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  1. Re:Yes. Yes it is. on Is Finland's Universal Basic Income Trial Too Good To Be True? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    not artificial if you get money for it, with which to buy things. doesn't matter how pointless you might think a job is, only how much the person paying your believes it is.

  2. Re:so, new york city stops getting oil on NYC Sues Oil Companies Over Climate Change (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    that is utter nonsense, fossil fuels would be used anyway, warnings about pollution are decades old. New York did use and is using fossil fuels for its very existence, they have no basis for lawsuit. they are the polluters, they burned the fuel and continue to burn it. your "logic" sounds like the parasites who can't accept that their actions have consequences and are looking for handouts for the screwups they themselves made

  3. Re:You forgot to list ... on Astronomers May Be Closing in on Source of Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    popping neurons smell like hot margarine and butter then, some garlic salt on them would be perfect

  4. Re:How to cause panic with statistics on US Disaster Costs Shatter Records In 2017, the Third-Warmest Year On Record (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    if THEY can't ascribe any current weather events to warming neither can you. if you read that link you'll find there is another effect that warming produces that MIGHT counteract stronger storms. no current sensational weather events in the news can be ascribed to global warming.

  5. Re:How to cause panic with statistics on US Disaster Costs Shatter Records In 2017, the Third-Warmest Year On Record (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No, you are making things up without a shred of proof, just because you *think* that's what is being said.

    various model such as the IPCC make show warming causing stronger hurricanes by end of 21st century, but that is not hard proof in the present.

    Real scientists:
    https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/glob...

    "It is premature to conclude that human activitiesâ"and particularly greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warmingâ"have already had a detectable impact on Atlantic hurricane or global tropical cyclone activity. That said, human activities may have already caused changes that are not yet detectable due to the small magnitude of the changes or observational limitations, or are not yet confidently modeled (e.g., aerosol effects on regional climate)."

  6. Re:Self driving car ethics on When It Comes to Gorillas, Google Photos Remains Blind (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    A human who steps out within 60 feet of a car going 40MPH that has no alternate path available to it will get hit, brakes or no brakes. There will come situations where any alternate paths will also have humans. Self driving cars will sometimes be killing humans, that is a certainty.

  7. Re:How to cause panic with statistics on US Disaster Costs Shatter Records In 2017, the Third-Warmest Year On Record (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    no, it just makes the temperature go up.

    the worst hurricane was in the 18th century.

    the worst drought in USA was 70+ years ago.

    the most severe winter in the USA was 1880-1881.

    weather makes extreme weather events.

  8. Re:How to cause panic with statistics on US Disaster Costs Shatter Records In 2017, the Third-Warmest Year On Record (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    a contrarian view not held by the majority of scientists. that paper is a farce

  9. Re:You forgot to list ... on Astronomers May Be Closing in on Source of Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    really? what I heard was similar to popping popcorn

  10. Re:My brain can't absorb this on Astronomers May Be Closing in on Source of Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Far more enlightened view on the subject than astronomers have is provided by Douglas Adams:

    "Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."

  11. Re:Slashdot still had to "rub it in..." on Samsung Will Unveil the Galaxy S9 Next Month At Mobile World Congress (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    could you repeat the last two sentences, the dull roar of Galaxy 7s with unreplaced batteries exploding in the background drowned you out.

  12. that info was out on weekend, I use AVG antivirus which does set it

  13. Re:so, new york city stops getting oil on NYC Sues Oil Companies Over Climate Change (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    actually natural gas fired generators their biggest source for electrical power (nuclear # 2 by the way) ; but yeah the city was built and exists now because of fossil fuel.

    hypocrites and idiots with no conception of how their world works.

    sure, it's great to be going to non-polluting sources of energy but that's effort they have to make.

  14. Re: Vantablack on Super-Black Is the New Black (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's see, collision with another photon to produce a matter antimatter pair? Falling into a black hole? Redshift to zero frequency via expansion of space? I forgot, what was the other way?

