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  1. Re:Removable batteries? on Samsung Chips Will Get Faster and Easier on Your Battery in 2020 (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    > Don't worry, in another ten generations of product releases, the batteries will last at least twice as long as the product ever will ;)

    These energy efficient chips will allow phone manufacturers to create even thinner batteries. These ultra thin batteries will need to work even harder and go through ever more charging cycles decreasing the life of the battery and ultimately the run-time of the phone.

  2. Re:Software to limit functionality? on Tesla Ends Online Sales of $35,000 Model 3 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    > This is something common across the industry from Boeing to Intel.

    But not true of Chinese manufacturers that simply rip-off R&D.

  3. Re:Wow. So Hillary is the entire DoD??? on Wikileaks Co-founder Julian Assange Arrested in London (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up, please. Intelligent, informative post.

  4. Re: So, maybe not the best bedside manner on A Doctor Remotely Told A Patient He Was Going To Die Using A Video-Link Robot (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    > Or the doctor could have driven to the hospital and told them in person.

    Or the doctor could simply stop reading email at night and then he wouldn't have known until the next day when the patient died anyways. Then it's god's fault, not his, not the hospitals nor the video robots.

  5. Re:You get a 7-day, 1,000-mile evaluation instead! on Tesla Launches Base Model 3 For $35,000 With Shorter Range, New Interior (electrek.co) · · Score: 2

    "Your wife was a virgin when you met."

  6. Re:Explains the reviews on Grand Canyon Visitors May Have Been Exposed To Radiation For Years (azcentral.com) · · Score: 5, Informative
  7. Re:Explains the reviews on Grand Canyon Visitors May Have Been Exposed To Radiation For Years (azcentral.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    "The report indicated radiation levels at "13.9 mR/hr" where the buckets were stored."

    "The commission lists a maximum safe dosage for the public, beyond natural radiation, is no more than 2 millirems per hour, or 100 per year."

    If you spent a day (7-8h) around the bucket then you received your yearly dose. I would feel bad for anyone that worked there and received continuous doses.

  8. Re:Banking by the seat of your pants. on Digital Exchange Loses $137 Million As Founder Takes Passwords To the Grave (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    > But when you realize that the entire worth of your bitcoin portfolio can disappear because of someone's stupid behavior

    Don't use an exchange. You can opt to manage a wallet yourself so you're only beholden to your own stupidity.

  9. Abusive Behaviour on Twitter Might Punish Users Who Tweet 'Learn To Code' At Laid-Off Journalists (reason.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They should just re-label "abusive behaviour" to "whatever we don't like, whenever we don't like it"

    Trash journalists didn't seem to care when blue collar workers were losing their jobs. Besides, everyone should learn how to code, learn how to file their taxes, learn to cook, learn CPR...

  10. Asteroids you say! Let me tell you about asteroids.... blah blah blah blah blah blah... asteroids... blah blah blah blah.

  11. Re:This might call for some Fox News counterhackin on Government Shutdown: TLS Certificates Not Renewed, Many Websites Are Down (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Democrats were in favor of a wall - Accepted
    Democrats built a partial wall - Accepted
    Republicans are in favor of a wall - Accepted
    Democrats are NOW opposed to a wall - Accepted
    Democrats are doing it just to be assholes - "You can't prove why we're being assholes, just that we are assholes... so take that"

    That is quite the argument.

  12. Re:This might call for some Fox News counterhackin on Government Shutdown: TLS Certificates Not Renewed, Many Websites Are Down (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Though Trump often accuses Democrats of supporting "open borders," part of his team's rhetorical gambit during the shutdown battle has been to allude to Democrats' historical support for increased security and physical barriers on the southern border. The argument is that Democrats, once in favor of border barriers, are now only opposing the wall in an attempt to embarrass the president.

    "We still don't understand why the Democrats are so wholeheartedly against [the wall]. They voted for it in 2006. Then-Senator Obama voted for it. Senator Schumer voted for it. Senator Clinton voted for it. So we don't understand why Democrats are now playing politics just because Donald Trump is in office," White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said in 2017.

  13. Could be big. on BitTorrent Loses Recent CEO, Adds Crypto-Currency To uTorrent (variety.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If the intent is to have leechers send microtransactions to seeders this could be big news. Seeders dropping off is the Achilles heel of peer-to-peer file sharing.

  14. Re: Is it just me? on China Successfully Lands Spacecraft On Far Side of the Moon (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    > Look at that bundle of wires that will chaff on the sharp aluminum edge.

    So I'm not the only one that noticed that and questioned the logic.

  15. Re: Seriously? on 'Two Years Later, I Still Miss the Headphone Port' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    A high density floppy drive held 1.44MB. You could get a 128MB USB drive for $0.25/MB in 2003 with a whopping $33 investment.

    https://www.jcmit.net/flashpri...

    A floppy drive was popular because there were no alternatives. Zip drives proved that.

  16. Re:Seriously? on 'Two Years Later, I Still Miss the Headphone Port' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    USB sticks are superior in every way to a floppy disk; therefore invalid comparison.

    Touch-tone phone ares superior in every way to a rotary phone; therefore invalid comparison.

    Verdict: Point missed.

  17. Re: Many new features? on Oracle Releases Major Version 6.0 of VirtualBox With Many New Features · · Score: 2

    I thought you couldn't create VMs with Player, only run them?

  18. Re:Good on Video Games Won't Be Part of the Paris Olympics (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    They also thought smoking was healthy back then... thankfully we learn from past mistakes.

  19. Re:Good ... on Video Games Won't Be Part of the Paris Olympics (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    By that same logic applying make-up should be an olympic sport.

  20. Re: corporate plaintiff, judge, and executioner on AT&T To Cut Off Some Customers' Service in Piracy Crackdown (axios.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Live by the sword die by the sword. Then I should be able to start a new ISP using the tax payer funded infrastructure they laid down and they better not whine and cry about it.

  21. Re: It all on IBM To Buy Red Hat, the Top Linux Distributor, For $34 Billion (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nuh uh, look at the market share of OS/2 and AIX. /s

  22. Re: This the same China that was going to on China Produces Nano Fibre That Can Lift 160 Elephants - and a Space Elevator? (nzherald.co.nz) · · Score: 1

    No materials has the strength to contain my skid marks.

  23. A+ Summary on A Chinese-Built Replica of the Titanic Will Set Sail From Dubai in 2022 (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The summary hit all the classic jokes, A+ for once:

    The Titanic II will then embark on global routes, starting with the exact path of the original ship, traveling from Southampton to New York, **minus the small detour to the ocean bottom, presumably.**

    Making things safer for this journey at least: **enough lifeboats**, a hull that's welded rather than riveted, and **a period of global warming that is melting all the icebergs**.

  24. Re:Miners need to be seized on The Cryptocurrency Industry is 'On the Brink of an Implosion', Research Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    > Seriously, governments should make it illegal to blatantly waste electricity.

    Are you referring to slashdot servers?

  25. Affirmative action was the catalyst. Once that was accepted it set the precedent for all types of indirect accountability.