

    If you go an look into the reasons we still have the time change it is not farmers. They were actually the only people who have organized against it because it messes up the time schedule of animals and they want the sunlight at the end of the day during the fall months.

  24. And who really believes all this global warming stuff, not many unless they are getting paid to do so.
    Yes there are plenty of people who demand you give lip service to it but as long as you do that there is no threat where anything actually has to be done.

  25. Keep up on the news it was both Elizabeth Warren and Donna that claimed the same things; and it was warren who is being blamed for making up some stuff.