  15. Re: Odd choice of words. on Super-Black Is the New Black (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the problem is that bird feathers are not technology, let alone nanotech. Spewing buzzwords in total ignorance to sound "cool" does not make for a useful news for nerds site. Technology is the practical application of knowledge to make things. Animal organs and tissues are not technology.

  16. this was known on the weekend, when I did a couple windows boxes and the windows partition on my AMD II laptop (which went fine by the way, however even if you get BSOD you can go into repair mode and uninstall the KB)

    So I've known about this for 3 days and I'm a freakin Linux desktop user at home and mac pro user at work!

  17. Re:How to cause panic with statistics on US Disaster Costs Shatter Records In 2017, the Third-Warmest Year On Record (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    no, reputable scientists aren't and don't point to a weather event and say it was due to climate change. there was stupid article recently about one contrarian with paper that said that could be done, but reputable scientists don't.

      your brain is scrambled with confusion over unrelated issues. Climate change, the weather events listed in the summary and increasing expense of disasters are three different things.

  18. Re:AMD affected by Meltdown bug after all on Intel Launches 8th Gen Core Series CPUs With Integrated AMD Radeon Graphics (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    hahaha! corporate america will. have you seen the investor headlines regurgitating intel's spew? Intel has patch for spectre, which was the more serious bug! meltdown just takes a little patch!

    no, not kidding

  19. Re:How to cause panic with statistics on US Disaster Costs Shatter Records In 2017, the Third-Warmest Year On Record (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    also most hurricane and flooding damage is due to stupidly overdeveloping coastline....and we won't talk about building cities below or at sea level, next to the sea

    this has everything to do with weather, and nothing provably to do with "climate change", and reputable scientists will still affirm that

  20. Re:This is enchroachment ... on Trump Pushes To Expand High-Speed Internet In Rural America (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    was talking about the mineral leasing act of 1920

    for example there are coal mines leasing federal land, having to pay royalties. lumber companies, gas companies, cattle grazers, etc.

    all legal.

  21. Re:The cure is worse than the disease on Microsoft's Meltdown and Spectre Patch Is Bricking Some AMD PCs (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    no, haven't noticed any difference on several machines at home and work I've patched.

    so world isn't ending.

    Problem AMD's won't be "bricked', you can go into windows repair and uninstall.patch

    check windows drive is mapped in repair mode, drive should map to windows directory like c:\windows\system32

    dir d:

    dism /image:d:\ /remove-package /packagename:Package_for_RollupFix~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~7601.24002.1.4 /norestart

    should output processing 1 of 1 with progress bar

    see, world not ended at all

  22. I'd be interested if enough would ever want those jobs that they would ever reach 5%

    Now I have worked at power plants that have schedules outages were they have large amounts of contractors, and a few women were in the crews to be construction laborers during those times...but I still haven't seen them in the trades like insulators, iron workers, welders, carpenters (who also do scaffolding), pipe fitters, electricians, etc.

    Now don't misunderstand, there were women at those plants, for white collar jobs like HR, management, scheduling, health and safety besides also security and custodian jobs.

  23. Re:This is enchroachment ... on Trump Pushes To Expand High-Speed Internet In Rural America (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    So what? That's been going on for 97 years! Completely legal, federal land and the minerals under them can be rented out and used by businesses and individuals who then have to pay royalties and rents.

    Nothing new, herds of camels have been kept in the tents for nearly 100 years; no notion of there being any nose poking in now.

  24. Re:Hey Meltdown trolls.... on Intel Launches 8th Gen Core Series CPUs With Integrated AMD Radeon Graphics (hothardware.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    eh, I read AMD is only vulnerable to Spectre variant 1

    you have source for your claim anything but Intel and certain ARM are vulnerable to Meltdown?

  25. Re:Wayne Industries on Pentagon Seeks Laser-Powered Bat Drones (defenseone.com) · · Score: 1

    fembots with freaking machine guns in their b00b135!!