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  1. Re:This needs to stop. on Sexual Harassment In Tech Is As Old As the Computer Age (ieee.org) · · Score: 0

    because he's another ball-less whiner

  2. Re:Delivering by usual cars is not safe either on San Francisco To Restrict Goods Delivery Robots (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    your insurance company would be delighted to tell you the difference between a car for personal transportation and one that is not. again, the percentage of cars used for purposes of commercial delivery is tiny.

  3. Re:Do you remember when... on People Who Can't Remember Their Bitcoin Passwords Are Really Freaking Out Now (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    I remember relative losing her money that was in a bank account she forgot about, law says money is foreited after period of inactivity.

  4. ya know, you can set your phone up to be handsfree to respond to queries?

    the echo has no special "security model", hacks have been demonstrated just like most any other internet attached appliance running an OS.

  5. Re:Are they retarted? on Toyota's New Power Plant Will Create Clean Energy From Manure (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes they are somewhat retarded, the amount of energy produced is laughable, this is not a solution at larg scale level. And the most important part of "fertilizer" for soil is the nitrogen which the ash won't have, though it would have potassium and some other minerals. Other ways manure helps soil is via moisture retension and carbon (up in smoke).

    In short, poop is more useful as poop.

  6. na that's expensive.

    Plenty of the fiber even here in the USA is direct bury type or in plastic corrugated innerducts. backhoes and tractors and vandals sometimes cut them

  7. Re:Faraday cages are completely unknown in N Korea on The US Is Testing a Microwave Weapon To Stop North Korea's Missiles (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    err, the target is systems with antennae...you know, the ones that have to emit and receive microwave radation

  8. but why the need? We already have devices in our pockets that can speak and be spoken to, with graphics and touch interface also, hooked to a planet-spanning internet. I hear these devices even have task specific "apps" to do the things that echo does badly.

  9. nonsense, the banking system and countries will always be the big players and *by design* would grow to quadrillions in holdings as the trillionaires came into existence, it can't be otherwise since the debt the trillions represent are the banking system's asset.

  10. the point is the US is not a small country, the dollar is the global currency. only large countries or the western banking cartel manipulate it

  11. Re:Cryptocurrency will propel humans into space .. on Cryptocurrency Miners Are Using Old Tires to Power Their Rigs (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    ha, more sunlight falls on the ground than a thousand earth civilizations could use. it might propel the destruction of deserts, though after this current bubble pops bitcoin and "cryptocurrency" (really just virtual game tokens) might be unpopular for quite a while.

  12. no, the true big holders, 3 countries, would crush them.

  13. Re:Don't be a retard. Don't look directly at the s on What It Looks Like When You Fry Your Eye In An Eclipse (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Lieibniz also invented it, and his superior notation made it much more useful

  14. U.S. exports coal too, and that has been *growing* since 2016. A lot of the world's electricity comes from coal and will for years. Here in my state half the electricity comes from nuclear, and 40% from coal. I agree that carbon pollution is bad, but that's the way it is.

  15. Re:Which is false on GE Cuts 12,000 Jobs In Response To Falling Demand For Fossil Fuel Energy (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    but will the Chinese be using GE turbines for that which is to be built, or will they do their very typical thing of reverse engineering turbines they've bought in the past so they can make their own in the future. I'm betting on the latter

  16. Re:Perl6, brought to you by PHP on Perl, Perl 6, and Two Application Frameworks Release 2017 Advent Calendars (perladvent.org) · · Score: 1

    You made me laugh with that, as a former C++ dev you picked the one language that is the extremely pathological case of bad architecture. Using that as example is saying "well georgie the birthday pedo clown here isn't so bad, just look at Jeffery Dahmer who ate his victims"

  17. no, the size of the money supply is too massive compared to any billionaire dollar holdings. There are *countries* that could affect the dollar with their holdings, but no individuals

  18. Re:Don't be a retard. Don't look directly at the s on What It Looks Like When You Fry Your Eye In An Eclipse (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    no, he did an interesting experiment on himself in his 20s and suffered temporary damage, mild solar scotoma

  19. cut the hysteria, not related to "climate change" on The Firestorm This Time: Why Los Angeles Is Burning (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    The wildfires in the area are a recurring natural phenomenon, what is *abnormal* is humans developing the area and trying to prevent the normal and expect recurring wildfires.

    And of course the number has been declining for decades:
    http://www.ocregister.com/2017...

  20. Re:Looking at this wrong on No One Makes a Living on Crowdfunding Website Patreon (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    no.

    artist have real day jobs and put hobby art on patreon.

    so they get a tip for their efforts.

    making a living from it, ha. nope most do not

  21. Re:Why not OS/2 ?? on ReactOS 0.4.7 Released (reactos.org) · · Score: 1

    false, it's still very much alive and well and powering point of sales systems at places near you maybe including your post office.

    In other words, here's your OS/2

    http://www.ecomstation.com/

  22. Re:Those numbers are fine with me but ... on Earth Will Likely Be Much Warmer In 2100 Than We Anticipated, Scientists Warn (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    another USA hater.

    news for you, the carbon emissions of the USA don't matter any more, China makes over 2.5 times as much.

    Doesn't matter what the USA does.

  23. Re:The goal is: CO2 neutral by 2040 on Earth Will Likely Be Much Warmer In 2100 Than We Anticipated, Scientists Warn (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Why are you talking of the West? it certainly no longer matters what the U.S.A. does. Only what China and soon India does will matter. Greenies can't comprehend relative magnitudes.

  24. Re:Delivering by usual cars is not safe either on San Francisco To Restrict Goods Delivery Robots (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    fallacy, what percent of cars are delivery cars? the deaths due to delivery cars are nearly zero.

  25. Re:Perl6, brought to you by PHP on Perl, Perl 6, and Two Application Frameworks Release 2017 Advent Calendars (perladvent.org) · · Score: 1

    it's too complex when other languages can do the same job with a fifth or less the syntax, Larry and co. went crazy and threw in everything and the kitchen sink